Storm - Glynis Rankin (ebook reader browser .txt) 📗

"It's not healing." 

My doctor told the nurse. His tone sounded defeated as he wrapped my hand in thick, tight bandages. " I want her antibiotics increased and her dressing changed twice a day" He informed the nurse.

I knew they'd exited my room because I no longer sense their presence.

A lightning strike put me in a coma and left a cognizant Lichtenberg figure scorched into my palm.

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“I miss my home.” The figure sounded sad.

“I’m sorry.” I replied.  Now that I'm comatose my senses are more attune. I can't open my eyes or talk, but I sense things more vividly.

“I’m sorry I fell generating that electrical storm that left you like this. I don’t know how you caught me," said my only companion.

 No one spoke to the coma girl and I had no visitors. My world would've been silent if not for my symbiont.

Mau is a sentient, electrically, charged being that originated from a point outside our solar system. It's world is more electrically positive than earth.

In the process of searching for other planets like its home world. The charge stumbled through a negative force that pulled on its energy.

Mau fell, hitting earth’s atmosphere with a force that spawn a powerful electrical storm. It's massive electrostatic discharge came crashing to the ground as lightning which struck me.

The shock wave threw me a great distance, which caused blunt force trauma. I can't remember the events that caused internal burns with organ and nervous system damage. 

That electrical bolt should’ve killed me. “You saved Mau.”

“In my purest form. I’m a powerful, positive electric flux, but as it stands. I’m more of a dab, less than one tenth of that charge.”

Saving my life weakened Mau, but my unconscious state allowed it time to slowly restore us both.

“You’ll be stronger soon.” The sentient creature, born of electricity, attached itself to me to prevent our deaths. I'm hoping it'll be strong enough to go home soon so I can wake up.

It didn’t respond right away, I wondered why. "Is something wrong?"

“When I fell. I had no control of my origin." Mau was neither male or female, but it's voice had an authoritative tone which helped me to come to grips with it being in me. 

However now, Mau sounded afraid. "Although I wasn’t pure, I had enough energy to control my power.” Mau paused as if to gather it's thoughts.  “N'dare, in order for us to survive I had to fuse with your base matter." 

“What..?” 

“Your DNA. We’re not separate electrical and human entities any more, we're becoming one being.”

This creature not only was in me, but becoming part of me. 

"Well shit!"

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 I woke months later, N'dare Monroe from the south side of Manhattan. Yet, I'd transformed into something both human and alien.

"What are you goin' do now?" Mrs. Jean, my old landlord, let me crash in her spare room until I got back on my feet.  She's good people. 

I stood in the bathroom putting away some personal items. Courtesy of the hospital before they kicked me out.

The time I spent there cost me my job, apartment and everything I owned.

 "I'm not certain."  I closed the medicine cabinet. 

Mrs. Jean stood at the door wearing a frown on her aged brown face. "You look and sound different."     

The reflection in the mirror was me, but my hair had turned snow white and my mother's lovely brown eyes were the color of the sky. I should've been frail after months on my back, but  my body was solid muscle. I felt strong and powerful.

I felt different but the same. The alien voice no longer spoke to me. Mau was me, we're part of this new person. 

"Getting hit by lightning effects who you were." 

Mrs. Jean nodded. "I guess so, best get some rest N'dare."

She walked away just as the sound of thunder cracked the night sky. A moment later, a flash of lightning coincided with the spark in my palm from the healed Lichtenberg figure. 

That's when I knew the name N'dare Monroe didn't fit me anymore, I'm Storm.

Publication Date: 07-01-2014

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Dedication:
Just a little flash fiction for all my friends that are also Marvel Fans.