Most people only get one chance to experience death, but me... I experienced it three times before breakfast.
The first was a knife.
The second a gun.
The third was the moment I realized none of those things should've left me alive.
The knife did not bounce off like some kind of super-hero.
It went in deep, and William could feel the blade move deeper inside of his ribs before it punctured his rapidly beating heart.
Afterwards he fell to the ground as the two nervous men began searching through his things clearly robbing him but when they find nothing, they become irate, and the second robber pulls a revolver from his jacket and points it at William's face.
"Just a waste of time!"
He cocks the gun and aims the barrel directly under his nose before—
"BANG!"
He fires and the bullet shoots a hole through William's head, and they could see his brain matter falling in small heat seared chunks.
"Holy shit man, look at the mess you made hahahaha!"
The robber's friend lets out a cringy joke in utter disrespect of the dead before he suddenly notices something strange.
The flesh on William's face began slowly moving back into place along with the brain matter that was being visibly regrown.
"Sh... Shoot him again!"
The robber yelled but his companion didn't need any prompting as the sound of the flesh squirming turned his stomach.
"BANG... BANG... BANG... BANG... BANG!"
The robber emptied the revolver and turned William into what amounted to a bloody pulp sticking to the side of a building.
His head had long exploded, while his torso looked like a bloody slice of cheddar, bits of organ and bone lie everywhere, and it looked like the site of a gruesome cult ritual.
The two panic and begin running, the city was not a place to commit casual crime willy nilly.
"LLLets get out of here before they send omni-man on our asses!" The gun wielding robber puts away his gun and gets into the cab of a nearby car that they had parked for an easy getaway.
"YYeah... We don't want to end up like that guy he sent into orbit!"
They cringed remembering the news broadcast which showed the entire scene from Omni-man's capture of him to the man's futile but annoying resistance to Omni-man losing his patience and tossing the man into space, and the vivid image of the man floating in the void!
The two robbers visibly shivered as they took off into traffic and merged with it thinking they disappeared but in the shadows behind the two robbers a pair of dark gloved hands grasped the two by their mouths and pulled their struggling bodies into a strange portal leaving the car to crash into a nearby hydrant.
Back at the scene of the crime William's body continued to squirt blood and viscera from the various new orifices as a shadowy portal opens near him and the Superhero Darkwing steps out and begins hailing someone on the radio as he notices the still pulsing bloody pulp in the corner.
"Sir... we have a body... want me to bring it to medical and find out who he was?"
Darkwing waited patiently before receiving an affirmative response from the other side of his radio and he nodded in affirmation before striding forward towards the absolutely horrific scene of the crime.
"I hope the blood doesn't attract too many of the denizens of the dark!" He closed his eyes and offered a silent prayer to the body before him before forming a portal under both of them and disappearing.
As Darkwing traveled through the dark dimension he could hear the roars of the hungry beasts behind him and began moving in haste towards Guardian HQ and only just made it through the portal before a dark creature could snap at his foot.
A group of medical personnel were waiting for him to arrive and sighed in relief that they wouldn't have to regrow one of Darkwing's limbs again.
A female doctor with red curly hair and large glasses that made her round face all the more adorable approached with a group of nurses holding a gurney and scooped up the still pulsing remains of Williams corpse.
"He is still moving?"
She asked confused as a body shouldn't still be moving this long after death and Darkwing shrugged before answering.
"He was like this when I found him unfortunately!"
The female doctor sighed before pinching the bridge of her nose, the stress her work causes her is clear for all to see.
She eventually gestured for the nurses to bring the boy's body, and they eventually arrive at a lab where they begin running tests to get ahold of his identity in order to let his next of kin know of his demise.
However, when they put his blood under a microscope, they noticed that his cells were very much still alive.
"Impossible!" She and her colleagues seemed to think in unison
They only just then turned their heads to Williams body to notice that the wounds were now visibly closing which fascinated more than a few of them who had begun taking copious notes and recordings of the event.
They witnessed as his organs grew new tissues and regained functionality, while blood pooled in an almost gelatinous way before forming new muscle and bone leaving those watching in utter shock and awe as they watched.
Hours passed like seconds to them, and they did not care in the least as what they were witnessing could be described to be a miracle, they had even sent a report upstairs and a few of the guardians even showed up a few times to watch between missions and life.
It was second day he was at the facility in the dead of night when his green eyes snapped open and he stood up from his resting position with fury in his eyes.
He ripped the wires monitoring his vital signs off of his body and a silent alarm began sounding off to a group of people who thought that the HQ was being invaded by one of the villains.
"SLAM!"
William slammed through a metal door while clutching his head, "SO MUCH PAIN, I... I CANT... MAKE IT STOP!"
His internal thoughts were filled with pain and vivid images of a blast and lots of red, the last thoughts he had before dying that were fragmented and were forcibly rebuilt leaving his memory of the event shoddy at best.
