Authors note: Thanks for the reviews, even though I didn't get many they
were still great ^_^. Anyways, not much to say cept the usual "Sorry for
the delay..."
Here's the first chapter. (Like I said earlier, The beginning of this fic takes place on earth, so there isn't any zoid action at first (only for the first 2 chapters or so). But soon enough there will be plenty of zoid action.)
CHAPTER ONE:
"A time when all that there was, soon to be burned and bathed in the fires of hell...."
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"I am a man of logic, and I always will be a man of logic... Every thing about this stupid war is ridiculous. Why do they keep fighting over such matters?" A young man said quietly, is voice both soft and soothing. He sat with his best friend, a beautiful young woman, playing a game of chess. He, as always, played as black, while his friend always played as white. Their games could go on for days on end without stopping.
The woman looked at her friend, her bright green eyes full of understanding. She was wearing her red and black uniform of course, as all soldiers were required to in this day and age... Though she had never seen the battlefield... she was a scientist, a tactician and weapon designer.
"I know that Kyuusai, I've been saying that from the start.... " She hesitated to move one of her pieces, then did so, and continued, "And now, this "ridiculous" war has gotten out of hand. All sides to pride filled and greedy hearted to back down. You know that." She sighed and pushed a lock of short black hair out of her eyes, she looked up.
Kyuusai Itsuro was a tall, thin man, in his early-twenties. He had long black hair that he kept in a perfect ponytail that reached to his mid back, his bangs drifting lazily in front of his bright orange eyes. He too wore his uniform, and like his friend, had never seen the battlefield. They had been assigned as partner tacticians (Along with one other who was currently not present), and always spent their little leisure time playing chess.
He turned his eyes to the board and thought over his move, "I just don't get it..."
There was a sudden whooshing sound as the electronic door opened, and in walked two soldiers. They were in tan uniforms, the color of the lower ranks, and one of them held a long white envelop in his hand. They both saluted, and the two tacticians returned the gesture.
"What is it?" Kyuusai asked.
"Urgent news for captain Kyuusai Itsuro and captain Waki Funahashi." One of the men replied.
Waki, the young woman took the envelope, "That's us, you can go now."
"Yes ma'am." The two soldiers turned and left, the door shifting shut behind them. Waki sighed and tossed the letter to Kyuusai, who was extremely tempted to just throw it in the shredder. He resisted the temptation and opened it, his eyes quickly scanning over it.
"So what's it say?" Waki inquired from her chair back at the chess table.
"It's just..." Kyuusai began, he was about to say 'just another notification of a squad or weapon movement' but had stopped once he had turned the page over. His eyes grew wide, as he realized exactly what it was they were moving.
"What...?" His partner stood up and came to stand next to him, trying to get a glance at the letter, but he was too tall and she couldn't read it. Waki waited for a few moments, but when he failed to acknowledge the fact that she wanted to read it, she began to become impatient. She cleared her throat, finally catching Kyuusai's attention, "What is it?"
The tactician handed his partner the letter, still in a somewhat state of shock. He watched as she quickly read it, not reacting to anything until turning the page over. Her reaction then was quite the same as his own.
"I don't believe it..." Waki stated, looking up at Kyuusai.
"They want to move us to the satellite..." He shifted uneasily, he didn't like it at all.
"It says here that we've been re-assigned to the Lyra satellite and are to report to Tokyo main headquarters on October 30th... that's in two days..."
"I know that..." Kyuusai snapped angrily.
"...I don't want to go to the satellite..."
"You think I do!?"
"No, of course not!" Waki yelled. She cursed inwardly as the door shifted open again, this time to reveal another high ranking tactician. He was short, and well built, slightly older than the other two. His hair was a reddish brown color, and he had kind, teal colored eyes, though at the moment they seemed to be filled with panic.
"Kyuusai, Waki..." He panted, obviously he had ran from where ever it was he was all the way to the recreation room of their small base.
Kyuusai quickly spotted a piece of paper in his fellow tactician's hand, and scowled, "You too, Bryce?"
Bryce looked up at his long time friends in shock, "What do you mean "too"?" He paused, "You don't mean that..."
"They're moving both of us to the satellite..." Waki was almost to the point of tears.
"Damn them..." Bryce threw his letter in the shredder, he then plopped down in a random couch next to Waki, "I have to report to the Tokyo main base in two days..."
"Yeah... us too..." Waki stated.
Kyuusai fumed angrily, why... why had they been chosen to be moved to the satellite? He had always known it was possible... but he had never expected it to happen. It just wasn't logical... unless...
