Chapter 2 - Night at the Gas Station

NS STATION

The government are still confused how their calculations were off on the comet passing Earth. It was as if someone pushed the comet towards the Earth while it was passing away. The purple shockwave of the comet went around Earth, but it didn't kill anyone. In the NS Station, the prime minister of Japan, Hiroyuki Watanabe, is planning on sending a signal through space to try to contact life on other planets.

"Are we ready to send it?" A worker asked.

"Yes" Hiroyuki answered. The worker presses the button as the signal rushes out of Earth and through the solar system.

The workers in space gets the signal to turn on their signal, making the signal go farther and farther out into the galaxy. Suddenly a spaceship in the middle of nowhere in the galaxy gets caught up in the signal and catches it.

"Hmm" someone said in the spaceship as it looks down at the screen that says "Detetcted"

"Zalgots, I think we got something" the thing said.

Zalgots walks through the path of the huge spaceship and into the control room. An alien; about 250cm tall and has a muscular build. Its skintone is orange and purple with four horns on all corners of his head and another one in the middle. It wears a bunch of metal armors on its body, except its huge masculine arms.

It's the Emperor of the Kilmaits Empire. "A signal, hmm?" He said in his deep and evil-sounding voice "Where did it come from?"

"The left side of our ship, Emperor Zalgots" the kilmait says.

"Then.. set the ship to the west" Zalgots said as the kilmaits followed his order "Yes, Emperor Zalgots!!"

"This is perfect" Zalgots says "If this came from another planet, then we have finally found a place to stay"

"Yes indeed" Blacksent, another kilmait says "What if there's other life there?" Blacksent's entire body, including his face, are entirely covered in black armor. Blacksent is the Emperor's first assistance, which means he's the most powerful one out of all assistances.

Zalgots look through the window in a very scary and angry face "We'll kill and enslave the entire population"

DAWN OF THE HEROES

VOLUME 1, CHAPTER 2, NIGHT AT THE GAS STATION

GAS STATION

Sayuri and Wataru stood there watching the man charge up his flames in his hands. "Wataru" Sayuri called out.

"What" he replied.

"What are we supposed to do?.. Do we kill him?" Sayuri asks, but then looks at Wataru. Wataru looked depressed while standing there.

"Wataru, how did you guys helped superhumans?" Sayuri questions, but she doesn't get an answer until a few seconds later "My friend, Riko... she had the ability to erase a person's power... That's how we cured the superhumans.."

"Where is she now...?" Sayuri asks. Two years ago on fall of October, Wataru and the rest of his brother, Shinji, and friend, Riko, were hanging out in Ippudo, a ramen restaurant in the city of Yokohama. They sat on a white comfy chair with a little back stand. The middle of the small table were filled with chopsticks, cups, and ingredients. As soon as they got their ramen, they began stuffing their face away "Aaah!!" Wataru said out loud in satisfaction "It tastes so good!!!"

The owners looked at them eating and were happy to satisfy them. "Wataru, slow down" Riko laughs picks up a napkin "Here" Wataru stops eating. Riko wipes Wataru's mouth "Geez, please, we've all been going here for a whole year now and you still eat like the world is gonna end tomorrow"

Wataru smiles "Thank you, Riko"

"Of course, Wataru" she smiled back as Shinji stared at them in disgust "Can you guys just kiss already; I know you guys like each other"

"What!!?" Wataru and Riko shouted at the same time, but then out of nowhere, the windows get shattered by the wind as a superhuman showed himself behind the shattered windows. The group looked at each other with a serious face and gets out of their seats "Everyone, go to the kitchen and hide" Riko says as the customers listen.

The villain smiles and vanishes "Huh!?" Wataru shouted "Wait- what!!?" Shinji and Riko followed up. They look around in the circle to find the man, but he was nowhere to be found until "Aaaah!!" Wataru watches.

He watches with Shinji.

He watches as Riko fall to the ground with blood splattering from behind her back. Her back was slashed by the supervillain. "Riko!!!" Shinji screamed out loud as he sprints toward her body and held her "Riko!! Riko!!!! Riko!!!!!!" Shinji screamed louder and louder. Wataru watched in horror as he watches his friend die in Shinji's arms.

Suddenly it went quiet for Wataru. It was like he was in his own world. The time stops. Wataru thought to himself "Why?.. Why did this... happen?...". He closes his eyes as tears fall. The villain appears from behind Wataru as he's about to slash Wataru's back as well, but Wataru releases his electricity. The shockwave blasts the man away from Wataru. Lightning sparks all around the area as it gets dark "Aaaaaaaah!!!!" Wataru cried out loud while dashing all over the place. It looked as if he had super speed and teleportation at the same time.

