In the year 2045 the planet earth has undergrown drastic environmental changes due to a massive earthquake which took place causing the world to be pushed to a post apocalyptic era. As a result of this earthquake, not only does the world experience rapid change but also there is a release of a special gas from within the cracks on the Earth's surface.
once in contact with oxygen this gas solidifies underneath the earth therefore causing the formation of Crystals which can be used for various purposes like energy creation and the likes. Due to this phenomenon there has been a high rise in the development of mines by the affluent in other to excavate this crystals.
*******
A ray of light carefully slicks in through a crack on the roof and shines on the face of a young brown skinned boy who is visibly between the ages of Eleven to twelve. He twists and turns on his bed as if being carefully caressed in his mother's arm until this brief moment of bliss is interrupted by a loud coarse voice
"You better not still be at sleep Bolt."
Yells the now seemingly angry voice. Flustered by the sound of this the young boy quickly tries to get off from his bed but accidentally stumbles to the floor causing him to hit his head.
"Ouch!."
Cries the boy who is trying to regain his balance as he picks himself from the floor. He walks towards the front door and opens it. Standing in front of him is an old man with a full gray hair and wrinkles allover his face who also seems to be of African heritage and average height.
"Come on Bolt it's time to hit the mines, and I ain't down for any surface worker's bellyaching so you better be quick."
Says the old man as he slowly makes his exit while descending down the stairs to the front door, while Bolt who is directly behind him tries to close the door of his room.
"Oh and by the way, we ain't eating this morning to, where short on food stuffs."
with a distressed look on his face he quickly runs to the front of the old man and starts to jump around in front of him frantically while waving his hands in the air.
"What for real?, Come on grandpa I'm hungry here, please I'm gonna die if I don't eat please."
Using his oil stained one of his hands to gently push Bolt aside as he uses the other to reach for the door nob he turns back and faces Bolt who is sitted on the floor scratching his uncombed Afro with a playfully scornful glare fixated on the old man.
"Yah for real,no food this morning that's what we get for being so poor, if only we had more money."
Bolt quickly gets up and runs to the side of the old man as both of them exit the house together and close the door.
The clouds are partially dark as a result of smoke from the mines,the atmosphere is congested, workers pushing carts filed with crystals of various sizes, shapes and colors at every corner as far as the eye can reach.
"Hay Lox get over here your twenty minutes late, you know that?."
Says a middle aged man with a yellow helmet and flash light hoisted ontop it dressed in a dirt Staind white round neck top and brown cargo pants with yellow gloves and brown colored boots to match his trousers while standing and holding a pickaxe over his shoulder as he beacons him to hurry up.
"Come on we don't have time we have to meet our quota for the day or no pay." says the Man.
Old man Lox then grabs Bolt by the hands and they both start running towards the mine
"On my way." Replies Old man Lox.
The mine is dark but a little bit lit by the aid of some lanterns which are placed by each side of the caves, but this is not enough for the mine workers to see so they use a flash light mounted on top there helmets to increase visibility.
Bolt picks up a pickaxe and starts to hit it against the wall to see if he can find any crystal, meanwhile Grandpa Lox is going the opposite way to go and do the same when he suddenly takes a pause in his steps and turns back to face Bolt.
"Hay Bolt, remember we each need to dig up to thrree hundred crystals to get enough food to eat don't forget, three hundred Bolt."
With his hands raised to his head and his legs jammed together like a soldier saluting his commander Bolt let's out a resounding shout with a wide smile on his face.
"Ai Ai Sir!."
Old man Lox smirks and stretch's his hand forward and places it on Bolts helmet which is now mounted ontop Bolts afro and rubs his palm on his helmet as if petting a puppy.
"You've got the same eyes as your father and your mom's beautiful smile, Now get back to work Bolt no time to waste."
Old man Lox pats across the shoulder, picks up his pickaxe then starts to head to the southward side of the tunnel which is opposite to where Bolt is.
Time passes by and it's almost dawn the mine workers start preparing to head home for the day and so do Old Man Lox and Bolt, they move out of the mine and start heading home together with bolt sitting on top his grand father's shoulders as they both gaze at the sun set.
"Hay Grandpa." says Bolt.
"Hm?."
Replies Old man Lox who then looks up at Bolt who is sitted atop his shoulders.