"They said they'd only move people to the satellite if..." Waki began. She looked down at the ground, her eyes finding the tan tilled flooring suddenly very interesting, she was about to continue but was interrupted.
"Im going home..." Kyuusai said, his tone very unemotional. He walked over to a small shelf and grabbed his black leather gloves. His two friends watched him as he put them on silently, and walked over to the electronic door. He pushed a small button and the door shifted open.
"Kyuusai, wait!" Bryce called. He looked at his two long time friends and sighed, "We all know what this means... so, lets just forget about it for now and spend little time together, I mean... We still have two days here on good old Earth, right?" He ran a hand through his hair, "Tell you what, lets go out and get something to eat... my treat... Ok?"
Kyuusai had to admire his American friend. Bryce, no matter what the situation, could always find a way or time to be cheerful and optimistic. For as long as he had known him, Kyuusai would say that Bryce was one of the most happy go lucky people that he knew. And happy go lucky people were rare nowadays.
"What do ya say, come on..." Bryce grinned like only he could. He looked over at Waki and wrapped a strong arm around her shoulders, and began to tickle her, "So lets get going."
Waki tried to suppress her saddened laughter, but to no avail. She pushed Bryce away and looked up at Kyuusai, who nodded, "Ok, Ok Bryce..."
"Yeah!" the American cheered. He jumped off the sofa and said, "I gotta go get my stuff out of the map room, be right back." He then quickly dashed out the door.
Waki smiled sadly as she watched him go, "How does he do that?"
Kyuusai shrugged, "It's his way of coping... you know that."
"Yeah... your right," She paused, "But still..."
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Five minutes later the three tacticians were outside, walking together down an almost abandoned sidewalk. Bryce kept talking about random things, trying to get their spirits up by acting like nothing was wrong, but his eye's gave his true emotion away. He was just as depressed as his two friends.
Kyuusai half listened to Bryce, the other half of his mind buried deep within his own thoughts. The Lyra satellite... the third war satellite launched 2 years ago in the year 2205 by the nations alliance.
The Nations alliance, or N.A. consisted of most the worlds countries, and was an alliance that had been formed seven years before the war started, in 2185. It was formed because of the concern over the planets natural resources... which were now becoming severely depleted. Man kind had spread everywhere, the technology enabling them to move as far north and south as the poles with virtually no danger at all.
This, of course, brought it's own problems. The ice caps began to melt, the ozone layer began to thin and pollution was off the scale over the entire planet... Cities quickly began to form over and under the water, inside the earths crust and even supported by massive beams in the air. But of course, this just caused the natural resources of the planet to become even more scarce.
So, the Nations Alliance began a project to scope out the moon, find anything that might be useful as a resource. They succeeded, finding a metal they named Narinium, named after the scientist who discovered it, Richard Naria.
'How come' Kyuusai thought, 'Everytime humanity does something good, something bad comes out of it?' He was referring to the Narinium explosion of 2188. Spies from countries not in league with the N.A. had snuck into the Lunar base, which, by that time had become both a colony and a laboratory, and tried to steal the large store of metal.
Narinium was highly dangerous in a liquid state, and when coming in contact with certain rare elements or minerals, could combust. The spies, unfortunately, did not have this information because the N.A. was afraid that if it got out to the public, dangerous weapons would be constructed (Not that the N.A. wasn't experimenting with their own Narinium weapons). The result of this was a large, virtually unstoppable series of explosions that destroyed the colony and lab completely.
This caused a large shift in the moons orbit, and in result, the tides of the earths oceans changed, destroying billions and billions of dollars worth of cities and other things.
This, of course, wasn't the only problem. Food sources had become rare, many of the earths natural animals now extinct, and the water supply was awful (Not that it wasn't fixable by water purification systems, but it was extremely costly.)
Nuclear and hydro energy sources were also slowly eating away at the planet. The N.A. soon created the satellites, Vega and Orion to begin trying to artificially recreate pure resources. Soon, people began to migrate and live in the satellites, knowing there was potential danger, but not having much of another choice.
Meanwhile, the Planet was getting worse and worse, and people who were not living in Bio Domes (Large glass domes where the high-middle to upper-class people resided) were beginning to rebel under a man who called himself "Grantu Trogh." He led these rebels against the N.A. He was quickly taken care of.
Then, a breakthrough happened. The N.A. discovered that a certain element (Which was unknown to man until that time) located in Narinium could speed up the natural process of evolution and growth, mostly in plant and micro- biological life. They began to use it to try and regrow natural food and plant sources.
