Ch05En: Episode 2

By William Dickstein

Gary, who used to spend his days being known as The Hunter, is a retired Cape who teaches the heroes of tomorrow at the Global Heroes Society's training center. He also gives the tours on Tuesdays. When disaster strikes, it's time for The Hunter to come out of retirement and do what he does best...if he can survive long enough, anyway.

• Language: English
• Publisher: William Dickstein
• Release date: Jan 12, 2014

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Ch05en: Episode 2

By

William Robert Dickstein

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Ch05en: Episode 2

Copyright © 2014 by William Robert Dickstein

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Many thanks to Daio Lamers and Charlie Dickstein, who helped me edit and revise this story. Extra thanks to Daio, who provided all of the beautiful artwork. Also, special thanks to my mom. She thinks my writing is cool.

KEEP READING AFTER THE END FOR A PREVIEW OF CH05EN: EPISODE 3.

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In the not too distant future…

Scientists at the Max Plank Institute for Molecular Genetics will map out a gene given the markers of Ch05En.

The Fate Gene

A latent Ch05En gene destines someone for greatness. Maybe you'll be a rock star, or CEO of a Fortune 500. You might save somebody's life, or give birth to the greatest supporting actress of all time.

Maybe you'll be a superhero.

Those with powers often join the Global Society of Superheroes, known more commonly as the GSS. These people become Capes. They are our protectors in a world of infinite possibilities.

A world where the terrorist organization known as The Aggregate lives to instill fear in the masses.

Welcome to the world of Ch05En.

Where we're one suddenly-activated Fate Gene away from total salvation...

Or complete annihilation.

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Ch05en: Episode 2

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Open – Senior Studies

There's a question I get at least once a tour: Why are there super villains, but no official super heroes? I can always sort of feel it coming, somewhere in between the midpoint and the end of the tour. I love answering it because it’s simple, and I can be honest.

Every hero is super.

All of them.

Standing up for what's right. Protecting the little guy. Doing what others won't. That all makes you super.

You can't tell me Gandhi and Martin Luther King weren't superheroes because they couldn't fly or control machines with their minds.

That's why we call them all heroes. Just because you can shoot ice out of your eyeballs (kids love when I say that, but Cold Iris is a great hero. Top level kind of guy, really) or talk to animals or change your shape; none of that makes you better than the paramedic who shows up to stem the bleeding of the critically injured civilian who just had the building you collaterally damaged fall on top of him. It doesn't make you better than the firefighter who went back into the building, right before it collapsed, just so he could try to save one more person.

If you're a hero, you're a super hero. That's the first lesson we teach here at the training center for the Global Heroes Society. You come to us when you decide to be a Cape. Stick around, graduate, go on the missions we give to you, and you’ll do some good.

Congratulations, kid.

You're a super hero.

That brings us to part two of lesson one. The answer to the question…

You can always, always, find worse.

Find that next level of evil.

When we do, those are the people we call super villains.

Hi, I'm Gary.

They call me The Hunter. Well, they used to. The only people who call me that now are my students and the few friends I have left, the other instructors.