EPISODE 4

THE PARK.

NEW YORK, QUEENS

DANNY:

An hour has passed since I left Charlotte's crib to take in that good relieving fresh air and to process my situation and I still couldn't believe that I'm actually stuck with my powers. Even though I thought the powers were cool, the powers still felt too much for me to have and control as cringe. After like a minute of me thinking of cringey thoughts and what to do with my powers, I saw a little girl begging her cat to get down from the tree it was on. Feeling bad for her, I looked around, made sure, no one was around to see me then did what I thought I had to do.

(Danny super speeds up the tree ahead and pushes the cat off the tree. The little girl catches the cat and embraces it. Danny super speeds back onto the park bench before she notices him.)

Honestly, after helping the girl reunite with her cat, I felt much better and honestly, I felt more positive about my powers. Even though I thought the powers could come with some complications, I still felt I could live with it and hopefully not get taken by the military. Feeling better about the powers, I leaned back, crossed my legs, put my hands behind my head and looked up to the beautiful orange sky to enjoy the view and at the same time I realized I had the opportunity to use Charlotte's Fun-Section Five and missed. I honestly felt like a total idiot than usual. A while after, I was greeted by a shady like voice that came from my right. Being frightened, I looked to see who was on my right and ofcourse, there was a shady guy sitting right beside me while looking...well...SHADY. Usually when someone sees a guy wearing a black, torn-up, unzipped, sleeveless hoody, a black, torn-up combat pants, rugged black boots, bandages going round his hands and fore-arms and a hood over his head making his face all shadowy and stuff, they tend to run away but sadly I couldn't run cuz I'm an idiot and thought it'd be rude. So being the idiot I am, I greeted him without eye contact, sat properly and sealed my mouth due to the awkward and shady butt atmosphere. After a moment of silence, the shady guy asked me a question out of no where which felt really... strange and not coincidental

SHADY GUY:

Hey bro, quick question, what do u feel like powers should be used for?

Feeling a bit uncomfortable and in a honest mood at the moment, I told him that "I always thought that if you have the ability to help someone, why not just go for it?" The guy chuckled a bit and told me that "my thought is a cringe but good one." and me being fully aware of that I decided not to go against that. After he told me that we went into more silence and awkwardness while making zero eye contact. While the awkwardness was going on, I felt a tingle on my right arm, looked at my right arm and found it crackling and sparking towards the shady guy but ofcourse, trying to put my powers incognito, I folded my arms to hide the crackle. A few seconds after I hid my right arm, the guy decided to break the silence again.

SHADY GUY:

(Pulls out a phone and checks the time.) Well....seems like it's time. (Slowly stands and moves ahead of the bench a bit. Looking away from Danny.)

DANNY:

Time? Time for what?

SHADY GUY:

Work, gotta make my life happy some how. (Stretches his arms.) Anyways, nice chat Danny, really enjoyed it.

DANNY:

(With a confused look on his face.) I'm sorry, I...don't remember telling you my name.

SHADY GUY:

Yah I know. (Looks at his right palm.)

You never needed to. (Flames burst out from his hand instantly. He quickly turns around and flings a fire ball at Danny. Danny gets blown away by the fire ball and crash lands on his back. Begins walking towards him slowly while his fists are on fire.)

After getting absolutely yeeted and put into ABSOLUTE STINGING PAIN by the SHADY GUY who was OBVIOUSLY a BAD GUY who I knew I should have RUN AWAY FROM, I checked my burnt up, aching and pained chest to see how bad my burns where and thankfully they were bad but healing quickly enough for me to stay alive for atleast a moment before the Shady Guy kills me. As he was walking towards me, I got to see his red glowing eyes and his cool but terrifying metal hockey mask which made me to sit up and begin backing up for safety while pleading to him to calm down, listen to reason and not do anything he wouldn't possibly regret but unfortunately for me, he said he'll have zero regrets to what he was gonna do.

(The Shady Guy sets his palms forward and blasts flames from his hands towards Danny. Danny gets consumed by the flames. The Shady Guy stops shooting and finds Danny crackling with blue lightning, smoking from his hoody and barely burnt.)

On opening my eyes and checking my charged up and smoking body, I was shocked. I surprisingly didn't get any heavy burns. Seeing how perfectly fine I was, I thanked the universe for my powers for a moment like this. After a moment of shock from the Shady Guy himself he chuckled and made a quick notification to me that "he might have to resort to fist." It was at that moment I honestly kinda wish the flames did the trick. After the guy set his fists on fire to begin the beat down, a police officer came out of no where and aimed his pistol at the guy, ordering him not to move and unfortunately, the Shady Guy's answer was "NO."

(The Shady Guy throws a fire ball at the officer. The officer gets blasted away and crash lands on his back with a smoking and burnt up chest. The Shady Guy slowly walks up to him and aims his right palm at his head. Danny rams and carries the Shady Guy away with super speed. The police man looks around the area in confusion. Eventually, Danny makes a hard stop at the streets while pushing the Shady Guy at a car. The Shady Guy crashes into the car with extreme force and dents the car seriously. Danny pants while looking at the Shady Guy's apparently unconscious body.)

After ramming the Shady Guy with full force and speed, I made one thing clear to his unconscious body telling him that "no matter how strong, scary or terrifying he is, I wasn't gonna stand there with all the power in my body and watch the officer die" And to add to my standing up to him process I also went on to tell his unconscious body that "I'm aware I'm too cringe for comfort and I went on to tell him to deal with it."cuz I thought he couldn't do SHOOT. Unfortunately for me, he woke up with he's glowing red eyes stare of DEATH and instantly made me eat my words. It was at that moment I knew I FUGGED UP. As he slowly but terrifyingly stood up from his crash zone, he made some statements that made me wander where I went wrong in my life to deserve my situation.

