Chapter 19
Jaded
The bullet ripped into my shoulder. I let out a cry and grabbed the wound. I staggered to
my bike, I didn't have time to grab my clothes and weapons. I out my helmet on, turned on
the bike, and sped out of there.
"Jaded, heh," I said to myself.
I was about twenty or so miles away when I finally heard the ticking sound. I was questioning if I even heard it at first. I looked on the small computer screen on my bike, beside the speedometer. It had read numbers that were counting down, in fact it was some sort of time.
"A BOMB!!!" Too late, it exploded. I flew high in the air, backwards into the trees. I was scraped, cut, and bruised. I fell into darkness.
Hours, days, or even weeks later, I woke up. The excruitiating pain was agonizing. I could barely move. I charged all the chi that I could and healed most of my left leg and some of my right. I leaned back, and painfully flipped up. I staggered over to the road. I was bleeding and in pain in just about everywhere. I leaned, painfully, against a tree, praying a car would come by. I slumped down and sat against the tree. God help me, I thought.
Finally a car came. I sighed relief. I, again, painfully stood up. The hummer came by and stopped beside me.
"Oh God!" I turned around. They came after me, they had to finish me off, didn't they? I walked as fast as I could in the other direciton. It was incredibly painful. I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I turned around to punch them. They caught my hand and just looked at me.
"Dragon?" I glared but nodded. His eyes widened.
"My God, what happend to you?"
"Answer me this first," I said, "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?"
"We're the EWA..."
"What?" I raised a brow. "I just fought a battle with you guys..."
His eyes widened again and his jaw dropped.
He mouthed the words "The...the... ghost brigade..."
He helped me over to the hummer and patched me up, I had no choice but to trust these men.
"The Ghost brigade, was one of our squadrons. They were on a top secret mission during the
Revolution Wars to destroy the main HQ of the neo- Russians," The Revolution Wars occured when a group of neo- Russians went far back in time to the Entities planet to destroy their race. The present day entitires found out about this, recruited their own army, and went back to stop them, "They never made, nor were they heard from again, until now."
"Tetsuko was with them, she was in disguise, she...she..." I couldn't bare to say it, I thought she loved me, but she tried to kill me. I sucked it up, "She turned on me, they tried to kill me, but I got away..."
"Go on."
"She shot me in the arm, and they programed my bike to self-destruct. I also fought a battle with them against a large force of neo-Russians..."
Just then another hummer pulled up. They came out. One of the soldiers walked over to me with my clothes in his hands.
"Are these yours, Dragon?" I nodded, he gave them to me.
I put them on. "MY GUNS!" He looked at the ground. My guns were gone. I took off all the holsters and threw them to the ground. My chest began to itch. I figured it a wound but wanted to investigate anyway. I opened my shirt. A large pile of papers spilled out.
MY STORY!
Chapter 20 Impossible as it may seem...
I gathered up the papers. "You must get these on the mainframe computer immediately!" He nodded and tucked them in a sack he was carrying. He took three other soldiers and got into the other hummer. They waved and drove off.
"So, what was that?" The man who helped me asked.
"I cannot tell you..." I quickly changed the subject, "So what's your name?" I noticed the man sitting in the passenger seat. He had been watchin me the whole time. He, liked the rest of my newly acquired comrades, were dressed in forest green slacks and a forest green jacket with blue on the tips of the sleeves and around the collar. He also wore a black trench coat, similiar to my own. He had jet black sunglasses on with yellow lenses. He had blue-green eyes.
"My name is Commander K'arr, and my companion over there," he nodded to the man who had been watching me, "his name is-" The man interupted him.
"That's not important right now, our lives are in danger if we continue to stay here,"
K'arr sighed but nodded.
"He's right... Let us go," He hopped in the driver's seat and I jumped into the back end of the hummer. I reached side my trench coat and pulled out my sun glasses. I linked a few times and my contacts turned on. I put my sun glasses on and sat down.
I sat on something long and thin, it was unconfortable. I got into a crouched position and turned around. I looked down at the object, at first it looked like a metal rod of some kind. I cocked my head to the side and further vestigated it. My eyes widened. It looked like the hilt of a sword. I wrapped my hand around it, it was! The rest of it was covered by an olive drab tarp. I pulled the tarp down. It was my sword.
