The New Dawn-Chapter One

                                               The New Dawn.

                                               Chapter One.

2016, May the 3rd, Tuesday, 1:00pm
In a small town somewhere in the middle of nowhere, a 16 year old boy ponders in his room. perched in front of a several computer monitors, the boy who looks as though he has been awake for a few days, is interrupted by the slamming of his door.
"When are you going to get a job!" the boys Father excessively yells.
The boy stands up in a fuss and yells back "I am doing work far more important than that of a common person!"
"Well its been months since you left school, you haven't left your room the whole time." his Father presses on the matter. "it's far from free to live here, you need real work or you need to leave." His father explains as he leaves the room.
"FINE!!" Screams his son.
His room consists of mainly electronic devices, computers, consoles, tablets etc and blue wallpaper with one window that is nearly never revealed. The name of the boy? Perhaps the bold letters on his door KEENAN better explain how I would know. Keenan is a tall skinny boy with brown hair and rather thin eyebrows, his eyes add to completion as one is blue and the other is green. Keenan sits back down, he gets glued back to his computer, on which various web pages are on each monitor. Space travel, advanced robotics, nanotechnology. The long foregoing efforts that Keenan presses out to try avoid the real world are still, going nowhere. Keenan decides to go get some food. He leaves home quietly, trying not to let anyone notice his departure. On his way he passes by his school, old school.
“They were all too foolish anyway.” Thought Keenan.
He never liked them, mainly because he got bullied. The sky is clouded today, even though it is meant to be sunny. as Keenan was walking through a park, he decided to sit down for a short rest. A bit of time went by before Keenan started to hear something, an earthquake, maybe a nearby volcano, he couldn’t make out what it was, but it was very loud. He surveyed the area in search of an answer to the outrageous rumbling, but it just got louder and louder. He looks up into the sky and gazes at the clouds. Just as he was about to look away he saw the clouds ripple and spread in a giant double O as a meteorite shot through the sky. Keenan notices it is heading straight for him. He has lost hope, and knows this was it. The object struck the ground in a way similar to that of a mini nuke, taking out almost half of the park. Keenan slowly regains consciousness, with blurry vision and a high pitched ringing in his ears. Realising he is alive he scans the area, red, hot, thick smoke everywhere.
"HOW AM I ALIVE!" Keenan repeats to himself.
He hears something a few meters away, near the center of the crash. Plumes of smoke radiate the area, making it hard to decide what to do. Before he has the chance to, he see's a tall figure emerge from the rubble. Blue and grey skin. There were little to no describable features due to the smoke that now envelops the area. Panicking, Keenan quickly stands up, he turns to run, but cannot. The creature walks to him, lifts its long arm and places its four fingered hand onto his head, Keenan’s eyes start to glow and he passes out..

Keenan awakes in a dark room, floating in a pitch black void. Silence fills the room, Keenan can hear his own heart beat. A deep thundering voice echoes throughout the emptiness
"Child, you have been gifted a great advancement. With this, you shall change the future of your race." The voice echoes..

"Keenan, Keenan." Whispers an unknown voice.
Keenan jumps up, before he could do anything, quickly realises that he is now in a hospital. He notices voices coming through from the next room.
"The boy had no major injuries, no burns and is very healthy for someone found in the crater of a meteorite that just killed almost 20 people within 500 meters of the blast. He was found two meters away from where it landed, but there was no meteor... it just doesn't make sense"The man says.
The man sounds like a mid 40's doctor, there was another voice too. Sounding much younger than the first guy, he also starts to talk.
"Lets just say, he died. no miracle boy, and the research can start immediately." "The child's father already knows he is alive, and is heading here now." the older man exclaims "there is no rush nor any proof that this boy possesses any abnormalities, just luck is all."
The older man points out before walking away. The doctor opens the door to Keenan's room, but to his surprise, Keenan is gone.
Keenan is running, sprinting beyond his normal limitations. Breathing normally after running so fast for so long, he manages to get home in under ten minutes. At that point he knows that everything is going to change.
"it takes 15 minutes to drive to the hospital but I ran that distance in 10 and I jumped from a building and lived." he whispers to himself. In shock, he remembers what had happened to him and the strange dream he had.

