Catalyst

Chapter 2: Jacob

A few weeks later...

???: "You alright Jacob?"

A boy in black gym shorts with a highlighter yellow stripe on the sides, glasses, green headphones, navy blue t-shirt, golden crown necklace, white socks, and navy blue sneakers was just shaken awake by a student to his side at a computer.

Jacob: "(drowsy) Hanajunobanoo."

Student: "Did you sleep last night?"

Jacob: "(rubbing eyes) Not easily."

A bell rings.

Jacob: "(sarcastically) Time for another amazing trolley trip."

A dark gray bag is flung onto his back.

Jacob: "(slipping on headphones) Time to put on some anime music."

He scrolls through the nearly 700 songs that all seem to be related games and anime before deciding on a song titled, "Last Surprise."

Jacob: "(in head) Rinse repeat."

Jacob steps of the grounds a a school called, "Saguaro High School," and walks to a trolley stop not too far away.

Jacob: "(in head) Can anyone shut the fuck up?"

Everyone at the stop is being WAY too loud, even if they are outside.

Twenty minutes later, the trolley arrives.

Jacob: "(in head) Finally."

He finds a seat inside as it begins to move.

Fifteen minutes later...

Captain: "Any signs of Catalyst energy?"

An army captain is pacing back and forth with a platoon of soldiers standing by a street called Palm Ln. with one of them holding a strange device.

Soldier: "Catalyst energy is slowly beginning to rise in the area captain."

Captain: "It'd better, we've been searching for the locations for those eight Catalysts for a few weeks and they all seem to have ended up in Arizona and all seem to all appear in Scottsdale at some point all of the time."

A trolley passes by with the Catalyst detector shooting up in readings.

Captain: "Is a Catalyst seriously on a trolley?"

The trolley stops at a nearby senior center, with Jacob getting off.

Jacob: "(singing) Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight..."

Jacob is cautiously strolling by the soldiers when the readings explode again.

Soldier: "He's the Catalyst."

Without warning, two soldiers fling Jacob to the ground, pinning him down and sending his headphones off of his head.

Jacob: "(struggling) Hey! What the hell did I do?!"

Captain: "It isn't an action you lowlife, it's what you are."

Jacob: "(awkwardly) That sounded very racist."

The captain slugs Jacob in the face.

Captain: "(pissed) We don't need weapons with sass and wit in our facility."

Meanwhile...

???: "(scratching head) Still haven't found Jay and the others and still have next to no idea about where the hell I am."

The boy with the metal arm and sword is currently sitting on the side of a store called, "7 Eleven."

Jake: "Just what the hell got you into this mess Jake? This isn't Lucifer's handiwork."