Oh shit. I took my time to get a closer look at the heroes. The one in front was an adult, while the other two seemed to be young adults or teenagers. One was a boy and a girl, and after getting a good look, I recognized two of them, Iron Fist and Vivio; the other, I wasn't so sure about.

  Iron Fist is a popular and often respectable hero who performs rescue missions and puts others before himself. Vivio is a different story. She gained controversy for killing a well-known prolific villain.

  "you know it's illegal not to register a power when you get one?" said Iron Fist.

  "Yeah, I know. But you will get all my personal information. Then you will either have a tracker on me or force me to join the heroes," I said in a deeper tone, trying to disguise my voice.

  "It's not that bad. Heroes get a lot of benefits unless you become..." I heard a kid that I didn't know say. Yet, Iron Fist cut him off.

  "Shut it, kid. Listen, now you have two choices. You either go into custody, reveal your identity, or go to prison. Less likely, but in the worst-case scenario, The World Guard. Trust me, you can hand yourself over and become a hero on probation."

  I was considering my options. Being a hero wasn't bad, but I didn't like the system. I would hear stories online of other heroes using their power and status to fulfill their desires. Younger heroes barely earn money compared to pros or adult heroes. And going to jail was a negative for obvious reasons.

  "How about a third option? I Leave, and no one gets hurt,"

  "Not an option," said Iron Fist. I saw him getting into a fighting stance. At the corner of my eye, I could see octopus-like tentacles, moving like a snake, from the other Hero I didn't know. As I saw him gradually make his way toward my backpack.

  I Shot out a blood arrow to grab my backpack, which caused the weird Octo kid to pull back his tentacles. Then Iron Fist charged, turning his entire body into Iron. I reeled the backpack to myself and hardened my skin with blood to block an Iron Fist from Iron Fist.

  I flew back, dropping my backpack. Then, I felt my body hit the concrete, and then I felt the concrete turn from a solid into a liquid like water. Then I felt it harden, causing my body to be crushed in the possess.

  "Good job, Vivio," I could hear from the Octo boy.

  "Let's get this over with this, Iron Fist. Can I incapacitate him?"

  "He's not cooperating, so yes, just don't kill him."

  I instantly hardened my skin from top to bottom as my body was getting crushed. Then, I got an idea of my absolute pain. I put some blood in my mouth and spit an arrow out toward Vivio's body, hoping it could stop her but not kill her. spitting my blood caused a part of my mask to break on the bottom.

  "Dodge!!" I heard Iron Fist scream. I saw Vivio dodge the attack with a slight cut on the side of her waist. Then, an arrow crashed into a pillar, breaking a part of it. I felt relieved as the concrete dropped. Yet, Iron Fist charged toward me, forcing me to dodge. Then I saw Iron Fist destroy a large concrete wall. It sounded like a bomb. I felt myself getting hit by the rubble and landed on the ground,

  "You think you can fight trained heroes? Just surrender like all the others who tried,"

  I spit out blood because of the pain. Then I saw the Octo kid and Vivio pick up my backpack.

  "Octoplum and Vivio, take the backpack and get out there. I will deal with him." I saw Vivio on the left and Octoplum on the right. "Yes, Iron Fist," Octoplum said.

  I knew I couldn't lose. Even if I got away, they would have all my information if they got my backpack.

  There is no choice but to go the lethal route. I didn't want to, as these heroes weren't that bad, but they were persistent. I only had a limited amount of blood. The more blood I used, the weaker I got and the chance I could die. After all, regenerating an arm took a lot of my blood and roughly made me feel I was about to faint when I got this power.

  So, I needed to be conservative with my blood. Arrows were too much to rapid-fire, so I transformed some of my arms into a blood machine gun. Then, I started firing small blood rounds, with spikes, at the two near my backpack. I didn't know anything about the inside of a gun, so I made it more like a launcher. But hey, it worked.

  They immediately jumped away. I saw Iron Fist charging at me, and then I shot at Iron Fist. But, the blood bullets didn't pierce his skin, only dented it, but I knew he felt the pain. I saw him turn his back to protect his front. I saw some of the building's wall getting plummeted with bullet holes from me.

