Incest/Taboo Mutation

As my door closed I released a loud groan. She so was doing that on purpose. Why? I didn't have a bloody clue. Not that I'm complaining her hand did feel nice. Sighing as I eased myself out of my chair. Opening my bedroom door knowing I'd have to walk by her room, walking down the hall towards the bathroom we both now shared. There was something I had to take care of, and I don't know how I was going to get Lily's body out of my mind as I did.

"My, ten minutes." Lily's voice stopped me cold as I walked back to my room, "I do hope it wasn't something I did," she purred a devious light flashed in her eyes as she closed her door. Taking delight in my shocked look as I just stood there in the hallway.

Two a.m. rolled by as my house was quiet. Slowly opening my window, pulling my mask over my face as I readied myself. It would take a few hours to fly there. I knew I wouldn't make it back by the time they awaken. I'll have to deal with that once I got back. Right now I had to crash a party between the Xernos and the heads of certain agencies. My Kevlar black trench coat (a gift from a friend that had a knack of making items for people like me), floated in the breeze as I stepped out onto the roof of my house. Easing down my window, silently floating upwards before pouring on the juice. I really didn't want to break the sound barrier not with my father asleep. That would just raise questions I don't want to answer.

I came in doing Mack 1.5 causing the compounds defenses to go on high alert. This is what I wanted an audience. Buzzing around the perimeter, taking out antiair batteries with my plasma bolts while leaving the spot lights alone. I needed them to see who was going to destroy them. Noticing those that hadn't fled were doing so as I raised my hand. Gathering the stored energy I had for not fighting for a week. It made it easier for doing this kind of an attack. I watched how those government cronies tried to flee as the plasma ball grew.

I wouldn't allow them to escape. Not after trying to sell out my world to the Xernos. I hoped someone was videoing this as I hovered there watching the fire consume the compound after the explosion. Looking to my left as I heard the sound of the approaching helicopters. Extending my left index finger I wasn't going to kill them I just needed them to think I was. Smirking as they veered off to keep from being shot down by the rapid plasma bolts I fired at them. Man was it good to finally be back. Then came a noise I knew all to well. An Xernos aircraft was taking off. While it was nothing more than a scout shuttle it could still outpace me if it got going. I needed to bring it down before it fully engaged its engines.

I was about to trash that shuttle if it wasn't for the tracer rounds of the attack helicopters that were covering it's escape. As my anger flared as the shuttle's engines engaged putting it out of my reach, so did my powers. My bioelectricity arced off of my body, leaping from my eyes as I gazed upon those that stopped me. This only happened in two ways: one when I'm about to overload, which only happened once but that's another story for a different time, the second is when I release the limiters I placed on my body to keep myself from pushing my limits. Which in truth, is not a good thing ever, especially for all those around me when that happens. The one time it happened it left a crater a mile wide in the Mexican desert. Bringing my hand up, the fear I saw on their faces before they too came to know what it's like to be turned to ash. Did they not know they were helping the very people that were trying to sell out this world?

I made it back to the city a little before noon, yet there was one place I had to stop at before I returned to my cover life. I was grinning madly underneath my mask, at the thought of the look on her face once she knew she had failed. Like I said I normally don't operate within my city, but this was a special case. I saw those that took to roles as heroes looking up to the sky as I roared passed. Some of them I knew due to our past dealings. I heard their shouts as I flew passed the office widows so that the world would know Obsidian Shadow was here. Looking back seeing the windows vibrating as I decreased my speed below Mach 1. Firing off a plasma bolt at the fortified guard post that sat at the entrance to the PCS complex, watching how the guards ran for their lives before it was consumed in the ensuing explosion.

Peppering the walkway and surrounding area in my energy to keep them hidden. This wasn't about killing them I just needed them to keep their heads down and out of my way. I've known for a while what office space was hers. You ask me why I've never killed her off given her crimes? I say to you way make her into a martyr and have her people take up a crusade against me and my kind. My shadow loomed over her as she sat at her desk with her back to me shouting into the phone at someone. I saw the fear in her eyes as she slowly turned to look at me. I made sure Molly got a real good look at me so my form would be burnt inside that head of hers. Reaching out using my energy to etch, "You missed," into the glass of the window before I had to dodge the shots that were aimed at my exposed back.

