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Danton Black lands a pretty hard body shot. The satisfying sound of bones breaking is something I wouldn't mistake for anything else..... But I was in no hurry to get out, for Barry Allen had not yet left. He looked down for a while, but then he pulled himself together and ran away. And as soon as the orange flash flashed past me, I moved toward the body of the Multiplex. There were no people around because it was night. And the place where Black had fallen wasn't exactly crowded, even in the daytime. So there were no witnesses, which made it easier for me.
I ran over to the rather flattened corpse and took out a syringe for puncture. First I started at the most favorable place - the iliac bone. Then quickly aspirated the bone marrow. The first syringe was quickly filled, then I pulled out a second syringe and did a similar procedure. The syringe was barely half full, so I quickly pulled it out and drained all the fluid into a pre-prepared tube. After that, I exhaled, lifted the corner of my mask, and drank all the marrow in a quick motion.
At first I didn't feel anything, but then ...
«How strange... - My body felt like it was being shocked with electricity, my head started to ache, and my eyes began to blur.
«Shit, it's time to get out of here, I'm passing out.... - I quickly grabbed the syringes and vial, and started to run away.
*♪ Bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, bang ♪
As I ran I tripped and broke the test tube, gritting my teeth I got up and continued walking away to the car. The test tube was sterile so there were no fingers left, but my saliva after I drank the brain.....
Barely making it to the car, I already felt like I had seconds left, climbing inside the body and slamming the door shut, I fell and everything around me went dark....
After an unknown amount of time, I woke up. My eyes were slightly sore, as was my whole body, but it was more of a positive pain than a negative one. As I rotated my arms and head, I felt some subtle changes. It was as if I felt a little lighter, and the thoughts in my head were clearer. Even my vision, even though I was in the dark, was much clearer at distinguishing the silhouettes of different instruments. Hmm, his bone marrow had a positive effect on me, while the bone marrow of ordinary people had become completely useless to me. The meta-humans seem to be much more advanced and thanks to them I can continue to evolve, that's good.
Hmm, and his abilities, maybe I could somehow... I closed my eyes and concentrated, tried to separate my copy. I don't know what I was doing, but I tried...
«Yeah, it's okay, maybe I'm trying something wrong.... - I grumbled unhappily.
I closed my eyes once more and tried to focus on my head, maybe something would come out of it....
And a couple seconds later.
*♪ Crrrrr ♪ ♪ Clap ♪
Something felt like it had fallen, but because of the darkness I couldn't make out what....
«There was a flashlight around here somewhere. - I started looking for a big flashlight, I remember bringing one with me.
«Oh, there he is.
*♪ Click ♪
I turned on my flashlight and started looking for something that might have fallen.
«I mean, that's... - When I pointed the flashlight at the object in the corner, I was slightly stunned, but then I exhaled and walked over to it. As I picked it up, I felt a strange connection, like it was a part of me. Focusing on it, I saw. I saw myself...
What I was holding was my eye, probably somehow I had managed to create a copy of my eye and was now looking at myself with that copy.
It seems I was able to take over his ability, but not completely. I probably couldn't create a copy of myself, only certain parts of his body. His cells could divide easily, even from a small drop of blood he could grow a copy of himself, but I seem to work a little differently. I can probably only create certain parts of my body.....
Hmm, even that I'm glad, this ability can help me a lot. For example, I could create an eye and leave it somewhere to gather information. I just need to know how far I can communicate with my parts, and what other parts I can clone. Eyes are nice, but I could use some ears.
I closed my eyes and focused, and then....
*♪ Crrr ♪
Just like last time, a strange shiver went through my body and something fell.
I looked down and grinned:
«There's the ear, very good.
I focused on him and made the connection, then said very quietly:
«Admission.
And I heard it instantly, with my new ear. Even my improved hearing transferred to it, quite well....
After that, I started checking out all my new features with this ability. And I learned a lot of new things. First of all, I could create no more than five body parts at a time. So if I wanted to create five eyes and one ear, nothing would happen. It just didn't happen, and there was a slight pain in my head, sort of signaling that this was my limit. Also, the maximum size of the cloned part was small, the most I could do was clone my hand with all the fingers, and that was only one, I couldn't do more.... If I wanted to produce another part, I had to get rid of the other one, cut off the link so to speak.
Apparently, the ability I had absorbed had weakened a lot and my body had changed it slightly. But it didn't matter, even that was enough for me. What's more, now I know that I'm capable of further development, but instead of ordinary people, I need meta-humans. Even their abilities I can get, only in a weakened version. Some of them I'm not going to eat, though. Like that girl Plastic's powers, I don't want to get them, and I don't want to get that electric guy Blackout's powers. His ability, while very good, has a drawback no better than mine, and in some ways even worse. His electrical starvation, a terribly unpleasant flaw, and I've had enough of my own starvation. So I wouldn't eat him, even if I had the chance.
All right, time to get out of here. I'm done here, and it's a good thing I put the truck away, or the cops would have taken it away or checked it out. Anyway, it was a good idea to buy my own truck and drive it here. Otherwise, I don't know what would have happened.
Quickly changing my clothes, I climbed out of the truck and looked around. There was no one around, and Black's body had already been removed up ahead. Not surprising, since it was the middle of the day, and I'd arrived at night. It was a good thing the truck was parked far enough away....
After getting behind the wheel, I started the car and drove home.
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