Freedom City Transformation

Chapter 1:  Captured

Most of the time I am pretty lucky. Things will generally go my way more often than not. However, when I am unlucky its usually in a big way. I'm just an average guy living in a city and world full of wonders, meta-human wonders. My home town, Freedom City is one of the most active cities in the world when it comes to meta-human activity. This also means we are home to some of the heavy hitters in the meta-human world including the Freedom League. The world's premiere super team. They've saved the world more times than I can count it seems. So naturally when my luck went sour it would draw me into that world and not in the way I would have wanted.

I was walking out to my car after a late night stop to the grocery store. I just unlocked my door when I noticed a large shadow being cast blocking the street light near me.I turned around slowly and found myself face to face with a very large and very muscular gorilla! I dropped my groceries in fright and started back pedaling away from it.when it's right arm shot out impossibly fast and grabbed a very large fist full of my shirt and with it's other hand sprayed something in my face! One second I was staring in horror at my captor and the next I was unconscious. I woke up abruptly and found my self in a small concrete room. It was only about 10 feet long and around 6 feet wide and had a very substantial looking steel door that was shut. I was laying on a raised concrete slab adorned with a mattress and bedding. On the wall opposite of the bed there was a steel sink and toilet mounted to it. It was a prison cell! I think it is at least... On the wall at the head of the bed there was what looked like an MP3 player built into the wall.

'What in the hell is going on and where in the hell am I?' I thought to my self.  

I got up and was inspecting the door and I could hear footsteps approaching. I crouched up against the wall next to the door with my fists ready to strike at whoever opened the door in a bid for my freedom. The door swung open and I leapt up from my crouch while punching with all my might. I was dismayed when I saw it was the gorilla from before filling the doorway. I caught my punch effortlessly and twisted my arm behind me chicken winging me. It scooped me up with his other arm across my chest and calmly walked with me down a dimly lit hallway.

It took me to a room that looked like it was straight from a mad scientists' wet-dream. There were banks of computers filling one wall, a large, liquid filled tube with giant tessla coils on either side of it and finally what mad scientists' lab would be complete without a large, metal exam table in the center of the room complete with shackles.  

“What in the hell have I gotten myself into to” I whispered under my breath.

The gorilla took me straight to that table and despite me fighting with all my might to get away I was strapped down with almost no effort. It double checked the shackles and quietly left the room through a door in the far wall. A few minutes later a woman of above average height walked in through that same door. She was dressed in a green scrubs, had a wide leather tool belt on her waist filled with everything from surgical tools to wrenches and a soldering iron. The most striking thing about her was also slightly horrifying, she would have been beautiful but the left side of her forehead, across her eye and ending at her mouth was a series of long jagged scars. Her left eye was a very noticeable, glowing red cybernetic implant.

“Hey! Let me go you maniac!” I yelled and started thrashing on my bonds again.

Without a word she grabbed scissors from her belt and started cutting my clothes off of me! I re-doubled my struggles, trying in vain to break free, all the while yelling and cursing at her demanding that she release me! After clothes were in tatters on the floor she meticulously examined me. She then grabbed my jaw in vice like grip, forcing my jaw open and her cybernetic eye flared to life as she examined my throat, eyes and ears. She let me go with her face hovering over mine. I immediately spit in her face in defiance and renewed my struggles. She chuckled and calmly wiped my spittle off of her face with a tissue that she pulled out of her tool pouch.

“Good. He picked a strong one.” She said, clinically to herself like I wasn’t even there.

She then pulled a little plastic box out of her seeming bottomless tool pouches and set it on my forehead. I could feel the coolness of metal contacts touching my skin. She pushed a sequence of buttons on the box and I immediately felt a strong tingling sensation and then I went totally limp! I was unable to move a single muscle! All I could do is stare straight ahead and blink my eyes! The gorilla then wheeled over a huge cart with a machine on it. The machine had a bunch of tubes sticking out of in and coiling all around it. The woman then gently administered an I.V. In my arm and attached it to a port on the machine. The gorilla then then positioned a metal arm over my chest that looked like it had some sort of emitter on the end of it. He moved it till it was centered over my chest.The woman then started the flow on the I.V. And the gorilla turned the emitter on! The fluid entering my veins burned horribly but the only sign of the pain I was in were the tears that had started running down my expressionless face.

She spoke to me again but in an apologetic tone this time. “Oh dear. I'm sorry for the discomfort but it is unfortunately unavoidable. It won't last long. I promise”. She said with a small smile and a strangely gentle caress of my cheek and she walked out of my immobile field of vision.  

A few seconds later I succumbed to the pain and slipped into blissful, painless unconscious.