Thanks for taking the time to look at this post, this should be one of hopefully many stories/short stories in a series. Ignition is an other world story where the protagonist is sent to another world, a world full of super heroes after wishing they could live in a world like that...they are about to find out really quickly that you ought to be careful what you wish for, it may not come to you how you'd like it! I hope you do however enjoy this read!

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Life can just be so…boring sometimes. I walked through my college campus, wandering around with no particular destination in mind. I'd pull out my textbook thinking maybe I could study just to occupy my mind. The Cover of the book read “Advanced electronics 3rd edition”, just as I’m about to consider reading through it, I put the book away “I don’t feel like studying and why should I? It's not like I need to, I aced the past few exams I took. Is there anything I could do today?” I grumbled as I continued to walk. I was too busy looking down at the ground to notice that one of my professors was walking into me, we bumped into each other and we both apologized to each other. My professor Dr.Farley always made me a bit nervous, he’s a German Shepherd and well I’m just a black cat so I always feel some level of instinctual fear around him, doesn’t help that he’s already somewhat intimidating. Dr.Farley bent down and picked up some books he dropped and began to apologize again. “I’m really sorry about that Mr.Holt, I don’t believe I was paying attention to where I was going.”

As I helped him pick up his things I just sighed “I wasn’t really paying attention either…and I told you to stop calling me ‘Mr.Holt’ you can just call me Adam! You’re way too formal Dr.Farley!” Dr.Farley just chuckled a bit “Whatever you say Mr.Holt…if you don’t mind me asking, what are you up to right now?” I paused and contemplated my response, I thought hard about what I was going to do and ultimately this was all I had “I guess I’m…just gonna go sleep, I mean honestly sleeping brings me a lot of joy and well, I’ve got nothing better to do, I already did my homework, studied, yada yada and it's not like I really have any friends so the only one I'm hanging out with is my mattress.” Dr.Farley looks a bit surprised with the response “You really don’t have anything better to do? I thought you’d be working on a coding project or maybe do a bit more with the drones that you presented in class?” I shook my head explaining that I was already finished with pretty much everything and I just wanted to nap now.

After a while Dr.Farley let me go and I went back to my dorm room. I didn’t have a roommate either because the last one annoyed me so much that I’d rather not have one anymore. He kept on making fun of me for taking an excessive amount of ‘Cat naps’. I couldn’t deal with him, he kept waking me up when I slept during the day and going to sleep is where I get the most joy out of life. When I'm asleep…when I dream…I like to imagine i'm not doing something so mundane, I like to imagine that I’m some kind of hero, some people may say that building drones or running complex computer programs is cool but…imagine being able to fly, imagine fighting the bad guys and saving people, when I imagine that…when I dream and I'm able to live out that fantasy, I’m so much happier. The comics I read always make me wish I was part of that story. When I made it to the bed I just wished that maybe…somehow…I could be a hero like the ones from the stories.

When I went to sleep I had those pleasant dreams again, the ones that let you escape from everything. I was fighting my archnemesis for the millionth time in a row but that was okay, I never really got tired of it anyways. In the middle of our epic fight I heard a strange sound, kinda like a popping noise. At first I just chalked it up to the crackle of the villain's lightning but then I woke up. When I woke I noticed my surroundings were unusually bright, I had to close my eyes to shield myself from the brightness and slowly I began to realize what that popping noise may have been. In front of me there was a bright light that was fluctuating in size but not shape, it remained spherical. Everytime it changed size I heard that popping sound. “What the…” after announcing my confusion I tried to figure out where the light may have been coming from. After looking around for a few seconds I realized that the light was just suspended in midair, the whole experience was surreal. I was afraid at first but then my curiosity got the better of me, I reached out a hand to touch the light, I wasn’t quite sure what’d happen but you don’t see this everyday and I know it may have even seemed stupid to do but…I just wanted to know and the strange light was exciting to me because it was unlike anything I’d seen before.

The moment I touched it, the whole world became consumed by light, a light so bright you had no choice but to shut your eyes lest you be inflicted with blindness. Then I felt some pain, a burning sensation…I knew this was a bad idea but I did it…I knew this was a bad idea…I knew…I knew…but I did it anyway…I lost consciousness and unlike when I normally slept all there was darkness. However in my sleep I heard voices, I couldn’t make out what they were saying, it was all muffled but they sounded like they were baffled. I slowly regained consciousness and I saw…strange people that I’d never seen before, and I was in a room which was very clean, had monitors and reminded me of an operating room. The strange people had no fur on them at all, or scales or feathers; they had smooth looking skin and seemed to regard me with curiosity.

“It's awake, where are the extra guards? We don’t know if those bindings are gonna be enough!” I could hear a lot of people running into the room I was in, and I began to panic, all I remember was waking up, touching that damn light and being surrounded by it. I had no clue who these people were or what they wanted or even what they were! I tried to move but I quickly realized that I was bound to some kind of gurney, I couldn’t move a muscle. Fear began to build up inside me as they all began to surround me “WHO ARE YOU!? WHERE AM I!? WHAT DO YOU WANT?!” The strangers all looked surprised to say the least and some began to murmur “It can talk?” “Well I suppose it is standing on two legs and has hands” “But it's covered in fur, has a tail, and the face of a cat.” They were talking about me like I wasn’t even here! I tried desperately to free myself of to even move but my struggling proved to be fruitless.

A man in a suit came around and began to look me up and down “That's the subject?” Another man in a lab coat nodded “Yes sir, he seems to have somehow been caught in our inter dimensional portal, it forcibly closed after he came through..we are still looking into everything that happened but for now without a doubt D-47 will be important to study to learn about what's over there.” The man in the suit looked at the scientist, then to the guards “Transport D-47 to a cell, there is a lot of work to be done.” I wondered if that name referred to me but that question was answered as guards grabbed the gurney I was on and began to take me away. No amount of pleading or screaming would dissuade them from fulfilling their task of welcoming me into a new and very cramped home….