Free Energy, science would dictate that there is no such thing as Free Energy, as when energy is created and produced, energy is also lost. In order to have free energy would mean to not use energy to produce usable energy, a scientific impossibility. That has always been the case, until one day that is. A miner found a strange stone that emitted a light blue glow. Keeping the stone with him on his shift, he continued working when the crystal shattered against the weight on his body, the result was his body inheriting the light blue glow.

Workers and families concerned by this development proceeded to investigate and try to find out what's wrong but after the examination, concluded that nothing was physically or mentally wrong with him and allowed him to go back to work. It was during that change can be seen, as he was able to do an entire weeks worth of work in a single day, with the blue glow finally wearing off after at the end of the shift.

This was the beginning of the Energy Crystal phenomena. Several more cases would eventually be confirmed, including a 12 year boy stopping a train, a woman falling off a skyscraper and survived without injury, and a car that made of 12 hour trip with no gas in the tank. After scientist were able to effectively study these Energy Crystals it was finally stated that these crystals were an alternate form of energy. However it's origin was never identified.

Energy Crystal: Hereby as referred to as EC's,is a substance of materialized energy able to hold and transfer vast amounts of energy. Transfer of energy is possible upon shattering the crystal against a surface of the object. Research is still being done on how to control this process for more effective use.

Upon learning the power within an EC, the Central Government Office, which controls most of the world's economy and nation's laws, decreed that all EC's retrieved should be given to Military personnel, in order to provide national security against any anti-government or terrorist organizations. However at the time this was made law, people have gotten use to using the EC's for personal use and having the idea of having to give it up for military use and government regulation was not well received.

The world is now on the verge of civil and global conflict with trying to achieve control over the EC's. This development as left most of the world in chaos, with everyone having to fend for themselves, it is during this time period that this story takes place.

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Years later, in a frontier town.

--Episode 1: The Mysterious Seeker

"Excuse me, could you help me find this person?" asked a young girl. The stranger took a glimpse at her and brushed her off.

"No, get out of my way, freak," replied the man who walked briskly by. The girl, sank to the floor and rested against the wall of a nearby house. She had been getting answers like that all day.

"OK, thank you...for your...time," she responded to herself. She was about 16 years old, wearing a brown ragged dress, a white T-shirt with part of an old cloak sitting on her shoulders. She had indigo hair, tied in a ponytail on the right side of her head. She was a nice girl, but the reason she knew she would she would be rejected every time was because of her eyes, they held the same glow as the ECs and was still very weak and frail. She couldn't explain it either. It was unnatural for someone to have such eyes and be weak, and without any explanation, she had no choice to but to accept the rejection. She got back up on her feet and proceeded to walk around again and continue to ask for help.

"Excuse me?" she started again.

"Huh, what do you want?" replied the man. He looked at the young girl as she approached and was already disgusted.

"I'm looking for the person in this photo, can you help me?" she asked, holding up a picture. The man grabbed the picture, and then released it, allowing the wind to sweep it away. The girl immediately broke into a run, after the picture. The picture eventually got snagged into a tree, and she without care, began to climb up into the tree. She eventually reached the picture, but was too exhausted to try and climb back down. Taking a seat in the tree, she began to wonder.

"Why would he let go of the picture like that, I mean he asked what I wanted so shouldn't he have at least been a little courteous." She looked at the picture, and let out a small sigh. "This person knows something about me, he has to help me, I want to know who I am." While she was thinking that, a squirrel jumped on her, scaring her and forced her to fall out of the tree. After hitting the ground, she looked back up and saw the squirrel perched on her spot, eating an acorn. She suddenly felt at ease. "Don't scare me like that" she scolded playfully.

Later that evening, bikes and cars could be heard roaring down the streets, forcing everybody off the road and into nearby buildings. It was a The Mallet gang, a notorious band of thugs, known primarily by their leaders tendency to smash everything with his over-sized mallet.

"Alright ladies and peasants. I'm here to negotiate a little trade off to make your lives easier. The government is sending a patrol unit tomorrow to collect your ECs right? Well, how about I hold on to them for you, and return them after they leave? Of course, there's no guarantee that I'll even return, but the government won't have them, so how about it." shouted the mallet man.

