The Artifact

The story starts with Jake, a 8 year old boy and his mother running away from something through the woods as a freak lightning storm approaches. They huddle together in the woods to take cover and they get shot up in a brilliant purple light. 2 years later, Jake is found knocking on the door of his house where another family is living now. The police take the boy and call the federal government agents that were investigating his disappearance as an Alien Abduction. General Waverly takes the boy to Area 51 laboratory and brings him to one of his scientist researchers, Reggie Burns. Reggie Burns is a metallurgist and biologist. General Waverly asks him to do a physical on the boy and find out what had happened to him. Reggie takes the backpack Jake was wearing and puts it next to the examination bed. Reggie lifts the boy's shirt and find a long scar on his chest and a tattoo of an alien symbol on his hand. Reggie finds out that Jake had been experimented on with DNA Splicing and has alien DNA. Jake has two vocal chords and must have had some enhancements done with his chest. When he uses a light to shine into Jake's eyes, Jake has a flashback to his 2 years on the spaceship and panics and screams. His scream sounds like a screeching Eagle and causes Reggie to fall on the ground unconscious. Reggie wakes up on the floor moments later to see a bright purple light emanating from Jake's backpack and then it goes dark. He finds a strange cube in Jake's backpack. He takes Jake and the cube home so he can monitor Jake and experiment with this alien artifact. Reggie and his wife adopt Jake and raise him as their own son. Many years pass and Reggie cannot get The Artifact to exhibit the power he saw from the backpack. He puts it into a safe deposit box at a bank to keep it safe. Jake grows up and enters into the military. Dirk Burns, Reggie's younger brother, keeps Jake in his command in order to keep tabs on him. They both go over to Iraq. Jake meets Rachel in Iraq and fall in love. Jake talks about having a large family but doesn't know that Rachel had a full hysterectomy when she was 12 from a form of cancer. Jake goes onto a patrol to flush out Al Qaeda forces. Jake and his troop get pinned down into this building. A few of his men get shot and Jake takes a bullet in his shoulder. Jake calls for backup but they are 5-10 minutes away. The Al Qaeda forces close in around the building and Jake gets really stressed. He screams and blows out all of the windows in the