Fresh out of college, degree in hand, and new to the big apple, city of your dreams. You were essentially broke. College has sucked you off dry and running off back to your parents was a big no

But either way, saved by the graces of whatever it be, you applied to any 'hiring' ad out there, every. single. one. After getting reject countlessly, surprisingly a certain one called back, the very one you had even applied to as a joke after a night of stress drinking.

Working as an assistant for scientist in not only one of the biggest companies in New York, but one of the most powerful ones, Vought. Yeah, the famously worldwide known superhero or supe company.

As naive and desperate as one is when they're freshly put out in the world, you accepted right away the job, ignoring and blindly signing the clauses and liability contracts that stated that they wouldn't be responsible for any harm done or injuries or even death. Which you did find odd since you were just going to be an assistant… but hey! what contract didn't say that, right?

Yet now here you were, watching in your brand-new white ‘scientist’ cloak, as a scientist with the same cloak was rushed away, the man's left hand gone, his blood dripping and practically squirting out onto the walls as they wheeled him away in a hurry. Another scientist following behind with that same clean lasered-off hand.

It was your first day and already you'd been traumatized for life.

Despite that you tried to keep focused and do your job, paint the awful image as a simple lab mistake of the sorts, yet when you overheard it was done by the little boy supe they were working on in the next room over, you felt amazed a little and a bit scared, given you'd heard about supes before, but never had seen one.

But...now as you stood in the said same room as the boy, you couldn't help but realize...he was just a kid, clinging a teddy bear, who instead of the monster the scientists seemed to make him out to be, looked so innocent and scared.