Remembering
I dreamed again, and remembered more about my past.
I woke up again in the same black room and I repeated my last process to get out, followed the blinding light which led me to a bathroom. I looked around the bathroom to find no one around so I was about to leave until I noticed something in the mirror. I walked up to the giant mirror hanging on the wall to see my features more clearly and easily. I was tall because I had to bend down to see my face, my guess around 6"5 and I had a light beard growing in, so maybe I was nineteen or even twenty. But that wasn't what caught my attention it was my dog tag. Wait I thought that girl…uh…Garnet, that's right, had it. I held my dog tag to the mirror to see it had more text on it. I looked down to see a bio on myself written on the dog tag;
Name: Troy Smith
Age: 19
Gender: Male
Code: 578-346-32
Class: Guardian
I flipped the tag to see what else it had on it.
Number: 32
It was a lot more information than I had before, but I still would have like more I thought grumpily as I walked out the door into some kind of gym. The whole room was white with the only color were the work out equipment, which wasn't a lot, just the usual, a treadmill, bench press, weight set, and a bike-thingy. I walked around to look for an exit, and thankfully there was a door. As I began to walk out I heard voices on an intercom;
Troy please enter the workout room. The voice said in a blank tone.
Those voices were familiar to me but I shrugged it off and turned around only to stare myself dead in the face. I fell back in surprise, nearly giving myself a hear attack, as I watched as my dream version entered the room and go right through my ghostly body.
Troy please show us what you learned. The voice said in the same blank tone.
Those voices again, way to familiar, it feels like my brain has an itching spot trying to recall what happened.
As I tried to scratch off the itch I saw that the training equipment was pulled down to the floor and gone and instead replaced by three targets and a table was pulled down from the ceiling revealing a bow with arrows, throwing knives, and a hand-gun. My dream self then picked up the gun and shot the first target with rapid speed. I stepped next to me to see how he did this and just to watch. After I emptied the clip into the first target I then placed the gun down. I saw he shot almost all his bullets at the bull's-eye
Good, now the bow please.
I then did as told as I picked up the bow and loaded the three arrows and fired them at the same time at the second target and again they were near the bull's-eye.
Great job Troy, now show us with the knives.
Again I did as told and picked up the silver blades and threw them perfectly in an order that stuck to the target in a horizontal line.
Excellent work Troy, now prepare yourself for the next phase.
My dream version nodded and stepped away from the table and as he did all of the equipment was moved either up or down until they disappeared. Then as a few minutes went by a door opened to reveal a scientist in a white lab shirt behind it.
"Troy, are you sure you're ready for phase two?" the scientist asked politely and softly
My dream version just nodded and walked through the door with him. I was also about to follow until I heard someone talk.
"Do you think he will survive the next phase?" a soft feminine voice asked.
"Of course, he'll be fine, he's our best candidate" a deep manly voiced replied confidently
"Well remember what happened last year? That poor boy was killed during this phase" the girl said.
"That was because someone sabotaged the controls, we increased security since then" the man stated grimly.
"I know but… it's just bad enough the pain they go through to achieve to get to the final step" the girl said real softly, almost like she would cry.
"I know, it's horrible but we need people to help the Gems fight H.O.P.E. "
"You're…you're right we need to do this, no ma-"the woman began but was cut off by screams of pain echoing off the walls.
The vision started to return to blackness only being filled with screams of pain that soon after were my own dream versions, and my own screams. A sharp pain had entered my mind and it was not fun to feel. It felt like a thousand bees stung my mind at once with a branding iron which forced me to collapse on the floor holding my head as the pain pounded. Then the screaming stopped as well as the pain, instead I felt numb all over. Was I dead? I thought scared that my journey ends like this, on a cold white floor paralyzed. I realized I was fine once I heard the woman saying;
"It's done, now for phase three"
That's when the world went black I woke up.
