The Hope
Chapter 1
Tobias
Noooooo! I woke with a start. That dream, always the same dream. It was her, dying
in front of my eyes, again, with me helpless…
Again, the One was toying with my mind, bringing me to that silent hell, making me relive
the worst days of my life, all my hopes and dreams pulled out from under me like a
carpet, and me falling, falling, falling…
My morphing power is gone now. I regret it, but what choice did I have? At the time there
was nothing to fight, no reason to die as a hawk. Now though, I am beginning to think.
Am I to live as a slave of this stupid One for the rest of my life? Rachel died for us; am I,
the person she …loved to, going to allow her death to be in vain?
It was 8:00. I walked to the Visual Data Monitor and told the computer to open the One's
file.
-Accessed confirmed- the computer droned. Almost automatically, I said " Computer, this
is number 4284 signing in at 801 A.M. Enter. With a flash of light, Ax appeared on the
screen.
~~~**~~~
*
Ax
The One was in my body.
'My' stalk eyes flashed over the screen. There I saw the face of Tobias, reporting for the
morning routine. My thought-speech voice boomed out, addressing my old shorm on the
other end of the communication link. Good morning, Tobias my controller sneered,
giving old my morning conversations with Tobias an evil twist. I noticed Tobias's eyes,
who had until now been staring at me, us, show an expression of exasperation. I did not
understand, but the One said, Ah, Tobias, thinking about her again, I see. Well, we
can't have you distracted so early in the morning, now can we? I felt the One's finger-
like expansions stretch through the cable in the way data would be sent through human
e-mail. I saw Tobias, controlled partially by the One, reach out his finger to press a small
red button. Then I saw his agony begin.
~~~**~~~
*
What did you think of the first chapter? If you guys like it, there's more to come, so
please r&r. (no flames please, this is my first fic) Thanx!
Chapter 1
Tobias
Noooooo! I woke with a start. That dream, always the same dream. It was her, dying
in front of my eyes, again, with me helpless…
Again, the One was toying with my mind, bringing me to that silent hell, making me relive
the worst days of my life, all my hopes and dreams pulled out from under me like a
carpet, and me falling, falling, falling…
My morphing power is gone now. I regret it, but what choice did I have? At the time there
was nothing to fight, no reason to die as a hawk. Now though, I am beginning to think.
Am I to live as a slave of this stupid One for the rest of my life? Rachel died for us; am I,
the person she …loved to, going to allow her death to be in vain?
It was 8:00. I walked to the Visual Data Monitor and told the computer to open the One's
file.
-Accessed confirmed- the computer droned. Almost automatically, I said " Computer, this
is number 4284 signing in at 801 A.M. Enter. With a flash of light, Ax appeared on the
screen.
~~~**~~~
*
Ax
The One was in my body.
'My' stalk eyes flashed over the screen. There I saw the face of Tobias, reporting for the
morning routine. My thought-speech voice boomed out, addressing my old shorm on the
other end of the communication link. Good morning, Tobias my controller sneered,
giving old my morning conversations with Tobias an evil twist. I noticed Tobias's eyes,
who had until now been staring at me, us, show an expression of exasperation. I did not
understand, but the One said, Ah, Tobias, thinking about her again, I see. Well, we
can't have you distracted so early in the morning, now can we? I felt the One's finger-
like expansions stretch through the cable in the way data would be sent through human
e-mail. I saw Tobias, controlled partially by the One, reach out his finger to press a small
red button. Then I saw his agony begin.
~~~**~~~
*
What did you think of the first chapter? If you guys like it, there's more to come, so
please r&r. (no flames please, this is my first fic) Thanx!