Superhero Secret - Septiplier

[18] Looking Back

It had been one week since the incident happened. Jack had thought about a lot since then.

First, he thought about Broverse. After he dropped Felix off somewhere that was miles away from the campus, they battled it out. Jack was sure he came out on top with his foot planted on Broverse's chest. He wondered why he was there at the cliff in the first place, but that branched off into countless ways. Jack's brain couldn't keep up.

Then, he thought about his dad. If his dad never injected that serum into him, he would never had speed, leading to him not having any secrets to hide (except the fact he's extremely gay), which led to him making senseless decisions to protect that secret, which lead to people finding out.

That made Jack wish he could be Sean again.

Sean was braver, tougher, and smarter than Jack ever was. In the mind, of course. Jack now was definitely stronger than his past self.

But, Sean's dad existed.

Sean's dad was a scientist. He experimented. Most of what he did got out of hand. For example, Jack.

One day he made something. 'A breakthrough! A world-wide phenomenon!' Is what he called it. He was calling it that because Sean was a small child, and the way he worded it sounded like one big adventure to Disneyland.

Sean looked at his dad like a hero, a savior. Everything he created in that lab in the basement was heroic.

But every hero has its enemy. His enemy was a dragon.

A dragon named Cancer.

That's what Sean's father figure titled it. "What's inside of you is an evil dragon." The scientist said one day. "It's one very evil dragon, and I'm gonna defeat it. We are going to defeat it. You'll be my little hero, Sean." Everything that exited his mouth filled the young boy with nothing but hope.

When his dad finally finished it, he thought it was a cure. Once he tested it on his precious son, he would give the formula right to doctors. His proof that it all went well would be his precious, cured, son. His plan most definitely didn't go as conceived.

Not long after his father injected the serum into him, everything in Sean felt like it was speeding up. Metabolism, heart-rate, bloodstream, was just taking the elevator up. An elevator that had no thought on stopping. When it finally did, Sean's dad had noticed the side-effects.

Yes, he cured his son. No, not the way he wished to.

Sean would have these flashes when something was about to break. He once saw his dad take a coffee mug out of the cupboard, then everything seemed to slow down. He watched in slow-motion as his fingers slipped from the handle, sending the cup (slowing) falling to the floor. Once it crashed in little pieces on the ground, everything went back to normal.

Sean told his dad, because it wasn't a one time thing. He did research, scrolling on his computer for so many continuous hours, sometimes he wouldn't come out of his office. Sean wasn't sure if he had fallen asleep or was still researching.

He exited from his office one morning, coffee cup in hand, with the biggest grin on his face. Then, he started to do training activites with Sean, teaching him how to control different things in his body. When he got older, he explained how to take care of his body. How to deal with having super speed.

When Jack turned to his teen years, he did his fair share of research about super speed. He read comic books, watched movies, even read ridiculous supernatural sightings articles online, teaching himself a tad bit more about, well, him.

Him and his father shrugged the subject away, and swore never to bring it up unless it was dire. Sean also had his peers to begin to call him 'Jack,' because each time he heard someone call 'Sean' it would remind him of everything that had happened.