Dreams. 
    Eric hated dreams.  For the one hundredth time of the day he woke up from dreaming of being shot again and again by the terrorists. Just as when he opened his eyes, the dreaded nurse crept beside his bunk and asked him if it was fine to conduct another check-up.  And he had enough of those for a year. 
    "NO!" he groaned with resistance, which seemed more like an utter but obviously showed his anger with his imperious, arched eyebrows.
    "Te-hehehe!"  The nurse unnaturally giggled, and her eyes glowed canary, as if possessed, and she dramatically took out an ... ... orb, threw it at the other patients and then for a few seconds, all went dark!
    Eric could smell what smelled like smoking tinders, and when the smoke cleared, he could see the other patients falling to the ground, as still as dead. 
    His large, wistful black eyes glared daggers at the nurse. The nurse spoke, but more like a hiss, "Don't worry, they're all dead. Now, don't hurry to leave me!"  Falling to the ground, she rolled around as black mist coiled around her, turning her into a King Cobra----a magical King Cobra.  As when she slithered towards Eric, the floor started to melt. Immediately, the enraged, sinister cobra spit venom.
    "Why, why do you want to kill me, you, you kind nurse?!"
    "You think I am your silly pathetic nurse?  No!  I ate her and used her spirit as my disguise.  As for the reason I want to kill you.  Well, no, I am just following orders, my lord said you're a hazard to him, something called a Super?"  The cobra's voice turned strikingly fierce and was more male-like.
    "Wait — I am a Super?  What do you mean!  Have you watched too many superhero television shows?"
"Ah, one that doesn't know who he is.  You make my job easier to achieve.  Ah!  Just to think of the prizes the Great One, my lord would give me!  The rifts, the minions......"
Not waiting for the venomous King Cobra to finish his/her nattering, Eric tore off the curtains and flung them over his opponent.  Then, he grabbed a medical knife and started stabbing the creature, which turned even more hideous. 
"Ouch, ouch." screamed the King Cobra.  Thrashing in the lumps of curtains, he/she spat acid, straight at the knife, and it dissolved.  The he/she pulled back and was saving for a killing blast when —
"BOOOMMMM—BAMMMMMM—PPOOWWW!"
The wall behind the cobra burst, and a rocky giant, a woman creating vines at the cobra and two students appeared.  Of those two students, one of them was flying and the other, wearing glasses, was shrieking in delight as he trapped the insidious cobra in a force field.
Struggling hard, the cobra thrashed, but could not escape the strong force field.  Finally, it cursed in an ancient language, and within seconds dissolved into a pile of bones. 
"Shoot!  Stupid curses."  The rocky giant, Zander said as he looked at Eric screaming like a girl.  "Is that the weakling we're looking for?" His mother said,  "Don't judge a book by it's cover, and stop being rude.  Pick him up and let's go before the police arrive." 
Offering her hand to Eric, she instructed with a cracking voice, "Little one, we're the good guys, we'll give you food and protection.  Come with us!"
Eric screamed, "Ugly monster with vines.  Get away from me!"
Ada Walker stared at him, then told her son. "Can you stun him with your fist?"