You were interested and eager to try your new powers, though you had a slight reservation about taking something someone else had worked for.
The smartest thing you could think to do would be to do more quests and ensure you could never lose your abilities. then you would feel secure that you would always have something to fall back on. The idea of two absorbers interacting with one another was intriguing, but you don't want to be the looser of that battle.
You clicked on an exclamation point looming over your head and the quest popup came.
"Mandatory quest. This quest cannot be declined and will auto start in 0:08 seconds.
Goal: Survive
Optional Goal: Keep your family alive"
Horror washed over you, what have you done? Why didn't you pick an offensive ability?
The doorbell rang. You lept from your chair, bounding out of your room to the stairs, where you saw your mom at the door. "NO!" you screamed as the door opened a crack. She looked back at you startled. you were half down the stairs when whoever was on the other side kicked the ajar door open and sending your mom careening too the floor. An adult sized person dressed in all black, complete with ski mask and gloves stepped inside.
"MOM" you screamed as you jumped off the stairs at the intruder. You hit him with all your weight hearing an ear piercing noise and both of you went flying out the door and falling off the three steps of your small cement porch. You landed on the man and rolled off them, breaking most of your fall.
You tried to move but your abdomen was on fire, your mom was screaming and porch lights were coming on. You pushed through the pain, trying to press the attack until you noticed the gun in his gloved right hand.
You've been shot! You can feel your body weakening and the pain is growing as your body is realizing how severely its been injured. As you look at the man you notice for the first time he has an aura, he's got some kind of super-powers.
Only a foot or two away from him, you grab his left hand and remove his glove, tossing it aside. He seems to have been temporarily disabled from the fall, though you suspect, you were injured much more... maybe he has a power that could help keep you alive. You grasp his hand instinctively knowing how to activate your powers, parts of his aura fade, you count to ten, lift your hand off his then do it again.
He begins to move, and you hold tightly to his hand, he sits up, taking stock of where he is and what's happened. He looks at you seeing the stain growing on your shirt. "No, no, no, kid, no." He sounded genuinely sad that you were injured. He leaned over you looking on in horror at the damage he had caused, "Hang in there buddy, help is coming." You took his hand and placed it over your wound, and then lost consciousness.