Here I go again...
As always, you know that I write like shit, but I do it with love. I always write weird things (at least in the other fandom) and I wanted to try one of my weird plots in a rolleigns fic, so your support will be very much appreciated.
I think we're all devastated by what's happening with Joe. I have not stopped crying and praying for him. But I also know that God is not going to leave us without a person who is our role model, who inspires us to be better, who is our hero. That's why I know he's going to win this battle.
Although my stories are based on Roman, the character and not Joe or anyone in his family (that's why I've never used real names, nor have I put his wife and children in my fics) I was unsure if it would be rigth to keep writing.
I don't know it yet. I don't want to be disrespectful and if somehow it is wrong to keep updating, I will stop.
Let's have faith, this is a battle that a warrior like him can win.
In a dystopian future, a man who called himself The Chosen One kept under a regime of dictatorship an whole city. He was in control of all the technologycal resources of that place, so it had been impossible to overthrow him so far.
The only thing people knew about that man is that 25 years ago, together with three other persons, he started a company that now kept everyone and everything under control. That little by little he got rid of all his partners until becoming the sole owner of that place. He had acquired political and technologycal power and was now feared by all.
The man had cybernetic parts due to an accident that occurred 24 years ago, which had disfigured his face and left him without hair. Because of this always wore a mask. People in that place did not know his real name but they were dominated by him.
Until an army of tired citizens joined and in a civil war that lasted several months, to which neighboring towns allied. There were many deaths but that night finally, the city got its freedom.
...
The army was made up of many young people from that city and surrounding cities, most of those guys had not been even born when this man started his business. The rebels reached the headquarters of that man. The leader of the army, a young man named Roman and his partner a man named Dean, entered the main offices, since the rest of the army had defeated all the armed guard of that man and were taking control of the rest of the building.
Roman pointed his gun straight at the masked face of the man, Dean was taking care of Roman's back.
"Your reign of evil and murder is over." Roman sentenced.
"Maybe, but none of you here will live to tell it." The cybernetic voice said.
Roman was going to pull the trigger but before that happened a burst was heard. One of the surveillance robots was activated and shot Roman who dodged the blast.
"You failed!" Roman said and returned to point that man.
"I did not fail Roman... You failed. I am going to die today, but I will take with me the one you love the most." The cybernetic voice said.
Roman shot several times in the man's face, destroying the mask and ending his life. The leader of the rebels then saw beahind him and there was his partner lying on the ground. The blast had caught him.
"We got it." The other man said agonizingly.
Roman crouched and removed his helmet and the helmet from his partner. "Dean... baby..."
"Those weapons were stronger than our vest..." Dean could hardly speak.
Roman watched in desperation as the bullets had pierced the vest and Dean's chest was bleeding non-stop.
"Roman." A voice on the intercom in his vest called him but Roman could only pay attention to Dean. "Roman, we are scanning the tower and there is no more enemies inside. We did it!"
Dean smiled listening to that. "We got it then, Big Dog. You and I are a great team."
"Dean, I must take you to a doctor." Roman tried to move Dean's body.
"You should not do that, I think it's not going to work." Dean was trying to get Roman to listen to him.
"Of course it's going to work, I'm not going to lose you." Roman looked desperate all around him.
"I love you, I'm always going to love you, please Roman, none of this is your fault." Dean with his took Roman's face forcing him to look at him. "I love you Roman but you must accept that this is the farewell, you must go ahead, do it for my Big Dog."
"I'm not going to lose you. It doesn't matter what happens here, I don't care about anything. I love you and I'm not going to lose you."
Roman looked at the chaos around him. All his battle mates were wounded, some of them even dead. He focused his gaze on that building: Z&B Industries. Everything was in ruins, they had managed to pass the defenses of the building and now the reign of evil of that man, was over.
But they price they paid was too big.
At that time vehicles arrived and the person who communicated with Roman on the radio also arrived at the place.
"Sam... Sami, please take care of Roman, don't let him do anything stupid. I'm the crazy one, not him. Roman is the best part of me, take care of him, make him understand that he must move on."
Roman started crying and kissed Dean. The auburn-haired man kissed him back sharing their love for the last time.
...
Six months later...
"Does not this make us the same as them?" Sami looked curiously at the little bright clock-shaped device he had in his hands. "We are using the same technology they used to enslave us."
"No, this time travel technology was still in development when we destroyed them." Roman explained. "They never used this."
"Exactly, those who created this technology, could never perfect their own creation. They couldn't even test it." Sami indicated. "And we're going to do it?"
"Dean died because of him!" Roman insisted. "If the Shitty One would have come to perfect this kind of technology, it would have been the end of the mankind. But we stopped him and with that we avoid that a future that could be even worse... Anyways, the price we have paid was too high. The price I paid, that Dean paid was too much."
"But we got it. We changed the future. They don't couldn't use this technology and we should not be using it either. I don't even know if this will work."
"It will." Roman assured. "Six months ago we fought the future and now that damn bastard won't have access to this technology. Now, you and I have this technology and we will not change the future, we will change our present."
Sami sighed. "Roman, I understand you. I loved Dean like a brother, but I'm scared. This is not what Dean wanted, he told me to help you move on, not letting you make something stupid and what we're doing it's something that Ambrose, whom everyone called a lunatic, would not have done."
