5 Fastest Man Alive

The world slowed down. Trent was shocked out of his mind by his view. The world looked extremely dull. It looked as if the light had not gotten to the environment yet. Trent looked around himself and saw the collapsing tree. Something in him invigorated him, giving him new energy he didn't have a second ago. Even the injuries he had only minutes ago didn't hurt anymore.

Taking this opportunity, Trent flipped past the falling debris and ran down the falling tree.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! HOLY SHIT!" With the overflowing energy, came an uncontrollable excitement. Looking around at the wolves, he noticed that they couldn't move as fast as he could. They couldn't even keep up with his movements.

Rushing to the nearest wolf, Trent clenched his hands together and dropped his fists down on it's skull. The wolf smashed down head first into the ground, leaving a print in the ground and pulverizing it's skull. Before the other wolves could react, Trent spun and kicked the next wolf in the ribs, punting it into a nearby tree, causing it and the wolf to split in half.

With the scent of it's brethren's blood, the black wolf looked confusedly, in the direction of the first wolf, only to see a second wolf launched through the crowd. Anger was clear in it's eyes as an oppressive aura covered the area, causing the exhilarated Trent to stop. The aura was so heavy, Trent could feel his breathe stop for a minute.

The black wolf approached from behind the startled group of wolves that finally realized what was going on. Just before the wolves turned to pounce on Trent, the black wolf howled ferociously, stopping the other wolves from attacking and making them move away from Trent, opening a path for their leader.

Seeing the wolf approach him, Trent decided to attack it first. So with his new abilities, Trent launched himself at the wolf. An explosive sound and shockwave blew the surrounding wolves, who backed away a few feet, even further. Approaching the wolf, Trent launched a fist at it's head but, unlike the expected crunch of bones, he only struck air.

Before he could process his confusion, Trent's spider senses immediately to danger coming from his side. Trent pushed of with full force to his right, just missing him. As he turned, Trent saw the black wolf towering over him. The wolf crouched and launched at Trent like a speeding bullet.

'I'll be damned if I lose in speed with these powers!' Trent crouch in a running pose and, as lightning appeared in the whites of his eyes, Trent launched himself at the wolf, not backing down at all. The area around the two was thrown into chaos, as trees shattered and the other wolves suffered injuries from the aftershock of the two's speed.

Pushing himself past the limit, Trent moved even faster, surprising the black wolf and himself as he struck first. Putting all his power into his fist, Trent sent an uppercut to the wolf's chin, pulverizing it and sending the wolf ten feet into the air.

"Hahaha- OH FUCK!" Just as he was feeling extremely happy, an intense pain shot up his arm. Looking down, his hand was bending in the wrong direction. It seemed that he dislocated his wrist. A wave of nausea hit Trent and he immediately puked.

A loud thunk was heard as the body of the black wolf landed a little ways away, unmoving. It was very much dead. With the death of their leader, the other wolves of the pack dispersed quickly, trying to get away from the human that killed their leader bare handed. Seeing the wolves scatter like roaches, Trent let out a breath he had been hold since he snapped his wrist. Being attracted back to the main problem at hand, no pun intended, Trent held his breath again before grabbing his wrist and snapping it back into place. Although his wrist was pushed back into place, the pain didn't go away, but instead intensified.

"Shit! The movies made it look so easy! How do they just shrug this kind of thing off like nothing?" With his wrist fixed and his healing abilities from the Flash and Spider-Man working their magic, Trent looked around him at the mayhem he caused. All the wolves had long since left the area, not even bothering to pick up their dead brothers. Along with the corpse of the leader and the two wolvesTrent killed, there were three additional wolf corpses that didn't get out of range of the battle in time. The place was chaotic, with trees uprooted from the ground and dug out parts of the ground from wolf claws and from his own feet.

"Oh." Looking down, Trent realized that the environment wasn't the only thing that was destroyed. His shoes were burned out at the soles, showing the bottom of his feet. It seemed his socks were eaten through as well. The pants he had on until now became raggedy shorts and the cut apart shirt he had on was nowhere to be seen. He hadn't even noticed when it came off but, he did notice that he now had a six pack and well defined muscles on his body and chest.

'Well something good came out of this.' Flexing his new muscles and doing body building poses, something else was very irritated.

[Have you learned nothing about being idle in a forest? You trying to get killed?] Bernie, with a voice different from his usual, shouted, breaking Trent out of his bout of self-admiration.