Darting off towards my secondary hideout in one of the abandon sections of the subway. I always used it when I returned during the daylight. I couldn't bring attention to my home with me landing in the backyard. With the maglev now operating the city discontinued using the subway system. Which was fine for me and the numerous homeless that came to relay on those dark tunnels. They kept to themselves and I didn't bother them as I flew pass. I did, however, see a few waves and smiles as I did. I knew most of them were like me hiding out from the government. Whether or not they knew they were down here I don't know. All I know is they haven't spilled the location of my hideout, and I wouldn't tell PCS that a nest of mutants were right below their feet.

Pulling the metal door closed as I stepped out into that dank subway tunnel. Putting enough charge into the door to turn it into a electromagnet so that only I would be able to open it when I returned. I looked around making sure no one was around before I sped off towards the closest subway entrance near my home.

I walked into my home a quarter to one in the afternoon. I was expecting the house to be quiet when I returned not the squealing laughter I heard from the living room.

"I knew it!" Lily shouted as jumped up and down in excitement. "I told you he wasn't dead, Grey!" I heard her speaking into the phone who I assume was a friend of hers. "You owe me fifty credits!" Her voice was chipper as she taunted her friend. "Rick!" Lily shouted her eyes went wide as she saw me passing the entrance way to the living room. "Come in here, you got to see this," she said waving me into the room. "I'll call you back Grey," she said hanging up her phone. "Come on, they've been showing the clip over and over for the past forty minutes," Lily said pulling me down onto the couch.

"This just in, the mutant know as Obsidian Shadow has been spotted alive right here in the heart of the city." The news reporter said as the blurry dot of my body flew pass the window. The ability to fly isn't a rare thing among my kind. I'm just one of the few who can go above the sound barrier. "Watch as this beast attacks helpless people."

"Helpless my ass," Lily spat at the TV. I had to do a double take just to make sure I wasn't the one that said it out loud.

"Fortunately, no one was hurt in this blazon attempt to scare us good people of this fine city." I kept my smile from showing at the fear on the man's face as he reported I was still alive and kicking.

"If he wanted to kill them he would have you twit!" Lily shouted at the TV. I so didn't get this girl. All my life I had to hide who I was. Had to watch my every move so not to draw attention to myself. Yet here was a girl that was defending me without knowing who I truly was, or that the man she idolizes sat beside her.

"This just in! A delegation was destroyed in the early morning hours off the isle of Crete. The number of survivors are unknown at this time. Please stay tuned to channel six for the latest updates on this story." The news caster said cutting into the video feed of me hovering at Molly's window.

"So not a word about who died there, interesting," I said to myself as I rose off the couch to seek out my bed.

"Where are you going?" Lily asked taking hold of my hand.

"My room, why?"

"Don't. Come hang out with me and my friends," Lily said batting her eyelashes at me. "Please," she said placing my hand in-between her breast. In that one instant I knew she wasn't wearing a bra.

"O-okay," I stammered like a fool.

"Sweet!" Lily said tossing her hands into the air. "Come on," she said shutting off the TV. Picking up her bookbag she had placed beside the couch that I didn't see coming in. Taking me by the hand dragging me out the door. "So you weren't here this morning, where did you get off to so early in the morning?" Lily asked with a pointed look as we waited on the maglev to stop at the station a block from our house.

"Job hunting," I lied.

"Oh?" Lily said arching an eyebrow clearly not believing my lie. "You had to leave so early for that?"

"I did when I had a two hour ride ahead of me," I said making it appear I was looking for work some distance from my father.

"You're not saying you're moving out are you?" Lily asked with this concerned look. Why did she have to look at me with those pleading eyes? Why couldn't she have simply ignored me? "I know this is all new but we're a family now, and I want to get to know my brother better," she said stepping closer to me.

"No, I'm not saying I am, just not putting all my eggs in one basket," I said going deeper into my lie. This was so much easier when it was just me and my father. Now I have a stepsister asking questions I can't answer without lying to her.