  I kept firing as I attempted to get up when I felt concrete covering my hand and leg. Then, my gun hand was submerged in concrete, forcing me to stop firing. Iron Fist was now struggling to move, and I saw blood coming from him. "I'm going to kill you for what you did!" I heard Vivio. I saw her limp towards me as she was in my eyesight. Then I saw her tears with blood coming from her arm and some of her torso.

  "I warned you, if you would let me go, no one would have gotten hurt," I told her with my scruffy voice. I saw her sadness turn into anger as I felt my arms being broken apart like they were about to be ripped off. "Fuck you! Every day we have to deal with shit like you!"

  "Vivio, stop. You will get put on the dark hero list if you kill him. You already got a warning," I heard Iron Fist as I could hear his groaning voice. I saw him bleeding a large amount on the ground. From what I could tell, he was out of commission but still alive. I saw Vivio turn around and yell at him.

  "No!! He killed the octoplum! I don't care if I become a dark hero; it's better than keeping him alive." I saw a significant, pointed spike being formed on the ceiling. I tried my hardest to break out of the concrete, but Vivio started to speak softly. "Any last words?"

  "you just like me, sadistic and evil. Often, a power can warp beliefs. Don't you agree?" I said with a hint of malice. "Shut up and just die!"

  The Spike went down and impaled my chest, breaking the ground below me.

  *

  "Am I dead?"

  I looked around and only saw darkness. Then something started to appear. It was a crystal.

  It was dark purple with some black energy coming out of it. I felt like nothing was there; the only thing around was darkness. I smelled nothing and heard nothing. What is it? Hell?

  Then I saw lines burst out of it. I saw stars, galaxies, black holes, and worlds. Then I even saw the earth, some destroyed, some Like it was some different earth or a different time.

  Then I saw something that shook me to my core. I saw a purple crystal split into six pieces, spreading away from each other and spewing different colors.

  "What the fuck is this?" I said in the empty void of space or wherever this was.

  Then, soon, I felt myself drifting away, like nothing meant anything anymore, as I slowly closed my eyes.

  *

  I woke up.

  Was it a dream? A nightmare? More importantly, what the hell was that? I focused back on what was essential and then felt my heart. I realized I had made it move subconsciously, I think. Honestly, I don't know.

  I held in a scream, and my blood as my head fell to the ground, and blood poured out of my midsection. Then Vivio kicked my head, likely to taunt me or to see if I was alive. "stay dead, you fucker," I heard her say in a scrappy tone while I could hear her breathing heavily.

  I felt her power fading, and then, when my arm was free, I grabbed her leg as hard as I could. I used a tiny amount of blood to pierce her skin well, throwing up blood. "HOW ARE YOU ALIVE, I PIERCED YOUR HEART," I heard her yell. She started to kick my head, which broke my mask, and my head started to bleed because of the force of her kicks.

  She fell as I was casually absorbing her blood. I absorbed more and more. Then I saw her faint as I assumed I had absorbed most of her blood, hopefully not killing her. I formed a masquerade mask fused to my skin, using my blood. Then got up, realizing the significant wound I had.

  "How are you alive?" said Iron Fist as he was still on the ground, trying to get up. I swiftly absorbed Iron Fist's blood. He tried resisting, but he couldn't do anything. Then I could see Iron Fist stop trying to get up.

  I gradually regenerated some of the punctured organs. Then I attempted to put back the ribs, but it was more complicated than I thought, as I needed more blood to harden.

  I closed the wounds and saw Iron Fist. I couldn't tell what he was thinking, but he definitely was shocked.

  I limped behind the pillar, now covered in blood bullets, over to Octoplum to see if he was dead, and He was. I saw bullet holes all over Octoplum. He possibly died from a bullet to the brain, since I saw two shots on the side of his head. He might have saved Vivio.

  I closed his eyes with my hands and absorbed the blood and the blood bullets that were lodged in him. I used the blood to put back my ribs, my back, my midsection, and my arms, and legs but they were still in extreme pain because of the high amount of damage I accumulated.

  "dam, how the fuck am I going to get out of here?" I said as I grabbed my backpack. Now filled with holes.