The people nearby began to shout back, saying that he was no better than the government, he was nothing more than petty thief, and that he has no right to declare such dribble. The mallet man parked his bike, walked over to a house, and with the mallet, smashed in the entire wall, causing everyone to be silent, except his gang which went to a roaring cheer.

"Now whose in control of this talk?" he asked.

"That's not fair, I won't let you get away" shouted a boy who saw what the mallet man did. "I have the power to stop you too!" With that, the boy picked up a bat, and then in his pocket, pulled out an EC. Crushing it in his hands, he began to glow, showing that he now had the energy that was in the EC. The boy charged, running faster than any track star, and within seconds was right in the mallet man's face. He swung the bat at him, attempting to smash his face, but was caught in mid-air by the mallet man.

"It's good to see the youth trying be brave, but even with an EC, your no match for me," laughed the mallet man as he tossed the boy aside. The mallet man, reached into his pockets and pulled out three ECs. "Do realize if I so choose, I could destroy this entire town, so behave and do as I say."

The gang continued to go throughout the town, taking whatever ECs they could find until they came across one family that was claiming that didn't have any. The mallet man went over to that house and looked at the family.

"Lying will get this lovely home of yours destroyed. Wanna answer the question again?"

"We don't have any, we don't even have any to give to the government," cried the woman, holding her children close.

"Ah, really, then 500 WDs would be a good substitute." WDs is short of world dollars, a global currency to regulate the economy of the world and the distribution of goods and aid.

"500, we can't spare that, that's all we have to live on until payday," she cried.

"Well then, your not worth anything now are you? I think I'll just put you all out of your misery," he shouted, raising his mallet. He was about to crush the woman and her children when the girl stepped in between them.

"Please, don't harm anyone in this town, they're good people. They don't deserve to have what's theirs taken away, so please?" asked the girl with her arms outstretched, blocking the woman and her children. The mallet man was startled for a moment due to her sudden appearance and eyes but quickly overcame that and put his mallet down.

"Why should I listen you, do you have a debt to these people?" he asked slyly.

"No, I don't know these people, but I have been in this town long enough to know that these people don't deserve to be hurt," she responded. The mallet man, already irritated at the amount of nuisances he was getting, grabbed her a tossed her aside into the street. He then grabbed his mallet and proceeded after her.

"You are a fool, these people have done nothing for you and probably don't even care about you or your worthless exsistance, and yet, your willing to put yourself in danger to help them?"

"Yes,"

"Hmph, maybe I should smack some sense into you, just looking at you and those...eyes, makes me sick just looking at 'em," he shouted raising his mallet. "Better yet, you can think of how foolish you are as these people will do absolutely nothing to stop me from smashing you," shouted the mallet man. The girl realized what danger she was in now, and put her hands up in protest. "This is what happens to people who tell me what to do," he shouted as he brought his mallet smashing down on top of the girl. The mallet would have killed her, if it had connected. When the girl opened her eyes, in front of the mallet was a strangely forged sword. The sword had easily stopped the force of the mallet.

"What the, who dares defy me now," shouted the mallet man, as he lifted his mallet again to look around. He looked to the person holding the sword.

"I guess I would be the one defying you, if that's how you want to phrase it," said a young man. He was holding the strange sword and had it placed on his shoulder. Wearing blue jeans, white sneakers, a white T-shirt with a blue/green shirt on top and unbuttoned, and a blue cap, and two black arm bands. "Personally I would like to think of it as me saving an innocent life from the leader of the Mallet Gang. You are the Mallet Gang's leader right?"

"What if I am? It's not like you could stop me and save this village."

"Hmm, that may be true, I mean, anybody worth 3500 WDs has got to be pretty powerful, right?"

"What, 3500, where would get an idea like that,"

"Bounty Hunters network," smiled the man.

"You...your a bounty hunter?"

"The name's Ban, and I'll be the bounty hunter that's going to turn in you for a handsome reward,"