I slowly opened my eyes to see a light blue face staring at me with a concerned look while holding a wet cloth. As she looked down she saw that I was awake and we held eye contact for what felt like years before I tried to get up. As I tried to sit up she placed me back down, "don't get up, you still need to rest and let your stitches heal" she said in an almost motherly way while holding the towel on my forehead. I just nodded and held on to the towel for her. "You know that was stupid, right?" she said in that same caring voice, like she was scolding me. "What was?" I said, only a little weak because I needed water desperately. "Fighting that worm, you know even if you are a Guardian that was pretty risky…but you did save a lot of lives so…thank you". I just smiled at the last comment "well with a kid at risk I couldn't really just stand by and watch. What kind of person I would be if that happened". She then looked at me funny for a second and just smiled, "We know, that's why we brought you in… to the people and us you're a hero". I was shocked to hear just by doing one thing I was considered a 'hero'.
"Were are the others?" I asked while scanning the room to see no one anywhere, just me and…this strange alien girl. "What's your name?" I asked quickly and suddenly before she could answer the first time. "Pearl" she said with a real, caring smile. "Troy, but you probably knew that" I stated with dry humor to her like reading from a textbook. She got up and pointed at the door "the others went into town to make sure there weren't any more worms around". "And the boy?" I asked looking around. She gave me a surprised look "He's fine, he went down to get some food, but I told him to hurry back" she said with a weird face, like she was showing me respect. "Why do you care about the boy, Steven, so much?" she asked eyeing me funny. "Well it's not every day that a giant worm attacks and someone's at risk, I wanted to make sure he was alright". She then defiantly gave me a respectful nod as she went and grabbed something off the counter. She then came back with a bowl of tea and two cups as I set my towel on the table where she set the tea down. "Want some?" she asked politely as she poured her own cup. "Yes, please" I asked thankful I could get something warm inside and to dull the pain. As she poured me a cup I looked around the house to get more details from it, in front of the stone door was some kind of platform and not too far from that on the wall was a picture of a beautiful woman with some kind of…gem on her stomach. "Who's that" I asked pointing at the woman in the picture. She then looked at the picture as the smiled faded away and was placed by sadness. She then set down her tea and sighed deeply. "That's Rose, she's Steven's mother" she said softly, like that was a bad thing. "Where is she?" I asked looking around, I never saw her when the Gems interviewed me. Pearl looked like she was going to cry and that's when I realized she wasn't around at all, and with that I shut up. She breathed deeply and sighed, "I might as well tell you the Crystal Gems history, if you're going to be here" she added.
I nodded and took a sip of tea as she explained it all to me, about how when a gem gives birth they must give up their physical form to give birth to the child. She told me how they protected humanity with their gems and how there were about 200 members in their organization. "Where's the rest?" I asked at hearing that there were a lot of 'people' with these ability's. "Some are training elsewhere, others are in hiding and some are protecting other corners of the planet, and some are…" she said hesitant of the last part. I understood the last part and looking down at the hard wood floor; she picked up my sadness and nudges me slightly with her hand. "Don't worry, when a gem…passes, a new gem is born to take their place, even if their gem breaks, a new gem would be made but that takes a very long time, but it does happen" she said with a tone of hope in her voice. Making me feel slightly better she continued on about gem history such as them being around since man walked the Earth, trying to keep evil away and protecting us. "What about the group…Guardian was it? That you mentioned" I asked curious about who I was working for. She looked at me surprised at me mentioning the request "I never said you worked for Guardian" she said shocked. "Wha…if you didn't say it the-" I said trying to figure out how I knew that when I got another vision, not as bad but still enough to make me drop my mug causing it to crash and break all over the floor. Pearl immediately got to my side and held onto me screaming something but I couldn't hear what she said and collapsed to the ground as it all came back.
All the memory's about the Guardians, what my mission was, where I came from but most importantly;
What H.O.P.E. was and how I had to stop them.
Even if it cost my life in the process.
Well that escalated quickly now did it?
Sorry if it wasn't that good but im kind of on a dry spell for creativity on the topic. But future characters will come into play thanks to Demonofthesilverstars for the awesome tips and for letting me borrow his OC'S for the upcoming chapters (don't worry the next chapter will have less background and more kick ass).
Until next time BYEEEE.
