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Super

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Professor Ethan Scott, 24, was just your everyday lab assistant. Until his senior Professor Mark Anthony told him about a little problem he was having. They were stuck in a time loop! At the end of the current 45 minutes Mark was going to slip into a combination of radioactive acids and wake up again 45 minutes previous. and every time he has done this he found that he gained and lost superpowers!

   “You’re ridiculous and obnoxious,” Laughed Ethan, “There is no way in the world that a combination of radioactive acids would cause superpowers, there is no plausible evidence.”
    “No any minute now something will cause me to do it! I’m serious.”
    “Yeah, seriously crazy!”
    “No common I’ll show you!”
   “There is no way you’re getting me to ‘slip in a vat of chemicals’,” Ethan screamed as Mark moved toward him. Mark grabbed for his hands but Ethan was faster and managed to move out of the way. Ethan grabbed for anything to put in the way of his assailant.
   “Come on, It doesn’t hurt i swear. I’ve done it like, literally, 63 times!” It was very apparent that Mark was nervous and acting on pure impulse. Mark finally grabbed Ethans wrist.
   “Let go!” Ethan flung his arms around until him and Mark fell onto a table. The vials on the table shattered and got chemicals all over them. Mark seemed victorious. Ethan just sat there covered in chemicals.
    “Nothing is happening you lunatic!”
    “Wait for it.”
    “Your cra—” Ethan blinked.

   When he opened his eyes he was looking at some test results, exactly what he was doing 45 minutes ago. Mark burst into the room.
    “Do you remember,” he screamed.
    “Yes,” questioned Ethan, “That didn’t just happen, we went back in time!”
   “Wrong, its the time loop thing just keep happening and happening. You don’t remember because you were usually unaffected so you just keep doing and doing without remembering, that’s why people have deja vu.”
    “Well why is this happening?”
   “Because my first every power was the power to make time loops. So i, not knowing how to do it really, made a quick one of the last 45 minutes. Then at the end of it i realized that i could get more then one super power by going through loop. So i went through it so many  times that i lost the ability to disable the loop so now im stuck.”
    “Well why don’t you just not fall in the acids and then you break the time loop?”
   “Because something always happens to ensure that i fall into them. Besides you don’t want to just ‘break’  time loop, It’s a complicated matter and we don’t have time for an explanation,” Mark raved as he paced around the room. The creases on his brow suggested that he was deep in thought. Ethan tried to call to mind all the random time travel tidbits that could possibly apply to time loops.
    “What if we could get out of this loop?”
    “What do you mean? Thats exactly what we are trying to do!
   “No i mean, look at this dimension as having 4 dimensions, width, height, depth, and time. So by that logic if we moved to a different dimension we could move into a different time, therein causing the time loop to collapse into itself as if it never happened.”
   “Yes but how could we ever travel between dimensions. We can’t build anything or write anything down because it will all be reset.”
   “Yes but if one of the alleged ‘super powers’ you have been getting is travelling between dimensions! Speaking of which i wonder what i ‘power i got,” mocked Ethan, sceptical.
    “Haha very funny. No the powers are real. Its just hard to really figure out what they are.”
   “Yeah I’m sure they are.” Suddenly Mark grabbed a nearby scalpel and threw it at Ethan. Reflexes took over and Ethan went to block the scalpel. Next thing he knew he looked at his arm to see nothing, The scalpel appeared to have bounced off his arms.
    “Super resilient skin.”
    “What the heck man you threw a scalpel at me!”
   “Oh calm down, a power I have is super precision. That scalpel would have hit a small patch of empty skin, away from all tendons.”
    “Still, warn a guy.”
    “Well now that we wasted 15 minutes on that idle chatter back to the main issue.”
    “Now that the powers have been proved my sarcastic answer could be actually used?”
   “Brilliant! I knew i could count on you. You know i used to remark you as one of the most sane and rational people, not as much as myself bus still.” Mark tried to see what this times power was. He sat there concentrating very hard when suddenly he disappeared. Ethan sat alone in the lab.
   “Hello, Mark?” The room was completely silent. A table near where Mark was moved a little as if someone pushed past it. “Mark is that you?”
    Mark appeared right next to Ethan. He jumped back startled.
   “It seems i can turn invisible. Could you hear me i was screaming at you to see if you could hear me. It didn’t seem like you could.”   
    “No i couldn’t.”   
   “So not just visually invisible but in every way. Uh Oh look at the time, this loop is almost over. Maybe a few more tries will get us the power we need.” Walking backward Mark walked to the lab explaining to Ethan just how they got the powers. Not watching where he was going he hit a stool and was falling onto the table. Ethan tried to grab his hand, and succeeded. The pair fell onto a table and shattered test tubes again.
    Blink. Again Ethan was looking at the test results. Again Mark burst in the room.
    “Go ahead you first this time.”
   Mark sat there concentrating again. This time the suspense was thick both of them sitting there in complete silence. Ethan had a thought.
    “Mark…”
    “What,” he responded without opening his eyes.
   “What would happen if you changed dimensions and im stuck here. Without you to fall into the vat wouldn’t this dimension stop existing?”   
   “Well, time is a very tricky subject. I’m sure we’d have till the loop came to an end. Then it would collapse. No one would really die because this timeline will be destroyed so the timeline of this dimension will keep going. It would probably restart from the beginning of the loop. Maybe even create an alternate us for the fact that the us of this dimension aren’t here. Do you understand?”
    “Yes.”

“Good because i hate explaining.” Again they sat in silence. Five minutes later Ethan had another thought.

   “If you do leave you’ll come back for me so I won’t get reset and forget all this. I’ve always respected you sir and well, I think if it wasn’t for this we wouldn’t ever have talked. So i don’t wanna be reset.
    “Alright.” Mark seemed a bit awkward but it was obvious he felt the same.
Mark was almost going to give up when he suddenly started to feel strange. Half of his body felt like it was somewhere else. It was still there but felt like it was somewhere else. Ethan noticed that from the right side of Marks body all the way over he started to appear see-through. Not like he was going invisible, a power he might not even have now he noted, but like he was disappearing.    
   “Ethan I think its working, I feel like I’m appearing somewhere else.” He was right. Within minutes he was already gone. Ethan sat alone again. He hated being alone like this. He waited for any sign of Mark still being in the room, but invisible, a bump of a chair, the moving of an object. But nothing happened, he actually did travel through either space, or dimensions. Ethan looked at the clock  and noticed that the loop was almost over. Soon it will end and he will be reset, forgetting everything that just happened.
    Finally only 10 minutes left. Ethan wondered if him falling in the vat would cause the loop to keep going.

No, he deduced, if Marks not here, the loop would still collapse. Only five minutes left, Ethan started counting down in his head. Metaphorically he was about to die. He will live but never remember what just happened. In a few minutes he would be reading the lab test results again for the first time. 3, Ethan took a very deep breath and held it for the remaining minutes. 2, he started to pace getting very anxious at his imminent death. 1, he closed his eyes and became ready to die.

A hand reached out and pulled Ethan through what felt like a membrane. Mark had pulled him through to another dimension. They were standing in a field in a whole new world where anything could happen now.

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brothasoul:

can we all just take a minute to imagine steve rogers’ face the first time he heard someone say “motherfucker” casually

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