BioHeroes

She acquired superpowers in the lamest way possible: drinking too much coffee.  It was one too many late nights spent studying, one too many quad-shots of espresso.  The norepinephrine in her body surged, and instead of caffeine having less of an effect on her, it resulted in permanent damage.  She was always stressed now! 

Her heart was pumping, blood coursing through her veins.  Tossing and turning in bed, she wished for just an ounce of drowsiness.  To her dismay, nothing came.  She leaped out of bed, overcome with the need to do something, and found that her usual clumsiness was nowhere to be found.  She ran down the stairs, faster than she ever had before.  There was almost too much energy in her body--it needed to escape. The night air was crisp--cold, damp, breezy.  It invigorated her, allowing her to ascend to a level of alertness she never thought possible.  

Against her previous aversion to exercise, she ran.  Ran for so long, until the sun came up.  That was the start of something wonderful.  Once she got to her office, she completed her work faster than fast.  She was a typing and data-entry machine!  Her mind was eerily alert--something it hadn't been without the help of coffee, since the ripe young age of 13.  She continued her days like this, but this misconstrued sleep vacation eventually became the bane of Nora's existence.  

Nora missed the freedom of sleep.  She could never turn her brain off--there was always someone in need of help.  Worst of all, there was something calling out to her.  It sounded sinister and soul-sucking.  

She wasn't truly called to action until her friend was diagnosed with rectal cancer, and she saw her quickly disintegrate into nothing.  

Grimacing at her friend's condition, she said "I want to help.  Do you trust me?"

Nora took the weak head nod as consent and tried her best experimental approach to transfer her energy to her dying friend.  A powerful yellow beam shot from her hands and into her friend's chest. She was instantly revitalized. It worked! Nora stared down at her hands in disbelief--was she a superhero?

Forcing herself to calm down and walk slowly out of the facility, she glowed--figuratively of course.  As soon as the light of the outside world hit her face, she raced towards the relentless beckoning of the gloomy, lulling voice in her head.  Along the way, she shot beams of energy into particularly downtrodden pedestrians and the homeless, ragged and worn.  Their smiling faces instantly refueled her, and she seemed to never lose energy.   

Finally, she arrived at a darkened cave, after speedrunning for what seemed like only a few seconds.  Inside was the most cliché villain she had ever seen.  He was literally sitting in a spinning chair and stroking a cat!  

"So you have foiled my evil plan," he chuckled.  

Nora was confused, "what evil plan?"

"Oh, you poor thing.  I'm an energy vampire.  Now, I must steal all of your energy.  You foolish, energetic baby.  I bet you haven't even been a superhero that long--do you even have a name?"

Nora was quiet, which the energy vampire (obviously a fake title) misunderstand as a weakness.  

"Oh, you aren't even aware of who I am?  I thought someone so pumped full of Norepinephrine would be more alert and cognizant of that.  I am Vlad-tricity!" he roared from the deepest chambers of his being.  

Nora stood her ground and said, "I am Direct Current, and I will supply the world with the energy they need!  I just want to sleep--let them take my energy and do something useful. I'm done.  Your powers are useless against me."

She shot all of her energy into the energy vampire and he jolted--his system receiving too much energy for him to handle.  Alas, she was still uncured of her condition, so she opened a café/clinic, where she "recharged" all of her customers, and vowed to provide those less fortunate with energy for the rest of her days--whenever her energy would run out and let her die.

My birthday is August 15 (Motor Cortex, Norepinephrine), and my superhero's name is Direct Current.  She can run very fast (Motor Cortex) and never sleeps because she has excessive amounts of energy that she can give to others without running out (Norepinephrine).