Train Ride in Starweave City

11:31PM,

Starweave City,

Reed Mansion.

Logan left through the black and gray gates, his movements quiet and calculated.

He wasn't dropped off at any point by his father. He had to trek to the location, complete the mission, and get back before dawn.

It wasn't that hard. He had done this countless times in the past year and a half. Though the missions varied from time to time.

Today he could be tasked with taking out a gang, just like he was going to do this night, another time he could be given the task to fix a broken pipe in a slum and whatnot.

Logan found some of these missions strange, but he did them nonetheless. His father had a reason, so he wouldn't complain.

Logan stopped walking after reaching an alley way. He looked around for a split second before putting on a black mask and pulling his hoodie over his head.

His black jumpsuit made for easy movements, and the hoodie was unnecessary, but he just liked it that way. The mask covered his face, but he didn't feel that its covering was enough.

Not many young people had such striking gray hair in the first place, so it might just be a dead giveaway to any target who cared to know who he was.

Logan moved through the alley with practiced ease, showing that he had taken this route lots of times.

The alley was a shortcut he had discovered after years of moving around Starweave City.

The Starweave City was the biggest City amongst the three big cities of Earth. It boasted that name because of its iconic Star-Sap Spire, which was said to reach the star, also known as the Sun.

The Spire was the central hub for energy distributed all around the world. It was a tall white structure piercing through the skies, with rings of glowing golden energy around it.

The surrounding kilometers around it were void of any living being, with only a selected few having the authority to get close to it.

Logan once had the chance to see the Spire up close when he was younger. His father had taken him there for sightseeing, and he had learnt quite a few things.

Though he learned many things that day, one revelation stuck with him forever: without the Star-Sap Spire, the Earth was doomed to destruction.

The centuries-long process of the earth absorbing the Spire's energy had led to it being dependent on it, to the point where the Earth's evolution had been altered, and it could no longer sustain itself without the Spire's energy.

His father had told him that if, for any reason, the Spire stopped absorbing energy and providing it to the Earth, the Earth would lose its strength and break apart, extinguishing all forms of life on it.

Logan was shocked by the revelation when he was younger, but now that his mind was more developed, he understood something.

To destroy the spire, or even make a dent on it, one would have to go through the deadliest defences in the world, before reaching the impregnable steel body of the structure.

Besides, who would want to destroy the Earth? He hadn't heard of any rise of villainous citizens on the Earth, or an alien race with a superior complex wanting to take over.

'But what if the spire stopped working?' Logan paused in his steps as the sudden, disturbing thought entered his mind.

Logan shook his head. "Nah, that wouldn't happen," he said, but deep down he knew he just said it to calm his raging heart. He couldn't imagine the catastrophic results that event would cause.

Upon reaching a point in the alley, which turned out to be very long, he stopped and looked to the right, where a signboard stuck out of the wall.

He pushed the conspicuous lever, which was the sign, and a part of the wall shifted, opening into a dark, spacious room.

Logan unhesitatingly walked in as the wall closed behind him, clicking into place with its mechanisms working in sync.

Anyone else who wasn't supposed to be there would have fallen to their death, but with his memories of this place, he walked around the wide hole at the center of the dark room, navigating through the obstacles in the way and stopping at another point in the room, right before another wall.

What he was about to do next would be seen as crazy by many, but what was Logan if not crazy.

A wide grin appeared on his face, strong currents of winds hitting him from odd angles. He and every other person who used the place knew what it was, and they, just like him, were crazy individuals.

Logan jumped, his body phasing through the wall and landing on something metallic.

He rolled, dispersing his momentum and activating his gravitational energy to multiply his weight.

His body came to a stop right before he fell off the train top, the wind whipping at his face and trying to do the opposite.

His smile widened.

Logan lay flat on his belly and spread his gravitational energy thin, glueing himself to the top of the train. This moment was one which he enjoyed every time he had a mission to do at night.

This train, (SOS)Speed Of Sound Bullet Nose, was the second of the only two trains in Starweave City, both of which had their own personal tracks.

There were set times when the train moved, and when it was stationary. He had taken this form of transport so many times, that he already knew when the train was going to pass and when he would miss it.

The SOS Bullet Nose was so long, it could carry a quarter of the Starweave populace in it. It usually passed that part of the track at excatly 11:45PM, so Logan had timed his jump and landed when it hadn't picked up real speed, as it had just left the train station.

Logan squinted his eyes and stared ahead. He could see someone else land on the train and immediately lay down on their belly too, holding unto something for support.

Logan smiled. He really wasn't the only crazy person in this forsaken world.