A/N this is going to be a great story and I'm excited to start it, with help from my partner just a crazy man, we can do wonders. So now here it is.
P.S. my beta reader is Just a Crazy Man, he suggested this and it was a good idea so if you give me credit give him equally as much.
Just a Crazy Man: Enjoy the read.
Prologue
Ring, ring, ring.
I reached over and picked up the phone.
"Hello what is your emergency" I said.
"Some guys are robbing the hardware store" a woman said quickly and worriedly.
"I'm on my way" I said slamming the phone down and busting out of the police station and running down the street.
Dad I thought.
I was a cop in the village of Arrowood, population 6000, location yellow zone 6, Alberta, Canada, February 5th 2042; it was probably the very first civilized yellow zone village.
I gripped my hand gun as I ran down the sidewalk and around the corner there I saw a man with a double barrel shotgun in front of the store along with some other guys, my dad's hardware store to be exact, I pulled my gun out of the holster and pointed it at him.
"Get down" I said loud and commandingly.
"What is wrong with you, I was just buying a gun from your dad, this is my friend, and that's your dad" he said looking at me and pointing at both.
Now that I took a better look dad was standing there, looking at me shocked.
"Is that true" I said lowering my gun a little.
"Why yes it is" my old man said slowly.
"Sorry" I said slowly as I holstered my gun, hung my head and slowly turned to begin to walk back to the station.
"Hey it's alright, I can understand a misunderstanding and it's alright we weren't made perfect that's what made us once human and now… Forgotten" he said with a smile.
"That's the 3rd mistake I made this week" I said turning back to them.
He slowly walked up to me slowly and put his hand on my shoulder.
"It is okay son, don't worry, Forgotten and surely family, don't turn on one another and that is the only other thing guaranteed in life other than death." He said.
He noticed that I still didn't look up.
"If it will make you feel better we can go inside and grab a soda" he said bending over a little to look at me.
"Ok" I said looking at him and smiling even though deep down inside I was disappointed I felt like I had failed my dad.
"Son I know you are disappointed, I know you are very disappointed, how do you think I felt when I heard Tratos was dead, I was there you know." He said looking off into the distance.
"You where" I said, I knew he was in the 2nd Tiberium war and the Firestorm Crisis but I didn't know he was there.
"Come with me, I'll tell you all about it." He said gesturing me to follow him into the door.
"Are you coming Jenkins" he said to the man with the gun.
"No I got to go home, but I appreciate the offer" he turned to leave but he stopped in mid step and turned around.
"Oh yeah no hard feelings, if his store was really being robbed you would had really been a great savior, see you later Mr. Conrad you too Alex." He said.
I knew him, he was a friend of my dad's but I forgot his name.
"Yeah thanks" I said with a fake smile and then quickly turned and walked into the store.
My dad went around the counter and I stood in front of it he reached under the counter and got a 2 Liter bottle of coca cola from the mini fridge under the counter and he got two cups, he got some ice and put them in and then he poured me some and then him.
Where did he get that… probably from the Black Lotus I thought.
His store was fairly small it was a hangout for the village but today it was abandoned there wasn't anybody in there except me and him.
He took a sip off his cola and then looked up and leaned on the counter
He was about 5 foot 10 inches tall, he had minor skin discoloration and he had some gray hair but the rest was brown, he had green eyes probably an effect of Tiberium radiation.
"Yep I was 30 years old I had been in the GDI army for almost 3 years I was leader of the squad" he stopped to take a sip.
I was born on June 5th 2020 in Detroit, Michigan, before the war; before my dad was mutated my mom raised me while he was gone.
"I was in a battle near Hammerfest base; we took a Nod tech center. I and my squad found a lot of things out where the Nod commander was, what the plan was, we then figured out Tratos was going to be assassinated, we went to tell the GDI commander, Thomson I believe his name was, anyway he just said 'fine let em' mutant bastard needs to die' he had a personal grudge against all mutants, I tried to argue with him but he cut me off and dismissed me, when I got back to barracks my squad mates asked me what he said and I told them what he did, and then we started talking we realized that we needed to go renegade to save Tratos and prevent the mutants from rioting, so we tried we tried to warn Tratos but he didn't believe us, so then we attempted to kill the leader but it was too late, Tratos was dead. So we decided to go home we hung our heads in shame, we felt like failures, so we were going to go home and live in exile but our commander caught up to us, he had me and my squad mate's pay cut in half. He then told us 'never betray GDI', he got what he deserved he was court marshaled and tried to fix things between the GDI and the Forgotten but it was too late for hardly any forgiveness. after the wars your mom found out what happened and left, and so me and you moved here and started a new life, the radiation I was exposed to in the war eventually took its toll on me and turned me into a mutant, all I wanted to do was do the right thing." He said that last part looking down and letting tears roll down his face he didn't want me to see him like that I knew that.
I quickly finished my cola with little said between me and him, I wanted to say something, but I didn't want to make him sadder, and I didn't know what to say, I was disappointed but this… took the cake.
"I'm sorry to hear that" I said not knowing what else to say.
He took a deep breath and stood up straight his eyes never leaving the counter, "it is okay we gave it one hell of a shot, and besides you needed to know sooner or later." He said.
"Thanks for the Cola, Dad; I will be going now I got to go on patrol." I said trying to find a reason to leave because I didn't want to see him like this.
"You do that" he said still staring at the counter.
I left I did my runs nothing happened not even a parking ticket, the village was rarely violent and when I say rarely I mean once every two or three years, and after another hour or two I went back to the office and clocked out, I than went home I lived in a very small trailer some shelves a chair a couch and speakers for the sound system, I put my gun on the shelf, I took my uniform off and put it in the washer. I than turned on my home sound system, I liked to listen to music while I was winding down for the day.
The song was Eminem's lose yourself
I went in the bathroom and took a shower after I was done I went to the mirror and looked in it, all I saw was a fairly decent sized man with blue eyes staring back at me, I wasn't a mutant, my dad was but not me and all the others never really respected me because of it, I than got my sleeping clothes on and got in bed I was soon consumed by sleep.
Meanwhile Town Hall
It was late at night.
"So tell me mayor, where is our money" said a man with an evil growl.
"I am not going to give it to you, I'm tired of taking this from your bullies" said the mayor with a shaky voice leaning back in his chair, he was short fat and almost bald with heavy skin discoloration.
A man in a suit with a Brotherhood of Nod pin on his suit, and sunglasses, just gestured to the mayor and one of his bodyguards ran around the mayor's desk and held his head back and used the other hand to put a knife to his throat.
"Now listen here, mayor, either you give us our money or something bad is going to happen tomorrow" said the man in the suit.
"You Nod warlords don't understand do you, if you attack us the Forgotten will rise up against you-" the mayor was cut off.
"And as they rise up we will shoot them down" said the warlord standing up and slowly leaving the room and gesturing his bodyguards to follow and they did so, they went out the door and parked in front of the building was a huge black Cadillac they got in and drove off.
"Cowards, they won't do a damn thing" the mayor mumbled to himself reorganizing the papers on his desk.
A/N alright so here it is chapter 1, was it good, did you like it, do you want more? Review it if you do.