Chapter 2
It had started to rain, thunder was banging in the sky as the rain poured down. Zedaine was hiding in the shadows, waiting for Paul to get close. As Paul was walking past the alley muttering and stomping through some puddles, Zedaine jumped out from the shadows, grabbed him around the collar, and slammed him against the brick wall in the alley.
Paul cried out, "Hey! Whata, what do you want! I don't have any money!"
Ignoring this Zedaine asked him, in his calm, soft, monotone voice, "Were did you get that information?" .
"..Wha..wha..what information?"
"I over heard your conversation with that commander, I would like to know where you got it from." Zedaine paused for a split second, "You don't have to tell me though, unless you want to die." his voice not as calm this time.
"All right! all right! When I was visiting the L33 Colony's bar a week ago, and some guy in a lab coat, looked like some sort of scientist, motioned me to come over to his table, said I looked like the kinda guy that would sell information for the right price. He told me all the information you heard! I'm serious! Please don't kill me!"
Zedaine closed his eyes for a few seconds, then said "All right thanks, that's all I need." Zedaine let him down to his feet.
"Whew!..thank.." Paul was cut off in mid sentence, Zedaine had punched him on the side of the face, Paul flew to the wet ground and laid there. His head was kind of hung over and his neck looked loose.
"Hm, must of broke his neck, just with a single punch." Zedaine was surprised with his own strength and what it could do to people.
Zedaine walked out of the alley, rain tapping on his vest, he saw a huge military building a couple of streets down.
"That must be it." He started walking.
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Rohan hurried down to a curb to get out of the rain and got in a Taxi.
"Ah, hey Rohan where to?"
"The 1st Class WF Military School."
"You've been going the wrong way, have you been drinking again?" he asked in a skeptical voice
"No."
"Whatever, all right. I need to go stop and pick up someone else, so I'll drop you off after."
Rohan just leaned his head back on the cab's head rest, he started listening to the sound of the windshield wipers as his head started to pound, he knew he had drunken way too much.
Zedaine was waiting to cross the street, he noticed in the back of a Taxi Cab that just passed by was the commander he saw at the Bar. The crossing sign finally came up and he crossed the road and walked up to the schools front door, he wiped the bottom of his wet shoes on the mat and walked in.
Zedaine walked up to the front desk. "Hi, I would like to enroll in this school." he asked the Secretary.
"Oh sure! Here you go." She gave him a couple of application papers, "After you have filled out everything, I will have you talk with one of the commanders."
Zedaine went and sat down in a chair by the door, using his lap as a table he started filling it out.
A few minutes had passed, Zedaine was still filling out the papers. Zedaine hears the door squeak open, looks up, and sees the commander at the bar come into the lobby. He goes to the front desk, "I'm checking in." he told the Secretary.
"Okay, oh, there's a new recruit over there filling out an application, he needs to be interviewed."
"Ehh, all right. Just send him in after he is done filling it out." Rohan replied in a hazy voice.
"Have you been drinking again?"
"No, I'm a commander why should I be drinking."
The secretary frowned, "Well, I'll send him in when he is done filling the papers."
Rohan turned around and started walking off toward his office, almost knocking over a flower pot on his way.
Several minutes later Zedaine got up from his seat and started walking toward the front desk.
The secretary noticed him in the corner of her eye, looked up at him and said, "Just go into the commanders office and show him your papers."
Zedaine turned and walks immediately to the commanders office, then knocked on the door.
"Come in!"
Zedaine opened the door and Rohan motioned for him to have a seat. Zedaine sits down and gives him his papers. Rohan studied them for a bit, looked at Zedaine for a while, then said, "All right, you look fine, you got all that's required to become a student here." He started signing the papers very quickly, without reading the regard to any of the information given on signing papers, and then gave them back to Zedaine.
"All right there you go. Give these papers to the Secretary, she'll give you everything you need."
"Thank you, sir." Zedaine got up and walked out of the room. He gave the Secretary his papers then paid for all of the fees, the Secretary then gave him a package, "Okay, this has your uniform, room keycard, student ID, and of course your very own .45 Socom you can look at all the extensions to it if you want when you get to your room, and from now on you have a license to take that anywhere."
Zedaine thanked the secretary, picked up the stuff and all of his luggage and headed down the hallway to his room. On his way, a young lady met him on the way, "Oh you must be new here!" She said excitedly.
"Yeah." Zedaine replied in his normal soft tone.
"Well, let me tell you, you've joined the right school to become the best soldier! They pamper you so good here. I'm Kathryn." She held out her hand.