For a while things looked good, until Trogh resurfaced with an entire army of brainwashed soldiers, now with the technology of Narinium weapons (How he got it is still unknown). He demanded that the N.A. make these new resources available to the common people, which, at that time was still impossible due to the short amount they had.
He then waged war against the N.A. and vowed that he would get hold of the resources for the earths people and take over what was left of the earths natural resources (Which was little, but there was some) He claimed to be sent by God himself. (It was thought that his true reason for getting the resources was for his own profit. He was doing experiments or his own with the evolutionary properties of Narinium and clamed to have discover a way to make people live longer.) His technology was incredible. Nuclear weapons had long since been outdated and replaced by both Narinium and fusion weapons.
He quickly became a N.A. threat. Since then the war had been going on. The satellites had been cleaned out of regular people, now used as war bases, and with the exception of the soon launched Lyra satellite, became testing grounds for human cryogenic freezing. Normal people were not ever to be moved to the satellites again unless the N.A. suspected...
"Hey Kyuusai!" Bryce called, snapping the young tactician out of his thoughts, "Where do you wanna eat?"
Kyuusai sighed almost wearily as he said, "Anything sounds good right now Bryce... anything at all."
"You know where I want to go?" Waki asked, her eyes glued to the ground as they walked, "Remember that old place we used to go to as kids? I wanna go there."
"Yeah! That sounds really good. Been a while since I've been there." Bryce clapped the woman tactician on the back, "Sound good Kyuusai?"
"Sure." Kyuusai answered. Bryce soon went back to chatting as they walked.
Kyuusai looked around him. Everything he saw was metal and concrete, no plants or animals existed. He then looked up, the glass bio dome that he was in showed the night sky above, (Which was a dark blueish brown, no stars visible past the wave of pollution) as civilian jets and transports flew outside. They were now in a busier part of the city, people bustling here and there, most in their airships or hover cars, but some walking Bridges came and went from everywhere, reaching the cities in the sky, and the surrounding cities on the ground and ocean. Wires and tubes reached around buildings to the top of the dome, along the bridges and under ground (Which was both cement and metal).
He laughed to himself as he quietly whispered "It's so ironic..."
"What did you say?" Bryce asked.
"Nothing, just thinking out loud." Kyuusai replied.
They soon arrived at the tower where the restaurant was located. They walked in and took a holo elevator (Elevators composed completely of see through components, able to travel extremely fast) to the top floor and into the restaurant.
They ordered a feast, feeling that since they were going to soon be going to the satellite anyway (Which meant no more food for them probably) and began to et. Bryce chatted away, trying to lift the spirits, Waki talking back.
Kyuusai remained silent. 'Its so ironic... this war is pointless now... Earth is doomed, and it's all the fault of a few greedy people..." He chuckled mentally, 'The damn resources that they began fighting over no longer exist!'
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Kyuusai walked into his apartment, a rather large one with three rooms located in the top of the cities southern most tower. He sighed, "Lights." The lights in the room turned on, slowly brightening until it reached his tastes, "Stop." The lights then stayed at that brightness.
He walked over to the window, not bothering to open it (No one ever opened windows anymore, that would have just been foolish!) And looked out.
Like earlier all he saw was metal and concrete. He began to doubt if there ever really was anything but that on the planet. Sighing, he turned and closed the curtains, deciding to go into the spare room he used as a library.
He scanned the shelves just browsing. He had once read somewhere that the earth used to be green and blue, and that plants were everywhere, trees, flowers, grass... things that almost no longer existed. Hell, Oxygen was now recycled, artificially created. It used to be that you could look up and see millions of stars past the atmosphere, and planets far away. Oh, and there used to be a little thing called "animals."
"Humans are foolish unlogical creatures..." He said to himself, no doubt his security system recording it, "I once believed that technology could never get too advanced... but now that I look around me at this dead planet, I come to find that it has..." He sighed, "Its sad really, this planet has given home to us for thousands and thousands and thousands of years, yet all we do is destroy it for our own technological profit. Now look at it! Foolish, foolish creatures."
"And now... they're beginning to move people to the satellites... which means..." He paused, "They are expecting the end of the world..."
Kyuusai cursed as he pulled a random old book off the shelf. Though most information could be found on data micro-laser disks now, he preferred the old books. They tended to be a bit more truthful anyway. He read intently, about time before world war I, how some parts of the globe still remained a mystery. It fascinated him.
