[ WP ] You live in a world where every person receives a superpower on their 18th birthday . You eagerly count down the seconds then shriek in horror as you are given a power no one would ever want to be stuck with .

Entering the assembly hall, I looked amongst the cheap plastic chairs and spotted my group of friends in the crowd. Awkwardly squeezing past people, mumbling sorries and excuse me's, I sat down with them. 
 
 We were facing a large raised stage, lectern in the middle with teachers sat towards the back of the stage. A large digital clock counting down. 15 minutes remained. A dour faced man in a cheap suit stood up to the lectern. 
 
 
 *cough* *cough* `` Hello assembled students, I am Mr. Robertson with the IPCC. I am here today because several of you are going to receive your powers today. I assure you, this is normal. Your bodies will be changing, hormones raging. Some of you will change at different rates to others. This is all perfectly normal.'' 
 
 
 He shifted awkwardly, adjusted his papers and continued. 
 
 
 `` Take a look at the clock above me. When that hits Zero, the solar flare will hit and the excess of radiation will start the mutation of your cells. This you should know from your biology classes. Now, each of you will fit into a category. The most common of these is strength, I myself am part of this category. A lucky few of you will become fliers, or have increased speed.'' 
 
 
 The students hearing this murmured excitedly, wondering what they or their friends who's birthday it was powers would manifest themselves as. Everyone stared at the clock, one minute remained. That must have been the longest minute of my life. Heck, I was lucky to even be in the Super-Powered gene pool. My mother had never developed powers, and that drastically reduced my chances of developing them. 
 
 
 10.9.8 
 
 
 My palms started to sweat 
 
 
 7.6.5 
 
 
 A ball of tension tightened in my gut 
 
 
 4.3.2 
 
 
 This was it. 
 
 
 0. 
 
 
 I braced.. waiting for.. anything? I could n't feel anything different about me? I turned to my friend `` Hey. mmmgarharh'' Out of my mouth flowed spiders. Large, small, hairy creepy. Spiders everywhere. Standing up I writhed in panic, spiders flying everywhere I turned. Leaping from the stage, the man who was delivering the address landed on top of me forcing my mouth shut. 
 
 
 `` Sorry kid, but.. `` 
 
 
 He gently caressed my face, then snapped my neck. In the last moments of my consciousness all I could hear was `` Nope nope nope nope nope^nope^^nope''
