Prologue: Cataclysm
"Stop in the name of Glass! You are under arrest!" shouts a KrugerSec pursuit cop.
It was a beautiful day, with the sun shining high in the sky, and light glistening off the glossy skyline of the city of Glass. Stereotypical Sci-Fi billboards and holograms decorated every other structure, with an occasional eerie helicopter, surveillance drone, or police cruiser watching over the public, in the same way a Lion watched over a herd of Zebras.
Across a stark white rooftop over-looking a slum of the city, a Eurasian woman was free-running across gaps, with a seductive elegance. A dance of beauty, wonder, and risk of danger at every turn. She rocketed across jumps, ran across billboards, and slid under any and all obstacles, all with a yellow Runner's Bag strapped to her back.
"I said ST-"
That was all that came out of the KrugerSec guard's mouth, before he was uppercutted directly in the face by Faith Connor's fist. Glass and metal shattered all over the top of the building, with a surprising amount of blood trailing from the corner of the officer's mouth, as he cursed in pure agony and rage.
"You're gonna payyyy!", he shouted, still refusing to surrender.
As he reached for his Taser, Faith took notice. In a move straight out of comic books, she appeared to almost defy the laws of gravity and space. Faith quickly ducked down and punched the officer directly in the groin, stood up, spun around and elbowed him in the chest-armor with her right elbow, and finally leaped directly towards him, her legs and thighs grasping around the front of his head, and flying directly downward, knocking him out cold on his back.
She checked his pulse, and found him to still have a heart-beat. He would recover from the blood loss, but would be on leave from KrugerSec for several weeks.
Faith silently thought to her-self "these lap-dogs are pure human scum, but I refuse to kill them. But I will make them wish I would have".
She quickly continued running as fast as her athletic body could carry her, while hearing more screaming from rooftops behind her. Faith could have sworn she also heard barking chase dogs.
Connors believed she would have gotten used to this feeling of adrenaline by now, after all her years of being a Runner. But she never did. And though she may never admit it, its part of what made her job so thrilling to her. She didn't care about the sub-par pay, it was just enough to survive. Faith was a rebel at heart, and wanted to give her metaphorical middle-fingers to the fascist surveillance state of Glass, especially the Conglomerate. Faith wanted to be a Catalyst for love, tolerance, justice, fun, and change. She practically flew through the city like a mysterious, ethereal being, a silent guardian of freedom and rebellion.
Faith was close to her destination, one of the poorer districts of Glass, practically a slum. Just as she turned a corner, her progress was impeded by a relatively tall electric fence.
"God-fucking dammit", she thought.
Using her quick-thinking skills, she jumped through an abandoned house, and out of a window onto a pole, which she grabbed, slid down, turned and jumped towards a wall, and continued running. Just as Faith was about to run through an exit, she felt an extreme force tackle her, and shove her against a wooden wall, stunning her for a few brief seconds.
She struggled to resume, but was forcefully overwhelmed by a pair of hands, which grabbed her from behind.
"You're coming with me, Runner. Don't worry, we won't torture you or anything. I like to play with my prey first, he said" then creepily sniffed her face and hair, with a smug smile. "You like packages so much? I'm about to give you a very big one, if you catch my drift."
"Sorry, I'm kind of a loner", Faith sarcastically stated.
Having recovered from the pain, she headbutted the back of her head into the KrugerSec guard's face, then grasped his left arm, and seductively and gymnastically flipped her entire body over and around, and roundhouse kicked him in the face, sending the guard screaming through the wooden wall, into a nearby pool.
Having bought herself a few seconds, Connors ran through the opening, jumped and swung onto a poll, and front-flipped over another electrical fence, and disappeared from the view of KrugerSec guards and dogs, trying to assist their own out of a swimming pool.
She deposited the Yellow Runner's bag into a green box, and collected the meager payment from under the broken wooden floor. Slowly and meticulously, counting the dollar bills several times, she put the green box into the wooden flooring, put everything back in place, and ran off to her hidden home.
As Faith arrived, she plumped herself down onto her one couch and began to remember how and why the city of Glass become so shitty.
Chapter 1 coming soon. Yes, this does tie-in to Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, but also contains influences from the original Mirror's Edge.