Acceleracers Chapter 5: The Aftermath Prologue

I do not own Acceleracers or any characters, vehicles, or other intellectual property thereof. Any new characters, vehicles, etc. introduced over the course of this story of my property.

Location: Unknown

A shadowy figure walks through a dark room, the only indication of his presence being the sound of his footfall. He pulls back a seat resting in front a desk that had a sort of large screen (several feet in size, larger than most television screens) integrated into it. He sits and, as he does, a holographic set of unmarked controls display before him. He quickly begin using them, the screen popping to life in response.

He switches to touch screen control, and begin navigating through an array of digital files displayed on the screen. He hits one with his finger, and the screen shows its contents. He presses on one of these documents, and a viedo and document are shown of the large display. He takes his index finger and his thumb, press the against the screen over the document, and he spreads them apart causing the document to open, filling the entire screen. The screen dims and a teal circle with various curved rectangles orbiting around it pops up.

He presses a sequence of buttons on the keyboard, and the odd symbol disappears. He began to look at the document and pulled the video up over it. Beginning to watch the video, a combination of security, helmet, and onboard camera footage combined with overlayed audio data, he leaned back, almost tense seeming.

He sat watching the viedo intently for quite a while. The following is what the video displayed.

I realize Chapter 1 had no direct references to the Acceleracers, but this masked man will become very important later on, very later on. I reworked this because it was poorly written and 44% of the readers didn't go on to read chapter 2. I'm not sure if they were seeing how many chapters it was or if this first chapter made them decide not to keep reading, but I implore anyone else to continue reading. I will be posting new chapters ASAP.