Chapter 1

It's morning on earth as everyone starting to wake up and do their daily routine, a man slowly woke up and went to the bathroom to wash up. His name is...well none of course, this man has no name, history, family and any particular life in his life. He was a former veteran or so people say he was, doesn't remember anything besides himself and his former job, was well built, black hair and red eyes.

The neighborhood he lived in is peaceful and the people are nice and friendly to him, soon he got out the bathroom and wore a white T-shirt with black jeans. He wasn't the type to stay indoors for too long so decided to go out and grab breakfast, after that he went on a stroll at the park. Unknowingly he was watched far behind a dense woods, the figure was watching him from a distance with reasons unknown, it began to follow while keeping it's cover by hiding at each tree it passes. As for him, hasn't even felt the slightest feeling he was being followed by an unknown being, as the day pass on he went back home to sleep while the being is still following him to his home.

As he slept, the being managed to get in and stare at him, soon it pulled out a communication device "Orders?" it said with a feminine voice "Capture it and bring it in…alive" said on the comm "Yes sir" soon it went to his side and use a syringe and continued to inject in him "Sleep tight, don't let the Floran bite" it said in a hushing tone, soon he was brought to the ship.

As the next day came, he felt his entire body sore "…?" he thought as he tried to get up but strangely for him he can't. Lifted his head to see he was tied to a metal bed and to his discomfort it felt painful, looking to see if he can use something to escape but was startled when he heard someone calling him "Hey" the same feminine voice called, looked around to see who it was but had trouble due to the fact the room's light was shining on him instead. Slowly it came walking towards him "Had a good sleep? Bet you did" it said with a sarcastic tone to him, he just shook his head meaning he didn't have a good sleep "Well atleast you're awake" slowly it showed it self. The being had leaves on top of its head, black eyes, had a slight curvy body meaning it was a female, green skin and wore a black armor with black leg guards. "So you have a name?" he shook his head meaning no "No name huh? Guess they were right, can you talk?" again he shook "What you can't talk? You can't be serious about that" nodded meaning that he literally can't talk.

She was a little surprise "Well, maybe I can help you with that" she went back into the shadows leaving him confused, after a minute or two she came back with a strange collar "This will help just hold still" she gently placed around his neck and set it on "Ok…try it out" he hesitated but wanted to see if it really works "H-hello?" this made him greatly surprised him. She smiled knowing he can talk again "Hi" she respond back playfully at him "…T-thank you…for helping me" he said gratefully and smiled, both of them were quiet for a moment then he spoke up "W-why am I…here and how?" he asked her "Well it's a long story really" she said nervously.

He looked at her oddly "Well…could atleast tell me your name?" she slowly smiled "Its Ronny Marmaduke and you are?" this made him look away "I…don't have one or even remember it" she was surprise to hear this "You don't? Like you're not serious right?" he kept his silence meaning he was serious. Slowly she was thinking something "How about…Desmond sounds?" slowly he smiled "I like it…thanks Ronny" both of them went quiet for a moment and soon heard footsteps running towards them "Mom you in here?!" a child like voice called out "I'm here sweetie" soon it reveal a small child running towards Ronny and tackled her "I found you!" she giggled as her mother proceeds to hug her daughter "Guess you did, what do you want sweetie?" she looked at her "I'm bored, so I came looking for you" she pouted making her giggle "Well I'll be there in a sec, just need to-" she was cut off by her daughter seeing a human tied to a metal bed "Whose that Mommy?" she asked.

Desmond looked at her nervously "H-hi there" she let go of her mother and went to his side "Hi! I'm Emily, me and my Mom are Floran" she told him "Floran?..well I'm human" this confused Emily "Human?...that's new, what's your name?" she wondered "Desmond, names Desmond" he replied gently. Then Ronny spoke "Okay sweetie, Mommy will be making dinner soon and I'll play with you later okay?" she kissed her daughter's forehead "Okay Mommy" then went back into another room, Desmond spoke up "Well…whatever you thinking you doing on me, just tell me what it is" Ronny sighed "I was assign to capture live specimen for the Apex, and that's you" Desmond didn't show any reaction to it, just kept a straight face "…when?" he asked "We're about to land no less than 30 minutes, sorry" she left him with his thoughts "Guess I'm gonna be lab rat myself…can't do much being tied down right now" soon he slowly closed his eyes and drift off to sleep.