He ran through a rather spacious hall silently screaming as he clutched his aching head before a woman in a strange translucent green suit that even covered her face appeared in front of him and tried to stop him by talking him down, but William was unable to hear anything yet besides garbled noise.
He eventually ended up running straight through her, so she called onto someone with some physical strength and a green goo-like substance suddenly appeared at William's feet slowing him down like quicksand and grasping onto his body with green tentacles to help stop his incessant struggle.
"Stop, young man... we are here to help you!"
William tries biting the green thing, but it does nothing but force the green alien creature to pin him to the ground as the female in the green suit approached to assist.
"I don't think he can hear us ghost!"
The alien spoke to the girl in an exhausted tone as he held down the young man who seemed to be calming down as his oxygen was slowly being reduced.
Eventually a team of nurses arrives and injects William in the neck with some kind of sedative, and he goes unconscious and limp in the green aliens hold allowing him to free himself of the boy.
As William falls unconscious his mind body and nerves continue to undergo healing, repairing his ability to hear and his order of memories, he could now remember quite vividly the scene of the gun being pointed at his face, the explosive mind-numbing pain and the world going dark after.
He soon woke up from his memories with a cold sweat on his face, the memories of being shot in the head clearly still filling him with trauma.
When his vision cleared, he could see a red headed doctor standing next to an older man who was sitting in a chair while staring at William with a stern and calculating gaze.
William's gaze flickered between confusion and pain as his eyes adjusted to the outside world, and he settled on the old man with a frown.
"He is clearly in charge here!" His thoughts swam incoherently.
His gaze somewhat hardened as he prepared for a potential verbal conflict before he asked.
"Who are you and where am I?"
He asked as he crossed his arms in an attempt to look tougher than any ordinary teenager, but this action only caused the two to chuckle at his expense which caused his face to begin turning red in embarrassment and then anger.
"These pricks!" He thought as his fists clenched tightly.
He shot up in a moment of defiance and lunged at the old man.
But before William could reach him, he is suddenly zapped by enough electricity to kill a normal man and knocked him once more unconscious.
The old man took a long drag of a cigarette before sighing in exasperation.
"If he keeps this up, he might receive brain damage, turn the current and voltage down a tad will you Dr. Davis?"
He asked the doctor next to him who nodded in understanding as the smell of burning flesh nearly caused her to retch.
After finishing the cigarette, the man seemingly teleports out of the room leaving the nurse struggling to move William back onto the bed as his burn visibly healed.
"Fuck you Cecil, you could at least help me lift the kid to the damned bed!"
Hours passed and William woke once again in the now familiar room filled with equipment to monitor his condition and other medical purposes, he couldn't quite fathom, sitting up cringed as he felt a sudden searing pain in his head but within a second the pain disappeared.
The sudden spike in his vitals alarmed the nurse nearby whose stiletto heels he could hear clacking against the linoleum floor.
"CLACK, CLACK, CLACK!"
The clacking grew louder and soon a tall, red-headed nurse with her hair up in a messy bun only held in place by a pencil.
William's eyes traced downward to her heart shaped face and her large glasses which had two sparkling blue eyes behind them and his heart lurched.
She wore a doctor's white coat that clung tightly to her sumptuous curves, past the white coat she wore a pair fancy looking stiletto heels which made her calves pop.
"My eyes are up here young man!"
A melodic, soft and clearly amused voice rang out and William realized that he had been checking her out this whole time.
"OH... oh... Sorry I was just not prepared for someone so cute!" He said, scratching the back of his head and messing up his bedhead further.
Her face turned red slightly, but her facial expression remained firmly professional as she took out a clipboard and the pencil from her hair causing the messy bun to fall and her curvy straight hair fell down past her shoulders.
"So can you tell me what happened to you?"
She asked as she fixed her eyes onto his which sent a chill down his spine, so he got straight to the point.
"Well, I was being kicked out of the orphanage due to being too old and I just happened to run into a duo of robbers who apparently took offense that I did not have anything to take, the rest only you can tell me!"
The doctor took down notes as he spoke and occasionally looked up to see his expressions before writing that down as well.
After William was done narrating his experience he couldn't help but look up and ask.
"Did you get the people that shot me?" He asked either unknowing or unknowing of his previous demise.
She nodded at him before explaining to him about how they were arrested and how he was found, mostly anyways, she left out that inside the dark dimension the one who had shot him had his leg eaten by one of the denizens of the dark and was in terrible condition.
After a few more minutes of questions, she was about to discharge William as he was in seemingly good health when suddenly—
"BOOOOM!"
An explosion rang out somewhere in the facility causing the lights to turn emergency red and thick metal shutters to close over the exit doors and windows.
William and the doctor were naturally stunned by the sudden blaring noises and only came to their senses when they heard the echo of footsteps moving towards them.
