Disclaimer: I do/did not, unfortunately, own/create Deus Ex and Deus Ex: Invisible War. Try and sue me if you want, you'll get nowhere. I only made this for entertainment only, not to make a quick buck. Also I know that there are some things that you can't do in Deus Ex: Invisible War that are in here, I just put them in to make the biomodification seem more advanced.
Prologue
Date: 15-9-2050
James sighed as he stared at his computer screen. 26 emails, the result of not clearing out your inbox for a month. He scanned through the subjects of each email. Month old 16th birthday greetings from friends and relatives, junk mail, newsletters from websites, the usual.
"God," he said as he prompted the PC to shut down. "I'll sort them out later." Standing up, James stretched, heading over to a coat rack.
"We live in a future of high technology and yet there isn't a way to get rid of junk mail..." He grabbed a black leather jacket from the rack and slipped it on, opening the door to the house. Before leaving he turned around to face inside.
"Just going out for an hour or so, I'll see you later mum." From inside, a young female voice answered back.
"Alright love, see you later." James closed the door and headed down the street, shoving his hands into his pockets. He sighed as he began to wonder where his dad was, the wonder quickly turning into hate. Soon after James was born, his dad began drinking and hardly went to work. When James turned four, his father left his mother for another woman; a secretary at his workplace. He laughed grimly.
"I thought that only happened in movies and books..." James sighed and then stopped, suddenly noticing he took a wrong turning into a bunch of back alleys.
"Oh great, just my luck..." He looked around for any ways out but couldn't see any. I must have wandered further in then I thought, he thought to himself. Someone barged past James, almost knocking him over. James turned to shout at the person, then hesitated. The person was carrying guns in his hands and had a shotgun on his back. Probably an arms dealer...gotta get out of here before I cause trouble for myself, he thought to himself. James started to wander around the back alleys, but this eventually ended up in him getting even more lost and confused. He sighed and turned around, coming face to face with a man wearing slightly scruffy clothes. James mumbled a word of apology and began to walk around the man. His face suddenly came into contact with the man's chest as the man neatly sidestepped to block James' path. James tried again to walk past the man, but the man blocked him again. James was loosing his cool, and fast.
"Listen, I don't have a problem with you, and you don't have a problem with me, so could I pass?" James said, a hint of annoyance in his voice. The man just slowly shook his head, then spoke.
"Have to make way for the future..." James slowly blinked.
"What do you mean by 'Make way for the future'?"
"You may not realise it...but it's coming..." James backed up a little. He was beginning to think this guy was a madman.
"What is?" The man suddenly sprung a small combat knife and grinned.
"The age of biomodified humans...and I must destroy those who threaten that future!" The man quickly slashed at James with the knife, but James jumped back, quickly turning around and running from the now apparent madman. In school James was the fastest runner in his school and could outrun most adults. But looking back, James saw the madman was on his tail and closing in on him.
"Jesus Christ, how can he be so fast?!" James turned into another alleyway and quickly hid behind some trashcans. Watching from a gap, he saw the madman run into the alley and right past him. He was lucky that he has ran into this alley; it was short enough to make the madman think he had been and gone. The madman stopped near the end of the alleyway and appeared to be thinking. James waited, trying to keep his breath silent. Eventually, the man ran down an alley to the left. Slowly getting out from his hiding place, James breathed a sigh of relief, turning to go the way he came. Suddenly, a sharp stabbing pain came from the back of his knee and he screamed in agony. James looked back and saw the madman, knife in hand, waving his finger and tutting.
"Not going to loose me THAT easily, boy..." James looked where the pain was coming from and saw the combat knife he tried to attack James with. Normally James would had wondered how someone can throw a combat knife so accurately, but all that was going through his mind at that time was pulling the knife out and running away. He gritted his teeth and yanked the knife out, wincing as it made the wound slightly worse. Looking back one more time, James saw the man slowly walking towards him. He looked forward and began to ran, disadvantaged by his wound. He tried to run into every short alleyway, taking turns every chance he could get, in an attempt to loose the madman. Eventually he saw something that made his heart jump for joy; an exit into the main streets. He ran towards it, hoping that the madman wouldn't follow him into broad daylight. Suddenly, James felt another stabbing pain in two places in his back. He screamed again and fell to the floor. Before he could see if his screams were heard, the madman was over him, quickly turning him around, causing the pain in his back to worsen. James suddenly realised he was still holding the knife from his knee and slashed at the man, cutting him from near the bottom of the man's eye to the side of his face. The man growled and pulled out another knife. He stabbed James in the chest and James cried out weakly. His vision was beginning to fade and he couldn't see very well. James saw the outline of the man raise the knife again, then he heard gunshots. Those were the last things he saw before his world went pitch black.