He read about all the animals and creatures (livestock was now so rare and only produced for expensive dishes of food), people of the past, new inventions (Which were now so ridiculous they were never mentioned anymore, like the microwave, what was the deal with that anyway?) and how humanity cared about the planet.
The thing that still fascinated him the most was the fact that the globe was GREEN. Not silver and gray, green. How life flourished so brilliantly all due to the plants that existed on this planet alone... Life.
"I wish there was a way to restore the Earth to how it was..." He thought. His mind played with the idea a bit, when something struck him. He began to read more into the growth of these amazing things called plants, and thought about the N.A.'s evolutionary technology found in Narinium.
He let his mind do the work... he wasn't a top tactician for nothing, he was tested as a scientific genius (Along with Waki and Bryce of course), and had helped develop a few things to do with Narinium and fusion.
What if he could find a way to speed up the process used to grow plants with Narinium? There were hundreds of dead cities around the world now (The war had seen to that, killing billions) that could be cleared and regenerated.
But he only had two days... Kyuusai looked over at the clock. "scratch that.." He said, "One day now..."
He began to bury his nose in the books even more, the planet as it used to be completely absorbing him. He yearned to see it. He yearned to see a bird, or a fish. He would find a way... even if he had to do it in one day....
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Waki placed her hand on a small scanner just outside of Kyuusai's door, allowing the computer to check who she was. After hearing the beep of recognition, she waited for the computer to alert Kyuusai that she was there. When the door shifted open she entered, surprised to see the house covered in papers and books.
She walked through the main room and into the library, startled to see Kyuusai with his back toward her, surrounded in stacks of old manuscripts and antique books.
"Ummm, Kyuusai... what's up?" She said, placing a hand on his shoulder. Apparently it startled him and he looked up at her.
She was surprised to see that he had dark bags under his eyes, the sure fire sign that he had gotten no sleep the past night. She took a quick glance at the clock, it was now almost 8 pm.
"Hey Waki..." Kyuusai said tiredly, "You won't believe what I've done..."
"Kyuusai... how long have you been awake?!" Waki demanded.
"Ummm..." The tactician thought about it, "I haven't gone to sleep yet..."
"What!?"
"You wouldn't believe what I found out!" Kyuusai jumped up excitedly, but exhaustedly, "I can fix it!"
"You can fix what!?" She demanded.
"The Earth!"
Waki stared at her best friend for a while, confusion taking over he features, "What are you talking about!?"
He pointed down at a collection of scattered papers that were filled with his handwriting, "I found a way to speed up Narinium evolution..." He said, "I know it will work... and then, the Earth will be like it was before.."
Waki still stared at her friend before picking up the papers on the desk.
"We won't have to see the end of the world... the Earth... it can be fixed... we can save it!"
Waki was busy shuffling through the papers, her bright green eyes wide with astonishment, "Kyuusai... this is amazing... How did you figure all this out!?"
Kyuusai wasn't paying her much attention, "All we have to do is test it... I know it'll work...."
"Kyuusai, Im gonna call Bryce..." Waki breathed, she was amazed at the calculations that her friend had worked out... He was always smart, but this was amazing.
"Bryce... yeah..." Kyuusai said, he looked almost ready to pass out with exhaustion.
Waki walked over to the computer in the room and pushed a small button. A small holographic orb appeared in front of her with a list of choices. She touched the one that said "contact Bryce" and waited. Soon the holographic image shifted into the form of her friend, and spoke.
"Waki, what's wrong?" Bryce asked over the link.
"Nothing.." she answered, "You need to get over here now! You won't believe this."
"What is it?... where are you!?"
"Kyuusai's... just get over here."
"Oh, ok..." Bryce sighed and shut down the link, his image fading from view.
Waki turned back to face Kyuusai, surprised to see him busy entering data onto a theory simulator. He watched it play out, made a few changes, then watched it again.
Bryce soon arrived and went over the papers much in the same way Waki had, amazed at the data gathered.
"One problem though you guy's..." Bryce said, "We're being moved to the satellite tomorrow... where we are going to be..." He stopped, his normally happy go luck attitude gone, "You know what their going to do to us. They're going to freeze us and send us off on a shuttle... How can we get this information out and test it before then!?"
"We can contact the N.A..." Kyuusai said.
Bryce sighed, "You know Kyuusai, Im impressed. Really. I've never seen such a complete theory..."
Kyuusai exhaustedly smiled slightly. 'I know this'll work...'
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Authors note: I know it's long, trying to make up for the unbelievably short prologue. Hope you like it, I know there isn't much action yet. Sorry about that.