Zedaine didn't do anything, he was told about woman while at the colony. The Scientists had told him not to start a relationship with any lady, especially someone from the Federation, they could lead you to fail.
"And you are?" Kathryn said sounding a little impatient.
"Oh, er. Zedaine." He shook her hand.
"Nice to meet you," She smiled, "Maybe we'll be able to train together sometime. Well I gotta go, see ya!" She went off down the hall.
Zedaine felt weird, nothing like he had ever felt before, but he shook it off and went down the hall. He found his room and slid the card through the scanner, the scanner light turned to green and the door opened with a clicking sound, and he went inside. The room looked like your ordinary hotel room. Had a television, queen size bed, telephone, bathroom, and everything else. He went and put his stuff down and opened the package he had received from the school. He pulled out the box with the Socom, the kit came with a silencer, laser sight, and a little light. He pulled the gun out and studied it. Zedaine laughed to himself, he knew this was going to be too easy, way too easy.
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Rohan decided he needed some sleep, he was just getting sober and felt pretty sick. He got up from his desk and went to his room.
"Just a little rest, that's all I need." He then closed his eyes and fell into dream world.
It was around 10:00 P.M., which was curfew for the school, Zedaine had snuck out of the school. He had noticed the rain had stopped as he was heading toward the meeting place where he was supposed to meet the group of a Traveling Black Market which he had contacted with after he landed at the space port.
"You're late." Came a voice out from a dark alley.
"Security is tight at the school during curfew," Zedaine said with a sigh, "any ways, where are the explosives?"
"Where's the money?"
"Right here." Zedaine pulled out two cards, the man swiped them out of his hands and checked them on a Credit Calculator he had in his hand.
"Hey Boss, you think we should be giving a buncha bombs just to a kid?" Said another man coming out of the alley.
"Of course, he's also paid in full for the car. Well kid it's all yours." The man tossed him the keys and they walked off. Zedaine checked the trunk of the car, there were two boxes of tiny explosives, even though only a couple inches long, they could blow up anything in an averaged size room. He also noticed the detonator. He shut the trunk and got in the car.
He drove up outside the school. Opened the trunk and got the boxes, they were heavy, but Zedaine's training in the colonies made it easy for him to carry them. Zedaine snuck around to one of the sides of the school, he was sneaking silently his shoes weren't making the least bit of noise on the grass, the guards outside were half asleep any ways and didn't notice him. Luckily Zedaine's room was on the first floor, he had also left his window open so he could climb through and put the boxes in. He slid each box through first, then he climbed inside. Once inside he emptied his duffle bag that had his extra clothes in it, he started packing the little explosives inside, he couldn't fit all the C4's inside, so he put the remaining ones in his pockets. Zedaine was all ready, all he had to do was wait until it was late to make sure everyone was asleep.
Rohan was having the same dream, he would be at the Colony L11 with his fiance`, but then he would just float out in space, and a big bomb would crash into the colony. As it was blowing up he would try to reach for his girl, but his reach would always be too short, he would just float away as everything he loved just blew up before him.
Rohan jumped up screaming, he realized it was the same dream he had for years after the Colony had been destroyed, and that he was on a shuttle to it to pick up his fiance`, Serena. He got up and went to go to the Bathroom, but as he did he heard a deafening loud explosion, it rumbled the whole building so hard Rohan was knocked off his feet. Fire alarms went off and he heard things collapsing.
"What the hell!?"
Rohan got up and went to the door, he opened it, everything was smokey and burning. He then noticed a tiny explosive on his door. "C4!?" He then instinctively dove to the right of the door and ducked, thinking that his would be next, nothing happened. He went slowly forward examined it,
"Thank god it was a dud." He decided to get away before the fire would set it off. He passed through the smokey hall ways and looked in rooms, something stunk bad, he saw some burning corpses and then knew where the stench was coming from. In other rooms he saw that the explosion had smashed them against the wall leaving blood all over the place. He could see no survivors around him so he headed quickly for the entrance of the school.
After Zedaine had put C4's on every room door and in some offices, he had also put a C4 on his own door to try to fake his own death. He had jumped out the window with his things and detonated the bombs. The explosions were shaking the ground outside the building. Zedaine noticed the higher levels of the school were on fire and about to collapse. He turned around and started running toward the parking lot to escape in his car.
"Halt!" Came a voice from behind him, "Stay right there buddy, turn around with your hands u..." Zedaine did turn around, but instead of raising his hands up he quickly shot the guard right in his open mouth. The guard collapsed to the ground blood oozing all over the ground. Zedaine heard a loud squeaky sound like bending metal, he looked back at the school, the top floor had collapsed almost knocking down the rest.
