9:03 AM
The sunlight shines through the bustling city of Neo Lagos, every building with solar panels, and people in clothes with light blue lines from the shoulders down to the sleeves as part of a new Hi-tech clothing brand.
A dark skinned boy with a fade haircut sits atop one of the solar panel laden roofs in a black jacket without the signature blue line, a green undershirt and jeans with crocs on. He pulls out a pencil and notebook from the sling bag on his back.
He taps his pencil against the side of his head as he looks at three blank sheets of paper lying in his lap,he repeats the motion of being about to write the stop and scratches his head a few times.
"Nah...that won't work."
He puts on AirPods and loads a Podcast interview of a man named Professor Pryce.
"Mr Pryce, I want to thank you for coming to this interview even though this evening you'll be at the UAGN summit. One of our listeners want to understand you'll have a scientific background but I don't think that gives you the right to pass judgement on certain issues people are facing, especially things you have gone through yourself."
The man paused before responding.
"First off...it's Professor..."
That part made the boy chuckle as he started drawing a flowchart in the sheets of paper.
"...secondly, you said you don't think which is wildly obvious but the last is that I don't need to experience things myself because I'm a man of cold hard facts, the numbers don't lie, people do."
Zane smiles and says to himself:
"You people think it's wrong to be an asshole and he's a genius, he's an asshole because he's a genius."
At this point the boy has filled a few pages with jottings and a dow chart when he hears someone screaming from a distance.
He peeps down to the bottom of the 3 storey building to see a man in boxers taking a megaphone from a policeman standing next to him.
"Zane, I told you before, this isn't funny!"
He tames off his AirPods and shouts.
"What was that!?"
"Zane,please get down from my roof!"
Zane sighs.
"People just don't get it..."
He puts on a pair of motorcycle gloves and uses his hands to cover both sides of his mouth as he yells:
"Okay,Mr Robins...I'm coming down,no need to get another heart attack! Your daughter was really saddened by it the last time."
"You nincompoop! Get off my property and stop doing Julia's homework for her! She's not interested in you!"
"How do you think I got the keys to your house?"
He says, dangling a pair of house keys.
"You son of a..."
Zane throws the keys down and he looks at his analog wristwatch reading 9:25, he walks with his hands behind his back to the edge of the panel then takes a step off the panel and starts falling at high speed
As he does, the policeman looks around and struggles to get something that can safely break his fall.
Zane smiles and his veins glow green then he snaps his.fingers, when he does, a bright green dome appears around him and extends a few kilometers, enveloping him,.the building, Mr Robinson,the policeman and other people and buildings including a train moving through rows of rings hovering over the ground, everything in the green dome slows to a halt. Zane smiles and snaps again, allowing to move slightly faster than everything else in the dome, he calmly walks down the side of the building and takes the Keys before Mr Robinson can catch them.
From Mr Robinson's point of view, he sees the keys falling towards him and Zane falling but they hoth vanish in the blink of an eye.
"What the hell?" The man growls
"I'll see Julia in school!" He hears Zane screaming from.the top of the train.
He enters the train through the emergency exit on the top and entering the train full of people, he's met with cold glares.
He rolls his eyes, snaps his fingers and pulls out a school uniform comparing a pair of green trousers and a long sleeved white shirt and tie.
He groans as he knots the tie and it appears more like a riff knot before pulling it off and tossing it back in his bag.
He climbs out of the same exit and leaps out of the train,.as his feet almost touch the ground, he snaps his fingers again with things moving normally, He walks to a gated building .
A black gate in front with brown walls too high for anyone to leap over encircling the rest of the building with black pillars with light blue rings at the top emitting a high pitched whirring sound.
A sender man with a black cap and a security guard uniform with a goatee sits at the entrance on a brown stool holding a shotgun, he looks around with eyes squinted.
Zane walks to the side of the wall and snaps his finger but the pillars generate an electromagnetic wave forcing the green dome to.dissipate.
He sighs.
"It was worth a try."
The old man sniffs the air and becomes alert.
"Hey!Who goes there?!"
He walks to the front gate seeing the old man.
"You..."
The old man says with contempt in his voice.
"Yeah, it's me again. Can you let me in?"
"Only after I alert the principal you're late...again!"
"Come on Al..."
"No boyo, I'm not letting nothin pass me."
Zane grins
"Are you sure about that?"
"Try me."
He walks backward estimating the distance between the black poles and himself until he's fr back enough but just close enough for the field to reach the old man.
He snaps his fingers and tosses his bag in the air.
He jumps up using the bag as a stepping stone, reaches down to catch it as he leaps into the sandy cobblestone lining the entrance of the school then crouches and walks , hiding behind parked cars until he gets to one of the sixteen buildings in the school.
He walks to an automated window and knocks four times rapidly then hides. This catches not only the teacher's attention but also a male student in glasses seated at one of the desks arranged four rows by four.
