One would wonder why anyone would think of transferring to another school with just a month before the end of the year. Well, tell that to four teenagers who moved from California to finish their last month of school and their summer vacation. Meanwhile, a young man in Qatar will have to survive the near coming of the destruction of his home away from home. In the District of Columbia in the US, a young woman and her program will assist in cracking a signal in which will reveal a secret that has been long hidden for decades. All lives will be brought together by hands of fate as all will find that their lives will never become the same ever again. Can either of them be able to fight through this while keeping their own selves out of harm's way?
May 7th, 2007
Tranquility, Nevada
Tranquility High School
7:37 AM PDT
Standing in a room full of strangers can make anyone uncomfortable. It makes it worse when you are already the center of attention in said classroom of thirty students. Fifteen year old and freshman Josh Rivera let out a shaky sigh as he was then told to take a seat in the second to last row in the back.
He had short black unkempt hair over brown eyes. His clothing consisted of a simple black T-shirt with no design and black jeans along with a pair of black converse. As for accessories, he wore a buckle bracelet on his left arm and a white sweat band on his right. Both were covered with black arm warmers.
He jadedly walked to his seat and plopped into it before listening to the teacher talking about the American Revolution. He pulled out his three-subject notebook reluctantly as he would rather have begun playing Megaman Zero on his DS. However, he knew that the rules about handheld game consoles were the same here and more than likely enforced. As the lesson went on for a couple of minutes, the doors to the classroom swung open, letting a really tired boy that was the same age of him.
The boy's hair was long, dark brown and tied back with letting a few strands over his forehead. He had a bit of facial hair too. He wore a grey T-shirt with some sort of gothic cross design which was underneath a sleeveless hooded jacket, a pair of dark blue jeans, and a pair of dark brown combat boots. His eyes were covered with a pair of aviator sunglasses and there was a black cough mask tied around his neck.
"And you are?" asked the history teacher. Josh lowered his head, feeling a bit embarrassed as he tried to avoid eye contact with the newcomer. It was already hard enough that the people were gossiping about the boy's attire, nearly looking some bum crossed with an emo hippie. He adjusted his aviator glasses, a small shine emitted from the small movement as he replied, "I'm the new transfer student… well, one of the new transfer students."
"Why is this happening to me?" Josh mentally whined before his other voice told him. "It's because you decided to move with your friends to another state in the last month of school. Of course there would be people who would question this, especially the reason this was happening." As he continued to hear his new classmates gossip a bit and creating rumors, he saw the teacher point to the seat next to him in which the boy happily and stumbled to it. Flopping on to the seat, the aviator-wearing teen smiled to him and said, "Hey, Joshy."
Groaning irritably, he replied, "Morning, Michael…"
Michael Cardona smiled as he then laid back in his chair only a bit since it was attached to the desk. It was obvious what he was going to do. He was going to fall asleep in the classroom. Shaking his head at his friend's carelessness, he went to take notes for him even though he knew that Michael didn't really care at this point about passing this year.
Cafeteria
12:02 PM PDT
After picking up the lunch special of the day, the two boys were able to find their other transfer friends in the far corner of the cafeteria. Fifteen year old Michelle Martinez was waving them over while sixteen year old Lisa Rodriguez was busy eating a ham and cheese sandwich. Both were nearing the end of their sophomore year in high school.
Lisa wore a large dark blue hooded jacket that was unzipped, revealing a simply black tang top, baggy cargo pants, and inch high shoes. Her shoulder-long black hair was combed to her left side, covering half of her face, but it still didn't conceal the obvious bored look that it was having right now. The only notable accessory she had on her is a large ear-muffed headphone that was hanging around her neck with the cord tucked into her pants pocket.
Michelle had a dark purple collared shirt that had its sleeves rolled up to her mid upper arms. She wore tight light blue jeans with black suspenders that hung on her sides and light red converse. Her black hair was a bit curly as it went past her shoulders and draped over them. Her brown eyes were covered with black rimmed, stylized glasses and her cell phone was hanging around her neck by black lanyard.
"Can you believe the crap they sell here?" Michelle said as she showed what she had ordered which was the same, which it seems that the lunch special looked like very sloppy Joes without the buns. "You could have just taken the sandwich," Lisa stated as she took another bite and ignored the glare she got from her friend. Out of mock spite, the Mexican girl slapped at her friend's hand, making her drop the sandwich on to her lap and turned her head away with a pout.
