An alarm clock began ringing in a young man's room started blaring. A hand reached out to grab it and hit the snooze button, "Just five more minutes world I didn't sleep very well last night." A young man said as he rolled on his side and fell off his bed. When he fell off his mattress the shaking of him falling caused the alarm clock to fall forward and land on his face. "Ow. Okay I get it. Tobias needs to get up. I swear I'm going to have to tell Kaylyn that I need to start working later in the day. Getting up at 7AM is becoming too much." The man named Tobias said. Tobias's room was a bit crowded mostly because of how messy it was with clothes everywhere.
There was a desk in the corner across from his bedroom door with miscellaneous toys, music CDs, and some writing utensils. To the right of the door was a long eight-piece drawer with a giant mirror on top. At the end of the dresser was a headboard and queen-sized mattress that had multiple blankets all over it. At the end of the mattress in the opposite corner was a book shelf with some photos, a collection of different mangas and other books. Followed up by a tall drawer storage shelf and a small night stand. There was an entertainment stand with a PS2 and N64 hooked up to a flat screen tv and in the middle of the room was a brown octagon shaped table.
Tobias Edge was wearing a red sports team shirt and red shorts. He began stumbling to the bathroom across from the hall. He was extremely tired as he slammed himself into the wall next to the bathroom. "Gah! That's a wall Tobias." He said to himself. He finally got into the bathroom with clothes in hand as he started to grab a shower. His showers were never long but they helped him wake up and start his day. When he was done drying off and putting his new work clothes on, he walked out of the bathroom to see a messy living room. "I swear I need to clean up when I get home."
Tobias put his headphones on as he began to walk out and head towards his fast food job Rallys. The small town of Bowling Green had been Tobias's home for the past six years and his life growing in the town had been a bit rough but to him it was his home that he loved as well as most of the people in it. Tobias's day mostly was work in the morning till the afternoons, then usually at least three days a week he would go learn Martial Arts with his teacher Brett Pappert.
Work had always been stressful with the customers and the people Tobias worked with but it was the only way of making money so a lot of the time he had to suck it all up and just deal. Some days it was unbearable than others. Today was one of those days. Lunch usually starts around 11 am and then ends at 2pm. During this time is when Rally's was extremely busy and Tobias had to work with one of the most unsavory managers who couldn't handle stress at all. Tobias's job was to just stand and take orders at the drive thru and walk up window. The building he was in was extremely small and there wasn't a lot of elbow room for him to move around with the other workers.
It was finally 3pm and when Tobias clocked out, he immediately grabbed his book bag stuffed with his uniform shirt, hat, and black apron. He then bolted out of the door without saying goodbye to anyone and put his headphones in. He began to jog about halfway home until he stopped to feel his phone in his pocket vibrate. He then answered, "Hi this is Tobias." He said a bit out of breath.
"Hey Tobias it's Brett. Just making sure you can make it for the museum visit today. I know you said your job likes keeping you over." Brett asked.
"Nah I'm almost home now. I was going to call you after I got a shower." Tobias replied.
"Oh? Great. I should be there once I get my truck out of the shop. It should be about another hour or so."
"Great I should be ready by then." Tobias replied.
The two friends hung up and Tobias began to run back home. He lived across the street from the Bowling Green State University campus. He lived on the corner of Merry and Thurstin. It was a simple apartment complex that had brown colored stones on the bottom and white wood on top of the building. It never took him long enough to get home from Rally's because of it being so close to home.
Tobias had walked into the one-bedroom apartment after checking the mail. When you walk into the apartment there is a brown wooden floor that stretches all the way to the bedroom and bathroom. On the right side of the door is the kitchen with a brown wooden floor a giant white table up against the wall. Followed by a stove and refrigerator. There were light brown cabinets above the appliances followed by a coffee rack in front of the fridge followed by a counter with a black microwave, two silver sinks, and more counter space with cabinets above them and below them. On the left side of the front door was a beige carpet which was clearly the living room. There were two black futons on each side and a giant lightly beige colored couch. Up against the wall was a black folding table holding the flat screen tv with a PS4 and PS2 connected to the system. One system was black while the other was blue. There were two shelving units, one on each side of the TV. On the left was Japanese toys portraying Kamen Rider Wizard, which was a superhero who used magic to save the hopes of people. A series Tobias was greatly attached too while the other shelf was filled with things on Tobias's favorite supernatural creatures: Werewolves.