Zedaine ran for his car, opened the door and got in. He turned the keys, but the car wouldn't start. He checked under the wheel, the wires had been cut.
"Damnit." He said to himself, his voice still calm.
"Damnit is right!" Came a voice from the back seat. Zedaine felt a hard pain in the side of his waist as someones foot slammed hard into him, the force flung him against the door. He quickly reached for the handle, opened the door and rolled out. He then quickly got up holding his side, he looked to see who his attacker was.
"Well, you must be the weapon I've heard about." Rohan said as he got out of the car. "You've surprised me Zedaine, but your still not good enough to survive when I'm around, time to die." Rohan said in his voice sounding very confident.
"Right." Zedaine quickly moved up to Rohan, so quickly he didn't have a chance to block the blow, the force of Zedaine's kick sent Rohan flying over the car. Rohan hit the other side with a hard thud, his chest felt almost broken. He rolled around and saw Zedaine running away and he heard a bunch of automatic gun fire. Zedaine was running very fast he seemed just as fast or even faster than the olympic runners. As he was running away Rohan picked himself up and threw one of his throwing knives at the back of Zedaine, but it whisked past him and missed his head by several inches and bounced off the road. As officers came running they asked him if he was all right. Rohan looked around for a while, and noticed what Zedaine had run from, there were about 50 officers with assault rifles standing around him.
"..Yes...uhg, I'm... I'm fine." he said
"Do you want us to go after him, sir?" one of the officers asked
"No he's probably too far away now, even if you were to use cars." He said taking shallow breaths.
"Maybe you should go to the hospital, sir."
"No, I don't need to taken there just for a few minor scratches, ugh." Rohan did realize it was getting harder for him to breathe. "Never mind, maybe your right," he told him.
As he started toward the hospital buildings, he ordered one of the officers to escort him. Even though they weren't told to, the Federation Officers jumped into their cars and drove off to find Zedaine.
Zedaine was running down the street and he spotted a motorcycle parked on one of the curbs. He ran over to it and started to hot wire it. He tried to hurry knowing the officers could be on him in a few moments. The bikes motor started rumbling and Zedaine jumped on, kicked the bike in first, and then he then road off into the night looking for a place to hide. He would have to go somewhere far, somewhere out of the city.
It had started to rain, thunder was banging in the sky as the rain poured down. Zedaine was hiding in the shadows, waiting for Paul to get close. As Paul was walking past the alley muttering and stomping through some puddles, Zedaine jumped out from the shadows, grabbed him around the collar, and slammed him against the brick wall in the alley.
Paul cried out, "Hey! Whata, what do you want! I don't have any money!"
Ignoring this Zedaine asked him, in his calm, soft, monotone voice, "Were did you get that information?" .
"..Wha..wha..what information?"
"I over heard your conversation with that commander, I would like to know where you got it from." Zedaine paused for a split second, "You don't have to tell me though, unless you want to die." his voice not as calm this time.
"All right! all right! When I was visiting the L33 Colony's bar a week ago, and some guy in a lab coat, looked like some sort of scientist, motioned me to come over to his table, said I looked like the kinda guy that would sell information for the right price. He told me all the information you heard! I'm serious! Please don't kill me!"
Zedaine closed his eyes for a few seconds, then said "All right thanks, that's all I need." Zedaine let him down to his feet.
"Whew!..thank.." Paul was cut off in mid sentence, Zedaine had punched him on the side of the face, Paul flew to the wet ground and laid there. His head was kind of hung over and his neck looked loose.
"Hm, must of broke his neck, just with a single punch." Zedaine was surprised with his own strength and what it could do to people.
Zedaine walked out of the alley, rain tapping on his vest, he saw a huge military building a couple of streets down.
"That must be it." He started walking.
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Rohan hurried down to a curb to get out of the rain and got in a Taxi.
"Ah, hey Rohan where to?"
"The 1st Class WF Military School."
"You've been going the wrong way, have you been drinking again?" he asked in a skeptical voice
"No."
"Whatever, all right. I need to go stop and pick up someone else, so I'll drop you off after."
Rohan just leaned his head back on the cab's head rest, he started listening to the sound of the windshield wipers as his head started to pound, he knew he had drunken way too much.
Zedaine was waiting to cross the street, he noticed in the back of a Taxi Cab that just passed by was the commander he saw at the Bar. The crossing sign finally came up and he crossed the road and walked up to the schools front door, he wiped the bottom of his wet shoes on the mat and walked in.
Zedaine walked up to the front desk. "Hi, I would like to enroll in this school." he asked the Secretary.
