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Names Marcus, Marcus Matthew and... well.. it's hard to explain all this and where to begin. Let's start with when I was a kid. see back then there was nothing much to do except to play video games all day and read comics but there was not much else to do in that time.
But one day a new game came out and it's was called sonic. I didn't know what it was or why there was a blue hedgehog at the time, so I saved up some money and bought the game and played it. Next thing I know that I couldn't stop playing it all day and all night long and the rest is history.
New games came along as well as a satam TV show, comics, you name them. at first there ups and downs, some weird, some a bit... off then the rest of them but in the end it was worth it. I became a sonic fan enjoying games and reading comic books, I guess you could say that I'm know a lot of lore and all the drama/action in the comics.
It started out great, then good, then bad, then great again at issue #160 when Ian Flynn started writing the Archie comics but it came to an end when Ken Penders sue the Archie and causing it to go into a reboot. It was never the same since. It was later canceled in Archie and went to IDW Comics.
I still read the IDW comics after that fiasco and still am reading sonic. However I would have never dream of being in it nor have known what the future have in store for me.
California, San Francisco, 20XX
' Another slow day at work sign....'
the place was an office work, full of employees talking on the phone or on the computer, typing on the computer monitors and among them is Marcus. with a red loosen tie,white shirt with sleeves rolled up, black pants and black shoes. a tired look on his face, who hasn't slept in days doing on his file work when he gotten here since this morning.
'Never would I dream of being in a work place... this place sucks I don't know why I apply this job in the first place... Oh wait I needed the money to pay rent, and electricity, the bills and other stuff that need to pay off... ugh'.
tired and exhausted, began to finished up his work file before moving on to the next file, and typing it on the keyboard.
' I hope I get pay overtime for this'
" Marcus! "
He turn his head around to see his boss with a blue suit with a black tie and a slick hair yelling out, his name. " yeah Boss"
" I need you work on another thing that needs to be finished by the end of this day"
" Um but sir I thought that James is responsible for that work?"
He gave a response on the reason why. " He's a no show for about five days already, and I need you to finish the work for today, so here "
He turn around and leave. leaving him an amount of paper work to finish up. he looked up on the reflection of the screen, with tired expression, bags underneath his brown eyes, and brown messy hair.
'Ugh I just want to go home and sleep...' he pulled out the work file that his boss told him and began to work.
Later
' ...And done. now to get out of here and go home, can't take another minute here.'
Finally done with all the work, he began to pack up and punch the time card began to leave to the door and to the hallway.
he headed to the elevators. then pressed the button for the doors to be open and once it did he step inside and press another button to go down.
By then his phone began to ring and pulled out and see that his friend, Mike is calling him. Pressing on the call button and spoke to him.
" Hey Mike, what's up man."
" Buddy hey! where you been man, I thought you be here at the bar with us"
Mike, a shorter man. With blond hair and green eyes.
' What does he want...' As he thought, he decided to speak up.
" Yeah sorry, the boss gave me a ton of paper work to finish on man".
" It's fine. I just wanted to know where ya at. rest well and see you on the weekend buddy"
the phone call ended leaving a confused Marcus. ' rest well ? ...oh...'
Looking at the time, it's 11:15 that was pass his working hours.
' Aw man, I need to head home and go to sleep'.
The elevators doors open and reveled a parking lot fill with empty parking space, a lone grey car was there that Marcus open the car door and began to start it.
' Alright time to go home, and go to sleep and hopefully stay awake while driving.'
He put on his seat-belt and began to drive away from the parking lot. Into the darkness.
' Getting hard to stay awake here'. He thought
Driving has becoming more difficult with each passing minute. barely staying awake while driving the car.
' Just a little longer, almost there'
His Eyes began to feel heavy and started to drift a sleep but then, his car almost collided with another car.
* HONK *
He awoke just in time to avoid the collision of the car and back on the right path
" AW MAN, that was close. Got to stay awake here no matter what". He muttered himself.
Although the danger has passed, his eyes began to fell heavy again. Try as he might but couldn't stay awake much longer.
' COME ON, stay awake, just a little longer. Don't fall a sleep now! Maybe... some music would help....' He the turn on the radio in his car. Instead it was tune in to podcast.
" Gotta a say Jason... do you believe in reincarnation. " A man from the radio spoke. Till another voice came from a different person.
" Sorry... but I'm religious... I don't believe in those things... "
" Well... other people from different cultures do... They think that they would become animals... Or reborn. "
" Nolan... come on... "
" What...? I'm just saying... "
" No... there is no such thing as reincarnation... That just a bunch of crap... "
" Hey man... you never know. " The two men continue to argue back and forth. Marcus was started to get annoyed at this.
" Some podcast... Bunch of morons that's what you two are. " He spoke to the radio. The two men continue to argue.
" I'm ending this... "
" Jason. Come on ! "
" Listen there is no. Such. Thing.... you spend way to long in those conspiracy crap... I'm turn off this podcast ! "
" Hey hey hey ! Come on dude don't be like that... we ca- " The podcast was turn off abruptly.
" Idiots..." He then turn on the music. Just has everything was going smoothly he began to drift to sleep again, unaware the danger on the road and about to collide a car.
* HOOONK *
His car has collided with another, and began to spin out of control. Marcus tried desperately to get it back under control but to no avail, no matter how hard he tried to steer the wheel, it was no use and that his car is on a collision to a truck coming by.
" CRAP CRAP CRAP! SH-"
Then everything went dark.
The next day- Early Morning
"I'm here with you live on channel 6 NEWS, this morning there was a car accident. The man in the vehicle was Marcus Matthews, a 36 year old employee office worker. "
the police has closed off the area and with the medical crew that brought out a stretcher with a black duffel bag from the ambulance .
Among the group is the camera crew was recording live on the site. among them was a women standing behind the wreck car that's been run over by the truck, in an grey overcoat, long brown hair, blue eyes and in her mid 20's looking at the camera and talking on the microphone.
" It is unsure on what cause the crash, many believed that he have been drunk driving. However it still unclear if this is true or not, we will provide more evidence by the police. However we can be sure that the driver is dead. This is Angela Chavez of channel 6 NEWS, signing off."
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" What is this... is this a piece of soul."
" A Shard of a soul no less. but not from here..."
" This one doesn't have a chaos link within him... yet he exist?"
" Perhaps he is the key of stopping of the Genesis wave in the future. We must have his help for this... For everyone".