"Okay, just so you know I'd be hurt if you left me without..." My heart nearly stopped as Lily placed my hand over her womanhood. I could feel the heat coming off of her sex. I was thankful that it was only the two of us standing on that platform waiting on the maglev to arrive. I knew if it wasn't I be laughed at when my face became beet red. "You're so adorable, you know that?" Lily asked in a wanton purr.

"N-n-nope I didn't," I stuttered. Releasing a sigh inside of my head at the sight of the maglev approaching.

"Well, don't sneak out at two any more and I my just show you some things," Lily said with a sneaky smile as she stepped onto the car. Leaving me there quite stunned to say the least and wondering if I had locked my door before I left this morning. "Come on, or you'll miss the train," she said with a knowing smile. My mind raced as I stepped onto the car. Did she know my secret? Had I been so careless that my cover had been blown? Was she leading me into a trap? Was she taking the seventh most wanted mutant right into the hands of her mother? Would I finally be forced to show my hand, to let the world know that Rick Anderson is actually Obsidian Shadow? My hand gripped tightly to the pole as the maglev sped towards the heart of the city. My eyes darted about looking for anything out of the ordinary. "Relax, Rick. I promise you, you'll like my friends," Lily whispered into my ear as she stood behind me.

My anxiety went down ten notches as the maglev slowed to a crawl at the old urban center. It used to be the heart of the city thirty years ago before the asteroids fell. Now it's a civilized pen to keep all the nonharmful mutants clustered in one area. Everyone in the city knew what it was most humans would whether not speak about it, content in their small little lives uncaring about the deaths of others that didn't look like them. Just so long as their small petty lives weren't inconvenience. I couldn't do anything to help them without bringing more trouble down upon them then they already have to deal with. That was why I always made sure to stir clear of these types of areas whenever I fought in a city. Their lives were already taxed to the limit no sense in me adding more to it. What perplexed me was the nongifted humans mingling around with my kind.

"I told you, you'll like my friends," Lily said her hand ran along my lower back before she stepped off of the train. The breeze tugging on her hair as she waited for me to depart. "Grey!" My stepsister shouted waving her arm as we descended the steps.

While I don't judge my kind by their appearance. Grey kind of threw me. He had a rhinoceros horn growing out of the center of his forehead, and the teenager was built like a tank. When I heard the name Grey I imagined a skinny, nerdy kid pushing up his glasses.

"Hey Lily!" He waved I felt the ground shaking as Grey ambled over to Lily. "Who's he?" Grey nodded towards me.

"Everyone this is my stepbrother Rick," Lily said pulling me forward. I have to say I wasn't used to being surrounded by nongifted humans and mutants that weren't trying to kill me. It kind of felt nice. Especially when Eva hugged me, or as I knew her as Pyro due to her ability to manipulate flames, yet she couldn't produce them. Hence why she was allowed to live here and not in the camps for the rest of my kind. I met Eva a year ago when one of PCS experiments went out of control. By the time I arrived a quarter of the city had been destroyed due their trying to combine four different powers into one being. How they managed to steal powers from other mutants I could never find out. Producing a mindless hulking brute that saw everything as an enemy. When I arrived it had already taken out most of the group she was with. I only arrived in time to keep the beast from delivering the killing blow. Since then I haven't heard any news about her. I was glad she had healed up from that battle. She was a stunning brunette. I just hope Eva didn't recognize me. My mask did get torn in that battle before I was able to fully destroy that beast. "Rick these are all my friends," Lily said gesturing to the group of twenty people.

As I walked into their little club room. I was tried to play it cool as I stared at wall to ceiling coverage of my exploits. It was creepy as hell I tell you. Looking at everything you've done in the past three years, as if it was some kind of shine to me no less. There were far better people to look up to than me.

"Did you bring it?" Matt asked one of the nongifted humans I meet in the square.

"Of course I did," Lily said puffing out her chest in pride. I watched as Lily slung her backpack around. The zippers resounding as she walked towards the display case they had set up. My eyes nearly bulged out of my head as Lily pulled my mask out of her bag. Not just any mask, the mask I was wearing last week with I faced off with the henchmen her mother sent after me. The mask I was going to burn since it couldn't be repaired.

