And so it begins

Axel unwinds in his room when he suddenly remembers he has work to do. He gets out of bed, rushes to the stairs, pushes the door open, and begins to run up the stairs. He closes the door behind him as he ascends to the mansion's roof. He finds a place to sit and stretches his legs and arms. He raises his left arm till it's near his face.

"Are you there, Zeus?"

"Yes, Axel," Zeus replies.

Axel's facial expressions turn from excitement to weird. As if Axel thought something was wrong.

"Zeus, am I hearing you inside me?"

"Yes"

"We are alone, so you don't need to do that."

"Okay." This voice comes from the device.

"Cool, now let's get straight to the point."

"Yes?" Zeus says curiously

"I want to know what you are capable of."

"Well, before that, I need to tell you something important."

"Okay, then before it gets too late, I guess we should go to a place where no one can disturb us."

"What do you have in mind?"

"I think you already know, if you have access to my memories."

"Understood"

Axel takes off into the sky and zooms away.

Somewhere in the isolated location,

A huge abandoned warehouse with the logo of Blaze Tech, far from city life. Axel zooms from the sky and lands at the entrance of the warehouse. He opens the door and a loud creaking sound of the metal door echoes through the half empty warehouse. Dust falls on Axel, and he starts brushing it off with his hands.

"This is the place where no one can disturb us," Axel says.

"It's huge," Zeus says.

"I know right" Axel says and raises his head proudly.

Axel starts looking around the warehouse as his explorer mind starts running. He rearranges the entire desk and keeps every tool in its designated places. After cleaning up the workplace, Axel finally sits down on a chair and puts Zeus in front of him.

"Let's start."

Zeus immediately powers up, and the warehouse in front of Axel disappears into an empty void. All Axel can see is the digital blue face of Zeus.

"You took me into your subconscious again."

"No, this is more like augmented reality. You see what I want you to see"

"That's pretty cool. Can you make anything appear?"

"Yes"

Axel smiles like a devil, and Zeus immediately understands Axel's intentions.

"I would not suggest you use my powers like that," Zeus says

"What, I wasn't thinking anything, nothing at all"

"I can read your mind. Axel. I know you had some naughty thoughts in your mind. "

"That's violating privacy, Zeus."

"Sorry, but it happened without even trying."

"What were you going to tell me?" Axel says

A loud siren from a police car zooms past the Warehouse.

Axel turns to look towards the direction of the siren and says, "Zeus, did you hear that?"

"Patching you through to the car."

On the police chatter, "We have armed robbers inside a plant by the west side of the Redwood Highway. Send units to respond."

"Copy Beagle 2, units with a swat team are en route to your location."

"Zeus, we can help them. we should help them."

"Ok, you are the master."

Three cop cars park outside the plant filled with the robbers. The cops position themselves behind the cars and wait for reinforcements to arrive. One of the cops opens his channel.

"We are securing the perimeter. The suspects are armed and dangerous, need immediate assistance. "

"Roger, keep them occupied till the reinforcement arrives."

Another cop brings a megaphone and hands it over to the cop.

"We have you surrounded. Put your guns down and walk through the front door. Let's not make it any more difficult than it has to be. "

Inside the plant,

"Boss, what are we going to do?"

"Let me think," the boss yells.

He pushes his companion with his shoulder. Everyone inside the plant is tense and sweating heavily, mostly due to all the running they did to reach the plant.

"Three cop cars, six cops, service sidearm equipped." One of them says

"Let's kill them, we have automatic rifles"

"No, we can't attract any more attention," the boss says.

"But boss, we can't just sit here and wait for the Swat to arrive."

"Ok, let's kill them."

"I don't think that's a good idea," an ominous voice echoes in the plant.

Everyone panics and starts looking around while pointing their guns in the vast emptiness of the plant.

"Who's there?" the boss says.

"I'm your inner voice. You haven't heard from me in a while but now you need me"

"Inner voice?" One of them says

"He's fooling around find him" Boss says firmly

"No need for that, I'm already standing with you guys."

"Find him, he is hiding somewhere."

"I said no need for that."

Axel, wearing a hood, emerges from a pillar inside the plant near the boss. His face is hidden due to the lack of lighting and his hood. Despite that his eyes shine blue as if they are LEDs.

"What are you looking at, Fire!" Boss orders

Gun sounds echo through the plant, and Axel gets riddled with bullets. To their surprise, he stood there unharmed, yawning. After firing so many bullets and emptying their magazines, Axel turns to the boss and punches him right in the face. knocking him out.

"Now, it's my turn."

He zooms past everyone and grabs the last one single handedly and throws him at the other one, knocking out both of them. The last one trembles in fear as Axel floats in the sky and stares down at him. He runs for his life. Without thinking, he runs outside the plant only to see cops pointing guns at him. Scared and out of breath, he puts his hands in the air.

"Please help me, there's a ghost in there," he screams.

"I saw a ghost. It was a ghost. Please arrest me, officer," he continues.

The cops enter the plant and notice every member of his gang is knocked out. They took all of them into custody.

High up in the sky, Axel floats while looking at the entire scene.

"That was awesome. I was invincible. "

"Yes, Axel."

"You know what, from now on we are crime fighting buddies."

"Ok, Axel"

Axel looks at Zeus and frowns.

"You've got nothing better to say?"

"Sorry Axel, but I am supposed to obey my master."

"Yeah, that's why I am asking."

"Well, you did fight criminals and won pretty easily. You have my powers there is no way you will lose to such inferior weaponry"

"That's true."

Axel's phone rings, and he reaches into his pockets to pick up the call.

"Axel, where are you? It's almost 10," Eve yells through the other end.

"Shit, I'm sorry, I'm on my way, just around the corner."

"Okay, I'm waiting." Eve cuts the call.

"Shit, in the heat of the moment I forgot, Zeus, let's roll."

"As you wish, Axel."

Axel zooms across the sky...

At the Blaze Mansion, Eve is waiting inside the house for Axel. Eve fidgets around, walking in the hallway. Her head tilted down, pointing at her feet.

"Mam, Axel must be on his way; you should have a seat."

"David, thanks, but I can't rest till he comes."

David, with his composed posture, bows down and walks away. The door cranks open and Eve looks up with a gentle smile. Axel, with one hand on the door and the other pulling down the hood, enters inside. Eve walks up to him and slaps him!

"What?" Axel says as he puts his hand on the check and looks at Eve.

"Where were you? I was worried."

"Got held up at work. Why would you hit me so hard?"

"You deserve it."

"That's rude."

"What work?"

"Ah, I was at the old warehouse, downtown."

"So, don't you think you should keep track of time and don't you feel hungry?"

"Yeah, I am hungry, now that you mention it."

"I bet you are." Eve turns away and walks towards the dining room.

"Sis, I am sorry. It won't happen again."

"Axel, I know you love to work there, but I have a company to handle. I can't babysit you all day."

She moves to the dining table and pulls out a chair for Axel. Axel quietly sits down and eats his dinner. He finishes his dinner and walks towards his room.

"Don't be awake till late."

"Yes," Axel says in a bland tone.

Eve eyerolls his remark and sits down to work on her laptop. Axel closes the door and turns to Zeus.

"Zeus"

"Yes, Axel."

"I think with you I can make a difference."

"Yes, Axel."

Axel walks up to the window and looks at the night sky glimmering with stars.

"This is just the beginning; I am going to be the superhero I always wanted to be." Axel says

His face was stern, a half smile and tightened eyebrows...