Power

The story begins with the five directors of the Powered Individuals Institute (PII) of Wargold, the Dwerrocentric Union of Wargold (DUW) came to power in Wargold and prevented the research, development and use of powered individuals. The Union managed to advance their eugenics policies by spreading fear that there was nothing to stop Powered Individuals from attacking and ruling the Empire through fear. 
== Birth and escape from the DUW ==
This leads to the day Power is born in the PII, much to the pleasure of the scientific community as Power is the first Dalmer to be born with a natural tolerance to the Mega Virus’ I to VI. 
The entire scientific community is ecstatic of the success until they receive word from the DUW that further research is to be halted and any assets to be taken under their control. The DUW sends its minions the next day, only for the PII to submit their research and equipment, but refuse to submit Power, as he “isn’t an asset but a citizen of the Empire”. Fearful of what the DUW would do with Power, one of the directors of the PII kidnaps Power that very night. They escape aboard a Colossus jet when they are interrupted mid flight by turbulence and Powers falls into the city streets of Colocktos, where he is found in a crater by Police bots and brought to a daycare.
== Growing up ==
Power grows up challenged by his incredible strength and various powers, finding it difficult to fit in with other people despite their care and nurturing. He one day goes to see his life records and learns he was found in a crater as a baby. The four year old Power then decides to travel to the visions department to receive the recordings of what the police bots found to determine his origins. The visions come to Power and analysis tells Power that he came from the PII (as written on the hyperbaric chamber) and someone stole him from there. Since information is restricted under the DUW, he learns that he must prove himself a loyalist of the party before he can access information on what the PII is and what they know of Power. Power, under the guise of leaving the daycare for vacation with his family goes to find the PII, he is accompanied by Phactotum. Phactotum is an unhappy state provided proxy parent who has lost many of his wards due to poor empathy, and decides to take on Power as his final attempt to obtain his license as caretaker and familial. Since warping is forbidden for youth, the pair must travel to the PII by physical means on a four day journey.
== Phactotum and Grelon ==
After traveling for a day with Phactotum, they cross an Adventurer (who calls herself Grelon) in distress from a centaur. Phactotum is quickly dispatched by the hooves of the creature, as is Grelon. A terrified Power barely succeeds in strangling the creature to death, but his stomach is torn open by the centaurs tamed human turret, whom Powers rips apart using pressure beams. 
Phactotum reboots and rushes to his side, and is surprised when a blue glow heals Powers’ injuries. Grelon returns to the forest where she was sent flying by the centaurs backhand, she is revealed to have sold her soul to Bleakers in order to save her life; and now Grelon is attempting to build a petition to outlaw Dalmer based power sources so that she herself will not become a power source when she dies. The pair realize that they could use the help of the Adventurer along the way, and the three agree to travel together to Colocktos.
== Ambush at Heave ==
When Powers status is updated the DUW are made aware of his origins and the trickery of the PII. The DUW leader of Colocktos is ordered to discreetly eliminate him and plots to murder Power. 
When the three arrive at Heave, a small town, Powers and Phactotum try to gather information on the PII, and Grelon tries to spread dissent against the DUW. The Bleakers (under orders from the DUW) send a gorilla-esque mechanimal to silence her. Grelon tries to kill the Mechanimal by slicing off its appendages, but its liquid metal skin makes the limbs grow back in their place. After a lengthy battle, Power arrives and prevails by using his strength to cause a landslide, crushing the mechanimal and killing it. Grelon survives, albeit badly bruised and wounded. However, the victory earns them the respect and support of the people of Heave after their earlier doubt and ridicule of her convictions. Grelon and Powers soon become local celebrities as a result. 
Realizing that their plans are jeopardized, the DUW leader, via the Bleakers blackmail Grelon to discover Powers' weakness, promising to free her of her contract in return. 
== Rise and Fall ==
Power is disappointed to learn that his status as a celebrity still doesn’t allow him to access the information he wants, and then spends the time and day venting his frustrations at Phactotum (who leaves when Power implies that he is a failed caretaker and familial) and Grelon, who doubts that she will be able to betray her young friend. When her Bleaker handler demands an update, she turns against him, she accepts her fate and refuses to betray Power, much to the DUWs' dismay.