Tobias took a shower as he had smelled of grease and sweat. When he got out, he walked into his bedroom with the towel hanging over his neck and looking at himself in the mirror with the little muscles he had on his arms and stomach. "It's taken along while to lose all that weight." Tobias said. He had remembered when he used to be 265 pounds and in the past almost two years had lost 110 pounds. He had lost it with better eating and the intense work out Brett puts him in so he can learn Martial Arts. While looking at himself in the mirror Tobias looked down at a red stone that was in a small glass case. The case was the size of Tobias's palms but could fit in his pocket.
The red stone had this gleam about it for some weird reason and as he stared at it deeply he heard a small growl coming from it. He began to reach for the stone until he heard his phone go off behind him and got distracted. He picked up the phone, "Hello Tobias." He said into the phone.
"Yes, um so I found out that I have to go into work tonight so I'm going to come by and pick you up now for the museum exhibit. I'll only have you for a few hours because I have to go to Rosenblum." Brett said with a deep voice said.
"Okay that's fine Brett. I just got a shower and you know where I live so I can meet you outside." Tobias said to him.
"Alright sounds good." Brett said.
Tobias got a red shirt on with his black cargo pants. He then grabbed a red and white plaid button down shirt and put that on. Right before he grabbed his keys off his desk, Tobias grabbed the case with the red gemstone in it. "Dad. You were part of the team who found some of the things that are going to be in this exhibit. After giving this to me five years ago you just upped and vanished. Maybe if I go there, I might find some of the people you might've worked with that can tell me what happened to you." He said shoving the rock into his pocket. Tobias had a tear run down his eyes and then he shook his head as he tried not to remember the past. He heard a honk out back and quickly got his black tennis shoes on and ran out the door.
Brett had a rusty down red truck. The paint on it was coming off as usual and you could hear the loud creak noise whenever the doors open. Brett was a blonde hair man with ear piercings, a decently kept beard about two inches thick, white skin, with a bit of a stomach hanging out. Even though he was 21 years old, Brett looked like he was in his thirties. He had a lot of hair on his arms and legs but today he was wearing a black long sleeve shirt with his black Chinese pants for martial artists. He had a cigarette in his hand and flicked it out of the truck as Tobias got into the truck. Brett had taken a huge gulp of Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino, which was Brett's favorite drink. Whenever people see Brett he always had this air of maturity and respect and did well to maintain that in any situation.
"I'm taking it you are tired?" Tobias said to him.
"Yea work was a bitch yesterday. I had this one guy welding and thought that it was a grand idea to stop what he was doing on his line to come over and talk to me about how I do jack and shit. Keep in mind this guy has only been here for two weeks. I just let him talk as I stayed focused on what I was doing. The floor manager came down and forced him to go back to his line that he was holding up." Brett said.
"How are you able to handle that kind of immaturity from people?" Tobias questioned.
"Easy, I just don't pay attention to them. If you don't give someone the light of the day, they will leave you alone. Also, that guy only got in because we were desperate for workers. I'm sure once we get more workers he'll probably get fired." Brett said sighing. He then looked over at Tobias, "When we get to the museum there is something I need to do with a friend of mine running the place. There is a specific exhibit that you might find interesting. Go there and wait for me. I should be there at like 5pm. When you look on the map it's G4. I think it's called the Science Experiment exhibit. It's an exhibit where the Nazi's were using science to experiment on creating super humans." Brett explained as they were driving to Toledo.
Sometime had passed and we were standing in front of a giant marble stairs leading up to a huge door entrance. There were a lot of pillars every five feet from each other and a group of people covering the wide stairs out to the road. There were different colored signs that said Welcome to Your Museum. Tobias and Brett made their way to the front as much as they could and by the time, they got up there the line finally started moving inside. Tobias started walking away from Brett after promising him that he will meet up with him later at the Science Experiment exhibit.
While Tobias was looking at the different famous display pieces, he didn't notice that there was someone watching him amongst the groups of people. The person who was watching him stood in the one spot for too long as Tobias saw his still reflection in the mirror. He turned around as he saw a grey trench coat wearing person begin to make his way through the crowd and Tobias began chasing him. As he was trying to move across the group of people with his sights set on the mystery man, he didn't pay attention to his surroundings as a person about his size was rubbing his eyes and he collided into him. The two fell onto the ground and when Tobias looked up, the figure was gone without a trace.