In another room, Ronny was cooking while her daughter waited patiently "Mom" she asked "Yes sweetie?" her mother respond "Is he going to die when we get to that big white building?" this made her stopped for a moment "I…don't know sweetie" she lied "He's seem so nice, did he do something wrong?" Emily asked again "I honestly don't know, the Apex wanted a live human specimen. So I don't know" she replied as she was done cooking and putted on a plate "Here you go sweetie, Pearlpea Risotto just how you liked it" she served for her daughter and began eating it "Thanks Mom" she said between munches "You're welcome" she replied.

30 minutes later, Ronny's ship landed on Apex facility "We're here, S.A.I.L open the ship's door please" she asked "Yes ma'am" S.A.I.L replied as it opens the ship's door. As the doors open, it revealed there are 4 individual Apex waiting for them "Took your time Ronny, get the specimen" 2 other Apex went running inside to get Desmond "You do know I need to keep a low profile while capturing specimens Dr. Lance" she said a bit annoyed "Well I needed it quickly, My experiments are important" he said strictly making her a bit angry. Desmond was being escorted to the facility "…too bright" he said irritated by the bright sunlight in his eyes, this made Dr. Lance a bit suspicious "Strange…I thought he couldn't talk, care to explain Ronny?" Dr. Lance said while eyeing on her "Well how am I suppose to communicate with him? Hand gestures?" she answered back.

Dr. Lance went towards Desmond "And I assume you don't have a name human?" he looked at him "Desmond" he told his name "Desmond huh?...strangely enough your files said you don't have a name, ever in your entire life. Usually they called you…subject 05" this made Desmond's eyes wide and angered him "No one calls me that anymore" he menacingly to Dr. Lance who wasn't fazed by him "Bring him inside" Dr. Lance command and the two other Apex brought him inside. Lance turned to Ronny "Almost forgot, here's your payment and remember, don't let anyone know about this place got it" she nodded reluctantly but forced to accept it "Good, now leave" he left and she went back inside her ship, never seeing Desmond again.

Inside the facility there were many doctors, nurses, scientists and other staff members walking around doing their business. There arrived in small white room with nothing inside and locked him in it, Desmond sighed and went to sit at a corner waiting for something to happen. After about half an hour, a doctor with a nurse came to his room "Morning subject 05" Desmond looked at him "What do you want?" the nurse gave the doctor a chair and sat on it "We're here just to give you some questions and for you to answer them" he said calmly "fine" Desmond replied with a bit hesitation.

The doctor cleared his throat "Okay, first question is 'Do you have any family members?'" he shook "Second question, 'Do you have a spouse or any other relationship history?'" he shook "Third question, 'Do you have a name?'" he nodded "Tell us your name" he spoke up "Desmond" the doctor continued to write down everything "Last question, 'What occupation you used to work?'" Desmond spoke "Former Veteran" with that the doctor with the nurse left him alone again. He waited for hours and hours of time waiting for them to do something to him, after a while two staff members came in his room to escort him.

When he arrived in a surgical room, they locked both of his arms and legs to prevent him from doing anything. He could see Dr. Lance and other doctors with him wearing masks, his mouth was being wrapped by a leather belt "This is subject 05 being experimented for military purposes" Dr. Lance said to his tape recorder "We will begin experiment" after that he placed the tape recorder on the side of a table "Scalpel" as a doctor led him a scalpel "You won't be needing any painkillers, won't you?" this made Desmond's eyes wide and was breathing rather quickly, as the blade touched his skin and sliced him open making him scream but can't.

After being cut open, implanted, injected and sewed back up, he was breathing rather heavily and can't even move a muscle "Subject 05 is still breathing and alive, seems to immune to the virus that was injected in him" after that he stopped recording and looked at him in the eyes "Guess our work will be a success if he doesn't die yet, send him back to his room" with that said they dragged him back and threw him in. He was still breathing and also furious afterwards, they removed his collar and didn't even remove the belt on his mouth, but now he rather have it on him.

