Abberation

In a world where humans with extraordinary abilities called Aberrants walk alongside ordinary people, power is measured, ranked, and institutionalized. Heroes protect the public. Organizations compete for control. The system works — until it doesn't. Chrome is thirteen years old, covered in scars nobody can explain, with an Aberrant level that breaks the measurement equipment. He doesn't know who he is. He doesn't know where he came from. He just knows he lost a fight he shouldn't have survived, and he can't stop wondering why he's still alive. What follows is not a story about the strongest person in the room winning. It's about which side every character chooses when the sides themselves are broken — and what it costs to keep getting up when the answer keeps changing. Aberration. The first part of four.