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Chapter 1
"The End of the old life"
March 1, 2009
05:38 eastern standard time
New York city, New York, America
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A pitch black room is lit up by a bright light and the sound of a welder. As the light and sound dies down we see a boy in a black shirt and blue jeans, with a welder and mask. When the welder is finally turned off the boy removes the mask and looks to the side to a young African American boy in a grey sweat shirt with white stripes on its arms, and black pants.
"Well? What do you think?" the boy with the welder asks the other one as he walks over.
"colorful." Smiling he turns to his friend.
"But you know your uncle is just going to build something better to top this." Grinning down at the table now. "I mean you guys are like dueling evil scientists trying to one up each other, Jack."
The boy now known as Jack smiles even more "not this time Rhodey." He stand strait again and jesters to the table "this one's different. He's going to freak-out when he sees this." Looking over to Rhodey "come with me to show him."
With an irritated look Rhodey said "yeah some of us have to go to school, Jack." Pointing at him "you ever heard of it?"
"Sounds afoul. I'll call you tonight to let you know how it went."
Smirking Rhodey looked down to the table on last time "Uh yeah I'm holding my breath Right now." Looking down at his watch and making a show of holding his breath.
Jake grabbed his arm and pushes him to the door "very funny now go I have to get this ready for trance port."
Laughing the whole time "Ok, ok I'm going. See ya Jack" Grabbing his backpack off the floor and walking out the door.
"Yeah bye." Turning to the table "now what to do about you."
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New York. A big, fast moving city with a bay that is always active with boats loading and offloading cargo, and almost immediately to the left you can see a large tower right on the bay with a train station under it. This is the main headquarters of Hoffer Corporation.
As you get closer to the building you can see the boy, Jack, from before walking into the towers main entrance with a bag over his shoulder.
Jacks P.O.V.
I waved to John on my way in. He looked tired more than usual but it was early so I didn't think anything of it. I walked over to the elevator and hit the 121 floor, Uncle Andrew's office and waited, listening to the elevator music, when the door opened Two minutes later I was greeted by Matt one of the head securities guards of the building.
"Hey J, your Uncle came up about an hour ago." He said smiling.
"Thanks Matt." I said turning Right down the hall greeting people as they walked by.
"Morning Jack'
"Morning Kev."
"Hey Mack what's up"
"Hi Carl"
Turning Left up the small flight of stairs at the end of the hallway I saw Trish at her desk.
"Hey Trish"
Looking up from her computer with a grin "Well look who finally came out of his garage. You're Uncles inside Jack"
"Thanks." I said as I opened the door to his office. The first thing I noticed was that the lights were off and the blinds on the windows closed making it dark. The only light source coming from the desk in front of the windows. A holographic projection showed pieces of advanced machines like power plants, plains, cars, and in the center was a old ring. Then I saw my uncle standing next to his desk talking in to his headset.
"Nno go ahead and proceed with the earth movers trail run. I'll be onsite in an hour and I'll have the ring with me." He seemed to be listing to whoever he was talking to. "Good I'll see you there."
Walking up to him I asked "Are the laser systems I Designed for the earth mover up and running yet or are you still in ancient history mod."
As the blinds moved open and light around the room turned on He laught at the joke. "Very funny. They already completed testing on the lasers and are trying them in the field today. Want to come with me to see it?"
I rubbed the back of my head "actually I wanted to show you something. At the testing grounds. Something big."
He smiled "Big hum, alright lets…" He was interrupted by Obadiah Stain barging into the room fallowed by Trish. Obadiah is an ungrateful prick in my side. An all-around ass.
"Howard!" yelled Obadiah as Trish tried to explain.
"Its ok Trish" My uncle said. She nodded and closed the door.
"Why did you reject my proposal for repurposing the earth movers? The military will pay good money for them once they've been modified." He stopped waving his hands around when he was done.
"Modified? You want to turn an invention made to make people's lives better into a weapon. That's not going to happen."
"This is insane Howard. You're costing this company and its shareholders a" My uncle cut the man off form his enraged speech.
