Power.

Cary can feel it, he always feels it, pulsing through his blood and pounding in his chest. He's not quite sure when he started feeling it, but he knows it was sometime around last summer, last summer when the alien was let loose in Lillian and Cary and his friends were the ones to send it home. Maybe it was when the wall in the house they were taking shelter in exploded. Maybe it was when the water tower exploded. Maybe it was when the train exploded.

Everyone has a different opinion.

Martin likes to think it was the same explosion that made him break his ankle that gave Cary his unnatural abilities.

Joe says it might've been the explosives bursting into flame at the train crash that did it.

Preston, trying to think logically as usual, thinks that it was caused by being under the water tower and ultimately being so close to the alien's shape shifting cubes that might've radiated their power into him.

Alice says that maybe it was being so close to two people who had been touched by the alien.

Charles says nothing more than maybe Cary was born a freak, and all the excitement from that summer his powers show themselves.

And Cary? He honestly doesn't think about it much, the only thing he can think of is the rush of energy that he gets whenever his powers take over. Because he doesn't really know how to control them, and sometimes they act up at the most inconvenient of times. Like when they were doing a fireworks display one night high up on the hill overlooking the train station, and Cary made the fireworks explode without even touching them. Or the time they went to eat at the diner, and Charles made Cary so mad that every window in the building shattered into pieces.

Both times Cary was blamed by the adults, and both times they couldn't find any evidence that it was him. But he knew, and the others knew, that it was him, no matter how hard he tried to stop it. Because Cary was different, perhaps too different for a small town like Lillian, even a small town that had witnessed an alien attack just the summer before. And it was obvious that somehow his secret would get out somehow - and get out it did.

A/N: So, I know that was reeeaallyy short, but, you know, it's and introduction. What are you gonna do? By the way. It's not a love story, just a sci-fi adventure story. Just giving ya a heads up. It's about Cary, and he's got those powers like in the Titanium music video. You should probably watch the music video first. Also, I know other people have done things like this, but they always stop before really getting into it or they don't put as much detail or plot line into it as I would like. So I'm doing my own version. I'm not trying to copy off of anybody else's stories, don't worry. I'm sorry if my writing appears similar to anybody else's. Takes place a year after the events of Super 8. That's all. Enjoy!

-wolfstar