Chapter 1

As I wake up and begin to get ready for work on a Saturday night no less my phone begins to ring. I quickly hop out the shower and nearly fall on my face trying to answer my phone that's on the bathroom sink. "Whoa, that was close." I answered the video chat. "Hey Ace. How's it going?" "Hey Huang, I'm doing well thanks for asking." "So what are you up to?" "Uh, nothing just got done doing some sit-ups. You know trying to stay fit." She just laughed at me. "Yeah okay, sure you were. Anyways, I'll be in America by tomorrow morning. Think you can pick me up by then?" "Yeah sure, what time?" "5 in the morning hopefully." "Yeah, Yeah I got you." "Thanks Ace you're the best." "Hey um Huang..." "Now boarding Flight A-56 to Virgina."

"Hey look, I've got to go but I'll call you as soon as I land later." "Stay bright..." Huang hangs up the video call and leaves me there. "Starlight." I sigh heavily and get back to getting ready for work. Twenty minutes later... I arrive at work and clock in to start my shift when my best friend and one of his colleagues rushes and push past me. "Hey, what's the hurry Danny?" Danny turns to me and says still sprinting backwards. "Professor Jin-Sai just made a marvelous breakthrough with this new nanotech that our client wanted us to build you should come see it for yourself. See you at Lab 37!" Danny said sprinting away and turning down the hall.

I chuckled to myself and smirked as I followed and made it just in time by the end of the speech that was given. "This is the beginning of a new age in technology and military advancements I give you: Nanotech White." Professor Jin-Sai revealed a bunch of small spider and centipede nanites crawling in a petri dish. "With these nanites they can not only retrieve data from our enemies but heal wounds and they are sentient. However, they require a host that's powerful in both willpower and loyalty to fully unleash their power but we've yet to test them on humans to really explore their full power." Professor Jin-Sai took one of the centipede nanites and held it up for the crowd to see. Everyone ohed and awed at this marvelous breakthrough. As I watched I noticed something moving in my peripheral vision and saw it was nanite spider I tried to stop it from crawling out the room however it jumped onto me and dug it's mandabels into my skin and I yelped in pain as I gripped my forearm and knelt down slightly on one knee.

Danny and the other's looked my way and I quickly looked at them and replied: "Sorry, everyone. It's just a muscle cramp in my forearm I'll be back." I quickly ran to the bathroom and looked at my forearm as I saw the nano spider crawling up my arm I tried to stop it but it was too late it found one of my cells and it began to change my DNA. I yelled in pain as the process was excruciating I fell to my knees and collapsed on the floor. As my eyes began to shut I saw Danny run into the bathroom and began saying something as I finally closed my eyes welcoming the darkness.

I later awake to find myself in a white room with nothing but white walls and a giant one way window and camera recording me. "WHERE AM I!?" "WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE!" I yelled. "Hmm, it seems Subject Heart is exceeding our exceptions." "Doc, What are you doing? You promised me when he wakes you'll let me take him home." "Did I say that Mr. Danny?" Danny gripped the Doctor by his lab coat and lifted him up out of the chair. "Look here you bastard, that's my best friend you have in that damn room and I'll be damned if I let him be your fucking science project or experiment. I came to Shade Inc. because you're known for your well versed knowledge of Nanotechnology." "Let me ask you Mr. Jen. Have you not stopped to think what your best friend could do? The good he could do if he's controlled and taught the ways of the nanites in his body?" "Of course not!" "Well that's disappointing Mr. Jen. I'm afraid our business here is concluded. I trust you can find your way out?" The doctor said that as two guards came in room behind Danny. "What will you have us do with him Mr. Chen?" Guard A asked. "Have him dragged through the sands of time." "Understood sir." Guard B replied.

The Two guards quickly came on either side of Danny and grabbed his arms and started to drag him outside. All of sudden a Nano-Codex cube burst through the one way mirror and Ace glared menacingly at the two guards and then over at Dr. Chen. "Fascinating." Dr. Chen whispered under his breath. The guards fell to the ground, looking up to see a pissed off Ace his eyes glowing greenish orange as he dashed forward and kneed one guard in the gut then quickly appeared in front of the other and snapped her arm in two. Guard A howled in excruciating pain as she fell to the ground gripping her snapped arm. He looked down at her as his eyes changed from greenish orange to a icy blue. "The codex welcomes you home." Ace outstretched his dominant hand and Guard A began to disappear in a cube like state then all that was left was her digital print. "Her digital print is weak. But it will suffice for the Codex. Installing her digital print to the Codex Core." A nanite Centipede began to crawl out of Ace and absorb her data then retreated back into Ace.

Ace turned to the Guard B and walked up to him. He trembled in fear as he began to frantically move backwards until he hit a wall. "You're not welcome to the Codex. Your fate is unknown starting now." As Ace uttered those words he snapped his fingers and a digital cube appeared around the guard and he still looked frozen with fear. "You shall be erased." Ace touched the cube and pulled back as he did a plethora of data entered his body as it did the guards digital biometric signature began to get erased from the government's data base and his friends and families memories of him were erased and new memories were created in the process. "Your unknown fate has no repercussions to this timeline's future. Your fate is now sealed."

The digital soul of the guard was locked away in a codex cube and absorbed in the body of Ace. Ace turned to get Danny who was still in shock and he got picked up and hauled him over his shoulder as he created a digital wormhole. NaniteAce turned to Dr. Chen and said "Our directive isn't you. At least not yet but be ready for when we return Dr. Vincent Chen." NaniteAce walked into the digital wormhole with Danny and disappeared. Dr. Chen collapsed in his chair and mumbled "Simply marvelous."