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5 Months Earlier...

A man with light brown hair and brown eyes sat in a chair with a green reticle on a hanging contraption rotating around him. He's in a hazard room as a woman with dark hair and magnet eyes watches by the window.

He winks at her as she smiled, and began the progress. She presses the buttons and pulls the level as the reticle turns. She then observes the machine's action and scans him.

Suddenly, danger lights begin to flash, the woman looked worried but it was too late, the man's eyes go green.

The next thing that happened is a large green monster emerged out of the chair, and the machinery is broken, the woman looked shocked. The next thing that happens is a man who looked like the general yet has the same hair and eye color as the woman is dumbstruck.

Then the monster sees the woman on the floor covered in scrapes and unconscious. Just as the monster approaches her, gunshots occurred it turns to see an Officer shooting it, while the general is next to him.

The monster grabs the General's arm and tosses it away, not after it punches the Officer so strong it knocked him through the door breaking it.

It goes back to the woman but the General is there wounded and is pleading before the monster lets out a roar. As the whole room is devasted.

Later, she's in the hospital bed, being treated and the same man is here and devasted to see this. Recalling old memories with her, a hand grabbed his shoulder revealing the same General now with an arm cast, furious and threatening him.

The woman slowly awakens to now see the General only, now looking at her with concern. Meanwhile, the man he threatens soon leaves the hospital.

Then news occurred about the incident that happened in Boreas, more news come showing cases such as "Green Monster Sighted?" all the while showing multiple wreckage incidents.

Now the General is back on recovery and is now searching for the man that started it all, Atlas soldiers find the man while someone watches from afar. More areas to search, all of the rooms are empty, more sightings of the Green Monster.

The General is still in charge, now the Atlas Army requires requests from Schnee Industries, for design sketches of these new military vehicles.

The search still goes on...

Present Day

Location: Vacuo - Kenyte City
Time: 1300

The metronome is clicking, until a hand grabs it, stopping the ticking. It's the same man and his name... Is Russel Barrett.

It's been 158 days without the "incident" as he is sitting alone, and his heartbeat can be audibly heard beating. He takes a deep exhale and stares at the metronome, before placing it in front of him.

He's been hiding from the Atlas Military, now residing in Kenyte a city built around the largest sinkhole that ever existed on Remant. Multiple buildings aside on the large sandy wormhole edges.

Long ago Kenyte was devoured by the sinkhole but the Vacuo Council rebuilt the city by using the wormhole as a basis, it is also one of the biggest Dust mines in Vacuo.

Later, he's in the kitchen, cooking some food.

"Is it ready?" Russel asked his companion dog as he simply stares, to which Russel smiled.

Now the food is done, he puts it on the plate, and grabs his fork. He then turns on the TV switched to different channels that are playing and sat down on his chair once he got the channel he wanted.

Russell walks out, dressed up, walking on the path of a tight city. Then next, he is training with his Instructor who is teaching him Aikido self-defense.

Then they sat on the floor facing each other, with their legs crossed, and hands on their knees.

"Let's work on your breathing." The Instructor said as Russel nodded, "Here is emotion. Fear is no good." He points where his heart, "So emotion and control." He points to his stomach. Then he takes rapid breaths which Russel follows it.

"Use your diaphragm." The Instructor stated as he takes more quick breaths, "The best way to control your anger is to control your body. Control your pulse." He said, "Breath, Breathe." He instructed.

Then he slaps Russel in the face, which caused his wristwatch to start beeping with the rise in heart rate. He starts to rapidly breathe again.

"Breathe..." The Instructor stated as he continues to do so. Then another slap, then the wristwatch starts beeping faster than before.

"Wait." Russel replied as he checks his watch, showing 146 bpm. Then the beeping slows down. Not much, but the progress is still there.

Location: Vacuo - Kenyte
Time: 1330

Russel goes to work as he is walking through a part of the city, then inside the soda factory called: Vacuo's Pingo Doce.

In a busy locker room, he is at his locker when a group of workers walks by and one of them purposefully bumps into him. Russel ignores the action. and the workers continue onward through the locker room.

At the production room, alarms buzz out, with the start of the conveyor belts. Workers begin to enter the large room.

Alarms buzz with the start of the conveyor belts. Workers begin to enter the large room. Russel pushes a cart full of boxed supplies amongst the business. He takes one off and hands it to a woman named Martina.

Later on, a faulty remote is sparking, Russel came up which he analyzes, taking out glasses to do so. All the while, the Manager is by his side, he fiddles with some wires.

"Okay..." He muttered, and just like that, he fixes it. He presses the button on the remote, and the line next to him starts moving.

The Manager smiled at this as Russel speaks, "I can make it work for a while, but you need-"

"A new factory." The Manager replied in a comedic tone.

"Yeah." Russel nodded.

"Five months you've been helping me out like this." The Manager added, "You're too smart for day labor. Let me put you on payroll." He suggested.

Russel smiled and tried to decline, but then he felt a sharp pain from his finger. Then a drop of blood falls onto the production line below.

Russel is worried, "No! Shut that off! Turn it off!" He yells as he runs about the walkway.

"Shut off!" The Manager yells as one of the workers does so. As an alarm is buzzed as the production line comes to a halt.

Then Russel arrived and looked for the drop of blood, and quickly manages to find his blood merely on the conveyor belt. He takes a handkerchief and wipes up the splotch. Then he takes an anti-biotic cream container out of his shirt pocket and applies it to his cut finger, sealing the wound.

Russel is relieved, "Okay!" He yelled as the Manager nodded and commanded everyone to continue the work progress.

