Hello everybody! It's me again. It's been a while since I've made any kind of movement whatsoever on this site. That was because I had college finals and then a wisdom tooth extraction surgery after that. After a week's worth of rest, I then had to go to work training for my summer job (read my bio if you want to know what it is). I also had to get myself ready for summer classes, another headache to add on to my other stuff. And on top of all of that, my computer decided to go viral on me and I had to restore it. Thank god all my stories were in my flash drive, but it was still a big damn headache. Basically, that was just a bad combination to be getting anything done here on this site.

Anyway, that's the end of my wonderfully boring little rant. Here is a new story that I managed to come up with during my off time. I kind of started watching Yu Gi Oh 5D's and it quickly grew on me. I haven't watched much of the episodes, but that's about to change. As such, I decided to put up a prologue chapter to kind of stall a bit since I'm still not completely familiar with the characters' demeanor and overall attitudes. That and it helps to set the mood of the story without giving off too much detail. It's purposefully vague in its content, so don't go telling me about it when you guys review.

With that said, I hope that the prologue would be able to catch your attentions. Please don't forget to leave a review after you're done reading telling me what you think about it.

And for those of you who follow my other stories, they will be updated at some time. Just be patient with me as I juggle both summer school and summer job along with my personal time. Until the next update everybody!

Prologue

"We finally managed to obtain all of the components needed to bring our plans off the drawing board and into action," a voice was heard saying in a light whisper with a slight cackling edge to it from somewhere within a seemingly impenetrable sea of darkness. There was no light to be seen anywhere inside the room except through a small closed window that barely even allowed any kind of illumination from the clear full moon that was out that night. This made it quite hard to really discern what and where anything was inside. And what little that could be seen outside through the streetlamp-less roads was just a simple street with trees lining the sidewalk and a couple of cars parked and resting idly waiting for their next usage. Being that it was already so late at night, nobody was outside wandering the streets. The only signs of any life in the chilly barren night air were the occasional flapping sound birds and meowing of cats. "I never imagined that it would be this easy to get our hands on the last couple important components we need for our plan to work. Ironically enough, it was a bit harder to actually scale the side of this building and break into this place through the window without being noticed by anybody than it was to find our objective. This clearly shows how lax they are on security when it comes to their interior defenses."

"How about we continue on with our collecting of the things we need in here silently before we end up getting ourselves caught?" another was heard reprimanding the first in an equally hushed stern tone from somewhere near the location of the window. His body, however, was positioned away from the dim light so not even a small glimmer of the clothing he was wearing could be seen. It was not hard to imagine just through his vocal tone that his arms might have been currently crossed against his chest. "Now is neither the time nor place for us to be discussing such things. We need to hurry out of here before a wandering member of security decides to come around and catch us loitering around. The last thing we need is to explain ourselves to them about why we're in a place we have no right to be in. That and they'll most likely just throw us in jail regardless of our excuses."

"Do you really think that we'll be able to reach our ultimate goals through our creation?" a third person asked quietly in a skeptical tone as he directed his question back to the first speaker while making a sound that made it seem like he was shouldering something rather weighty. It seemed like he was just throwing the given warning to the wind as if it were nothing to be worrying about. "While I do have full faith in you, I still find it hard to believe that we'll be able to frolic in the fruits of our labor with something as complicated as this. Can this really be something that we can successfully complete and put into action? To be quite honest, the components needed for this to work are quite complicated in both design and functionality. A good portion of them were quite hard to come by, as I'm sure that this one would be a good example of such."

"And this is exactly why I decided to create a small test run of sorts before we go ahead and fully initiate our plans," the first person responded calmly as a smirk was clearly heard in his voice as the sound of a cabinet door lightly closing barely made itself known in the relatively quiet room. The sound of the bag opening and something being shoved into it was momentarily heard before it disappeared from existence. "If our idea works in the preliminary testing periods, then we'll know for sure that the world will not be able to handle what it is that we'll be bringing upon them. Of course, my thoughts on selecting these certain live components for the project are not only meant to be as just simple test rats. Provided that everything falls through in our favor during the tests, we'll know our plan will the desired effect while also eliminating the biggest threats to our plans at the same time. No criminal in this world could ask for a combination as good as that."

