You're Crazy Ramon

"Training?" Max and Jessica chorused with confused looks on their faces.

"Yeah training, we gotta test how many abilities he has and what they can do" Ramon explained.

"Like now for example, we need to know what triggered his powers to activate" he added.

"Judging from the situation, it had to be triggered by a rush of adrenaline, fear from dying or fight or flight response" Jessica stated.

"Then in that case I got something to induce that" Ramon said walking to a metal beam.

"What on earth is he up to now" Max said.

"I have no idea" Jessica answered.

From behind the metal beam, he opened an Adidas kit bag and pulled out a Glock 18 scarring the other two.

"Ramon where did you get that" Max said shocked to the core, was his friend now part of the Italian mafia.

"Ramon put that thing down" Jessica ordered.

"I suggest you get out of the way" he told Jessica.

Jessica knowing her friend hurried over to a safe place behind a metal beam.

"Get ready Max" he said.

"What the hell!" Max said raising up his arms to cover his face.

Ramon pulled the trigger the bang from the gun going off echoing through the warehouse, the bullet now compressed fell to the ground meaning Max was bulletproof and his emotions were key to activating his powers. Max opened his eyes slowly realizing he was still alive and either he was injured, tanked the bullet or Ramon had missed the shot, he looked to the ground and saw that he indeed tanked the bullet.

"Now we know how indestructible you are" he said raising the nozzle of the gun up to his mouth and blew out the smoke coming out of it.

"Ramon are you mad?!" Max yelled.

"What you didn't die did you?" He answered putting the gun down.

"Where did you learn how to shoot and acquire that weapon?" Jessica asked him angered by his shear stupidity.

"Don't worry its my uncle's" he answered.

"Your uncle's?" Asked Max.

"Yeah, everyone in my family has a gun including me, I got my gun license a while a go" he said.

"You're mad, just to make that clear" Max said.

"I know, and the ladies like it" he said putting up a smile.

"Stop that Ramon" Jessica said squeezing her face with disgust.

"Now let's see how you handle a double barrel" he said turning to the bag.

"Ramon wait!!....." the two shouted.

******

They managed to stop him from bringing put more guns and went back to testing out more of Max's abilities. Ramon had setup his Bluetooth speaker earlier and began playing Eye of the Tiger by Survivor.

"How long did it take you to set all this up" Max asked.

"Five hours atleast, I was here from 7am" he answered.

"You don't get up that early for school" Jessica commented.

"Now that we have your powers active, punch that metal beam setup behind you" he instructed.

Max turned around to see a short metal beam setup alongside concrete and steel.

"Wow" he said.

"Strike it as hard as you can" Ramon said.

"So what is my purpose here?" Asked Jessica.

"Here" he said tossing his notepad over to her.

"I've listed out a number of possible powers he would have, your job is to tuck the ones he has and cross the ones he doesn't have"

She opened the book and was surprised at how much he had written down.

"Ramon, there has to be nothing less than 50 abilities you wrote down, are you sure we can test everything?" She said.

"Yes, anything is possible with Ramon. Now Max, proceed with the punching"

Max punched the metal beam with his hand going through it in one go, he moved over to the concrete and steel and made easy work of them, that was super strength down.

Next was speed and Ramon put his life on the line, he jumped down from some scaffolding left there hoping that Max would catch him, what faith he had. Luckily for him, his friend was fast enough for that, he propelled himself fast enough to catch Ramon before he became red paste on the floor.

"Ramon, you are hands down the craziest person I've ever met in my life" Max held his friend in both arms then set him down on the floor.

"It's not being crazy, it's faith, try it sometime" he said standing on his own now.

"Now we try heat vision" Ramon said.

Max focused his best to blast a concrete slab but nothing happened, for a solid ten minutes he tried and ended up enhancing his vision to point of seeing the sand particles and cement composition of the slab then went down to their atoms. He raised his head frightened by the sight and looked out through and opening scanning through the forest all the way to a bird landing on a tree kilometers away.

"Wow" Max said.

"What" Jessica asked.

"Just saw the molecular and atomic composition of that slab and a bird landing on a branch on a tree kilometers away" he explained.

"I call enhanced vision" Ramon said delighted.

They tried sonic scream and Max shouted at the top of his voice for five minutes with nothing happening, they moved on to test his enhanced reflexes to the point of catching a bullet from hitting his chest. They tried lightning and fire abilities which failed, night vision was a success being able to see on the infared spectrum of light as he saw clearly through a cave that took them twenty minutes to get to after Max located it with his enhanced vision. Magic, ice and water manipulation, telekinesis, telepathy, ability to talk to animals, portal opening, etc were all tested and he failed woefully. The ability to talk to animals got him in trouble with the bats from that cave but since his skin couldn't be pent rated by their claws, he had nothing to worry about, the same could be said for the others, the last on their list was flight as it was now 6pm. Max super jumped to the top of the roof and awaited further instructions from Ramon and Jessica standing next to the car outside.

"What do I do now?!" He asked cupping his palms around his mouth so that they could hear him.

"Now you fall and hope something happens that you catch yourself" Ramon replied doing the same thing so that he could help him.

"What?! That's crazy" he answered.

"Do it so that we can go home" Jessica said exhausted from all the test recording she had done.

