"Are you sure about what you just saidt? I've always remembered Boyo to bare a scar on the left chest, so what wrong side are you talking about?" I asked Levy, wearing a look of scepticism, which I also wasn't sure about, because it meant that I doubted her intuition which from experience hasn't been wrong about anything since I've known her.
"What you said just now makes me to realize just how recent our friendship has been, even though it feels like I've known both you and Char my entire life. But that's just what's wrong here..." Levy said.Meanwhile, from the Judge's area, the second attorney was taking yet again another envelope from his table to Judge Vestaleon and then gesturing for him to pull out something else from the that envelope"Which is?" I asked."The fact that I've known Char for way much longer than you have. We've been childhood best friends so that clearly means that we've done slumber parties together, gone"Thank you for your input Sir. You can go back and seat with everyone else" The second attorney said, gesturing towards the seat the witness had come from which was behind my own, while also stepping back so the man could pass, because he was obstructing his way a little. Right at the first row, the Presidential representative whispered something to their assistant, who then relayed what was said to them, all the way to the second attorney and the question was paraphrased into something like this "You've made your point on the notion that the defendant and the kid in the picture are one and the same person, but can we speed things up and get to the point of why most of us are here today? There's so much to be done so wasting time isn't in anyone's best interest" the assistant said then went on to seat back down. Because of the position that the person the assistant was working for, Judge Vestaleon and the second attorney couldn't do anything
Before anyone knew it, there was a massive explosion behind us, which was caused by the courtroom door being destroyed by actual explosives, and the force propelled pieces of shattered door and parts of the bench seats, which were close to the door, all the way to the middle room. The explosive force also cased the officers who were stationed at the sides of the door, but inside the courtroom, to be flung with the pieces of shards and they too had been blown to big chunks. Dying before their bodies could even touch the ground. "What's going on?" Judge Vestaleon exclaimed with intense eyes, quickly and reflexively getting off his seat with hands slamming on the top of his desk as he got up and focused all his attention at the now blown entrance doorway of the courtroom. "What's the meaning of this!" He exclaimed yet again. Meanwhile, being quick to action, the security detail of the Presidential representative, military general and ever
*THWIP* *THWIP* *THWIP* With each shot fired, the special looking guns which had pills as its ammunition made a thwiping sound and because of how proficient the SOVIET ALLIANCE UPRISERS members who were handling the weapon were, each THWIP sound heard and pill fired meant that someone inside the courtroom had definitely been hit. And now, the result was having the evolved foam envelope almost their entire body, leaving only their neck and up to remain unaffected. The foam evolved from the pills, which were black in color while the foam was yellow, and just like the pills themselves that breaks apart on contact before vaporizing into a dust that mixes with the gaseous formula inside and then the reaction from the mixture creates the foam, were both made for the sole purpose of apprehending whatever its target so happens to be. Because of that reason, when fired on a living being, the foam is meant to stop generating more of itself when it comes in cont
Just as the three of us were in a three way staring contest, another member of the SOVIET ALLIANCE UPRISERS who were amongst those who had guns with live ammunition and had delivered the deciding shot that killed two of the body guards to the delegates and a Dallihand in the process, came to where Boyo was standing, having already collected the uniform passed on to him. It was at that moment this other person took his gun, pointed it at Levy and I and was about to pull the trigger. "What the—" I exclaimed as my eyes quickly flicked to the sight of the man taking his gun and pointing the nozzle at my face. That moment his slightly moist finger and sweaty palm caused by always having his gun tightly held in his hand, went for the trigger and started to pull on it, it was as if everything began to slow down in my eyes as I could feel my heart beating faster and faster. All the sound I was hearing around me started to muffle and fade away until the closest sound
I rolled and came down from being on top of Levy and opened my eyes to see Boyo holding on to the nozzle of the Upriser's gun. "Boyo" I uttered. "I'm putting an end to all the scums of the United States territory. Wasn't that the orders given?" Asked the Upriser with a Soviet accent as he peered into Boyo's eyes, which had so much bloodlust in them the the upriser lost the morale he had when he challenged Boyo and with that, he lost the strength in his arm to hold up the gun. I for one had never seen Boyo in this type of light before and I was sure that neither had Levy but for some reason, with the way the other Uprisers acted, this commanding behavior from Boyo wasn't something new. "I'm sorry Sir" the Upriser said before clearing his throat and after establishing his authority, Boyo finally let go, only for the upriser's hand to drop and he, using that momentum, retracted his gun back into its holster because it was a pistol gun.