"Yes, it is a good combination considering that what we're trying to do right now would be able to yield us the results we're working to get," the third person responded with the same skeptical tone he held when he made his earlier comment. "From most of the things that have occurred in history, it's kind of usually the complicated matters that end up getting their creators driven right into the ground. Then again, I have to admit that collecting our live test subjects that are also the greatest threat to us for the sake of testing our experiments is a good combination for us."

"And while we're on the subject about eliminating any potential threats to our plans," the first person added with a not so subtle air of thoughtfulness to his words as he seemed to ignore the hint of unnecessary skepticism from his ally, "how is the acquisition of our pleasant little lab rats coming along? I do hope that everything is going as well with the other group assigned to that in comparison to our scavenging of our needed equipment. It wouldn't be to our advantage if even one of our targets manages to successfully elude us before the deadline of our tests. After all, it is quite important that we get our hands on some people to test our plans with, especially the ones that I've asked to have put into these trials. To have them roam free is basically giving them a free pass to dismantling our little operation."

"We've already successfully captured five of his dear friends without any of them seeing us or leaving any witnesses to our little crime," the second responded as some slight ruffling of clothes was heard from the person. "The sixth has been giving us quite a bit of trouble, a lot more than we had first anticipated him capable of causing. I suppose it is understandable that this would be the case being that his friends are disappearing left and right and causing him to become more wary of his surroundings. Even I would be acting in such a cautious way with such strange things happening to those that I hold so dear to me. It's funny how we managed to be so cocky in hindsight about how easy it would be. I guess it was because the capture of his friends was more than easy.

"Well, I can gladly say that we finally got him within our grasps due to a rather small slip-up on our part," the same person continued on with a smirk clearly reflected in his words along with a sense of pride. A second later, something from within his hands glowed brightly and gave off a white light. Despite being so bright, however, the facial features of the person were still indiscernible along with the surroundings. The only thing now easily seeable was some gray fabric that looked to be a part of his clothing."According to the latest message that I just received from the others on my cell phone, he initially managed to outrun two of our men on the highway and knock out our third at a dead end alleyway before the fourth and final member of that team managed to trip right against him. Apparently, that caused our live subject to hit his head against the alley wall and ultimately forced him to lose consciousness. Thankfully, it looks like only a light tap, so there shouldn't be anything of compromising nature to his unwilling contribution to our plans."

"Isn't he ever the elusive one when placed in the middle of danger? I half-expected that we would have at least a little trouble with him, but I didn't expect that he would fare this well or that we'd capture him on a simple idiotic fluke. Even when he wasn't considered to be an enemy of ours, he was still a rather hard target for others that wanted a piece of him. Oh well, at least we managed to get our hands on him in the end. Who would have thought that his street smarts would've enabled him to hold up against our pursuit for this long? I was starting to think that we'll have to take the risk and move on with the test with him still up and running. That would definitely put a slight damper on our plans and make us require more unnecessary caution during our testing stages."

"I'm sorry for asking a question like this, but what if the unfortunate occurs and our captured test subjects manage to survive through our myriad of tests and trials that we'll be putting against them?" the third asked with the smallest amounts of worry clear in his voice, a subtle yet not so good of an improvement from his previously skeptical attitude. "If they can survive, then that would mean our plans are half-baked and that they would be able to dismantle it the moment we even try to initiate our improved model. It would just mean that they would be able to take us down over and over again. We wouldn't be able to see our vision come to fruition at that rate."

"Do you really have that much doubt on my expertise in regards to this?" the first person responded with mock hurt clear in his voice and a hint of exasperation at his ally's constant vocal attitude changes. It was not too hard to imagine there being a scowl of sorts planted on the person's face as he continued to speak. "Oh, I suggest that you do not take me for a bumbling idiot who doesn't know what he's doing. I have put up certain counter-measures in the event that they might actually manage to survive the trials that will be presented to them in the coming days. And besides, I'll also be sending in two people who'll be able to oversee things personally from the direct front with free reign to where they'll be and our base. They'll be able to give us direct information on their progress and hopefully impede any kind of miraculous progress they might make."

