In the last chapter, Juice Roy got late for work, did overwork time, relaxed for the night, and got invaded by a beetle that entered his body and gave him an armor which made him pass out. Was it all a dream? That's what we're about to find out.


The next morning, Juice Roy woke up on the floor of his room. Remembering what he saw last night, he quickly got back up and looked at himself in the mirror...only to find out he no longer was covered by this beetle-shaped attire anymore. In fact, he was completely naked. Just as he thought, it was just a bad dream.

As for how he found himself on the floor, he probably just got agitated by his dream and fell from his bed. That was the better explanation. And at least, he woke up in advance before his usual waking up time to get prepared for school.

Eating a little breakfast consisting of one banana and a cup of orange juice, Roy then putted on a red t-shirt with a purple jacket and blue jeans before brushing his teeth and leaving home to walk at school. It only took him around ten minutes of walking before arriving at his high-school.

Roy had three friends at school - Fred, John, and Tom - but none of them were in his first class of today, SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS! Seriously, that was probably what Roy hated the most. All the teacher did was walking around the class and talk, bla bla bla.

As if that wasn't boring enough, none of Roy's friends were in this class and there was no particular girl that caught his attention. Well, maybe one. Her name was Mormei Dallas. She was more of the book worm type of girl. She either had a philipino or hispanic background, Roy was not too sure about that. She always had her hair tied back, and usually wore thick black glasses, sweat pants and a hoodie. Her zip up hoodie was always fully zipped and today her hoodie and sweats were brown.

However, she was not his main subject of attention for the moment. As the ref talked and talked to no end, Roy decided to secretly take out his notebook and pretend to take notes while he was actually drawing the beetle armor he dreamed of. Even though it was just a dream, he still had the clear picture of it in his head and wanted to put it on paper. By the time he was done, the page of his notebook reflected a pretty well-drawn beetle man.

"Mister Roy, are you listening?"

Juice rose his head to see the professor looking at him with a raised eyebrow. This caused him to blush nervously.


Later on, during dinner time, Juice and his friends were gathered at a table a little farther from the school and on a walking line next to a giant river to eat together. Juice was eating a big cookie sandwich with ice cream in the middle, Fred was nibbling on a Magnum popsicle, John was having a Kit Kat bar, and Fred was just drinking a Monster can (that's not their dinner; just their dessert).

As his three friends were chatting and laughing, Roy just enjoyed the fresh breeze of the river flying in his face and air. He might loved excitation of the city, but he also liked calm and peaceful moments like this zone. Specially since he was away from school, close to a river and with his friends.

"Is it good, Juice?" Tom asked him about his desert.

"Yeah, but I bet I will make a better version of it someday," he replied with a confident smile.

"Don't start with that again," Fred sighed.

"Come on, dude, you know it's what he wants to do...how you say that again?" John asked Juice.

He chuckled. "I told you many time what my life purpose is." He then took a pose and pointed at his friends. "I wanna become a great cook and make so awesome recipes that beside them, pizza and hamburger will look like entries!"

His three friends glanced at him for a moment...before chuckling of good heart. It was true; Juice Roy's biggest dream was to become a great cook. He was already part of a greatly advanced cooking club after school and that also explained why he worked at a waffle shop. Ever since he was a kid, he had special tastes and felt it could lead him to somewhere in life. His parents never missed a chance to tell him.

After chuckling a bit with his friends, Juice decided to get up and go for a walk on the boardwalk. So he did just that and calmly walked on the line, enjoying the loneliness and fresh breeze flying through his hair. That was just what he needed before returning in class and get bored to death again.

But of course, something had to ruin this moment.

A sudden sharp pain pierced his abdomen section and caused him to clutch down. "What the...?!" he groaned and started coughing, feeling as if his guts were going to come out from his mouth.

ZAP!

In then, in a split-second, all this pain eased and left. What did that meant? Was he sick or something. Still, he couldn't help but cough a bit in his hand which was...solid? And covered by a strange dark blue material?

Oh no.

He ran on the edge of the river to look at his reflection and saw in horror that he was again wearing this strange beetle-like armor with the mask and all - which explained, now that he realized it, why he was seeing yellow. "Are you kidding me?!" Juice groaned. "Why am I dreaming again?! Go away!"

He started running, hoping it would somehow make this dream stop. However, after a few seconds, he opened his eyes and realized that he was actually running super-fast; even the cars on the road on the other side of the river went slower than him. Did this armor...?

Juice shook his head. It was no time to fantasize. Maybe the water - fake water could help him get out of this dream. So, he stopped running and instead turned toward the river, looking to make a big splash. However, again to his surprise, he jumped super high, almost like a frog, but ten times more powerful.

"...What?" was all he managed to say before starting to fall, making him scream because of the adrenaline as he was getting closer and closer to the river.

He closed his eyes and braced himself for the splash...but he suddenly stopped right before the surface of the water. It was only after many seconds of confusion that Juice slowly turned his head and saw big bug wings appeared from the back of his armor and were battling super fast to keep him in mid-air.

"Hum...thanks, can you bring me back to the boardwalk?" Juice shyly asked, feeling a bit dumb for talking to wings, but then that was exactly what his wings did.

Once his feet touched the dry ground, he looked at his armor for a moment before smiling. That was maybe just a dream, but that didn't meant he couldn't enjoy it while it lasted. Somehow making his wings re-appear, he took off in the sky and enjoyed the breeze flying on the exposed parts of his face that his helmet was not covering.

However, his moment of joy got interrupted as he suddenly heard a lot of noise coming from down below. What could that be? Then, upon looking down, he gasped as he saw that the city's big park was on fire!


Looks like Juice Roy found his first mission: stop a fire. I know it sounds cliché as many heroes already took care of fires for their first mission, but we all need to start somewhere don't we?

Let me know what you think of this so far in the reviews, I like that :)