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Bernie was woke up by the sound of his alarm clock. He groaned as the loud ringing was making his ears hurt. It was just him, or the sound seemed louder than before?

Bernie groaned as he shifted in bed, he was surrounded by the remains o fhte things he ate in the previous night. The plate of the salmon, the remains of the grapes and the small box of the cheese balls.

Bernie could still feel the taste of the salmon on his mouth. Before, that taste seemed delicious and made him moan in satisfaction, but now, it seemed to be sour on his mouth, and made him cringe. How could he think that thing was delicious?

Bernie rubbed his tongue on the roof of his mouth, trying to get rid of the taste of fish. And while this, the alarms clock was still ringing loudly, Bernie ears were starting to hurt slightly form the ringing. Bernie was completely sure that the clock was louder than before. Did someone altered the volume?

Groaning loud, Bernie put his hand on the clock, and hear da crunching sound.

Opening his eyes, Bernie looked over, and saw that he had crushed the alarm clock with his hand.

Retreating his hand back, he just stared at the destroyed remains of the clock. Oh man! Berni thought I must have used more strength than I wanted! Mom and dad are going to pull my ears because of this.

Slowly, looking around, Bernie saw his room, and the remains of his yesterday meal. He was going to take it downstairs as soon as he could. He looked over himself, and saw he was still wearing the same clothes he went to school the previous day. Smelling his shoulder, he felt sick from the smell. Man, he needed a bath.

Bernie yawned wide as he shook himself wake. He opened the door and looked at the bathroom in the end of the hallway.

He saw Penny, looking tired and groggy, walking in direction of the bathroom.

Oh, no! Bernie was not going to wait for her to finish again, he needed a bath, and needed it first.

Bernie rushed forward, running in direction of the bathroom, and he himself didn't realize just how fast he was going.

Penny only saw a blur passing by her and a rush of wind in her fur and yelped as the door was closed with a slam in front of her. After a few seconds se recovered "W-what? Who is in there?" Penny asked, as she knocked the door.

Her answer come as Bernie's voice, saying "I'll be quick!"

Bernie was relieved that now3 he was going to have the bathroom to himself. He had not to rush to empty his bladder, and he could enjoy the hot water.

Bernie got rid of his clothes and entered in the steaming water of the shower, shivering as the warm and comfortable feeling spread into his body and soaked his fur. The steam entered his nose and it shook him completely awake.

Bernie even felt bad for having to leave the hot water, but he needed to spare it for Penny. He didn't wanted her to tell he monopolized the bathroom. He walked out and dried himself, and stood in front of the mirror. He picked the tube of toothpaste and squeezed it. When suddenly the paste flew out of it, staining the mirror.

Bernie stared at the paste staining the mirror. Man, he was using his strength a lot more than he wanted today. Bernie picked a few of the paste into the mirror and used it to brush his teeth. After that, he started using some toilet paper to clean the mirror the best he could. And as soon as he did it, he tied the towel around his waist and went outside.

He meet Penny and Jeff talking in there. His foster parent turned to him and said "Bernie we need to talk..." but he stopped, and he and Penny stared at Bernie. And after a few seconds, he said "Bernie... when did you started working out?"

Bernie blinked surprised at him, and then looked down at his own body. Bernie than was surprised himself. His body was slightly more toned than before, and he now had abs. He seemed more muscled now, on his chest and on his arms. That was the first time Bernie had noticed this change on his body.

Bernie looked at himself for a few moments, and turned back to his father. The silence remained for a few moments, before Bernie said "What?"

Jefferson looked at him for a few moments, and finally was able to say "Nevermind. Bernie, we need to talk about yesterday."

Bernie panicked a little "Could be later? I need to get dressed." He barely waited for an answer has he passed by them and rushed back to his room

"Bernie!" Jeff called, but Bernie slammed the door behind himself before his father could say anything else. He left behind a worried Jeff and Penny. Jeff didn't knew what was going on with Bernie, and Penny... she just was worried, and very much.