"How the fuck did she find it?!" I asked myself as I went full blown freak out inside my head. I thought I had hidden that in the vent in my room until I could dispose of it. The look and the smile Lily was giving me only told me one thing. She knew my fucking damn secret!

"That's so cool!" the group shouted as the rushed the glass case. While my hand sought for the door handle before my identity would totally be ruined.

"Going somewhere?" Her voice startling me, fear racing through my limbs as she mouthed the name, "Obsidian Shadow." My heart hammered in my chest as she walked towards me. I fought my body from heating as her breasts skimmed along my chest as she rose to the tips of her toes, knowing if she tried to cuff me with those neutralizing bracelets I'd have to expose myself. For there was no way I was ever going into one of those camps. "I told you to relax, brother," her voice was sweet and sexy as she whispered into my ear. "I would never out you, you are my hero after all. Just be here with me and have fun, a man like you needs to unwind every now and again."

I have to admit after I had calmed down, and her reassuring me she wasn't going to turn me in. I did kind of enjoy myself. I'm not saying they weren't nice people, I've just never been big on groups. Not after hiding for the past eighteen years, being around them I could see a quiet life surrounded by friends like that. Yet I've set my fate long ago. I know I can never be like them. Smiling. Happy. Laughing. No. If I have learned anything in my three years. Was never let anyone grow close to me for there would be a time I wouldn't be there to save them, and I wasn't about to allow anyone to fall to the government's blade because of my actions.

"My, aren't the two of you spending quite a lot of time together," Molly said smiling at her daughter as we walked through the door.

"Well, Rick is cool once you get passed the indifferent exterior," Lily said as she hugged her mother. Winking at me from behind her mother's back before going into the kitchen.

So there I was alone with Molly the head of the PCS. I wondered if I would see that same fear I saw earlier as the door shut behind me. I was not expecting the tight hug Molly wrapped me in. I felt her breasts pressing hard into my chest as her hug lingered.

"Thank you, for looking after my daughter, with those freaks out there I worry about her safety," Molly whispered into my ear. I fought myself from throwing her off of me. Sure some of my kind are odd looking, but we are not freaks! Alright, I was so rethinking my thoughts about not killing the witch.

"Sure, no problem," I said biting my tongue. Patting her back, I knew soon I'd have to leave. Then I wouldn't need to worry about a mask, since I would cast off the role I've been playing for the past eighteen years.

"Leave your door unlocked tonight, I want to show you just much I appreciate it," Molly said lustfully into my ear. That so wasn't going to happen, not if I had anything to say about it.

Dinner that night was strained as Molly tried to catch my attention. I just couldn't understand way she was trying so hard. Then there was Lily flashing me looks that made me wonder. My father relieved me of dish duty since I did so without complaint last night. I was laying on my bed when Molly came marching into my bedroom. The lock falling into place as the door closed behind her.

"We need to talk," Molly said sternly as her foot tapped on my floor. Her hands on her hips, clearly not pleased that I wasn't returning whatever she was trying to do. "Do you think I don't know who you are? Do you honestly think I'm that stupid? Did you think a eighteen-year-old could outsmart all of us? Did you think we didn't know you lived in this very house?" she asked coyly as she stared down at me.

"You want me to answer that?" I asked staring coldly at her.

"We've known about you since the moment you were born. Why wouldn't we? You were created to fight the Xernos..." The air whipped as I zipped off of my bed.

"You lie!" I hissed as I held Molly aloft by her neck. My eyes glowing as my energy swelled.

"Temper. Temper," Molly gasped as she peered down at me. "We wouldn't want a repeat of want happened in Mexico, now would we?" My eyes narrowed as my energy crackled in my room. "You wouldn't want to harm Lily your biological sister, now do you?"

"W-what?"

"I am your mother Rick." My grip loosened on her throat, staggering backwards my mind reeled at the thought that I could ever be related to this woman. "You were created from my egg and your father's sperm, genetically engineered to be the perfect weapon against the Xernos. Why do you think your powers are so effective against them and their ships. You are our sword if you will in the war we both know that's coming. I am pleased that you destroyed those fools that thought to sell out our world," she said rubbing her neck.

"You think I give a damn if you're pleased?! You are nothing more then a mass mur*er!"