The comical moment disappeared as they saw someone walking towards, specifically towards Michael as the teenager with thin brown hair called to him. "Hey, Michael, you got a minute?" Nodding his head, Michael followed the teenager before they began to talk with each other. With nothing really to do, the three teenagers watched while taking a bite of their food, acting as if the scene was some great drama.
"Look, I'm thankful that Uncle Ron bought the house for us to stay in," Michael said to sixteen year old Sam Witwicky. "But I really can't come over for dinner. I already signed for the night shift at the job I just applied to."
Sam just laughed a bit and said, "Well, I guess that's a good reason to stay away from my mom's questioning about what's happening in your neck of the woods." Both of the cousins laughed together before they shared a brotherly hand shake and hug before parting from each other and returned to their social circles. As he joined his friends, Michael heard Lisa ask, "So, where did you apply at?" He seemed a bit hesitant to answer before muttering quietly, "Chuck E. Cheese…"
There was a rather long awkward pause before Michelle and Josh busted laughing while Lisa nearly choked on her sandwich. Michael pulled up his aviator glasses to cover his shame-filled eyes as he continued to eat his lunch, ignoring the stares and just wanted to get the day done without incident.
Chuck E. Cheese
6:22 PM PDT
"You have got to be kidding me," Michael said as he was dressed in the uniform for the establishment he was currently working at. He stared up at the large tube maze as he heard loud crying coming from inside. Apparently, a kid got lost in there and is too afraid to go looking for a way out. After losing in a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors, he took in a deep breath as he proceeded to search the maze of the tubes.
Oddly enough, as he ventured through the maze and climbed to different levels, he didn't come across the rumored stinky diapers or throw-up that he heard so much. However, he wasn't going to take that chance as he focused on finding the boy. As the crying began to grow louder, he soon turned the corner to find the missing child. "Hey there, buddy," Michael gently said to the boy, catching his attention.
He didn't expect the kid to literally scream as if he was dying or the fact that he began to frantically crawl away from him and deeper into the jungle of tubes. He groaned and placed his head on the bottom of the tube he was in before crawling after the boy. It took some strategizing, which was a pain since his laziness was coming on, but he was able to push the scared boy towards the slide.
The boy just gave him a rather frightened look, as if he was the big bad wolf ready to eat little Red Riding Hood. Sighing and knowing that this could probably be the worst thing he would have done at this point, he made a disturbing gurgle as the boy literally screamed louder than before and fell backwards into the slide. Michael quickly reached for the boy, only to fall into the slide himself. The extra weight wasn't able to be sustained as the slide broke and fell to the ground along with its occupants.
Home
7:41 PM PDT
"And that's how I got fired today," Michael finished as he plopped back on the couch of the living room. He just ignored the laughter coming from his friends, seeing Josh and Michelle nearly ready to fall unconscious from laughter while Lisa was just drinking a small cup of tea. Truthfully, everyone had to deal with their own job situations, being that Michelle now works at the Game Stop in the Town Center and Josh working at Hot Topic in the same area. Lisa was left to being a temp, meaning that she would get any part time job she can come across that she would personally like to do.
Technically, she is still unemployed since the interview she went to for working as a waitress didn't go so well due to her small temper.
Letting out a tired breath, Michael stood up and stretched before saying, "Well, I'm turning in for the night."
With that, everyone went to their rooms to sleep off the rest of the day.
Qatar
US SOCCENT Air Force Base
5:43 AM AST
Staring off at the sun rise would always give anyone the same feeling that they had when they first saw it. For Vince Price, that was exactly what he was feeling when he stared at the sun rising from behind the sand dunes that surrounded the base he was stationed at. However, he knew that this short feeling of peace wouldn't last long as he heard the early bugle of the trumpet echo through the speakers.
After the morning exercise and the breakfast, everyone went to their stations as he went to the tech bunker. Sitting at his desk, he began to watch the radar for any signs of oncoming aircrafts that would fly into their airspace.
"Looks like the squad will be back by tomorrow afternoon," he heard his comrade speak in boredom. Vince let out a small laugh before averting his attention to the screen as he kept watch on any anomalies that would appear and cause problems of confusion.
