My AC boosted down the long, dark, and narrow hallway to the end, where
there was a big steel door. Something about this hallway was not right.
The lack of windows-or even lights-created a dark and suspenseful. The
only light was the glow of my boosters and their reflection on the steel
door up ahead. The hallway itself was a rusted red color, similar to old
bloodstains. I checked my MG/500 and multi-missiles and prepared them just
in case there was something to challenge me behind the door. I pulled out
the holo-keyboard from the bottom of my HUD and started hacking into the
door lock.
About a minute passed and the door began to open. I quickly put the holo- keyboard back in its place and readied my machine gun. The damn door was so slow. Peeking through the growing hole in the middle, there was a big room behind it. A really big room. Probably the size of an arena. The entire room was shaped in a kind of "+" sign, and had an elevated platform in the middle with ramps marked with yellow and black on the side. The walls were a dark blood-red color with brown areas where rust was. The floor and ceiling were a similar color to the hallway. There were doors similar to the one I was just coming out of on all the ends of the "+".
The door was finally open and I boosted straight into the room in case anyone was waiting next to the door to ambush me. No one. This only began to make it more suspenseful. I walked closer to the elevated platform when I heard a door open. On the other side of the platform, the door was opening. Since it was just as slow as mine, I could notice the figure that was emerging. It had a similar shape to an AC, but was very smooth. It looked like one of those wood poseable figures people use in art classes, except each body part looked like a silver raindrop than a wood oval. The thing was completely silver and had no weapons. Hell, it didn't even have hands!
As soon as the door was fully open, the head with a single red light in the center looked up at me. The whole "thing" began to glow red, like I pissed it off just by standing there. Then blue light erupted from behind it and it began to boost at me at a very high speed. At first, I thought this MT was on a suicide attempt and I prepared my laser blade. But before I could even put my finger to the blade activator, two laser blades extended from each its arms, counting 4 in total. These purplish-red blades were longer than even the longest blade ever marketed. I guessed they had a range rating of at least 12.
This scared the shit out of me, so I prepared my machine gun and was waiting for a lock.but one never came. The sleek shape of the MT must have given it a kind of "cloaking" ability to throw off radars and FCS locks. But who needs those? I boosted straight up and fired my machinegun without the lock. It's a machine gun! They shoot in a spray, so it doesn't matter if I had a lock or not, all that matters is that I'm in the general direction.
Taking a few hits on its sleek silver surface, the MT kept boosting forward, stopped, and turned around. The braking and turning rate of the MT was phenomenal! I continued to fire machine gun rounds at it, and the silver surface began to become dented and punctured. I figured I can beat this MT if I just stayed at a distance, since it looked like it only had close-range weapons.
Boy, was I dead wrong.
The whole MT began to vibrate enough that I could see it. The MT flinched a bit, and I thought it was going to explode, but the silver "raindrops" were exactly what they were. Instantly the dents and cracks I made on the armor melted and became like new. Once the MT finished repairing itself, its arms began to vibrate and then transformed into two big cannons with some sort of green crystal in the center of the barrels. Once completing changing its arms, the green crystals began to spin and glow green. Then the crystals shot straight out of the barrel, coming straight at me.
O shit! I thought to myself as I saw the two green beams come right at me. I boosted up to avoid the attack, and I went right towards the MT to go in for a laser blade attack. Hopefully my laser blade can cut it in half or something, before it can repair itself.
I charged straight to the MT, but the damn thing must have known what I was doing and morphed back to laser blade arms right before I got to it.
Shit! I thought to myself.
The thing went into a sword frenzy, trying to rip off as many parts of my AC as it can. I boosted straight back and checked my armor. Well, to check if I still even had any limbs. My entire left arm, my machine gun, and my multi-missile launcher have been severely damaged or blown completely off. I was basically screwed as shit.
I boosted up and left, trying to get to one of the doors. Well hey, if you can't beat 'em, RUN LIKE HELL!
