Thinking back on the day of my rebirth gave me a new resolve as I flew from "dead town" to the Barons Fortress. I would infiltrate his operation, find the poor wretch he was injecting eco into and if the wretch showed sufficient skill I would train him against the baron.

If not I would let him loose on the city and see what chaos he would weak. I entered the compound the same way I exited those long years ago and made my way through the vent to an exhaust port above the torture chamber. As I looked through the vent I was relived to see that I did not have to wait.

The baron already had the prisoner restrained and his new captain a freak named erol standing by. Erol was a sadistic bastard who enjoyed watching his prey die a slow painful death. Not like I didn't but I had a good reason. I after all am evil incarnate.

I particularly enjoyed the irony of it all. Most people I killed were the guards of blood and they had helped the baron to turn me into what I have become. Erol was now administering the eco; I found it interesting that the baron had learned his lesson. He was administering the eco in small amounts.And erol was enjoying every second of the boys pain.

It would be a treat to rip his head off and feed it to a metal head. But now I thought back to the boy. His screams were like music to my ear. But there was something missing. I heard his emotions individually, pain, anguish, fear, pity, sorrow, guilt, confusion, regret, worthlessness, wait no rage! Now that I thought about it I herd no anger or revenge or lust either.

DAM IT he was still too afraid to admit is was the barons fault! He wasn't ready for me. He wouldn't comprehend what I must do to feel satisfied. Then I felt something stirring inside him. I immediately realized what it was. It was his rage embodied by the eco.

His long-term exposure to small amounts of eco was so contrary to my short lived exposure that it must have created a separate entity. This entity was the embodiment of all of the kids rage and desires. This was a problem for both me and the baron.

One person who has all of his emotions to himself was easy, even fun to manipulate but dealing with two separate entities so different from each other yet rolled into one, that would be a challenge. It would be a test of my persuasion abilities I thought with a wicked smile playing across my face.

Think of the enjoyment that would come from toying with a person with multiple personalities. I stayed for awhile linger to study how the boy reacted to this evil that was surfacing within him. By his facile expressions and his eyes in particular I could tell he was still afraid of this embodiment of his evils.

He needed to get more "acquainted" to this evil before I would save him. As I was about to leave I herd the baron speaking. I used my oversensitive ears to eavesdrop. So the baron was tired of pumping eco into this child.

As I listened more intensely I leaned forward.He was going to leave the kid in erols "capable hands". I was torn between my two choices. Should I save my fellow freak and risk exposing my self to the baron prematurely, or should I leave him to die in isolations (erols favorite way of seeing his victims die)... wait that was it, isolation.

In isolation he would have no one but himself to talk to. I decided I would leave him for a week before rescuing him. Then as I was about to leave a wrench or to be moreprecise,ottsel was thrown into my plans. I watched horrified as a little orange rat came out of nowhere to ruin my plan. I nearly jumped on him as he released the boy who he called Jak. And then they left the room.

I felt no reason to stay; I would stalk Jak waiting in the shadow carefully planning my entrance into his life. I had to wait awhile before I found the right time. I saw him grow, joining the underground for torn, becoming a wasteland for a sleaze ball named krew and work for many other "employers" including a sage and electrician and even an lurker. I finally found the key in an old friend of his who was working as a mechanic and who erol had set his eyes upon.

Nik: Have you noticed that his chapters have been getting longer each time? Maybe now that Ive made them easier to swallow by cutting it into smaller bits more people will read ne? Well thats the theory anyway. Hey, Reviewer! Go tell people about his story!