"Do you know what I'm gonna be in the future?." says Bolt.
Old man Lox chuckles softly then smiles causing the wrinkles present on his face to push upward.
"What Bolt?." replies Old man Lox.
Bolt closes his eyes and smiles brightly which exposes his little chipped tooth, raises his two hands in the air and kicks his two feet out but not enough to force them out of his Grandfather's arms and says.
"I'm gonna become the head of this mine someday, then we won't have to live so poorly and we can finally eat all the bread we want."
Old man Lox then bursts out into laughter.
"You really do take after your Father don't you."Replies Old man Lox.
Bolt then pouts in a cute manner and crosses his hands together.
"Hmph, You never take me seriously." says Bolt.
"Now now Bolt, I know you can do it you'll make a splendid young man someday, Just like your dad was, I'm sure both your parents would be proud." replies Old man Lox with his eyes closed and a soft smile across his face.
Hearing this words Bolts smile is ignited once again he then faces forward to the sun set with his hands crossed and looks straight ahead with a bright smile.
Old man Lox and Bolt both arrive home each of them laughing together as they approche the front door.
Old man Lox opens the door slowly while smiling and looking down at Bolt who is now off his shoulders and standing beside him only to find a large man with a fade cut and bushy beard dressed in an ash colored jumpsuit sitted on the living room chair with his feet crossed and hands spread across the chair.
"What do you want you dirty surface worker.!" Yells Old man Lox.
"Calm down Lox, No need to go all berserk on me. I'm just here to collect the bosses monthly taxes that's all, pay up and I'll get my sorry self out of here ok?."
Says the Man who is now standing up with his hand playful raised up in the air.
"Taxes, what stickin' taxes I paid up last week, that's why this boy had to go work in the mines today without eating first." Replies Old man Lox now pointing at Bolt who stands behind him.
Upon hearing this the strange man's face quickly shifts from that of a smiling one to a frowning face.
"Wo wo, lemme get this straight, so in short you've got no money huh?, (chuckels softly) Oh now we've got a problem a very biggggg problem." Says the Man in a light menacing tone.
The man picks up a transmitter and pushes the center button on it while raising it to his mouth.
"This is SR 1000, reporting for assistance in taking out the trash." Says the strange man as he release a scornfully gaze at Old man Lox.
"Huh?." exclaims Old man Lox.
Suddenly a group of men all dressed in gray jumpsuits come barging into the living room and push Old man Lox on the floor and start lynching him, Bolt with tears in his eyes tries to run to his aid but is held back by one of the men.
"Grandpa!." Cries out Bolt.
"Stay back don't get close!." shouts Old man Lox whit his face now cover in blood and his hand starched forward.
"Yah unless you wanna join him you better stay back kid." Says the strange man.
"Hay Bolt." says Old man Lox who is now fatally wounded and bleeding profoundly.
Upon hearing his voice Bolt raises his now bent head to look at his Grandfather who lays on the floor bleeding as the men still hit him brutally.
"I'll always be with you so do what you know how to do best for me, Smile Bolt, smile." says a wounded Old man Lox.
"No, No I lost grandma then mom and then dad I can't lose you to Grandpa." Cries out Bolt who is trying to free himself from one of the goons grasp.
" Oh shut up." says the strange man who now raises his hand to unlish the final blow.
"No please, no stop." cries out Bolt.
"Don't blame me kid blame your self for being a dirty Mine worker." Replies the strange man.
"Grandpa!." cries out Bolt who is sinks his teeth into the hands of the goon who is holding him.
"Ouch!." Shouts the goon.
A bloody grandpa Lox then faces bolt and smiles brightly and brazenly at him as the strange man uses his fist to give him the final blow and with that Grandpa Lox kicks the bucket.
"Noooooo, Grandpa!." Shouts Bolt who has now successful freed himself from the grasp of the goon and rushes to kneel by Old man Lox's side.
"Hmph, serves you right dirty mine worker." says the Strange man.
"What?." mutters Bolt with tears in his eyes.
"Huh!." says the strange man now facing Bolt.
"What did we ever do to you, we get up from bed even if we don't want to, we work when we don't want to yet you treat us less than Animals, Mine workers? , Surface workers? what does any of that even mean? , aren't we all humans tell me huh! what's the freaking difference between us!" Cries out an angry Bolt who is now clenching his tow fists together.