"Shit. I lost him." He said under his breath. He looked at the person he had knocked over and it was a tall brown skin male with messy black hair wearing a black Metallica tank top and black trip pants with a few blue lines on them that had a metal chain coming off the belt loops and into his left pocket. He had blue goggles just wide enough to cover his eyes. He was holding the back of his head which must've cushioned his fall. "Hey man are you alright?" Tobias said helping him up.
"Ye-yea I'm fine. I was uhh rubbing my eyes and I uhh wasn't watching where I was going." The man said. It seemed like he had a problem with talking effectively.
"Okay that's great I need to head off I was chasing after someone." Tobias said to him. Once the man who had just gotten up off the ground, he saw Tobias and was a bit surprised.
"Oh shoot! Aren't you the guy who does Martial Arts outside over at the Green Meadows apartments on Napoleon road?" The man said but with no problems with his stuttering this time.
"Yea I do. How do you know about that?" Tobias asked him.
"I uhh live right down the street from the uhh practice. Oh, my name is Zach…Zach Jackson." He said holding his hand out. I reached out and grabbed it.
"My name is Tobias Edge. It was nice meeting you but I need to head out. Hopefully I'll see you around." He said as he started running toward the direction of the mysterious figure.
Tobias had made his way up to the only location in the museum that would make sense for the person to go and it led to a door that said Personnel Only. "I know that guy has to be in this room somewhere. I'm not going to let a sign get in my way." Tobias said as he placed his hands on the big grey door and pushed it open. Inside was pretty much a big storage room for a lot of the things that didn't get put in the displays. There were a ton of boxes, some figures and statues of miscellaneous WWII objects. "This is pretty cool." Tobias said a bit excited to see the stuff. But he didn't let his mind wonder as he started to look for the person that could be hiding in the room. The door behind him began to close and when it did, the only light he had was gone. It was hard to see without any light in the room but Tobias knew that a switch had to be nearby. He took out his phone and used the backlight as a source of light until he could find something.
While wondering around the giant space he couldn't find anything out of the ordinary and began to wonder if the trip here was even worth it. He knew his way back to the door and began to retrace his steps in the dark room. But as soon as he started, he heard something opening and when he looked up, he saw the door being opened and two boys about 12-13 years old were holding another boy and throwing him down the steps into the storage room.
"Hope you enjoyed the fall loser!" One of the boys said.
"Hope you don't wet yourself in the dark, queer!" The other one said as they closed the door. With the door open, Tobias was able to see a box hanging next to the door and realized that held the switches needed to turn on the lights. He made his way to the door to help the child up. When he did, he noticed the kid had a cut on his shoulder and was bruising up a bit.
"I don't need your help! Get away from me!" The kid said shoving Tobias in a very angry manner.
"Well shit kid you don't have to get aggressive with me. I'm just trying to help you." Tobias snapped at him.
Tobias began to walk up to the switch box as the child at the bottom of the steps started to cry, probably from the pain. Even though he was crying he was doing his very best to hold back his tears. "Hey man are you okay?" Tobias asked as he started looking through the switch box for the lights.
"Yeah! I'm f-f-fine. It just sucks." The kid said.
"The pain in your arm?" Tobias asked.
"No, the fact that I can't fight off those assholes. They are always bullying me and are much stronger than me so I can't fight back. I wish they would just leave me alone for once. But it's every goddamn day that they pick on me." He said still holding his tears back. Tobias had found the switch he needed and put it into the ON position. He turned around to see the entire room being lit up and he got a better look at the child.
The child was wearing a yellow T-shirt with blue basketball shorts that had the words AND1 on the sides with black tennis shoes with yellow shoe strings. The kid was white skinned with some freckles on his face and brown hair that was combed down on the sides. Tobias gave a nice look around the room and with where he was standing, he didn't see anyone in the space.
"There isn't a lot of big things here that could hide a person. Shit that means that the person I was chasing isn't here." He said to himself.
Tobias walked down and rested his hand on the kid's shoulder, "What are you doing at the museum here with those bullies?" He asked.
"We were here on a school field trip from Bowling Green High School. My history teacher Ms. Farkas wanted us to get a nice description or whatever, to learn about World War 2. So, she spent her own money to buy admission tickets for all of us to come here." He said to him.
