Admin wrote: Matthew's eyes slowly opened. He glanced around and sat up, rubbing his head. "What?" His voice was echoing and he had no idea where he was.
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"Oh God....emergency room! Get this kid to the emergency room now!" The doctor yelled as they wheeled Matthew to the emergency room as fast as they could.
"Flannery? Dinah? Hank? Guys?" He looked around the room. "ANYBODY?!" He ran his hands through his hair. This was weird. Weird and creepy. The last thing he remembered, New York was beating his face in and now he was here completely healed. Was he captured? And if so, why was in street clothes instead of his tattered costume or a prison uniform? Hell, why bother sparing him? Matthew saw a hallway that wasn't there a moment ago. He walked into it cautiously, figuring he wouldn't get any info just standing around here.
Matthew walked the hall. It was blank and white just as the room was. As he walked, he started to see something form in the walls. It went from simple lines in the walls to a box, to starting to show pictures and finally paintings. It took Matthew a few minutes to recognize the paintings were of him, first as an infant and chronicling his life as he grew up. Infant, small child, older child, early teens, high school, the stabbing, his healing, the superhero life, all the way up until the fight with New York. At the end he bumped into a door and it opened up automatically and Matthew fell into an empty field. "Ahhh, oh smooth." He dusted himself off and looked around, there was no sign of the doorway he fell through. Matthew looked up and saw a clear blue sky. "What the....what is going on?!" The strangest part was that his voice was still echoing.
"Need a hand?"
Matthew looked up to see a woman in black.
He hesitantly accepted her hand up. "Okay, who are you and where am I?"
"Ohhh Matthew, you know me very well."
"I...do?"
"Oh yes, I've had my eyes on you ever since your stabbing."
Matthew backed away. "H-how did you know about that? Who are you?"
"Matthew. I know everything. Because I am everywhere."
"That's...nice."
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"Oh God..."
"What is it doctor?"
"We can't pierce his skin. He's meta."
"Turn on the generators!" The nurse called out.
With the generators on, his powers were turned off. It was a feature that used in the Exodus City hospitals and several others in case a patient had invulnerable skin and they needed to operate. The ones in Exodus had been paid for by AureliCorp. "Alright, let's get to work on this kid!"