“give us your money bitch, one of the three boys yelled at her, or we’ll have to put you down like a dog!” Rebecca had walked right into them, she’d been stupid to think that Jason would not send his goons to bother her after she beat him in the match last week. Okay, it had been a match on his gang's terrain but why would you invite multiple new York gangs to a little fighting match if you were not prepared to take some hits.

She had not come out of that tournament undamaged either by the way, that one guy from the Manhattan gang and that one girl from Brooklyn had given her quite a few bruises and broken bones, Jason was just unlucky they did not break her fists before she had to face him. “I recognize you from the match fellas, she said calmly, here for Jason’s loss I guess?

“The boss was pretty mad about losing to a Bronx gang member girl, one of them said, he wants us to get some money from you and rough you up a bit. Rebecca did not wait until his friends gave their own villainous monologue, she knew that when she walked into this alley two people had been waiting for her, the third one had come behind her to block her escape route. She had a broken rib and a small concussion but she could probably take that one guy.

Before they knew what happened Rebecca ran at the man blocking her exit, the element of surprise was helping her and soon she had given the man a hit that made him fall onto the ground. “aye, she reached for her broken ribs who had taken a hit from the man before he went down, but that was a mistake!

She felt three fast stings in her back, she felt something warm on her skin, when she turned around she saw one of the guys stand there with a bloodied knife. She had gotten stabbed. She felt fear, tired, anger, and,….. strength?

As she felt moor blood poor out she suddenly felt her muscles strengthen and adrenaline rushing through her veins, they had hurt her…..stabbed her…she was going to make them pay! She stood up and jumped, faster than she had ever done and slammed her fist down of the one who had stabbed her, she felt bone break when her fist struck……

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Rebecca stood in an alley now, three bodies of unconscious, nearly dead people surrounded her, the strange energy she had felt that had allowed her to do this was gone now, she tried to get back to the main street where someone could see her, but she had lost so much blood already….

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Sounds voices light, what was going? She felt a small sting and everything became black again.

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Rebecca’s head hurt as she woke up, had she been drinking too much again last night, she didn’t remember, pretty standard actually. She tried to go to sleep again, when she slept she felt no pain,..pain? Suddenly memories flashed through her head like one of the trains in New York, a dark alley, a dumb mistake, Jason’s goons, a knife…blood!

Her eyes shot open and immediately she wished that she had not! After the shock of remembering getting stabbed and on deaths door still almost murdering three people had been bad enough but now she woke up in a place she didn’t know at all with people in white coats looking at her. Around her, all different kinds of machinery were making noises and showing statistics, if she had never been in one before she would think she was in a hospital.

But this was one huge hall, bigger than hospitals in New York, she couldn’t move from shock and panic, all that had happened overwhelmed her, and suddenly that strange feeling she had felt after getting stabbed returned stronger than it had been before. She wanted out, wherever she was she wanted to get out. Rebecca jumped from the bed she laid on and even though she had to get used to standing again she was fine after a few seconds, the creeps in white coats backed away from her, scared, as they should be, she had to get out and if they were in her way……

“Her ability causes an extreme reaction in stress or panic-related situations, a woman with a heavy Mexican accent and long curling brown hair and glasses spoke as she walked towards her. Rebecca stopped to look at her for a second, ‘abilities what is she talking about, no don’t think about that, escape, I need to escape!’

“Rebecca blackwood, the Mexican lady spoke, I know who you are and you probably do not know what is going on but you need to calm down before you do something you will regret!” The lady said that last word with a glare in her eyes that she had seen only rarely with some gang members, the look of someone who will do everything to reach her goal, it was scary to look at and the strength she felt began to diminish.

“No I need to run, Rebecca acted on instinct and she jumped, just like she had done with the gangsters in the alley, she wanted to take out this lady and run, …Run!

But she did not get far, as soon as she was a meter away from the woman some kind of wall of blue light popped into existence, she crashed against it and fell on the ground, the room shook. ‘was this room going to collapse, once again she panicked, she needed to get out, now..now!

“Not so fast young lady.” Another voice said, “we are surrounded by wounded people, do you want to harm them or something, she looked in the direction of the voice but a second later she wished she hadn’t, she felt another sting and everything became black once again

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Sam had been worried that he would have to fight her, he was not scared of losing, but he was scared of fighting inside the med bay, luckily for him, Medrano happened to be a knife thrower in her free time. She had used a sleeping dart to get through Rebecca’s skin, something that would soon no longer be possible due to her ability that was in the process of fully awakening.

Honestly, superpower, tough skin, and an earthquake ability, this girl was comparable to a tank in many ways, when her powers fully awakened some countermeasures would be needed so she did not destroy the whole complex by walking around.

But to Sam that was only the less difficult thing about this situation, the most difficult thing would be letting this girl calm down before talking to her, he had really hoped he would never actually have to use “the room” but he had no other choice.

“Layla, could you transport patient one to “the room” please, I will go there myself to help her through. “are you sure father, Layla said, she is pretty unstable right now.” Sam laughed, “well if I don’t do this we will have to rebuild this whole place I fear.”