As time goes by his routine was being experimented, beaten up, locked inside a cold container, electrocuted on a chair and etc. He was in his room with dead cold eyes and the belt was still on him, for some reason he doesn't feel hungry, tired or thirsty. He learned that the virus he was injected with was called the space virus that could kill any living being but not him, his immune to it and it enhance his senses, reflexes, strength, endurance and mobility. And today he was planning to destroy the facility with everyone in it, soon 2 Apex staff came in and was about to grab him. He quickly killed them and locked the door as he slowly walked out of his room killing a guard in the process, he walked through to the hallways and saw many other staff members and shoot them on sight, leaving no survivors. Soon the facility went on lockdown and no one can get out, but that was the plan, every guard he saw he killed them with no hesitation and also grabbed their gear.

He walked through hallways and rooms just to see if he can find anyone that's responsible for every experiment they done, soon he made it to Dr. Lance's office and the last place to look. He kicked down the door shooting everyone else except Lance "P-please h-have mercy!" he cried out as Desmond slowly found his collar on Lance's table and wore it "…you don't get any from me, I'll make it quick for you" he aimed at Lance and shot him quickly on the head leaving him dead.

As the facility was burning to the ground, he opened the main facility door so he can get out. As he walked out, behind him was the facility slowly burning and destroyed to the ground. 2 weeks have passed the burnt down facility was all over the news saying that illegal experiments were being held by Apex and the owner Dr. Lance, saying that it was attacked by one of their experiments that manage to get out alive alone. Desmond was now at a small town with many other races buying whatever there can, he was wearing a black cloak and a black bandana to cover himself from other species so that he doesn't get any attention from anyone.

He walked pass many stalls and stopped by a food stall "Hi sir, need anything?" a female Floran asked him "Yes…can I have a hamburger, please?" she nodded and handed him what he wanted "That will be 45 pixels sir" Desmond let out a pouch and gave her pixels to pay his food "Thank you, have a good day" with that said he walked away from the stall waving goodbye to the female Floran. He ate his hamburger and walked through many crowds, as he was walking he saw five children that seems like bullying a yellow Avain and decided to help it "Come on get up bird brain!" said a boy Apex "Grh…leave me alone" said the girl Avian barely getting up "You should have known not to snitch us! Now what this is what you get!" as a boy Hylotl was about to punch her but stopped by Desmond "That's enough of you five kids" all of them looked at him "Let's get out of here!" said the boy Apex and ran away with his friends leaving him and the girl Avian.

He looked at the Avian and crouch down "Hey there, it's alright I'm not gonna hurt you" the girl Avain was nervous to say something but gathered the courage to talk "T-thank you s-sir" she said nervously "I'm Desmond, what's yours?" he said gently "Its Melisa Light" she told her name. He smiled "That's a nice name Melisa, where your parents at?" he asked "Oh…I don't have any parents, I'm an orphan" this made him surprise "…sorry I ask" he said feeling sympathy for her "Its okay…atleast you helped me with those bullies" she said gratefully to him "You welcome…I was wondering, which orphanage you stayed in?" he asked "Oh its not to far from here, come on I show you!" she said as she grabbed his arm and drag him.

When he arrived he could see it was a simple orphanage, flower beds at the window to water, tidy lawn area and etc "This seems simple to stay in, so wanna show me around?" Melisa nodded and proceeded to show him. Inside the building there were many children wondering around the place and a female Novakid came forward "Well hello there, I see that one of the little ones brought you here" she pointed at Melisa "Yeah and I saw her being bullied by a bunch of other kids and helped her out" he said. The female Novakid smiled "Well thank you for doing so, I'm Prim Bright and you're?" he let his hand out "Desmond, nice to meet you Prim" and both shake hands.

While he was there, Melisa showed him around the orphanage and to him it was just a simple tour. He could see that she was a bit clinging towards him for some reason but didn't mind it for a second later, he thought that she needed some company. They were now at the cafeteria eating together with the rest of the kids "So what were you doing at the market Desmond?" he finished eating his food and looked at her "Well you know what people do at markets, I was about to ask you the same thing" she looked away "I don't wanna talk about it…" he place his hand on her shoulder "I won't be mad at you" he said gently to her "…they said I snitched on them telling me that I told what they did yesterday" she finally said it "What happened yesterday?" he question "Mrs. Prim said that they stole the orphanage money at her office and demanded to give it back" she told him "So did they do it, gave it back I mean" she shook her head "No…they used it all up on buying for what they needed and it made her furious" she sighed "But one thing that doesn't make sense…why would they thought I snitched them in the first place" this grab his attention "Are you saying that someone framed you? That doesn't make any sense" she nodded "Yeah…I'm not the type to tell anybody because it might cause trouble, I just guess that someone frame me for it" he petted her head "Well…atleast you're okay now, they won't hurt you while I'm here" this made her smile and quickly hugged him surprisingly "Thank you" she said appreciate him for being concern and hugged back "Your welcome" he smiled knowing he did something right.