"You do know that our boss here is the best man suited for the assembly of this rather complex plan out of all of us, you know?" the second person stated with a scoff of his breath as he could not believe they were having this part of the conversation. Even a blind person could hear the look of annoyance radiating off of his words and facial features. "I don't think that either you or I would be qualified enough to go ahead and question him about something like this. After all, our only job we have in accompanying him on this mission to help him find our objective and make sure that no harm comes to him. We're not here to be questioning him on what it is that he feels would lead us to the best path for our cause. And besides, it wouldn't bode well to any of us if our boss ended up somehow getting captured by the security force guarding this building."

"Ha, as if anything on the face of this planet would be able to take down our boss in any kind of circumstance," the third person responded rather bluntly as he gave off a small snort in a fashion that made it seem like he did not want to continue on with the conversation. A couple of seconds later, the sound of something that sounded a lot like a window opening was heard soon after along with the faint sounds of the aforementioned footsteps slowly but surely making their way to their current position. "Anyway, I really do hate to put an end to our rather pleasant yet pointless conversation, but I believe I hear some footsteps coming from the hallway outside. I think that it would be in our best interest if we made our way out of here before we end up getting caught here."

For a couple of seconds, the other two were silent as they tried to hear the footsteps the other had announced he heard with their own ears. Sure enough, they were able to barely hear the sound of light steps coming from the hallway just outside of where they were. They soon saw a bright light repeatedly passing through a small window that seemed to be a part of a door that led into the room they were in. It was clear that whoever was outside making those footstep noises was a member of the building's security force and was making his usual rounds. As the seconds ticked on by, the light tapping sounds steadily grew louder as the light from what was presumably from a flashlight began to become less erratic meaning that whoever was outside was approaching closer.

"It sounds like you got a good idea there," the first agreed as the slight whooshing sound of someone swiftly and stealthily jumping out from somewhere and followed quickly by a second similar sound added with the slight clanking of something hitting the window sill. He then added more to himself before hopping out the window before whoever was outside came in to examine what the light noise might have been, "It's time that the world began to revel in the last moments of peace it has before complete terror settles into their ever pleasant lives. Once we've completed our test, that's when we'll go ahead with our actual plan. This planet will see terrors beyond their wildest imaginations, terrors that not even their most advanced precious technology and bravest fighters would be able to handle or comprehend. Watch out everybody; your days are numbered."

And just as the person jumped out of the window without making any sound, the door to the room opened and in came a man with a flashlight in his hands. It was clear that he was a member of the security force meant to keep watch over the building and everything that resided inside it. He waved the light around the room a few times before giving off a shrug of his shoulders.

"That's strange, I was sure that I heard something coming from this room," the person murmured quietly to himself as he walked into the room and immediately caught sight of the open window at the other side. "Hmm, maybe it was just a bird that managed to get in here and knocked something over before going back out. Oh well, better go ahead and close that window while I'm here before another one gets in. That and we don't want anybody to be scaling the walls and looking to steal something from this place. As if that's even possible for this highly security place..."

And with a few more inaudible murmurs under his breath about having too much security presence in the building, he closed the window shut with his free hand and locked it tight. He then flashed his light around the room one more time to check if there was anything he missed during his initial sweep before he gave off another shrug and headed towards the open door leading to the slightly lit hallway.

"I swore I heard something that sounded a lot like metal clanking against the wall or something like that," he was heard murmuring again with a strong tone of questioning in his words. "If it really was a bird, then it was one that knew how to run away before I came in here. Anyway, I've got to figure out who was the last person to have worked in this room so I can remind them about having to close the window shut before they leave. Honestly, this place will be in deep freeze overnight with the winter weather coming along."

And while still mumbling more complaints that nobody could hear since no one else was around, he exited the room and made sure to shut the door tightly behind him. The light from his flashlight then slowly started to grow weaker through the door's window as he continued on down the hall on his normal path. A few seconds later, the light was gone and the room was back to its original darkness that it was before the security guard came in to investigate. And with the darkness came the secrets of what happened there a few minutes ago that the light had no way of knowing.

Well, this chapter is shorter than what I usually write out. Then again, this is just a simple prologue chapter, so there really isn't much to put into it in the first place. All the same, I hope that you all enjoyed it and that it was able to capture your attention.

Please don't forget to leave a review telling me how I did and what you think of it, although I doubt many of you would do so being that almost nobody reviews in the first chapter of any story. Oh well, always good to hope for it. Until the next update everybody.