This story has been bouncing around and growing in my head for years. I never got the chance to type it up because when I did, I lost my train of thought. But this is one solid piece of the story and can give you. I want to know whether a writer like you likes it or not.
Synopsis: Kenn Butler knew he wasn't normal. But there wasn't much to prove it. Only surviving electrocution was his abnormal part of him. And there were plenty of stories like that. Little did he know, that is what was so special about him. Kenn and 7 other friends were part of a high profile government project called "Olympus", inspired by all of the stories about superhuman warriors created by the general public. They were given an injection at birth, which enhanced their physical abilities. They were never given the second injection that brought them to full power, due to the violent reaction caused by it. Only one, Sergio, was given the second injection because his powers controlled something the military was familiar with. Mechanics. Until they hit 14, the age they can take the injection at, they must rely on weapons that they are supplied. However a threat already has emerged, and will stop at nothing to kill them and the U.S. government... (Wow I already revised this at least twice to improve it...)
These events occur right after they receive training from Navy SEALs during winter break, not a week before school begins.
(I’m not much of a writer, so let’s give this a shot! This is told from Kenn's point of view)
Most schools have a nice auditorium or at least an assembly area. My school uses the church basement next door. I mean it did have nice lighting and everything, so it didn't look TOO much like a basement, but if we could afford to remodel a new campus, couldn’t we afford putting a small assembly hall? Nope. Go figure. But we weren’t complaining. After all of the training over winter break, we were ready to assimilate back to our old life. No weapons, no top secret whatever. Just boring teachers and good laughs. Of course it wouldn’t be like that for long... No stop thinking like that. Get back to reality. I sighed and followed the rest of the class across the snow covered parking lot. Behind me, Shelder started talking
"Yo dog, why do we get the ghettoest stuff at this school?"
"What happened?" I said, slowing my pace a little.
"It’s only the 2nd football man, SECOND! And the stupid principle said we ain’t getting a new one until spring!"
"What the hell? Cheap little school..."
"I know right?! Damn guys can’t even get a proper basketball hoop!" Keanu said
"Forget hoops, jerks can’t even get god damn grass on the place." Dylan muttered
I grunted in agreement "What kind of school has a parking lot for a playing field?!"
Maya overheard us and came over "All that complaining and yet that doesn’t stop any of you from playing football, now does it?" We all grinned at that.
"Well we're just awesome like that" I said.
She smiled a little and rolled her eyes “You’re all hopeless" she said. Then she walked back up the line to chat with the girls who were already inside. I watched her hair for a bit, curious for no reason in particular.
"You sure you don't want to tell her?" Richard asked, walking down the stairs with everyone.
"Huh?" I said, trying to act dumb.
"You know what I’m talking about" he replied, giving me a look.
I stared down. I knew Maya should just be told for her own sake, but some part of me resisted. She was cute, nice, had stellar grades, and most importantly, a life. Not quite like us misfits.
"Soon, I'll tell her" I muttered.
"And I’m white. Look, whoever "they" are, they know that she is one of us!" Us like were different. Nice. “And when she gets hurt, captured and interrogated, what the hell can she say? When they figure out she doesn’t know anything her head is-"
"Shut up, Richard, alright?" I said "Were more than capable of fighting. And I will tell her, now calm down,"
He gave me a 'yeah-right' look, then sighed and gave up. He walked across the basement to go sit with Dylan and Sergio, who seemed to be looking at something on the floor. I could only imagine what it was. Probably some sort of new weapon Sergio managed to make.
I sat down behind Shelder. I was well aware of Maya right behind me. I pulled out my phone about 5 minutes into the period. The principle, Mr. Lipman (no joke) was not the most interesting speaker out there, so you can only listen to so many of his "You can do it!" speeches, before wanting to compare him to Rebecca Black.
The phone had been tricked out by the techies at the Pentagon, so now it could do some sick things, like a 3D terrain projector for battle planning and my personal favorite, the laser cutter. It kills the battery though. I opened up a browser and just did some random Google searches that were blazingly fast. Ok, so maybe some top secret things were cool. I settled for some Eddie Murphy comedy and fed my earbuds through my shirt.
It happened about half way through the period. One moment, I was listening about how big MJ's lips were; the next, some sort of interference, like something was trying to talk louder than the YouTube video. I frowned and pulled out my phone. Eddie wasn't moving, but there was a pulsing red bad on the top of the screen. Aw you got to be kidding. No, no, don’t think like that it might just be someone who knows my number... Yeah, like I was that lucky. I tapped the pulsing bar apprehensively.