One of the arms of the MT began to shake, and what emerged looked like a sort of gun, unlike the crystal-shooting cannon, this one had a much shorter barrel. Immediately rays of green machine gun fire came at my AC. The velocity of the energy bolts was very fast, fast enough that I couldn't dodge them. My AC was struck to the ground. The computer was beeping and giving me all kinds of warnings. I was sitting there, completely hopeless, and the silver MT came towards me. When it was right above my AC, it looked down and activated its right arm blade. The MT lifted up its arm, and plunged it straight into my AC's cockpit. Then a bright white flash.
~
I woke up in a cold sweat.
"Damn, what time is it?"
"3:26 AM, sir," said the female voice of the computer.
"That was some weird dream," I said.
"What was it of, sir?" asked the computer, sounding passionate, but I programmed it to do so.
"Nothing, just a bad nightmare," I replied.
I went back to sleep, trying not to think about that silver MT.
That morning, I woke up, barely rested, and headed downstairs for breakfast. After eating some eggs, I went in the shower because all the sweat from the night made me real grimy. While in the shower, I pondered about the dream.
"Is this dream signaling my death?" I thought to myself. I figured that it might not mean anything at all, and thinking too much about the dream could signal my death anyway. I decided to take my mind off the subject and got out of the shower. I got dressed in my favorite black and dark gray shirt and a pair of black pants. I put some gel in my brown hair and spiked it up. I then got my sunglasses and headed to the rec. room of the Neo Isaac City Global Cortex.
I went down the hall to the elevator. Some of the ravens who can't afford homes stay at the apartments in the Global Cortex building. I went down to the mission room to see if any interesting ones have come up. None. Bored as hell, I went down to the rec. room to find stuff to do. There, I played some pool with my friend Todd. I explained to him my dream.
"Dude, that's a load of bull. Are you going to let some fantasy nightmare get to you?" Todd scolded, "If anything, thinking about the dream will kill you, not the dream"
"Yeah, I kinda figured that out myself" I replied, "8-ball left pocket" I said as I won the game.
"Aww damn"
"You may have been able to beat me in the arena, but I can still kick your ass in pool"
"Myk Linear, please report to the registration desk" announced the intercom.
"Heh, you're in trouble now" Todd joked. Immature bastard. I knew I wasn't in trouble, since I haven't done anything wrong recently.
Well, nothing I can remember.
About a minute passed and the door began to open. I quickly put the holo- keyboard back in its place and readied my machine gun. The damn door was so slow. Peeking through the growing hole in the middle, there was a big room behind it. A really big room. Probably the size of an arena. The entire room was shaped in a kind of "+" sign, and had an elevated platform in the middle with ramps marked with yellow and black on the side. The walls were a dark blood-red color with brown areas where rust was. The floor and ceiling were a similar color to the hallway. There were doors similar to the one I was just coming out of on all the ends of the "+".
The door was finally open and I boosted straight into the room in case anyone was waiting next to the door to ambush me. No one. This only began to make it more suspenseful. I walked closer to the elevated platform when I heard a door open. On the other side of the platform, the door was opening. Since it was just as slow as mine, I could notice the figure that was emerging. It had a similar shape to an AC, but was very smooth. It looked like one of those wood poseable figures people use in art classes, except each body part looked like a silver raindrop than a wood oval. The thing was completely silver and had no weapons. Hell, it didn't even have hands!
As soon as the door was fully open, the head with a single red light in the center looked up at me. The whole "thing" began to glow red, like I pissed it off just by standing there. Then blue light erupted from behind it and it began to boost at me at a very high speed. At first, I thought this MT was on a suicide attempt and I prepared my laser blade. But before I could even put my finger to the blade activator, two laser blades extended from each its arms, counting 4 in total. These purplish-red blades were longer than even the longest blade ever marketed. I guessed they had a range rating of at least 12.
This scared the shit out of me, so I prepared my machine gun and was waiting for a lock.but one never came. The sleek shape of the MT must have given it a kind of "cloaking" ability to throw off radars and FCS locks. But who needs those? I boosted straight up and fired my machinegun without the lock. It's a machine gun! They shoot in a spray, so it doesn't matter if I had a lock or not, all that matters is that I'm in the general direction.
