Transducers, transducers...
Chapter one
It was a fine day in New York; the sun was shining in the clear sky like a beacon of hope for all those below. The warm breeze drifted around the city, comforting those with its gentle winds.
Not everyone was enjoying the fine weather however, as others walked past with their papers in one hand and a coffee in another with a smile on their face, Jack walked around the city with a look of despair and hopelessness on his face. His baggy hooded jacket in a dark shade of blue and his grey, faded jeans gave him a tired look. This matched his feelings perfectly.
As he wandered the streets, his hood covering is dark brown and wavy hair; his thoughts couldn't help but drift back to the day of him leaving his home in England to come to America.
He had been sitting in his room on his iPod watching some videos on YouTube, when out of the blue, the video cut off and was replaced by the face of a older looking man, roughly in his late 50's or so, with dark grey wavy hair and glasses. Talking in what appeared to be a large, formal-looking room, about what sounded to be like a group of people he called "Alphas". Jack had never heard of the word "Alphas" being used to label a person or group of people, only used in physics as a name of a type of radiation, so why they were referred to as that confused him almost as much as to why he had appeared on his iPod in the first place.
He then began to talk about these "Alphas" having abilities that could be classed as "Different" Jack liked how this man had phrased it, not strange or weird, but different. This had more meaning to him than most people watching Jack thought as the man grabbed his attention with these words.
Jack knew he was different, he could always see things others couldn't. Things that he could perceive for as long as he could remember, the "Streams in the air" he liked to call them. They had kept him company more than any person ever did, the streams of colours, numbers and images kept him occupied while other kids played ball or hung out. He loved to play with the streams and see what he could see next, often it would be a new text or Email, and sometimes TV shows would appear in a stream of their own.
As Jack grew up he noticed that nobody else could see the "Streams in the air" and he was alone in his experience, as he entered his teenage years he learned to control these streams more and learned what they actually were... Electromagnetic waves, not all of the waves though. All carrying information through the air all around him and he could see them, like the sky is blue, He could see them. He could also to some extent interact with them, focus or defocus them, make them clearer and larger for him to see, And now he finally was part of something larger than just him, that he wasn't alone , and he knew what he was...
An Alpha