The Risen

The Portal Jumper Pt.1

End of Act II Timeline:
I sat in the back of the Jeep. I faded in and out of reality. Ace, Kiera and Jayce were talking about the church and what it looked like. I also heard something about Ryder and how he's infected.
How was I going to tell them? I knew I had to one day, but I never could. If they knew what I was, if they knew where I was from they would never trust me again.
I felt myself falling asleep, and I allowed it, I might as well get some sleep before we get there.
I thought back to another time, what seems like another life, and to think it was only six years ago.

Six years ago

I sat in my classroom at sixteen years old. It was test time, my teacher Mr.Donner handed out the tests, they were on paper, then he handed out pencils.
"I know it's been awhile since any of you have used paper, but trust me paper works better for tests instead of your learning pro tablets" Mr Donner turned and sat in his chair on the other side of the room.
I began writing the test and I wrote down my name first "Max Withered" I spent the next twenty minutes writing down my answers on the test, and when I was done I brought my test up to Mr.Donner and I realized that I was the only one to finish.
"Thank you Max, please go back to your seat" Mr.Donner spoke.
I walked back over to my seat and sat down, I waited another ten minutes, and when I noticed not one other kid brought up there test I decided to grab my tablet and I begun working on my neno bot design for another class.

...

By the end of the day I began walking home, taking the same path as I always do. I looked up to the bright blue sky, and all the hovercrafts flying above.
"Hey Withered!" I heard a ruff voice call.
I turned around, and I already knew who called my name. I turned to see a huge blucky boy stand over me, he had huge muscles, he wore a chain necklace below his black spiky hair.
"What do you want Cave?" I asked him, perhaps too ruffly as he got angry.
"I want my homework fucker!" Cave remarked.
His two goons stood behind him, all three of them looked liked a biker gang, leather jackets and everything. Cave who was there leader held a metal baseball bat. I did their homework for them because they knew I was smart, in return they didn't beat me up.
"Sorry Cave, I don't have it, I was studying for my test last night" I replied, looking around for a way to run. I realized there was nobody else around.
Cave walked over and placed his hand on my shoulder. He bent over and whispered in my ear.
"Last straw bitch, your dead meat now" Cave stood up and walked behind his goons.
His two goons advanced on me and one grabbed me while the other started punching me in the gut over and over.
They dropped me to the ground, and I rolled over in pain
"Now, we've hurt you, let's see what you got in your backpack!" Cave said.
Cave practically ripped my backpack off of my back and started throwing the contents of it on the ground. He pulled out my father's chained watch.
"Well this is nice" Cave said holding the end of the chain and letting it dangle.
"Please n—" I choked through the pain.
Cave threw it to the ground smashing it to pieces.
"Hahaha shows you not to mess with us!" Cave laughed. He kept going through my bag until he stopped at a blue and white bracelet. It was glowing from a blue light at it's center.
"What is this?" Cave asked
"Is it the new ibracelet?" One of his goons asked.
Cave just smlied and he put it on.
A part of me wanted to tell him not to put it on, but I also wanted Cave and his goons to feel pain.
Lots of it.

"Activate!" I yelled.
The bracelet expanded and grew around Caves arm. The little blue light became larger and covered the top of his hand. He basically wore a metal arm glove.
"Woah!" Cave smlied showing it to his friends.
"You made this Withered! This is so mine now!" Cave laughed.
"Error, error, finger prints don't match, beginning sercurity measures" said the gloves female voice.
I smlied.
"Wha— Withered what is it doing" the glove began to crush his hand.
"Ahhh!" Cave yelled.
Then the glove shot him out back towards the wall.
It knocked Cave out cold.
The two goons turned to me.
I lifted my hand, and forced myself to stand, the glove came flying onto my right hand.
I felt the shield appear around my fingertips.
"What the hell do you think your doing Withered!" The one goon asked, he advanced on me with a baseball bat, he swung it towards me but my glove felt the movement, and I let the glove do the work.
The glove force my arm to block the bat. I barely felt the bat make contact with the glove around my arm when the glove summoned a force field on the side of the glove turning the bat to ashes and throwing the goon onto the same wall as Cave.
"My name is Max! Not Withered" I yelled.
I turned to face the last goon, but he just stood in shock.
"Yo man, uh, I'm sorry!" He said and turned and ran down the street.