“Oh God! I killed a girl!” screamed Velocity. Under her feet lay the body of a young girl, her head bleeding. Velocity looked down horrified. That's not what was supposed to happen. She wasn't the only one horrified. The man looked towards her and started trembling. He slowly backed away. He wouldn't get far though. Velocity ran towards him, faster than light, and pushed him to the ground. The man got lucky, unlike the girl from before, and survived the fall. Velocity tied him up.

She left the man on the ground and walked back to the girl. She kneeled down next to her and put a finger on her throat, trying to feel a pulse.

Oh God, she thought. First day as a superhero, and I killed a different superhero! God, that’s it. First and last day, no way they’ll let me stay!

Velocity started to panic. She ran towards the city, maybe she could find some help. Maybe there was still time. Velocity arrived at a police station. It was closer than the hospital and every second mattered.

“Excuse me! Mister!” she screamed. a police officer was standing with his back to her, talking to somebody else. He excused the other person and turned to her.

“Yes? What happened?”

“There is a robber. I caught him in the forest. And the girl…” Velocity started explaining, but she soon stopped, her eyes widening.

“Oh! You got him! Awesome! I tried, but someone knocked me out. I'm MP! What's your name?” MP interrupted and the policeman ran to detain the remaining robber.

“You- I- But-” Velocity stuttered.

“You okay?”

“How are you here? You’re okay?”

“Why wouldn’t I be?”

“Cause you were there?!” Velocity pointed outside. “And you weren’t breathing!”

“Wait, you were the one who pushed me? I thought that was one of the robbers! What the fuck?!” screamed MP.

“But, how are you…”

“How am I? How do you think?! Maybe say sorry, huh?! You fucking killed me!”

“I’m sorry! I’m sorry! I’m very new to this, I don’t really know what I’m doing… Can we start over?” Velocity asked hopefully.

“Okay, I can see that you're a little bit lost, so sure. Let’s do that. My name is MP. My friends call me Pia. I'm a superhero. What about you?” MP smiled at Velocity, who was still standing still and looking at her still in shock.

“I-I’m Velocity. But how?”

“I can make clones of myself, copies of my body that do whatever I command them to. I'm alive as long as one of my clones is alive. What can you do?”

“I’m… fast” Velocity was still in shock at what had just happened. She was sure she had killed somebody!

“Great, you have super speed. That must be how you smacked me so hard. You know, it really hurt me. But it's okay now. Wanna go take a seat somewhere?” MP took Velocity by her hand without waiting for a response and dragged her off to a bench.

“How is that possible? You’re still alive! What kind of science…” asked Velocity.

“I don't know, it just happens” answered MP.

“But… how can you not know?”

“Well, how about you? How is super speed possible?”

“I… don’t actually know. I just woke up one day, and I could do it. It’s a long story.”

“Didn't you see me before on the news? I thought everyone knew that about me already”

“No, I didn't really care about the whole… superhero thing until I became one, which was very recent”

“Ah, I see. Would you like some water?” MP gestured towards a vending machine. Velocity nodded, clearly fatigued from the whole ordeal.

“Want me to get you some?” asked a voice coming from next to Velocity. Velocity screamed.

“Relax! It's my friend, she's invisible. Yes, please, get us some water, honey. Didn't you see the floating bandage?”

“Jesus, you're gonna kill me! And no, I didn't” exclaimed Velocity.

“No, no. You killed me” MP joked and leaned back on the bench. She looked to the side at Velocity. The girl was very tall. MP thought she must be older than her. MP’s friend came back with a water bottle and gave it to Velocity. She took a sip and gave the water bottle back.

“This is weird”

“Welcome to superhero-ing! How long have you been at it?” asked MP.

“Um, I had just gotten those powers like… two weeks ago? I think”

“So not long! Wow. Do you have an account already? On Opaque? The app should be on your phone. With a calculator icon! You should add me!”

“Oh, yeah, I noticed that. I wasn't sure what it was” Velocity took her phone out, it wasn't anything special. One of the newer models, black. She unlocked it, the wallpaper was the default one, the phone was clearly new.

Velocity navigated to the apps menu. What stood out most were two calculators. One next to the other. She clicked the one with the blue icon. What opened up wasn't a calculator at all. The name Opaque showed on the screen. a secret social media just for superheroes.

It appeared on Velocity’s phone when she got her powers. She doesn't remember downloading it. At first she thought it was a virus, that's why she'd gotten a new phone. But the weird app appeared on her new phone as well. Only recently she had opened it and realised what it actually was. She hasn't explored the app much though. MP took the phone from Velocity and navigated to the friends tab, she searched for her username and sent a friend request.

“There! Done! We can talk to each other now! How exciting!” MP stood up from the bench.

“So… what now? The robbers are caught. Is there something else we need to do?” asked Velocity.

“Nothing. Now we go and do whatever it is that we do in our boring daily lives. See you later” explained Pia and ran off.