Tell me whatcha think!
Here's the first chapter. (Like I said earlier, The beginning of this fic takes place on earth, so there isn't any zoid action at first (only for the first 2 chapters or so). But soon enough there will be plenty of zoid action.)
CHAPTER ONE:
"A time when all that there was, soon to be burned and bathed in the fires of hell...."
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"I am a man of logic, and I always will be a man of logic... Every thing about this stupid war is ridiculous. Why do they keep fighting over such matters?" A young man said quietly, is voice both soft and soothing. He sat with his best friend, a beautiful young woman, playing a game of chess. He, as always, played as black, while his friend always played as white. Their games could go on for days on end without stopping.
The woman looked at her friend, her bright green eyes full of understanding. She was wearing her red and black uniform of course, as all soldiers were required to in this day and age... Though she had never seen the battlefield... she was a scientist, a tactician and weapon designer.
"I know that Kyuusai, I've been saying that from the start.... " She hesitated to move one of her pieces, then did so, and continued, "And now, this "ridiculous" war has gotten out of hand. All sides to pride filled and greedy hearted to back down. You know that." She sighed and pushed a lock of short black hair out of her eyes, she looked up.
Kyuusai Itsuro was a tall, thin man, in his early-twenties. He had long black hair that he kept in a perfect ponytail that reached to his mid back, his bangs drifting lazily in front of his bright orange eyes. He too wore his uniform, and like his friend, had never seen the battlefield. They had been assigned as partner tacticians (Along with one other who was currently not present), and always spent their little leisure time playing chess.
He turned his eyes to the board and thought over his move, "I just don't get it..."
There was a sudden whooshing sound as the electronic door opened, and in walked two soldiers. They were in tan uniforms, the color of the lower ranks, and one of them held a long white envelop in his hand. They both saluted, and the two tacticians returned the gesture.
"What is it?" Kyuusai asked.
"Urgent news for captain Kyuusai Itsuro and captain Waki Funahashi." One of the men replied.
Waki, the young woman took the envelope, "That's us, you can go now."
"Yes ma'am." The two soldiers turned and left, the door shifting shut behind them. Waki sighed and tossed the letter to Kyuusai, who was extremely tempted to just throw it in the shredder. He resisted the temptation and opened it, his eyes quickly scanning over it.
"So what's it say?" Waki inquired from her chair back at the chess table.
"It's just..." Kyuusai began, he was about to say 'just another notification of a squad or weapon movement' but had stopped once he had turned the page over. His eyes grew wide, as he realized exactly what it was they were moving.
"What...?" His partner stood up and came to stand next to him, trying to get a glance at the letter, but he was too tall and she couldn't read it. Waki waited for a few moments, but when he failed to acknowledge the fact that she wanted to read it, she began to become impatient. She cleared her throat, finally catching Kyuusai's attention, "What is it?"
The tactician handed his partner the letter, still in a somewhat state of shock. He watched as she quickly read it, not reacting to anything until turning the page over. Her reaction then was quite the same as his own.
"I don't believe it..." Waki stated, looking up at Kyuusai.
"They want to move us to the satellite..." He shifted uneasily, he didn't like it at all.
"It says here that we've been re-assigned to the Lyra satellite and are to report to Tokyo main headquarters on October 30th... that's in two days..."
"I know that..." Kyuusai snapped angrily.
"...I don't want to go to the satellite..."
"You think I do!?"
"No, of course not!" Waki yelled. She cursed inwardly as the door shifted open again, this time to reveal another high ranking tactician. He was short, and well built, slightly older than the other two. His hair was a reddish brown color, and he had kind, teal colored eyes, though at the moment they seemed to be filled with panic.
"Kyuusai, Waki..." He panted, obviously he had ran from where ever it was he was all the way to the recreation room of their small base.
Kyuusai quickly spotted a piece of paper in his fellow tactician's hand, and scowled, "You too, Bryce?"
Bryce looked up at his long time friends in shock, "What do you mean "too"?" He paused, "You don't mean that..."
"They're moving both of us to the satellite..." Waki was almost to the point of tears.
"Damn them..." Bryce threw his letter in the shredder, he then plopped down in a random couch next to Waki, "I have to report to the Tokyo main base in two days..."
"Yeah... us too..." Waki stated.
Kyuusai fumed angrily, why... why had they been chosen to be moved to the satellite? He had always known it was possible... but he had never expected it to happen. It just wasn't logical... unless...
