Web Runner - Ruthless Test

1 Dreams And Nightmares

He woke up in a cold blank room, blinded by the sight of lights all around him. He didn't know where he was or how he got there. It seemed like a lucid dream, he could control what he did and did not do, but he had no control over his environment, who he saw, what he saw. The room was nothing but white everywhere, blank and broken. The noises started to drive him crazy, he started itching for a way out of whatever he was in, he never found it. The noises got progressively louder every time he woke up. Eventually, no one could endure it for a long period of time, and it ended. Finally. "Multiple Razoropolis citizens missing today, counts in the two and three hundreds!" The news channel was on in Web Runner's briefing room. He had been experimenting with his own dreams for a few months now, and it was getting continually more dangerous each time. He developed a theory once, that his dreams were an opening to a different reality that actually happened, no matter how weird it was. That's when Web Runner heard a loud shatter from the next room over. When he ran over to the room, he discovered that one of his mirrors had broken somehow, and the pieces were all over the floor. He looked down at one of the large pieces laying on the ground. He could have sworn that for a split second he saw a random person in the reflection, but when he looked back, it was just him. "I've got to figure out what that dream stuff is doing to my brain, I think I might be going insane." Web Runner said to himself. (He rarely talked to himself) Web Runner's phone started to ring, so he answered. It was A-Corp calling him to come in and look at some research they gathered from Web Runner's dream experiments. He agreed and declined the call, then after blinking, Web Runner's phone had mysteriously completely disappeared from his hands. Strange occurrences were happening left and right recently, ever since Web Runner started playing with his mind. He could see clearly though, so he kept pushing through the day. As he got out of the concealment of his base in the rock wall, he started running. It was his fastest mode of transportation, his abilities made it possible for a human being to run over 800 miles per hour. About halfway to A-Corp tower building, he started feeling weird. His feet made him feel like the street was slowly turning upside down, but his eyes saw that the road was perfectly still and straight. His body started turning with his feet, and in a matter of seconds Web Runner was sliding across the road because he had fallen over. He was getting more dizzy the more he ran, and his body was feeling things that weren't happening. "Hell, should I see a doctor? Agh, frick no. What am I supposed to tell him? I'm a superhero and have been experimenting extremely dangerously with my own mind even after being warned not to? Not happening." Web Runner was talking to himself again. It seemed like every thought he had it would translate itself out of his mouth, whatever he thought, he said out loud. He figured A-Corp since they had teamed up with him on this project, would have some kind of professional that already knew about his secret identity, that could also fix his problem. Maybe he was crazy, he didn't know at that point. He just had to hold out hope for a little longer.