The Path to Justice
Cadmus
It didn't take much to hack into Cadmus' network. Nor did it take much to find what Cheshire had told me before. There was data, command sequences, memory files. My entire life, who I was, was laid out before me on a computer screen.
I banged against the wall angrily. How could they do this to me? To anyone? And to think, I had been living another guys life for years now. That really does something to you. I didn't fell like myself anymore. I felt like a broken arrow.
Behind me, Lightspeed was reading the information on the screen. "Dude, you're a clone!"
He backed away quickly, tripping over a chair in the process.
"Apparently so. But I don't feel like a clone. I feel real. This is who I am. But we have to do something!"
"Then let's go pick him up. It wouldn't take much to break into Cadmus, thwart all their security measures, take a high security prisoner and split."
"You make it sound so simple," I said sarcastically.
"But I know we can do it. Maybe he can help us. Maybe we can just all live in peace."
"And maybe he'll kill the guy who stole his life."
"Maybe, but you can always hope for the best!"
And so it was decided. Latter that night, we broke into Cadmus, did a little hacking to bypass their security, and found themselves face to face with Roy Harper.
He was kept in a cryogenic tube, the cold leaking out. A few keystrokes, and it started to defrost. It took a while, but soon, an unconscious archer was on his way out of Cadmus, and into the light of day for the first time in years.
We took him into a room I had set aside for the hospital wing. I called in a favor, and soon Dr. Leslie Thompkins was at the Base, ready to help. She shoed us out of the room and went to work.
In the kitchen, Lightspeed and I sat, eating and joking like old times.
"So," he started. "What do we do now?"
"Wait."
So, short chapter today, maybe to even out last chapter. Back at school today, still sick, though. Rara rant. Ruru join my forum. Roro life. See ya next time.
-Shadow