Mr Zap

How It All Started

Now I know your wondering how I got my powers. It all started when I was 11 years old . I just started Junior High and I was excited begin a new chapter in my life.  My little brother was just born and my mother was at home taking care of him until he was old enough to go to daycare. Since my mother wasn't at work, my father had to work overtime many nights. I would barely ever see him unless it was the weekends and even then he brought some work home so  we would never hang out as much as we use to. I was very dejected with him not at home as much.

One day it was bring your kid to work day and my mother suggested that he bring me along with him, being that I've never been to his job because he said that "it was too dangerous for  a kid like me" (even though all he does is paper work and eat donuts). I overheard my father talking to my mother about how he was building an invention and how he was near completion and that he would get a promotion and trillions of dollars. He called it the teleportation device. Being stupid at that age, I didn't know what that gigantic word meant so I didn't ponder the idea much. That night I couldn't fall asleep because I was so ecstatic to finally go to my father's job. The next morning I got up early so that I could have a bite to eat before we went to my father's job. My father wasn't as excited as me because he still thought I was just a "kid". My mother told him that this would just be a learning experience and that I might learn something and do something great when I grew up like find a cure for some disease like cancer or diabetes, but I was more of a video game person and had no interest in science (maybe that's why I failed science for the past two years?).

When we got to my father's job he told me "Don't touch anything , don't do anything, stay with me, and  DON'T GO NEAR MY INVENTIONS AT ALL." I silently nodded and followed him inside. The building was not at all what i thought it would look like. The building was orange with marble steps (which i thought were cool for some reasons). My father's office was huge but he had to share it with some short skinny guy with pimples. He looked 14 but I think he didn't hit puberty yet. I sat down in my dad's chair while he checked in for work. For the first few hours it was kind of boring, but then my dad started to work an his invention. I became curious about  the machine because of how cool it looked and you know what was running through my mind . I forgot all about my fathers warning. "Finally finished!" my father said . He rolled the machine over to where they test out new inventions. As I approached the machine, my father yelled at my and told me to sit back down and draw something.  I walked back to his chair, got a pencil from his desk and proceeded to draw. As  my father was about to test his machine, he was called by his boss to handle some paper work. This was my chance! Like a ninja,I approached the machine in silence so nobody in the office would hear me. When I got near, it looked weird. I saw the words "New Hope" written on the back. I think that was the name of the teleportation device. One of my father's colleagues saw me and tried to  move me away from the device. I panicked and ran. It was a cat-mouse chase around the whole room . The guy caught up with me. I was able to squirm free from his clutched but tripped over a book and fell and the machine. I saw a huge beam of light come from the device. The light bounce from wall to wall as people tried to dodge the beam. My father came back and saw that I had tampered with him machine. I didn't notice the beam was near my because of my father's screaming. As quick as hit happened, the beam came straight at me. I was hit directly and fell back. I passed out and was rushed to the hospital. The doctors found a huge amount of radiation in my body. The doctors couldn't do anything. I was supposed to die. I was in a coma and the doctors didn't know when or if I would wake up. My father destroyed his machine and  was bent on finding a a cure for me.

A year later, I woke up. Lots of things had changed, my mother was back at work with my father looking for a cure. I stayed at the hospital for more testing. The doctors said I wasn't going to live for very much longer. I actually found out that I had powers when our family took a vacation. We went to Miami, Florida to spend my last days on earth by having fun. When we got there, I turned on the television and there was tornado sighting on the news near our hotel. I was scared, we all were. The next day we went to the beach after the tornado sighting was called off, but the clouds still looked suspicious. After a few hours of having fun in the sun, we left to go back to our hotel but I noticed that the wind was picking up and the clouds were forming a funnel. We were about 2 minutes away from our hotel when we saw a tornado touch down on the ground near our car. We got flipped upside down in the air. I started screaming "I wish I could go home." Our car was about to hit the ground and then  I felt i jolt in my body and we were back at our home in Boston. My parents didn't know what happened, but I had an idea. The next day I tried testing to see if I actually had powers. I rode my bike a few minutes away from my house and said "I wish I could go home." I felt a jolt in my body again and I was back at home.