How They Became: Chapter 2: Shattered Futures
*-Chapter 2: Shattered futures-*

Seth and Savannah arrived in the club with almost 20 minutes to spare. They looked around for anyone they knew but unfortunatly they didn't see anyone. Seth looked around the club with slight annoyance. They were playing that damn Brittany Spears music again. Savannah didn't seem to mind. She was over there dancing to it while trying to talk to some guy over by the payphones.

'Well, at least someones having a little fun' Seth thought. Then suddenly the music stopped and the DJ's voice came on. "Ok guys check this, Invert will be onstage in about 10 minutes so you guys keep your asses right here!" the man shouted. His announcement was met with a chorus of cheers from the teens in the club.

Seth walked over to the bar. Even though he was too young to legally drink, the man who ran Gravity didn't care and he served to anyone as long as they were paying. He bought himself a glass of tequila and quickly guzzled it down. He wiped his mouth off with the back of his hand, that stuff always did leave just a little bit of bitter taste in his mouth. Glancing over, he saw Savannah at the other side of the bar, sharing a beer with the guy she was with earlier. 'I think I'll go see whats happening between them' he thought. He got up to walk over to her and, as luck would have it, he ran right into this guy who was there with his friends.

"Hey man! What the fuck do you think your doing?" the guy demanded. His friends stepped up beside him. 'Shit Seth, think man...' he thought. "I'm sorry man, I didn't see you, it was all my fault" Seth said with a faked look of fear in his eye. "You do shit like that again and your ass is grass you got that?" the large boy said. Seth nodded quickly and walked away. 'Dumbass' he thought with a smirk.

He reached Savannah and sat next to her. "Where did your friend go?" he asked her. "Little shit left me for this chick outside Seth" she replied. She had been though dozens of boyfriends, but Seth could sense that somehow she kinda liked this one. Suddenly they were interrupted as a loud CLLLAAANNNG!!! Erupted through the club.

"Ok people, without furthur wait, I give you, INVERT!!!" the man on stage shouted before running off. Four tall guys with long black hair and black leather clothes stalked onstage. Instantly they turned the volume to maximum and started to play. The music was deafening. Savannah didn't seem to like it too much, but Seth was loving every second of it.

"Hey Savannah! Did you see that guy messing with me earlier?" Seth shouted to his sister. "No, what about it?" she asked back. He then proceded to tell her the details of what happened earlier. "He sure did look like a freaking caveman or something!" Seth said laughing, "His mom must have been on LSD, PVC, FCC, some shit like that for him to look as ass ugly as he did!"

Unbeknown to Seth and Savannah, that guys friend was exactly 4 feet behind Seth and, as the music continued, he slunk off to inform his friend of Seths remarks...

*********15 miles away, in a decrepid old cabin....*********

The old man sat on a wooden chair listening to his CB scanner. This would be the 3rd night in a row he'd leave his base and come to this cabin near the town to "check in" on the current issues of the town. He sat and sighed, stroking his white mustache. 'Sooo many failures I've had...' the man thought.

The failures were of course destroyed Androids. And the mans name, was Dr. Gero. He put his head in his hands and sighed, remembering his old Androids who were either used against him or destroyed at the hands of one rotten little brat named Goku. He thought of Android #16, still in his preservation tank back at the lab. He could never be an effective weapon against his nemesis. He learned from experience that completly mechanical Androids have several flaws, such as lack of a self-preserving energy system. They all needed to be re-charged somehow. Most ran off internal batteries or some other crude method.

Thats why he was out here in the dead of night. The idea to use a human base came to him suddenly while making adjustments to #16 one night. If he could capture a human and "alter" him slightly, he could create an Android capable of surviving on its own. That is why Gero is now sitting in an abandonded old-ass cabin near the city. He sits with his CB radio, hoping to hear of an accident,or a person lost in the woods, or a similar scenario. Then, he will simply go find the person and bring him back to the lab, where he can begin the automation process. With his radio tuned to the cities emergency frequency, Gero sat back and waited for his chance...

