Maximum Power

In the light of the full moon I look down at the large hawaiian pizza with extra pineapple in my hands, then back to roof top where Robin Crawford had disappeared into the jewelry store, then to my watch: 10:43 p.m., then to the address to where the sin of a pizza was order to be delivered to. Wait sorry I have a habit of going to fast for others to understand and skipping ahead let me start at the very beginning.

Hi I am Minax Romey Pappas most people who know me just call me Max Ray, but my close friends call Maximum Power (cure laughter). I am twenty years old and going to Heritage College studying sports science. My hobbies are working on cars, building computer, running, binge watching tv shows and movies, reading, and playing video games. Likes: animals, technology, soap, and sports. Dislikes: pants with non foundational pockets, people who come in five minutes before a place closes, anyone who always plays devils advocate, and bugs. I grow up in a working class family with two older brothers and one younger sister, my parents separated amicably when I was four. Closes thing to a religion: Jedi. Apearince: long thick curly electric blue with fire red and forest green streaks (naturally black) hair; yellow eyes; bronze skin; average height and build, tattoo of a waterfall between my shoulder blades (also a dare, do not tell my parents [well not my mom she would kill me. My dad knows he was there when I got it and got a matching one to make it a more important first tattoo]).

I started working part-time three months ago at Savannah Miller Family’s pizza as a delivery girl, which works perfectly because I have super speed. I got my power the same way I got my nickname, by licking an electrical outlet in my dorm room for 100 bucks, a box of king size chocolate bars, and a 50 dollar gift card for my favorite coffee shop (once again broke college student who is purely dependent on caffeine [do not lick something that conducts electricity whether it is on or off]). You can guess how many tips I get for getting pizzas to people faster than anyone in a car. Most people don’t even questions it for some reason and anyone does ask is fine with the answer of “I have a short cut”.

In the two years of having these powers I have told no one about my power. The only people who know are my five friends who were there when I got my speed. Half an hour ago I believed I was the only superhuman. I was making a delivery when I saw someone doing inhuman jumps across the rooftops all Neon in Matrix style, so I took a different route to see what in heck how was going on. Then I see in the moon that the mystery figure is my classmate, Robin Crawford, me and her or is it her and me or her and I. Whatever it is (I am not good at grammar), we are not friends. We have talked about ten times after class this semester in passing about the newest episode of Swords, Arrows, and Roses that week, so we know of each other but are not close. I never expected her to be a robber let alone having powers. 

Now she is robbing a jewelry store and I am standing here, in the middle of the street, outside of a jewelry store, at ten forty-three at night, holding the worst kind of pizza in existence, with a paper due at tomorrow at midnight that I have not even started, dumfounded trying to figure out what to do: mind my own business and just deliver the pizza; stop her then deliver the pizza; deliver the pizza than stop her; stop her, pick off the pineapple and then eat the pizza; or just forget this ever happened, pick off the pineapple and eat said pizza; for what felt like several hours (most likely just a minute or two [everything feels slower when I’m over thinking things]) . I alway dreamed about being a hero but I have no clue if I show do this. This is none of my business but I can’t just do nothing.

Okay me shut up, it is time be a hero. I run up the wall through the way Robin went in. I set down the pizza turn my vest inside out (so she does not see the logo of my) pulling it up higher up my face and pulling my hood over my head. As she is breaking a display case I say in a deep voice “stop or else”. She turned and said what are you going to do-. She fell over with her shoes tied and her jacket now reversed with the sleeves tried to the door. I ran to get to the door of the house where the pizza was ordered. I got the pizza there in time and got a big tip win win. The next day I saw Robin in class. She got away. Now that I know that she has powers like me. I am now going to find myself going down a path to be a hero. I always want to do my own hero intro:

(Awesome music starts playing in the background with a cutscene of me running around the city) By day I’m Max Ray the closest thing to a normal collage student and a part time pizza delivery girl. By night I am Maximum Power speedster super hero. I am on a mission to understand my powers and why I have them. I grow up reading comic books, watching shows and movies about super heroes with my dad on weekends, I always wanted to be one as a result. I know it won’t be easy, I know there are risks but I can’t sit idly by and do nothing. (a to be continued shows up on screen).