User blog comment:M(G)P/Alternate Universe Challenge No 6/@comment-5364175-20130223142703

A man named Jack was an unsuccessful inventor and wanna-be scientist living in New York with his wife and young son. But, one day, one of Jack's "experiments" (in which he would just poor chemicals in a jar and hope to make something) literally exploded in his face. He fell into a coma and was put in a hospital. His wife was worried that he would die, and tried to comfort their six-year-old son, Michael (whom Jack called Mikey). But, told his mom that he wasn't scared. He thought that his daddy would wake up with super-powers, and this was just his origin story, like the superheroes in his comic books. But, Jack never woke up, but twenty years later, his wife still hasn't pulled the plug on him. And, continually paying the hospital every month to keep him alive has absorbed all of her money, and she is about to file bankruptcy and lose her house. Desperate to find money for his mother, Micheal (now 20 years old) tries one of his father's old "experiments" to try to invent something. If the chemical Michael created works, it will give humans increased intelligence, based on the chemicals Michael used to make it. And, as men come to foreclose the house, Michael abandons his mother and runs to the hospital. He breaks into his father's room and feeds him the chemical. But, it doesn't work, and his father dies. Angry, Michael wants to kill himself, and thinks that if the chemical killed his father it will kill him, he drinks the chemical, but his brain is immediately augmented. The chemical worked on him. He kills the security guards at the hospital, and a nurse. And, he also kills the men foreclosing his mother's house, but she has a heart attack and dies. Michael realizes that the chemical is making him go insane. In order to control his rampage, he wears a bulletproof mask and kills criminals, using his increased intelligence to plan ways to kill them without combat, such as planting bombs and manipulating them to kill eachother. But, then he realizes that this could be his origin story, and he is a superhero, like the ones in his old comics. He continues causing criminals to be killed, and takes the name of the superhero he wanted his dad to be all those years ago: Super-Scientist.