The electricity followed Wataru's trail as Shinji watches "Wataru" he said under his breath until "Kill him!!!" Wataru swings his electrical-filled fists into the villain's neck, snapping it in half, killing the villain.

"She died" back in the present, Wataru spoke out "So... we have no abilities to remove a superhuman's powers". Sayuri apologizes "I'm sorry about your friend.. I understand what you mean when you said you understood how I felt about my parents dying... But then again.. let's not dwell on it, Wataru"

"I wasn't goingn to" he says "Alright then... we fight until he gases out!!" Wataru dashes toward the man as he dashes foward. "What!!?" Sayuri shouted and followed along their steps. The lightning sparks disappeared though, but only the electricity surrounds Wataru and Sayuri. They attack the man, sending him down to the ground. The man manages to put Sayuri's hoodie on fire "Auh!" She gasps and takes it off. Wataru jumped high in the sky and sends electricity blasts towards the man.

The man dodges and screams "Hah!!" While flying toward Sayuri "Ah-!" Her screams cut off when he kicks her arms. Her arms were blocking her face, crossing over each other like an X mark. The man speed punches and kicks Sayuri. Sayuri laid on the floor taking all the punch "Aaah!"

Wataru wacked him in the face with a streetlight pole. He flew into the bushes "Where'd you get that from!?"

"I found it-" the man flew back quickly and sends Wataru back into the building of the gas station. "Wataru!" Sayuri screamed out "Do something!" Sayuri's both legs were injured badly.

Wataru jumped out and super punches him and grabs his shut, tugging him up in the sky and throws him down hard. "Gah!" The man slammed onto the floor.

"Sayu, I can't use my full power or else I'm gonna kill the man" Wataru says to Sayuri "But I'm not letting him lay a finger on you, stay down while you heal" Wataru dashes at the man and picks him up and quickly slams him onto the ground.

Sayuri watches "Am I.. this weak... to not do anything... to let Wataru do all the work... I injured my stupid leg from that guy's kicks and punches, but Wataru is taking it like he's some kind of buff guy"

"Are you tired yet" Wataru asks the man. They both paused and stood there a few meters apart. He scoffs "I'm just getting started"

"You have the power to stop this, hah, get it" Wataru turned to Sayuri "He has the power to- you know-? Hahah-" the man slams his fists into Wataru's face "Never ever get distracted during a fight!"

Wataru got sent back down next to Sayuri "Shit" he says on the floor "You idiot, Wataru" Sayuri says. The man got closer "I'll end you both very fast" the area gets hotter and hotter "Auhh" Wataru and Sayuri could feel the hotness "Do I have no choice but to kill him?" Wataru asks Sayuri.

"Do what you think is right, right now" Sayuri answers. "Fine" Wataru stood up "I'll kill him... I'm not gonna hold back anything!" He took off his jacket revealing his muscular-built arms; not too small, not too big. He wears a gray tank top with black sweat pants and black shoes. "I'm sorry" Wataru apologizes, but just as he was about to strike, a robot came running in and stabs the man in the neck. The man instantly dies as the fire disappears.

"Huh!?" Wataru and Sayuri were shocked. The robot is from the military base called Solar Military Base. It's called a warbot and was trained for war. A lieutenant in the army trained the warbot everyday. The warbots kind of look like the robots in the movie called Chappie.

"A warbot! Oh my god, we've been saved from the military!!!" Sayuri screamed in happiness. The warbot looks at Wataru in the eyes. Wataru wondered what was happening and why the warbot is out in the open because they aren't allowed to leave the base unless of a war. Is there a war happening in Japan right now?

Suddenly, more warbots appeared in the bushes and runs through the streets in front of them "Where are they going?" Wataru questions. "I have no idea" Sayuri answers, still on the floor due to her injured legs.

The warbot that was looking at Wataru turns around and began running with the rest of the warbots. "They shouldn't be out, Sayu" Wataru says "Something's happening.. I can feel it"

"What do you want us to do?" She asked, and his answer "For now, let's take you back home and fix your legs.

SAYURI & CHIZURU'S HOUSE

"Ahhh... is it gonna hurt?" Sayuri asks Wataru. Wataru is going to relocate her broken legs "No" he relocates it "Aaah!!"

