Chapter Two
The massive explosion of the missile unleashed a thick cloud of yellow gas. It knocked me, Omega Man, and every other superhero standing around it to the ground as the gas cloud rapidly expanded around us, obscuring our view of the sky and the sun and making everything much darker than it had been just seconds ago.
As I lay there, stunned by the blast, I suddenly started to feel weaker. And it wasn’t from any wounds I’d sustained; no, it was like my power was being drained from my body. It was a familiar sensation, but at the moment I was too stunned by the impact of the blast to recall exactly when I’d felt like this before.
Nonetheless, I managed to rise to my feet, but it was a lot harder than before. I felt utterly exhausted and sleepy, like I had pulled an all-nighter a
