Ch.2: Before The Meteor – Rev

"Ah," breathed Rev, as he speeded around his room, getting ready for his job at the Acmetropolis sandwich shop. Didn't want Cookie to dock his pay for being late.

It's very hard to please a boss who expects you to deliver food during a time limit, but Rev thought that this would be the ideal career for him, rather than staying home all day and inventing stuff with his dad.

Putting on his uniform and rocket blades, Rev sighed with heavy relief as thoughts of family filled his mind. It wasn't easy being one of the sons to the very famous Road Runner Industries, especially if you were the eldest.

Since he was young, Rev's dad instructed him fiercely about the ins and outs of the technical world, molding the young road runner for the day that he would take over the whole company himself. Yet, although Rev liked to build things, he didn't want that job to become his permanent line of work.

His younger brother Rip was more suited for it, and Rev had often taken his advice whenever their dad was instructing him how to build. However, Rip's laid-back attitude and slow speech, uncommon for road runners, made him almost invisible in his father's mind.

"It's always you that's the favorite," Rip spoke to his brother once.

Those words hurt Rev like a bullet, and added even more reason for him to go to Acmetropolis and leave the desert, giving Rip, finally, the chance for his opportunity to shine. Hopefully now dad would start paying attention to his other son.

Finally ready, Rev speeded out his apartment and headed towards the sandwich shop, little knowing that just in a few moments everything in his life was about to change.