"Hello?" I whispered through the earbud mike
"Alpha-one-Bravo, this is Mike-one-Romeo, do you copy, over?" crackled a deep male voice.
I moaned internally. Why? Not even a week! Not even a week and they were contacting me!
"Mike-one-Romeo this is Alpha-one-bravo, it’s Friday and you already have news for me? This better be real good, over."
"This is Mike-one-Romeo it’s REALLY good and REALLY bad." Oh no..."Just depends on how you look at it. We figured out who hacked our base a few minutes ago." Maybe it's not so bad after all. "It’s the North Koreans"
"Huh that’s a little surprising. Not that surprising though. It was bound to happen someday" I responded. Thankfully, no teachers were nearby.
"Yeah? Well then you won't like this." You have got to be-! “They didn't like it, it seems like they got the wrong wind of things and they have sent over a massive force. It seems like they have taken over Logan Airport and have grounded all flights, they've also sent away all flights, claiming there has been a gas attack, which there has, unfortunately." Oh this keeps getting better and better "All of Boston and the surrounding areas have been attacked with a powerful sleeping gas, over."
"Sleeping gas? That’s a negative over Cambridge. Everybody here is wide awake." I said
"The Koreans just sprayed Cambridge about a minute ago. You should put on your masks soon. They have seemed to plan on a hit-and-run. Get what they want and leave. This won’t go responded, but it’s a little ah, chaotic. We launched a strike force about 10 minutes ago, and thankfully there was a tanker on standby, but by then they could be gone... over"
"Good God... this is Alpha-one-Bravo. I copy. What are my orders, over?"
"This is Mike-one-Romeo this is straight from the top brass: Alpha team will counter and eliminate all hostiles in the area. Capture and secure any personnel with commanding power. That is all. I'm going to patch a live feed of enemy forces throughout the city on the terrain map. Get your gear, and meet up with Alpha-one-Charlie and Delta. They are moving to meet up with you at rally point Gamma ASAP. You have 20 minutes, over. I'll contact you later about an extraction. Also, command says that you can reveal yourself to public if you wish."
"Now there’s a surprise... this is Alpha-one-Bravo. Unit copies all, over and out."
And then Eddie Murphy came back. I had to smile at that. I tapped the pause button and locked the phone. Eddie could come later. I took a deep breath, set my shoulders, and tapped Shelder’s shoulder and began whispering into his ear.
"We have an I.D. on the hostiles. It's the North Koreans”
"You would`ve figured it was the Chinese" he murmured
"Same, now here’s the problem, they've attacked Boston and are planning a hit-and-run to either capture or kill us, and we have no idea."
He sighed and hung his head down, and his veins started to swell on his neck. It happens when he gets angry.
"It's our job now to attack. We’re going to meet Ale and Chris over at Twin City Plaza. They gassed us just now so use your respirator. Go tell the others."
He nodded. “What about Blondie?" he said.
I considered that for a moment.
"We'll leave her here. Nothing’s going to happen." I replied
He gave me a that’s-what-we-always-say look and went off to the back of the basement. I pulled a respirator out of my pocket. It was going in my mouth when the first person fell. I turned around to see what the three of them thought about what shelder said. They obviously weren’t impressed. They all had looks that clearly said: oh come ON! It goes to show how impressed we were with this.
Shelder came back after getting scolded by the teacher. She told him to meet her afterschool. He sat down and leaned back with a smile still on his face. I could understand why. Lady, we won’t be here!
“Not impressed either, are they?” I asked.
“Except Sergio, but I think we both saw that coming.”
“Yeah, any questions they had?”
“Yeah, rules of openness and if we were going to get some CAS”
“Openness; they gave us a choice. I chose no. you good with that?”
He considered it then nodded “It’s too early” he said. Then he put a hand up with one finger up.
“What about CAS?” he asked, putting his hand back down.
“Close air support… It should be something good, no promises.”
He put his hand up with a thumbs-up. At the same time, out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone slump in their chair. I instantly closed my nose and put the respirator over my mouth. Everyone else immediately covered their mouths discretely, pinching their noses as well. It was over in about 5 minutes. Everyone was confused when it started happening, but chances are that they won’t remember anything but a bad headache.
The moment the last student gave in to the gas, the back three guys and Shelder began jogging to the exit. We had full chemical warfare suits back at the school building (Where no one could see, obviously). I stayed back for a second and looked at Maya, who had her head rested on some other girls shoulder. Some part of me felt like I should’ve told her before this happened, but it probably would’ve gotten me nowhere. Actually, she’d probably believe me more now that this had happened. I patted her shoulder, and jogged away to meet up with the rest of the group.
