My Brother Stole My Power
In Vantage City, superheroes are ranked live on giant screens, and for six years the number one hero has been Zenith, golden, flying, adored. Kael Novak is his foster brother,....
In Vantage City, superheroes are ranked live on giant screens, and for six years the number one hero has been Zenith, golden, flying, adored. Kael Novak is his foster brother, his assistant, his punchline. Registered powerless. The Coffee Null. On the night Zenith is honored on the eighty-eighth floor of the Spire, Kael watches his girlfriend of three years accept his brother's proposal on stage. An hour later a bomb tears through the ballroom, fourteen people die, and Zenith, live on camera, throws Kael off the roof as the bomber. Kael falls eighty-eight floors. He lands in the plaza. He stands up. Gold light is crawling under his skin, the streetlights are dying around him, and high above, the city's greatest hero has just flickered in the sky. A teleporter in a stolen coat hands him a phone. The voice on it runs a refuge for unlisted powered people, and she makes him an offer: thirty days, one job a night, no questions, and on Ascension Day she will give him his brother in front of nine million people. Because everything Zenith is, he stole from Kael. And on Ascension Day, they plan to take the rest. Listen to My Brother Stole My Power, only on Pocket FM.