"Just fall man, you won't break anything" he said.

Max took his words and dropped from the top of the warehouse and kept on saying to himself that he could fly and strained his body to start flying, he didn't slow down on his decent and the two got worried but just as he was about to hit the ground he stopped centimeters from crashing. He opened his eyes excited like everyone else that he could fly, he slowly moved himself into a standing position and was proud.

"Don't get too cocky that you can fly now" Jessica warned.

Max didn't care and hovered around evening doing spirals and loops though he was slow because he was still learning.

"Quiet Jess it's all good" he said now thirty feet in the air above them.

"What's the worse that could happen?"

Instantly he stopped flying and plummeted to the ground to the cementing the hilarious moment in their minds.

******

They were done testing for the day and packed up with Ramon getting his weapons and equipment without any help. He was allowed to drive them home now with Jessica comfortable that Max would save her if they were to die, just as they turned onto the road, Ramon hit the gas hard making the car accelerate quickly making their hearts race then he pulled the gear from drive into gear two making the engine cry loudly as the rpm needle was in the red and he swerved from left to right before putting the gear back on drive. They both had their hearts in their mouths thinking they were going to die.

"Damn you Ramon!" Jessica said hitting him on the head multiple times from the back seat.

"You're lucky my powers are still active or I would've slapped you" Max added raising his hand to slap him but stopped in the air.

"There's nothing to worry about, we're still alive" he said with a light chuckle.

They made it home in one piece thankfully and discussed ways for Max to try so that he could trigger his powers, the obvious way was to try to recreate how he felt when he was about to get shot or facing Warthog which was their favorite way unlike Ramon who suggested he jumped of a building very time he was to go super. Hopefully he wouldn't need to use his powers for anything more but that wasn't likely with Ramon around.

******

The past two weeks were stressful with Ramon suggesting hero names and things he should start doing to get ranked on the hero board which he wasn't buying, all he wanted to do now was to sleep in on Saturday before having to deal with his baloney but even that wasn't happening. At 9 in the morning, he had someone banging on his room door much to his annoyance as he had just bought a Camaro in his dream. He got out of bed sluggishly wearing his wine and tracked black stripped boxers for clothes and went towards the door.

"This better be worth waking me up from buying a Camaro" he said rubbing his eyes.

He opened his door and Ramon barged in.

"Ramon what has happened this time?" He said with a sleepy voice as he yawned.

"It's big, really big" Ramon said pacing up and down his room.

"What's big?" He asked.

"A huge mech about a hundred and twenty feet tall is attacking the city" he explained almost having a panic attack.

"So? Let the other heroes handle it" he said walking back to his bed.

"That's the thing they can't, you think Night is going to break through that thing's armor with his batons or Ravage cut through the metal with his widespread fire arms? Oh no they can't and the other two, Water Woman and Boulder Bowler are out of town lending a hand to some people in Texas after Hurricane Noah caused so much destruction" Ramon explained.

"So what do you want me to do, jump onto the scene in my regular clothes?" Max said.

"That's where Jess comes in" Ramon said.

"You've got to be kidding me" he said.

He found himself in Jessica's basement with a black suit with a cape being presented to him that she had sewn.

"How long were you in on this?" Max asked.

"As soon as we were done with your testing, Ramon and I came up with your suit with him paying the bills of course" she said.

"The things you guys do" he said.

"Now hurry asked get it on, we have no time to waste, they've already started calling other heroes to come help" Ramon said.

Max got down to his underwear quickly infront of Jessica who had seen them in their underwear many times so it was natural for her. He put on the suit, it had a black cape from behind and was red from the inside, the rest of the black suit had the same grey on it like like the "M" on his chest, his foot wear, cloth like bracelets that ended like a 'V' all the way to the middle of his forearm and around his waist was a grey band.

"Guess we're going with Maverick huh" Max said.

"You know it" Ramon said.

"Don't forget to give a different persona in the suit, you have to behave differently like be more confident and be smarter" Jessica told him.

"Are two saying I'm dumb?" He said.

"Not really, just that you're more laid back and ignorant as Max but be vigilant, alert, bold, brave, daring and courageous when you are Maverick" she explained.

"Okay I understand" he said with his voice now taking a different tone.

"Looks like our boy is getting in character" Ramon said happily.

They walked out to the backyard where Max clenched his fists tight and focused his mind on activating his powers, he envisioned it as a switch that he had to flip to trigger it but it was harder than he expected as the switch was hard to flip.

"Come on Max, we don't have time" Ramon said.

"I'm....try....ing....." he said gritting his teeth.

At last after five minutes, he was finally able to flip the switch on his own trying his best to recreate the former scenarios. His eyes opened revealing that they had gone red and he stood upright with his muscles becoming more defined and toned as well as the buff look.

"I'm off" he said raising his head into the sky and closed his eyes.

He took a deep breath to calm himself, 'I can do this, it's just flying' he said it his mind.

Just like the sound of lightning striking the ground, he shot into the air faster than a bullet almost disappearing from the eyes of his friends and alarming the neighbour's alarming they thought something tragic had happened.

"Is everything alright?" And old grey haired woman said from her window.

"Everything is fine Mrs Flint" Jessica answered with a smile.

"Let's get to the news and see if they show Max, I mean Maverick" Ramon said.