The next day, after school, Ethan decided to go and train himself, but he didn't know where to train, so he just opened the maps app and looked around town and found a long road to train his super speed.
When he arrived at the road, he found it was empty, so he looked ahead at the horizon, staring at the long road that seemed to stretch off into the distance as he looked.
Ethan readied himself to run, getting into a starting pose, crouching down, his hands in front of his feet, then he launched himself forward.
Using his hands and feet's strength to push himself, but unfortunately, he was running at the speed of an average person.
So he pushed himself past his limit, his muscles pushing past their limits, at first he couldn't but suddenly… He sped up, running faster than he ever did.
Ethan: "I'm doing it!!"
The air flying by his face, at first it felt nice, but as he sped up, the air made his eyes unconsciously blink and tear up, which hindered his eyesight, and as he sped up more, breathing became harder as the air rushed past his nose.
So he stopped and drifted to a stop, but almost fell from the friction, but he caught himself, he then tried to catch his breath.
Ethan: "I really should get some kind of mask or helmet…"
So Ethan pondered more and more, and decided to run back home with his new superspeed, and so he did.
He ran fast but not fast enough to get choked or blinded, and after 30 minutes of rushing past buildings, he finally got to his home.
He surprisingly didn't get tired, and so Ethan went straight to his room and wrote a checklist on his computer, which looked like:
'1-get helmet.
2-get inflammable clothes (reason: friction).
3-get new shoes that are very flexible.
4-train.'Ethan looked at the list once and twice before getting up and walking to his desk and writing down ideas of what the helmet and clothes could look like.
he went through hundreds of designs like: latex suits; "too revealing", casual clothes; "too casual for being a hero", leather; "what am I? a biker?", armor; "too heavy, unless the joints are loose, but that's dangerous", spandex; "it's optimal… but no protection, well I guess it's optimal for a speedster so I guess it's good".
Ethan then designed the look of the suit, he went through a lot of them, like a suit where there are thunderbolts on the sides, he didn't like the design; he felt like it was too amateur, but he had no choice but to use it.
So he added a thunderbolt logo(check my profile picture) and made sure that it isn't already taken, and then he also added a biker helmet that covered his face and also looked cool.
So he made the primary color black and the secondary color yellow, and the rest of the color palette was: orange and blue, which was optional of course.
But he didn't know how to put the design on the suit, so he looked online but didn't find any shops that could help, so he ordered full-body spandex suit and some cloth paint.
When they arrived, Ethan looked for a secluded area in the nearby park, and when he found it, he put down a large cloth that he had made sure that his parents didn't want, and began adding the designs to the suit.
when he was done, the suits designs were badly drawn, but it didn't matter since no one would notice the bad drawing as long as he was moving fast or was far away from everyone.
The next day, he went to school, the hateful gazes weren't as many as yesterday or before that, but they were certainly there.
Ethan went to class and sat at his usual desk, the whole class talking and yelling and chatting etc…
For some reason, they were louder than usual is it because of his new powers? Well whatever the reason is… now he has more trouble focusing on one noise than he did before.
He found Minami in the desk next to him, as expected…
Minami: "Hi Ethan…"
Ethan: "What…?"
Minami: "That's how you treat a girl? wow… didn't know you were THIS pathetic…"
She rolled her eyes and gave Ethan a cold look, but behind that cold look was emotion, emotion that Ethan didn't fully notice.
Ethan: "Oh, shut up, if it weren't for me, you would've been dead."
Minami: "If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have gotten hurt the day before yesterday."
Ethan: "Fair enough, but how did you get healed up so fast?"
Minami: "All powered people have super healing, not just you."
Ethan: "Oh… huh… wait… ALL?!"
Ethan's eyes snapped open, he was ready to jump out of his seat from surprise.
Minami: "Yeah…why?"
Ethan: "Like ALL, as in you know more people who have powers?"
Minami: "Sure, yeah, my friend has too."
Ethan stared at her with shock and surprise, Minami's face heated up before she looked away, Ethan did too.
But as the teacher got into the class and started the lesson, Ethan's thoughts drifted to what he would do to get the helmet he needed.
So he decided to go to a biker store after school to get a cool biker helmet, but how would he convince them to give it to him? He'll improvise later…
After school, he went there and got the helmet. He made sure to get a tinted one so that his face would remain hidden. Surprisingly, they sold it to him casually without any doubt, Ethan thought that maybe it's his looks, which are the most likely factor.
When he went home, he slammed it onto his desk and walked towards the suit that was hanging out his window.
He took the suit from the sill and wore it, before also wearing the helmet, the whole outfit made him look like he came out of a bootleg Tron.
Which in a good way made him cool. So he then went outside, making sure no one noticed him.
And so after he reached the street that he was training at just the day before, he sped up and accelerated, 20 kmph, 30 kmph… His speed went faster and faster.
But Ethan felt his bones being pressured, which wasn't a good thing at all, so he slowed down until he stopped.
He marveled at his speed and powers but he still didn't get the hang of the electric part.
So he ran at a safe speed back to his home. Getting ready for the next day, where something unexpected will happen.