Post by Ayin & Sigma on Jul 6, 2008 6:59:07 GMT -5
Somewhere in the city
Man his head was hurting. What had he been doing last night? It felt for all the world like he'd been drinking solidly for three days then been hit by the mother of all hangovers. . .
Squinting hard, Matt rubbed his eyes, wiping away the crust of sleep and waking himself up properly. Opening his eyes, the twenty-year-old discovered that he wasn't in his flat, and things looked very different.
"What the !"$& is going on. . ." He murmured to himself, in a voice that wasn't his own.
The sound that came from his lips crackled and buzzed like a live wire, and was deeply, deeply worrying.
What was worse, things in the world had taken on a glossy sheen and a semi transparency. Everything seemed to glow from within, even the walls, carpet but especially the TV. He could even see the power lines in the walls. . .
Man, with all their different intensities, colours and patterns, it was like he could see energy. He could feel it. It wasn't like a sense of sight, taste, smell or hearing, but more like a combination of the four. A new and unique experience.
He sat up slowly, looking properly around the room. He was in a grubby little apartment, and the view from the window placed it in a bad neighbourhood. He didn't recognize the place, but the streets below - filled with yellow taxi cabs - screamed New York.
What the hell was he doing in New York? He was a British man living in Loughborough, so how did this all happen? He was more than a little scared.
It was then that he noticed something interesting. He felt amazing. He felt powerful, vital and intensely focused. But there was a growing sensation at the back of his mind - a buzzing at the back of his skull, as if there was electricity running through his brain in high-tension cables.
"Oh shit." He suddenly realized just who and what he was. Looking down at the black and green, form-fitting suit stretched across his body just confirmed it.
He was Sigma - a character he had made up and thrown into the marvel and DC universes. He was a murderer, a psychopath and a supervillain capable of destroying worlds at his greatest potential.
But he wasn't Sigma. . . he was Matt. He was sane and. . .
Something seemed to snap within his mind, and suddenly everything fell apart. The energy flowing through this body was too much to allow human consciousness to remain intact for very long.
His last, coherent thoughts as his sanity slipped away were that this had to be a dream. Hadn't it?
Sigma looked around, feeling better than ever. Finding his mask, he reached out for it with both hands and donned the green visor, finally becoming who he was meant to be. Sigma overwhelmed the man who had moments before been Matt Pritchard. The young man was still in there somewhere, watching as his demented self stood and leapt from the window, taking flight and speeding across the city.