The Apocalypse [The Original]

Ch. 2

When he got home he closed the door and stumbled to his room. He never felt so much pain before. He never fell three stories and lived either. The phone rang a couple times before he answered it.

"Hello? Jason?"

It was his mom. The principal must've called her when the news spread around the school about his little incident.

"Hi, mom."

"Jason, are you okay? The school said you fell three stories! Is that true? Yeah. Weird, huh?"
He told his mom all about the incident. Hours later his mom came home. It was around 8:00 pm when she got home. Jason was already asleep. He woke up around 10:00 pm.

"That was a weird dream."

He got out of bed and went to the kitchen to get some water. He didn't turn on the lights so it was pitch black. Then he heard a noise like someone was coming up the stairs. He hid around the corner. He saw a black, shadowy figure on top of the stairs. He took a knife from the kitchen. He didn't know it but the black figure was Wave of the Babylon Rogues.

"Jet," she whispered into her communicator. "I'm in the house."

"Good work. Make sure you convince him to come. We need him."

She put her communicator away. Just then she felt a knife to her throat.

"Who are you?"

"I'm Wave. I'm with the Babylon Rogues."

"Why are you here?"

"We need you."

"'Need me'? Why?"

"Can't we have this conversation in a more civilized way?"

Jason exhaled deeply. "Alright."

They went into the kitchen and sat down. Jason set the knife down in front of him. When Wave sat down Jason saw what she looked like. He'd never seen anything like her before. She looked like a bird but had the body of an 18 year old. Her skin was purple and she wore a necklace with a red jewel. It took him a minute to start talking again.

"Now, tell me everything."

"Okay. Here it is. The government was working on making a robot that could be used in war. One day there was a malfunction with the robot and it gained its own life and then proceeded to kill everyone in the building. Our mission is to stop him."

"Why do you need me?"

"You're the only one who can stop him."

"How? I can't even stand up for myself at school. How am I suppose to save the world?"

"Has anything... unusual happened to you lately?"

"Well... I did fall out of a window today."

"Yeah? How high up?" Wave asked

"I fell from the 3rd floor."

"Did it hurt?"

"No, not really. No."

"Come with us and do what you were meant to do."

"You know, my father always told me that someday I'd realize what I'm here for..."

"Hurry up and choose." Wave interrupted. "Just know that if you don't then millions or maybe even billions of innocent people could be killed."

"...and now I know." Jason continued. "Okay. I'll do it."

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The next morning when his mom went to check on him, he was gone. "Jason? Jason!"

He was already on board the ship by the time the sun came up. It was huge. He'd never seen anything like it. Wave was leading him down a hallway towards a large double-door.

"It's just through there. He's waiting for you."

Jason looked at Wave, then at the doors. He walked past Wave and through the double doors.

"Ah, Jason. You decided to come." Jet said. Now he was looking at what resembled a green hawk but, again, with a human body shape.

"Yeah, well." He paused. He couldn't believe what was happening. "We'll see how it goes."

"Right. Of course. Now, shall we begin with training?"

"I guess I should learn how to use these powers." said Jason. "Sure. Let's do it."

They walked into a large empty room.

"Now... we can begin."

Wave walked into the room and headed towards a control panel. She pushed a red button. Soon after, a bunch of robots and targets came out of nowhere.

"Now practice."

"...Okay."

He grabbed a metal pole. A robot came up behind him. Jason took his empty hand, turned around, ripped off the robot's left arm and impaled the robot with it. He ran over to a group of four robots and swung the pole around and took them all out. Wave and Jet just watched in amazement as, one by one, Jason cut down the robots. There were only five robots left. Jason concentrated his energy and he was soon engulfed in flames. He took off at full speed and when he hit the robots there was a huge explosion that almost knocked Wave and Jet backwards. When the smoke cleared Jason was standing with his head down. His whole body was smoking. He lifted his head and turned to face Wave and Jet.

"Hmm." Wave said. Looks like he knows what he's doing."

"Yeah."