Once in his bedroom, Bernie could give a good look at himself. Yeah, he looked more toned, he touched his own body, checking his muscles, and they felt firmer than before. Not only that, but also, Bernie was feeling better than before. He felt strong, he felt great. Actually, Bernie didn't remembered felling so good before.

This was strange. How did his muscles bulked up like that overnight? It had anything to do with the omega radiation? Was he really will? But if he was, then why was he feeling so good? Shouldn't he be feeling bad if he was will? And what kind of radiation made you bulk up?

There were a lot of questions in Bernie's mind. Only thinking about them wasn't going to answer then. Bernie was more worried at his father suddenly wanting to know more about yesterday.

Bernie knew he had acted very out of normal yesterday, and he knew his family had the right of feeling worried. What worried him was that his father could interrogate him and discover what happened. He was just wondering what could happen if anyone knew. Bernie was going to have to be careful.

Bernie soon got dressed, he was wearing black boxers, white shirt, blue jeans pants and green colored T-shirt. Bernie quickly got dressed, and went outside of his room. He was now heading downstairs, and meet his family in the dinner room. All eyes lay on him as he walked in.

All the eyes were worried at him, and Bernie felt a bit uncomfortable for being target of so much attention. Walking slowly, he sat on the breakfast table, and started eating toast. The silence lasted for a few moments, before Jeff broke it.

"So, Bernie, are you feeling alright?" the black cat asked, what granted the dog to look at him, as he continued "You seemed quite strange yesterday. You didn't seemed very good, are you feeling better?"

Bernie swallowed and said "Yeah, I'm feeling better." He said, and after a moment of pondering, he said "Actually, I think I feel better than better. I feel... really good." Bernie said, and this caused Penny and Rose to share a worried look, while Jeff kept looking at Bernie.

"I see..." the black cat said, and then he asked "So, any idea what made you feel that way?"

This made Bernie freeze for a moment, but he was able to hide it well, and he said "Hmm... it was something I eat... maybe? I don't know. I just started feeling bad all of sudden, and I woke up hungry... Oh! By the way, the plates are still in my bed, want me to pick it?" Bernie asked quite ashamed.

"I'll pick it up, don't worry." Said Rose "But are you sure you are okay now?" she asked, worried about Bernie.

"Of course I am!" Bernie said beaming "I feel very good! I feel great and full of energy!" he said, as he kept eating "I wonder if was something I ate before sleeping."

"You ate a lot of things." Said Penny "Including salmon. You hate salmon! And you even swallowed the fishbones! You hate fishbones even more." She said as she looked at him. Bernie too was quite surprised, he barely noticed any fishbone into the salmon, for what he could remember. He also thought that the fish had actually none.

"I guess I was really hungry." Said Bernie, scratching the back of his head. "Even that thing seemed to have a good taste." Bernie said as he cringed "It felt like I have not eat in days!"

Jeff looked at him and asked again "And you have any idea of what could have caused this hungry?"

"Nope." Bernie said as he tried his best to look innocent, and Jeff asked "And you think what made you feel sick in the labs and what caused your hunger could be the same thing?"

"Yes. No. Maybe? I don't know?" said Bernie as he finished his breakfast, and look at the clock "The buss will be here soon. We better get going, Penny." He said as he got up and picked his schoolbag.

Penny looked at her parents, and got up, as Rose said "The lunch is in the balcony."

"Okay, got it! Bye mom, by dad!" Bernie said as he picked both bags and he and Penny went outside the door. Leaving both older cats behind, still sitting in the dinner table as they shared a look.

"You think Bernie is okay to go to school today?" asked Rose, worried, after a long silence, and her husband answered "He seems okay. Is his behavior of yesterday that worries me."

"You think is a virus?" asked Rose, and he said "I don't know. What worries me is that Bernie didn't seemed totally sincere when I talked to him now. Nor did he seemed yesterday."

