Biomancer
Copyright© 2019 by Shaddoth
Prologue
On June 23rd, 2021 hundreds of thousands of humans across the globe woke feeling different than when they went to bed. No one knew why or how. Nor would they ever discover the cause.
When they woke, the new Class of humans called Supers, instinctively knew what the changes that had overcome them meant. Some could generate fire or control electricity, some were stronger, or faster, or flew, or could jump incredible distances. Rarely, a newly Awakened Super, as they were now called, manifested more than one ability outside of enhanced physical attributes. There were no Supermen who could fly, were super strong, invulnerable and could shoot lasers from their eyes, like the characters from the comics of their youth, but a plethora of lowered powered, single aspect Supers, emerged. Not that there weren’t exceptions.
Each and every new Super instinctively understood that they acquired new Powers and Abilities, yet had to learn how to use these abilities on their own.
The learning curve would be too steep for some to survive.
Supers being human, acted in accordance with their desires and wants. Some of the newly Awakened were helpful, such as saving a child from a burning building, rescuing cats from trees, and fighting crime.
Of course, where there was good, there was bad. Some Supers robbed, killed, destroyed, and became Powermad.
A tiny minority were extremely unstable. Those that lost their grip on sanity, Rampaged.
The first major confrontation between Supers in the US was between a gang member and a young high school graduate.
Jesus Cilla was a twenty-eight-year old life-long Redfist, one of the myriad SoCal gangs, far from the worst that occasionally found itself on the wrong side of the law. He could generate high energy greenish beams from his hands, strong enough to kill a man at three-hundred feet if he focused his attack for a full second on a target. He was also one of the rare few that had a second ability of enhanced regeneration. He soon became one of the Powermad not long after his awakening, and he Rampaged.