Aermes Act 2: Flight or Fight
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Aermes has been a wanted man, actually, still just a 16-year-old boy for roughly a year now.
When he fired up his particle accelerator, he ended up causing millions of dollars in damages to the power grid. The federal authorities were not too pleased, to say the least. The Pentagon and every military agency within the United States were after the technology, or at least what remained when they sent agents to scour and search every nook and cranny of his family’s home. They were stunned to find trace evidence of what appeared to be technological and theoretical quantum mechanic discoveries novel to scientific communities. Before asking how a 9th-grade soccer phenom could develop all of this within the crawlspace of his home, they find the hundreds of books he kept neatly organized in the attic. His family had no idea those books were even there, or how Aermes had the money to acquire them. They never gave him an allowance and he never asked for any cash to buy things either.
You could say Aermes has always had a knack for making money. Though others saw a disinterested teenager with headphones on, eyes glued to his phone, the reality was that Aermes had been running his own mechanical engineering consulting firm for years. Using alter egos, fake physical office addresses, and conducting all his business through emails, he was now advising several dozen of the world’s leading military, aeronautic, and hadron collider research facilities across the world. He had split his current net worth of $21 million between several accounts, using several identities, across several different asset classes. This was not your typical case of a neighborhood kid running a lemonade stand or grass-cutting business. Aermes took childhood entrepreneurship to an entirely different level.
Without school and sports, Aermes took to his passions full time. Flying all over the world, often from when the sun rose until the sunset fell, he experienced a time of his life where freedom came to this caged bird, like sight to the blind. A true smile was seen on his face from time to time as he soared through the skies, exploring the world and all that nature had to offer.
Every so often the authorities would catch up and serendipitously run into Aermes. With each passing day, the boy becomes more infused with the ability to control his Flight Rings. His top 2 rings can be used as posterior thrusters, while his bottom 2 rings stay stabilizing his foot positions. He easily outmaneuvers even the fastest fighter jets, all while taking tablet notes on Q Level locked aircraft designs.
One day while coming up on three fighter jets and approaching them from the rear, he hacks one of the jet’s electrical control systems and ejects the pilot out of the seat.
“Don’t mind if I do,” he says while he enters the cockpit and takes control of the jet.
As the other fighters set their targeting on Aermes’ newly “acquired” aircraft, they blink, before our hero’s Flight Rings have propelled the craft so far away from the pursuers, that they quickly lose sight of him.
That’s when the hairs on their necks stand up. The radar shows an aircraft on their current position, closing in from the rear. A plane jets by them, wind and clouds swirling all around.
Within the chaos, for the briefest of moments, they see the stolen plane suddenly flash in front of them, completing a supermanuever Kulbit that should not have been physically possible!
The boy appears to be flying the plane backwards, flashing a thumbs-up and that damned deadpan smile. Up, up and away - he’s gone, almost as soon as he arrived.
