Chapter 1: In the Beginning

"Wesley, you're going to be late for school." My mom called from upstairs.

"I know mom I just can't decide on which shirt I should wear." I said. In a few moments I could hear her coming down the stairs to the basement and walking towards my room.

"I can't decide between this one, and this one." I said when she reached the door.

"Well which one do you want to wear?" She asked.

"That's the problem I've chosen these two but I can't decide, should I pick the Luna one or the Chrysalis one?" I asked.

"Hmm... I would go with the Luna one." She said.

"Alright, just give me a bit and I'll be ready to go." I said.

"Alright I'll get breakfast finished." My Mother said before heading back upstairs.

A while later I arrived upstairs, "Good, now come and eat your breakfast or you will be late for school." My mom said. I quickly grabbed some toast and water. After eating breakfast I grabbed my bags and we headed out to the car. We locked up the house, checked the door, got in the car, and headed for school.

"Have a good day Wes." My mother said from the car after I had gotten out and had begun to walk towards the doors to enter the school.

"Thanks mom, see you later." I said before turning and continuing on my way towards the school entrance. I'm sorry I haven't properly introduced myself at all how rude of me. My name is Wesley Erickson, I am 19 years of age and a student of Valley Flats High in the small town of Valley Flats, which is located in the southern half of British Columbia, Canada. The school, in comparison to those of the city is small, however to me it is a large step up in size from the elementary school, or at least what I remember of it. Now there are a few things that you should know about me before I continue. First off I have a love for science, most sciences in fact there hasn’t been one yet that I haven't found fascinating. Secondly, well, I have a few acquaintances most of which consist of a group of geeky people I hang out with at lunch, however there is only one of them whom I consider to be the person who I actually am friends with, his name is David Ming Chang. I have known David for several years now, he arrived here after his family had moved from Calgary, I still remember his reaction to our winter here, "You call this winter, this is nothing, it's not even below 0." He used to say. Speaking of him, here he is now.

"Hey Wes, how’s it going?" Dave asked after he spotted me in the hallway before class.

"Pretty good, you?"

"Yeah, I’m alright." He said, "Nice Luna shirt by the way haven't seen that one yet."

"Yeah I couldn't decide on what to wear this morning, so I asked my mother and she suggested that I wear this one today." I said.

"Well i agree with your mother it's a great choice," The shirt that I was wearing had a midnight purple color with a picture of Luna in the middle in a nouveau style, with her name in letters above.

"Dude, two more days till your birthday, what do you think your mom got you?" Dave asked.

"I don't know man,” The bell rung to get to class, “Got to go see you later." I said.

"Later." David said. What would my mother get me, now that was food for thought. Now my Mother was one of those people who you could get along with quite easily, also she had inherited quite a lot of money from her deceased parents. This gave us enough to live comfortably and still gave us enough to spend frivolously in small amounts

"Wesley, what is the answer to the question." My teacher said snapping me out of my train of thought.

"What question was I to answer?" I asked.

"The one in front of you, number four." He said annoyed. I began to spew out one big long sentence explaining the differences between roundworms and flatworms. I still don't know why people are so surprised at how I can be completely daydreaming and still answer the questions given to me without stuttering over a single syllable.

"Correct, that is how flatworms and roundworms are different." He said. He messed up my train of thought, now I have to start all over again. Forget it i'll just listen through another one of his endless lectures about something we already know because we did it yesterday. I like science but this teacher is just meh.

The next two days went off smoothly leaving nothing standing in the way of my birthday. Then finally came the day, my birthday, and it was on a Saturday, perfect two days of no school and no homework. However there was still the gnawing sensation at the back of my mind of the question that will soon be answered, what did my mother get me for my birthday? She had hinted at it, she said "it would be different than what I got for you...", wait for it, "last year". But beyond that I can't even begin to guess. The only thing though was a box had arrived last night and when i asked her what was in it she said "oh nothing just some stuff I ordered." and I left it at that.

My birthday morning finally arrived and thoughts were flying through my head on what she got me, I was being a bit self centered but hey your birthday comes once a year so might as well enjoy it. The morning went on for what seemed like hours I didn't ask why my mom hadn't shown me what she had bought me. But I knew she could tell that behind that calm look I had on was a frantic mind thinking about what it could be, and full of suspense as I waited for her to tell me. She was just dragging this out to make me more on edge. I finally had to say something.