Later after the session "You're a dickhead for lying to me" Sayuri says.

"Sorry, I had to do it so you won't he scared about it" Wataru smiled nervously "But.. thank you" Sayuri says.

"Yeah, no problem, Sayu" Wataru replied. They sat on the same couch right next to each other; arms against each other's. It was silence and quiet. Wataru and Sayuri gets nervous. They sat there for about a minute straight staring at random objects in the house.

"Can you.. scoot over" Sayuri says "Oh, yeah sure" Wataru scoots himself a bit from Sayuri. "Actually, can you leave?.... because I'm tired" Sayuri said. "Oh, yeah sure" Wataru gets up from the couch and walked to the door. He turns around "Get some sleep in, because tomorrow will be your first trainin-!" Wataru was cut off when the door barges opened by Chizuru. Wataru falls flat on the floor "Aaaah!!!! Sayu!!! You're not gonna believe what happened!!!" Chizuru screamed out loud.

"What!?" Sayuri stood up quickly.

"I have superpowers!!" Chizuru exclaimed. "You what!!!?" Wataru shouted out loud, crouched on all fours. "Woah- where did you come from!?" Chizuru realized Wataru was on the floor.

"This is Wataru Fujita from our school" Sayuri explained "and he saved my life from a man like us"

"Like us? What do you mean?" Chizuru asks; very confused. Wataru finally stood up "The comet that crashed earlier today; it gave us all superpowers" Chizuru was shocked to hear that. "So that's why... I can control sand?" Chizuru reveals her powers to the rest. "You have Earth? Woah, that's amazing" Wataru said, walking around Chizuru "I've never came across anyone with this kind of power"

"Came across? You mean... you've had your powers for years?" Chizuru questioned Wataru. "Yeah" he answered "In the incident in Yokohama when the first comet struck near Maruzen Book Cafe"

"I've heard about you on the news, oh my god" Chizuru says.

"Me?" Wataru asked "No, not you, just the comet" Chizuru answered.

"Okay, so.. what powers do you guys have?" Chizuru asked. Wataru and Sayuri looked at each other and snaps their hands; closing their eyes while smiling "This" the spark of electricity came out, amazing Chizuru "Cool!!"

"Yeah, pretty cool" Sayuri says.

The room goes quiet again. "I guess.. I'll just head out" Wataru walks out of the house "Tell her about our plans" he said while closing the doors. "You guys have a plan?" Chizuru asks.

Sayuri walks upstairs "I'll tell you tomorrow"

SOLAR MILITARY BASE, ONE DAY EARLIER

The sun shines onto the Solar Military Base on a cloudy day. The clouds block out the sun repeatedly throughout the day. There are soldiers scattered throughout a field of target practices and parkour courses to train the new warbots. The warbots had guns and knives attached to their wrists and around their chest, back, and stomach. The warbots were built to help fight in the war. A war between Japan and a country called Homashi.

The war between them started back in 2006 when the government of Homashi launched an attack on Sapporo, Hokkaido.

"Go to the target practicing section!" The Soldier yelled out at a warbot. It listens and follows orders and heads straight to the section. It starts full-autoing its entire ammunition onto the target's bullseye. It didn't miss a single shot. "Good job P172X!" The commander praised P172X, the warbot.

All of the sudden, P172X's screen on its face went blank and back to white. It starts glitching out as it flashes different colors. Blue, green, red, black, white, pink, etc. "You okay buddy? Hey, I think we need to fix P172!" The commander shouted out.

The glitch stops and the warbot was quiet "Uh... P172?" The commander asks again. The screen of the warbot's face turns red as it loads its guns and fires it to the commander. The commander dies instantly, collapsing to the ground. "Commander!" A soldier screamed out, but the warbot continued shooting everyone else there.

"P172! Stop!! Right now! Listen to me!! Stop!!" A soldier screamed out, trying to get the warbot to follow his commands, but it didn't listen and throws a knife toward the soldier's neck, striking through.

The lieutenant comes out with full armor "P172! Obey my orders right now!" The warbot shakes its head and fires its guns. The lieutenant was wearing full heavy armor so the bullet couldn't get through. The rest of the army began shooting P172 X until more appears from behind them "God!!" A soldier yelled out loud as the bots threw bombs and launched rockets.

"The target practice section became a battlefield!! I repeat!! The target practice section has became a battlefield!! The warbots has lost control!!" The lieutenant shouted into the walkie-talkie while covering behind a wall. "Aim for the warbot's necks!! It's where the batteries are!!"

