A few weeks later...

???: "You alright Jacob?"

A boy in black gym shorts with a highlighter yellow stripe on the sides, glasses, green headphones, navy blue t-shirt, golden crown necklace, white socks, and navy blue sneakers was just shaken awake by a student to his side at a computer.

Jacob: "(drowsy) Hanajunobanoo."

Student: "Did you sleep last night?"

Jacob: "(rubbing eyes) Not easily."

A bell rings.

Jacob: "(sarcastically) Time for another amazing trolley trip."

A dark gray bag is flung onto his back.

Jacob: "(slipping on headphones) Time to put on some anime music."

He scrolls through the nearly 700 songs that all seem to be related games and anime before deciding on a song titled, "Last Surprise."

Jacob: "(in head) Rinse repeat."

Jacob steps of the grounds a a school called, "Saguaro High School," and walks to a trolley stop not too far away.

Jacob: "(in head) Can anyone shut the fuck up?"

Everyone at the stop is being WAY too loud, even if they are outside.

Twenty minutes later, the trolley arrives.

Jacob: "(in head) Finally."

He finds a seat inside as it begins to move.

Fifteen minutes later...

Captain: "Any signs of Catalyst energy?"

An army captain is pacing back and forth with a platoon of soldiers standing by a street called Palm Ln. with one of them holding a strange device.

Soldier: "Catalyst energy is slowly beginning to rise in the area captain."

Captain: "It'd better, we've been searching for the locations for those eight Catalysts for a few weeks and they all seem to have ended up in Arizona and all seem to all appear in Scottsdale at some point all of the time."

A trolley passes by with the Catalyst detector shooting up in readings.

Captain: "Is a Catalyst seriously on a trolley?"

The trolley stops at a nearby senior center, with Jacob getting off.

Jacob: "(singing) Simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight..."

Jacob is cautiously strolling by the soldiers when the readings explode again.

Soldier: "He's the Catalyst."

Without warning, two soldiers fling Jacob to the ground, pinning him down and sending his headphones off of his head.

Jacob: "(struggling) Hey! What the hell did I do?!"

Captain: "It isn't an action you lowlife, it's what you are."

Jacob: "(awkwardly) That sounded very racist."

The captain slugs Jacob in the face.

Captain: "(pissed) We don't need weapons with sass and wit in our facility."

Meanwhile...

???: "(scratching head) Still haven't found Jay and the others and still have next to no idea about where the hell I am."

The boy with the metal arm and sword is currently sitting on the side of a store called, "7 Eleven."

Jake: "Just what the hell got you into this mess Jake? This isn't Lucifer's handiwork."

He notices the captain slugging an individual on the ground.

Jake: "(shocked) Just what is that?!"

The boy draws his sword and moves towards the scuffle.

Meanwhile...

Captain: "You're now direct property of the President, Catalyst!"

Jacob: "(struggling, in pain) That... bastard Horus?"

Another punch is about to be thrown when a phrase stops him in his tracks.

Jake: "Blizzard Bullet!"

Three men on standby are suddenly dead when bullets made of ice make perfect head shots.

Captain: "(smirking) Now a runaway Creation? Today is my promotion."

The words click inside Jacob's head.

Jacob: "(in head) Isn't that one of-"

Jacob turns his head to see Jake across the street.

Captain: "Now it's a good thing that I got the President to give me a platoon instead of a squad."

Jake's sword gives off a mist.

Jake: "Looks like I'm finally getting some answers after three weeks!"

Jacob: "(softly) Am I still asleep in Graphic Design?"

Bullets are fired, but Jake can only dodge and block so many.

Jake: "(focusing) I've only just recovered from that last beating."

For strange reasons, the Catalyst detector seems to be detecting higher and higher energy readings.

Soldier: "(confused) Strange."

Jake angles a ricochet that it shoots one of them back into the knee.

Jacob: "(coughing) Looks like there's a reference there."

Jake takes more bullets into his arm.

Jake: "I need to shake things up."

The sword becomes a variety of weapons, from gauntlets, to daggers, to a staff, bow, and whip before changing back and getting a bullet to send him onto the floor.

Jacob: "N-No!"

The captain shoves his foot onto Jacob's head.

Captain: "(cocky) Now you're going to obey like a good pet and shut that fucking shit hole you call your mouth."

The energy levels rise faster as Jake becomes a punching bag.

Soldier: "(panicking) Sir, you m-might want to tell the others to-"

He grinds his boot into Jacob's head.

Jacob: "(softly) Stop it..."

