Max paced around the small motel room he occupied, wondering when that kid would get back, it had been almost ten minutes now.

 

“I thought he was supposed to be fast” He complained to himself

 

Chase had said that he was going to run back to his apartment to grab the equipment he needed to get started, with what Max still wasn’t sure. Max still couldn’t believe that he was the famous Chase Parker Nology.

 

“He’s supposed to be dead” Max muttered to himself in a mixture of amazement and shock as he thought back to a program on T.V. he had watched a while ago.

 

“Wait a minute…” He suddenly stopped as a thought came to him “Does that mean tha-“

 

Suddenly, snapping Max out of his thoughts were four knocks at the door. Eagerly Max swung the door open as Chase pushed past him. Max quickly noticed three or so things, the first was that he was now carrying a pretty heavy duty looking briefcase thing, second was that he also seemed to be wearing some sort of single-strap backpack that looked very fancy and techy, and third (This took a little more attention) though he was still wearing his beat-up costume, he had on a new mask.

 

“What took so long?” Max asked as Chase threw the briefcase onto the bed and pulled off his mask

 

“Just had to make sure I had everything” He replied as he took off his backpack, it was at this point that Max also realized that the pack had a strap going around his waist that acted as a belt.

 

Casually Chase pulled a laptop out of his “Backpack”, it had a whole bunch of wires connecting it to the inside of the pack and started typing away causing various lights in the pack to flash on and off.

 

“Now what are you doing?” Max pried looking over Chase’s shoulder at the code he was writing on his screen

 

“Well over the course of time I’ve gotten a lot of files from Tech” Chase said looking over his shoulder toward Max to see if he was following “And this is where I keep them, so I’m doing a search through all past files for keywords such as ‘Paradoxes’ or ‘Impossible’, stuff like that.

 

“Cool,” Max acknowledged

 

Chase hit enter and scrolled through the resulting documents

 

“Nothing here that would seem to relate to you” Chase sighed “Sorry”

 

“Yeah…” Max sighed absentmindedly

 

“…What about…” He thought out loud “…Mythical… or something like that”

 

Chase shrugged as he typed it in and hit search, but nothing came up

 

“Guess not” Chase sighed

 

“Hmm…” Max muttered, “Well what are we gonna do?”

 

“Well first step, we have to get out of here, and get somewhere a little safer… or a little nicer” Chase said looking around the room

 

“What?” Max asked with a hint of disappointment in his voice

 

“Look I’m sorry Max, but from now on we’re being hunted. Tech could have the military on us in a max of” Chase stopped looking at the alarm clock “Two hours”

 

Max’s heart dropped

 

“Plus as you just saw, I need some new files, and now that I know what to look for, I can get them a little easier.” He said pulling a USB cord from a little pocket in his backpack.

 

And I need to be able to get to the information zones without worrying about you every two seconds

 

“So what does that mean?” Max asked

 

“Well…” Chase began