"You think Bernie is lying?" asked his wife, and Jeff said "I don't know. Is l,ike he is hiding something, and Penny too. I'm worried." He looked at his wife "I just hope that I'm wrong, and that everything is really okay."

Bernie and Penny walked in direction of the bus stop, and Penny had to walk fast to catch up with Bernie, who was walking a bit faster than usual, and seemed not to notice this. He arrived there first, and Penny soon after, Bernie even commented she was walking a bit slowly that day.

Penny looked at him, and said "Bernie?" the dog turend to her, as she said "Are you sure you are okay?"

"Yeah!" said Bernie "I said in house, I feel great! I feel strong as an bull! And I feel very wealthy!" he said, puffing his chest, and sighed, and smiled "I don't remember feeling this good."

Penny looked at him for a few moments, before saying "And, is this normal?"

"Huh?" Bernie looked at her, and she said "Bernie, you have gained more muscle during the night! You were feeling hungry yesterday and ate something you simply hate and said it was good! And now you are acting weird, saying you feel good! Is this normal? Is any of that normal?"

Bernie thought about what she said, and answered "I not sure. Maybe? I just know I feel good."

"This has anything to do with the radiation? Of course it does, doesn't it?" Penny asked, and Bernie flinched at her tone. But before he could answer, the bus came, and stopped in front of them.

They soon went inside, and in there, they found Rick, who was happy to see Bernie, to saty the least.

He pratycally jumped over Bernie, hugging him "BERN! I was so worried!" he sadi, making the others in the bus look at them, and Penny had to separate them and make both sit to avoid more attention.

Rick was happy to see that the radiation had not caused Bernie to melt, and he was surprised when they told him of what had went in home after they arrived.

"Wow! It sounds just like the comics!" Rick said, and Penny shushed him to make him go a bit more discrete, and he whispered "Is just like the comics! The hero is exposed to radiation and soon he starts developing his powers!"

"But this is not a comic!" whipered Penny "There is nothing like superheroes and these things! This is real life!"

"But is just like in comics!" said Rick "And this is just so cooool!"

"No, is not!" whispered Penny, almost angrily, and Bernie said "Sorry Penny, but I feel fine, so I guess it is okay to thing it all was cool."

Penny glared angrily at him, making him go silence. But Rick continued to talk, begin most ignored by Penny, who looked grumpy all the way to school.

Once arriving, Penny was still grumpy, and even avoided talking to Bernie and Rick, and they went all separate ways, and didn't saw each other until it was lunch time. Bernie meet Rick and Penny into the table, and sat on it. Penny was still grumpy at him, and kept her eyes on her lunch.

Bernie could only sigh, and start eating his ram, as Rick suddenly got closer to him, and said "Okay, by all the things that you told me, I guess your body now is passing by some kind of mutation." He said, showing a page of his comic "So, I guess that your body first went in sleep stage to spare you from the changes, and when you woke up, you were out of nutrients because of the changes in your body. Now, if your tiredness and hungry are gone, this may show that the first stage of your mutation is complete. Now, I'm not sure if there will be physical changes or-"

"Rick." Penny said, getting up "For the last time... This. Is. Not. One. Of. Your. Stupid. Comic books." She almost snarled, making both Bernie and Rick look at her with wide eyes as she picked her plates and started walking of "I rather eat away from you jerks." She said as she left.

They both looked at her as she walked off, and Rick said "Was it anything I said?"

Bernie was about to answer, when he heard "Look, the dog's sister is walking away."

Bernie looked, the feeling he had was that someone talked right by his side "What?" he asked, as he looked around, and Rick was confused as Bernie was suddenly acting as someone had whispered in his ear. Could the radiation have affected hi brain and now h was hearing other people's thoughts?

"Yeah, this is good, cats and dogs should not get so along." Bernie was still hearing, the feeling was that someone was talking right to his side, and he looked to the sides, before he seemed to catch the source of the voices.

