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YouTube Stream: HeroWatch NYC
YagFoOad's stream had started as his usual content. Standing on a Manhattan rooftop with his high-end camera equipment, providing commentary on heroes in action.
He'd moved from Ohio specifically for this. Sold everything, maxed out his credit cards, bet his entire future on being able to make a living filming superheroes and providing real-time analysis.
The Chitauri invasion had been his breakout moment. Footage of Iron Man that he'd captured from a perfect angle, showing the arc reactor's glow as Tony dove through a Leviathan, that clip alone had gotten 50 million views.
Today was supposed to be more of the same.
"Yo, what's up, it's your boy YagFoOad coming at you live from Manhattan, where apparently murder robots are the new hotness." His camera panned across the skyline where smoke rose from multiple locations. "I've got eyes on at least three different hero teams engaging Sentinels. Callisto's coordinating mutant defense in District X. Spider-Man's doing his thing in Midtown High. And word on the street is the Thing is handling The Yancy Street."
His chat exploded with comments scrolling too fast to read.
xXShadowFistXx: bro get somewhere safe
MarvelFan2012: this is insane
HeroSimp99: SPIDEY JUST SAVED 20 STUDENTS
TinfoilHat420: government planned this wake up sheeple
YagFoOad grinned at the camera. "Yeah yeah, I know. Safety first. But someone's gotta document this stuff, right? Someone's gotta show the world what these heroes are actually doing while politicians sit in bunkers and..."
A scream cut through his commentary.
YagFoOad's head snapped toward the sound. Two blocks down at street level a kid, maybe seven years old, was standing frozen in the middle of the street while a Sentinel advanced on his position.
The robot's optical sensor locked on. Its weapon arm charged with energy coils, glowing red.
"Oh shit." YagFoOad's camera swung toward the scene, capturing everything. "There's a kid down there. Someone needs to... why isn't anyone..."
The street was empty as people had evacuated or were hiding. The heroes were blocks away, tied up with their own battles, and nobody was close enough to help.
The Sentinel's weapon arm reached full charge.
YagFoOad's body moved without permission.
He jumped off the roof.
Not smart, idiotic even. Just pure instinct screaming that a kid was about to die, and he was the only one there to do something about it.
His camera, still strapped to his chest rig, captured his own scream as gravity took hold.
Suddenly, a golden light drifted near him mid-fall.
A single mote, bright and warm, drifting up to meet him like it had been waiting for this exact moment.
Then a maternal and infinitely kind voice spoke.
"YagFoOad. Your heart moved me. Will you accept what I offer? The strength to save this child?"
YagFoOad's mind was screaming. He was falling. He was going to splatter across pavement while his stream captured every second.
But the kid was still down there.
"Hell yes!" The words tore from his throat. "Give me whatever you got!"
The golden mote slammed into his chest.
Power flooded through him in a heartbeat. His body restructured itself mid-fall as it turned digital to encompass things he'd never imagined.
But most incredibly, the knowledge came with it.
A car sat parked on the street below. Blue sedan, nothing special, probably belonged to someone who'd fled when the Sentinels attacked.
YagFoOad reached out with his new sense and merged with it. Felt the car's systems like extensions of his own body as he merged.
The transformation was instantaneous. YagFoOad's body dissolved into golden energy that poured into the car. Metal and flesh became one, restructuring, growing, changing.
The blue sedan exploded upward and transformed. Growing to fifteen feet tall, bipedal, humanoid.
YagFoOad had become a Transformer.
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His camera, somehow still functioning, was now part of his chest. Still streaming to the thousands watching his channel.
The Sentinel fired.
YagFoOad raised his arm. The energy blast struck his transformed body, dispersing across metal plating that was somehow both car, human and neither.
"Holy crap!" His voice boomed from external speakers, mechanical but carrying his wonder. "I'm a freaking robot! This is the coolest thing that's ever happened to anyone!"
The kid still stood frozen, staring up at the mechanical giant that had appeared from nowhere.
