Power vacuum, episode one: The Empowering
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Why is the end of the world always shown to be instant?
The first time the world ended as I knew it, it was. Three bad choices and I could never have been her again.
I let him get close
I thought that he cared
And I thought he was gone.
I know now that they were terrible choices. Hindsight and all that. But still, sixteen years later and I still don't have retribution fo-
THUNK
The sound of something falling breaks me out of my thoughts. Standing up from behind the tree i jumped behind, i peer out into my campsite to find a hole in my tent. Hopefully I can fix that before it starts raining.
Having not exploded, i cautiously approach the hole to see if I can find what caused it.
Inside my tent, i find a large, metallic, glowing sphere. If it is an explosive, it hasn't ac-
Click
Welp, i'm dead. I am so about to explode. I didn't even get revenge yet. That's the whole reason i'm here. Why else would you join the army if you didn't have a personal grudge against a terrorist? My life flashes before my eyes, it was going pretty well until i met that aforementioned terrorist. Pretty dissatisfying after that.
Why haven't I died yet?
The object hadn't exploded. It had opened. Inside was a strange vile of blue liquid and a note
"Hello, if you would like superpowers, you can drink the blue fluid to obtain some, however-
I didn't need to read the rest.




















