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2. the powers didnt turn on like a switch

I'd never been a normal baby. I learnt how to walk months before it was normal, I was talking before that and learning  my ABCs and 123s came a bit too easy.  I developed my motor skills very early and i remember at my first base ball game, i broke the bat with a swing and knocked the ball a good twelve blocks away from the park.
Of course it wasn't so weird, for my family that is. My father was the same, except he couldn't walk so early. His eyes were developed a bit too quickly, he was a genius, but only at the appropriate age and he was very strong. Now, my dad at sixty has the eye sight of a hawk, he has all his memory intact and can take me on any time in hand to hand combat.
Over the years I kind of developed. I was stronger (at ten I could lift the couch off the ground with my mom on it), but of course I had to eat healthy and exercise. if I'd gotten fat, I doubt I would have been able to do all those crazy stunts. I was smarter (I was always in an advanced maths class through out my stay in school), but of course I still had to read. The only difference between me and the other kids was that I had the capacity to do more. Say an average kid has the brain storage capacity of 12.6, I was sporting a 13.0, if I decided not to read I would have been just as dumb as any other kid. I was constantly pushing my self with sports and school work all through my teenage years. I was a sprinter and I am sure my years of running for the school team made my legs strong enough. When I was fifteen, I tried jumping off the roof. My best friend then, Toby Melrow and I were into vidoeing dare devil stunts and posting them on you tube. I jumped down the roof and sprained my ankle and broke my knee cap. It toaght me that I wasn't invincible. It took three months for my legs to get better, but during that three months something else happened. I learnt that my legs had gotten stronger, strong enough to take the roof jump. I could jump four feet off the ground.
My first girl friend was amazed,  Ellen. She went on to become my personal trainer. She, me and Toby we kept pushing ourselves. Of course they could never be like me, but Toby can jump down a roof with no pain and last I saw Ellen she was a smoke jumper. They jumped out of planes and into dangerous fire situations. Ellen had once jumped out of a plane and half way down her parachute lost control. She had successfully landed with no more than a muscle pull and a few scratches.

When I was seventeen, Toby and I decided to do an experiment. We got me high (it was the first and only time I did drugs) and drunk. Then I was left to sleep. I slipped into shock and then a coma. That wasn't on the plan and then in a week I was out of the coma, but with something new. I can never get drunk again. It seemed every time my body was traumatised it found a new way to fix things.
Now think, if my father had pushed him self to the limit physically as well as mentally (he is a quantum phyisist), he would have had powers too and same to my uncle and auntie and cousins too. Although my cousin Megan, with a lot of trauma (she was involved in a car accident as a kid, a fire as a ten year old, abuse as a teen and sports disaster) was able to developed her self. She's decided to call her self mighty Meg and I can't blame her, she went into the hero business as a teenager. Puberty did most of the work. Of course as a teen i was into girls and they were into me. It heightened my senses. I could tell which girl was coming into the school when in class (it might have something to do with the fact that when ever Im on the, I can mostly sense women in trouble). My need to get into trouble like every other kid was stupidly high and so when I was vandalising school property(it was a phase....gimme a break) I always could tell who was coming and I could always get away safely.

Now looking at it, none of these people with powers went through this faze. I, Meg, ultraviolent, chameleon, and blaze had tried our best to keep the epidemic under control.
We failed.
"Can you believe this Tuck?" Megan groaned at the television on a Saturday morning. "The New York times is calling it the balance of powers"

"They can call it what ever they want" Seth king(chameleon) said darkly "they don't know its a disease"
"And I can't find what mutation stain this is" Adamn Quinn (blaze) our brains in this operation, stated
"Containing it is out of the options" violet Grover (ultraviolent) "its what every one is talking about. Getting their powers"

I was feeling very hyped. This felt like a hero's convention. The only person I'd ever teamed up with was Megan and now I had these insanly awesome people in my insanly large living room. Chameleon was a stelth pro, he could take the form of anyone he had seen before, he could copy your powers and fighting moves effectively. He used to be a small town villain till he met ultraviolent, they were in an on off relationship..... What? You think hero's can't be fans of other hero's?

Blaze was a rich, spoiled little brat, who knew about his powers but never used it for good. He lost his parents to Asron(supervillain, currently deceased. His killer, blaze) that was the only time he'd ever killed some one. And one fact I love about him is the fact that he is super smart......can't help but envy a guy with brains.

"Barry won't cooperate" Megan sighed heavily, she seemed to be taking it abit too personally.

"I don't get how a guy like that can be openly evil and yet live life" violet shook her head "I mean doesn't he do his grocery shopping?"

"I guess he believes in embracing the true bad" I shrugged.
"True bad, more like stupidity" said chameleon, our ex-villan
"I don't know guys I've been battling Barry for as long as I can remember" I said "I think this is just another of his wacked experiments to see how far man kind will go in certain doom"
"Except this doom doesn't seem certain" Adam said
"I think he's a psyco....I'm going on patrol tomorrow if I see the creep" violet pause dramatically "I'm gonna slit his throat"
"He might be a cheeky bastard, but we kinda need him to get the cure"Adam groaned
" the arse is hiding out any way.....I'm not even sure mankind wants the cure any more."Seth said darkly"they seem to take this problem as a way of God leveling things up."
"Like some kind of scorn to supers"Violet said coming up to Seth's side in one slinky movement.
'This isn't some kind of Game, Barry is a mad man' Megan suddenly said after all the while of being quiet 'we need to stop this'
No shit Sherlock.
We've been working on this for months now. Well at least I've been working on it these guys had just come in last week.
I groaned, got up and made my way to my bed room....I needed sleep. I hadn't gotten it in ages.

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Sleep as usual was illusive.
I kept waking up to the sensation I get when some one is in trouble.
I woke up this time to the feeling that something funny was going on.
I pulled on my suit with super human speed (no shit), and flew out my window(a terribly painful process considering I was sleep drunk).
My suit, is my pride. I designed it my self. White and silver, it had a no insignia on it save for a slash of grey diagonally slashing across the abdomen. It was thermal sensitive and so keeps me warm and at the right temperature. And for my real pleasure......my cape. My cape doesn't tangle with my feet when I run, my cape flaps in the wind when I address the citizens of Maston, my cape is my cover in the dark(its grey). I love my cape and I am particularly touch about it.
As I supposedly whizzed past houses in the dark, my cape made no flappy noises.
I came to the area that felt the most disturbing. I was having that feeling I get when women are about, women in trouble. But this was one woman and I had another new tingly feeling that she wasn't in trouble, she was the trouble.

Ladies and gents, this is how I met Ignis

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First authors note!
Pardon my short chapters......I think I'd like to keep my chapters short.
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