"Hay kid, I'm a nice guy so if you don't wanna join that old man I'd advice you shut up." Replies the strange man who is now covered in Old man Lox's blood and slowly walking towards Bolt.
"You took my Grandma then my mom then my dad now my grandpa." says Bolt who's head is bent down with his fist clenched together tightly.
"So what kid." Replies the strange man.
Suddenly a spark of blue electric discharge comes out of Bolts back, the strange man catches a glimpse of it with his eyes and stops abruptly.
Suddenly Bolt starts to discharge a high amount of electricity and simultaneously his body starts to harden and form into a pitch black rocky surface with glowing blue cracks all over his face and body.
"Wo, what's going on kid, ha ha calm down kid I was just joking ok just joking."
Bolt raises his heads up, stretchs his arm forward and points at the strange man.
"You're dead!."
All the goons including the strange man start to panic, suddenly the Strange man who turned back to call for reinforcement truns forward to look at Bolt but doesn't see him standing in his former location.
He the starts to look around for Bolt finally facing up and seeing Bolt in mid air, blue electricity all over his rock like body with his fist readied to delver a menacing blow.
"Call for back up, call for back up!." says the strange man frantically.
One of the goons then picks up a transmitter.
"H hello?."
"What's the matter?" Replies a voice from the transmitter.
"This is SW 1,200 reporting for back up we've encoterd an earth monster, Type uhhhh, F I think." Says the goon with the transmitter.
"Ok you stay right there I'll be on my way if things get to bad just run." says the voice form the transmitter.
"Yes Sir." Replies the goon.
The goon turns back to inform the strange man of the new update but to his surprise sees the strange man who now seems lifeless and is being held by the throat in the hands of a berserk Bolt.
Bolt then faces the goons and drop the strange man as he repeats the words
"grandpa grandpa" all over again with tears in his glowing blue eyes and pain written all over his once innocent face.
He then starts to go berserk on all the remaining goons as the all try to run away. After a while a man who seems to be of Asian heritage and slick dark hair with the right portion of the hair overlapping his right eyes and dressed in cooperate white T-shirts with suspenders and Black trouser paired with black shoes and both sleeves rolled up kicks the door down and sets his sights on Bolt, he then looks around on the floor now covered with a pile of injured men then back at Bolt.
"Ho? so he activated his core huh, and his also an electric type how rear."
Bolt then fixes his sight filled with blood lust at him and with a long and intense crouch on the floor which causes electric current to accumulate around his calf, he leaps forward with a boom which sends a massive shock wave around the whole house and surrounding scattering everything within a ten miles radius as he heads for his new target which stands before him at the door.
The man pushes his hands forward as if to catch a ball, plants one of his legs forward on the ground and the other stretched backwards.
"Partial solidification hands, release 10 percent"softly says the man.
His hands then turn into the same pitch black rocky texture as Bolt's body, but his is different, his has red colored glowing carks and emits smoke instead of electricity.
"Come!" says the Man.
A besrek Bolt now flying towards him at full force prepares his fist for another fatal punch. And In that moment this two superhumans collide causing a massive shock wave one that cracks the whole ground which they stood upon.
"Huh?." with a surprised face says the man who is now using his two hands to push back Bolt.
"His stronger than I estimated I'll have to increase the realeas percentage, hope he doesn't die after this." says the Man.
He then takes a deep breath and calms his nerves.
"Realeas 20 percent." Says the Man.
Pulling one of his hands aback as he frees it from the grip of Bolts hand he chuckles softly.
"Don't get to cocky kid your a billion years to early to be giving me a hard time."
He raises his fist to the air as smoke starts to emit from the glowing red cracks on his arm at high speed like lava spewing out of a volcano. Then with that he pounds Bolt on the head with a unbelievable amount of force rendering him unconscious.
And like a calm after the storm the man stands in front of a now unconscious Bolt and let's out a sigh.
"That's that I guess." says the Man.
He looks around the room and sees one surviving goon and points at him.
"You, take the wounded to the infermary this men will probably be out of commission for a year and get yourself checked to." says the man in a commanding yet calm voice.
"Y Yes sir." replies the injured goon.
He adjusts his tie with his hand which seem to have returned back to normal, looks down at Bolt and says.
"Bolt Mechna huh?, interesting kid."
Comments (3)
See all