2 Chapter 2 A System? (1/2)
Jake set his coffee down and began to scroll through the comic. As he did so, his phone began to vibrate. He looked at it and saw it was his sister telling him that the meteor shower should begin any second now but he just ignored it as he was enraptured by the comic.
From the very beginning of Jake's life, he always loved superheros. Since the second he could read, hell even before he could read, he would be seen flipping through comic books and just looking at them. When he was 5 years old, he would dress up as Superman and Superman became his favorite hero since then. The allure of Superman was that he is all powerful but he still chooses to help the weak and powerless. If Superman wanted to he could absolutely destroy everything, probably even the planet but he doesn't. Instead he becomes Earth's guardian hero. Why? Because even though he isn't even from Earth, he has taken it as his home planet and cares about it, the good and the bad in it.
Unknown to everyone on Earth, the ”meteor shower” they were anticipating was going to change everything for all of them.
As the first ”meteor” entered Earth's atmosphere, it entered in a fiery blaze but people soon began to realize that the fiery ball didn't stop falling like most meteors. It was when the first meteor struck that people began to panic. Each meteorite that hit were between the size of a fist and a car.
Poor Jake was just sitting there in his room when a meteorite the size of smart car crashed into the room next to his, sending him flying into the wall, knocking him out in the process. The meteorite gave off a pulse that caused his computer to glitch and send an electric current into the mouse that was still in Jake's hand. As the building began to fall apart around him, he somehow managed to be perfectly next to the wall so when the ceiling fell it fell perfectly with him safe.
Jake remembered waking up several times, head ringing and a voice in his head saying,
[Synchronizing to new host....
Host synchronized....
Host's body failing....
Analyzing....
Fractured skull, fractured the 5, 6, and 7 ribs, severed lower spinal cord, fractured hip, abrasions and open wounds on back....
Analyzing....
Fixing host....]
”What is this....” were the thoughts running through his mind as he opened his eyes only to see that he is inside of an ambulance while an EMT tries to operate on him. The next time he regains consciousness, the same voice is talking in his head.
[Host's body at 20%....
Repairs necessary....
Scanning host....