"Well let's get you back with the rest of the class ummm." Tobias said not knowing what the kids' name was.
"Xander West." He said holding his hand out.
Tobias reached his hand out and shook it. Tobias walked back up the stairs and out the door but when he did, he noticed that Xander was not behind him. At least not immediately, a few seconds had gone by and Tobias began walking back to the door but only to see Xander coming out of it shoving something in his pocket.
"What do you have there?" Tobias asked.
"Oh, it's nothing something in my pocket fell out and I was just putting it back in." Xander said. For a short second Tobias heard a creature growling from Xander's pocket and then heard the same growling from his pocket where his red stone was. Once again Tobias was distracted as an old lady came marching up to the two of them as she demanded Xander to get back to his classmates. Xander said his goodbyes to Tobias as he went back to his classmates. Tobias turned around and noticed that it was probably a good time to go to the Scientific Experiment Exhibit and began jogging to the rendezvous point. While running the lights in the hall where there were very few people started flickering rapidly.
"Flickering lights?" Tobias wondered.
Tobias knew that the museum would not be having a power outage on a nice sunny day, and it wouldn't mean that it's just a few bulbs dying out either when the entire hallway is acting up. Some of the people in the hallway were in awe looking at the lights and then in a fracture of a second the entire hallway went pitch dark. People were moving around in different directions unable to see what was in front of them. In the small group of people, a child began crying. The child was terrified of the dark and had strayed away from his mother. Tobias made his way through the darkness using the kid's voice as his guide. Tobias felt something in his heart telling him that he should be terrified but fought his way through to find the child.
The mother was calling for her son but based on his cries he was not moving, mostly because of his immense fear of not being able to see anything. Tobias had picked the kid up and when he did, he, along with everyone else in the hallway felt something zoom through them. It felt like wind blowing through and it was causing Tobias's button-down shirt to move all over the place rapidly. The kid who was probably four years old held onto Tobias tightly, Tobias then placed his hand on his back, "It's going to be okay kid. I don't know what's going on but I'll get you back to your mother." I said to him. The kid just kept his face buried into his shoulder.
A low growling began to form at the end of the hall as the lights started to flicker on. Everyone had seen a reptile like man slowly walking down the hallway. You could feel the people getting ready to panic. Nobody made a move until the lights fully came back on and the reptile like man, more dinosaur like, threw what he had in his hand at the group of people and when he did everyone saw a human head rolling. Tobias made sure that the kid did not see the head and everyone began running in a massive panic. The moment the people began running Tobias looked up to see the creature in a black vest and soldier like pants grab one of the people and strike him down. Blood dripping from the monster's claws and people began to run faster. Someone ran right into Tobias knocking him on his back. Tobias made sure that the kid was not harmed and he rolled on his side as he tried to get up. The mother had made her way to Tobias leaving the three the only ones in the hallway with the dinosaur like monster.
The monster began growling, "What year is it human?" the creature said snarling.
"So, you can talk?" Tobias asked it. "Why are you killing people? Who the hell are you?" Tobias asked with fear overwhelming him.
"Do you know who you are talking too boy? Here let me show you how you should talk to Lord Mesogog." He spoke. Veins erupted out of his body and formed together as a whip as they wrapped around Tobias's chest and he threw him up against the wall. The veins went back into Mesogog's body as Tobias fell onto the ground. Upon falling, the gemstone fell out of Tobias's pocket and its protective case shattered on the ground. Tobias was in pain from being slammed against the wall and Mesogog began walking towards the mother and her child.
"Leave them alone!" Tobias begged.
"Someone as weak as you don't deserve to be making demands." Mesogog said to him.
Tobias began hearing a roaring sound in front of him as his red gemstone began to glow a bright color. Inside Tobias saw a red mechanical Tyrannosaurus Rex with green eyes. It was like the thing was calling out to him. Mesogog had now stood in front of the mother as he reached out and grabbed her throat. He lifted her up in the air as she tried to fight to break free from his clutches. The child was crying as his mother's life was being taken forcefully. Tobias began to ignore the pain as he reached out and grabbed the red gemstone and ran towards Mesogog.
