My first quest tho.

Ernestine folded the comic book and sighed in relief while they left. She exhaled and read the scribble.

She took the meteorite out and her heart pulsed gazing at the uncut stone. She should not have stepped outside.

***

Stephen laughed, he was going on a spree around town, he didn't know about quick metabolism but he usually was hungry.

He snatched cotton candy from poles and then he stopped by a store called Dazers and peered through the glass at the cool new gadgets.

Fold up smartphones, tablets, laptops, Plasma TVs with Eco settings.

"No way!" He spotted at the new and improved VR headset and licked icecream pleasurably off his lip.

'Ding*'

[ Stop 2 robbers ]

He quirked his eyebrow. "Two robbers?"

[ Yes ] or [ No ]?

He glanced at the goggles and then the options. [ No ]

"Ah no. I'm too young." He said and scratched his head.

"Wait, no, stop!" The worker wailed.

Beep beep beep beep beep*

The alarm in the shops went haywire and robbers who wore black get ups and ski masks. Emerged.

The first grabbed a UPS and another grabbed as many hard drives as he could.

"Let's get going. I'll take right."

She scoffed. "I guess you're not taking no for an answer huh?" Stephen licked his icecream and braced his foot.

"Go left_woah!" He slipped over Stephen's foot and crashed.

CRUNCH*

The second one saw him fall for some reason and he huffed taking a left rounding a bend by the cafe and pushing through pedestrians.

"Get outta my way!"

Stephen zipped in front of him and speed-punched him then used his own hand to slap him on the face.

Wham*

The second fell over convulsing and he vomitted at the impact. Then he held his face groaning in pain.

"Ugh."

Ding*

Hit points [ +20 +20 +20 ]

Dexterity [ +20 ] Stat points [ +20 ]

Stephen braced himself at the corner while the young worker cried.

He saw the broken UPS with open circuits sparking and some of the hard drives had fallen into the sewers. A hole on the side of the pavement.

People were dazed by the whole crime scene. They rounded the first robber who was just recovering.

A car honked as its tires crushed the remaining.

"Damn...It did say stop them."

"YOU ARE HOPELESS!"

"Ah!" He stopped cold at the sight of Ernestine on the glass pane.

She was walking with her dear old duenna Darla Fox across the street to the market and he hung up his backpack.

He grinned.

"You mean you don't remember the old store?" Ernestine was studying a map with her hand hanging loosely on her aunt's elbow.

"Oh Ernest, I'm sure there's a store around here. Those vases were so expensive! I'm just glad that you survived the tremor."

"Ernie!" He called outloud and Ernestine pulled Darla to walk faster before she found out.

They cornered a coffee shop.

"I know a shortcut." She explained.

"Ernie!"

Darla looked stunned when he arrived in front of them at the market and Ernie screeched.

"Oh um...Stephen. You are back from detention I see."

"Hey Mrs Fox." He smiled good-naturedly.

Ernestine growled.

Darla took the map from her. "Why don't you kids wait here. I'll find the vase."

"Can I help?" He asked with sparkly blue eyes and she shook her head.

"Oh no, of course not, choice, you are such a dear. You must be very...very tired. I'll_I'll ask for directions." She sped off.

Stephen dusted his hands smirking.

They did not have a good history since the night Ernestine's aunt Darla hosted a dinner party for them. Hint: The turkey wraps ended up on the ceiling. Courtesy a la Curry.

He cackled at that thought and faced her.

"Did you get my text?"

"Can't I just live like a normal person for one day?" Ernestine begged raising her hands in despair.

He blinked at that. "Ernie, you? Normal? I don't_"

His knees buckled when a rock hit him on the shin.

"Ow! My point exactly." He wheezed.

Ernestine huffed. Passing him The Rogue Comics.

"Look, there were two men in your backyard. They heard us... heard you. For some reason we both clearly know about! I think they heard about the explosions."

Stephen gulped. "The government would be on our tail. Check. They already covered Panabaker's restaurant, so that leaves..."

"I held them off." She muttered and brushed apart her side bangs. "Only for a while."

He tried not to look impressed. Stephen didn't know what he might have done if two professional-looking men in black suits came to his doorstep. "Great."

"Look, I don't want anymore interruptions. Got it?"

He winced when she took out a pin and pressed it against his palm. He examined the shiny black pin.

"And do what with it exactly?" He raised an eyebrow.

She growled and clipped his hair up and marched off.

...

Stephen zipped to his neighbours house to collect Bear.

"Get in there." He pressured him opening the front door to his house and then he put the meteorite pin into his locker.

It did not look as extraordinary as it did the other night. Now, it was just a shiny piece of rock.

He had a small bedroom with pale blue walls, white shelves and an aesthetic mural painting of Stitch. He preferred Lilo anyway.

His mother thought that he reminded her of him.

"Stupid painting." He hugged his knees.

The house was cold and quiet without Jason Curry around.

Jason worked at the office non-stop.

His mother had died when they attempted to have another child. A still birth.

He exhaled and then he plastered a math paper with a D- on the board and he grinned sadly.

Then he looked at the heaving mess in left corner of the room. He swiftly hurled the pile of laundry into his full closet.

Sniff sniff*

"Ugh!" He moulded the sock and Bear dodged it whimpering.

"Bah, a little cheese won't hurt anyone."

Now that he had super-speed. He could get by anything. "Hell yeah!"

When he was younger. He couldn't keep track of any chore, either he kept forgetting to finish them or he omitted his chores completely. Now he could hyperfocus on one or two tasks multiple times.

He raided the kitchen and stirred some batter for a cake in a bowl and then he checked the microwave popcorn heating up slowly.

He switched on the large TV while sliding on a wet mop across the room.

"Whoa!"

CRASH*

Bear covered his eyes when he crashed against a wall.

Stephen decided to stick with ramyun, he was slurping the noodles from a bowl while he was watching a movie called Death of The Day.

He had found it in his father's box full of CDs and he quirked an eyebrow. "This movie is rated...18?"

He dropped the pack and then he giggled at the gory fight scenes.

"Oh hey dad."