Hello everybody, so here I am again with the next chapter. So now that we have met the main character Alex, and have established him in the first couple of chapters, the story will be kicking into high gear and will begin getting interesting. I don't want to give too much away, but it will be pretty big, so without further or due, I bring you this next chapter, please enjoy.

Chapter 4

It was another morning in the household, and when Alex got out of bed, he went through the same routine that he always went through, get up, brush his teeth, put clothes on, eat breakfast, etc. It was a bright morning, since it was getting warmer, but the thing that was most exciting to Alex was that it was Friday, which would lead to the beginning of the weekend, which was always his favorite days of the week. He knew that this was the last day of the third week, which meant that there were only two weeks before summer vacation, and he knew he was excited.

As he made his way towards his back-pack, he felt a sudden soreness on the back of his neck, and he knew that he was having one of those weird feelings again. The one thing that he knew was weird about it was that it felt sore at his back, but when it did, the feeling spread through the rest of his body. It felt weird for about a few minutes before it immediately went away like it was never there in the first place.

"Is something wrong?" Henry asked Alex when he was walking down the hall towards him. Alex gave a sigh as he looked at his bag.

"I'm telling you these feelings I keep getting are driving me crazy" Alex told his father "Must have been some accident that we were in" his parents had always told him that he had received these sort of feelings after his back was injured in a car accident when he was a baby, and that it has always been with him ever since.

"I know it's hard, but I'm sure it's normal" Henry said to him.

"Yeah, I know, it's just really annoying" Alex said. He pushed the thought aside as he continued to check his bag. Once he was all set, he slumped his bag onto his back and seeing what time it was, made his way for the door "Bye, I'll see you later then"

"Alright, by Alex" Henry said to him "Have a nice day"

"You too" Alex replied before he closed the door behind him and made his way to the bus stop. Once the bus picked him up and he was gone, Jennifer came walking down the stairs and came face to face with her husband. She could tell from the look in his eyes that the feelings had settled into their son again.

"He felt it again, didn't he" Jennifer said to him.

"He did" Henry said "He still thinks that it was from a car accident. I knew that he would still but it"

"But for how long?" Jenifer asked him "I know you feel guilty about keeping it from him, but sooner or later he's going to find out about this"

"Why don't we just tell him when he gets home" Henry says to his wife.

"No, we can't" Jenifer said to him "It would be too soon, and it would hurt him when he sees that we have kept this from him, that it was for his own good"

"That was because it was a different time and ever since what happened with the Omnidroid that time is over" said Henry.

"I just don't want to see him hurt" Jenifer said to him "I also don't think that he will be ready for the responsibility that comes with this"

"He's not a boy anymore Jen" Henry said to her. Before he could continue, his cell phone started to ring on the counter "I'll get it" Henry said before he walked over to the phone and picked it up, he checked the caller ID, and it read 'unknown number'. He was suspicious at first, but then felt that it probably was one of his clients and answered, causing the phone to stop ringing "Hello, Johnson residence"

As he took a minute, he heard a voice coming in, and Henry knew it was the voice of someone that he hasn't seen in the last fifth teen years.

"What is it you need" Henry said as he continued to listen to the phone. Jenifer was getting curious and looked over to see her husband talk to whoever it was he was talking to. "And where is it that the agent wants to meet with us?" he said as he got out a piece of paper and a pencil. He then heard what the voice told him as he wrote down an address on the paper so that he wouldn't forget "Thank you" he hung up and looked at his wife.

"Who was that?" Jenifer asked him. Henry held his breath for a little bit before he exhaled and looked at her.

"It was Rick" Henry said to her "He said that he wants us to meet one of their agents"

"What for" Jenifer asked him.

"He didn't say much" Henry replied "Just something that we would have to think about once they've shared with us" Jenifer looked at her husband hesitantly, as the NSA (or the National Supers Agency) was always dealing with supers and monitoring their activity. She didn't want to deal with them at all, but if her husband had to deal with them himself, he shouldn't do it by himself.

"Alright" Jenifer said to him "So when are we leaving?"