XxXxX
The following conversation, which will appear at the end of each chapter, is an excerpt from an online chatroom site called OnRain. This internet group was created first by Bekuta. It was at first created for the fact of showing off numerous conspiracies to other members and also create debates on which is real or not. Members can only join when given a password by existing members.
[Bekuta has logged in]
LipsX69: Bekuta! Hey! Haven't seen you online for awhile?
LipsX69: ಠ_ಠ where the hell have you been?
Bekuta: Sorry. Been busy with work and such…
Bekuta: don't really want get into details m(_ _)m
TrO1k: w/e
TrO1k: if this keeps up, I'll take leadership from you m9(^Д^)
B(/)A: hey, that's not cool.
B(/)A: Besides, you would suck at being leader XD
Tr01k: stfu, B(/)A
Bekuta: guys, no fighting, please ^^'
B(/)A: but he started it
Tr01k: and I would finish it if I ever knew you in rl
B(/)A: it's becuz Im ninja like that
YFunk1980: maybe we should get back to what this group was created for
LipsX69: yeah, like totally
Bekuta: well, has anyone been able to dig up anymore stuff lately?
Tr01k: other than the USA being totally jackasses to Iraq, nothing much
B(/)A: that's so racist, Tr01k
Tr01k: w/e
Bekuta: well, I actually found something interesting a few days ago during my break
LipsX69: by found, I bet you hacked something and downloaded it
…
Bekuta: I was bored ^^'
[CA Ch1b1DR34M91 has logged in]
LipsX69: Cali! You're on! ヽ(´3`)/
[CA Ch1b1DR34M91 has logged off]
LipsX69: 0 ~ 0 she doesn't loves me anymores TT~TT
YFunk1980: maybe if you stop the sexual talk towards her, she would stay on longer when you're around
LipsX69: but I loves her too much to contain it
Bekuta: LOL anyways, do you guys want to see what I found?
Tro1k: might as well. Got nothing better to do
B(/)A: oh! I'm interested
YFunk1980: Me too…
Bekuta: here's the link
Bekuta: [link]
…
B(/)A: WTF?
Tr01k: what was that? Was that the Mars mission four years ago?
Bekuta: ikr?
LipsX69: whoa, wait… you hacked into the space place? Dude, you could get arrested for that!
Bekuta: don't worry, as long as you guys don't go posting it everywhere, I'll be fine :3
YFunk1980: what was that anyways?
YFunk1980: hold on, imma go rewatch it
…
B(/)A: but man… that was so weird!
Tr01k: you wouldn't have been able to see half of that, B(/)A
B(/)A: sorry if I'm color blind, asshole! Dx
[Ladiesman217 has logged in]
Tr01k: who are you?
Ladiesman217: hi
LipsX69: oh! I love your sn
Ladiesman217: lol tnx
Bekuta: nice to meet you Ladiesman217
Ladiesman217: tnx
Ladiesma217: I was told about this place from a friend and basically wanted to check it out
Ladiesman217: what do you guys talk about here anyways?
Bekuta: such and such, but mostly about conspiracy theories
Ladiesman217: cool
Ladiesman217: hey I gtg. Have a big day tomorrow
LipsX69: Dx aw! don't go, pappas! We didn't even get to learn about each other's sizes
Ladiesman217: ?
Tr01k: trust me, don't go asking for it
Tr01k: it's not as hot as it sounds
LipsX69: x 3 meanie!
Ladiesman217: lol, anyways, it's nice meeting you all
Ladiesman217: I'll ttyl
Tr01k: w/e latez
B(/)A: laters
LipsX69: bbfn
[Ladiesman217 has logged out]
Tr01k: I like that guy
Tr01k: brief and straight to the point
Tr01k: unlike someone else here .
B(/)A: yeah! I totally get what you mean
Tr01k: … (slaps own forehead)
Bekuta: lol
LipsX69: seriously, you two. I keep thinking you know each other in rl
Tr01k: if I ever did, I woulda killed him already for the embarrassment that he is
B(/)A: aw… someone needs a hug :3
YFunk1980: hey, Bekuta! Can I have a copy of that vid? I'mma show YFr0m1980 later when he is online
Bekuta: sure, I'll give you a secure link to it
…
Bekuta: anyways, gtg
Bekuta: ttyl guys gn
Tr01k: night
LipsX69: loves joo
B(/)A: later
[Bekuta has logged out]
To Be Continued…