"A fortune. I know, But, Hoffer corp. is my company" For a second I thought I saw my uncle glare at Obadiah. Not that he didn't deserve it, it's just my uncle never glares.
"Howard!" Obadiah looked ready to pop a blood vessel but uncle stopped him.
"It's my company and my word is final." Obadiah scowled and then sighed and walked out.
I looked over at him "I don't think Obadiah is too happy with you" He smiled and laught.
He placed his hand on my shoulder "I think your right. Now we have one quick stop to make then we'll see what's got you so excited."
I smiled as we walked to the door "You're going to have you mind blown by my new tech."
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On the plain to the earth movers my uncle explained to me the stories about the ring he's so worked up about.
"Some historians believed that the chines had explorers in the new world far before any Europeans. The archaeological dig site we have in New Jersey, the artifacts were finding proves just that. It's a mystery that has everything to do with the McLuhan Rings.
"Wow is that boring" I said that but the opposite was true. I loved learning new things even if it was from the past. So smiling my uncle continued.
"The Chines thought the rings were magic, but from what we're learning I think they actually maybe a form of technology. Imagine Jack technology ten times as advanced as we have today but hundreds if not thousands of years old." He looked down at the ring on his finger, thinking.
I blinked once and lifted my head off my hand "for a man who's shaping the future of the world your hobbies are really old-school." He smiled and laught.
"Ok. Take a look smart guy there's your genus at work down there." He said looking out the window and what I saw amazed me.
The earth mover M.K. I stood ten stories high on six legs. It slowly moved across a giant area of flat dirt.
"A hard light laser acts as a scapula and the targeting system you invented makes clean quick cuts into the earth. Combine that with real time seismograph readings the earth mover will not only revolutionize archaeology, but imagine the benefits for disaster relief, collapsed builds and tunnels, your invention will save lives Jack."
Smiling to him from across the platform "It also mad your last invention look like a fourth grade science project." Leaning on the rail I looked over the land as the earth mover cut clean holes into the earth without disturbing the stone statues that lie beneath the sand.
"Yeah and that's Why I'm grounding you for a month!" This took a good 5 seconds before I reacted
"Wait What!" I yelled over to him standing as straight as a board. And to my utter amazement he laughs.
"You're so easy it's not even fun."
"Howard." Said a man, I think his name is Adam, walked up to us with a box. As he approached dad took off the ring and gave it to the man.
"Wait! You're giving up your magic rig?" I asked in astonishment.
"Only for the day. We're doing a comparison of it and the artifacts found here." He said as we walked down the platform.
"The more we know about it, the better the chance at unlocking the rings secrets."
Finally back on the plain "Ok genus, let's get to the testing grounds and see what you got."
As I sat down to tell him about the suit I built a hologram of Trish appeared on the table.
"Yes Trish?" Uncle asked.
"Sorry sir. Its stain again. He insists on talking to you."
A grim look took a hold of him "its ok Trish put him through." He leans back as Trish disappeared, and rubbed his head. "I think I'm going to have to let Obadiah go. He's become obsessed with weapons."
I look at his with a smirk "a million dollars says he's going to ask about the earth movers again."
He smirked back "your on."
As I got up from my set "I'm going to head back and make sure everything is ready before we land." As I walked by I put my hand on his shoulder as a sign of good luck.
"Howard. I want to talk to you about the earth mover deal."
I grind ear to ear "Hurray I'm Richer."
"I'm giving you one last time to approve this Howard."
"Well I'm just going to have to refuse one last time then." After that the door closed separating the back of the plain from the front. This was mainly the cargo hold and had big boxes stacked around the area. One long metal container was what drew my attention. The box with my latest creation in it.
I walked up to it and opened the main access panel to reveal the keypad. A four digit number made from a 9 digit pad. As I typed in the last numbers I heard a loud noise from the front of the jet. As I turned around I saw a bright light and then nothing.
