In a long dark hallway, the man with the coat enters an office, the same office 3 years ago.
"Good to see you Duncan."
"Duncan, who now only has one arm, has experienced significant changes in his life over the past 3 years.
Duncan gets off his chair and looks out the window with his right hand at his back.
"So, O'Brien… How did the investigation go?"
The coat man leaves his coat on a chair and sits on it.
"Everything worked as planned" He brought out a notebook from his coat.
"With every data I collected so far, it seems "The goddess" was right, tomorrow we'll see a new storm… Isao Tyson"
Duncan smiled, but O'Brien couldn't see.
"Did the kid notice you, ever?"
"Yes he did, I lied that I was one of his father's men, stalking him."
Duncan turns and presses a button on his desk.
"Bring her here"
A few moments later, O'Brien's sister enters the door, helped by someone. James couldn't see their faces as they entered and exited the room quickly, almost like they were moving faster than the speed of light..
Duncan gets his right hand on the girl's head and a dark energy comes out of his palm.
"I can see again!" the girl shouts. James hugs his sister.
"O'Brien, your duty is over. For now. Get out of my office"
The siblings leave the room, Duncan sat in his chair waiting to see what monster this boy could be.
September 16th 0:00 am Isao was in his dad's car, both of them silent. The lights of the city were filling the streets filled with people even at that hour. The silence is broken by his father's radio.
"This is 90 87, need backup on 97th St Transverse, central park, we got a 10-29H"
Isao looks at his father.
"No, we do not accept calls like this."
"It's near us, what if they need you?"
Theodore looks at his son, and grabs the radio.
"This is 90 88, getting 10-8, coming right at you."
The two arrive at the scene only to find 2 police officers dead. A second later the car they were in got run over by a giant man. The man was a giant brute.
"Shit!" Theodore presses a button on his belt.
The car is turned back up by the giant strong man. Pedestrians were frozen in time. Isao realizes it's the same thing the other man used yesterday.
"What the fuck is goin on dad?"
"Wait, you can move?"
The car is thrown against a tree. The big monster of a man tears the door where Theodore was and gets him out and throws him into a distance, no more than 50 meters. "I'll come back for you" The man said.
Isao blacks out and his father faces the big man alone.
"Who the fuck are you?" Isao's father said.
"I'm my own brand. Call me smasher!" They proceed into fighting. Theodore's ability was that of invincibility. The object's button he pressed is broken and the time starts again. People start recording the scene.
Isao hears a voice saying the same thing.
"You're not weak, wake up and fight"
He opens his eyes and all he sees it's whiteness.Suddenly, a little girl emerges from the white void and appears in front of his eyes..
"My name is Kalista! I'm a lost warrior turned into an orb, to be used in saving others. I chose you, Isao Tyson, to be my new orb user."
"Where are we?" Isao asks.
"Heaven! Or something like it, we are basically in a blank room, mine to be exact!" She raises her hand to proceed a handshake. He hears the people's screams, and he knows if he declines his father and other people will probably suffer. He shakes the girl's hand.
A blue fire bursts out of him as a giant orb falls from the heavens through the car, and into his chest.
"From the heavens and hells above and under, I am the lost spirit of Kalista, the one going to reborn Isao Tyson, as…"
"Wildcard…" Is heard from Isao's mouth. He opens his eyes and sees that the time is working and his father is taking a beating. Isao gets out of the car somewhere live streaming everything.
"I'll finish you off later, newborn!" The man said
Isao charges at him and punches him in the abdomen, but nothing.
Kalista whispers something into his head. "Imagine your fist has 10 times his power" And so he punched the man into a tree, the tree fell on him, and the man did not move.
"Go! Run home, don't let anyone see your face! GO! " His dad said, and he ran away. Why did the time start? Why did this happen to him? Those were the questions that troubled him. But he had one thing in mind and that he had some sort of power.
He vanishes through the crowd fast and runs to his moms house.
He arrives at his mothers home, opens the door, but she is not there.
"She is probably on a date…" He gets to the kitchen, grabs a bowl and cereal, gets to the fridge and gets some milk.
He takes out his phone to check the time (1:25am) and then proceeds to pour cereal into a bowl and add milk.Open GreenBirdSocials, the whole social media app was filled with what he did, everyone there tried to find out who the hero was, or what the hell happened there.
"You know it's not healthy to look on your phone and eat right?"
Kalista appeared on a chair next to him.
"What the hell happened to me?" Kalista pets Isao on the head.
"Well, Wildcard, you have accepted me and the powers I gave you"
"Powers… How?
The girl claps and out of nowhere a book appears next to his phone.
"Here is what you need to know, but I'll tell you the basics. Everything started when the humans started evolving from monkeys to homosapiens. God tried preventing you idiots from going further with technology and he created the orbs, the orbs were developed to give feral beasts abilities, but-" She got interrupted by Isao's yawn "Incredible!" Kalista said "Well I see that you don't need the knowledge so I'll take everything else about it and never help you!" Isao looks at the cereal and grabs a bite "Sorry" She nods"So we can continue. Everything was because you humans are so stubborn, you stole them from the eden garden, well not you future humans, but Adam and Eve did, with the the help of Lucy, she is a fun woman. And humans had us, orbs defending you from feral beasts for centuries. "
"So why do you call yourself a lost warrior?"
"Well I was human once, used to have an orb, just like you, only that the orb was making me mad, and I did so many stupid things. Now though I'm your orb and I'll promise to keep you safe!"
"How did you know what to say to me? When I punched that guy?"
"Ok so next lesson is how powers work: The powers are given by the orbs, and the orbs are given by gods or the Almighty Themselves, but they don't know about what powers you're gonna have, not even the Almighty can't, somehow, but the orbs can because we are directly fused with you, power users!"
"So you knew what to do because you read the instructions manual?"
She hits him in the head.
"Sorry" Isao said. Kalista opens the book at page with antique numeration of pages.
"This is the "manual" of your power, this book is for all the users I've had. 5 of them had similar powers and 1 had identical powers as yours. His name was Kakashi the fool, descendant of the Asō clan, he was your ancestor if I'm not wrong." He chuckled. "Why was he named the fool?" She slaps Isao. "You don't know your ancestors, boy! He was considered a fool because he married Hina, she was beautiful but a poor woman, without family. This was the family that was before you hundreds of years ago!" Isao did not understand why he was given a history lesson, but he takes it in as more information for the future.
"Back to the book. The book itself contains mostly all my users. I am mostly a curse as most of my users died in a week, the only one that did not was your ancestor Kakashi. I learned from my mistakes and I promise to give you assistance when you need it."
Helicopter sounds are heard above Isao's home.
"What is it?" The girl disappears and looks outside on the roof. She then comes back.
"Kid, get dressed, you're in trouble"
The helicopter goes in the street and some man ready for war, with ARs in their hand, goes at the door and knocks.