"They said they'd only move people to the satellite if..." Waki began. She looked down at the ground, her eyes finding the tan tilled flooring suddenly very interesting, she was about to continue but was interrupted.
"Im going home..." Kyuusai said, his tone very unemotional. He walked over to a small shelf and grabbed his black leather gloves. His two friends watched him as he put them on silently, and walked over to the electronic door. He pushed a small button and the door shifted open.
"Kyuusai, wait!" Bryce called. He looked at his two long time friends and sighed, "We all know what this means... so, lets just forget about it for now and spend little time together, I mean... We still have two days here on good old Earth, right?" He ran a hand through his hair, "Tell you what, lets go out and get something to eat... my treat... Ok?"
Kyuusai had to admire his American friend. Bryce, no matter what the situation, could always find a way or time to be cheerful and optimistic. For as long as he had known him, Kyuusai would say that Bryce was one of the most happy go lucky people that he knew. And happy go lucky people were rare nowadays.
"What do ya say, come on..." Bryce grinned like only he could. He looked over at Waki and wrapped a strong arm around her shoulders, and began to tickle her, "So lets get going."
Waki tried to suppress her saddened laughter, but to no avail. She pushed Bryce away and looked up at Kyuusai, who nodded, "Ok, Ok Bryce..."
"Yeah!" the American cheered. He jumped off the sofa and said, "I gotta go get my stuff out of the map room, be right back." He then quickly dashed out the door.
Waki smiled sadly as she watched him go, "How does he do that?"
Kyuusai shrugged, "It's his way of coping... you know that."
"Yeah... your right," She paused, "But still..."
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Five minutes later the three tacticians were outside, walking together down an almost abandoned sidewalk. Bryce kept talking about random things, trying to get their spirits up by acting like nothing was wrong, but his eye's gave his true emotion away. He was just as depressed as his two friends.
Kyuusai half listened to Bryce, the other half of his mind buried deep within his own thoughts. The Lyra satellite... the third war satellite launched 2 years ago in the year 2205 by the nations alliance.
The Nations alliance, or N.A. consisted of most the worlds countries, and was an alliance that had been formed seven years before the war started, in 2185. It was formed because of the concern over the planets natural resources... which were now becoming severely depleted. Man kind had spread everywhere, the technology enabling them to move as far north and south as the poles with virtually no danger at all.
This, of course, brought it's own problems. The ice caps began to melt, the ozone layer began to thin and pollution was off the scale over the entire planet... Cities quickly began to form over and under the water, inside the earths crust and even supported by massive beams in the air. But of course, this just caused the natural resources of the planet to become even more scarce.
So, the Nations Alliance began a project to scope out the moon, find anything that might be useful as a resource. They succeeded, finding a metal they named Narinium, named after the scientist who discovered it, Richard Naria.
'How come' Kyuusai thought, 'Everytime humanity does something good, something bad comes out of it?' He was referring to the Narinium explosion of 2188. Spies from countries not in league with the N.A. had snuck into the Lunar base, which, by that time had become both a colony and a laboratory, and tried to steal the large store of metal.
Narinium was highly dangerous in a liquid state, and when coming in contact with certain rare elements or minerals, could combust. The spies, unfortunately, did not have this information because the N.A. was afraid that if it got out to the public, dangerous weapons would be constructed (Not that the N.A. wasn't experimenting with their own Narinium weapons). The result of this was a large, virtually unstoppable series of explosions that destroyed the colony and lab completely.
This caused a large shift in the moons orbit, and in result, the tides of the earths oceans changed, destroying billions and billions of dollars worth of cities and other things.
This, of course, wasn't the only problem. Food sources had become rare, many of the earths natural animals now extinct, and the water supply was awful (Not that it wasn't fixable by water purification systems, but it was extremely costly.)
Nuclear and hydro energy sources were also slowly eating away at the planet. The N.A. soon created the satellites, Vega and Orion to begin trying to artificially recreate pure resources. Soon, people began to migrate and live in the satellites, knowing there was potential danger, but not having much of another choice.
Meanwhile, the Planet was getting worse and worse, and people who were not living in Bio Domes (Large glass domes where the high-middle to upper-class people resided) were beginning to rebel under a man who called himself "Grantu Trogh." He led these rebels against the N.A. He was quickly taken care of.
Then, a breakthrough happened. The N.A. discovered that a certain element (Which was unknown to man until that time) located in Narinium could speed up the natural process of evolution and growth, mostly in plant and micro- biological life. They began to use it to try and regrow natural food and plant sources.