Captain: "(grinding shoe) Oh I couldn't hear, but you need to FUCKING ZIP IT!!!!!!"

Jake begins to bleed faster when the levels rise faster.

Soldier: "(panicking) Captain this could put the whole operation in jeopardy if you-"

He grinds harder the moment Jacob tries to open his mouth.

Captain: "(pissed) I said ZIP IT!!!!"

Jake is beginning to cry when his sword falls out of his hands.

Jacob: "(darkly) I said..."

The detector explodes.

Captain: "What did you do private?"

Soldier: "(panicking) They're triggering a spike in his Catalyst energy!"

A voice is heard in Jacob's head.

Voice: "Let your feelings free."

Jacob: "... STOP IT!!!!!!!!!"

A mix of gold and silver light erupts from beneath Jacob, causing the two men holding him to be obliterated from being within the light.

Captain: "(struggling) What's this?!"

Soldier: "H-He may be tapping into his potential!"

Captain: "Why would it awaken now and not anytime else?!"

The captain looks at Jake.

Captain: "Is that his Creation?"

The energy surrounds Jacob like a bubble.

Voice: "Now the time has come."

Jacob's wounds are quickly healed.

Jacob: "(confused) What the hell did I just do?"

Small balls of light from the bubble fall on top of Jacob's skin as his glasses break apart and join the light.

Voice: "Thy soul unshackled..."

More light covers his body as a set of armor is able to be made out of the light.

Jacob: "(confused) I'd really like some answers!"

Voice: "... thy emotions are free..."

A set of gold armor with silver designs now covers Jacob's body up to his chin.

Jacob: "(confused) So I'm in the-"

A sudden snap puts two and two together in Jacob's head.

Voice/ Jacob: "... now thy time is nigh for your desires to become the new reality of the world..."

The bubble is now pouring into Jacob's palm.

Voice/ Jacob: "... now awaken..."

Jacob grabs the sword.

Voice/ Jacob: "... Origin!"

A golden long sword causes a sonic boom of wind with a single swing.

Captain: "D-Don't just stand there men! He's only a poor minor!"

One man tries to get close.

Jacob: "No ones hurts me, or those who are a piece of me."

Jacob has gotten behind the man and stabbed him through the heart.

Jake: "(drowsy) What's going on?"

Just being near Jacob appears to be rapidly healing Jake's wounds.

Jacob: "Jake, we need to kill these guys and get out of here!"

Jake shakes a guy off and grabs his sword.

Jake: "How do you know my name?"

Jacob: "I can explain everything, but we need to take them out before because it's going to get real complicated in about one sentence."

Jacob points his sword forward.

Jacob: "(in head) Never thought I'd be holding the real Origin with my hands, let alone standing by Jake. Maybe Jay and the others too."

Bullets are flying at Jacob.

Jacob: "Really?"

Jacob bounces the bullets back like they were tennis balls and any ones he did miss ricocheted off his armor.

Jacob: "Feels good to not suck at tennis."

Jake: "(shocked) Just what the hell are you?"

Jacob: "I'm you and you're a piece of me."

Jake: "Guess one sentence was enough."

Jacob: "See what I mean?"

Jake weaves his way through more bullets before stabbing one of the remaining two soldiers through the throat.

Captain: "This isn't good!"

A faint, gold aura surrounds Jacob and Jake as soon as the other soldier's neck is shattered with one hit on the hilt.

Soldier: "W-We need to retreat!"

A bullet of ice finishes the soldier with the shattered Catalyst Detector.

Jake: "No one is leaving."

Jacob: "(smirking) You ready to finish in one strike?"

Jake: "How do you want to do it?"

The aura is brighter.

Jacob: "Follow my lead."

They point their swords forward.

Jacob/ Jake: "Synergy Attack..."

The two strike the captain in perfect, opposite directions.

Jacob/ Jake: "... Future Hope:..."

Jacob is in the air while Jake is just below.

Captain: "I... can't feel... my legs... is this... fear? Over a lowlife?"

Jacob/ Jake: "... Rising Sun Style!"

The slices from two directions split the captain perfectly in half.

Jacob: "That's a little something I'd like to call style."

The halves plop onto the ground.

Jake: "Guess now I can get some-"

Jacob reverts back into his original outfit and stumbles for a bit.

Jacob: "(exhausted) Guess nothing is sunshine and rainbows in this world."

Jake helps Jacob up when he reaches down to grab his headphones.

Jacob: "I didn't ask for help there, but I'll take it."

Jake: "Just point me where you're going. You can explain everything there."

Jacob: "Just a bit further down this street."

They slowly walk down Palm...