"Shit man, you don't have to be so loud. And what happened to your voice? You sound like a teen going through puberty." Trent kicked off the destroyed shoes and took of the 'shin guards' that used to be socks. His new look gave off the feel of a wild man.

[I'm trying something new, but anyway, go get the crystals from their heads.]

Doing as he was told, Trent approached the wolf leader first. Seeing it's head, Trent had another urge to puke. The leader's snout was impaled by it's bottom row of teeth. Even the snout was bent up. It was a gruesome sight indeed.

[Oh quit being a bitch. You kicked one wolf in half and smashed the other's brain into mush!]

"Yeah but that was in the heat of the moment! Now that I'm not running on adrenaline anymore, that shit is nasty as hell!" Pushing past the disgust, Trent went to the back of it's head and knelt down. Using his comic book knowledge, Trent used his recently fixed hand and vibrated it, causing it to blur.

'Just as cool as the comics.' Pushing the vibrating hand into the back of the wolf's skull, Trent fished around and immediately snatched the jewel out of it's skull. It was a green jewel the size of his fist.

Putting the jewel into his pocket, went and did the same thing to the other five wolves. The other wolves' jewels were not as big as the black wolf's and their jewels were grey. Curious about their colors, Trent decided to ask.

"Hey Bernie, what's up with the coloring?'

[It shows their element. Like the black wolf was using the wind ability while the other wolves were using the lightning ability. And lightning is that cloudy grey. The size of the crystal shows the strength of the beast.]

"I thought you said you needed to access the knowledge of this place to know stuff? Otherwise you wouldn't be so useless."

[That cause i used common sense. If the strongest of the beast had the largest crystal, then it's would be obvious that size denotes strength. And the color was just game knowledge I found in your head. I thought you were dumb but not this dumb.]

Mentally flipping Bernie the bird, went to absorbing the green crystal.

[Which power do you want to upgrade with this?]

"Put it in my flash powers!" With his decision, the green in the crystal drained into his hands, causing it to dull before crumbling. Pulling out his phone, that for some reason was still in his pocket, Trent looked at his flash powers for the first time.

The Flash:

Beginner: Speed Force Access, Max Speed- Mach 1

Intermediate: Speed Force Generation (Minor), Max Speed- Mach 2

With the upgrade to intermediate, Trent could feel even more energy rush into his body. Deciding to try to get as far as possible, Trent grabbed one of the grey crystals. As he tried to absorb them, he was met with Bernie in his head with another change in voice.

[Unfortunately, little host, these crystals aren't strong enough to use on your powers. You need a crystal that equals the power of the ability, no more and no less.]

"First of all, little host? Who do you think you are? Talking to me like I'm some pet here for your amusement. You better get that shit straight. You need me just as much as I need you." Trent was angry. In fact he was pissed. That was one of his pet peeves. He hated being talked down to by others.

[Oh? I can always find another host]

"Yeah, when I'm dead and I don't plan on dying anytime soon. Now, on to more important business. What can I do with these jewels?"

[You can turn them into crystals to spend on the system.]

"Oh, TIP is back. How do I do that?"

[TIP?]

"Teen-In-Puberty. Don't ignore the question man come on."

[Just put it on the phone and I'll do the rest.]

Doing as advised, Trent let the phone absorb all five jewels, giving him a total of 500 crystals.

[Host! This mighty system advises you to spend some crystals on clothes that won't burst into flames while host is running! Although host may have very strange hobbies, pneumonia is a very serious sickness!]

'And normal Bernie is back.' Not responding to the system, Trent went through the equipment tab of the store. The iconic outfits and even some gear from heroes were there, like iron man's Mk1 suit which cost a full 20,000 crystals and Spider-man's web shooters which cost 5,000 crystals. Both were were out of his price range and they were not necessary at the moment. He even found the Flash's outfit, but a onesie was not on his list of clothes to wear.

Going further and further down the list, he finally found what he was looking for. There were normal clothes that wouldn't catch fire when he ran and wouldn't hinder his movement. It was a pair of running shoes with close fitting blue jeans and a tight, long-sleeve and grey workout shirt. The outfit even came with it's own pair of underwear and a undershirt. The whole set cost 400 crystals. His hard earned crystals were mostly spent almost immediately.

With his new outfit on, Trent felt refreshed. A new feeling coursed through his brain him as a new goal opened up to him. With new determination Trent crouched down in a running pose as lightning flowed in the whites of his eyes.

"Uurgh."

And fell flat on his face.