HEROES: GLOBAL
It started with a truly global event.
This is the story of how a solar eclipse changed the lives of two people.
It starts now...
PROLOGUE: ECLIPSE
Phil Rushdon glanced sidelong at his partner, and thought for a moment why he didn't just check his own watch. Instead, he answered. "Almost two hours."
His partner chuckled deeply. "Two hours."
Rushdon settled into the Toyota's driver's seat, and took a sip from his thermos, his eyes trained on the gate across the road. "Yeah," he sighed, smacking his lips, putting the lid back on the thermos, and tossing it aside. Empty. "Time for a coffee run."
"My turn…" his partner answered, sighing.
He left, the door slamming closed behind him.
Rushdon took his mobile phone from his jacket pocket, flipped it open, and checked for any new messages. Sure enough, a tiny envelope icon was on the LCD screen. He opened it. Two images appeared on the screen. A blonde boy, of about fifteen. And a dark-haired girl, the same age. Their targets.
Rushdon looked up, and saw the boy, in a sky blue shirt and dark blue hipsters, school bag on back, iPod in ears, making his way across the road, towards the gate.
The girl stepped out from behind the pillars, surrounded by a gaggle of teenagers. She smiled at the boy, who continued on, towards what Rushdon's briefing for the mission had identified as the Administration Building of Arthur Streeton High School in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney.
His partner returned to the car.
"He's here." Rushdon said, with a hint of a smile curling his lips upwards.
His partner slid into the seat beside him. Rushdon started the car up, and accelerated towards the school, before turning left down a heavily shaded avenue.
Far above, the skies darkened, as the moon dragged itself across the sun, blocking out its brilliant light.
And all across the world, things started to change.