Decoded: Origins
Chapter 3: Tutorial

Tyler screamed and gasped for air. “What the-” “Tyler, what’s wrong?” His mother cried out from downstairs. “Uh, nothing! I just had a really weird dream,” Tyler sat up, trying to remember how he got to his bed. All he could recollect was just before he fell from the tree.

“The meteor shower, I was hit with some of it. Wait, what about the others? Were they hit?” He could’ve sworn he saw something else. “Was I also hit with Lightning?” He touched his chest, the left to be precise. As soon as he did so, two identical Cyan gauntlets forged themselves around his forearms. “What the Heck!?”

He slapped the same place, and the gauntlets disappeared. “I gotta call Alvin,” As the phone rings, Tyler notices that the battery percentage is going up. Only, he didn’t remember plugging it up at all last night.

“Hello?” “Hey Alvin, do you remember anything from last night?” “Uh, no I don’t think... Hold on I think I saw Fire before waking up in my bed this morning,” He said scratching his chest. As soon as he did, he saw a mask form on his face. “Why the heck am I wearing a mask?” Alvin worried.

Tyler thought he had a vague idea of what happened that night. “I’ll call Janet and see if she can get Natalie and Brice to come,” Alvin at this point still freaking out asked: “Why where are we going?” “We gotta figure out why we suddenly have weird armor pieces and stuff,” Tyler said, partially talking to himself. “Wait a minute Tyler, don’t hang u-”

“Oops....,”

After calling everyone, Tyler, Alvin, Janet, Natalie, and Brice all met in the clearing.

“So, why are we here again?” asked Natalie. “We are here because we all woke up in our beds without any recollection of doing so,” Brice said. “Huh, so he talks,” Tyler stated with sarcasm.

Tyler later explains his and Alvin’s experiences and shows the group what they did. “So just touch a spot that you feel should have a wound on it, it normally itches,” They all did so, then all except Janet and Brice formed something on their bodies. Janet had a sudden urge to stretch out her hand, and in doing so a large purple staff came to her call. Soon, Brice tried it out and a cutlass answered him.

As they complained about why they could do these things, Tyler had an urge to move. Unannounced to him he equips his gauntlets, dodges something, and then slices it with what seems to be blades made of lightning. As he swiftly lands on his feet, he notices everyone looking like they all just came in contact with a spark plug. ” Oh shoot, I got powers!” Tyler said, like a geek. “Aw, come on man,” Alvin said with envy.

Soon after, Natalie is blinded by what seems to be her hands. She can produce light, but she didn’t know what triggered it. Not yet, anyway. After seeing this everyone tried to see if they had powers. Everyone except Brice who had disappeared, no literally he just vanished in shadows. “Look what I found,” Brice said. Brice had dragged a person wearing a hi-tech uniform and mask. “G.R.I.D.? You’re the one who shot at me, aren’t you?” Tyler interrogated. The masked individual said nothing. “There are more of you aren’t there?” Tyler said.

The agent stood up and punched Brice in the stomach. They began their escape, just when Tyler began chasing, he realized he was in front of the individual already. He runs toward them, kicks them in their gut, knocking them to the floor. He takes their mask off, revealing them to be a young woman. He is then injected with a sedative, given by the lady. Feeling his body begins shutting down, he runs toward Janet as fast as he can go.

Though he wasn’t fast enough, she is then hit with a dart and falls to the floor. Tyler looks around, seeing that all his friends are being dragged by people in the same uniform as the young lady he left earlier. He falls to the floor, but before blacking out he hears a voice. “Round them up, We’re taking them to Location 05-ETC. We’ll conduct further examination there,”