Keenan thinks to himself "I need to test myself, if I wasn't injured from jumping out of a building or a meteorite then maybe I'm invincible..." Keenan rushes to the kitchen of his home, he picked up the biggest knife he could see and held it with both hands. Drawing the knife to his chest he tries to stab himself, but like a knife to a steel sheet it barely leaves a mark. Shocked again Keenan goes to his dads gym equipment. Testing out everything, he is able to lift everything with ease, even the equipment itself. Keenan rushes back to his room, locks the door and turns on his computer, and looks for answers. A few hours pass but Keenan still has nothing to explain what has happened. He exits his house, and heads to the park. At the entrance there are guards, Keenan assumes that the park has been quarantined. He searches for a way in, remembering about his new found abilities, he tries several times to run through walls, climb and jump through trees and several other failures. Keenan decides to climb the tallest building close to the park, 6 stories above ground. Keenan runs from one side of the building to the other, then jumps, mid jump Keenan screams as he flies downward through the sky, guards on the ground oblivious to his plan.
"FUUUUUUUUCK!!!!" He screams as he gets closer and closer to the ground. He crashes to the ground like lightning striking furiously.
"Holy shit, I’m never doing that again... feww" he thankfully says to himself. Keenan notices the empty crater in the distance, he remembers the figure he saw.
"What the fuck was that, surely I wasn't imagining things...." Keenan says to himself as he thinks of the possibilities. Suddenly Keenan feels a presence behind him. Quickly he turns to see who’s there, but apart from a few trees and bushes, there is just an empty field.
Keenan hears a voice in his head "Stop!"
“Who’s there?!?" he quickly replies.
"You must leave, it is dangerous for you to stay here boy!" the mysterious voice hastily replies. Keenan quickly heeds the warning and quickly looks for an exit, sprinting past two lone guards.
"STOP THERE! WHAT WERE YOU DOING IN THIS AREA?!" one of the guards yell. Keenan was gone before they could try to capture him. Keenan runs back home, the door was locked but Keenan broke the lock without realising. His father who is now back home looked up at Keenan from where he was sitting, with an angry yet worried appearance on his face. "Where have you been?! I heard from the hospital, they found you unconscious in a meteor crash?" his father carries on, questions after questions. Keenan, not knowing how to explain any of these current events, just silently goes to his room. Keenan locks his bedroom door and crashes down onto his bed.
"What happened today.. argh" Keenan says in frustration.
"I had to, or you would have died. You are the one who will decide the fate of your race. " the mysterious voice says.
Keenan replies in frustration "Who are you?! what is happening to me?! why me... why?"
"I implanted advanced microscopic machines to enhance your physical state, if I had left you it would have been a waste of the perfectly compatible human. which is rather rare amongst your species." the voice explains.
"So you are an alien? why did you come here? what's going on?" Keenan persists to ask.
The voice quickly says "Thats enough questions for now, you will come to understand everything in due time." The next day Keenan heavily researched Nanotechnology, trying to build a better understanding on his situation.
"I can hear better, see better, smell better... i'm suddenly a super athlete and I can think a lot faster." Keenan says to himself. He starts writing a detailed report on how he thinks his new technology lives and works to improve his body. Over the period of a few days he wrote a detailed theory and evidence to back his claims. He also wrote theories on how this new technology could revolutionize military weaponry and medical procedures.
"So, a few weeks have past since I gave my reports to the Nano and Cyborg Research and Development group. I still haven't been contacted by that strange voice again." Keenan recites to himself. He is at home alone, with his dad being at work. he hears three solid knocks on the front door.
"COMING!" Keenan yells across his house as he rushes to the door. Upon opening the door Keenan is surprised to see his best friend, Alex. Alex is a medium height and rather sporty, he lets off a happy go lucky vibe. He has dark blonde hair and hazel eyes.
"Yo!" Alex says proudly.
"Uhhh, whats up haha. its been awhile."Says Keenan with surprise.
"Yea, I've been rather busy studying for the upcoming mock exams." Alex happily explains.
Keenan says " That's good, uhh I don't really have time to talk sorry... could you come round some other time?"
"Uhhh yea that alright I guess, are you okay? you stopped talking to me for a while..." Alex asks curiously.
"Yea, im just having some family problems... it's all good Alex, don't worry." Keenan explains.
"alright then man, i'll see you another time then." Alex says as he walks down the driveway.
"later!" Keenan replies. Keenan returns to his room, he sits down at his computer and notices he has received an email. it reads "Mr Keenan, This email is regarding the documents we have received. Your work has intrigued us here a NCRD (Nano and Cyborg technology Research and Development). We would like to meet with you to arrange  further research into your "specialty". If you are interested in this idea, come to the seaside cafè tomorrow at 12. if you decline then you're theories will be dismissed.
yours sincerely
minister of technology
James Hedrick."
Keenan thought to himself about the offer, considering the risk and the gain that could be made... If only he could consult someone, but Keenan knows that no-one else has this situation in common. he decided to think on it overnight, for now he decides to go to bed.
"Keenan!" a loud voice shouts.
"who's there?!?" Keenan frantically replied.