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  I heard someone yell, "Iron Fist!" I knew it wasn't Vivio or Iron Fist. I immediately tried to Run, but an energy dome formed around me. Three more heroes arrived. I didn't recognize them as they were all teens, two boys, and one more girl.

  "What the hell happened here," I heard one of them. "keep calm, Rockheart. I see him, too. Call the Pros were dealing with a hero murder and heavily injured heroes," I heard him say.

  Then I remembered my backpack. The good thing is that all my work and books were on my computer when I left for school. But there were also physical books and my phone.

  I grabbed my phone and tried something new. I merged it into my body, in order to hide it from the heros. It felt like my flesh was moving around. Then, I destroyed the books that I had. Yet, a hero noticed me. "Rockheart, I don't know what he is doing. Put him to sleep,"

  When I heard that, I hastily tried to destroy more without wasting too much blood. Then, I started listening to a soft song that immediately made me sleepy. I tried to resist, but in the end, I failed. As I closed my eyes, my thoughts faded as I went to sleep.

  ...

  I felt myself being shoved. My eyes opened to see a bunch of flashes and loud noises. I was in handcuffs, and what I saw was the police, an ambulance, and a prison truck.

  Then, I felt the wave of pain and exhaustion from that fight. I looked behind me to see an adult hero. I recognized them as Wavist, the water hero. He was wearing a blue and white suit with a water drop like a helmet. "You are in a lot of trouble," He said, pushing me.

  Soon, I saw more heroes, including a few more adult heroes. Some stared at me while others cried. Then I looked into the sky to know that it was near sundown.

  Wavist opened the back of the prison truck and pushed me into it. I assume the car was silver all around, with some sets on the side and a little peeping window with small holes.

  I saw another person. She was a girl in a dark green costume with spikes. Her identity was concealed. I felt my mask still on me.

  "Good, I got another fucktard with me. What did this guy do?" I heard her say, nudging in my direction.

  "I don't want to hear your vulgar language, and it's none of your business, Murder Jungle. You both have Tier 3 Hypercuffs. One use of your powers will lead to a heavy shock, and we will know." Then I saw Wavist connect my cuffs to chains on the truck.

  Ability users make Hypertech. They are in the 'Brain' category of ability users who can create advanced tech. Some have a gimmick, while others are just super-geniuses. It is fucking annoying.

  Murder Jungle is a crazy bitch. She is on a villain team known as 'The Bitchgirls', or the public calls them 'The Villaingirls'.

  "Shut up. I don't need your dumb refresher." After she said that, Wavist closed the truck door behind him, and I heard an automatic lock. Then I turned my attention to Murder Jungle.

  "What are you in here for, you animal?" said Murder Jungle.

  "I don't know, none of your business," I said with hostility.

  "you fuckin think that you just talk anything to anyone like that. Listen here, you little bitch, respect your villans, or else they won't help you,"

  "Like you can help me; hell, you can't help yourself," I responded.

  "Listen, you fucking snobby little shit! If I get out of these cuffs, I will inject my vines in you!! With a poison that will amplify your pain, receptors by ten times!!! Then I will slowly torture you to death!" yelled Murder Jungle. Then I heard the truck start to move.

  "Hey! Keep it down before I shock both of you," the driver said. Murder Jungle quieted down.

  "Can you be helpful and find a way out of here?" I asked, to which she replied with a laugh. "Yeah, sure, Tier 3 Hypercuffs are impossible to get out of, and I would help you anyway."

  Then I remembered something. I remember watching a YouTube documentary about an incident that occurred in California. A villain escaped because they had a power they could manipulate on the cellular level. They use this power to detect from the handcuffs. Yet, they still got caught in the end.

  "Wait, isn't there a special Hyper-cuff for cellular power detection?" I said, hoping these weren't those cuffs.

  "Huh, you can manipulate on a cellular level?"

  "Yeah," I attempted to move a small amount of blood, and there was no shock.

  I couldn't exactly break out of these cuffs with blood coating, especially in my state. I could barely talk after that fight. Luckily, that sleep helped me.

  So I detached from my arms by sawing the inside of my wrist. It felt similar to moving spit inside my mouth. Was it painful? Fuck yes, but my wrist was slashed in half. Then, my hands and my body were free from the cuffs. Then, I stopped the flow of blood before it spilled out.

