Chapter 1: Grandpa Universe
Earth, Year 2020.
In a big hospital in New York, an old man was lying on a bed in the ICU ward. The ventilator was connected to his neck as he couldn't breathe on his own. The old man's name was Alexander Maxim Universe. He was known to be the smartest and the richest man of 21st century. Everyone loved him, the media had given him the nickname 'Grandpa Universe' due to his extremely kind nature to others.
His eyes were open, he was conscious but he couldn't move his body. The reason for his condition was a road accident. He could feel that his body was slowly getting weak and his days were numbered.
~Ah, it must be him.~ He contemplated the reason behind his accident.
He had lived a very tragic life. Born in 1950, his parents left him on the stairs of an orphanage. He spent his childhood with other kids like him, but still, without the warmth of parents, he became dissociated and kept to himself, reading books. He later found out that he was different from other kids. He was a lot more intelligent than an average child of his age. Still, there was one thing that he and other kids had in common. It was love for comics and fantasy novels.
Alexander grew up loving all the superheroes in those fictional stories, Superman, Spiderman, Captain America... He wished to be a superhero someday, but his higher IQ quickly made him realize that thinking that was an idiotic dream.
Eventually, 1 or 2 friends that he had got adopted. He also wanted to get adopted someday, but whenever a couple would come to adopt. They would ignore him like he didn't exist. Soon he found the reason behind it as well when he heard the orphanage warden talking to a doctor.
"There should be something we can do for him. All the couples who come here, distance themselves from him like he's a plague." The warden asked.
The doctor shook his head, "I'm afraid we can't. His hair are genetically white. They can not be changed. It's the stupidity of the society that they ignore such a good child."