//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: Great Power // by Harkbilde //------------------------------// Currently, it is the Year of 2020 at night on the Californian coast, if one was close to the coast, they would hear the distant explosions coming from it. If they were even closer, they'd be able to see the bright lights flashing around. If one was crazy enough to be even closer, they would feel the rumbling of the earth and hear the voice of a young man, screaming out loud. "STAAAAAAAAAAAIN!" A young man shouted in rage while flying towards the other middle-aged scarred man at a speed that would seem like a blur to any normal humans. "Don't you dare run away from me!" The scar-faced man now known as Stain turns towards the young man whilst also flying and speaks in a mocking tone, "And who said I was running?" Then his eyes started glowing light blue and spears of ice were formed around him and was shot towards the young man. The young man clicked his tongue and his anger-filled eyes also started glowing, but in brown, "You know such petty tricks won't work on me Stain!" While saying this, pieces of earth and cement shot towards the spears of ice, shooting them down. "Get over here and fight me properly you coward!" The young man all but shouted. Hearing this, the man called "Stain" stopped and turned to the young man with an arrogant look, "Sure, I guess playtime is over? Or was it already over when I killed them?" Stain smirked whilst looking at the young man. The young man seemingly got even angrier at that and started glowing in all kinds of colors with his eyes glowing brighter as the air around him seemed to start vibrating. But Stain, who didn't finish talking yet, also started glowing like the young man, and spoke, "Or was it when I killed HER?" "STAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIN!!!" The young man shouted whilst charging towards Stain surpassing the speed of sound, causing a sonic boom. The young man covered his right arm in a transparent aura, causing it to bulge with muscle, and punched Stain's face with all his might, causing yet another sonic boom. Stain was then shot back grunting in pain, he then stopped himself mid-air and shot back towards the young man, while coating his knee in the same transparent aura, and kneed him in the gut, causing the young man to be shot upwards. But Stain wasn't done, he started charging purple lightning around him whilst his eyes turned to the color of the lightning. While that was happening, the young man stopped himself from further going up and spewed a bit of blood from his mouth. He then shook his head and looked towards Stain, only to see him pointing his index and middle finger at him while covered in purple lightning. The young man's eyes widened and crossed his arm in front of him in a protective manner, and started covering his arm in the same transparent aura. Then, with a loud cry of "DIE!!!" from Stain a huge stream of lightning, huge enough to light up the night, shot towards the young man in split seconds, hitting the young man causing a loud explosion, causing a large amount of smoke where the young man had been. When Stain saw that, he smirked evilly. Thinking he had won, he tried to turn around but found himself unable to move even an inch. When he started wondering why he heard a voice behind him, a voice that he knew too well... "Hey, Shit Stain....." The young man rasped behind him, straining himself with both of his arms charred, because of the lightning. Stain, whilst straining his neck, looked at the arms with a questioning look, wondering something, until the young man started to speak, "You might be wondering why my healing is not kicking in, am I right?" The young man didn't hear any affirmation from Stain but knew he was right, "Well..... I'm concentrating my Psi right now....." Stain smirked thinking it was because the young man holding him down, "And If your thinking it's because I'm holding you down, then no, I'm concentrating only a little amount to hold you. The rest...... I think you might know......" The young man smirked. Stain's face started to pale, as he seemed to realize something and started to desperately try escaping. "You see..... I know you're practically immortal, with an unlimited amount of Psi energy that you stole, healing you and all that....." The young man started to bleed from all his seven orifices, "Cough Hack!... So I thought..... What wo- Hrk! What would happen if I shred every last of atoms that you're made up of with a nice Bang? Well..... Let's find out..... Shall we?" The young man finished with a toothy smile and started glowing brightly. Stain started to try even harder to move, trying to break from the young man's telekinesis desperately to run away. "Sigh............" The young man looked up at the night sky with a sigh and enjoyed the beautiful night sky, enjoying it for what could be the last time, and when the light, space, and the air started to distort around him and Stain, he closed his eyes with a smile and said. "What a beautiful night..." BOOOOOOOM!!!!! The bright sphere of light erupted from the young man and started to expand, disintegrating everything it touches until it was the size of a small city, and promptly collapsed in itself and disappeared without a trace. The next day's news channels would be filled with the bright dome of light that illuminated during the night and the disappearance of it along with more than half of the coast near Santa Monica. Unknown location "Groan" a groaning voice would-be heard from deep inside a forest. The forest was full of bristling sounds of leaves, small critters skittering, and birds chirping. "So, noisy......." A familiar voice said in a tired tone. "Where am I?" This voice came from a Caucasian male with blue eyes and 6ft 4in tall with a lean athletic build and golden/brown with blended shortcut hair, "Wait..." The young man suddenly said, stood up, and scanned his surroundings. "Where am I?" Then suddenly, memories came rushing forward, making him close his eyes and clutch his head in pain. After a while, his eyes shot open with confusion, "How am I even alive? The Psi overload was supposed to kill me, without even leaving a speck of me." The young man looked around his body, he wore a brown leather jacket over a white T-shirt and blue jeans with a belt. "Clothes are fixed, and my body seems to longer sustain any injuries...... What the hell is going on?" The young man looked around the forest, "Did I teleport to somewhere? If I did, then wher-" The young man suddenly snaps his neck towards his right, 'Something is coming, approximately 50 meters from my right, a group?' The young man started accelerating his thinking while he started enhancing himself and coated his arms in purple lightning, making his eyes glow purple, 'I feel hostile intentions from these..... things, are they wild animals? A pack of wolves? No, it somehow feels...... different.....?' The young man lowered his balance while widening his stance, counting down the distance between him and the pack of wild animals, "40...... 30....... 20....... 10,9,8,7,6,fi-.....? What the fuck.....?" GROWLS