overclocked chatpter 1: overclocked

I got out of my chair and went over to pet my cat. Suddenly I could not hear or move anything and then a voice spoke.

Let's play a game. The rules are simple. Out of the 8 billion of you, about 1/100,000 have been chosen and given some kind of power based on a few factors of your life, body, mindset, and relationships. Some of these powers can be quite similar to each other and some can be very strange indeed. The rest get nothing unless they meet someone with the powers and follow them. But that isn't a rule, it's just a fun fact. The rules are as follows

1 Non-enhanced people are not allowed to control enhanced If they try they will be killed

2 The new Enhanced individuals will have their thoughts twisted over time to certain extremes of their character

3 People who Follow enhanced individuals gain power depending on their devotion/love/trust/willingness to follow orders. This is not a slave contract though it can be and you have to be acknowledged by the enhanced not just some stalk. A quick Example is a girlfriend/boyfriend might gain power if they love an enhanced or a Soldier might gain power if one of their commanding officers is enhanced.

Now a small tip for all the people who don't want to follow anyone. Imagine it like a game of chess in which the enhanced individuals are queens and the people who follow them as pawns and might be upgraded to Castles or knights or bishops. You are less than a pawn unable to move or take pieces. If a piece runs over your square you are dead, just some collateral damage.

Now have fun it's a game after all

Now if you are still hearing my voice congratulations you are one of the enhanced. What's your power? who knows got to figure that out by yourself.

I got one more rule for you guys if you beat another enhanced you get their powers and they come back to life and must follow you every order and are like extensions of you.

My cat began moving, licking his paw unbothered by what had just happened, clearly having heard nothing. I sat down staring at my hand and I started thinking. I am one of the enhanced. I don't know what my powers are but I need to find out soon. I got up and grabbed my phone from the charger. Pulled up the calculator and divided 8 billion by 100 thousand. I got 80 thousand. I groaned thinking there were now about 80 thousand enhanced people who might want to kill me and use me as a slave.

I pulled up texts next and sent a message on the family group chat if anyone else had heard the voice. I Already knew it was real since as soon as I was able to move again I started a tingling sensation across my entire body. I knew that soon my Powers would activate for the first time. Sent a message to Nora asking her if she heard the voice and sat down on my bed to see what happened with my powers. Time freezes. I look around and my cat is still but this time I can still move I get up off the bed which still moves like a bed. I pick up one of my shoes and drop it and it slowly starts moving to the ground. I look back at my cat and he has moved slightly. Both are moving very slowly but they are moving so it is not completely freezing time. Suddenly my powers deactivate and I almost fall over grabbing the side of my bed. I steady myself. I somehow know it's been exactly one minute since I activated my powers for the first time.

I pull up the note app on my phone and start typing up the thing I know. I seem to have some control over time. I can slow it down but can not stop it completely. More Experimentation is required. what I did on my first attempt and seemed to be my maximum for slowing stuff down.

Time able to hold is 60 seconds my time. it tired me out but I feel better now

I pulled up the stopwatch on my phone and prepared the stopwatch on my watch and reached for the tingly sensation again. It felt weaker than the first time like when you go for the second or third set in a work routine. Hope it works the same as a muscle and the more I use it the stronger it will get. As it activates I focus on trying to slow down time to a two-second to one-second ratio instead of going all out. I hit start on both at the same time. Due to my phone being in my time for a couple milliseconds it doesn't look like it's exactly 2:1 but it doesn't really matter it's close enough for now. I'll have to wear gloves or control my power better so objects or people don't get pulled into my time flow when I don't want to. Though I don't even know if other people can be pulled in.

It has now been 30 seconds on my watch and 15 seconds on my phone. Without deactivating my power I try to slow down time more and it works compared to my watch and phone. It looks to be about 5:1. My watch now read 37 whereas my phone was at 17. Now let's push it to what it was when I first activated my power. 100:1 is what I can push it to for now. I put it back to 10:1 and write this up in my notes on my phone. It has now been 67 seconds since I activated my power for the second time I test the strain on my power and feel like at 10:1 I can hold it for 10 times longer than 100:1 meaning I can keep 10:1 for 600 seconds or 10 minutes and I can keep 2:1 for 50 minutes.