The student's head was down during the lecture, secretly reading a novel on his lap until he heard the knocks.
He whispers to himself:
"Dammit Zane..."
He gets up and asks to use the bathroom.
As he walks to the other side of the class towards the exit, he drops a coin, that catches another male student's attention who was noting something down
"Dammit Zane."
He pulls the rubber bands on his wrist down between his index finger and thumb, he picks a small eraser and pulls back on the string. He releases it,launching it at the corner of the wall, it rickochets off the top of the dustbin and hits the A.C switching it off,making everyone complain.
The Caucaian male teacher in glasses, a blue shirt and khakis walks to his desk and opens his palm,motioning for him to drop the material he used. While this is happening,the forest boy types a code on a remote in his pocket and the automated windows open, Zane sneaks in much to the annoyance of the student next to the window through and sneaks to his seat .
"Nice try kids."
The man says holding the first boy's wrist with one hand as he struggles to get away and the remote in hisnother
The three boys sit outside the principal's office on a couch with the secretary behind her desk typing away on the desktop.
The two boys are seated on Zane's left and right looking frustrated while Zane smiles with his eyes closed with his hands behind his head.
"You really goofed it this time, Zane."
"Did I?"
He smiles holding three sheets of paper with his writings on them.
"What are those?"
"Mr Smith's test questions...he yawns"...solutions."
"Wait, you mean this afternoon's tests?
"Yup."
"I just bought you guys time to cram them, yeah the principal will want to punish us but..." He yawns again."...he'll have to let us go take the test."
10 minutes after the test.
"Mr Rider, the test just started."
"Yeah, sorry I took too long."
Zane walks out of the gate grinning at the old security man who gives him a mean look.
As he walks home, he sees a younger boy with a big school bag being pushed around by three childen bigger but around the same age.
He buys popcorn and sits on the grass not far from them yelling.
"Yeah, kick their asses!"
The boys stop,startled.
"I didn't say stop...come on big bag, you told me these guys smell like a used public toilet. Show me who's boss."
One of the bigger boys grabs his head, puts on a brave face and guards with his arms as the others start beating him with sticks,one even picks a bigger stone but he feels Zane's cold glare and drops it immediately.
After they leave the boy laying, facing the sky with cuts.
"H...how did I do...this time?"
"Don't worry, you'll get 'em next time."
He carries the bag for the boy as he eats popcorn and walks home.
"Thanks senior Zane."
"Damn, please don't call me that."
"Okay big brother. "
He sighs
"That...I will allow it."
UNITED ALLIED GREAT NATIONS (UAGN) SUMMIT
17:01 PM
A helicopter touches down a helipad, a caucasian man with black hair in a white lab coat over a black shirt and chinos with black loafers The man behind him is shorter brown.hair in a sweater vest over a plaid shirt and jeans and brown loafers.
One of the ushers directs him to the staircase where they emerge backstage where the voice of someone over a microphone is audible.
"...I would like to invite the current Weaponmaker of the UAGN;Professor Pryce. "
There is applause as the man in the white coat walks to the stage.
"I would introduce myself but that means I don't respect your intelligence...So my name is Professor S. Pryce and world leaders, you hired me to handle what you call the "Hands of Armageddon" project as a "peaceful" way to deter and prevent war between these so-called Great Nations..."
As he speaks, the man in the sweater vest connects his laptop to a projector and it shows a powerpoint slide with subheadings
"Introduction"
"Objectives"
"Participants"
"Sample size
"Study design"
"Results"
"I'm here to ...."
"Suddenly the power goes out and a hologram of someone in an LED mask showing no eyes but a cartoon smile.
The person speaks with a deep tone.
"Hello world leaders, I'm sorry to interrupt..."
The security team scrambles to find the source of this, while Pryce puts hisnhand in his pockets and.stands, facing the hologram.
"I've seen with my eyes what this armageddon project is doing
A holographic projection two video footage side by side, showing children in binds being moved in vans and the other is a child sleeping on the floor in a cell.
"My faction aims to put a stop to this animosity and being those who are responsible to.justice...or justice. "
There's shock and chatter in the crowd as they see the footage.
"Barbaric.." One of the world rulers says
Pryce waves his hand through the hologram as he speaks.
"6.5244° N,
3.3792° E.
These coordinates appear in the mask.p
"This is where one of the hands of armageddon can be found,the other will be revealed soon ...do with this information what you wish.
The hologram fades and the audience erupts into a ript as Pryce steps back and puts on a glove, he snaps his fingers and a portal opens in front of him,he pulls the man in the waist coat in, stating:
"I really don't like talking to people."
One of the world leaders with a flag depicting a white snowflake against a black background makes a phone call
, he's wearing a blue suit and black tie then makes a phone call;
"We'll need to make use of the pseudo humans, those coordinates are for a developing state Neo-Lagos. Send them there."
In a military base, the man on the other end walks up to five bodies, frozen , each in a human sized tube.