They were coming form a far table, at 15 feet away. There were other dogs in it, and they seemed to be whispering and looking at Penny. But Bernie could hear them as if they were right by his side.

"Yeah, I guess that the cat in there things she can hang on with dogs. Do you believe it?"

"A cat and a dog being of the same family? It isn't natural!"

Bernie felt his blood boiling as he was hearing those jerks. With what right they thought they could talk about him or about his family like that!? Bernie felt like getting up and walking to there, when he heard one saying.

"Lets give something to the kitty, what do you think?"

"Good one."

Looking over, Bernie saw one of them, a doberman, had a tomato in his hand, and he barely had time to register when he threw it. Bernie saw it was going straight at Penny's direction!

He was going to say something, but them, the weirdest thing happened. It was like the world had slowed down by someone hitting the slow button. Benrie saw the tomato moving in Penny's direction in slow motion.

Bernie was stunned when he saw that, and looking over, he saw the whole cantina was in the same way. The dogs in the table far were looking at the tomato and pointing as if they were in slow motion. Penny was moving out very slowly, and even Rick, who was right by his side, seemed to be too slow to notice what was going on.

For a moment Bernie wondered what was going on, but he was brought back by the thought that the tomato was going to hit Penny. He was not going to let those jerks having the pleasure of seeing Penny being hit.

Bernie looked over his table, and picked up a small fork. Without really thinking, Bernie made an aim, and threw the fork. For his surprise, the fork moved into normal speed, and hit the tomato in mid-air, making it flew, and they both hit a column. For his surprise, the metal fork got stuck on it, making a loud sound.

It was as if someone had hit play. The world returned to normal speed, as everyone suddenly turned to the fork with a tomato stuck into the column. The fork seemed to have penetrated the column, which was made of concrete!

Bernie was stunned as everyone, as the students gathered around the fork, to see what was that. The dog turned to Rick and said "Did you saw that?"

"Yeah! The fork flew to the column!" said Rick, and Bernie instantly knew that Rick had not saw he do what he did, and maybe it was because he was too slow. Bernie realized it had happened just to him.

Some students went to the fork, and tried to remove it, but it was stuck. Some of the sports teams even tried to remove the fork form the wall, but they just couldn't, the thing seemed to be stuck, and none of them seemed to have strength enough to pull it out.

Bernei was focused on them, when he caught again the voices of the dogs "What the fuck was that!?"

"I don't know man! That fork came out of nothing!"

Bernie was still able to hear them, actually, Bernie noticed he could her the whole hall. He could hear the servants talking in the part of the food, talking aobut what the kids were looking with such interest. And he had a feeling like he could hear even what was happening outside of the windows...

Suddenly, a loud ringing sound, louder than anything Bernie ever heard in his life, resonated in the whole place. Bernie felt like his head would explode at the sudden sound resonating in his ears. He held them and screamed loud as his ears seemed to the point of bleeding.

After that, the sound seemed normal, and Bernie realized it was just the signal. Panting, he raised his head, to discover that Rick and other students were staring at him. For them, he was just a dog that suddenly started screaming in the signal touched. Bernie looked at them for a while and smiled nervously.

Luckily, for him, the situation went away quickly, and he and Rick had to go for their next class P.E.

In their way, they meet Penny once again, this was one of the classes they three had together. But Penny was still distant, and was avoiding looking at Bernie, she was still grumpy over earlier.

Once they all changed, they all stood in gymnastic clothing as they stood in front of their teachers, a big and black colored bull with a gold ring piercing in his nose, ivory colored horns and he was BIG, tall and toned.

"Okay! Today is..." he said, as he pulled out a red ball "Dodgeball!"

Some students groaned, Rick being one of them. Rick always was against those violent sports, but only when he had to participate. Being chubby, he was not very good at sports, and he was not very good in many of them, and usually ended up hurt into those things, specially dodgeball. For them Rick was a big furred target.