A group of soldiers in dark outfits appeared around the corner and the doctor immediately recognized them as soldiers from the order and began praying internally not to die.
She felt a firm hand hold onto her arm, and she looked up to see William standing in front of her with a determined yet obviously fearful look in his eyes and she couldn't help but think he was quite dashing.
However, she is soon brought out of her revery when the group of three soldiers each point their silenced sub-machine guns at William and one of them let out a single shot to William's leg in an attempt to keep him from interfering.
William grits his teeth as he felt the bullet penetrate his flesh and lodge itself into his femur bone and fell to the side knocking over a series of surgical instruments as the three soldiers approached and two of them took their positions on either side of the doctor before they began moving out.
They were unaware that the wound on William's leg was closing, and the bullet was slowly being disappearing, seemingly being eaten by the cells within his body.
His eyes snapped open, and he looked around to find a weapon and had to settle for a hack saw which would make do for a blade in a pinch and a pair of scissors.
Standing up from his position he stealthily approached the trio of soldiers and thanks to the echoing sound of gunshots and explosions they were unable to hear him when he got close enough to swing the hack saw at the neck of the soldier on the left.
"SPPPRRRTT!"
A ruby spray of blood sprayed outward from the gaping and uneven wound and onto the goggles of the soldier on the right causing him to let go of the doctor and begin firing off into random directions, unfortunately for him the first direction he chose was directly in front of him and he ended up blasting the soldier standing guard up front.
"BBBRRRRTT!"
The soldier up front was made more bullet hole than man and fell to the linoleum floor and created a large puddle beneath his quivering corpse.
Regaining his bearings he wipes the goggles clean from the blood and turns around only to find a pair of scissors directly in front of his vision.
"CRCK!"
The goggles shattered and a combination of sharp metal and glass end up lodged in his eye.
"BUBUUUBBUU!"
Blood fell from the man's face as he blubbered incoherently, clearly the scissors had penetrated brain matter but soon the soldier fell like doll with his strings cut before twitching on the floor for a few seconds and breathing his last.
William is about to grab the doctor's hand and rush to safety when he feels the cold barrel of a gun against the back of his head
He turns his head to find a chinese teenager in a lavender and black spandex unitard with the number one holding a strange high-tech pistol.
"THE ORDER SENDS ITS REGARDS!"
An evil smirk appeared on the teens face as he pulled the trigger.
"BANG!"
The casing of the bullet was struck and began launching toward William's face at a speed he could not see and before he could even think to dodge the bullet rips through the flesh on his forehead before tearing through his skull and turning his brain into strawberry flurry before exploding through the back of his head in a rain of crimson.
The teenager grabbed the doctor by the arm forcibly and before turning into two and grabbing her other side and begins to leave before through the sound of explosions and gunfire in the distance he can barely make out the sound of flesh mending together and looks back to find William with his skull still partially visible standing behind the clone on the right with his fist raised.
"POW!"
The fist connected as the teen was holding onto the doctor and had no way to block causing him to go tumbling across the room with a bloody nose while the other was preparing to shoot William once more, but the doctor he had been holding suddenly grabbed at his arm.
"TCH!"
The teen snarled and clicked his tongue before hitting the doctor with the butt of the gun causing a deep red and purple bruise to appear around her eye.
As he once more raised his pistol toward William who was charging at him, he realized he wouldn't have time to aim properly so he created a duo of clones that each grabbed one of
William's arms before pointing the barrel of the gun against his forehead.
"BANG, BANG, BANG!"
He shot three times into William's head causing his face to implode into a red and pink mess and the clones let him go to fall limply to the ground.
The doctor's eyes shook seeing him suffer so much and she hoped he would stay down this time.
Fortunately for her the teen who was holding onto her had begun moving once again until he reached a man in a green suit who seemed utterly suspicious.
As the teen approached, he nodded to the suited man who reciprocated the nod with one of his own before reaching out his hand toward the teens shoulder and suddenly they vanished.
It wasn't long before a group of GDA soldiers came rushing into the belated rescue followed closely by an angry old man who had a vicious snarl on his face that was only exacerbated by his facial scars, his eyes were full of fire, and he clearly wanted blood for this affront but soon his eyes fell onto William's corpse as the bloody wounds in his face and head slowly closed.
When William's body fully recovered Cecil ordered a few of the soldiers to carry him to his bed until he wakes up.
He would have questions for the young man when he woke up!
A concerned looking man wearing glasses who seemed to follow the older gentleman around suddenly asked.
"Cecil, sir, what do you plan to do with him, aft I mean?
The old man named Cecil took a long drawn out drag of his cigarette before turning to face him with a confused look on his face.
"What do you mean, he is eighteen isn't he?" Cecil paused letting the question sink in before finishing, "Give him a job application, at the very least he has proven to be resistant to dying!"