"Oh sure! Here you go." She gave him a couple of application papers, "After you have filled out everything, I will have you talk with one of the commanders."
Zedaine went and sat down in a chair by the door, using his lap as a table he started filling it out.
A few minutes had passed, Zedaine was still filling out the papers. Zedaine hears the door squeak open, looks up, and sees the commander at the bar come into the lobby. He goes to the front desk, "I'm checking in." he told the Secretary.
"Okay, oh, there's a new recruit over there filling out an application, he needs to be interviewed."
"Ehh, all right. Just send him in after he is done filling it out." Rohan replied in a hazy voice.
"Have you been drinking again?"
"No, I'm a commander why should I be drinking."
The secretary frowned, "Well, I'll send him in when he is done filling the papers."
Rohan turned around and started walking off toward his office, almost knocking over a flower pot on his way.
Several minutes later Zedaine got up from his seat and started walking toward the front desk.
The secretary noticed him in the corner of her eye, looked up at him and said, "Just go into the commanders office and show him your papers."
Zedaine turned and walks immediately to the commanders office, then knocked on the door.
"Come in!"
Zedaine opened the door and Rohan motioned for him to have a seat. Zedaine sits down and gives him his papers. Rohan studied them for a bit, looked at Zedaine for a while, then said, "All right, you look fine, you got all that's required to become a student here." He started signing the papers very quickly, without reading the regard to any of the information given on signing papers, and then gave them back to Zedaine.
"All right there you go. Give these papers to the Secretary, she'll give you everything you need."
"Thank you, sir." Zedaine got up and walked out of the room. He gave the Secretary his papers then paid for all of the fees, the Secretary then gave him a package, "Okay, this has your uniform, room keycard, student ID, and of course your very own .45 Socom you can look at all the extensions to it if you want when you get to your room, and from now on you have a license to take that anywhere."
Zedaine thanked the secretary, picked up the stuff and all of his luggage and headed down the hallway to his room. On his way, a young lady met him on the way, "Oh you must be new here!" She said excitedly.
"Yeah." Zedaine replied in his normal soft tone.
"Well, let me tell you, you've joined the right school to become the best soldier! They pamper you so good here. I'm Kathryn." She held out her hand.
Zedaine didn't do anything, he was told about woman while at the colony. The Scientists had told him not to start a relationship with any lady, especially someone from the Federation, they could lead you to fail.
"And you are?" Kathryn said sounding a little impatient.
"Oh, er. Zedaine." He shook her hand.
"Nice to meet you," She smiled, "Maybe we'll be able to train together sometime. Well I gotta go, see ya!" She went off down the hall.
Zedaine felt weird, nothing like he had ever felt before, but he shook it off and went down the hall. He found his room and slid the card through the scanner, the scanner light turned to green and the door opened with a clicking sound, and he went inside. The room looked like your ordinary hotel room. Had a television, queen size bed, telephone, bathroom, and everything else. He went and put his stuff down and opened the package he had received from the school. He pulled out the box with the Socom, the kit came with a silencer, laser sight, and a little light. He pulled the gun out and studied it. Zedaine laughed to himself, he knew this was going to be too easy, way too easy.
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Rohan decided he needed some sleep, he was just getting sober and felt pretty sick. He got up from his desk and went to his room.
"Just a little rest, that's all I need." He then closed his eyes and fell into dream world.
It was around 10:00 P.M., which was curfew for the school, Zedaine had snuck out of the school. He had noticed the rain had stopped as he was heading toward the meeting place where he was supposed to meet the group of a Traveling Black Market which he had contacted with after he landed at the space port.
"You're late." Came a voice out from a dark alley.
"Security is tight at the school during curfew," Zedaine said with a sigh, "any ways, where are the explosives?"
"Where's the money?"
"Right here." Zedaine pulled out two cards, the man swiped them out of his hands and checked them on a Credit Calculator he had in his hand.
"Hey Boss, you think we should be giving a buncha bombs just to a kid?" Said another man coming out of the alley.
"Of course, he's also paid in full for the car. Well kid it's all yours." The man tossed him the keys and they walked off. Zedaine checked the trunk of the car, there were two boxes of tiny explosives, even though only a couple inches long, they could blow up anything in an averaged size room. He also noticed the detonator. He shut the trunk and got in the car.