While in the process of asking, I was sneaking side glances at everyone trapped in foam and all the Uprisers walking about with their guns tightly held in case they needed to respond quickly, at every corner of the courtroom while they were still busy shooting the remaining thirty percent with the pill guns. However, because we were in front of Boyo and seemed to be talking to him, they didn't attend to us just yet. After taking a few seconds to stare right back at both I and Levy without having a crack in his expression, Boyo finally gave his response. "The question you just asked is meant for someone else because the person you know as Boyo never existed and the kid you knew as Charlie when you were younger has long been gone. I'm what's left when you take out all those false memories of your best friend. An elite soldier bred since birth to be one of the leaders of the Uprisers and what I've just done is give you the choice to decide your fate. Now decide,
After exiting the courtroom and tucking the gun behind him, the first sight Boyo got welcomed with as he followed the path of the smoke leaving the courtroom was it embracing the still figures of the past. which had now been overthrown by the present. He took a pause from his progress through this passage to look all around him, observing the bodies of the multiple dead soldiers all over the floor. Doing this he remained silent, not saying a single word and after observing a moment of silence for all of them. He continued his march forward, taking the top part of the uniform he had worn, which had the SOVIET ALLIANCE UPRISERS crest at the chest region. The crest was made up of multiple rings, joined together to form a single star in the middle and another ring encircling the star that each point was touching the body of this inner ring, to conceal the gun tucked behind his back. The uniform he received only had the the top part w
"You guys really took this place over" Boyo commented under a breath as a walloping military tank drove in front of him and parked at the left side, then from it jumped out two Uprisers, one from on top and the other from the driver's seat. "Of course we did. Now, it's time to meet up with the commander" Jeremiah patted Boyo on the shoulder and the both of them went down the stairs until they made it into one of the trucks that the uprisers drove to the courthouse with and then they started driving towards somewhere in the district. While the truck drove backwards to make a reverse left turn and then when at the right spot drive right to the next street, because they were at the end of a T junction, Boyo who was at the back passenger seat while Jeremiah was the front passenger seat looked through the side mirrors. Through it he peered at the courthouse and all the preparations the Uprisers there were making. "Rocket launchers... We really did come
I just want to say a big THANK YOU to every single reader that was able to get this far. Thanks for picking up this story and continuing with it even when the writing wasn't as good at the beginning and when the plot was feeling flat because I wasn't in a good head space or had enough free time to write what I wanted. Thank you for helping me grow as an author and tell my story and get your thoughts on it through the comments. Thank you for following me to the end of this journey. It's been almost two years since I started and finally the story comes to an end (or does it?) If you noticed I was kind of making things up as I went along which is why there are a few plot holes and things I forgot I had written before that didn't tie in well with the continuity of the story. This is my first ever book so a few mistakes are to be expected but regardless I apologise for them. I wanted to use this medium to both declare my appreciation for you guys as well as to pas
I had called my handler to meet me by a nearby coffee shop and by the time I got there he was already seated, waiting for me. Normally I avoid contact with him because it's always him hounding me about something but this was the first time in a long time that I was the one doing the reaching out."Sorry to keep you waiting Nick" I shook his hand then sat down."No problem, so, what is the purpose of this unexpected meeting""I want you to tell me everything about the Arc Agents and what the GHA's real objective is" I didn't waste anytime to ask the real questions.Nick was shocked by the bluntness of my question then tried to deny everything I asked and said in that meeting, gaslighting me most of the time and so it ended up with me not getting any worthwhile information out of him. The meeting took place before I had to go for work so without getting anywhere we ended it and I went to work but I knew that my questions wouldn't stay with Nick but wo
"Please make it in time""If I do this then maybe it'll make up for the fact that all of this happened because I jumped back""Please make it in time"I was currently stuck in a hellish nightmare which was entirely guilt driven. Every action and consequences of said action replayed in my head, panicking, unable to find peace until I woke up with a *GASP*After forcefully waking up, I reached for something with my hand only for that to be the ceiling of someplace I couldn't recognize or knew how I got there. I would pant, trying to catch my breath when all of a sudden I felt a sharp pain in my chest.My teeth gritted and eyes squinting in pain, I reached for the source of this excruciating pain which was when I noticed the medical equipments I was hooked to and that I was on a hospital bed."This is familiar" I said internally after thinking of how it reminded me of waking up in a hospital as my host, the last time I jumped into the pas