For a while things looked good, until Trogh resurfaced with an entire army of brainwashed soldiers, now with the technology of Narinium weapons (How he got it is still unknown). He demanded that the N.A. make these new resources available to the common people, which, at that time was still impossible due to the short amount they had.
He then waged war against the N.A. and vowed that he would get hold of the resources for the earths people and take over what was left of the earths natural resources (Which was little, but there was some) He claimed to be sent by God himself. (It was thought that his true reason for getting the resources was for his own profit. He was doing experiments or his own with the evolutionary properties of Narinium and clamed to have discover a way to make people live longer.) His technology was incredible. Nuclear weapons had long since been outdated and replaced by both Narinium and fusion weapons.
He quickly became a N.A. threat. Since then the war had been going on. The satellites had been cleaned out of regular people, now used as war bases, and with the exception of the soon launched Lyra satellite, became testing grounds for human cryogenic freezing. Normal people were not ever to be moved to the satellites again unless the N.A. suspected...
"Hey Kyuusai!" Bryce called, snapping the young tactician out of his thoughts, "Where do you wanna eat?"
Kyuusai sighed almost wearily as he said, "Anything sounds good right now Bryce... anything at all."
"You know where I want to go?" Waki asked, her eyes glued to the ground as they walked, "Remember that old place we used to go to as kids? I wanna go there."
"Yeah! That sounds really good. Been a while since I've been there." Bryce clapped the woman tactician on the back, "Sound good Kyuusai?"
"Sure." Kyuusai answered. Bryce soon went back to chatting as they walked.
Kyuusai looked around him. Everything he saw was metal and concrete, no plants or animals existed. He then looked up, the glass bio dome that he was in showed the night sky above, (Which was a dark blueish brown, no stars visible past the wave of pollution) as civilian jets and transports flew outside. They were now in a busier part of the city, people bustling here and there, most in their airships or hover cars, but some walking Bridges came and went from everywhere, reaching the cities in the sky, and the surrounding cities on the ground and ocean. Wires and tubes reached around buildings to the top of the dome, along the bridges and under ground (Which was both cement and metal).
He laughed to himself as he quietly whispered "It's so ironic..."
"What did you say?" Bryce asked.
"Nothing, just thinking out loud." Kyuusai replied.
They soon arrived at the tower where the restaurant was located. They walked in and took a holo elevator (Elevators composed completely of see through components, able to travel extremely fast) to the top floor and into the restaurant.
They ordered a feast, feeling that since they were going to soon be going to the satellite anyway (Which meant no more food for them probably) and began to et. Bryce chatted away, trying to lift the spirits, Waki talking back.
Kyuusai remained silent. 'Its so ironic... this war is pointless now... Earth is doomed, and it's all the fault of a few greedy people..." He chuckled mentally, 'The damn resources that they began fighting over no longer exist!'
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Kyuusai walked into his apartment, a rather large one with three rooms located in the top of the cities southern most tower. He sighed, "Lights." The lights in the room turned on, slowly brightening until it reached his tastes, "Stop." The lights then stayed at that brightness.
He walked over to the window, not bothering to open it (No one ever opened windows anymore, that would have just been foolish!) And looked out.
Like earlier all he saw was metal and concrete. He began to doubt if there ever really was anything but that on the planet. Sighing, he turned and closed the curtains, deciding to go into the spare room he used as a library.
He scanned the shelves just browsing. He had once read somewhere that the earth used to be green and blue, and that plants were everywhere, trees, flowers, grass... things that almost no longer existed. Hell, Oxygen was now recycled, artificially created. It used to be that you could look up and see millions of stars past the atmosphere, and planets far away. Oh, and there used to be a little thing called "animals."
"Humans are foolish unlogical creatures..." He said to himself, no doubt his security system recording it, "I once believed that technology could never get too advanced... but now that I look around me at this dead planet, I come to find that it has..." He sighed, "Its sad really, this planet has given home to us for thousands and thousands and thousands of years, yet all we do is destroy it for our own technological profit. Now look at it! Foolish, foolish creatures."
"And now... they're beginning to move people to the satellites... which means..." He paused, "They are expecting the end of the world..."
Kyuusai cursed as he pulled a random old book off the shelf. Though most information could be found on data micro-laser disks now, he preferred the old books. They tended to be a bit more truthful anyway. He read intently, about time before world war I, how some parts of the globe still remained a mystery. It fascinated him.