"What you think I care about that some mutants die? I'm fighting for the sake of my world just as you are. Do you not have blood on your hands? Have you not kill thousands of humans? So don't stand there and judge me when you are just as guilty as I am," Molly said staring me down. "Why do you think I've sent all those people after you? So you would grow stronger. Improve your fighting skills because you will need them."

"Give me one good reason I shouldn't burn you to ash!" I growled low plasma sparking to life against the palm of my hands.

"Because Lily would hate you, and you know much she adores you," Molly said smirking like she had won. "Even you wouldn't commit patricide."

"You seem to think I care," I spat, "you are nothing more..."

"Yes, yes, murderer, bigot, blah, blah," Molly said rolling her eyes. "So here's what's going to happen," she said walking up to me. Her fingers ran along my jaw line. "You will give me what I want, when I want, and son," Molly said her grey eyes smirking at me as I stared hatefully at her, "mama wants this hard body of yours. If you don't I'll kill every single mutant, starting with the ones in this city; and I know how much you care about those freaks." It seemed to me she got off on my hate when she spout out that word.

"You wouldn't?!" I should have known better. That woman would indeed kill everyone of my kind off just to get what she wanted.

"Of course I would." Her grip on my face kept me from reeling back as her lips touched mine. "I'll give you some time so you can think about this. Remember hundreds of thousands of lives are in your hands, son." I knew she said that last word just to irk me to no end. "Oh and, do keep playing the hero," she said chuckling as she walked out of my room.

"Fuck!" I cursed my energy lashing out causing the light bulbs in my room to explode casting me into darkness.

"Rick?" Lily said sticking her head into my room after two hours had passed. I cleaned up the glass from the shattered bulbs, the knife Molly stuck into me was one wound to many. My mind was plagued on what I should do. I knew she would kill to get what she wanted. That wasn't in doubt, I was in doubt if I could actually do it. Was she actually telling the truth? Was I actually made to be like this? To be their little tool when the war came? Shaking my head - No! - I am no ones tool. They might have made me. That doesn't define who I am. However, I also don't want to be the asshole that caused the genocide of my kind. I knew I couldn't kill her, no matter how much I wanted to right then. Knowing how she would have a plan in place should that sort of thing happen. Most likely it would involve the mur*er of my people. Again, this wasn't something I wanted to be a footnote in my history. "Hey," Lily said sweetly as her hands ran up my back, along my shoulders, down my arms as she pressed herself against my back as I stared out my window. "I wanted to thank you for hanging out with my friends today. They would have been so thrilled to know that you are Obsidian Shadow, but we'll keep that our little secret brother," she said hugging me tightly.

"I never thought I get to touch you, talk to you..."

"How did you find out?" I asked interrupting her.

"Oh." I could feel her hesitation. "A couple of years ago I hacked into to my mother's computer files thanks to a friend that's a technophile. You meet him today, you remember Jerry? Well, he gave me a thumb drive that would allow me to snoop through my mom's things. I hate what she does. I hate how she talks about my friends, and you," Lily said looking up at me. The way she was looking at me at least to me wasn't something a sister should be doing. "Do you want to know why they call you Obsidian Shadow?" she asked watching her reflection as she sat on my bed. Nodding for her to continue as I looked over at her. "Thanks to Jerry's help I was able to crack into my mother's files and I came upon that name. A name of a hero that little was known about him at the time. As I opened the file, I couldn't believe what I saw."

"Go on," I said moving to sit beside her. My hand covering her left hand. The way she smiled at me, the feeling of her hands clasping mine made my heart flutter.

"Are you sure you want to know?" Lily asked. I could see she was trying to protect me, but I needed the truth; and oddly enough I knew she was the only in my house that wouldn't actually lie to me.

"Yes, I need to know." I thought it was only fair given that she knew who I am, and the danger that put her in of just knowing.

"My mother...well our parents actually were standing in front of this giant glass tube detailing the experiment that was to take place. There was a lot of detailed notes on the progress of it from one year to another. To the hidden cameras they have within this house to record you throughout the years. So when I saw you I knew who you were, and who Dad is. That I'm the sister of Obsidian Shadow," Lily said leaning in to me. Taking me by surprise as she kissed me. Not the quick peck on the lips kind of kiss. The kind that leaves your heart racing and wanting more. "I hope you know you can trust me. I would never divulge who you are," she said inching closer to me. "Can I ask you something?"