****Back at the club, a little under 3 hours later..****

The last chord on the last song was just beginning to fade. As Invert bowed to the teens, the crowd went absolutly nuts. Seth was laughing and completly enjoying himself while Savannah seemed a bit on the bored side. Savannah checked her watch, it was 1:25 a.m. She turned to him and pointed at the time. He gave her a look of annoyance, but relented in going home, no point having his nagging parents worry themselves into a freakin heart attack. As he and Savannah left the club, a few people began descreetly following them. They of course didn't know it at all. Together, Seth and Savannah stepped out into the cold night air, only 10 feet behind them was the guy from earlier and his friends.

The next few moments seemed to go in slow motion. One moment, Seth was walking alongside his sister towards home, the next the man had pulled his gun out of his belt, and then as suddenly as it began, 2 shots rang out and screams filled the air. Seths eyes went wide and he fell face first onto the cold ground.

"Bet you won't talk shit anymore" the man said with a smirk. As people fled everywhere, his friends ran for the cars so they could escape before police came. Savannah ran to her brothers side out of shock and fear, then her face tightened with anger as she lunged at the guy with the gun. BLAM BLAM!! More shots rang out as the guy gunned down Savannah too. She fell alongside her brother, both with bullet wounds in their chest and stomach.

The owner of Gravity saw the whole thing and called the ambulance to the scene..

***Back in the cabin**

"Dispatch to unit 9 we have a shooting at the Club Gravity on 342 East Koyoto Blvd. 1 injured male and 1 injured female involved, bullet wounds to torso and stomach areas..."

'Perfect, this is the chance I've been waiting for' Gero thoughtas he ran outside and the car he used when he rarely had to travel. 'To get to that club, they have to go across Hwy I-092. I'll just simply wait there and...' he thought as he drove off into the night.

****Inside Unit 9 of the Gingertown Emergency Medical Services****

"Damn kids, they can't give us a week without killing each other" the first EMS worker said. His partner, sitting in the passanger seat nodded his head in agreement. They had received the call a few moments ago. They were on their way to Club Gravity. At present they were about 2 miles from Hwy I-092, overhead lights flashing and sirens wailing.

The drivers partner got in the back and prepared 2 cots and hooked up 2 I.V. machines so he could start administering IV fluids to them the moment they were loaded inside the ambulance. He turned on the heart monitors and plugged up the needed electrodes. That done, he turned to climb back in the front seat.

He never made it. Just as he started to turn around, the ambulance violently screeched to a halt, sending him flying against the front. "Hey dammit whats the big idea?!" he demanded. The driver pointed to the road. In the middle was an old man standing in the road. The driver and his passanger got out and walks up to the man. "What the hell is your problem buddy?! You could have killed his back there! Don't you have any common sense or did old age get that for you?" the driver yelled.

Fast as lightning, Gero whipped out a knife and slit both mens throats. Gasping and bleeding, the men sunk to the ground. With a sadistic smile, he drug the bodies off into the ditch. Then, seating himself behind the wheel of the ambulance, Gero sped off to his destination.

***Back at Gravity..**

Seth managed to lift his head and look at his sister. She was lying prone on her side, unmoving. "Sa..Savan..Savannah..?" Seth managed to choke out. Only muffled groans answered him. 'Good, shes still alive' he thought. He lay back, thinking of what could have made that guy shoot him like this. 'Oh god, I bet it was when I talked about him to Savannah..' he thought. 'That little bitch, if I live though this I'll kill him I swear!' Seth thought. He had kept his hands pushed against his bullet wounds to try and stop, or at least slow the bleeding.

Through this whole ordeal, no one bothered to help them. The others at the club fled like bats out of Hell. In the distance he could hear the sounds of a siren, wether it was police or EMS he didn't know. Then time all went funny. Time came by in flashes...Him and Savannah lying on the ground....then the ambulance pulling up next to them...then him and his sister being loaded into the ambulance.."Am I gonna be ok?" he weakly asked the EMS worker with white hair and white mustache. The old man smiled slightly, "Oh don't worry, you'll be fine, Dr. Gero will take good care of both of you. Then Seth blacked out completly.

Getting behind the wheel, Gero stomped the gas and took off towards his lab. The first part of his mission was complete, the second part was simply to perform the automation process on them...