Phactotum learns of Grelon's involvement with the Bleakers and, thinking she works for them, tries to warn Power, telling him that Colocktos will be a deathtrap, but Powers ignores Phactotum, knocking him unconscious and carrying the proxy parent on his back before continuing to Colocktos. Unfortunately, through this, the DUW realizes that Phactotum is Powers' weakness, as a minor he cannot travel without his proxy parent. The DUW leader shows himself to the youth, interrupting Powers' trek, snaps his fingers, making Grelon appear, tied up, gagged and at knifepoint of the Handler. 
He uses Grelon to get Power to give up Phactotum for twenty-four hours, though Power adds the condition that Phactotum doesn't get hurt in any way. Grelon shakes her head frantically, trying to convince Power not to make the deal, but he does not listen. When the Handler sets Grelon free, the DUW leader spitefully tells Power that she had betrayed him all along. Crushed, Power loses the will to find out the truth of his origins.
However, Power doesn’t kill Grelon, despite the Handler saying that he will never be able to leave the daycare again if he doesn’t return with the proxy parent.
== The Heavy Hands ==
Suddenly, a militant force, calling themselves the Heavy Hands arrive and attack the DUW leader and the Handler, hoping to kidnap and leverage them against less DUW presence in Wargold.
In retaliation, the DUW leader summons dozens of PIP’s and Police Bots to quell the insurrectionists. Power, in an emotional outburst destroys half the robots by using mysterious beams of energy he fires from his hands and feet while levitating. Distraught, the Handler and the DUW leader warp in Bleaker footsoldiers and an RSP on the insurrectionists. 
Grelon fights the RSP alongside Power, but quickly finds that he is doing fine on his own with his newfound beam power. Grelon finds and unties Phactotum, persuading him to come back and help save Power from his bloodlust. Power finishes off the tough RSP, but just as a pillar is about to crush Power, Grelon pushes him out of the way, saving him because "people will find a way to use your powers.". Grelon however does not survive the pillars weight.
As a result, the deal is done and Grelons’ soul is captured within a soul gem. Power and Phactotum then fight off the Bleakers attempting to recover the soul gem. They are overrun as Phactotum is captured along with the gem by bleakers who escape to the regional Bleaker Power Plant. Power arrives, leaving destruction and madness in his wake and demands Grelons’ soul gem and Phactotum be returned. The DUW leader shows him that Grelon is currently trapped in the power grid, a river of souls where all the gems are stored until they are to be used. The DUW allows Power to trade his services for Grelon's not to be used, hoping to return Grelon's gem to the revolutionaries before he is killed. The DUW leader, sensing opportunity to be rid of both his problems at once, agrees. Power jumps in and successfully returns the soul gem. The DUW leader tries to talk his way out of the situation, but Power grabs him, flies to a great height and drops him to his death. 
== Leaving Welt ==
Power frees Phactotum who tells him that it isn’t necessarily a kindness to spare Grelon from the pain of being used as energy, as she is in pain just from being captured into the gem. Despite being moved by the proxy parents words, Power keeps the gem and they both head to Colocktos, where their entrance is denied by Police Bots as they aren’t members of the party like the other inhabitants. Uncharacteristically, Power chooses to stay outside and wait, which the Police Bots grant. Power is then acclaimed a hero by the Heavy Hands and inhabitants of Colocktos as it is revealed the DUW is no longer in charge of the Region.
When the festivities die down several days later, Power visits the crater where he was found with Phactotum and Grelon. Then he visits the PII, whose files were put back in their place thanks to the Provider program reinstating the academic field. He meets the newly reinstated site directors who tell him of his extraordinary potential as a powered individual. Dissatisfied with the reveal that he is simply the result of viruses and a test tube, Power leaves with his friends and levitates into space. 
== Aftermath ==
Years later, Power is on a satellite orbiting the moon, with Grelon serving as AI for his base and Phactotum as his caretaker. Phactotum is working on a hyperbaric chamber and Grelon asks Power if it is necessary. Power answers that his strength doesn’t allow him to interact with the world, so he must await when a time comes that he can. And without another word, the powered individual lay into his hyperbaric chamber, and awaits the moment the Empire will have need of him again.
== Notes ==
Power's story continues in the story The Moon. 
The Dwerrocentric union of wargold opposes research on powered individuals, who were experimented upon with Mega virus I to VI. 
The empire made use of Police bots and Phactotum units. 
Centaurs had developed the tactic of carrying humans on their backs as natural turrets.
Bleakers buy souls from people under the rule of the DUW.
Gorilla esque mechanimal with liquid metal skin capable of replacing lost limbs. 
First appearance of the Heavy Hands, an insurrectionist group that opposes the DUW. 
First appearance of the Regional Bleaker power plant
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