Discharge

I opened my eyes for the first time I can remember after an amount of time I currently do not know. I just know that I have grown older. As I can feel that my body is taller and stronger.

Before I fell asleep, I felt extreme cold. Cold to the extreme that it wasn't even painful.

Right now, I am contained. I feel around for a way to get of this...coffin I am in.

I found no way to open it from the inside. 

However, I felt that familiar power I've had forever. It was stronger than ever and had my same desire. I let it flow out of me like a gas. Then it burst with a rush of will. 

The coffin was I inside of exploded from the force. Now I found myself in a lightless room. 

I quickly learned I have other sorts of sight now. Perhaps it is only one. It allows me to see without any light. The world is a glossy black and given depth by white outlines. Color is only shades of gray. It is odd at first. Then it feel right, and homely to see this way. As I can see beyond the walls, uninhibited by neither distance no obstacle. The world is revealed to me.

I then rouse my power. It is a black substance in this new vision. The blackest of anything I see. Therefore, easily distinguishable. I make it float around me. Then I play with it like I used to.

I turn into a liquid, a solid and then back to gas. I make shapes to test my control. Everything has improved. My control is better, I no longer get tired from using it. At least for this much. MY power has become so much stronger too. I can feel its strength. As if I can take on the rising sun and make it set before it exits the horizon.

My clothes are torn from how much I outgrew them. I also took another look at my body. Much has changed. I was child of 12 years before I fell asleep from the cold. Now, I have the body of a young adult. I was...tall, I think. I would have to find a way to measure. My body was also muscular. I was not the thin typed of muscular neither. I was filled out, like a Greek statue of a hero.

Shifting my attention back to my environment. I was in the room I grew up in. For as long as I remember, I had never left this room.

I whisper out in my long unused voice, "Now I will leave this accursed room..."

I will my power to destroy the durable and thick glass that is between me and freedom. It takes the shape of sand and drills through. Making a walkway for me.

I walk out and it is as I saw. This place outside of room where people wore white coats is in ruin. They were the ones that raised me. If what they did could be called raising a child. I am grateful that they always fulfilled my request for books and media. They also provided me with an education. I remember that they called me a frightening genius. They even went as far as to say that my learning ability was only matched by my capacity for thought.

They never answered the questions I really wanted to know though. Who are my parents? Why am I here? What is this power of mine?

They never gave the smallest hint. Despite my gratitude for whatever else they granted me. I grew resentful of them for never granting me the answers I truly longed for.

While scanning the room, I noticed a folder. It was not falling apart like everything else. Although it was covered in dust. It also looked like the newest thing in the room.

I opened it and there was a note on the first page of paper.

"Rathanael...is the name given to you by your mother.

I can do nothing but this to make up for your captivity in some way. I hope this answers the questions you always asked that we never answered.

May you become strong,

Dr. Michael Quince."

"Rathanael...", I mutter. I finally have a name for myself. 

I was never told I had a name nor called by a name. They always called me "subject".

I read through the entire folder carefully. I now know the answers to all my questions that I had. Now I had new ones.

I was a victim of a particle experiment gone wrong. On the moon base Luna Delta, a dark matter particle and an anti-matter particle was collided with a stilled matter particle. I don't know what gave them the idea for something so insane. What matters is that they did it. They expected them just erase each other. They didn't.

The combined after they collided into a new particle. The new particle shot through the base like nothing could affect it. In the direction of Earth. Where it landed, inside my newborn self as I was being...ejected from my mother.

From then on, I experienced abnormalities. My power would fluctuate randomly and it was harmful. I maimed my father and nearly killed my mother in my first power fluctuation. The government discovered me and took custody of me. Although it is noted that my mother was strongly against it.

Which is how I ended up in this underground facility. Which was created for the sole purpose of researching me.

I was put under a cold sleep exactly 5 months after I turned twelve. As my hormones started to get hyperactive due to this being a stage of growth. The onset of puberty.

Which resulted in my loosing control of my power. Which they have aptly named, "Black Matter", at this point in time. They could not contain my wild power so they forced me into sleeping through extreme cold.

I comment to myself, "It did not stop me from growing though."

They did decide to release me from my cold sleep once I was done with puberty. Which would last an additional decade under the effects of cold sleep.

However, that would come to pass. As the Earth was invaded by aliens called singularly as "Elf", and plurally as "Elves".

Who conquered and enslaved all of humanity in 6 months. All personnel abandoned this facility so that the Elves are not led here. I still had another 4 years left in cold sleep. They put my awakening on a timer. It seems that timer did not work given the state of this area.

The folder was informative, and I was grateful for Dr. Quince's consideration.

I looked around the area and found a ruler. Some of the electronics still work as well. I measured myself and checked for any working clocks. I measured myself to be 6 feet and 7 inches tall. As for a clock, I found only one that worked. It was the one built into the timer that was supposed to wake me up.

I was astonished by the amount of time that had passed.

"It is the year 2749. I went into cold sleep in the year 2105. 644 years have passed. How am I still alive. At least, how do I not look older than dust?", I sat to myself.

As cold sleep cannot keep a human alive for that long.

Then I realized that the reason is my power. As I feel the Black Matter in every part of my being. It nourishes me.

Then I thought solemnly, "Will I be subjected to an immortal life?"

As while I never thought about wanting to die. I never thought about living forever. I've read a lot of books. Immortality was always something a human being should fear having to suffer. As humans are born to die. We are not made for eternity.

Now I wonder if I can grow beyond my base design. If I can remain respectably functional.

I can only find out in the future. I just need to focus on staying...I don't know.

I sigh, "Forget it, I'll just have to deal with the rivers of time as I am struck by its waters."

Scrounging around the facility for anything useful. I only found a new set of clothes that barely fit well enough. I turned a large pair of pants suitable for a fat man into shorts. I used solely a large white lab coat to cover my upper body. I pocketed a beanie hat in case it is cold outside.

Now, it was time to leave this facility.

I won't just burst out of the ground though. I need to tread the Earth quietly. As I should assume that everything up there is hostile.

As if responding to my thoughts. Black Matter spreads over me like a thin liquid. I am covered and I turn invisible. As I am now see-through in my vision. Which is a different sort of see-through than what I can naturally do with my new sight.

I look up and wonder if I am going to have to claw my way out. I do a small experiment to test what Black Matter can do.

I simply think, and I now I am levitating off the ground.

I laugh, "I can fly. Black Matter is capable of many things it seems. Let me see what more can be achieved."

 Black Matter then forms a piercing cover over me. Then I fly up.

I break through the ceiling and floors. I break through the stone and break through the dirt. The piercer easily digs through it all with no feeling of resistance.

At last, I exit the ground and fly up. I fly up past the trees that were the first living things to greet me. It is night and the moon is full at its greatest height.

In the distance, I see a city that I've never seen before i any book. Along with many acres of what looks like farmland. Although it all strikes me as odd.

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I think I got a good start and thought out plot this time. Thanks for reading. Been wanting to flush this one out for a long while.