"Do you really think he would not have done the same for me?" Roman looked him in the eye.
Sami could not answer him. Roman smirked, it was the end of this discussion.
"This plan is stupid." Sami muttered. "I'm going to send you to death itself, we don't know that this can work. This technology was their project and we don't understand it."
"It's not true, you've been able to understand it and that made me realize that life was giving me another chance and I'm not going to waste it." Roman insisted.
"We should have told the rest of the troop." Sami said in frustration. "They would have helped us maybe, because there are so many variables here, even if everything goes well and you get your goal, we don't know if that woud change something here in this time."
"Let's find out then." Roman pursed his lips.
"And if you get your goal but what you don't get is to come back?" Sami closed his eyes imagining such a thing.
"No matter what happens, Dean will be alive and that's what I want the most." Roman was trying to hold his emotions.
"This is not going to work, if one of my calculations fails, I will lose you too." Sami said with concern.
"You lost me when Dean died. This is the only chance to get one of us back." Roman smiled empathetically. "And you know you prefer Dean."
Sami could not help the tears. "Okay, you win, Big dog. You're supposed to go back 25 years, when Z&B Industries showed up, you must find out who The Chosen One is and kill him before he becomes a threat."
"I will do it." Roman took the little device in his hands.
"It's almost funny, you're 25 years old and you're going to arrive in this same city, 25 years ago, if everything works of course." Sami pursed his lips. "It's good that you were not born here but that you arrived when you were 15 years old."
"That way I won't have any chance of meeting any of my relatives." Roman. He smiled at him. "This is going to work, ok. I'm going to kill that bastard before he becomes millionaire and powerful. I'll follow the plan as we set it and we'll have Dean back and this city will be safe, everything will be fine."
"I hope so." Sami sighed and started the device. "Remember that you know how the clock works and how to take care of it."
"I know." Roman said goodbye.
A light enveloped Roman and the Samoan felt like his skin was being ripped off. He screamed but his voice could not be heard. Sami was horribly frightened, suspecting that this was not going to turn out as they expected.
...
Roman awoke with pain throughout his body. It was as if he had been run over by a truck. The first thing he saw was the face of a man younger than him, who was looking at him curiously.
"Are you okay?" The other man asked.
Roman looked around and behind the young man, there were three other men in very colorful clothes.
"Wow, it's the first time our captain is interested in someone that is not him." One of the three men said.
And for the way that man said him, Roman knew that him was a bastard.
"This is a good sign. This one is very handsome." The other one laughed. "I say he's the one for our captain."
"He has a very weird sense of fashion." The third one said looking at Roman's clothes. "But I bet he's better than that asshole. Anyone is better than that asshole."
The man who was holding Roman pouted. "Can you please not spill my personal issues..."
Roman sat down helped by the young man and did not recognize his surroundings. He looked at his right hand and there was the clock.
"My name is Seth." The man who was holding him smiled kindly. "They are my friends: Koffi, Xavier and Big E."
Roman then noticed that he was in an alley and it was night.
"You were passed out on the street." Seth continued. "Need help?"
Roman nodded. "What day is today?"
They all looked at each other curiously.
"November the 3rd..." Seth said.
"What year is it?" Roman asked.
Seth was worried. Perhaps this man had lost his memory.
Xavier showed the cell phone screen and Roman saw the date with horror: November 3, 2018. Roman closed his eyes in sheer despair. Something had gone wrong in the calculations.
"I arrived one year before I expected." Roman said disappointed. "I can't afford to wait a whole year."
Roman touched the clock trying to adjust it but it didn't work, it was off.
The Samoan panicked. "This cannot be happening."
"We can fix your watch... maybe." Seth said looking at the strange device. "It seems like it's something important to you."
"That's the weirdest watch I've seen." Kofi answered.
Roman gave up. He had to repair the clock to advance 1 year and even then maybe that trip would also go wrong. Sami was right they had not mastered that technology yet.
"Z&B Industries will not exist until a year from now. And I can't look for the bastard now because I don't know who the hell he is!" Roman said in pure frustration.
"What you said doesn't make sense." Seth giggled.
"Of course not, for none of you would make sense." Roman closed his eyes frustrated.
"We can help you." Seth insisted.
Kofi, Xavier and Big E looked at each other and smiled. Seth gave them an accusing look.
Roman returned to take a look at the 4 boys, they were obviously younger than him. They looked a little naive too. None of these guys would ever believe that in the next 26 years, this place would grow so much and would become the golden cage that Roman fought to liberate.
"My name is Roman." The Samoan finally stood up and started walking.
Seth and the others started following him. "You're good? I mean you were passed out not long ago. "
Roman was going to say something but his stomach growled. The Samoan wondered how long he would have been without eating... 26 years maybe.
"I don't even have money, great... I didn't think of anything important." Roman looked at the clock in frustration.
"Again. We can help you." Seth kept walking beside him.
Roman pursed his lips. It was not time to get demanding. He was stuck in a place he did not know, in the wrong year, with no money, with no one to help him and with a damaged time travel device.
"Yeah, I need help."
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