That’s all until I can write the next chapter. Tell me what you think?!
Synopsis: Kenn Butler knew he wasn't normal. But there wasn't much to prove it. Only surviving electrocution was his abnormal part of him. And there were plenty of stories like that. Little did he know, that is what was so special about him. Kenn and 7 other friends were part of a high profile government project called "Olympus", inspired by all of the stories about superhuman warriors created by the general public. They were given an injection at birth, which enhanced their physical abilities. They were never given the second injection that brought them to full power, due to the violent reaction caused by it. Only one, Sergio, was given the second injection because his powers controlled something the military was familiar with. Mechanics. Until they hit 14, the age they can take the injection at, they must rely on weapons that they are supplied. However a threat already has emerged, and will stop at nothing to kill them and the U.S. government... (Wow I already revised this at least twice to improve it...)
These events occur right after they receive training from Navy SEALs during winter break, not a week before school begins.
(I’m not much of a writer, so let’s give this a shot! This is told from Kenn's point of view)
Most schools have a nice auditorium or at least an assembly area. My school uses the church basement next door. I mean it did have nice lighting and everything, so it didn't look TOO much like a basement, but if we could afford to remodel a new campus, couldn’t we afford putting a small assembly hall? Nope. Go figure. But we weren’t complaining. After all of the training over winter break, we were ready to assimilate back to our old life. No weapons, no top secret whatever. Just boring teachers and good laughs. Of course it wouldn’t be like that for long... No stop thinking like that. Get back to reality. I sighed and followed the rest of the class across the snow covered parking lot. Behind me, Shelder started talking
"Yo dog, why do we get the ghettoest stuff at this school?"
"What happened?" I said, slowing my pace a little.
"It’s only the 2nd football man, SECOND! And the stupid principle said we ain’t getting a new one until spring!"
"What the hell? Cheap little school..."
"I know right?! Damn guys can’t even get a proper basketball hoop!" Keanu said
"Forget hoops, jerks can’t even get god damn grass on the place." Dylan muttered
I grunted in agreement "What kind of school has a parking lot for a playing field?!"
Maya overheard us and came over "All that complaining and yet that doesn’t stop any of you from playing football, now does it?" We all grinned at that.
"Well we're just awesome like that" I said.
She smiled a little and rolled her eyes “You’re all hopeless" she said. Then she walked back up the line to chat with the girls who were already inside. I watched her hair for a bit, curious for no reason in particular.
"You sure you don't want to tell her?" Richard asked, walking down the stairs with everyone.
"Huh?" I said, trying to act dumb.
"You know what I’m talking about" he replied, giving me a look.
I stared down. I knew Maya should just be told for her own sake, but some part of me resisted. She was cute, nice, had stellar grades, and most importantly, a life. Not quite like us misfits.
"Soon, I'll tell her" I muttered.
"And I’m white. Look, whoever "they" are, they know that she is one of us!" Us like were different. Nice. “And when she gets hurt, captured and interrogated, what the hell can she say? When they figure out she doesn’t know anything her head is-"
"Shut up, Richard, alright?" I said "Were more than capable of fighting. And I will tell her, now calm down,"
He gave me a 'yeah-right' look, then sighed and gave up. He walked across the basement to go sit with Dylan and Sergio, who seemed to be looking at something on the floor. I could only imagine what it was. Probably some sort of new weapon Sergio managed to make.
I sat down behind Shelder. I was well aware of Maya right behind me. I pulled out my phone about 5 minutes into the period. The principle, Mr. Lipman (no joke) was not the most interesting speaker out there, so you can only listen to so many of his "You can do it!" speeches, before wanting to compare him to Rebecca Black.
The phone had been tricked out by the techies at the Pentagon, so now it could do some sick things, like a 3D terrain projector for battle planning and my personal favorite, the laser cutter. It kills the battery though. I opened up a browser and just did some random Google searches that were blazingly fast. Ok, so maybe some top secret things were cool. I settled for some Eddie Murphy comedy and fed my earbuds through my shirt.
It happened about half way through the period. One moment, I was listening about how big MJ's lips were; the next, some sort of interference, like something was trying to talk louder than the YouTube video. I frowned and pulled out my phone. Eddie wasn't moving, but there was a pulsing red bad on the top of the screen. Aw you got to be kidding. No, no, don’t think like that it might just be someone who knows my number... Yeah, like I was that lucky. I tapped the pulsing bar apprehensively.
"Hello?" I whispered through the earbud mike
"Alpha-one-Bravo, this is Mike-one-Romeo, do you copy, over?" crackled a deep male voice.
