An alarm clock rang through the ears of an 16 year old Cole Spencer, he groggily slams his fist onto the snooze button and readjust his position to go back to sleep.
"Cole, get up now or your going to be late" Cole let out an loud groan in response. "Get up now mister, before I get up there".
Cole didn't know what that threat meant necessarily but he definitely did not want to find out. "I'm up, I'm up" he said as he rushed down stairs still putting on his t-shirt.
"5 More robbers have disappeared last night, two duffel bags of stolen money and jewelry were found in a alleyway behind the store the items were stolen from. This has led many more people to believe that the person behind the disappearances is the hero of legend j..."
"I can't believe they're still reporting on this fairytale" Cole's mum throws the remote back on the couch, turning back to Cole with a dejected look.
"So I gather you aren't any closer to finding what's happening" Cole says grabbing a bowl out of the cabinet.
"Unfortunately not, but I'm going to get questioned about that enough today, so why don't you tell me what's up with you and Monica" she elbowed his side.
He rubbed his side and shook his head "There's nothing up, I don't even think she actually likes, I'm pretty sure she did it for a bet or for a joke".
"Wasn't she the one who asked you out"?
"Exactly that's my point, she only did it for a joke, so she and her friends could laugh at me"
"If you're so confident, why did you say yes"?
"Cause I would be stupid to say no, she's one of the hottest and most popular girls, I would get more abuse from them than before".
"Oh honey" she pulls Cole into a tight embrace "Why don't you give me some those people's addresses and let me sort them out".
"Or maybe you'll just make it worse" Cole escapes his mother's grasp
"Well, looks like you're going to be late for the bus"
"But I haven't had breakfast" Cole pouts as he pulls his head out of the cereal cabinet.
"Maybe you should wake up earlier, here's your bag now go, love you" Cole's mum pushes him out of door and shuts it behind him.
"Love you too" Cole slugs his bag over his shoulder and walks to his nearest bus stop.
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The bus makes it second to last stop for Cole to pick up some kids who were going to primary school, one of them had black hair and big green eyes who sat down by Cole. He pulled out a comic which caught Cole's eye, it had a purple clad hero with a hood and a mask covering half of his face on the cover with the title of 'The urban legend hero Ju...' the kid pulls the comic away when he sees Cole looking at it, Cole looks out the window for rest of the ride.
While entering the school someone ran up to Cole and jumped on his back, it was girl with long drity blonde hair, deep blue eyes and a almost infectious smile, she gave him a kiss on the cheek "Hey Cole".
"Uh- hey Monica" he said uneasy as she got off of his back.
They both walk into the school in a awkward silence until Monica asks "Since I don't have work this weekend I was thinking we could hang out tomorrow"?
"Uh- sure, sounds goo-".
A boy with broad shoulders and a larger frame then most at the school, bumped into Cole knocking him down to the ground.
"Matt you asshole, are you okay"? Monica asked concerned, helping Cole back to his feet.
"Yeah, I'm fine"
"I'll go yell at him, but we'll meet at my house tomorrow right"?
"Uh- yeah sure"
"Sweet, see you later" she gave him a smile.
"Later" he gave her smile in return, but when she was out of eye sight he let out a sigh, knowing that tomorrow would be the endgame of the joke, the punch line was about to come.
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Cole didn't pay attention to any classes he had that day, his mind was to full of ways he would end being embarrassed tomorrow. The two outcomes that seemed most possible to Cole was either, Monica would break up with him in some overly embarrassing way and record it, or make him walk in on her cheating. No matter what, Cole couldn't see it going positively for him.
He decided to walk home just to try and take mind off of ot. He made a few stops in town and it ended up getting late. He heard some one yelling down the alley, he sneaked to the back of the alley where the yelling came from. "Hurry the hell up, you've seen the news, there could be any sort of freak out here".
There were two men with ski mask, the one who seemed to be the leader was skiner and wore a black knitted top and black jeans, Cole could see he had a holstered gun on his belt. The other one was much more of a hulking figure, he wore a leather jacket with brown cargo pants. He was the one lugging bags of what could only be assumed money and other stolen goods into their van, there was also a crowbar leaning against the van.
"Where do you punks think you are going"?
Cole was shocked, what had made him show himself, what had made speak like that? This was basically a death sentence.
"Kid, you better back off now before we take your head for the Cass".
Cole's arm started to glow white and he felt it burning as the larger one made his way to him. Before either of them did anything a dark purple light flashed around Cole.
He was now suddenly on top of a building. He looked over the edge and down at the street below, there were still some people walking and driving. They all looked so small to him, it was the first time he had felt like this. Figuratively and literally, there was always someone who made Cole feel smaller than everybody else.
Cole hovered his foot over the edge, he waved it around a bit. He was about jump, but the purple light flashed around him. He was back in the alley, this time the two men were gone and he was now in the grasp of man in a purple suit and a mask covering the top half of his face, on his chest he had a green symbol that looked to be made of a harder martial than the rest of the suit.
"Do you have a death wish, what the hell do you think you are doing kid"? The man's voice gruff and almost inaudible.
Cole was in shock, he knew the legend was true but never thought he would be face to face with him.
The man let him go and turned to walk away "Stay out of business that's not yours ki-"
A bolt of hot white light grazed the side of the man and hit a wall. He turned back around and saw smoke coming from Cole's arm.
"You did something to my dad" the way the words came out made it obvious that Cole was terrified.
"So what, you're here to kill me"?
"No..." Cole let out a few deep breathes "Jumper, I want you to train me".
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БоевикCole Spencer was the loner of his high school. Sure he was some how dating one of the hottest girls in his year, but he still didn't fit into any group at the school. The only time most people paid attention to Cole was when they needed someone to p...
