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After Years of Trial and Error, I’m Finally Able to Use My Superpowers to Liquify My Foes.

What a relief!

Steven Rouach
3 min readOct 18, 2019
“Look at how happy I am” image by author. (Elements by OpenClipart-Vectors@Pixabay and Hmcofmfr@pngfly)

Dr. N. O’Henry, the scientist who manipulated my DNA and zapped me with some very impressive amounts of radiation, gave me a speech about great power and a great responsibility”.

I wasn’t really listening… I’m sure it was nice... Like a lot of men, I get easily distracted and mostly just pretend to listen when people say things to me, and then I just nod accordingly. It all felt like wasted time. There were so many people I wanted to disassemble.

At the very start, they made me take a psyche test. Something about not wanting to give immense and unstoppable powers to an unstable lunatic. Luckily, they let me fill it out at home! So, I gave it to my friend Bobbi to fill out, without telling her why. I really should have read through it and edited out the part in the essay section where she wrote: “I want to become a mother and carry a baby in my womb and then lovingly feed it milk from my breasts”.

I’m slightly surprised no one ever even asked about that. Sloppy…

When I was first interviewed for the augmentation program, Dr. N. O’Henry asked me “Are you an angry person?” and I yelled “Nope!” as I clenched and unclenched my fists and jaw. Then he said, “Well, that all…

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Steven Rouach
Steven Rouach

Written by Steven Rouach

Is a carbon based life form from Earth. Anyone who tells you he's not is absolutely lying. He's known for being dashing, heroic & humanity's last, best, hope.

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