*Callum kneels on the ground watching the ash remains of his father drift away between his fingers, tears roll down his cheeks as he drops his mask looking down at it. His mother hovers in the air speechless as her red aura glows around her, he ignores her completely horrified.*

Hope: "What have I done..."

*Callum's Mum shrieks unleashing a continuous beam of energy at Callum knocking him to the ground, she channels are her might and willpower into the blast grinding him into the earth like a bug. Her angered screams drowns out the cracking of the ground and shattering of the concrete around the blast that crushes Callum mercilessly. She stops and wipes the tears from her eyes with her latex glove and hovers down peering inside the crater where Callum lays curled up in a ball...unscathed.*

E-Beam: "How could you?!"

*Callum's body glows yellow and rises out of the crater, his radiance as bright as the sun. He looks down at his shaking hands and clenches them into balled fists that burn energy like fire, he looks up glaring at his Mother and aims his palms at her. Her eyes widen as his palms explode blowing her away with an energy blast knocking her out of the sky and through Mitch's house as rubble crashes on top of her.*

Hope: "How could I?! How could you?! You and Dad made me to be a weapon to end all of humanity, just to make your psychopath leader proud! You both infiltrated the first ever hero team and killed them in cold blood because they rebelled against the idea of genocide!"

*Callum's body pulsates with power as he glows even brighter, his fingertips sparking with fury as he watches his Mother shakily get up clutching her shoulder. Her aura seems to shrink back being repelled by Callum's, she raises her hand weakly about to fire an energy blast.*

E-Beam: "You call yourself, Hope. You're not Hope at all, not for me or your father... you're total Despair. You going to kill me too, your own mother?!"

*Callum's hands vibrate as he aims his palms at her but stops when he sees a puff of black and pink smoke appear behind his Mum. She turns her head only to see Vanessa swing her bat striking the back of his mother's head knocking her out cold. Vanessa pulls back her hood looking up at Callum with her cat like green eyes, her eyes meet his and Callum's aura goes out like a candle being blown. He falls to the ground weakly and she teleports next to him quickly in a wisp of smoke, she lays his head on her lap and takes his hands hands letting go quickly after feeling the heat generating from them. She leans in and softly kisses his hot lips. Callum's eyes begin to feel heavy and he turns his head seeing Nico helping Mitch out of his house, his clothes chalked with dust from the debris. Callum smiles slightly and passes out overwhelmed with fatigue. He begins to stir a few hours later in what appears to be a hospital room.*

Coby: "Hey, buddy. Went all Thanos on your Dad huh?"

Susan: "Coby!"

Callum: "Where uh, am I?"

Coby: "Definitely not Kansas!"

*Susan strikes her brothers arm making him yelp and she leans in looking at Callum intently. He sits up felling his body ache slightly and touches his stomach feeling abs there all of a sudden. Those are new.*

Susan: "Callum, you're in A.N.G.E.L. Hospital. You're body seems to get stronger the more you use your powers. You literally incinerated your Dad with one punch and he was the strongest... hero."

*Callum looks away bitterly and shakes his head, he knew his Dad wasn't a hero and part of him knew the world now knew that with the whole public nighttime fight. Mitch must've told everyone at school by now, after all that was one of the best and worst days his best friend probably had.*

Susan: "Don't worry we know, but the world doesn't. Mitch was just glad you are safe and A.N.G.E.L. covered up the whole thing stating that a vengeful villain from the past came back and got his revenge on your father. Your Mother though, she's unfortunately being kept inside Lockdown."

Coby: "The badass Meta prison the size of a city."

*Callum nods his head slowly, it was a lot to take in. Part of him thought he was just dreaming after the time his Dad threw him through the wall in their house, he wished it was a dream. Even though his Dad was a villain, he still loved him, mourned him.*

Susan: "Callum we both know what you are feeling, there was nothing you could've done to know that was going to happen with your Dad. Your powers are some of the strongest we have seen, nobody could've anticipated that was going to happen."

Coby: "I'm sorry."

Callum: "Don't be. Can I still be a Hero? I know I broke the rule about killing but I didn't know I could do that, with help from A.N.G.E.L. maybe now I can test my true potential."

*Coby looks at Susan and she looks at him. Callum waits with nervous energy as Susan nods at her brother who grins leaning forward close to Callum*

Susan: "We have this little program starting up with young aspiring heroes like yourself, those unsure of who and what they are."

Coby: "It's like a team and we want you to join!"

Callum: "What's it called?"

Coby: "Young Heroes"

Callum: "That name sucks..."

Coby: "Aw come on, you just ruined this issues cliff hanger!"