Intro 3

How would you like it if someone forced you to be a hero? Sure, it sounds great, but being a hero isn't all the movies make it out to be. Being a hero means giving up your life for others, putting your wants behind to serve, sacrificing your whole life in the hope that others will live a better life than yours. Of course, to many the cost is worth the outcome, but what if you were forced? Imagine that you had no choice- every day someone was dying in front of you, every day you had to stop what you were doing to fight. A better question is, how could you like it if someone forced you to be a hero? Well, forced heroism is my story. I have the ability to fly, so automatically the world decides that I need to spend my life in service. I can react faster than any human, so automatically I need to loose my life to save another. I know how to kill, so automatically I must do so. This isn't fair. Smart people aren't forced to make weapons, fast people aren't forced to carry messages, strong people aren't forced to operate machine guns. But if you have superpowers, you are forced to save lives. Why don't I fly away? Everyone knows me. Why don't I escape? Everywhere I go someone knows my face. Why do I just not save people? You try watching someone fall out of a building and do nothing. Believe me, people almost die every day in front of me. And though I'm not so heartless as to not save them, I am heartless enough to not want to talk to them. Or the press. Or the government. This is my life- I want to do what I want to do with it. But the fact is... I can't.