But what Russel doesn't know... That some of his blood managed to be in the interior bottleneck of a bottle. Then that bottle is filled with soda, as the blood mixes with the drink all the while it is now prepared to be shipped to Boreas.

An alarm sounds throughout the plant to signal the working day's end. As Russel walks towards the exit, he notices Martina being harassed by the leader of the group of tough workers, the leader is the one who bumped him purposefully.

As much as he wanted to avoid this, then she see him standing. He admit he couldn't let this woman be harassed. So he walks up to them.

"Martina!" The group turns to him as he speaks, "You want to have lunch with me?" He asked.

The leader of the group spoke up "You." He pointed at him, "Get lost wimp."

"Maybe you should leave her alone. And I'll reconsider." Russel replied.

Then the leader turns directly to him and glares, "Oh really?" He asked. "What are you gonna do, if I don't?" He playfully mocks him as he slightly shoved him.

Russel gets slightly irritated, "Don't make me... Angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry." He warned.

The others looked confused as the leader playfully scoffed, "Aw, you get mad? Come here you-" He was about to lunge at him.

"Hey!" The Manager shouted, stopping the fight. "Stop fooling around and go!"

With that, Russel lets Martina take his hand as the two walk out while the leader of the group glares with anger.

Somewhere in the city, Russel meets up with a Rabbit ear Faunus who smiles and hands him an item wrapped in green paper. Russel widens his eyes at the wrapped item that he took and thanks the Faunus with a hug as he hugs back.

Then later, he goes back to his apartment, alerting his dog whose on his bed. "You see that?" He shows his dog the item. "See that? My ticket out of here." He smiled before walking to the table and placing the item down, now it's time.

Russel opens his backpack and pulls out a laptop, and a folded satellite dish, unfolding it. He then connects it to his laptop and boots up an encrypted messaging program, now it's done he speaks to someone named Mr. Blue. A man who's been helping him this far.

Russel begins typing once he's connected, 'Blue, are you there?' Then he sends it...

'Mr. Green! Good hearing from you again, my mysterious friend!' A text from Mr. Blue appeared.

Russel types back, 'I've found it.' He responded.

'At long last. It's a lively little flower, isn't it? Be sure to try a high dose. Good luck :)' Mr. Blue replies. Russel smiled as the item is indeed the flower.

He beginssnipping petals off the flower, grabs some vials, and begins mixing their contents with the petals. After multiplechemical procedures through his devices, it ends with a vial full of a purple liquid.

He then pricks himself to draw his blood onto a petri dish. Then, he pours some of the purple liquid onto his blood, then looks through a microscope.

He sees his blood cells are green, then the liquid begins its effects as the blood cells briefly subsided by the remedy. Just before Russel can call it a success, his blood cells go green once again causing a crack at the lens.

"Damn it!" Russel sighed in disappointment. He goes to the laptop and informs the results. 'Another failure.'

':( How much did you use?' Mr. Blue asked.

'All of it.' Russel replied.

Then a moment of no response... 'Then it's time to meet.'

Russel is surprised to see this, and tries to refute, 'Not safe.' He reasoned.

'Living with GAMMA poisoning is not safe. Stop chasing flowers. Send me a blood sample. Can't help if you won't let me.' Mr. Blue responded.

Russel glanced at the photo of the woman from his past... He decides to do it. He extracts a large vial of blood from his inner elbow, puts it in a shoebox, and puts Mr. Blue's address on a note on top of it.

Then he is out, sending the package out at the post office. He walks outside and stands in the middle of the street, hands on hips and sighing. As he hopes to get the results.

Location: Atlas - Atlas (City)
Time: 1540

Somewhere on Atlas, inside one of the tall buildings is the General as the sign shows his name to be 'Roseo Maxine' in his office. Where suddenly a Specialist arrives and hands him a report.

"We found it, General." She stated, "Possible Gamma sickness. Mantle. A man drank one of those Guarana sodas. And it had a little more kick than he was looking for."

In Mantle, a man opens his fridge and grabs one of the bottles that is contaminated and drinks it, before feeling the poison.

"Wow..." He replied before he drops the bottle, shattering it.

General stares at the report of a man whose name is 'Monty Oum' before raising from his chair. "Where was it bottled?" He asked.

"Vacuo, Kenyte." She answered.

"Get our agency people looking for a white man at that bottling plant. Tell them no contact! If he even sees them, he's gone." General Maxine ordered.

Hours passed, as General Maxine and another Specialist holding a file are standing at the Atlas Military Port. Trucks and Bullheads overhead can be seen.

"I got you who I could. Short notice, but they're all quality. And I pulled you one ace." The male Specialist informed. "Rusty Antaeus. Born in Mistral, raised in Mantle. And on loan to SOCOM from the Atlas Marines." He explains on the file as the man himself arrives via bullhead, carrying a duffel bag in his right hand.

The General smiled, "Glad you find some good men, Joe." He said.

"Glad I could help. Just make it good." Specialist Joe replied.

Then later, an Atlas Military airbus flies off, leaving the base with a snowstorm approaching behind them. And inside, soldiers along with Rusty readying themselves.

"This is the target and the location. Snatch and grab, live capture. You'll have your dart clips and suppression ordnance, but live fire is for backup only. We got local out there, but we want it tight and quiet." The female Specialist explains the target.

Rusty looks at the ID which is Russel himself, "Is he a fighter?" He asked.

General Maxine speaks up, "Your target is a fugitive from the Atlas Council who stole military secrets. He is also implicated in the deaths of two scientists, a military officer, and possibly two Hunters. So don't wait to see if he's a fighter! Tranq him and bring him back." He demanded.

And with nothing to say, the search for the wanted man begins...

Chapter 1 Completed

...Commencing Next Chapter...