Edge Of Zero
A/N: Redone! C3 is on its way (eventually). If anyone's still reading this, you have my sincere thanks.
Prologue: A Blood-Red Sky
Five years after Aftershock (presumably 2016), New York.
The woman walked purposefully
down the street. She was dressed all in black. To passers-by, she exuded a feeling of fear and darkness that was only associated with the most evil and powerful. They stayed away from her, as if there was a forcefield preventing them from encroaching on her path. The woman walked onwards, towards her destination.
FireSky Tower was the tallest building in the world. The total cost of building it was unknown, but estimated to be hundreds of millions of dollars, possibly thousands. But when you're FireSky Corporation, one of the largest, most powerful, most wealthy corporations in existence, you can afford this. FireSky Tower was the HQ of FireSky. FireSky, the corporation on which billions depended for everything from food to telecommunications. FireSky, who held governments to ransom. FireSky, who some argued controlled the world. This made the Tower a target for the desperate, the fanatics, the intelligent and those who had nothing less to lose. Since it was such a target, FireSky Tower was one of the most well protected areas in existence.
Protection of FireSky Tower had been funded by various governments and FireSky itself. Since FireSky was so vital to the world economy, the governments were basically slaves to the corporations. Defences included: anti-aircraft cannons which no plane could avoid, walls which could withstand tsunamis and direct missile strikes, secret weapons developed by FireSky's armament division(which most governments depended on for arms) and the feared Fire Brigade. The Fire Brigade were the company elite operatives that basically served as FireSky's incredibly powerful military force. Ruthless, skilled killers. The worst people, mostly psychopaths and the brainwashed. They were feared by all. If that wasn't enough, FireSky had also pioneered various robotic creation techniques, creating androids much more powerful than humans.
The woman walked up to the doors of FireSky Tower. They slid open and she stepped inside the lobby, where FireSky's logo(a flaming sky) was emblazoned upon a huge black crystal. She went onwards, to a desk.
"Excuse me," she said to the receptionist behind the desk," I have an appointment with Mr Gorend. It's an urgent meeting."
The receptionist nodded.
"Twelth lift. I trust you have the code for it?"
The woman noticed the receptionist make a slight movement under the desk, probably for a gun.
"Yes I do," replied the woman," I am AF. You have been told, I assume."
The receptionist nodded. If what she had been told was true, AF was somebody who could help FireSky finally achieve world domination and eradicate the enemy, G.L.O.V.E.
AF walked over to lift 12 and disappeared inside, the steel door closing smoothly behind her.
The woman entered the code she'd been given, placed her finger on the cold metal scanner, and verified her identity. Finally, the lift shot up. It reached Floor X, the top floor, and the most foreboding, reserved for the Chairman, who's name was unknown. The woman arrived at a reinforced steel door. She placed her eye to the scanner mounted on it, and the door swung open.
The Chairman was waiting for her when she entered. He was an imposing man, physically fit from years of training in the military. He had the physique of a soldier, and his buzz-cut grey hair certainly helped the impression. His steely gaze fixed upon her, but the woman did not flinch. The Chairman greeted his soon-to be ally.
"Anastasia Furan."
A/N: Redone, hopefully better:)
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