"Mom I don't mean to be rude, but what did you get me?" I asked.

"You'll see, but first you should go to your room, I put some clothes on your bed, you should put them away first." She said. I knew she was stalling this out because she knew it was killing me, so I went and did as she asked.

After running back upstairs she told me to stop and stand just outside the entrance to the basement.

"Now close your eyes until I tell you to open them." She said.

"Ok." I said, my mind was racing this was obviously something good. After walking into the room were my mother's voice was emanating from she said,

"Turn to your left and." She paused for a moment." Open." I did as she said, what I saw next was amazing. On a set of hangers dangling from a chair was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. It was a costume, but not just any costume. It was a custom one in the design of Thunder Dash, a character I had created, creamy beige colored pants with a shirt and dress shirt to match, gloves like the ones used for biking except much more on the fancy side but still finger less, and to complete it a set of electric mint green and black colored mane and tail, the mane which was the best made wig I had ever felt not itchy but still felt secure and fit perfectly. Wait a minute this is like the one I drew up, I took a step back in my mind and thought this through. My mother has just bought me my very own cosplay costume that I had been dreaming of having since I designed it, this is awesome!

"Do you like it.....Wes." She said. I snapped back into consciousness.

"It`s amazing, where'd you get it?" I said.

"I had it custom made by a costume company." She said.

"This is exactly like the one I drew up, how did you get the designs?" I asked.

"You put them in the trash when you realized that you'd probably never end up with it, so I took them and ordered it." She said.

"I don't know what to say, a simple thank you is not enough for something like this." I said.

"Wes a thank you is all I want." She said.

"Then, thank you." I said, "thank you very much." I ran over to her and gave her a hug as I could think of no other way to express my gratitude to her.

"Wes there was something else, David phoned and said he would be stopping by." She said.

"When and for what reason? I wasn't expecting him." I said.

"He said he had something to tell you." She said.

"Im going to put this thing on and freak him out when he gets here." I said.

"Wait." My mother said before I headed to my room to change,

"I forgot you give you the contact lenses and....the Wings." This was the best birthday present ever.

About an hour after receiving and putting on the costume, which by the way felt amazing to wear. There was a knock at the door, i went to answer it.

"Who is it?" I said.

"Wes its Dave." Dave said.

"Give me a second." I said.

"Ok close you eyes before you come inside." I said.

"Why?" Dave asked.

"Just do it." I said.

"Ok." Dave said. I opened the door and led him inside.

"Ok open them." I said.

"Wow holy crap dude, where'd you get that from?" He asked.

"This was my birthday present." I said.

"Awesome." Dave said.

"So what did you come to tell me?" I asked.

"I got you a job." He said.

"What?!" I said.

"Ok now before you start saying 'hey I didn't want a job`, just wait to here where it is." He said.

"Ok, where." I said.

"At the science research facility behind our school." He said.

"You're kidding." I said.

"No, not kidding, we both have jobs in the physics department, quantum to be exact." He said.

"Awesome!" I said.

"I know." He said. We talked for hours on details and how he managed to get us the jobs. Before long it was dinner time and he had to go. I ate dinner with mom carefully as to not get anything on the costume.

"Well I'm off to bed, night mom." I said.

"Good night, Thunder Dash." She said.

"Good one." I said. I headed to my bedroom, took off the costume, put on a shirt, and laid flat out on my bed. "Best birthday ever." I said drifting off to sleep.

The next day ran smoothly and before I knew it, it was Monday. Both the first day of school for the week and the first day of my new job as an assistant to the lab technicians in the quantum mechanics department of the physics wing. Even though it may be a small job, it is still worth the experience of being inside the research facility and seeing what really goes on inside a laboratory. We arrived at the facility about two hours after school.

"You ready?" Dave asked.

"You bet I am." I said. We entered the research facility, little did we know that from that moment forward, our lives would change forever.

Author's Note

This has been far to long in the making, I tried to edit it the best I could. Hopefully it's far better then the previous fiasco which was my last story, god that was terrible, any way hope you enjoy it. More will come eventually I just have to edit the rest.