Soon the times were formed, and Bernie, Rick and Penny stayed in the same group, thought Penny seemed a bit unhappy for having to be in the same team, and remained distant from them.

Soon the whistle signed the start of the game, and red colored balls started flying around. Animals around where hit and Rick was almost hit every time. He had to hide behind Bernie in search for cover.

Penny was one of the ones that were able to balance the game, she was good at sports, and had a way of hitting the guys on the other team hard and right. She dodged skillfully and threw back with strength and good aim; she was making a good work until now.

In her running away to dodge most balls, she ended up right near to Bernie and Rick. She looked at them, and they looked back at her for a few moments, and Rick said "You need me teach me to do that."

Rick was talking about the way she was good in sports, but Penny did not answered, she looked to the ground, and Bernie was unsure of what to say. He was about to say something when he got a sound.

"Hey, check it out!"

Bernie's ear twitched as he recognized the voice of one of the dogs from the dining hall. "I'll hit the cat square in the head!"

Bernie turned around and saw a red ball coming in Penny's direction. Again, the world seemed to slow down as Bernie saw the red ball reduce speed. In this moment, Bernie instinctively stretched his arm and grabbed the ball in mid-air.

Penny flinched and gasped as she saw the ball in Bernie's hand, the ball that previously was flying square in her direction. Rick too was jaw dropped at this, and the dogs of the other team were surprised as well.

Bernei looked at the ball, when he heard a sound like something flying in his direction, and turned his head to see another ball flying in his direction. Bernie was able to catch this one too. So, as result, two o them team were send out. And as second effect, Bernei instantly became a target.

Soon, it seemed that everyone form the other team was aiming in him, so the rest of the players stayed away from Bernie, not to end up as targets too. But Bernie had little problem, even with everyone aiming at him.

To Bernie it was like the world was slower while he could move at normal speed. It was easy to him dodge the projectiles that to him were moving slow. He made little effort to this.

The other students looked in awe at Bernie at he seemed to dodge the balls as if it was easy. Rick was the most awe from all, looking at Bernie as he acted like one of the heroes of his comic books, dodging the attacks of enemies from their death beams. And Penny, she just looked at Bernie as he showed great skill. Yeah, she knew that Bernie was good at sports, but now, Bernie was showing a whole new level of skill.

The animals of the other side seemed also to be losing their patient, as they became more insistent into trying to hit Bernie, but the dog was still dodging easily. After a while, Bernie finally decided that dodging forever was not going to take him anywhere.

Finally, Bernie grabbed a red colored ball in mid-air, and looked at the opposite field, choosing a target. He saw one Doberman, the same guy that threw the tomato on Penny.

Bernie narrowed his eyes at him, and threw the ball in his direction.

Bernie should have put more strength than he wanted into the thrown, because the ball flew at high speed and hit the Doberman with a resonant "Plaf!". The Doberman was threw back with the ball, and landed 10 feet way form where he was hit.

The whole room seemed to freeze as the Doberman was in the ground, squirming, holding his chest as he seemed to be trying to breathe again. The teacher ran to him, and Bernie felt his heart stop.

But it backed up again when he heard that the guy was going to be okay, but was going to have to be taken to the medical area. The place was left, and Bernie could reflect about what he had just done.

When did he got that strong!? And how he was able to see that world in slow-motion? Just what was going on? It was almost like the aventures of Mighty Wolf. But that was just a comic book! This was real life! It just couldn't be that the radiation had really gave him super powers. It was impossible.

Right?

Before he could question himself a bit more, Rick suddenly came to him out of nowhere and said "That was so AWESOME!" he was squealing, but luckily no one seemed to notice "Now you looked like a real superhero! That radiation really did something great with you! If I knew I would have entered in there!"

Bernie looked at him, and then, he noticed that Penny was very near, and she seemed to have heard what Rick said but, instead of going in their direction, she turned around and started to walk off, as if to leave.