"it's just me again, you are asleep and I assumed it would be best to contact you when you are unconscious. You may address me as Kabul Terruos Noxz. I am contacting you through a form of telepathy using what you call "Nanotechnology". I will not answer you after this because you will awaken soon. One thing I must tell you is to meet the man in black tomorrow, the fate of your species depends on that meeting." the deep voice explains before a dizzying feeling overwhelms Keenan. Suddenly awake, Keenan is unsure if he had a dream or what happened was real, he assumes the latter of the two due to the strange occurrences that have happened of late. He decided to go to the meeting with the mysterious man.
"SHIT!" Keenan yells as he realises that it 11:15am. He rushes to get ready, then quickly leaves. Keenan arrives at the cafè, he notices a man in black sitting at a window side table alone. The man looks in his mid 20s, pale skin with a thin nose and eyebrows, his eyes are dark brown he is a rather well built man and is rather tall.
He walks up to the man and asks him "Are you James Hedrick?"
"You must be Keenan then, your a lot younger than I imagined. Take a seat." James says.
Keenan replies as he sits down "indeed, don't let my age fool you. I was the one who wrote the theories you were so intrigued about."
James looks at Keenan with a look of astonishment and asks "Well yes, but what I want to know is how you stumbled upon this information in the first place? some of the info in your "theories" Is highly secured research currently in development "
Keenan smiles and replied "That's secured information, if I was to tell just anyone then I wouldn't have anything special to talk about. The theories I sent you were incomplete on purpose, I wouldn't give away the technological gateway to highly improving our society for free."
"I thought that would be the case so I have a proposal for you, work for us. The pay is good, we offer free accommodation and food etc and you will have access to most of our research, obviously it will take time before we let you see it all. But remember this, if you were to leave and tell people what you have seen, you will be met with a terrible fate." James thoroughly explains to Keenan.
"okay then, I will agree to these terms and will work for you, when do I start?" Keenan replies
"I will send you an email with your contract attached and terms and conditions of working with us, you must tell no one about this." James explains as he stands up "farewell, until we meet again. " he says as he exits the building a disappears into the crowds of people outside. Keenan decides to go home and wait for this email, surprised at how smoothly the meeting went. "Is it really this easy" he quietly says to himself.
Keenan sits down in front of his computer,  he notices he has a new email already.
"Mr Keenan, I am contacting you for work purposes. We want to start this research program immediately due the the importance of what we could achieve for society.
In this email will be a file with the information you will need to know along with a form you are required to fill out, just basic information and personal details just like any other job. If you agree to this then we can begin tomorrow. If you say yes and your personal information is legitimate we will pick you up from your house at 3pm tomorrow, be prepared to leave by then.
Yours sincerely,
Minister of technology,
James Hedrick."
Keenan, expectedly gets straight to work reading the Ts&Cs and filling out the application. It takes a few hours for him to send the files, even though it took him half an hour to wright. Unsure if what he is doing, is the right thing to do. regardless he decides to try, overestimating his new abilities he assumes that he would easily escape any dodgy scenarios. Keenan calls his father who is currently at work.
"Dad, I have decided to leave home for awhile, I have found a job and they are supplying accommodation while I work there." Keenan explains to his father.
His father replies "Doing what? When are you starting?"
"I leave tomorrow, I will be... Uhhh... Dairy farming.." Keenan frantically explains further.
"I see, it's about time you sorted out yourself." his father  says before he quickly hung up the phone. Keenan decides to get an early sleep, also hoping to hear from this so called Kabul.
Keenan wakes up to the sudden buzzing of a rather loud alarm, realising that he didn't hear from the entity called Kabul. He had already packed up the essentials he needs, with a separate hard drive from his computer to hide his research from any unwanted viewers. Time slowly passes by as Keenan anxiously waits for 3 O'clock to pass by. Thinking of possible problems and solutions that could occur in the events to pass. Thinking more and more about how this could just be a set up, but reassured purely due to the fact he wants to be a big part in history. He concludes that he can't make a gain without taking any risks. More time passes as the It  nears 3pm. Keenan takes all his equipment out the front, he notices a large limo across the road from his house. A man in a black suit and top hat with black sunglasses stood outside the vehicle. He opens the limo door and James steps out from the fancy car.
"Keenan, Im glad you decided to join us. I am sure you will enjoy your stay." James says as he walks over to Keenan.
"So where is this place we are going anyway?" Keenan asked.
James simply smiled and said "you'll find out when we get there." they walked to the limo and both got in. Saturn black leather coated the interior of the vehicle, 14 seats and two small tables with cup holders and even a mini bar fridge.
"Wow, I don't think I've ever been in a limo this fancy before, well I've never actually been in one.." Keenan said as he looked around in amazement.