Time goes by and Desmond was about to leave but stopped by Melisa grabbing his arm tightly "Please don't go!" she pleaded "I have to Melisa, you know I can't stay here any longer" he asked nicely but she kept holding his arm, he crouch down "I could always visit you if I had the time" he said as he hugged her "Promise you will?" she said sadly "I promise I'll will come visit, now please let me go" Melisa let go of his arm and see Desmond slowly leaving the orphanage. But on his perspective, he wanted to bring her with him but decided to take some time to think.

It was midnight and Desmond was still walking around the small town, his a Vigilante and hunt down any criminal group he can find. When he came to this town, the place had many trouble before he came, conflict after conflict and he decided to put a stop to it. He killed every criminal and group organization he met, the people there were grateful to the unknown Vigilante keeping them safe from danger. No one knew who the Vigilante really was but its for the best for them not knowing, as he kept walking he could see a group of thugs trying to break in the orphanage. With that he quickly ran towards to it, as the door was broke down the thugs came inside quickly and pulled out their guns "Get the kids and the owner" soon all children and staff were tied down "All of them are tied up" one of the thugs yelled "Good, now call the police for a ransom" quickly a thug grabbed a phone and dialed down the number.

Desmond was already inside, hiding in the dark "Listen here and you listen good! We want you to send us a large amount of pixels in exchange for the hostages in the orphanage, if you don't we'll shoot of one by one, is that clear!?" with that said the thug place the phone back. Melisa cried and terrified by the situation that was happening right now "Hey! You better shut up there kid!" she continued to cry until one of the thugs aimed at her with a gun on his hand "You shut up before I-" his sentence was cut off when the lights went off "Hey did anyone mess with the power supply in this building?!" the leader yelled "No boss! I think-" he was cut off mid-sentence by a gunshot and everyone was startled.

All of them drew up their weapons and used flashlights "Find and kill him!" the leader ordered and all of them went separate in groups while 2 other including the leader stayed in the room with the hostages. Desmond was hiding behind beside the doorway and waited for them to get in, as 3 came in, the last one behind them got grab and stab by the back breaking his spine in the process. Desmond grab the dead thug's machine gun and fired at the rest of them, while in another room they could hear gunshots "Did they got him?" a thug spoke slightly terrified "I don't know" they kept wandering in darkness of the building and didn't notice Desmond was infront of the door already pulled out a flashbang and threw it towards them. As the flashbang was triggered, all the thugs covered their eyes, Desmond pulled out his knife and impaled one of the thugs, then he pulled out his gun and killed the rest quick and swift.

There was two thugs left in the room with the hostages "Did you guys get him" the leader said at his radio "Hey I said did you get him?" he listened to his radio and no response, Desmond threw a knife at a thug killing him. The leader looked around and grab Melisa also aiming the gun at her head "Show yourself or I'll kill this kid!" Melisa cried even more. Unknowingly to him, Desmond was right behind him and quickly slit his throat making him let go off Melisa. The room went silent as the leader slowly died, he restored the power and helped them tied loose "Thank you for saving us Vigilante" Prim said gratefully, he nodded and was about to leave when Melisa tugged his cloak "T-thank you for saving me Mr. Vigilante" she said shyly making him chuckle.

When Desmond left the orphanage, the police arrived and saw that the thugs were dealt with. He came back to his apartment, cleaned himself and went to bed. He was relief he managed to save Melisa before anything else happen, he just hope he could adopt her with a normal life but that won't happen if he kept working as a vigilante that might bring harm towards him and Melisa, even if he tried it will bound to happen one day, slowly he fell asleep knowing that the day is over…for now.