  I held in my scream as Murder Jungle looked at me. "you have blood manipulation. A generative and manipulative power?"

  Then I realized my hands worked as I gently removed them from the cuffs.

  "HUH," we both said. I immediately connected my hands. It felt like a billion Lego pieces coming together into a shape and connecting together.

  "Now you need help." I saw Murder Jungle's face frown. "I don't need your stupid help from a guy like you, and I got people better than you,"

  "That's fine unless you..." After I said that, I got smashed into the side of the truck. "Crap. Why are they here? SHIT." I heard the driver say. Then I heard some loud noises outside, likely powers and gunshots.

  Then I heard someone or something on the roof. Then I looked at Murder Jungle, who was laughing now. They are here.

  I felt the vehicle moving side to side and heard a loudspeaker. "STAND DOWN YOU ARE SURROUNDED!!"

  Then I heard metal ripped off the truck's roof, so I promptly stepped away. Soon, the roof came off, and I saw a leopard-like creature enter.

  Before I could react, it pinned me to the wall, holding me by the neck. "MJ, should I kill this villain?" I saw the villain swiftly put up their other claw. Then I recognized this villain; it was Animalistic. "Yeah, he was being fucking annoying."

  She tried to kill me, but I moved my head as fast as I could. Which cut my ear, and then I instantly shot a blood arrow into her. She roared in pain for about a second. Then I saw her pull out the arrow, and I could see her bleed.

  "Not bad, kid. However, you messed with the wrong bitch," she said. I saw her wound regenerating. Then I regenerated my ear.

  "I don't want to fuck with you right now. I want to get out of here," I said. Animalistic growled. "I don't care. Villains must be cared for so heroes and other villain teams don't get more firepower. Plus, you fucking retarded anyway." What kind of conclusion is that?

  I quickly made a blood arrow and aimed it at Murder Jungle. "I know, so how about letting me go?"

  "ANIMALISTIC KILL HIM ALREADY," I heard Murder Jungle scream. I saw an Animalistic frown, and I heard her say. "Dare threaten my gals, I WILL SMASH YOUR HEAD UNTIL IT IS PLASTER." Then I felt the Truck swerve. I immediately protected my head with blood. Then the truck crashed. Animalistic Flew out of the top of the car while Murder Jungle swung vigorously.

  I hit my head, feeling a large amount of pain. Then I saw Murder Jungle hanging from her cuffs. "I wish that were your neck," I said, now pissed.

  I got up to hear gunshots and also screams. "ANIMALISTIC IS BITING MY ARM, HEL- "said a voice, then the scream stopped and more gunshots. "Your friend sure has a short attention span," I said softly, laughing. But that changed when I looked out to see a horrific sight of people getting ripped in half. Animalistic was covered in blood and guts.

  Then someone flew past me and got splattered to the wall like a sticker. Then I saw the police officer's uniform.

  "Help... me," I heard the police officer say. With this opportunity, I absorbed the police's blood, which took no longer than a few seconds. I also did this for my benefit, so the police officer didn't suffer. Then I looked at Murder Jungle now with a facial expression I could only describe in one word: fear.

  "What the fuck, you can absorb... other people's blood... too," I heard her say with some stuttering. I immediately covered her mouth with blood by fusing it with her skin.

  "Yeah, I could have killed you and your friend instantly, luckily, since I'm in a rush to get out of here. I will spare you," I said as she was muffling something.

  I rapidly reduced the pain with some blood by repairing some of my body, then ran out. I saw Animalistic fighting a hero who was shooting out electric-type tendrils. Which was stunning Animalistic, but I couldn't see him.

  I was running from the fight. Then, water came out of nowhere and swept me into the nearby forest. Then I grabbed a tree to prevent myself from being swept away by the flood.

  "How did you escape scum?" I Heard.

  "I escaped because of a failed measure," I replied, realizing who it was.

  I attempted to shoot a blood arrow at Wavist. However, he hit a water beam, which pushed me off the tree and even broke through it. This caused me to fly further away from the road and out of the flood range.

  Another water beam shot from him, which I dodged. I landed on my back. Fully wet.