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A jet smashed into the ground in the desert not too far from a large metal object. A large creature stud next to it. Its skin made of shifting metal and one of its arms in the form of some kind of weapon. Its most prominent feature a purple insignia on its arm. Looking over the wreckage it turned away and started running north toward a small cite only a few miles away.
A crash came from within the jet. Then another closer to the right side wing. Then Jack crawled out from the wreck. He was slumped over and slowly moving. He was covered in shrapnel from head to toe and a large piece of metal ran from his back to the center of his chest. He cradled his left arm to his chest below the end of the metal. It only went a couple of inches past his elbow. The rest was gone. Jack was mumbling things under his breath as he slowly moved away from the plain.
"-Not going to die, I'm not going to die here, I am not going to die now!"
Yelling the last part as he reached an object some 30 feet away from the plain. The rest of his left arm. Reaching out with his right hand he griped his other arm and taped the watch on his wrist. A blue colored display popped up on a hologram. It asked for an order.
"Hoffer clan authorization, Alfa code, Darby 3" A green light blinked at the top of the hologram.
"Welcome Jack-" slamming his hand down on the watch the start up was skipped.
"Open suit interface" a red light popped up opening a new menu on the hologram.
"Start pilot protection program, Take-take me to Rhodey…" he slowly slumped forward into the ground. As the watch slowly turned its self-off. A boom was heard at the back of the plain as a black metal being walked out of the fire in the cargo hold of the plain and made a bee line for the boy.
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Jack's P O V
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Everything felt like it was on fire. My missing arm, my chest and heart. I slumped into the dirt and waited for my death. This was it. It was all over. Then I felt a hand on my shoulder. I opened my eyes and everything blurred but, I saw something above me.
"Pilot status, critical. Suit on board protection systems activated." I blinked and everything was black for a short time. Longer than my eyes being closed. When I could see again the suit was scanning me looking for something. Damage assessment part of my mind said but I couldn't focus on it. Then it went black again.
Then I was in the suit. The screen and HUD blinked on showing the crash site and Information started to scroll by faster than my brain could process right now.
"Pilot seeking immediate medical attention. Deep layer protocols activated" everything went black after that.
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A black object flew across the sky over Nevada. If you looked closely it looked almost like a human made out of metal. It looked almost peaceful on the outside but on the inside it was very different.
The suits HUD switches from showing the sky around it and goes black closing the screen and images pop up on the HUD
"Warning, Power at 68.6%, all systems impaired. Warning, user in need of immediate medical attention, switching to core function mode. Life support priority. Warning, deep layer protocols engaging."
An image of the user, me, appears on the left side of the screen, and an image of his bone structure appears on the right side. Almost immediately red areas appear, showing damage. Most prominently His left arm.
"Warning, Left arm severed, Right arm shattered in seven areas. Left leg crushed, Right leg snapped in three places. Right shoulder bone dislocated. Three cracked ribs above the left lung, damage to the third, fourth, fifth, seventh, ninth, and twelfth vertebrae. Attempting to heal damage."
A Beep is heard and the image of the body closes in on the chest area.
"WARNING, User heart failure imminent. Collapsed left lung, blood filed right lung. Warning meager damage to heart, damage unrepairable. Attempting work around solution."
Images start to appear on the screen rapidly. Some are of medical tool, other advanced technology. An image stops dead center screen. A White see through ring surrounds the heart in the image.
"Attempting Repair."
there is a sharp stabbing pain in my chest then black surrounds me.
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Jack's P O V
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The first thing I feel, when I wake up inside the suit, is an intense pain in my heart. Then the sounds outside the suit start to sink in. I try to open my eyes but I'm just too tired too.
"What is that!?"
"It looks like a man"
The sound of doors opening and carts and people moving.
"Someone call Dr. Yorotakagi"
"I already did. He's getting ready for surgery."
The sounds of metal scraping metal and then the feel of cold air inside the suit. A gasp is heard.
"Oh gods"
"Is he even alive?"
I can feel someone touch my right arm. Holding my wrist and count.
"It's faint but he's got a pulse. Hurry we may be able to still save him"
I can feel them remove me from the suit but that's it. I drift back into helpless blackness.