Chapter 1
Limitless.
Over the years, people pushed their limits. Gaining abilities that could only be seen in comic books and movies. But they always had limits. Some pyromaniacs obtained the ability to control fire to an extent. Some Olympic swimmers and tri-athletes developed an extreme level of stamina and endurance.
But they always had their limits. This gave rise to people with extraordinary abilities. Strengths that which reshaped the world into a new society. A still limited world, restrained by flaws and weaknesses. Everything could be government-regulated as well as the people with powers.
But when HE was born. Something had to be done. Even his mere birth resulted in an earthquake that shook the entire country. As an infant he was drafted and was faced with. Fetal repercussions. After years of close observation inside a jail-like room. They concurred that his limits. Were his will. He was the first ‘’limitless’’ human being.
The Government wouldn’t have it. If his limitless power would come from his will. It had too many risks to be left unattended. His will. Had to be broken.
Awaiting his growth, the facility the child was put in took care of him as a child until he was able to understand, think and feel. It was time.
The facility then introduced him to a room different from his old one. This room was no longer empty but it was filled with devices. Designed to break the human will. Designed to cripple the mind. To shatter the soul.
Years passed by and the child became a soulless, will-less being. No longer human in mind, deprived of everything he would have needed as a child.
Until, he looked outside his glass cell. A television. It played soap operas, nature documentaries. It gave his will a reason to go on. Life can’t be just what he experienced. There was so much more.
Days later, an employee went in the facility and saw him staring at the television still strapped to his chair. He turned it off and stared him in the eye as he passed by. It was time for the regularly scheduled shock therapy session to keep him. Broken.
As the machine connected to him whirred in activation. He feared nothing. There wasn’t anything that would bring him any lower than he already was.
Hundreds and thousands of volts surged through his brain and body. His will. Close to breaking. He could almost hear the laughter of the man operating the machine. The person twisted the button to maximum power. Borderline fatal. His will once again. Slowly fading away. Cracking. Shattering.
But it refused.
