Benefactor [Book 1](EDITING)

Issue 1 (Reader Ready)

Benefactor Story Map Issue 1(Size24)
Issue 1: (Size 20)
The Dream Sequence of the Nexus agent meeting and Dexter being woken up by Jack and he gets on the train. He meets Ned at the school.

SCENE 1: DREAM SEQUENCE(SIZE 22)
(SIZE 18)

Dexter picks his head up and stretches, finding himself sitting at a meeting table with one other individual. [The Center Diety] sits and looks over at Jack, who is there with Dexter, standing to his right.

Dexter gestures towards Jack, hoping to ask whats going on but realizing his voice doesn't carry in this room. He tries screaming, but its silent. "You can't speak here. Most 3D languages don't really carry in this dimension." - [Jack]. Dexter slumps in disappointment before [Necros] walks in in a similar outfit to Jack.

[Necros] shakes Jack's hand and goes to sit next to [The Center] at the top of the table. Dexter stares at his real father, somewhat confused, but also fascinated. He looks up at Jack and points to Necros, and Jack nods and roles his eyes when Dexter looks away. "So are we ready? If we act fast we can send him before they get here" - [Necros]. [The Center] shakes their head and [Kronos] appears next to Dexter.

[Hadon - Nexus Agent] enters and goes up next to Necros's seat and sits on the table in front of Dexter. They peer down, examining him, intrigued. "You have a thing for abandoning your seed, don't you? It has to excite you for you to do it for an 11th time" - [Hadon]. They look back at Necros, who rolls their eyes angrily and gestures towards [The Center].

"Jack and I are sure this one is ready. And the desired outliers by Hadon  have been applied and tested". - [Necros]. [The Center] looks to [Jack] and after [Jack] nods, he turns to [Hadon]. [Hadon] blows a raspberry at [The Center]. [Kronos] looks to [Hadon] from [The Center].

"You really shouldn't do things like that in front of the infant, much less to mother's first child" - [Kronos]. "Technically speaking, you won't exist anymore if number 13 here turns out to be a flunk too" - Hadon leans over on their side looking over at Dexter, who has been silent and looking around the entire time.

"He is going to replace Them. At least, until we can find Them, and this is the only way to test that" - [Necros]. [Hadon] scoffs and hops up and gives two claps. "Well then, I guess we should send the little runt on their way" - Hadon pushes Dexter's forehead and he leans back, falling from his chair into a void before bursting off of his futon.

Dexter finds himself in the firey wasteland of the Docks of Kesyb in the final act, with Leona hollering as the Docks burn and Ned's dad floats off on a boat.

TRANSITION - REAL WORD, STORMY OUTSIDE, ABANDONED BUILDING

SCENE 2: APARTMENT SEQUENCE(SIZE 22)
(SIZE 18)

Dexter lays back, covered in sweat and gasping. Zoom in on his tired mouth and heavy breathing. Switches to his breathing mouth as he is doing verticle push ups. He makes a body bridge and stands up fully, sighing as we get a full view of his body and its scars and blemishes and stains/partially bandaged limbs.

Dexter looks at the time and smiles. "Yeah, I got time". He snatches up 3 quarks and checks them all. One has 12 ducets, one has 3, and another has 5. He sticks one to another so only one has 20 ducets in it. He puts them in his pocket, revealing him to be fully clothed. Dexter looks at the time again. An hour has passed and he ponders for a bit. "Jack, you there?" Dexter calls Jack materializes on the wall behind Dexter.

"Unfortunately" Jack shoots back. "You know what today is?" Dexter asks, looking over his shoulder while putting dilapidated books in his bag. "Do you remember everything from the meeting? You're going to need to remember the outliers when you come in contact with them." Jack says, looking defeated.