"Sure," I said trying to take my mind off of how good her lips felt.

"I know you fight against them, but who and what are they? The aliens I mean."

"They're called the Xernos, they are the ones that set this into motion thirty years ago. They sort of look like us. Their tech is lightyears beyond ours. However, right now there only a small number of them on the planet," I said watching how she looked at me taking it all in.

"Are they really bad?"

"Their actions are, but I really haven't met a good Xernos yet."

"When did your powers start, I know from what I read and when your father speculated on when they started to emerge," Lily said her thumb rubbed circles on the back of my hand.

"When I was five, but I didn't come into my full powers until I was fifteen," I said noticing how her eyes had a little glow to them. It was as if she was happy I was confiding my precious secrets to her.

"Have you ever shown, anyone not trying to kill you that is, your powers before?" Lily asked resting her chin on my right shoulder.

"No," I said shaking my head. "I've been somewhat in hiding ever since I began to realize what I am. With the world wanting my head this was the safest way to keep my father safe or so I thought," I said. Chewing on my lip I knew I had to get out of the house I grew up in. I wasn't about to allow her or anyone else to spy on me any longer. "Would you like to see me using it?" I asked trying not to smile at her wide eyes and how she nodded against my shoulder. Reaching over to the nearest wall socket, making a big display of it as I arced my bioelectricity down my forearm and into the wall socket. Alright so you know another use of my powers as I guided it through the wires finding the cameras my father or whoever planted around my home. Could I really call this place my home any more now that I know it was nothing more than a petri dish for their damn experiment?! Feeling very vindictive, running my energy down through the house an evil grin spread across my lips knowing my so-called father was currently watching his favorite sports team. Sending an overload into his monster flat screen, burning it out within ten seconds.

"Rick!" my father howled. Then I heard the most sweetest thing my ears had ever heard - Lily's giggle. Then I saw her cheeks heat as she caught me staring at her. "Damn it Rick I was watching that!"

"Well, I guess your experiment isn't as controllable as you thought it was," I yelled back dead silence greeted me as my father didn't have a comeback from that. I tried to fight against it, but I couldn't help but smile as Lily muffled her laugher.

"God damn teenagers." I heard my father mutter before I heard the jingling of his car keys. "You're paying for that I hope you know," my father yelled up the stairs. My feet moved silent along the floor boards as I approached the top of the stairs.

"Oh, why don't you sell the rights to all those hidden cams videos. I'm sure you'd make a few credits," I said staring down at my father knowing how my eyes were glowing in the darkness. "You of all people should know I've killed for less," I said noting how the color drained from my father's face.

"You wouldn't?"

"What kill a bigot, a mad scientist, a condoner of mass mur*er, sure why not," I said coldly. "Just so you know your experiment has ended. Don't expect to find me staying here much longer." With that I turned on my heel heading back to my room.

"Please don't go," Lily said falling into my arms as I entered my room. "Please stay with me, I can help you, I know I can," she said looking up at me with those warm, pleading, loving eyes of hers.

"I can't, you know I can't," I said taking hold of her arms. "I don't want you to die because of me."

"You will stay." My body went cold and ridged as her voice filled my room. That wicked smirk of hers lined her face as if getting pleasure from the hate that was plastered across my face. "You know the cost if you do, are you willing to risk it?"

"Don't, please," Lily whispered as she wrapped her arms me, pressing the side of her face against my back as I started to lunge at Molly. "Whatever her faults are she's still my mom. I don't want to hate you." Peering behind me, was she crying?

"Soon. There will come a time when you and this whole planet will need me," I said narrowing my eyes at my creator while breaking Lily's hold on me. "When that time comes, and you look for the one that can save you. You'll wish you never created the likes of me," I said coldly pushing Lily towards her mother. "Because I will let this world burn," I said closing the door in their faces. Roughly sliding my window open, pushing off the roof I needed space. I needed somewhere I could blow off steam, and in the middle of a city wasn't the place where I could do that. I could feel my limiters breaking as I raced towards the Moab desert as my fury burned within my chest. With my bioelectricity arcing off at odd angles I knew an overload was imminent.

