[ WP ] You are a member of a superhero team . You 've just frozen time seconds before your entire squad gets killed , and there is nothing you can do to change that .

Pointless. 
 
 I look away from the console. We have won, you see. Doktor Insanico's Time Bomb threatened to freeze the whole world in time. We managed to contain it, to stop the Tau-0 field. But not before the mad bastard turned on the inner security system. I turn the machine off and they die. Just like that. Hell, I only lived because I was at the controls. 
 
 I look at my soon-to-be-fallen comrades. Brothers and sisters in arms. 
 
 Rob `` Diver'' Young. Liked to look tough on camera, flexing muscles and all that. Nobody knows he has a tiny pet octopus and enjoys watercolour drawings. Enjoyed. All those fangirls tossing panties and all you wanted was a lady to walk on a beach with. Wonder how long will they cry. 
 
 Shinead `` Hell's Belle'' MacCartney. You'been trough more than all of us, have n't you? Quiet orphan girl, so much fire in speech, so much cold in the eyes. To think you just started to warm up to us. We were going to throw you a birthday party next week. Funny how things are, eh? Geezus. 
 
 Sergey `` Pecheneg'' Kipelov. Never really got along, you and I, have we? Did you even have powers? Diver thought you a supersoldier. You thought yourself guilty of something. I respected you, not that I'd ever admit it. At least now you will know peace. 
 
 Fei `` Steel Butterfly'' Lo. Probably not pronouncing it right, even now. How long has it been? Month? Two? Getting caught in all that on just a third mission. For what it's worth, I am sorry. 
 
 It is all my fault. A second faster and you would all be alive. And now, I can see bullets halfway in your flesh, suspended, frozen. 
 
 I think of others. Running Thunder. Kid Koma. Thornside. Maverick. Elevator. I let you down. 
 
 I flip another switch, reversing the polarity. In a moment, time will resume motion and my friends will die. And I will freeze, forever. Staring at the wall. 
 
 I'm sorry.
