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"Nice to finally see you, Jimmy" Dr. Franklin said

"It's nice you to I've never been to counseling before" I said

"Why don't we just sit down and have a little chat? So what brought you to this point in life?" Dr. Franklin said

"Well it all started one presumably normal day my now deceased brother was teaching me how to play basketball for the first time" I said

"What is this place Johnny?" I asked "it's something we call "a place to play basketball"" Johnny said "basketball? I've never played basketball before" I said in front of us was a giant basketball hoop and on the ground below us was concrete painted with white paint at certain parts. After everyone else had a chance to throw the ball into the hoop it was my turn but as expected I missed I went to go get the ball but then felt something hit my head, I fell down and everything went black. When I woke up I was strapped to a chair with my feet tied up and my mouth stuck together with a piece of duct tape in some old barn I also saw some muscular men talking to each other than one them approached me "Do you have any relatives little boy?" One of the men asked which I found out later on would use the supervillain aliases "Ebon" "Why would I even answer that question?" I asked "you don't want to know what we do people who don't comply" another one of the muscular men threatened "okay fine my twin brother Johnny Osgood is outside playing basketball but please don't do anything to hurt him" I blurted.

"I wish that I hadn't been so cowardly that day and maybe then my brother would still be alive" I said

"Oh...we won't" one of the muscular men said then I saw my brother unconscious and strapped to a similar chair then when he regained consciousness he was suddenly placed in front of me and two of the men where grabbing my eyelids so I won't be able to blink then right after the man that would later be known as Ebon says "this what you get for spying on a rival gang"

"My brother and I weren't even parts of any gang we had just happened to be near by to whatever gang they were apart of and I won't describe much detail on the torture so you won't have nightmares" I said

"That's very considerate of you" Dr. Franklin said

"Thank you" I said

"Your welcome" Dr. Franklin said

Then he begins to slowly torture my brother for hours in a very sadistic and unique way I have never seen and never thought I would see before all while my brother was screaming and crying for help but I just couldn't since the rope and the men were too strong and during all that time I couldn't blink since two of them where grabbing my eyelids thus by the time my brother died I coul barely see anything until I blinked for the first time and saw my brother's unrecognizable corpse "noooooooooooo!" I cried as I approached the corpse "you...you monster" I yelled with tears still running down my face "I know and if you and your little corpse don't want to see how much more of a monster I can be you two better get out of here" the man that would later be known as Ebon said and then I cried out of there then when I got far away enough I said still crying "I'm so sorry Johnny if only I could've prevented this but I didn't can you please forgive if you can?" That night I told my worried parents that my brother had died but I didn't know the names of the perpetrators a week later we hosted his funeral in The Dakota City cemetery and then he was buried there. A couple of days later my parents and I were sitting around the table when my dad who's hair was already had streaks of gray in it due to stress surrounding my brother's death announced something "I have bought a gun for our family's protection" "how is a gun going to protect us?" I asked "well whenever another gang tries to mess with our family we just kill them" "but wouldn't that just make us as bad as the gangs?" I asked "not when it's justified" my dad said but then I thought about what happened to my brother and how I wouldn't want anything remotely similar happening to them and a gun is way better than torture since one shot to the head or heart and then dead it isn't as painful and is quicker.

"But after what happened to Richie I'm not so sure about my conclusion about the gun" I said

"Murder is never okay no matter the situation and it only helps fuel a cycle of violence" Dr. Franklin said

But I was never truly able to get over my brother's death since I was never able to feel the same level of happiness I used to beforehand and I always felt sorta empty inside my former best friends Nick Connor, Kevin Green and Ray Sanderson noticed and offered to visit me at my house their visit went well at first but after I tried to show them my dad's them my gun they just left I tried to apologize to them but they wouldn't forgive me so I stop trying and became sort of a loner sometime later the big bang I was at home on my computer when I heard about it at first I wasn't as impressed with the gas at first I was just glad that some gangs were finally getting the justice they deserve but as I heard more and more about the bang babies I started to realize how powerful that gas was so I came up with a plan one, I had to steal my father's gun two, I had to kill the meta-breed since by this point I had concluded that Ebon, the leader of the meta-breed was the guy who tortured my brother to death three, and I was unsure about this one but I had to kill Edwin Alva the creator of the gas four, I had to dig my brother's corps out of his grave and five I had to spray some of that gas on my brother's corps and bring him back to life.

"Question, how did you get the idea that the gas will make your brother come back to life?" Dr. Franklin asked

"I just thought that if gas can give someone superpowers then it's possible that it could bring people back to life" I said

So I tried to see if I can get close to either a member of the meta-breed excluding Ebon or Static but then while I was in study hall due to not paying attention in class Static set next to me which was a good sign for my plan afterwards I faked being bullied so Static could come and rescue me and he actually believed it since he came to my house to cheer me up afterwards and the worst part is that I was actually enjoying Virgil and Richie's company and I felt guilty after I ended up scarring them away after trying to show them my dad's gun but now I knew one of his weaknesses that could potentially backfire on me but the day after at school I apologized to them and they forgave me and I reluctantly agreed to play basketball with them even though playing that sport got me into this mess in the first place during my time there I met Frieda she was the prettiest girl I have ever met and I flustered when she asked me to decorate for this years Fright Fest during that time that I spent working on the decorations I also spent spying on Static while he was fighting the meta-breed and I've heard that meta-breed where going to all meet up at the Freeman Community Center and I found it the perfect time to enact my plan but I had to skip both school and fright fest but that was okay with me because my plan succeeding is more important to me than some party so after Nick asked Frieda to go on a date with him I snuck out of the community center and hid somewhere until after the next day at school so Virgil would get worried enough about me to visit me at my house only to find I'm not there and by the time he gets there or to my house I would've already killed all of the meta-breed well I successfully kept Static from going to the Freeman Community Center but the meta-breed were not there at all and then Kevin and Ray tackled me which caused Richie to accidentally get shot in the leg at that moment I felt so much overwhelming guilt for everything which caused to curl up into in a ball and just cry.

"Well it was a nice time counseling with you and now I feel just as good as I did before my brother died letting all that out" I said

"It was nice getting to talk to you to" Dr. Franklin said

"Oh hey there Nick Connor are you getting counseling too?"

"Yes everyone involved is getting counseling" Nick said

"I'm sorry for trying to show you the gun you were right to get mad and ditch me" I said

"It's okay I knew deep down you were still a good person and that just made me uncomfortable but I'm glad your apologized" Nick said

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Ebon and the rest of the meta-breed were sitting around thinking about their next plan after their plan to go into the community center was cancelled due to Fright Fest but then Ebon looked at a thrown away newspaper and froze. It was that boy supposedly from the rival gang who he tortured before the big bang ever happened and then he had read more of the article about how he had not successfully killed anyone but he had injured one person and that person just so happens to be Richie, Static's best friend, who would later become known as the superhero aliases "Gear" he kept on reading with sadistic pleasure some of the other meta-breed members wondered what he was reading and when he showed them alot of them seemed disgusted by Ebon's sadism then he explained that "even though I didn't intend for it to be this way I'm still glad it turned out this way since Richie is one of that he-ro's allies and with one of his friends hurt he would have to spend too much time in the hospital and\or counseling to stop us thus even though he doesn't serve any direct usefulness in mine I mean our plan due to not being a bang baby he does still provides a necessary obstacle for he-ro to overcome which provides me I mean us a more likely chance to succeed in mine I mean our goal".