I picked it up, damn it felt good to hold it again. I grinned as I sheathed it. I sat back down and closed my eyes. I thought of Andrew once again, did I regret doing what I did? I don't know... I also thought of Tetsuko, that bi-
"So, how have you faired so far, friend?" It was that strange man, he cut me off.
"Where do I begin," I began to tell him how I met Ecclesaties and my adventures with him, "No no, I know all that, I mean since you started this little Epic of yours," he grinned, I grinned back. "Well..." I hesitated to tell him about Andrew but I did tell him everything else. He nodded.
"I see, i've been about as busy as you have, friend," He told me how he was recruited and how he was assigned to find me. They had heard about Ecclesaties and his mansion compound being attack. I was defined as MIA for awhile. Then they somehow got ahold of the tracking signal my bike produce and tracked me here. They were devastated when the signal die and declared me KIA. But when they found me they were stunned, but relieved.
"Interesting..." I said, "So do you know that man whom I destroyed?" He frowned.
"That was no ordinary man, in fact were not sure if he's human. And those clones, they were all real, so was you're dream. You're not the only person who has had a dream like that.
Many of our EWA have, including me. Those clones are not the leader, however. They are only the Leader's minions. His personal henchmen. They are powerful, no one has been able to stand up to them. I've seen men empty entire clips and hit nothing but air. I can't lie to you, every man and woman who has stood up to them has died. But you, you have found some way around the rules, some way around the laws of the universe. You may very well be the one spoken about in the prophecy, you may very well be the chosen one, the Saviour. Or maybe it could be me..." He began to boast about his accomplishments, I could only but smile at him.
He was so conceded. I was not afraid, however. I suddenly sensed an energy from under the tarp, I figured it to be a bomb.
"By the way," I said while paying attention to the energy of the strange object, "I thank you, kind sir, for turning my katana to me," I bowed.
"Don't thank me, thank him," He motioned toward the energy I was detecting. I snapped to reality and returned to regular vision. A man, no a child appeared from under the tarp. My jaw dropped and my eyes widened, as I gasped.
"Andrew?!"
The bullet ripped into my shoulder. I let out a cry and grabbed the wound. I staggered to
my bike, I didn't have time to grab my clothes and weapons. I out my helmet on, turned on
the bike, and sped out of there.
"Jaded, heh," I said to myself.
I was about twenty or so miles away when I finally heard the ticking sound. I was questioning if I even heard it at first. I looked on the small computer screen on my bike, beside the speedometer. It had read numbers that were counting down, in fact it was some sort of time.
"A BOMB!!!" Too late, it exploded. I flew high in the air, backwards into the trees. I was scraped, cut, and bruised. I fell into darkness.
Hours, days, or even weeks later, I woke up. The excruitiating pain was agonizing. I could barely move. I charged all the chi that I could and healed most of my left leg and some of my right. I leaned back, and painfully flipped up. I staggered over to the road. I was bleeding and in pain in just about everywhere. I leaned, painfully, against a tree, praying a car would come by. I slumped down and sat against the tree. God help me, I thought.
Finally a car came. I sighed relief. I, again, painfully stood up. The hummer came by and stopped beside me.
"Oh God!" I turned around. They came after me, they had to finish me off, didn't they? I walked as fast as I could in the other direciton. It was incredibly painful. I felt a hand on my shoulder, and I turned around to punch them. They caught my hand and just looked at me.
"Dragon?" I glared but nodded. His eyes widened.
"My God, what happend to you?"
"Answer me this first," I said, "WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?"
"We're the EWA..."
"What?" I raised a brow. "I just fought a battle with you guys..."
His eyes widened again and his jaw dropped.
He mouthed the words "The...the... ghost brigade..."
He helped me over to the hummer and patched me up, I had no choice but to trust these men.
"The Ghost brigade, was one of our squadrons. They were on a top secret mission during the
Revolution Wars to destroy the main HQ of the neo- Russians," The Revolution Wars occured when a group of neo- Russians went far back in time to the Entities planet to destroy their race. The present day entitires found out about this, recruited their own army, and went back to stop them, "They never made, nor were they heard from again, until now."