YagFoOad moved. His transformed body responded like he'd been doing this for years. He scooped up the kid with impossible gentleness, cradling the small body in hands that could crush steel but held like feathers.
"Got you, little man. You're safe now."
The Sentinel adapted. Its systems learned from the first failed attack and came at YagFoOad with a different weapon system.
YagFoOad's other arm transformed. Not consciously, just instinct guiding the change. His hand became a cannon, energy coiling in the barrel.
He fired.
The blast caught the Sentinel center mass and punched through adaptive plating. The robot sparked and collapsed in a heap of broken machinery.
"And that's what you get!" YagFoOad's voice carried triumph. "Don't mess with the YagBot!"
His chat was losing its collective mind.
xXShadowFistXx: DUDE JUST TURNED INTO A TRANSFORMER
MarvelFan2012: THIS IS THE BEST STREAM EVER
HeroSimp99: BRO YOU SAVED THAT KID
TinfoilHat420: CGI fake news crisis actors
YagFoOad set the kid down gently in a doorway. "Stay here, okay? Heroes are coming. You're gonna be fine."
The kid nodded, still too shocked to speak.
Then the golden light began pulling away.
YagFoOad felt it draining from his body like water through a sieve. His transformed state destabilized. Metal and flesh separated, untangling from each other.
In seconds, he was human again. Standing in the middle of the street in his normal clothes, the blue sedan lying in pieces around him, exhausted and confused and somehow hollow.
"The power," he whispered. His camera, miraculously undamaged, still captured everything. "It's gone."
He collapsed to his knees. The loss felt worse than any breakup, worse than any failure. He'd touched something incredible and had it snatched away before he could really understand it.
But then the kid ran up to him. Wrapped small arms around YagFoOad's waist in a fierce hug.
"Thank you," the kid whispered. "Thank you, thank you, thank you."
YagFoOad's throat tightened. He hugged the kid back with tears streaming down his face.
"You're welcome, little man."
He looked at his camera. At the little red light that meant he was still streaming. At the chat scrolling past with messages of support and awe and disbelief.
"Yo, what's up." His voice came out rough, emotional. "That just happened. I don't know how to explain it. A voice offered me power. It was so maternal, like every mom ever. Said I could save the kid if I accepted. So, I did."
He wiped his eyes, not caring that thousands were watching him cry.
"The power moved my body. I knew what to do without knowing how I knew. Merged with a car. Became a Fuc.. Freaking robot and saved a life." His voice cracked. "And now it's gone. I'm just a streamer with a camera again."
YagFoOad looked at the kid, still holding onto him.
"But you know what? It was worth it. Every second. I'd give up that power a thousand times to save this one kid. Because that's what heroes do, right? They sacrifice. They give up what they want for what others need."
He straightened up, found his professional voice even though his hands trembled.
"To everyone watching, here's what I learned: the power is temporary. You get it just long enough to save someone. Then it goes away and you go back to being normal. But the choice you made, the person you saved, that's forever."
His chat exploded with reactions.
xXShadowFistXx: bro you're crying, we're all crying
MarvelFan2012: most wholesome hero moment ever
HeroSimp99: SOMEONE GET THIS MAN A MEDAL
PowerBrokerFan: Jay did this, has to be Jay
YagFoOad saw that last comment. Latched onto it.
"Yeah. Yeah, someone in chat just said it. This has to be the Power Broker, right? Jay. The guy who brought back 1200 people from the dead. This seems like his kind of miracle. Giving regular people the chance to be heroes when it counts."
He looked directly into the camera.
"If you're watching this, Jay, if this was you... thank you. You gave me the best moment of my life. You let me save a kid and be a hero even if it was temporary." His voice strengthened. "And to everyone else: if a golden light offers you power, take it. Just say yes and save whoever needs saving."
YagFoOad's stream continued for another hour, capturing the aftermath and arrival of official heroes to secure the area. His viewer count hit half a million concurrent viewers, then 2 million, then broke his platform's records entirely.
The footage of his transformation went viral instantly. Within hours, it had been viewed over 50 million times across all platforms.
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