Upon touching the stone, he saw the world around him move extremely slowly while his movements began to speed up. "What's happening?!" He wondered. He then ran towards Mesogog without him knowing he was approaching. Tobias raised a fist and jammed it into Mesogog's side sending him flying at the wall as well as dropping the woman. Tobias saw her body slowly fall and he sped over and caught her. She had marks on her neck but she was going to be okay. Everything around Tobias went back to normal and the mother was breathless to see her being held by Tobias and not Mesogog.
"What the hell?!" She spoke.
"Take your kid and run. Warn everybody. I'll hold him back as long as I can." Tobias said. The woman nodded as she grabbed her son and they ran. Mesogog had gotten off the floor as he faced Tobias.
"I demand you to tell me what you just did. How is it that you moved so fast given your injuries?" Mesogog said growling at him.
Tobias was clutching to his stone and with his back turned to Mesogog he opened his hand. He then heard the veins erupting out of Mesogog and once again everything began to move slowly. Tobias took this to his advantage and ran past him as he grabbed the back of his neck and threw him as far as he could. This caused Mesogog to roll on the ground. He finally got back up and Tobias felt a bit of out of breath. He unclenched his hand again and Mesogog's eyes widened.
"You have one of the stones that sealed me away?! Is it giving you this power to stand up to me?!" Mesogog said scared.
Tobias looked up as his eyes flashed red and his injuries instantly recovering. A look of determination on his face, "I don't know what's going on but it seems like today is just not your day." He said courageously. He then raised the stone to his right wrist where it formed a silver band around it.
"Do you honestly believe that you can win against me human with just a little bit of speed?" Mesogog challenged.
"We'll have to see, won't we?" Tobias said back.
Tobias raised his right hand across his chest as the silver band turned into a red T-Rex head. Tobias grabbed the back sides of the brace which opened the mouth. A roar was made and a red circle shot out of the brace.
"Dinothunder! Power Up!"
Tobias stretched his right hand out and put his left hand out in front of him. He then took his left hand and brought it back as he pushed a button on the jawline of the T-Rex. Tobias felt a surge of power well up inside him as he then raised his right arm in front of him as he jumped backwards into the air hitting a dinosaur footprint. He landed on the ground and when he stood up straight, a red mask with the mouth of a T-Rex formed around his head.
Tobias's new form was red with white claw marks on his shoulders and legs. He had the footprint symbol that was gold on his chest. Mesogog looked like he was annoyed as hell as he saw Tobias's power.
"That power…It has the same feeling as mine." Mesogog said. He raised a hand in the air as a black swirl started forming and three black reptile like creatures appeared. They had arms that were scythe like and a disgusting looking face. "Tyrannodrones! Kill him!" He said as he vanished in the same black swirl.
Tobias looked at the Tyrannodrones, "This should be cake." He said as he ran towards them. Tobias was unsure of what he was doing, but it felt like he had been doing this for years. He ran towards the three as they all swiped in different directions. One came for a frontal attack, and the other two were coming from both of his sides. He raised up both his arms as he blocked the attacks and then stepped sideways allowing the frontal attack to miss him. Tobias spun around as he elbow punched the one on the right and grab the one that did the frontal assault by his neck with the same arm he elbow punched. The creature slashed as his comrade thinking that he was going to hit Tobias. After slashing multiple times, the creature stopped as he realized what he was doing. Tobias let go of the monster and kicked him in his back towards his companion. He then grabbed the gun out of his left side holster.
"Dino Blaster!"
He said as he began blowing laser bullets at the back of the creature's head. He then raised his gun and blew bullets in his ally's face. The two turned to dust and vanished leaving only the one behind him alive. "You're next." He said as he raised his fist. His fist began to glow a bright red. He ran towards the creature with his fist cocked back and the creature came to swipe at him with his claws. The moment that Tobias put his foot down on the second step, he lunged in just missing the creature's claws and ramming his fist into its chest. The creature got sent flying backwards until it hit a wall, leaving a red mist behind from the power that was building up in Tobias's right hand. The creature fell as it exploded leaving a black burnt mark on the wall.
Tobias crossed his arms forming an X over his chest, "Power down." He said as his form vanished back into his brace that then turned back into his silver bracelet but with the red gemstone in the middle of it.
"What the hell was that?" He said breathing heavily.
An evacuation was made for everyone to leave the museum but Tobias had waited for Brett. "I can't leave this spot until Brett finds me. I need to tell him what just happened." Tobias said as he turned around looking for his teacher.
