Adam Colton

## Affliation

### Home

Chicago, U.S. (Voltaic, Calamity of Chicago - destroyed)Singapore (Crimson, SOS)

### Occupation

Barista (Voltaic, Calamity of Chicago)Postgraduate Student (Voltaic, Calamity of Chicago)Valor Corporal (Crimson, SOS)

**Adam Colton** is the protagonist of the Interference main series. He is a Hybrid, unbeknownst to himself until the discovery of his father, Richard Colton, being alive and a G-23 shapeshifter.

In Voltaic, he, along with his friends Zoe Taylor and Jake Ranieri, take on generic roles as survivors during the 2040 Invasion of Chicago. They work together to flee the city, emerging to be partially successful as they escape on a helicopter but without Jake. Adam is also present in Calamity of Chicago as a minor role.

In Crimson, he, together with Zoe, takes on a more significant role as a corporal in Valor. Having moved to Singapore, he now has a part to play in defending the city-state from another G-23 invasion.

## Biography

### 2040 Invasion of Chicago

*Main articles: 2040 Invasion of Chicago, Voltaic, Calamity of Chicago*

#### **June 1, 2024 ("Day 1")**

Adam attends Zoe and Jake's engagement party, hosted at Zoe's apartment in Chicago when electrical appliances catch fire. Adam flees from the apartment building with Zoe, Jake and other guests.

While waiting for their turn to board a rescue helicopter down outside the apartment lobby, a helicopter is taken down by an alien. Adam and his two friends take an alternative escape route and attempt to leave the city by his car, only to find out that the city has been locked down.

Adam and his friends ditch the car in the jam. They head to the nearest train station with plans to return to the apartment to retrieve Zoe's cell phone so that they can contact rescue services.

#### **June 2, 2024 ("Day 2")**

Later at the apartment, while Zoe calls a rescue hotline, Adam hears Zoe's elderly neighbor weeping. He calls the group over to investigate, finding an alien in the neighbor's unit and the weeping woman. Adam shoots the alien dead but warns them that other aliens are approaching, resulting in the trio leaving the apartment quickly.

Adam and the others follow Zoe as she guides them to a service elevator, allowing them to escape before the aliens could get to them. When they arrive at the lobby, they are pursued by four aliens, but Adam is able to shoot down two. Adam leads the group back to the train station, where dozens of additional aliens chase after them. However, they escape on the train just in time to avoid getting attacked.

The group arrives at the station nearest to the refugee camp as Adam and Zoe guide the rest to it. At the building lobby, Adam fails to save Pamela after she jumps in front of Zoe to block her from an alien, which impales the old woman. Adam later shoots the alien dead, but Pamela passes away.

The remaining trio proceed to the basement of the building, where the refugee camp is set up. Adam and his friends then meet Larry, a Valor member, and his other friends.

#### **June 4, 2024 ("Day 4")**

Adam attends a briefing by the camp directors on their escape plan for all refugees. However, he later reveals his suspicions about the directors to his friends and Larry's group, suggesting that the directors had something to do with questionable deaths of refugees and camp volunteers in the past two days.

#### **June 6, 2024 ("Day 6")**

Adam and Larry execute their plan as they divert from the main group of refugees, having plotted their own escape route. However, the camp is invaded by aliens, causing one of Larry's friends, Veronica, to go missing. Adam, Zoe, Jake and Pamela's son, Christopher, and grandson leave without Larry's group as they stay behind to look for Veronica.

The group flees to the same train station they had come from days ago. Adam leads the group through the turnstiles and to the station platform. However, as an alien attacks Christopher, Adam fails to shoot it down, his rifle bullets ricocheting away. Christopher is slain as a result, although Adam kills the alien shortly after.

#### **June 7, 2024 ("Day 7")**

Adam sends out an SOS signal with Larry's radio, eventually getting a response from Valor, which informs him and his group to wait at the roof of the Tribune East Tower for a rescue helicopter. The group proceeds to the building on train, before scaling the tower.

At the roof, Adam and his group queue to get a spot in a chopper. When their turn reaches, however, the helicopter pilot reveals to Adam that there are not enough seats for all of them, and informs him that he is the only person that is specifically requested to be onboard, and that he must choose three out of the four others in his group to board the aircraft. Eventually, Adam decides to go without Jake, who volunteered to stay behind. As Adam and his group finally escapes from the city, the Tribune East Tower collapses with Jake supposedly still on it.