"Penny!" Bernie called her as he left Rick behind and went after her. Penny seemed to ignore him and keep walking away, but Bernie kept going after "Penny, wait! Penny!" Bernie followed her halfway to the dressing rooms, when Penny finally turned to him and said "These are the _girls_dressing rooms, you can't get in there!"

"I don't want!" said Bernie, surprised at her aggressiveness "I just want to talk to you."

Penny looked at him, and looked away saying "What is it?" she sounded grumpy, and Bernie was not liking to see her that angry, at least, not with him.

"Penny, why are you mad?"

The cat looked at him, and said "Because you and Rick are both careless, irresponsible, immature dorks!" she said in his face "You simply don't think and don't care to what happens!"

"Penny, why are you like that?"

"You know very well why." Said Penny accusingly, and Bernie instantly knew it was about the events of yesterday, about the radiation and what happened.

"But Penny..." Bernie said to her "I'm fine, do you see?"

"But you could not be!" said Penny, "This is not a stupid comic book! When you are hit by radiation you get sick or even die! You don't receive super powers or become some kind of hero!"

"But I'm fine!" insisted Bernie, and what I just did-"

"Never mind it!" Penny said "Focus on here!" sh looked at him, this is serious, do you know this? Or you think this is some kind of video game? Is this all a joke to you?"

"But Penny, I'm fine!" Bernie repeated "I feel great, and what I just did, you have to admit it was cool-"

"It wasn't cool when I saw you laying in the ground!" Penny said bluntly, makin g Bernie lose his speech, he saw tears forming in her eyes, and Penny usually was not a girl of crying "Bernie, when the radiation hit you, I could see your bones through your skin." He voice was shaken "And then you were on the ground, you seemed dead."

She looked away, and took deep breaths as to hold back a sob "I thought you was going to die." Her voice was barely louder than a whisper "You were dying in front of me and I could do nothing."

"But I wasn't-" Bernie tried to say, but Penny cut him again "I thought you were dying! I thought I was going to watch you die, and that I could do nothing!" her eyes were filled with grief "And I could have prevented it!"

Bernie remained silence, as he saw Penny's tears running down her face, and she continued "I didn't wanted to lose you, and I could have. I thought I was going to lose you and I could do nothing about it. I was worried out of my mind in that moment, and I'm still am. And you and rick treat this as if it was all a big joke!"

Bernie remained silence as she stared at him, now her face seemd angry as she wiped the tears out of her eyes "You have to stop acting as it was a fantasy world and face the real! Don't talk to me until you are ready to take things seriously!"

And with that said, she turned around, and started walking away, leaving Bernie behind, now feeling guilty. He didn't had realized how Penny had been worried about him until that moment, and now he knew it, and felt horrible.

Soon the signal touched again, and the students started moving to their classes, Rick was right at Bernie's side, talking very much about the things of superheros and how would be great to Bernie be one of them, when someone talked to them.

"Hey!"

They both turned around, and saw a familiar ape walking in their direction. Rick yelped and hid behind Bernie, and the ape went in their direction, and stood right in front of them.

"Look, I don't want trouble." Said Bernie, and the ape only said "Yeah, me neither." This surprised both Bernie and Rick, and the ape surprised them even more by saying "I want to thank you."

Bernie looked at him, and said "Really?"

"Yeah." Said the ape, looking quite embarrassed "Thank you for, you know... jumping in front of that thing and... saving my life..." the ape looked at Bernie "It was stupid and crazy. But you saved me and... I wanna say thank you."

Bernie shared a look with Rick, and said "Huh, yeah, sure, you're welcome." And the Ape said "How jumps in front of a thing that emits radiation? It was crazy!"

Bernie scratched the back of his head "Yeah, now that you said that. I guess I wasn't thinking."

