Decoded: Origins
Chapter 4: Classified Information

Tyler wakes up in bed not knowing how he got there, again.

“Great, I’ve been abducted. A white room, that’s original. Gee gosh how will I ever escape?” Tyler equips his gauntlets and punches through the bullet-proof glass using his newfound super speed. “Good to know, I have slightly tougher skin, I guess,”

Once he does, he notices the room he was in was puny compared to the vast seemingly underground facility he was in.

“Now I know where my mom’s taxes went,” He said. “So are you just gonna stand there, or are you gonna push that emergency button you’re holding miss?” He said spinning around on one foot to face a lady wearing a lab coat. “I mean no harm, I just-” ” Wait a minute, aren’t you the same girl I had pinned to a tree?” Tyler questioned. “Plus, ‘No Harm’ you stabbed me with a syringe, sedated me, and had me locked in a small white room, we both know you’re full of it, Miss Emily Shaw,”

He stares at her with bright glowing Cyan eyes. Miss Shaw tries and fails to push her emergency button, Tyler snatches it out of her hand and crushes it. “Fascinating,” Shaw says. Tyler bursts off to begin looking for his friends. He accidentally creates a wealthy amount of Lightning, overloading the servers, security systems, and equipment in the facility to shut down. Causing a full-scale reboot.

Tyler quickly found his friends, along with other things. Like, experiments on humanoid beings. “STAND DOWN, WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED!” “Natalie, I’m pretty sure that you can produce light through your hands. So use them to help us escape,” Tyler then whispers to Natalie “Strike your hands against the floor,” Once she did, a flash of light flooded the room, like a flash grenade. “Hey Alvin, you got anything that can get us out of here? You said you saw fire right?” Tyler asked.

“Uh, hold on,” “ALVIN WE DON’T HAVE TIME TO ‘HOLD ON’!!!” Tyler yelled. “WILL YOU GIVE ME A MINUTE!?” As Alvin yelled a Fire blasted from his mouth, hands, and feet. His eyes became charcoal black, and his iris bright red. “Now we’re talking! Janet, see if you can call that staff to see if it does anything. Brice, I need you to do recon, make sure we don’t get followed. Natalie, you go with him, if you get caught fall back. Alvin, blast us an exit,” Tyler demanded with authority.

As they all went to do their tasks, Tyler ran around looking for the head of the facility. He soon found their office. “Ms. Monroe?” No one knew what Alvin’s mother did, so this came as a HUGE surprise to Tyler. “You called an attack to drag us to..... wherever this place is located,” As she stood up from her chair, she stared at Tyler and said one thing. “Is my baby okay?” Ms. Monroe said with tears in her eyes. “Yeah, he’s fine, melting the walls to escape. Why did you kidnap us!?”

As she adjusted herself and sat back down in her chair she said. “We received readings of abnormal activity, stemming from the meteor shower. We got word that there were civilians with the same or similar spikes in said activity. We are under direct orders to detain and capture all personnel involved. Oddly, you guys are the only ones we’ve ‘captured’ so far,”

As Tyler takes all of it in, He immediately thinks about others having powers. He knew that they weren’t going to be able to contain all of them. “What if we helped?” Tyler said. Ms. Monroe sat there thinking after a while she finally spoke up. “Of course, if we recruit super-powered individuals, we have a better chance of completing orders,” Not long after, Tyler heard his friends call for him, from quite a bit away. “Sorry Ms. M, but I gotta go,” He said as he darted off. Tyler discusses everything with his friends, they all stood there in shock. “Wait, Alvin’s mom is running this place!?” “Yeah, and we gotta help her replace others like us,” Then, the G.R.I.D. agents surrounded our team of heroes. Tyler and his friends were preparing for a fight before Ms. Monroe came out of her office. “Stand down, these teens are now officially G.R.I.D. agents! The authorization has come straight from the President! This is now Operation Singularity!”