Taking a few hits on its sleek silver surface, the MT kept boosting forward, stopped, and turned around. The braking and turning rate of the MT was phenomenal! I continued to fire machine gun rounds at it, and the silver surface began to become dented and punctured. I figured I can beat this MT if I just stayed at a distance, since it looked like it only had close-range weapons.
Boy, was I dead wrong.
The whole MT began to vibrate enough that I could see it. The MT flinched a bit, and I thought it was going to explode, but the silver "raindrops" were exactly what they were. Instantly the dents and cracks I made on the armor melted and became like new. Once the MT finished repairing itself, its arms began to vibrate and then transformed into two big cannons with some sort of green crystal in the center of the barrels. Once completing changing its arms, the green crystals began to spin and glow green. Then the crystals shot straight out of the barrel, coming straight at me.
O shit! I thought to myself as I saw the two green beams come right at me. I boosted up to avoid the attack, and I went right towards the MT to go in for a laser blade attack. Hopefully my laser blade can cut it in half or something, before it can repair itself.
I charged straight to the MT, but the damn thing must have known what I was doing and morphed back to laser blade arms right before I got to it.
Shit! I thought to myself.
The thing went into a sword frenzy, trying to rip off as many parts of my AC as it can. I boosted straight back and checked my armor. Well, to check if I still even had any limbs. My entire left arm, my machine gun, and my multi-missile launcher have been severely damaged or blown completely off. I was basically screwed as shit.
I boosted up and left, trying to get to one of the doors. Well hey, if you can't beat 'em, RUN LIKE HELL!
One of the arms of the MT began to shake, and what emerged looked like a sort of gun, unlike the crystal-shooting cannon, this one had a much shorter barrel. Immediately rays of green machine gun fire came at my AC. The velocity of the energy bolts was very fast, fast enough that I couldn't dodge them. My AC was struck to the ground. The computer was beeping and giving me all kinds of warnings. I was sitting there, completely hopeless, and the silver MT came towards me. When it was right above my AC, it looked down and activated its right arm blade. The MT lifted up its arm, and plunged it straight into my AC's cockpit. Then a bright white flash.
~
I woke up in a cold sweat.
"Damn, what time is it?"
"3:26 AM, sir," said the female voice of the computer.
"That was some weird dream," I said.
"What was it of, sir?" asked the computer, sounding passionate, but I programmed it to do so.
"Nothing, just a bad nightmare," I replied.
I went back to sleep, trying not to think about that silver MT.
That morning, I woke up, barely rested, and headed downstairs for breakfast. After eating some eggs, I went in the shower because all the sweat from the night made me real grimy. While in the shower, I pondered about the dream.
"Is this dream signaling my death?" I thought to myself. I figured that it might not mean anything at all, and thinking too much about the dream could signal my death anyway. I decided to take my mind off the subject and got out of the shower. I got dressed in my favorite black and dark gray shirt and a pair of black pants. I put some gel in my brown hair and spiked it up. I then got my sunglasses and headed to the rec. room of the Neo Isaac City Global Cortex.
I went down the hall to the elevator. Some of the ravens who can't afford homes stay at the apartments in the Global Cortex building. I went down to the mission room to see if any interesting ones have come up. None. Bored as hell, I went down to the rec. room to find stuff to do. There, I played some pool with my friend Todd. I explained to him my dream.
"Dude, that's a load of bull. Are you going to let some fantasy nightmare get to you?" Todd scolded, "If anything, thinking about the dream will kill you, not the dream"
"Yeah, I kinda figured that out myself" I replied, "8-ball left pocket" I said as I won the game.
"Aww damn"
"You may have been able to beat me in the arena, but I can still kick your ass in pool"
"Myk Linear, please report to the registration desk" announced the intercom.
"Heh, you're in trouble now" Todd joked. Immature bastard. I knew I wasn't in trouble, since I haven't done anything wrong recently.
Well, nothing I can remember.