"But, are you okay?" said the ape, sounding genuinely worried at him, and Bernie said "Huh, yeah, pretty much."

"Wow... I thought you were going to be at the hospital." Said the ape, and then he said "Well, I must go to my class, bye, and... thank you again." He said, and he left to his next class, and soon, Bernie was able to drag Rick, who was still recovering from what just happened, to the next class.

The rest of the day passed normally, Bernie had more classes, and in the brief glimpses he could get form Penny, she was still ignoring him. Bernie just realized how worried she was at him, and he felt even more guilty for not realizing how much he was making her worried.

Finally, the last bell ring, and sighed the end of the classes, the students were all rushing to get out of there as soon as possible. Bernie was walking to get the bus. He was going to talk to Penny when they get it, and was going to apologize the best he could for not taking in thought her feelings. And he was going to hope that she could forgive him.

IN his way, Bernie was once again aborded by Rick, who kept babbling about the hero stuff "So, if you have new powers now, what I'm most completely sure, you will have to decide how to deal with them. I'm pretty sure that you will choose to use them for the good, for I know you for years, but there is the deal of having to keep them secret. It is almost a necessity when you are a hero, you know?"

He kept babbling, but Bernie was barely hearing, he was searching for Penny in the middle of the crowd, and soon he saw her. She was walking with her bag in her back, and her eyes locked with his.

Her gaze seemed to want to go away from him, and Bernie was about to call her, when he heard a commotion, and a sound of a vehicle drifting in the ground.

Looking over, everyone could see a van, it had lost control and was moving out of route, almost hitting a lot of people. Soon the van seemed to take it's own route, and was heading straight at Penny's direction!

Terror coated Bernie's features and so Rick's, as they both screamed.

"Penny!"

"Penny, look out!"

The cat onl them seemed to take knowledge of the van heading to her, drifting on it's side and almost in her.

Her face was taken in horror, and she was paralyzed. All she could do was crouch and cover her head with her hands as the van was almost hitting her!

Bernie looked on horror. Penny was going to be crushed against the stone surface and the van! She was going to die!

NO! That could not happen! He had to do something! Anything!

This time Bernie almost didn't noticed the world going in slow motion. As soon as it happened, he didn't even looked around. He just ran straight in the direction of Penny. He passed by everything on his way without even caring. He just needed to get to Penny, before it was too late.

Bernie came closer and closer to the van, and he saw it was almost touching Penny. Sneaking in the small opening on the side, Bernie saw Penny, crouched, her eyes closed, and her hands shielding her head.

Bernie saw the van moving in slow motion, he was not going to be able to take Penny out of there. Bernie did the only think he could thing about. He knelt in front of Penny, his back turned to the van behind, and placed both hands on the stone formation behind Penny, supporting himself the best he could.

It was useless. It would not stop the van. He would die there with Penny if he did it. But Bernie didn't had time to think or care. He just wanted to do something. He looked at her, and closed his eyes as he waited for the impact.

CRASH!!!!!

It was it.

It had ended.

They were both dead.

Well, at least Bernie tried to do something. He tried to save her, and it mattered in the end. Right?

Wait.

If he was dead, then how was he still breathing?

Penny soon took knowledge that she was still breathing, and that she didn't felt any pain. She slowly opened her eyes, and lowered her arms, and before her, there was a scene that she never imagined.

"Bernie?"

Having his name called made the dog open his eyes. Penny was looking at him, disbelief over all her face. Bernie looked back at her, and then, he moved, and heard the sound of metal cringing.

Looking back, Bernie saw that the van was destroyed, the metal had bent and ripped, forming a perfect shape of his back and shoulders. Bernie stared at it for a few moments, and back at Penny, who had the same look of disbelief that Bernie had on his face.

Bernie even noticed that the part where he had firmed his hands was cracked, as if he had heled it with enough strength to crack the concrete.

Bernie panted as he and Penny shared a look, and they just sat there, both unsure of what to do, say or even think about.