Yesterday before class...
Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport was not called the busiest airport for nothing. As Axel stepped off the exit ramp, he notice the hundreds of people that walked up and down the corridors of this massive airport. Some where just here for business, others came here for a vacation, and the few, like himself, were here to escape their old lives.
After losing Pen in the plane bombing he staged, Axel landed in Germany, there he took bus ride to the German capital of Berlin, and made some phone calls preparing the second phase of his plan.
In order for him to masterfully escape the organization's ever watching eye, he turned to some...unusual ways to hide. Thanks to some of his contacts, he was able to take part in the beta test of a brand new hacking system called D.C.I, or Digital Clone Insertion. A brand new system that would hack in other systems, and forge false records saying that that person was here. This idea came after Axel was swaying in the options of how to escape. He could have just changed his name and hid away somewhere, but the organization has spies in every government office and money could do most of the talking, it would have been only a matter of time before the organization found him.
With the D.C.I., Axel's name could be hacked in the guest book of a Sweden hotel, or in the passenger log of an ocean cruse liner, and the D.C.I. also made it look like he was leaving a country thru the usual means. Taking an airplane to Brazil for example. After Axel made the phone call to activate his account with the developers, all he had to do was by a plane ticket in another name he bought of the black market, and he was done. He took a plane from France to Atlanta without any problems.
Now in Atlanta, Axel was readying himself for his new life. He applied for a job as a teacher, and was thrilled when he got the call from the school telling him he got the job. Thru out the whole plane ride, and off, he couldn't stop grinning.
"Excuse me sir." a voice from behind him call out.
Axel turns to see a young girl, maybe nineteen, holding a basket stand behind him.
"Can I help you?" Axel asks the girl.
"I was just wondering if you'd be interested in taking a complementary visitor gift. I work over at the beauty shop down there, and our store is doing a special promotion and is giving gifts to visitors."
"Well...I guess if it's free?"
"It's free. Here." the girl handed a beautifully wrapped gift bag with a brush attached to it. "It has a skin moisturizer, shampoo, and a few other goodies."
"Well thank you miss." Axel said bowing his head.
"Can I ask you another question?"
"Hm, what?"
"How did you dye your hair like that?" she pointed at Axel's half black, half white hair.
Axel awkwardly scratched the back of his head, feeling embarrassed about his hair color. It's bad when people think it's dyed, but when he tries to explain that it's all natural that's when people start to look at him funny.
"Um...dose you shop sell any black hair dye?"
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Today before school starts...
Inside Axel's new apartment, he begins the day with his daily ritual of fifty push-ups, fifty sit-ups, fifty dumbbell lifts with fifty pound dumbbell, and a ten mile run. After that, he takes a quickly shower, puts on his gray dress shirt and tie, along with the black slacks he bought at the clothing store next to him. Axel fixes a bowel of Lucky Charms, and then grabs his bag and papers and heads out the door.
He checks his watch, reading: 8:00am...
School didn't start until 9:30, but he had to be early so that the principal could give him the tour of the school.
Axel walks down Jefferson Avenue, the road you take before you get to Tri-Cites High School. Next to him was a park of some kind. Axel hoped that if he really got away from the organization, then he could maybe go to the park and read those books he bought yesterday.
As Axel walked next to the park fence, he didn't notice the big gate that was next to him, and without warning, he was pushed down by something heavy. Landing in his side, Axel dropped all of the papers he needed for chis new class today, and frantically scrambled recover them all, not noticing the person who pushed him was behind yelling at him.
Without pausing to check on the person behind, Axel recover all the papers he could, praying he had them all. As he counted, he notice a handful were missing, and he had no clue where they were until the person who knocked him over handed them to him.
"Here, I'm sure these are what your looking for." the person said in a female voice.
Axel looked up to see a blond girl wearing shorts, a t-shirt, and a jacket. Axel got to thank the young girl...
"Thank you so mush." he said bowing his head, "I was on my way to work before..." he noticed that the girls hair was in a particular shape. Axel thought to himself, "That looks something like dog sh*t and a cat's hairball had a baby."
The girl was obviously confused, not sure what Axel was staring at until she asked...
"What?"
"Your hair."
"My hair?"
After a minute, the girl realized that her hair looked like crap, and proceeded to frantically search her bag, crying, asking where's her brush at. Axel then remember the girl at the airport gave him one, and that he had shoved it in his bag. He reaches down pulling the brush out.
The girl quickly brushed her hair, and tied it in pigtails, then proceeded to hand the brush back to Axel. Axel didn't want it, and after a few minutes of greetings, the girl ran in the same direction as Axel was.
"Hm...I wonder if she goes to Tri-Cites." Axel asked himself, "Well, it doesn't matter. I have to hurry as well.
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It was 9:10am...
Axel had finally made it to the school. There he meet Prinicpal Pink, and got the grand tour before class started.
"So, do we have any questions Mr. Hobbes? Don't be shy." Principal Pink asked.
Axel shook his head. "No sir, I think I got the gist of it."
"Good, good," Principal Pink said nodding his head, "I would hope so, I already have had to many cowards run off because of this class."
"Are they really that bad sir?" Axel asked as they walled towards the class Axel will be teaching in.
"Unfortunately, and it's only gotten worse ever since we changed how we operate here. The students are disobedient, and even some of the best teachers we've had, failed to control them. What makes you any different, Mr. Hobbes?"
"Well, I don't want to brag or outs any of the teachers before me, but I can assure you that I won't give up on these kids."
Principal Pink nods his head, accepting Axel's reply. "Well I hope so, or I just hired another incompetent idiot, and now with different color hair."
Principal Pink's word dug into Axel like a knife, but he wasn't about to let them get the better of him. The bell begun to ring, and that meant class was about to start.
"Well...this is it, Mr. Hobbes. Your new class." Principal Pink said.
The Principal opened the door, and gave the class a big good morning and a small little lecture. Then, it was time for introductions. Once Principal Pink called Axel's name, he stepped in the class. As expected, the students only noticed his hair color, but that didn't matter, all he cared about was his new life. After all was said, Axel bowed his head and greeted his new class...
"It's a pleasure to meet you all."
And that's how an assassin turned teacher.

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