"Hahaha, I see. Well there is a first for everything, isn't there." James said with a half assed smirk on his face.
Keenan still observing all aspects of the vehicle, he replies "Yes, indeed there is." they continued chatting for the duration of most of the drive, until they pull up to a large steel barred gate. It opened automatically, they start to drive up a long winding driveway, up the driveway there stands a tall building, mainly made of glass and steel framing.
"wow, this building it rather large." Keenan mentions.
"Just wait till you see how deep underground it goes." James says. The limo stops in front of the building. Keenan anxiously reaches for the door to get out and inspect his new home.
James quickly says "don't open the door yet Keenan." Before Keenan could respond, he feels the limo start to move down. Like they were on an elevator they go further and further down. Suddenly they slide to a halt, now in a room at least 30 meters squared. Polished marble floor and walls and the roof is a giant mirror. This room is filled with cars, and motorbikes. The door beside Keenan opens, the man in the black suit is standing outside.
"If you could kindly follow me sir, I will be escorting you to your room." The man says, his voice is like that of a posh English man. Keenan follows the man to an elevator in the middle of one of the walls. The numbers in the elevator read from -100 to 15 making a total of 115 floors. The man explains to Keenan as he presses the button with the number 10 extruded on the surface. "your room is on floor ten along with a few other staff members."
"do all the staff that work here live here too?" Keenan curiosity asks.
"No, only the gifted or experienced members. Also you will be sharing rooms with another individual." the man in black explains further. The elevator doors slide open as they arrive on the tenth floor, a long hallway stretches the length of building with four doors on each side.
"Your room is the last door to the left, please excuse me, I have other business to escort to. You will be called when you are needed tomorrow, for now, make yourself at home." the man say before he slips back into the elevator. Keenan slowly strolls down the hall and stops at the door.
"So this is my new home huh." Keenan says to himself. He opens the door and steps in, navy blue carpet lines the floor, black walls and a sky blue roof. The room seems to have smaller rooms, a kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and a lounge. A voice suddenly speaks out from the bedroom.
"So you must be the new kid, huh I didn't think James was serious when he said the doctors just cleaned the afterbirth off you. " a rather confident and energetic but soft woman's voice says.
"haha! Im only joking boy, dont look so serious okay?" she says as she strides into the lounge. She has long red hair, with eyes to match. She stands tall even though she is rather short, with refined facial features and a nice figure too.
"ahh, I-I-I think i'm in the wrong room, sorry" Keenan studders as his face turns as red as the girls hair.
"haha no no, this is the right room. Keenan, right? My name is Rose Marston, nice ta meetchya." Rose explained.
Keenan, still blushing, says "But.. But you're a girl and i'm a boy, wo-wouldn't they put me in a room with another guy?!?"
Rose smiled "you aren't in school anymore Keenan, besides, its not like we are sleeping in the same bed.. Un-unless you want to... JUST KIDDING hahaha."
"Uhhh... Aren't you a little old to be saying that sort of stuff to me...?" Keenan questions as he starts turning an even brighter shade of red.
"Hey! I'm not old, I am only 18..." Rose loudly responds
"Anyway, I have things to do right now so I guess ill see you later, we can talk then, Kay!" She says as she jogs past Keenan with a solid smack on the shoulder as she passes him.
Flustered, Keenan sits down and starts trying to think about what happened. He Never really talked to many girls when he was at school. Keenan slowly nods off to sleep while in deep concentration.
"boy, you aren't dead yet so you must be doing well." Kabul says
Keenan replies in curiosity "Why would I be dead?"
Kabul explains "There are people who want that which you possess, the technology in your blood, skin and bone. What runs through your body would be highly valuable to humans. People are already aware of what you possess, tread carefully from now on, the real challenges are about to unfold."
"wait, first who or what are you and why are you making me do this?" Keenan asks in frustration.
"I am not from your world, I was sent here to increase the rate at which your species advances technologically, but on my way to your planet I got attacked by others of my kind who disagreed with the plan. You must figure out the secrets of technology for yourselves, for if I tried to tell you, you would fail to comprehend the very basics of our technology. Remember, what I implanted in you, is very basic technology on a galactic scale." Kabul reveals.
"So you were the creature I saw, I don't understand why you chose me." Keenan says in frustration.
Kabul responds in rage "Do not be self centered human, you just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, dumb luck, you weren't chosen. I must go now, you now know all you need to know for now."
"WAIT!!!" Keenan yelled, suddenly realising he yelled out of his sleep as he is suddenly awake, like awaking from a nightmare.
"SHIT! You scared me Keenan, are you alright? You shouldn't suddenly yell like that ya know.." Rose says in a panic.
"Sorry, just had a bad dream..." Keenan says with a tired look on his face as he stumbles to bed.