Prelude

Every story has a beginning.

Every myth has heroes.

And every legend has a kernel of truth.

The story of Jack Kramer begins in the future before its birth. The myth that would become Jack Kramer begins years after his birth. The legend of Jack Kramer begins not in the mountains of Montana, but in the mountains of Germany. In those mountains lies an Institute of learning. A place dedicated to the study of science. One of those sciences being studied was the science of Quantum Physics.

The studies were being done to show the world what would happen when two sub-atomic particles were smashed together at the speed of light. Most of the world thought these studies were being done at the Large Hadron Collider many hundreds of miles away. But one group of scientists was determined to do it at their own institute first. Millions of Euros were spent from both public and private donations, funds and trusts. A collider was constructed and though not as powerful or famous as the Hadron Collider, it was just as important.

It was a cold day in Germany, though a beautiful one in Montana, when those scientists accomplished the impossible. Using super conductive magnets, the institute began to accelerate two sub-atomic particles to nearly the speed of light. Many times this had been tried, but they had as yet to get those particles to the speed of light. This day was going to turn out differently though. This day something was added to the mix that had never been there before. This day lightning in a bottle was added.

At one of the nearby power sub-stations the storm clouds above let down their rain and thunder. A bolt of lightning streaked from the sky and slammed down into the lines of the sub-station. This would result in less problems then you would think if all the station's safety systems were functioning. That day one key system was down, the maintenance worker having forgotten to work on it. His mind totally distracted by his upcoming wedding. With the safety no longer in place, the added power from the lightning surged out of the station causing massive power surges that disabled many homes along its route. That burst of energy ended its journey at the Institute, where the extra power surged into the straining collider coils. The resulting power spike intensified the pull of the magnets just enough for the particles to reach the speed of light just as they collided.

The results were spectacular and would have been the study of scientists around the world for decades to come. A miniature black hole no bigger than the size of a pinhead was formed, but for only a micro-second. It in and of itself was something the world's scientists would have salivated over. But soon after its birth, no more than a micro-second later, that black hole could no longer maintain its integrity and collapsed in on itself. This caused two extreme things to happen at once. The first was by far the most profoundly felt by the world. The collapse exploded outward from the point of the black hole and spread outward more than twenty miles. The force unleashed was the equivalent of a ten mega-ton nuclear device. A whole section of land was vaporized in a matter of moments. Ten thousand lives, including those of every scientist at the institute, were ended in an instant. All data related to the collision was lost, and a crater miles wide was blasted into the German mountainside. The effects of the explosion would be felt by the world over and would become the single greatest disaster since World War Two.

The second extreme effect was that a previously unknown energy that was released into the world. Where this energy contacted another previously unknown particle, a spectacular storm was formed. Throughout the world five of these storms were born. One in the uninhabited jungles of the amazon, two in the frozen wastelands of Antarctica, one in the middle of the Atlantic ocean, and one in the mountains of Montana. As far as the world would find out, when the storms came to their peak, the land directly below the heart of those storms simply vanished. Luckily for the world, those areas hit were uninhabited. People were spared whatever fate happened to the land. What nobody knew however was that the storm that hit in the Montana mountains did affect one person.

His name was Jack Kramer.

Jack's disappearance would remain a mystery for decades to come on our world. His father and brothers would spend many years searching for him, but eventually they would come to believe that he was the victim of a stray predator and morn his loss. But on that same world, in another reality, and in a different time, his name would eventually become a legend.

Proofread by DiamondEyes {ci}Edited by SneakySis

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