New heroes arise from unlikely places — Microfiction.
Standing in a puddle of chemicals in the parking lot of this supermarket no warning was sounded. A flash and spark are all she feels. The bolt of electricity is sudden and intense.
Deafening thunder crashes around her but she hears only her heartbeat.
Wanda feels nothing and everything in the same instant. Every sense is magnified in extreme and overwhelming, vibrating energy.
She is standing on solid air hovering over the ground. A column of atomic fission raises her spreading crackles of blue and white magnificent static, a spiderweb surrounding her body.
Without knowing she knows. The power is now hers. Willing the flow of ionic force to withdraw and return to her center she gently floats back to the asphalt.
There is no thunderstorm. Was it heat lightning? Wanda isn’t sure but she is aware and awake. Brain is faster. Body is stronger.
Small sparks jump around her iris and cornea.