"Tetsuko was with them, she was in disguise, she...she..." I couldn't bare to say it, I thought she loved me, but she tried to kill me. I sucked it up, "She turned on me, they tried to kill me, but I got away..."
"Go on."
"She shot me in the arm, and they programed my bike to self-destruct. I also fought a battle with them against a large force of neo-Russians..."
Just then another hummer pulled up. They came out. One of the soldiers walked over to me with my clothes in his hands.
"Are these yours, Dragon?" I nodded, he gave them to me.
I put them on. "MY GUNS!" He looked at the ground. My guns were gone. I took off all the holsters and threw them to the ground. My chest began to itch. I figured it a wound but wanted to investigate anyway. I opened my shirt. A large pile of papers spilled out.
MY STORY!
Chapter 20 Impossible as it may seem...
I gathered up the papers. "You must get these on the mainframe computer immediately!" He nodded and tucked them in a sack he was carrying. He took three other soldiers and got into the other hummer. They waved and drove off.
"So, what was that?" The man who helped me asked.
"I cannot tell you..." I quickly changed the subject, "So what's your name?" I noticed the man sitting in the passenger seat. He had been watchin me the whole time. He, liked the rest of my newly acquired comrades, were dressed in forest green slacks and a forest green jacket with blue on the tips of the sleeves and around the collar. He also wore a black trench coat, similiar to my own. He had jet black sunglasses on with yellow lenses. He had blue-green eyes.
"My name is Commander K'arr, and my companion over there," he nodded to the man who had been watching me, "his name is-" The man interupted him.
"That's not important right now, our lives are in danger if we continue to stay here,"
K'arr sighed but nodded.
"He's right... Let us go," He hopped in the driver's seat and I jumped into the back end of the hummer. I reached side my trench coat and pulled out my sun glasses. I linked a few times and my contacts turned on. I put my sun glasses on and sat down.
I sat on something long and thin, it was unconfortable. I got into a crouched position and turned around. I looked down at the object, at first it looked like a metal rod of some kind. I cocked my head to the side and further vestigated it. My eyes widened. It looked like the hilt of a sword. I wrapped my hand around it, it was! The rest of it was covered by an olive drab tarp. I pulled the tarp down. It was my sword.
I picked it up, damn it felt good to hold it again. I grinned as I sheathed it. I sat back down and closed my eyes. I thought of Andrew once again, did I regret doing what I did? I don't know... I also thought of Tetsuko, that bi-
"So, how have you faired so far, friend?" It was that strange man, he cut me off.
"Where do I begin," I began to tell him how I met Ecclesaties and my adventures with him, "No no, I know all that, I mean since you started this little Epic of yours," he grinned, I grinned back. "Well..." I hesitated to tell him about Andrew but I did tell him everything else. He nodded.
"I see, i've been about as busy as you have, friend," He told me how he was recruited and how he was assigned to find me. They had heard about Ecclesaties and his mansion compound being attack. I was defined as MIA for awhile. Then they somehow got ahold of the tracking signal my bike produce and tracked me here. They were devastated when the signal die and declared me KIA. But when they found me they were stunned, but relieved.
"Interesting..." I said, "So do you know that man whom I destroyed?" He frowned.
"That was no ordinary man, in fact were not sure if he's human. And those clones, they were all real, so was you're dream. You're not the only person who has had a dream like that.
Many of our EWA have, including me. Those clones are not the leader, however. They are only the Leader's minions. His personal henchmen. They are powerful, no one has been able to stand up to them. I've seen men empty entire clips and hit nothing but air. I can't lie to you, every man and woman who has stood up to them has died. But you, you have found some way around the rules, some way around the laws of the universe. You may very well be the one spoken about in the prophecy, you may very well be the chosen one, the Saviour. Or maybe it could be me..." He began to boast about his accomplishments, I could only but smile at him.
He was so conceded. I was not afraid, however. I suddenly sensed an energy from under the tarp, I figured it to be a bomb.
"By the way," I said while paying attention to the energy of the strange object, "I thank you, kind sir, for turning my katana to me," I bowed.
"Don't thank me, thank him," He motioned toward the energy I was detecting. I snapped to reality and returned to regular vision. A man, no a child appeared from under the tarp. My jaw dropped and my eyes widened, as I gasped.
"Andrew?!"