Scorch: Jailbreak

Scorch: Jailbreak is the third in a ten issue series of short stories about Scorch's life.

Chapter One
Scorch sat on his uncomfortable prison bed, deep in thought. His jet-black hair almost reached his shoulders, and instead of his typical orange armored costume,he was wearing a dull, striped prison uniform.

Scorch was thinking about what he would do after he escaped from the prison block, and how he could escape in the first place.

So far, Scorch had decided that after he was free, he would take his criminal-for-hire advert out of the paper. Then he would seek out all of the other major supervillains: Thunder and his brother Lightning, the mercenary Impulse, and the villainess known as Hyperspeed.

Scorch would unite them all under his banner, and he would then lead the Fearsome Five!

As for escape...

Scorch examined the brick wall, inspecting every last crack. The bricks had been slapped together with a cheap concrete. To any ordinary person it would be a lost cause, but to Scorch's intellect it was simply a jigsaw puzzle.

"Hmmmm." Scorch mumbled, gently touching the wall.

Then he realized that the concrete holding the bricks together was old and rather cheap. If Scorch could use his powers to heat up the cement to a certain temperature, it would crumble and it would only take a punch to shatter the entire wall!