The warbots heard and began covering their neck with their hands. P172X and the rest of the warbots sprint through the fields and jumps across a gate to the outside world. The lieutenant opens his armor and gets out of it, looking at all the warbots escaping "Shit!"

PRESENT DAY, MORNING

Sayuri yawns as she wakes up. It is another cloudy day. Sayuri wipes her eyes and looks out the window "I'm so tired" she closes her eyes and falls back onto the bed. It took her a moment to then realize "Ughhhh" she sighed "Training day"

Downstairs, Chizuru is setting up breakfast until the doorbell rung "Hm?" Chizuru wondered. She walked and expected it to be Wataru. When opening the door, it was not Wataru, but the girl from yesterday at school "Oh- hey- I didn't expect you" Chizuru laughs, but the girl didn't laugh but tells her "Something is happening to me.."

"What do you mean? Are you okay?" Chizuru asks.

Yuki walks inside the house and paces back and forth "I don't know what's wrong with me and this sounds so crazy" Yuki said. Chizuru was confused, but then she asks the question "You got... Powers yesterday.. right?"

Yuki looked at her in confusion "Wait.. how did you know?" With Chizuru replying with "Me, Sayuri, and a student from our high school got them too, and I'm glad you came to us before anyone else"

Yuki was amazed. Sayuri walks downstairs in her pink pajamas, still wiping her eyes "Oh, Yuki, you're here?"

"Sayuri" Yuki smiled and runs to her, grabbing both her hands "I want to thank you again for what you did yesterday for me" she hugs her. "Oh, you're welcome; it's okay, Yuki" Sayuri laughs.

"Sayu, she has superpowers as well" Chizuru says.

"Wait, what, now I have to teach another person" Wataru said while entering the house with a few target practicing equipment in a stroller. "Hey, it's not that bad, is it? Plus you wanted more people, didn't you?" Sayuri added.

"Yeah, you're right, how bad will it be?" Wataru scoffs.

Later Wataru's current position is.. well, a bit frustrating "No! No!! Not like that!! You use the energy!!" Wataru shouted at Sayuri "Don't yell at me!"

Wataru sighs "Okay, I need to calm down, of course I should've known you guys wouldn't get it in the first try" They all stood there in the backyard. Wataru set up poles with a wooden cut-out of a human body shape for target practicing with their new powers. "Aah!" Yuki screamed out loud while blasting her fire balls toward the practice, hitting it "Yes!!"

"Good job, Yuki!!" They high fived.

Wataru set up two parts of today's lesson, the first part would be flying and the second, aiming. Yuki has passed the flying lesson and is currently finishing up the aiming lesson. "Focus on your powers and make them do what you want them to do. Make them force you up to the sky and glide" Wataru said.

Sayuri closes her eyes, ready to unleash her electricity from her hands and feet. Chizuru sat on the side because she has a whole different power than Sayuri and Wataru. "Chizuru, for you, I want you to collect as many sand and dirt as possible and make a.. a floating platform for you to stand on, that will be your way to fly" Wataru explained.

"Okay, I got this" Chizuru says.

A knock at the front door was heard "Hm? Did you guys here that?" Yuki asked. The rest stops "No, what is it?" Sayuri asks.

"I heard a knock at the front door. I think someone is in the front yard" Yuki answered. Wataru walks in the house "I'll get the door then" he walked through the living room and stops at a poster on the living room wall. It was the map of the world with pins on each country. Wataru smiles "This all the place she's traveled, huh?"

A knock was heard again and it scares Wataru "Oh, shoot- I forgot the door". After opening it, there is a man at the front door; a soldier, the lieutenant. There are other soldiers behind him and even more behind them. The military cars are scattered through the streets, looking like a crime scene "I'm Lieutenant Isamu and I have some questions for you and your friends"

LATER

Sayuri begins the interview by pouring coffee into their cups. Two soldiers are guarding the door and four soldiers are scattered throughout the living room, protecting the area. "Are we in trouble?" Wataru asks, but he doesn't give an answer "You don't ask questions, I do" Lieutenant Isamu says.

He takes off his hat and reveals his medium cut hair "You guys aren't in trouble.. Let's start now"

Wataru nods his head as Sayuri takes a seat next to Yuki. A soldier throws a photo down on the table; it was a photo of Wataru and Sayuri at the gas station last night, fighting the flaming man "You guys are... superhumans, correct?" The lieutenant asks the first question.