He read about all the animals and creatures (livestock was now so rare and only produced for expensive dishes of food), people of the past, new inventions (Which were now so ridiculous they were never mentioned anymore, like the microwave, what was the deal with that anyway?) and how humanity cared about the planet.
The thing that still fascinated him the most was the fact that the globe was GREEN. Not silver and gray, green. How life flourished so brilliantly all due to the plants that existed on this planet alone... Life.
"I wish there was a way to restore the Earth to how it was..." He thought. His mind played with the idea a bit, when something struck him. He began to read more into the growth of these amazing things called plants, and thought about the N.A.'s evolutionary technology found in Narinium.
He let his mind do the work... he wasn't a top tactician for nothing, he was tested as a scientific genius (Along with Waki and Bryce of course), and had helped develop a few things to do with Narinium and fusion.
What if he could find a way to speed up the process used to grow plants with Narinium? There were hundreds of dead cities around the world now (The war had seen to that, killing billions) that could be cleared and regenerated.
But he only had two days... Kyuusai looked over at the clock. "scratch that.." He said, "One day now..."
He began to bury his nose in the books even more, the planet as it used to be completely absorbing him. He yearned to see it. He yearned to see a bird, or a fish. He would find a way... even if he had to do it in one day....
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Waki placed her hand on a small scanner just outside of Kyuusai's door, allowing the computer to check who she was. After hearing the beep of recognition, she waited for the computer to alert Kyuusai that she was there. When the door shifted open she entered, surprised to see the house covered in papers and books.
She walked through the main room and into the library, startled to see Kyuusai with his back toward her, surrounded in stacks of old manuscripts and antique books.
"Ummm, Kyuusai... what's up?" She said, placing a hand on his shoulder. Apparently it startled him and he looked up at her.
She was surprised to see that he had dark bags under his eyes, the sure fire sign that he had gotten no sleep the past night. She took a quick glance at the clock, it was now almost 8 pm.
"Hey Waki..." Kyuusai said tiredly, "You won't believe what I've done..."
"Kyuusai... how long have you been awake?!" Waki demanded.
"Ummm..." The tactician thought about it, "I haven't gone to sleep yet..."
"What!?"
"You wouldn't believe what I found out!" Kyuusai jumped up excitedly, but exhaustedly, "I can fix it!"
"You can fix what!?" She demanded.
"The Earth!"
Waki stared at her best friend for a while, confusion taking over he features, "What are you talking about!?"
He pointed down at a collection of scattered papers that were filled with his handwriting, "I found a way to speed up Narinium evolution..." He said, "I know it will work... and then, the Earth will be like it was before.."
Waki still stared at her friend before picking up the papers on the desk.
"We won't have to see the end of the world... the Earth... it can be fixed... we can save it!"
Waki was busy shuffling through the papers, her bright green eyes wide with astonishment, "Kyuusai... this is amazing... How did you figure all this out!?"
Kyuusai wasn't paying her much attention, "All we have to do is test it... I know it'll work...."
"Kyuusai, Im gonna call Bryce..." Waki breathed, she was amazed at the calculations that her friend had worked out... He was always smart, but this was amazing.
"Bryce... yeah..." Kyuusai said, he looked almost ready to pass out with exhaustion.
Waki walked over to the computer in the room and pushed a small button. A small holographic orb appeared in front of her with a list of choices. She touched the one that said "contact Bryce" and waited. Soon the holographic image shifted into the form of her friend, and spoke.
"Waki, what's wrong?" Bryce asked over the link.
"Nothing.." she answered, "You need to get over here now! You won't believe this."
"What is it?... where are you!?"
"Kyuusai's... just get over here."
"Oh, ok..." Bryce sighed and shut down the link, his image fading from view.
Waki turned back to face Kyuusai, surprised to see him busy entering data onto a theory simulator. He watched it play out, made a few changes, then watched it again.
Bryce soon arrived and went over the papers much in the same way Waki had, amazed at the data gathered.
"One problem though you guy's..." Bryce said, "We're being moved to the satellite tomorrow... where we are going to be..." He stopped, his normally happy go luck attitude gone, "You know what their going to do to us. They're going to freeze us and send us off on a shuttle... How can we get this information out and test it before then!?"
"We can contact the N.A..." Kyuusai said.
Bryce sighed, "You know Kyuusai, Im impressed. Really. I've never seen such a complete theory..."
Kyuusai exhaustedly smiled slightly. 'I know this'll work...'
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Authors note: I know it's long, trying to make up for the unbelievably short prologue. Hope you like it, I know there isn't much action yet. Sorry about that.
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