The Experiment (Book 1): The Reluctant Superhero by Edwards Micah

Author:Edwards, Micah [Edwards, Micah]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Science Fiction | Superheroes
Published: 2016-02-03T05:00:00+00:00

- Chapter Eleven -

The bus comes to a stop only a few hundred feet from the hospital, but the rain is so intense that I can’t even seen the front entrance from there. When the driver opens the doors, the rain whips inside like it’s been waiting for me, chilling me immediately. I take a deep breath as I swing down the steps and out into the monsoon, my crutches kicking up water as I hustle as well as I can. If you’ve never tried moving around using two sticks shoved in your armpits while pails of water viciously seek out every gap in your coat, you can’t fully comprehend how miserable I am right now. And if you have, my condolences. It sucks.

I’m drowned-rat-level soaked by the time I’m halfway there, and I might as well not even be wearing a raincoat for all the protection it’s providing. I’ve got my head hunched into my shoulders and my eyes on the door, though, and I’m focused on my goal. I’m probably about fifty feet out when I see a welcome sight: Brian is hanging out in the covered area just outside the front doors, talking animatedly to a coworker who’s smoking a cigarette. I’d considered the possibility that he wouldn’t be on shift, but since I didn’t have any way of contacting him to find out, I’d decided to just come down and wait. Fortunately, it looks like I won’t have to! Things are finally going my way.

That’s the last thing I remember thinking before I wake up on a hospital gurney surrounded by chaos. There’s a smell of ozone and singed rubber, my shirt’s been cut open and there are doctors and nurses yelling around me.

“Clear! Clear!”

I open my eyes in time to see a pair of paddles being pressed violently into my chest. There’s a soft whump, and I suddenly get a surge of vitality. I sit bolt upright and knock the paddles away. “Whoa! I’m fine! I’m fine!”

Shock is written clearly across the faces of the hospital staff around me, but I have no idea why. I look around in confusion. “I am fine, right? What happened?”

“What’s your name? Can you tell me your name?”

“It’s Dan, Dan Everton. What happened?”

“You were hit by lightning, Mr. Everton. Twice, in fact, in rapid succession. You may be badly hurt.”

“What? No. I’m fine. I feel fine. I need to see Brian.”

“I’m right here, man,” says Brian from behind me. “You need to chill out and get checked out, you know? You’ve got some serious burns, and we don’t know what kinda damage you’ve got internally.”

Burns? I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but I feel fine. That is, until I look down at my chest and see the two large, angry red and black marks on it. Red from the burns, and black from where part of my raincoat has melted right through my shirt and stuck to my chest. And as if I needed a visual cue for it to start hurting, the pain kicks me like a mule and I gasp for breath.

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