Adam : From a man to a God

Adam started remembering the torture he endured, frozen in fear.

"He's scared, but he has the artifact," the assassin muttered to herself. "They said it's him, but I can't sense it. He's easy prey."

She walked closer, removed her mask, and stared into Adam's eyes before stabbing him. Adam spit blood and fell to the ground.

"Again, again I've been beaten. And I'm about to freaking die. Why does my meaningless life want to end so quickly?" Adam thought, a tear escaping his eye.

His vision grew blurry as he stared at the woman. She turned and put a finger to her ear.

"Target terminated," she reported.

"My life has to have a purpose, right? What's the use of thinking about it, I'm already dying anyway," Adam thought.

He started feeling a small relief as his wound slowly healed. Noticing this, he stood up. The assassin turned back and saw Adam standing.

"Impossible. But I can't sense the artifact on you," she said, bewildered.

She quickly drew two knives and hurled them at Adam. He bent backward, and the knives missed him, embedding themselves in the door.

The assassin leapt to cut Adam while he dodged the knives.

"I've got him," she thought.

Adam fell to the side, dodging her sword. They both quickly got up, and she tried to stab him in the stomach, but he grabbed the sword with his hands. She used force to push Adam against the wall while he held onto the sword, his hands bleeding.

"So you were just pretending all along," she accused.

Adam groaned. "What are you talking about?"

He twisted the sword in his hand until it broke, then suddenly lifted his leg to kick her. His foot ignited, and he kicked her in the gut. She crashed through the wall of the living room, the kitchen, and ended up outside.

Adam yelped and extinguished the fire on his foot. He looked at Brock's dead body. Hearing a sound, he glanced down to find a small round metal device glowing red and beeping.

Just then, Adam's dad and mom came home, and the device exploded, destroying the entire house. The assassin slowly got up, relieved but badly hurt.

She started walking away but heard something behind her. Adam emerged from the rubble. Nearby people came to see what had happened and called the police.

Adam looked back and saw his father calling for help, holding his mother, who was impaled by a wooden plank. People rushed to assist.

Furious, Adam's pupils turned red.

The assassin, surprised, tried to run, but Adam sprinted at 70 miles per hour, jumped, and kicked her in the back, breaking her spinal cord. The force sent her crashing through the wooden fence, landing outside the yard.

She spat blood, turned to face Adam, and smiled a bloody smile. "Kill me—they were going to do it anyway."

Adam calmed down, his eyes returning to normal. He stared at his hands and then at the gathering crowd, some taking videos.

"What am I doing?" Adam wondered aloud.

The police arrived.

"I don't think I should be here," Adam thought.

He stared at the crowd and saw Anna. Then he ran. The crowd was left in shock at his speed. The police stood there, holding their guns, stunned. Adam was running at 40 mph.

"I'm faster. Faster than when Billy and Tiffany were chasing me. What's happening to me? When did I become like this?" Adam thought.

He noticed a police car gaining on him.

"I have to go faster," he realized.

He sped up to 70 miles per hour, the fastest he had ever run since gaining his abilities. The police car kept pace beside him. Inside, two officers were astonished.

"You won't believe what I'm seeing. This guy is—he's... he's running at 70 miles per hour," one officer said into his radio.

Adam quickly turned into an alley, reaching its end where a two-story building stood. He looked tired, having run five miles. The police car blocked the alley, and the officers got out, pointing their guns at him.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I didn't do it on purpose," Adam pleaded.

"On your knees, now!" one officer commanded.

"We've got him cornered," the second officer noted.

"What is he?" the first officer wondered aloud.

"I'm just human like you. I don't know what's happening to me," Adam said, slowly getting off his knees.

"Get down, kid," the first officer ordered. "He just looks like a kid."

Adam saw the guns pointed at him and remembered the assassin torturing him, her firing the gun, and everything going red. He shouted.

"Noooo!" he screamed.

Adam quickly stood, turned, and jumped up, grabbing the edge of the building. The police were left in shock.

"We should shoot," one officer suggested.

"Yeah ,but isn't he just a kid?" said the other officer.

Adam climbs to the rooftop and starts running. As he reaches the edge of the building, he leaps 25 feet into the air and lands on another rooftop. He stops, noticing a helicopter spotlighting him from above.

Adam: Now what?