Superhuman: Awakening

Chapter 14

(Mia)

(A few years ago)

"You can do better than that" I heard her harshly say to me. I was used to this, and that statement was considered nice compared to the other things she would normally say.

            Life as a first and second year Superling were hell for me, and I wished that I had my old life back. I wasn't allowed to contact my family or my friends because it was apparently a distraction to do so.

            I was lying on the ground, blood gushing to seemingly no end out of my nose and my body ached so bad I could barely move. They were trying to push me past my teleporting limit, but they were careful I didn't lose any limbs. They didn't want me to lose too much blood, and if I do my powers will be too weak to use until it healed back up again.

            "Stop... everything... h-hurts..." I managed to get out painfully, but the supervisor who was watching this experiment turned a blind eye to my condition. These people were the worst, but everyone else here didn't knew that, and they didn't believe me.

            "She's fine, keep training," The Supervisor told me as she was scrolling through her tablet, "If you stop training now you will never get to the level of being able to teleport people and large objects, and that will be a very useful thing to be able to do."

            I looked up my opponent in vain as my eyes pleaded for her to take my side, but I knew better. She crouched down and healed my nose to stop the bleeding and then looked at me coldly, as if I were beneath her; which I knew I technically was.

            "Get up. You're no good if you are useless" She said to me, and when I felt the pain go away a few seconds later I stood up. The healing might've gotten rid of the wounds, but it didn't get rid of the exhaustion.

            I stood up and sighed, my blonde hair in a messy ponytail that has almost come undone. I couldn't fix it, but it didn't annoy me as much as it used to. I learned to ignore it since in training if I stopped for one second I was hit so hard on the back of the head I had a major concussion.

            Never let your guard down, she always said to me.

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(Present)

             Josephina still looked at me like I was a crazy person, but she knew I've done crazier things than this. It was just this sounded like possibly the deadliest thing I would do.

            "Unless you want to lose a limb or 2 go ahead, but I can't let you do that. Last time you tried back then you nearly died!" Josephina said to me, and she was right about that. I felt as close to death as I did when I awakened, but I was used to being at death's doorstep at this point.

            "I am aware of that risk, but there isn't really much choice now. Stop me if you want but this is something that has to be done if it means those Reds don't get their hands on Elana" I said to Josephina and she looked at me with a sort of shock but nodded silently. She didn't say another word after that.

            My body glowed as I sighed and took deep breaths, I visualized the base with all it's modern-looking buildings, the people, and the most recognizable symbol of it all: the blue galaxy symbol on the top of the central building that represent the mark all Blue's bare on their foreheads.

            I did as I was taught, using my will to be there; inducing a desperate desire to be there. Although knowing our current situation, I did not need to induce the feeling of desperation that much. I already kind of was when I came up with this crazy ass plan.

            I focused on it hard, but then I started to feel the familiar sharp pains when the energy field covered the entire car. It didn't distract me, and I pushed forward. As always it started in my feet and fingertips, it felt as if a piranha was eating at the skin and bones.

            My breaths struggled to stay consistent, but I kept myself in a meditative state; a state free of emotional and physical stimulation. I stayed focus, and within a few more seconds I saw the glowing stars and astral tunnel that would lead me to my destination. Unlike past uses, I had the heavy weight of the van with Josi, Nick, and Elana in it chained around my foot.

            I squinted as I tried in vain to move the large weight that was connected to my feet and wrists, but it didn't stop me. I... I won't let them... I... WON'T! I yelled in the astral plane, and it seemed to echo off the tunnel walls. The stars seemed as bright as they always were.

            Suddenly the intense pain hit to my abdomen and my head, and I started to lose focus and getting kicked out of the astral plane. I was not used to this much pain, to the feeling of my own power burning my insides in a ravaging hellfire, and so I screamed in agony... but I didn't dare stop; no matter how much every cell in my body told me to stop.

            I took of deep breath despite how hard it was, and I grit my teeth through the pain as I soon felt as if I was finally detaching myself from the physical realm into the astral one fully with Nick, Elana, and Josi with me.

            I opened my eyes fully and I could see the path more clearly, but I knew the weight was still chained to me. I did not care though, and willed myself to move, and move fast; that's what the plane allowed me to do. I started walking, and then I willed myself to run fast straight to the destination.

Once I stepped at the destination in the astral plane I was snapped back into reality, no longer desensitized. A tsunami of pain flooded all over my body, my vision was extremely blurry, and I screamed in agony one last time before everything went black.