Submitted to: Contest #316

Alias: Invisible

Written in response to: "Write a story where a character's true identity or self is revealed."

Drama Fiction Mystery

@BulletNewsWire

📅 Aug 21, 2025 · 9:03 AM

🚨 BREAKING: “Mr. Invisible” leaked on TickCloc today in a video showing extremely stunning footage of him transforming to man. THE CEO OF TECH_PORT_Ind.??!!!

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@FirstLightMedia

📅 Aug 21, 2025 · 9:07 AM

Replying to @BulletNewsWire

“John Clavet, here speaking on behalf of @FirstLightMedia.” This footage is absolutely 100% fake. Yes folks, its fake. I have worked in the AI department for over 26 years and things just don't add up.

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@BulletNewsWire

📅 Aug 21, 2025 · 9:12 AM

Replying to @FirstLightMedia

“Peter Salmoly, on behalf of @BulletNewsWire.” The footage is all there. And true, might I add. The footage was taken at 7:46am (CT) by a bypasser named Jacob Mettle. Let’s hear what he has to say:

@JacobMettle2673

I wuz just headin’ out to get my morning coffee before work—as usual—and I heard some gun shots behind the street alley. I was scared at first until I saw a man with a gun being flung against a wall! His hands were cuffed, but there wuz NO ONE THERE! So I just assumed it wuz Mr. Invisible. He saw me and turned into a man right in front of my eyes. I shook his hand with awe and then he disappeared and walked or runned away. The only thing he didn’t realize wuz I wuz wearing the GlassLense3D_X5 camera glasses!!!

And now a word from our sponsors:

@GlassLense3D_X5

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@FirstLightMedia

📅 Aug 21, 2025 · 9:15 AM

Replying to @BulletNewsWire

Wow . . . how convenient that he happened to be wearing the sponsor's glasses! This video was made on an AI platform called VidGen9.89.

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@BulletNewsWire

📅 Aug 21, 2025 · 9:18 AM

Replying to @FirstLightMedia

And how might you know that??

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@FirstLightMedia

📅 Aug 21, 2025 · 9:24 AM

Replying to @BulletNewsWire

Because I designed the software and u have an account called “PeterTheFishySalmon”

📸 [Image: account name with account generations and email]

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@BulletNewsWire

📅 Aug 21, 2025 · 9:29AM

Replying to @FirstLightMedia

Just because I own an account doesn’t mean that I created that video! Lets see what the replies have to say!!??

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@TheMoistFrench_Fry67

This is so fake Peter. U aren’t actually serious about any of this. So just stop acting!

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@SallyGregs

Ur not fooling annnnnyone!!!!

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@SilasP_Wonder40455

I’M NOT TAKING SIDES . . .

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@TyLovesEggs5J2

Mr. Invisible has been a vigilante for like 4 years and saved SOOO many lives. He is a true hero! He is not that foolish to just appear to people. And anyone who thinks that this is real is STUUUUUPPPIDD!!!! Go back to the SEA, PETER Salmoooooon!!!

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@FirstLightMedia

📅 Aug 21, 2025 · 9:39 AM

Replying to @BulletNewsWire

Well it looks like the public is not buying it either. So I guess that it is now settled that this video is a fake. Peter is wrong—again and I am right. Maybe we should ask the Ceo directly what he has to say about all of this accusation being brought against him. I mean like SERIOUSLY!! What kind of news report would just send out false info about a major person?

@TechPort_JaxonCEO

OHHHHH HEXAGON NO!!! What on EARTH is Bullet thinking!!! I can’t believe it!!

@FirstLightMedia

See!! Told you Bullet!!! 😏

@TechPort_JaxonCEO

No, that's not what I meant . . .

@FirstLightMedia

EXCUSE ME!!?? What do you mean “No, that’s not what I meant . . .”

@TechPort_JaxonCEO

Well, I am Mr. Invisible.

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Mr. Invisible:

I look out my window at NY City as a photo of me is broadcasted to every building. People watch from the streets as the sun rises slowly higher into the sky. Some people step out of their cars. This has been my plan for almost 3 years. I grab my phone and start a live video. It is instantly on the screens of the buildings. I clear my throat and stare into the camera with a look that can only be perceived by words. Here goes everything.

“The world needs to know the truth”

For too long, I’ve operated in the shadows—saving lives, exposing secrets that powerful people would rather keep buried. But this always has its limits. If I’m to protect this city from what’s coming, I need its trust. I need its eyes open.”

“They’re coming”

Not from space. Not from underground. From within. The same corporations that built the tech we rely on have been quietly weaponizing it. I’ve seen the files. I’ve intercepted the transmissions. And now, they know I exist. They know who I am. And they will stop at nothing to erase me.”

So yes, I revealed myself.

Yes, I shook Jacob Mettle’s mind up.

Yes, I let the footage leak.

Yes, I have just started something that’s bigger than me—bigger than everything.

But I have my reasons and no one can tell me that this is not the way to go about it. I have to get this out there. People deserve the truth.

Because the time for secrets is over.

The time for heroes is now.

It’s not in five years.

It's not tomorrow.

It wasn't yesterday.

It’s now.

I didn’t choose this power. It chose me. And with it came responsibility, sacrifice, and silence. But silence breeds danger. So I speak now—for the voiceless, the hunted, the betrayed. I am not your enemy. I am your warning. Your shield. Your reckoning. And I will not vanish again.

And to those who still doubt me—who think this is just another viral stunt—I say this:

Look out your window.

Look at the sky.

Look at the patterns in your devices.

I’m not the only one watching.

They are too.

Posted Aug 22, 2025
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