Mach: The Super Hero

This book is the first in a series of biographies that will be coming out in these next few years. They will feature the most prominent, most impactful supra-mutants to ever have existed. The influences of a supra-mutation on an individual’s psyche, sense of self, and therefore their life, has been a subject of much debate. Historians, psychologists, philosophers, politicians, sports pundits, writers, and so on. The public at large, expert or not, has gone back and forth, throwing theories every which way, trying to perfect our understanding of this phenomenon. Not what causes it, but rather, what it causes on the individual, and thus, on society. I am simply a writer, and not much of an expert on matters of sociology or philosophy, but that doesn’t stop me from having an opinion on the issue. My personal stance is that it would be a waste to live my life without putting my supra-mutation to a life-defining use. On that note, so I can accurately frame the narrative you are about to experience, I will explain the nature of my supra-mutation. I have the ability to copy memories. It is very different from telepathy since I need physical touch, and my ability is limited to that single specific function, but it makes me far more effective in that regard. There is no defense against it, and I will accurately obtain everything that has ever been perceived or thought. Mastering this ability has been all about sorting and interpreting that very vast amount of information. Why, for all of my formative years, I might as well have had no ability whatsoever, for how well I could use it. Memories exist not as they were seen, but as they were experienced, which is often incompletely or incoherently. I pondered on how to best use my ability for many years until the simplest answer finally occurred to me, which is that of writing biographies. The question then, which I wrestled with for what felt like endless months, was of whom. Watching the most recent documentary on the supra-mutant phenomenon titled “Heroes To Fear” all but sealed my decision. The public opinion about supra-mutants engaging in heroic ventures, at the time of my writing this book, is very negative. They are misunderstood. Most of them do not hide their identities, and still, many still foment distrust based simply on their remarkable feats, and how unstoppable they would be should they decide to be villainous instead. This fear-mongering is very much at the heart of present society. It holds the always beloved power to motivate people into emotionally investing themselves into specific narratives, which is in turn very monetizable. Yet, we have come to a point where even after so many instances of personal sacrifice and heroism, and with an abundance of events proving the fact that these individuals are, without a doubt, heroes, the public opinion refuses to accept that definition. They just refuse to look at them as the individuals they are. While I have little doubt most of them are not affected by whether or not they are defined as such -- heroes -- I personally am. I want history to note, and forever remember, that these are human beings. Normal individuals who were randomly given extraordinarily supernatural abilities, and I want to stress how they chose to use them. Lumping them in with the rest of everyone who was randomly given these abilities seems very wrong. Very unfair. God is my witness that the narrative you are about to read may be stylistic in its presentation but never romanticized in its matter. I have had access to the memories of Mr. Michael Chambers, also known as Mach, in a way no one else can imagine. Everything I relate here is, objectively, his experience. Read on in the perfect knowledge this is an unbiased account, a never-before-experienced point of view at the very real life of Michael Chambers: Super Hero.