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CHAPTER 3
A Vivid Vision
Everywhere I look around me I am shocked. I cannot believe my eyes. The walls of the cave around me are covered in eggs suckling Dark Eco from underground Currents. The cave is desolate aside from the eggs. Purple smoke fogs my vision as I walk farther into the cave. The only light in the cave allowing me to see comes from the glowing green eggs over two feet in diameter attached in clusters along the wall. The cave opens up into a massive underground basin with rock pillars holding it together. As I look down, my eyes hover over hundreds of metal heads, patrolling around their home. Pits full of a dark liquid give out huge clouds of purple vapor that slithers around in the air. My vision starts to blur, I fall to the ground, gasping for oxygen. My body starts to feel numb and I'm on my knees. I can barely see, or think, what's going on? Visions that remind me of hate and fear flash before my eyes, a powerful sensation surges through me, I am lifted into the air by an unknown force, and my body feels completely numb. My vision is severely contorted, and I fall back to my feet. It feels as if someone stole my soul from me. All I feel is darkness and hatred. Then I see it. On the other side of the basin, a massive Metal Head over sixty feet in size staring right at me. I start to run forward, unconsciously, I sprint as fast as I can straight at the Metal Head. With every breath, it feels like I am reborn, full on sprinting does not fatigue me in the slightest. I can see the floor flying beneath my feet as I cover ground at an extraordinary speed. I leap high into the air, higher than I ever thought possible, my body feels like it was shot out of a slingshot. When I finally land, plant my fist into the earth. All the power I felt before rushes out of me with one massive surge. A huge shockwave massacres any metal head standing withing sixty yards of myself. I'm on one knee, I start to see color again, and the claws fade back into soft fingers. I regain control of my body, but only for a moment. The purple vapor in the air all starts to flow straight to me, and into my mouth and nose. My next breathe hurts as if someone was putting a red hot metal rod down my throat. At that moment I feel an uncontrollable relapse as I am thrown back into the body of a demon. Jets of purple lightening shoot out around me in every way. I feel my entire being and consciousness is lost in a furious anger that overtakes me as I stare straight into the eyes of a Metal Head King.
"AAHHHHH!" I scream as I open my eyes and reality sets in.
"What's going on?!" Kesh falls from his bed and looks my way.
"Nothing, just a bad dream, Sorry," I tell him and lay my head back down. There are a few other people that are part of the underground looking my way from their beds too. I look at the clock, 3:13. I feel so bad. I didn't mean to wake them. Kesh crawls back into his bed, and it isn't long before everyone is asleep again. I can hear all of their heavy breaths. Why did I have that dream? It felt so real, I wonder if that's the way Kesh feels when he transforms… but he has control of his body, something doesn't feel right. I feel different. That powerful feeling I felt when I transformed in my dream… I've felt it before. I felt it when Kesh struck my arm in the prison. Why did this dream feel so real? Images of the Metal Head King in my dream flash before my eyes as I fall asleep.
"Oliver, may I speak with you?" I ask her. She was sitting at her table looking at maps and countless other documents.
"Of course Roy what is it?" her face lit up with a smile as she responded.
"I think you should keep an eye on Kesh," I told her.
"Keep an eye on him. What do you mean by that?" Her smile faded and she looked at him. He was sitting at a card table with three other guys. He was getting along good.
"Praxis was doing experiments on him, experiments with Dark Eco, and he survived." I said quietly so no one would hear.
"Really… that's very interesting. No one has ever discovered the effects of Dark Eco on a human." she said to me. Her face was somewhat concerned now.
"He looks normal now, but I saw him do some pretty unreal things to get us out of prison. Just keep an eye on him. I also wanted to ask if I could speak with Dallas."
"Well thanks for letting me know. I'll be sure to be careful around him," she thanked me "I would let you but Dallas said he wouldn't be at HQ all today. Yesterday night I was on with him for most of the night though. We are making progress now that we have contact with each other. Dallas gave you a mission important to sector 5." She looked at me and hesitated.
"Do you know the details?" I asked.
"Praxis doesn't have enough power or resources to defend the city from the Metal Heads Roy," Oliver told me. "All the Green Eco mines on the outskirts of Sector 5 have been overrun by Metal Heads, which means our friends in sector 5 have no power, they don't have any Green Eco to fuel their cars, and they have no running water." Oliver shakes her head "they are in worse condition then us."
"They are in bad condition, it wasn't like that when I was there a few weeks ago." I said.
"Well, things are not going to stay that way. Dallas told me to send you and another underground member of my choosing to the Green Eco mines outside the city. You will meet up with two people from Sector 5 at the first pumping station, the four of you must cleanse all five stations from all the Metal Heads there, and get sector 5 back into running condition," Oliver's brown eye's look at me with all seriousness. This is going to be dangerous, I tell myself.
"Who's my partner?" I ask Oliver.
"Lance!" Oliver yells at the table Kesh is sitting at. A Skinny bleach blonde man stood up from the table. You could tell he was over twenty years of age but he only had enough facial hair to muster a patch of stubble on his chin. With a cigarette in his hand, he gets up and walks over to Oliver. "Lance this is Roy," Lance and I shake hands. "Roy is going to be your partner when you go to the Green Eco mines," she tells him. Then she looks at me "All of you were chosen for a reason for this mission, Lance is an amazing sniper, and I know that first hand. He will be perfect cover fire for you. The Mechanic Alice from sector 5 will be there to fix any damage done to the Mines." Oliver explains "Roy, you and Carn will be Alice's body guard, protect her with your life."
"I never fail Oliver; you know that, consider your 5 green Eco Mines already back online!" Lance said in a scraggly voice.
"Dallas told me, to tell you two to meet the rest of the team at the entrance of closest mine at twelve O' clock. You only have a few hours so get moving." Oliver said her final words to us and returned her attention to the Documents on her desk.
