An Enigmatic Past (Part 1, the interview)
The air is cold, the room is dark; the only light source is a lantern. All of the windows are boarded up for privacy and to give appearance of the building being rundown. There are four people; two stand outside guarding the room, not from the outside, but from what might happen on the inside. One of the people is a crimson hedgehog clothed in completely in black including a long trench coat. Under the coat lays a 9mm pistol fully loaded, with the safety switch off. The other person is just a plain newspaper reporter.
"I see that you've been wanting to meet with me for a little over a year now, is this correct?" The hedgehog asks in a very unemotional mood.
"Yes, I have. It's been quite a dream of mine to meet with the very person who's organization sent him to kill 34 people at the G.U.N. research lab on Prison Island just to retrieve information on the Space Colony Arc." the reporter answers.
"So I see, well I'll start by telling you that that mission gave us no further information to what we were looking for. The people who died just happened to be in the way and are to be considered collateral damage."
"How common of any mercenary group, just cold and heartless. Well may I ask you your name?"
"My name is Rane, it pertains no importance to me anymore. It's just my title."
"So I see. My next question is simple how did you come about joining this group?"
"They found me, at the time I was just barely surviving on the streets of Westopolis. I had lost all of my money and was probably going to die. They said the reason they were looking for me is because I pertained to some important mission of theirs'. Apparently, it had to do with my father, at the time I could care less, since he'd left when I was two and I'd never really known him. I really had no focus in life, but they gave me one. I do work for them and they keep me alive. That's all that matters."
"How was life before the Organization found you?"
"Mostly just living in the Mystic Ruins, didn't really do anything there except go to school and work at home. I only lived there for ten years after my father had left, so that's all I really did. I moved out of there once I turned 13 to go to Westopolis and find people to help me do research on a disease. I was a technical specialist in terms of computers, so I knew how to help out any medical researcher when dealing with specific programs used to develop the cure."
"I see, so why were you searching for a cure?"
"It's how my mother died and I'm led to believe that it might be hereditary. So I want to find the cure to the disease, so it doesn't kill me."
"I see, but if you ran away from home then how did you know that your mother died."
"I've returned once before joining the Organization, she had died only two days before I got there. They didn't even hold a funeral, she was buried and that was the end of it. I actually knew she'd had the disease and knew that her chance of survival was minimal. That's why I began work early when I went to Westopolis and that's one of the few things the Organization gives me, the funding to do the research and the equipment and medical staff."
"Well, we can end today, I think you've supplied plenty of information for me to overlook. Though I would like to delve further into your involvement with the Organization. That can wait until tomorrow "
The interviewer is escorted out of the room and blindfolded. After that he is moved to a secure location at another point in the building. Still in the room, Rane just decides to fall asleep in his chair waiting to see what the interviewer will ask tomorrow.