Wataru was thinking of what to say because he's been hiding his powers for years. "We've been caught! Damn it!" Wataru shouted. "It's okay, tell me the truth.. I mean you have no choice, we all seen you use your powers" the lieutenant said.

"What if we do have powers? Are you guys gonna experiment on us?" Sayuri asked.

"Sayu, he said no questions" Wataru faced her, but the lieutenant answers "No, we have no reasons to experiment on you guys, so answer the question. We won't do anything to you guys"

It took Wataru a long time to answer, so Chizuru answers for him "Yes, we have superpowers"

Wataru and Sayuri looked at each other. "Okay, now the next question, what were you guys doing the night of the incident?" He continued.

Wataru nods his head at Sayuri to tell her to go first. She thinks about it and looked at the pictures on the table. "I found out I had superpowers late afternoon and decided to go to the store to get some snacks. I don't know where the guy came from, but the gas station exploded and he entered the store. He... wanted to become a normal human being again.. he said he didn't want to have these powers... So he was angry.. sad.." Sayuri looks up at Lieutenant Isamu "That's what I was doing before Wataru saved me"

Lieutenant Isamu faces Wataru, expecting him to tell him his side of the story. "I was just passing by and saw the fire.. So I went in and saw the man and tackled him down" Wataru said.

"And the warbots" Lieutenant Isamu says as another soldier puts another photo down, multiple photos. It was photos of the warbots and a few photos of a specific warbot, P172X.

"These warbots malfunction and started glitching out and disobeying our orders. They killed plenty of our men and now they're heading somewhere around Gofumura. You saw them last night, did they say anything to you?"

"No" Wataru answered.

The lieutenant nods his head, yes, and gets up from the couch "Here" the lieutenant hands them a card with a phone number "If you learn anything about the warbot situation, let us know". Wataru takes the card "Yes, we will" he said. The lieutenant says "You guys better not do anything bad with your superpowers or else you will be arrested or possibly executed"

Lieutenant Isamu and the rest of his soldiers head out the house and closes the doors. "Phew" Wataru sighs and falls back onto the couch "I thought they were gonna imprison us or something, oh my god" he sighed in relief. "I'm going to bed" Chizuru says as she walks upstairs. "It's literally morning" Sayuri says "Anyways, Wataru, should we get back to training?"

"Oh, just keep practicing what I taught you and you'll get the hang of it and fly! I have to go do stuff though, I'm a busy man" he said while handing her a note "It's my number, call me if you need me"

"Yea- yeah.. I will" Sayuri says. Wataru exits the house. It is just Sayuri and Yuki standing there in the living room. "I think I'll leave too" Yuki said to Sayuri "You got this, Sayuri! Keep practicing and you'll fly!!"

Sayuri smiles "Thank you, Yuki" they both hug "I'll see you later then?" With Yuki replying "Yes"

As Yuki walks out into the front yard, a bag is put over her head by the three bullies "What the-!!? Tsubame!!?" Sayuri shouted. She tackles Tsubame down, but the two girls carry Yuki into a car and slams the door shut.

Tsubame kicks Sayuri off "Go! Go! Go!!" Tsubame shouts as they start driving the car off, Tsubame manages to get inside on time. Sayuri runs in the streets barefooted, trying to chase the car. She stops quickly "Come on.. come on" she try focusing energy into her feet and palms to fly. She manages to bounce herself using the lightning as she flies a few meters in the sky and straight toward the car, but then she falls onto the streets "Aaah!" She screamed.

LATER AT TSUBAME'S HOUSE

Yuki is knocked out in the back seat of the car as they pull up at Tsubame's house. They all get out the car and opens the car door to Yuki "Pick her up, Emiko" Tsubame says to one of the girls. "Is this really what we have to do?" Emiko asked in discomfort and fear. It doesn't feel right to Emiko. Emiko Ogawa, a high school Junior who's life has turned into constant anxiety and fear when she first met Tsubame. Tsubame and her became friends when Emiko was in her second year of high school. Ever since then, Emiko was unable to unfriendly Tsubame because if she did, Tsubame would pick on her next.

"Yes! Pick her up!! Do you want to join her!??" Tsubame shouted at Emiko. Emiko shouts back "No! It just doesn't feel righ-!"

"Shut up! Or I'll tie you up too, punk!" Tsubame yelled back. The other girl's name is Mina Tsuji, also became friends with Tsubame in the same way as Emiko. Both of them are same years. They both pick up Yuki and sent her down to the basement. They tie her up and leaves her in the basement by herself.