"In 3 hours" Henry said "It's in a certain area of the city. I just hope whatever this is will be good news"

A few hours later, Henry and Jenifer drove their way down the street and into the middle of the city, following the address and directions that Henry had written down. It took them about fifteen minutes for them to drive to the location. When Henry spotted the address on a small sign, they stopped the car and looked out. The building looked to be a small café, it looked to be about ten years old, it was big, but there didn't seem to be a lot of people there at the moment.

"I don't know about this Henry" Jenifer said to him.

"Don't worry, Rick said he had several agents guarding the place, and you promised that you would be with me the whole time" Henry assured his wife "So let's just go in there and make this as quick as possible" Jenifer looked at Henry, and then looked at the building, before she nodded to her husband in agreement. Henry then made his way to the doors of the café, with his wife in tow.

They walked inside the building to find that it was indeed less crowded, there few people sitting in the tables, whoever worked behind the counter was in the kitchen, and one person appeared to be sleeping in one of the chairs. They looked around and saw that one person in a dark work suit was sitting in one of the counters, and he knew he was one of the guards.

"I knew you would make it" A feminine voice said from a corner. The couple turned to seen that a slender woman with tan skin and wearing she wore a dark blue suit. Her face was hidden in the shadow casted from the wall that was a few inches away from the window, but a small piece of light blonde hair could be noticeable from the sun-lit area of the table. The two walked down the rows of the area to the seat that the woman was sitting it, and both took a seat.

"Surprised to see that you are working for the NSA now" Henry said to her.

"Well, I did help them escape that island, and the agency did find my skills to be very useful" the woman replied "I take it that you are doing well"

"We have been" Henry replied "So why is it that Rick called me down here to meet with you"

"I have an offer I would like to make" the woman said to them "We are planning to restart a program that was shut down fifteen years ago, and we were thinking of getting your approval for someone" Henry thought for a moment, and after some registration, he knew what it was she was talking about.

"You know why that program was shut down in the first place" Henry said to her.

"Yes, but with the lifting of the ban on supers we figured that the program could be reactivated" the woman said "We have already found and reached out to several other worthy children"

"And why do you think we should just give him over to you" Jenifer said with a stern voice.

"Honey, please" Henry begged his wife, but she cut him off.

"No, let me say something" Jenifer said before she looked back at the woman "You have no Idea how much we have sacrificed so that our son could live a normal life. I don't know if he will be safe"

"Don't worry Mrs. Johnson" the woman said back "Our troops guard the facility and I assure you that he will be safe"

"She's right honey" Henry said to his wife "Our son is capable of handling himself, with or without his powers, even with the protection, I'm sure that he will be fine" Jenifer looked at his husband, and then at the woman sitting across from them, and felt that they might be right.

"I suppose so" Jenifer said "But he hasn't known about this all his life, and I feel that sooner or later he will find out"

"In case he does find out" the woman said to them "I came here to give you this" she reached to the side of her seat and pulled out a small package, shaped like a clip-board, and hands the package over to Henry, who takes it "There is a pad with a message it in, if your son does find out about himself, give it to him when you have the chance. This package will explain everything" Henry looked at the package and held onto it.

"Thank you" Henry said "I don't know how he will feel when he finds out"

"I understand that he might feel a little shocked, maybe upset" the woman said to them "But I feel that you will be able to reach out to him, and when you do, and with this program, he will see that he has great potential" she took a sip of a small cup of coffee that she had on the table.

"Well thank you for bringing us down here to talk" Henry said to them "We need to get going"

"Of course" the woman said. Henry and Jenifer got up and made their way to the door, when they got out of the building, they got to their car and drove off back to their house. As they were driving, Jenifer looked at the package that had been given to them, and then at her husband.

"Are you sure we should do this" Jenifer said to him "I'm not sure if he will be angry at us or not"

"Trust me" Henry said "When the time is right, we will tell him the truth"

Alright, so that's it for now, I hope you guys liked it. I wanted to have one chapter with the parents meeting someone before I get to Alex making his discovery so that I can get the story on track, and as for who this woman is, I'll let you figure it out, but I won't reveal who it is until later. Anyway, please leave a review and I will update soon. So I will see you guys next time, as there is more to come your way.