  When Attempting to get up, I felt a sharp shock across my body, which caused me to fall to the ground on my stomach.

  I looked behind me to see the person with the electric tendrils. Damn, she got done with Animalistic.

  "So you're the one that killed Octplum," I heard a female voice, and then I recognized her as Stinglasher. Then I heard more trees crashing in the distance. I saw her walk towards me in her purple costume.

  I attempted to shoot my blood from my wrist, but it didn't work. I saw my hardened blood turn to liquid. "How about I make you pay the consequences by dominating you?" I saw her put the tendrils near my face. I absorbed the blood in my mouth and shot it out.

  She dodged it.

  "You think something that slow can hurt me?"

  But then I grabbed her leg and started to absorb her blood. Even if the claws weren't dense, they still did the job.

  But, I was met with resistance, stung repeated with electricity, but I wouldn't let go. Then I saw hero tendrils coat her fist.

  Then she hit my face, which caused my head to smash into the ground. Which almost knocked me out, but I kept awake with all my willpower. Then I saw more water coming. I rolled over to avoid another attack from Stinglasher.

  I got up and sprinted for my life. "HURRY STOP HIM," I heard from Wavist. Then I saw Stinglasher chasing me. I wondered why my blood hadn't worked there, and then I noticed the water on my exposed arm and noticed my clothes were torn apart.

  the water can dissolve blood in a solid state and also likely affect my manipulation.

  Then, I got the idea of absorbing the water as if I could control my body, like opening up a part of myself and putting my phone inside. I could do the same thing with water. I spilled my blood into the water and then attempted to absorb it.

  It worked.

  I saw Wavist put his hand on the ground in the distance, and then it ejected water from the ground a few feet away, forcing me to stop.

  I immediately jumped to the side to avoid Stinglasher. Then, she used one of her tendrils to grab my leg, almost causing me to fall.

  I was tired, so tired. I just felt like dying. Even though I could keep going, the pain and the stress were getting to me. I couldn't just keep regenerating. I needed to counterattack.

  I swiftly coated my left arm with a circular drill, which rotated by my will. It felt like my arm was inside of a washer, like being shredded without being shredded. I didn't know how to control it entirely, but it was powerful enough to cause some damage.

  I attacked Stinglasher. She almost dodged, but I drilled some of her midsection, which caused her to scream. I absorbed the blood I drilled, and then I mocked her.

  "No more freaky talk? huh." I said mockingly as she yelled and cried in pain.

  "STINGLASHER," yelled Wavist. I saw him shoot a thin water slash, which I barely ducked from. Then I saw the attack cut a few trees.

  With my right hand, I used my finger to shoot out little blood bullets. I shot seven times, and two hit him.

  I looked at Stinglasher, who was on the ground, still screaming in pain, as I saw her bleeding out. Her tentacles were covering her wound.

  Before I could suck her blood up. I dodged to the left of Stinglasher and then saw a waterspout coming from the ground. My eyes went wide while in mid-air; I saw Wavist with his arm up, ready to shoot me.

  "goodnight fucker," I heard him say, the first time I listened to a professional hero swear in my life. I made a blood shield to defend myself but realized it was over. The water bypassed my blood shield and hit me point blank in the face, launching me back.

  I stumbled from the impact and landed my back into a tree, lay there in pain. With my eyes covered in water and blood. I looked up to see a blurred Wavist strolling towards me. I absorbed the water in my eyes and regenerated, but it took longer than usual, and I could barely move. I wanted to move, but I couldn't. My legs and arms were stiff and shaking.

  Is my spine broken? Oh no, NO NOOOOOOO.

  "Water is your weakness. I didn't do well in chemistry, so I didn't know that either," Wavist said, which was roughly auto-able.

  "I hate chemistry," I said in a scoffing tone.

  "Too bad you would have been a cool hero, but you're a fuckin villain,"

  I saw Wavist form a water fist in his right arm. "see you in custody," but before he could knock me out, I heard a loud bang, and then I saw Wavist's arm freeze in ice.

  "AH fuck you! Bitch." I heard Wavist in pain. Then his legs and whole lower body froze. I looked around in fear, and then, with my blurry vision, I could see the figure before my eyes closed as I went unconscious.