A cloud of sand bellowed into the sky as I sought to ground myself. While the overload wouldn't kill me outright, it wouldn't let me off scot-free either. As the last limiter broke my body was ingulfed in a bubble of my energy. Lightning rained down from a clear blue sky as bioelectricity charged the air around me as bubble began to expand and expand until it reached its critical mass. From what I read the mushroom cloud could be seen from two states away. As I panted for breath, the desert sun glistened along the mile and a half wide crater of glass. Falling to a knee as the explosion left me drained.

"Shit!" I cursed as I heard the blades of the approaching helicopter. I was in no shape to deal with her and her ilk. The copter circled overhead keeping its distance from me. They had learned that trick when I syphoned off the electrical power from a few of their planes they had sent out to shot me down. I wondered how she got out here so fast as I saw her standing in the open doorway of the copter. How I wanted to wipe that grin off of her face as she surveyed the increased output of my discharge.

It's not like I enjoy the feeling of my body going into overload. Quickly looking down as three taser disks were attached to my chest. My body arched as the volts raced through me. Peering out of my half closed eyes as she waved off the pilot as my body converted the charge into bioelectrical amperage. Pulling off the disks once there was enough to give me a jump start per se. Getting to my feet, my legs still wobbly due to the expulsion of ninety-nine percent of my electrical output. I began to pounder why she would even do such a thing as I looked down at the disks. Shaking my head, she was only looking out for her investment. That night as I flew back to the city, I knew I couldn't stay at that house but knew I had to, or innocent blood would be on my hands. That's something I didn't want.

"Feel better?" Her voice startling me as I climbed back through the window. Flipping on the light revealing that I was standing locked in a closed room with her, naked I might add. "I do know how that body works after all, I did help create it," Molly said her tongue flicking against her teeth. Her eyes ran down my chest taking note of the taser burns that pop marked my shirt. "So now you see what I can offer you," she said displaying her body to me.

"And you think I want to touch that," I sneered.

"You will," Molly said with an amused smirk, "you might have killed before, but those people were already murderers themselves. I can see it in your eyes son, you will fuck me," she said walking towards me. Okay, this wasn't how I thought my first time seeing a naked woman would go. "Lily is out with her fr...friends." I almost laughed at how she tried not to scowl. "Your father is at the bar watching the game because you," Molly said poking me in my chest, "mmm," she purred as her hand lavished on my right pectoral muscle. "Blew up his TV, thanks to you I'll won't hear the end of it until next week." Clearly not pleased that I found comfort in her displeasure. "So now there's time for you give me what I want." I hid my emotions but that smile of hers told me she could feel how my muscles were trembling.

"After all those fights, after all the near death experiences you had. I'm surprised that you would be so nervous when a naked woman stands before you," she cooed as she stood less than an foot away from me. "Son, can you feel the heat of my body? Can you feel how firm my breasts are as they press against you?" Molly asked. I could feel how her hard nipples pressed into my chest. The way her eyes darted about searching my face. How close her lips were to mine. "Can't you feel how soft my body is...fucking shit!" I couldn't help but chuckle as she stomped towards my computer desk as her phone rang. A device that apparently she couldn't be without even during sex. Not that I was complaining I was thankful for it.

"Mockingbird." I heard her say into the phone. "What! What do you mean Tanos broke free! He's where!" I heard her fear as she turned towards me. "Oh god! Lily," I heard her whisper as her hand shot to her mouth. "Block off the area. Level four containment," Molly ordered before quickly hanging up. "You need to save her, now!" she said taking me by the arms. A look of fright burned in her eyes. As she should be Tanos was number two on the most wanted list and a savage killer. "Please you must save Lily, you're the only one in the city that can."

"How? The man is eight foot tall and a S class mutant," I said knowing it would be a suicide if I went. Even at full power I was only an A class mutant nowhere near the power needed to face off with that man.

