"First of all," said the chief, "let me state that this isn't an interrogation. This is simply a way for us to understand what happened and you will not be punished in any way."
"okay" I nodded.
"Then why don't we get to it?" the S.U.Z guy pulled out a sheet of paper
"What exactly happened at Zap city station?"
I went on and explained the whole story to them, About Grey, Frank, the surge giving me powers, In the end the s.u.z guy nodded, and the chief started taking notes
"so it was you who took down the mad surged?"
"Yes sir"
The second man raised an eyebrow
"Frank is one of our best surged and you beat him in the end?"
I scratched the back of my head "well frank did save my ass multiple times back there"
The chief started biting the pen he had.
"This isn't the first time a surged person has acted like this"
"Really?"
"Yes, all over the globe there are reports of surged people terrorizing public areas. We think this is a connection to getting a "bad power" such as the voice wave man. This causes them to lose control over themselves and become more durable. Basically, a walking corpse"
I leaned on the table
"But then why did that surged talk to me? He kept telling me to get away!"
The second guy shrugged "maybe he was hallucinating"
The chief looked at the other man, "still the fact that a new surged like him was able to take one down… he haven't seen something like that since Soul."
I recognized that name.
"Soul?"
The s.u.z man looked over "Soul Mackle. easily the strongest surged that we have seen yet, especially because of that sigil…" he trailed off.
"Alright" the chief got them back in track "next question, can you describe our mad surged? How did he look and act?"
I scratched my arm "well, he had gray hair and wrinkles over his mouth. I think he was somewhere in his forties."
The Chief wrote something down and then looked back up
"Good, next question, how do you feel after this event?"
I didn't see that coming.
Was I okay? I didn't feel okay, but I didn't feel bad either.
"I guess I feel… new"
The man looked at me in the eyes "new?"
"Y-yeah like… I'm a new person with new strength."
The second guy looked at the chef, as if they were having a silent argument.
"great" the s.u.z man Wrote something down on his notepad
"Do you think you can use your surged power to its best possibility?"
That's a weird question.
"This doesn't seem like its part of the station accident."
The chief gave me a serious look "just answer the question Jake."
"Um I guess so? If I try hard enough to train it."
The second man nodded and looked at the chief again.
This time they both nodded and looked back at me.
"Final question" said the second man.
"Would you like to join the Surged unit Z to deal with this problem of mad surged around the city?"
I looked at them for a second
"What?"
The second guy got up "I'm Shaun Randson, the manager of the S.U.Z or Surged Unit Z."
He offered me his hand to shake it.
"And I see potential in you and your surge ability, Its strong."
I remembered what Soul said to me in that car
"I can't tell you what the question is but trust me, you're gonna wanna say yes."
I thought for a few more seconds then finally made a decision.
"Sure, why not"
Shaun made a fist pump in the air.
"Yeah! That's four!"
"Congrats Shaun" the chief chirped, "I'm surprised you found so many capable surged"
Shaun gave the chief a thumbs up and then looked at the mirror
"Did you guys hear that?!" he excitingly said.
Naturally, the mirror didn't talk back, so he looked back at me.
"Have you registered on the app yet?" Shaun pulled out his phone and showed it to me
[international surge counter]
[total surged: 43,526,213]
[estimated uncounted: 200,000]
"2 hundred thousand uncounted?"
"Oh, that's for the people that might not have access to phones to register in the app. But don't mind that!"
He then hit the [register] button and a whole new menu popped up.
[enter name]
[enter surge ability]
[enter birthdate]
[have any family members been surged?]
I answered these questions honestly, it's not like lying would do me any good.
[Jake Moorne]
[electricity manipulation]
[02/20/2000]
[No.]
"Wait… I answered these at the subway!"
After registering into the surged database Shaun got out of his chair and ushered me to follow him.
"C'mon Jake" He said, "let's go to the first day, of the rest of your life."