He drove up outside the school. Opened the trunk and got the boxes, they were heavy, but Zedaine's training in the colonies made it easy for him to carry them. Zedaine snuck around to one of the sides of the school, he was sneaking silently his shoes weren't making the least bit of noise on the grass, the guards outside were half asleep any ways and didn't notice him. Luckily Zedaine's room was on the first floor, he had also left his window open so he could climb through and put the boxes in. He slid each box through first, then he climbed inside. Once inside he emptied his duffle bag that had his extra clothes in it, he started packing the little explosives inside, he couldn't fit all the C4's inside, so he put the remaining ones in his pockets. Zedaine was all ready, all he had to do was wait until it was late to make sure everyone was asleep.
Rohan was having the same dream, he would be at the Colony L11 with his fiance`, but then he would just float out in space, and a big bomb would crash into the colony. As it was blowing up he would try to reach for his girl, but his reach would always be too short, he would just float away as everything he loved just blew up before him.
Rohan jumped up screaming, he realized it was the same dream he had for years after the Colony had been destroyed, and that he was on a shuttle to it to pick up his fiance`, Serena. He got up and went to go to the Bathroom, but as he did he heard a deafening loud explosion, it rumbled the whole building so hard Rohan was knocked off his feet. Fire alarms went off and he heard things collapsing.
"What the hell!?"
Rohan got up and went to the door, he opened it, everything was smokey and burning. He then noticed a tiny explosive on his door. "C4!?" He then instinctively dove to the right of the door and ducked, thinking that his would be next, nothing happened. He went slowly forward examined it,
"Thank god it was a dud." He decided to get away before the fire would set it off. He passed through the smokey hall ways and looked in rooms, something stunk bad, he saw some burning corpses and then knew where the stench was coming from. In other rooms he saw that the explosion had smashed them against the wall leaving blood all over the place. He could see no survivors around him so he headed quickly for the entrance of the school.
After Zedaine had put C4's on every room door and in some offices, he had also put a C4 on his own door to try to fake his own death. He had jumped out the window with his things and detonated the bombs. The explosions were shaking the ground outside the building. Zedaine noticed the higher levels of the school were on fire and about to collapse. He turned around and started running toward the parking lot to escape in his car.
"Halt!" Came a voice from behind him, "Stay right there buddy, turn around with your hands u..." Zedaine did turn around, but instead of raising his hands up he quickly shot the guard right in his open mouth. The guard collapsed to the ground blood oozing all over the ground. Zedaine heard a loud squeaky sound like bending metal, he looked back at the school, the top floor had collapsed almost knocking down the rest.
Zedaine ran for his car, opened the door and got in. He turned the keys, but the car wouldn't start. He checked under the wheel, the wires had been cut.
"Damnit." He said to himself, his voice still calm.
"Damnit is right!" Came a voice from the back seat. Zedaine felt a hard pain in the side of his waist as someones foot slammed hard into him, the force flung him against the door. He quickly reached for the handle, opened the door and rolled out. He then quickly got up holding his side, he looked to see who his attacker was.
"Well, you must be the weapon I've heard about." Rohan said as he got out of the car. "You've surprised me Zedaine, but your still not good enough to survive when I'm around, time to die." Rohan said in his voice sounding very confident.
"Right." Zedaine quickly moved up to Rohan, so quickly he didn't have a chance to block the blow, the force of Zedaine's kick sent Rohan flying over the car. Rohan hit the other side with a hard thud, his chest felt almost broken. He rolled around and saw Zedaine running away and he heard a bunch of automatic gun fire. Zedaine was running very fast he seemed just as fast or even faster than the olympic runners. As he was running away Rohan picked himself up and threw one of his throwing knives at the back of Zedaine, but it whisked past him and missed his head by several inches and bounced off the road. As officers came running they asked him if he was all right. Rohan looked around for a while, and noticed what Zedaine had run from, there were about 50 officers with assault rifles standing around him.
"..Yes...uhg, I'm... I'm fine." he said
"Do you want us to go after him, sir?" one of the officers asked
"No he's probably too far away now, even if you were to use cars." He said taking shallow breaths.
"Maybe you should go to the hospital, sir."
"No, I don't need to taken there just for a few minor scratches, ugh." Rohan did realize it was getting harder for him to breathe. "Never mind, maybe your right," he told him.
As he started toward the hospital buildings, he ordered one of the officers to escort him. Even though they weren't told to, the Federation Officers jumped into their cars and drove off to find Zedaine.
Zedaine was running down the street and he spotted a motorcycle parked on one of the curbs. He ran over to it and started to hot wire it. He tried to hurry knowing the officers could be on him in a few moments. The bikes motor started rumbling and Zedaine jumped on, kicked the bike in first, and then he then road off into the night looking for a place to hide. He would have to go somewhere far, somewhere out of the city.