SHADY GUY:

I gotta hand to ya, you pack quite a punch.(Walks up to a lamp post.) Seems like I gotta take a rule from your book. (He uses his right fist to bang the lamp post with force. The lamp post vibrates from the bang. His right palm crackles with red electricity as he places his right palm on the vibrating lamp post and absorbs it's vibration. His arms begin glowing yellow while vibrating intensely. He looks at his arms menacingly.) There we go.

On seeing what he just did, I forced my body to charge up again cuz only I and the universe knew that I was in for a beating of a life time.

(The Shady Guy uses sonic shock waves to leap high into the air. The guy descends to punch Danny down into the ground. Danny jumps backwards to avoid the punch. The Shady Guy bashes his fist into the ground and creates a shock wave that sends Danny crashing at a lamp post. The guy immediately leaps towards Danny to punch his head. Danny dives out of the way. The lamp post gets punched far way. The guy immediately then uses the back of his left fist bash Danny's chest. Danny flies away, crash lands on his back, bounces off the ground from the force, crash lands on his chest, bounces off the ground from the force then crash lands on his back finally. Danny slowly gets up while trying to recover. The guy immediately uses his sonic shock waves to launch himself towards Danny with speed and force. On approaching Danny, he flips over Danny who attempts to punch him with an electrified fist, lands behind him and uses his right vibrating fist to uppercut Danny's spine. Danny launches high into the air due to the shock wave from the punch. The guy then immediately uses his sonic shock waves to launch himself into the air towards Danny. The guy then swings another powerful punch at Danny that sends him flying away, breaking through eight apartment buildings and approaching the ocean. The guy then uses his sonic shock waves to boost himself at Danny. The guy eventually catches Danny and begins punching him in the face and creating shockwaves on his face. Danny gets angry, head butts him, electrifies his hands, uses his left hand to grab his shoulder and electrocute his body while using his electrified right hand to electrocute the guy's face as they both approach the ocean. The guy eventually , laughs while being electrocuted and head butts Danny with serious force. They both finally drop into the ocean. Eventually Danny launches out of the ocean, crash lands on a car on the Queensboro Bridge, soaked with water, coughing and shivering from cold. Eventually a giant ice shards launch out from beneath the bridge causing cars to flip and causing people to exit their cars and run for their lives. Danny slowly stands on the car he is on as the Shady Guy bursts out from beneath the bridge and lands on the bridge with his arms covered in ice. Danny on seeing yells "OH C'MON!". The Shady Guy immediately forms his ice arms into ice blades and leaps towards him. The guy begins trying to to stab Danny. Danny with his super speed, dodges all his attacks then leaps. The guy eventually tries to Danny's chest. Danny then raises his to try and block. Lightning bolts then fire out of Danny's hands, blasts the guy away. The guy crash lands onto a car. Danny then looks at his hands and chuckles in relief. The guy then stands up from the car, immediately forms a thick ice gauntlet, breaks a hole beneath himself and jumps through the hole into the ocean. Danny looks at the situation in confusion. Eventually, the ground starts vibrating beneath him then a giant ice pillar bursts from beneath Danny and launches him all the way into Manhattan. Danny eventually crashes through multiple buildings and crash lands into the ground with so much force that a blue energy shock wave spreads and wipes away all the objects, cars and people away from his area. People begin to run away and flee from the scene. Danny finally stops charging up his body.)

Despite how much I tried, things were looking bad. My body was in the ground aching in pain a bit, I had a bit of a headache, I was tired, we messed some buildings and we decimated a bridge, and to make it look even worse the sky was cloudy and striking the same old blue lightning. But despite everything, I found myself genuinely happy cuz if not for my powers I would have been dead. I felt so happy, it felt like nothing more could go wrong, well,...that was what I thought until my beat down break was over.

(The Shady Guy descends from the air and lands on his feet as a lightning bolt strikes and thunder crashes.)

On seeing him, I instantly lost the happy juice in my veins and decided to try plan-C since plan-A, which was begging and B, which was fighting, didn't work. I stood up, charged up my body in case of in case-sities and began to put plan-C into motion, which was begging even more. I also went on and asked him why he wants to kill me and who he was? And ofcourse, he's answers were literally what I expected.

SHADY GUY:

I want to kill you cuz it's my job to, name, classified. Now that I've answered that can we go back to the action?! I'm honestly having the time of my life.

After his answers, I tried to change his mind by telling him how much damage we've caused from Queens all the way to Manhattan. But ofcourse, he didn't care. He said "as long as he does his job he was ok with the destruction." On hearing those words, I knew I had no choice but to rely on plan-D,...pray for my life.

(The Shady Guy immediately crackles with red electricity, dashes at Danny to punch him. On punching Danny, the guy gets electrocuted by he's body, flies away and crashes into a building ahead. Dust and rubble consumes the Shady Guy.)

I honestly didn't understand what happened, but I was glad it did. At long last, the beat down was over and I was finally safe to rest, well, that was what I thought....until he unfortunately, dropped, out of no where, the coolest yet scariest line I've ever heard.

SHADY GUY:

(In the mist of the dust.) You wanted to know who I am right? Since your screwed I might as well relieve you from the suspense just to be nice. (Walks out from the dust, crackling with blue electricity as his hoody flows with the heavy wind that's swoops in.) The names CONDUIT, remember that.

THE END.

C.H.O.O:

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