"You're so more powerful than any mutant on the planet son. We created you to be the only one we would ever need to fight the Xernos. Why do you think you have so many gifts? Why do you think you overload? It's a safeguard we built into you so you wouldn't burn out like all the other projects we have tried. But he's after Lily and you are the only one that can stop him."

"And still he's S class and I'm not even halfway recharged as you should know. Since as you say made me," I said not eager to meet my death. Like I said I'm not a hero.

"Sanatos." Was the only word she spoke and something inside of me went into overdrive. My body was like a plasma ball as my bioelectrical plasmic energy crawled up my body, sparking between every single strand of hair as it stood on end. It felt like a small sun was within my chest. Fueling my recharge at a rate I haven't felt since I tapped a nuclear power plant to take down a Xernos battleship. "Now save Lily, save your sister!" I still was apprehensive that I could do such a thing. "You are the only SSS mutant in the world son, you can do this."

"Alright, where is she?" I asked knowing I wasn't going to be wearing my mask. The days of me hiding my face was over. The world was going to know the man underneath the mask.

"The urban center." In a blink of an eye I was out my window. I could feel the rafters giving out as I pushed off the roof. You have no idea what it's like going from 0 to 200 miles an hour in less than five seconds. It felt as if my face was peeling off.

My eyes narrowed as I saw Tanos' size twenty-five boot was about to stomp my sister, Eva, and an unconscious Grey into the concrete. I needed to go faster. I needed to save her. Something in me told me Lily couldn't die, and to my surprise my body seemed to heed my call.

"God, she has some lungs on her," I said to myself as my sister screamed behind me as I caught Tanos' foot, the concrete buckling underneath my feet as I did. Damn the man was heavy.

"R..."

"You hurt?" I asked peering over my shoulder.

"N-no just a few scraps and bruises, Grey took the brunt of his punch," Lily said before whispering, "your mask."

"Are you done pipsqueak? Can I kill you now?" Tanos asked as those evil eyes stared down at me.

"I was about to ask the same of you," I said with a sly smirk as I lowered my right hand to my side. Azure light swirled three centimeters from my skin as I formed a plasma ball above my palm.

"It's him!" I heard Eva gasp behind me. I heard the huff and saw the shock in Tanos' eyes as I sent him sailing through the air crashing through one of the old concrete support pillars that once held up the sign that was long since removed to keep the people of city from being reminded of who now lived here.

"Pyro?" I said looking down at Eva.

"Y-y-yes." I have to say being able to make a hot girl befuddled was actually kind of cool as she stammered. "What do you need me to do Obsidian Shadow?"

"Protect my sister while deal with this asshole," I said lighting the trashcan to my left on fire. "Do you think you can do that for me?" I asked as Tanos stirred underneath the rumble.

"Of course I can," Eva said with false bravo. "Thanks for you know saving me a year ago," she said as she stepped up to my side. Drawing the flames towards her making them dance around her hands.

"Not a problem," I said before pushing off, leaping into the air as Tanos staggered to his feet. My fist smashed against his jaw. The force of the blow cause the air around my fist to compress before exploding outward, the shockwave shattering glass in the surrounding area.

"You think you can take me! I am Tanos!" He yelled grabbing me around my chest in his big meaty hands. Yet I knew that blow had phased him greatly. I wasn't proud of it but when you're being squeezed by a ton of force you tend to scream like a little girl. I felt my body sailing through the air as he tossed me towards the containment line.

"Fuck this was going to hurt," I told myself before my body collided with one of their armored vehicles leaving a trail of rubber eight feet long as it skidded along the asphalt. His feet pounded in my skull as I tried to shake the daze from my head. So far I had only been using twenty percent of my power given how whatever she did was untested. I simply couldn't fly in at full strength and hope for the best. That's how people die when my kind are overconfident in their gifts. A devious grin spread across my lips as I thought what would fifty percent would be like against him.

"Come out little boy, don't you want to play hero?" Tanos taunted me as he stalked towards me tossing men and cars aside like they were rag dolls. I saw their shocked looks as I buried my fist into Tanos' stomach then another and another slowly lifting that beast off the ground due to the force of the blows. I saw how his eyes were widening in shock and more importantly pain and fear as his mouth hung agape unable to unleash his scream of pain.​