Mirajh jumped off from the top of the drone and they walked up to the others and because Mirajh was there, Talon quickly relinquished his temporarily given authority in favour of hers."Mirajh and Malkome, you guys made it. So what's going on?" Talon asked."It's over, all our forces have been killed and from the looks of it, we are the only ones left so the question now should be, what should we do next?"Once she said that all their forces had been killed, there was a unanimous dropping of jaws and none of them expected that it could have gotten this bad. They had completely underestimated the Arc Agents and the trainees. The GHA weren't even able to send their Forces Units to assist but the trainees alone along with help from the Arc Agents were able to decimate their entire forces."What about General Icon, does any of you know his whereabouts? If we can verify his status then we might be able to come up with a plan" Talon asked but seeing the look on
Levy who was close by and saw when Akarli was taking aim jumped in front of Boyo, trying to shield him with her body while I was beside the both of them, noticing too late until the shot had been fired.Jeremiah who the shot pulled back to his senses and he saw who she was firing at, the care he had for his best friend even though he didn't want to admit it made him lose it and reflexively he fired multiple shots at Akarli too, killing her on the spot next to Icon.All of this would happen in an instant but for some reason, because I didn't want any of my friends to be shot so badly that I dont know what happened but just like when that strange phenomenon happened back at the court during our escape and I managed to find where Boyo was because of it, it happened all over again.Suddenly everything began to slow down and the surrounding got pitch black with the only thing being as visible as day time were those in there with an angered Akarli holding on to the gu
Once we were brought to the back, my eyes went to the elderly looking man sitting on a metallic chair with a caramel skin coloured lady by his right hand side. In front of them I saw two more individuals who weren't turned to us at the time we entered. One of them I couldn't tell their identity from their stature but the other I knew perfectly well who it was. "Char!" Before I could get the word out Levy called out to Boyo who once the both of them turned we saw an annoyed look on his face and it was clear by that look that he didn't want us to be there. The Upriser behind us pushed the both of us, telling Levy and I to keep on walking which we did until we walked up to where Boyo and the others were. "Nice to meet you, the both of you" Icon greeted us with a gentle smile which was obvious that he was hiding something from everyone, including those who were supposed to be his comrades in there. There was still something he failed to expose. "!!" Levy
""A journal?!"" Both Boyo and Jeremiah exclaimed."Yes... SIGH... A very long time ago, way before our formerly great nation was completely destroyed, former General Franklin Crow brought a younger me to one of his expeditions but this want just any regular expedition. It all started with him unintentionally finding the Philosophers Stone which brought about the rebirth and Emergence of our greatest soldier Anthony Wonne on one of his trips into the United States territory, allowing us to tap into a power that was only secret to our enemies. At that time and I had just been born so my father was the one who spearheaded the position I would later get when I was old enough so none of them knew that that small piece of attractive stone had such power hidden within it until years later, moments before the fall of the Old Soviet Alliance territory"Icon spoke with vivid words so that they would be carried along to where he was heading to."Being a curious man and thi
"Holy shit, what's that up there?" I couldn't help but exclaim while I and Levy tried our best to sneak into the slaughter house. We were moving very carefully, trying not to make any noise when my eyes just went up to the sky and I saw some strange looking patterns being created. "Shush Samuels, do you want to get us caught?" Levy reprimanded me with a low tone of voice but when she turned around to face me and do that she saw the awe stricken expression I had and my gaze up to the sky and she too followed. "What are you looking at?" she had her eyebrows scrunched. The moment she asked that question, my eyes flicked to her and I saw that she too was looking up to the sky but instantly realised the fact that she most definitely wasn't seeing what I was seeing. 'Don't tell me that I'm really the only one who sees that thing? No, that must be it because with her keen senses she would have noticed it even before I did if she could see it. Am I perh
Because the GIGANTA MACHINA worked like one big system, when the center of it was torn apart and the Stealth Drones that made up that part being completely destroyed the rest separated and returned to being Drones but because of what happened to the fused system the Stealth device they had was damaged and the separated drones were no longer able to go invisible.They all flew in different paths, dividing into those wanting to attack the trainees and those wanting to attack Michael but Michael acted quickly and changed where the outlet of the explosion was and used that to sweep the drones coming for him until all the explosion energy had been exhausted. From that point he attacked every single drone in the air with his BLACK FORCE-FIELD BLADE, not giving any the chance to attack the trainees but that meant that he had a lot to take care of on his own.With all their Force-fields no longer a viable option for defense and all the trainees they had to go against rea