I moaned internally. Why? Not even a week! Not even a week and they were contacting me!
"Mike-one-Romeo this is Alpha-one-bravo, it’s Friday and you already have news for me? This better be real good, over."
"This is Mike-one-Romeo it’s REALLY good and REALLY bad." Oh no..."Just depends on how you look at it. We figured out who hacked our base a few minutes ago." Maybe it's not so bad after all. "It’s the North Koreans"
"Huh that’s a little surprising. Not that surprising though. It was bound to happen someday" I responded. Thankfully, no teachers were nearby.
"Yeah? Well then you won't like this." You have got to be-! “They didn't like it, it seems like they got the wrong wind of things and they have sent over a massive force. It seems like they have taken over Logan Airport and have grounded all flights, they've also sent away all flights, claiming there has been a gas attack, which there has, unfortunately." Oh this keeps getting better and better "All of Boston and the surrounding areas have been attacked with a powerful sleeping gas, over."
"Sleeping gas? That’s a negative over Cambridge. Everybody here is wide awake." I said
"The Koreans just sprayed Cambridge about a minute ago. You should put on your masks soon. They have seemed to plan on a hit-and-run. Get what they want and leave. This won’t go responded, but it’s a little ah, chaotic. We launched a strike force about 10 minutes ago, and thankfully there was a tanker on standby, but by then they could be gone... over"
"Good God... this is Alpha-one-Bravo. I copy. What are my orders, over?"
"This is Mike-one-Romeo this is straight from the top brass: Alpha team will counter and eliminate all hostiles in the area. Capture and secure any personnel with commanding power. That is all. I'm going to patch a live feed of enemy forces throughout the city on the terrain map. Get your gear, and meet up with Alpha-one-Charlie and Delta. They are moving to meet up with you at rally point Gamma ASAP. You have 20 minutes, over. I'll contact you later about an extraction. Also, command says that you can reveal yourself to public if you wish."
"Now there’s a surprise... this is Alpha-one-Bravo. Unit copies all, over and out."
And then Eddie Murphy came back. I had to smile at that. I tapped the pause button and locked the phone. Eddie could come later. I took a deep breath, set my shoulders, and tapped Shelder’s shoulder and began whispering into his ear.
"We have an I.D. on the hostiles. It's the North Koreans”
"You would`ve figured it was the Chinese" he murmured
"Same, now here’s the problem, they've attacked Boston and are planning a hit-and-run to either capture or kill us, and we have no idea."
He sighed and hung his head down, and his veins started to swell on his neck. It happens when he gets angry.
"It's our job now to attack. We’re going to meet Ale and Chris over at Twin City Plaza. They gassed us just now so use your respirator. Go tell the others."
He nodded. “What about Blondie?" he said.
I considered that for a moment.
"We'll leave her here. Nothing’s going to happen." I replied
He gave me a that’s-what-we-always-say look and went off to the back of the basement. I pulled a respirator out of my pocket. It was going in my mouth when the first person fell. I turned around to see what the three of them thought about what shelder said. They obviously weren’t impressed. They all had looks that clearly said: oh come ON! It goes to show how impressed we were with this.
Shelder came back after getting scolded by the teacher. She told him to meet her afterschool. He sat down and leaned back with a smile still on his face. I could understand why. Lady, we won’t be here!
“Not impressed either, are they?” I asked.
“Except Sergio, but I think we both saw that coming.”
“Yeah, any questions they had?”
“Yeah, rules of openness and if we were going to get some CAS”
“Openness; they gave us a choice. I chose no. you good with that?”
He considered it then nodded “It’s too early” he said. Then he put a hand up with one finger up.
“What about CAS?” he asked, putting his hand back down.
“Close air support… It should be something good, no promises.”
He put his hand up with a thumbs-up. At the same time, out of the corner of my eye, I saw someone slump in their chair. I instantly closed my nose and put the respirator over my mouth. Everyone else immediately covered their mouths discretely, pinching their noses as well. It was over in about 5 minutes. Everyone was confused when it started happening, but chances are that they won’t remember anything but a bad headache.
The moment the last student gave in to the gas, the back three guys and Shelder began jogging to the exit. We had full chemical warfare suits back at the school building (Where no one could see, obviously). I stayed back for a second and looked at Maya, who had her head rested on some other girls shoulder. Some part of me felt like I should’ve told her before this happened, but it probably would’ve gotten me nowhere. Actually, she’d probably believe me more now that this had happened. I patted her shoulder, and jogged away to meet up with the rest of the group.
That’s all until I can write the next chapter. Tell me what you think?!