A Superhero's Assault by Lucas Flint

Author:Lucas Flint [Flint, Lucas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, superheroes
Publisher: Secret Identity Books
Published: 2018-05-20T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINETEEN

Benjamin’s scream was the most horrifying sound I’d heard in my life. His already high-pitched voice just grew higher and higher, while at the same time becoming more and more monstrous. He coughed and hacked between screams and fell down onto the floor, clutching his throat and looking like he was dying right on the spot. It was so horrifying that even Christina looked away, but Uncle Josh and I just stared at Benjamin as the dose of Power did whatever it was doing to his body.

Benjamin’s skin began glowing purple. His skin started to boil and melt off his body. His glasses fell off his face, while his clothing started to fall off his body. He kept screaming the entire time, banging his fists against the floor, sending more of that purple goo flying everywhere.

Then he raised his head and looked at us and I wished he didn’t. The skin on his face was melting away, partially revealing his skin. It reminded me of what happened to Thomas when he injected himself with Power, how his own skin boiled away, leaving nothing but his skeleton and organs. Only Benjamin seemed to be conscious for every second of his horrific transformation.

“See this?” said Benjamin, whose voice was horribly distorted due to his melted lips. “This is the power of science, the pinnacle of everything I’ve worked for. This is—”

Without warning, Benjamin’s entire body collapsed into a disgusting puddle of sticky, purple goo underneath his lab coat, leaving his sentence hanging in the air unfinished.

Christina finally looked back over at Benjamin, a disgusted look on her face. “Well, that was anticlimactic.”

I blinked. “Did he just kill himself?”

“Looks like it,” said Uncle Josh. “That’s one of the problems with Power, you know. Because it’s so unstable, it can kill you just as easily as it can enhance you. Looks like poor old Benjamin ended up losing that particular roll of the dice.”

I shuddered. “I can’t imagine what it must have felt like. To melt into a puddle of goo … and based on his screams, he felt every minute of it.”

“He sure did,” said Christina. “Jerk deserved it, too. Never liked him. Always considered himself above the rest of us due to the fact that his grandfather was the guy who made Superpower. He wasn’t a really great scientist himself, honestly.”

“Tragic as it may be, this does work out well in our favor,” said Uncle Josh. He pointed ahead of us. “The path to the tunnels are now completely open and we didn’t even have to fight him.”

“Good point,” said Christina. “Come on. Let’s get out of here before guards show up.”

Christina took a step forward, but as soon as she did, the purple goop that had once been Benjamin shifted. All of a sudden, it began bubbling and expanding like crazy, becoming a bigger and bigger bubble with each passing second. The three of us watched in horror as the purple goop soon became twice as tall as Uncle Josh and three times as wide.

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