HSU's W.A.R.P

[Episode 2!] POWER STRUGGLE

W.A.R.P was the project name of the core that Dr. Adams and Keith were developing exposure to which has probably given Keith this super-speed. W.A.R.P stands for Wesley Adams' Raise-speed Project aimed at production of a stable core that can generate tachyons forever. Upon the realization that Keith has powers Dr. Wesley decided to run some tests to understands these genetic mutations in Keith's cells so he took a small skin and blood samples. Then he prepared a specialized slide of his cells and observed them under electron microscope. The results astonished Dr. Adams, he  saw that Keith's cell were dividing very fast and then ran test on his blood samples and results showed that RBC's were rapidly repairing and multiplying and so were the leukocytes. 

All the tests had proven that biologically Keith's body was performing at hyper speeds. So Adams thought to test it physically so he asked Keith to run down to the telephone booth at the end of street and call him and then come back. Keith ran to the telephone booth but it was difficult for him to stop himself so he tripped near the turning at the end of street. He got a few scratches at his elbow but he saw them heal in front of him at a rapid speed, he quickly made the call to Adams, Adams picked up the phone.

"Come back Keith, now!" said Dr. Adams

"OK" replied Keith and dashed back to Adams' house up the street and again couldn't stop himself properly so he tripped at the staircase.Upon hearing the crashing sound Dr. Adams came down and saw Keith sitting on the stairs and staring at his elbow.

"Oh you won't believe this Keith you completed this task in 10 seconds, down the street is about 400 meters! What are you looking at?!" said Adams.

"Oh OK well I could have came back in 4 seconds only if I didn't had to call you and also if I wouldn't had tripped trying to stop myself. You won't believe what happened I had a scratch when I had fell there and now its gone." replied Keith.

"Oh well so you're fast physically too. But we don't know whats your true potential, only way to know is to train yourself and get control over your power and I know exactly who can help." said Adams.

"Who are you talking about?" asked Keith.

"You know, before you I had two proteges, they were brothers Dr. Brandon Grand and Joseph Grand. Dr. Grand is a good physicist and works at Stanford University where he wrote a paper on Speed dimension inspired by our tachyon core and growth fusion generator projects. While his brother is an engineer at MIT, Boston, Massachusetts. And you know they were always eager to return to their home land." said Adams.

"Oh Dr. Brandon was your protege, I have read his paper on Speed Dimension but I have some doubts I hope he will clear them." said Keith.

"I'll call for them right away and now for training place we have that old military training ground, it has been abandoned now. So we can use those open grounds. Now go home and meet me tomorrow morning at the lab" said Adams.

The next morning they met up at the lab, when Keith entered the lab he saw Dr. Adams with two people.

"Ah, you're here. Gentlemen meet my current protege and assistant Keith Cage. And Keith this is Dr. Brandon and his brother Joseph." said Adams

"Nice to meet bright minds like you and Dr. Brandon. And Dr. Grand, you're paper on speed dimension is an excellent piece of work and if proved can revolutionize the way how we look at the universe." said an excited Keith.

"Yes, of course its a great piece of work, I know that I don't need your consent, now if you excuse me gentlemen I don't have time for chit chat, have to set up my office." said Brandon.

"Sorry, did I said anything wrong." said Keith.

"Don't mind him he just lacks social skills, but he's a nice person trust me. So heard you've got powers, mind showing me." said Joseph.

"No, its alright I didn't mind that and yes." replied Keith.

"Um Joseph we're going there in the afternoon so please inform Brandon too OK." said Adams.

"Yeah sure." replied Joseph.

That afternoon all of them assembled at the military training site and set up the data recording apparatus and speed scanners, meanwhile Keith got ready and wore a body scan suit to scale his body movement when he runs. Then he  took position at the starting line and then after the systems were synced Joseph signaled Keith to run. 

And then he whizzed off in a blink making an explosive sound in the wind, like a sonic boom. The system started to track the data while Keith ran in rounds on the running track. But after an hour of running about 100 plus rounds of the 400 meter track, his vitals began to drop and then he suddenly came crashing near them. The hard landing broke a few bones of his hand.

"Oh my gosh! That was hard, but you heal fast right, then I don't think it would be much of a problem." said Joseph.

"I think that's enough for today, he needs to rest." said Adams and then they packed up and went back to their homes. At home Adams ran tests for the vitals using data of the day only to realize that Keith is burning Glucose at fast pace too so he would consume a lot of food and that too fast.