CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - INTERMISSION: A REVOLUTIONARY'S BEGINNING
Lightning rolled across the night sky and rain fell heavily in sheets. The air around was filled with brilliant lights from parked vehicles and countless people were screaming and yelling. People looked on from a distance as emergency vehicles rushed past, more lights blazing and sirens sounding loudly.
- Location: Angel's Bridge, North District -
- Time Sacle: 14 Months Ago -
"Multiple pileup, we have a multiple pileup on the Angel's Bridge. Emergency vehicles are on the scene and administering aid.."
Voices with a sense of urgency in their tones, footsteps falling with a sense of necessary.
One of the Officers stopped at a nearby vehicle which had turned upside down trapping it's driver inside. For all intense and purposes the vehicle had been totally wrecked, several impacts from all sides.
She lent down and looked inside. "Can you hear me?" she asked. She took a small flash light from her pocket and shone it inside to get a better view. The driver's hair and face was matted with blood, and the driver's clothes were ripped and torn exposing several more injuries. She looked into the driver's eyes and saw them partially opened. "This one's conscious!" she called out looking back across the bridge.
The driver let out a long, painful breath, making the offier look back.
"The medics on the way!" she said looking deep into the driver's eyes.
From the far side of the bridge two figures stood in the shadows, watching the events unfold in front of them.
"Did it have to be like this?" one of the figures whispered softly as he looked around at the chaos.
"It is the beginning," a second figure answered. "This is how it happened, this was supposed to be, however, unpleasant at the time."
They looked up towards an upturned vehicle, where kneeling next to one of the doors knelt a female officer lookin inwards.
"Listen to me?" the female was calling with a strain in her voice. "Can you feel that? That's my hand. Hold it. Go on .. as hard as you can .."
"I only wish this never happened in the first place," the first figure commented softly under his breath.
"We are not empowered to change the past," the second person replied. "There are rules that we much obey. Consequences for our actions. All we can do is watch the future and bend it to our own means."
They turned their attention back as they continued to hear the female officer speak to the crash victim. "It's over, and I've got you, and you're safe. You're safe now. You got that? Don't let go. Don't let me go .."
"It is complete," the second figure stated as he turned and started to walk away.
"Wait," the first person called. "How would you know this is complete? You know of the force that is against us, against me. What if .."
"What if?" the second person interrupted. "The future cannot be foretold, simply because these people measure their existence by it. They know no other means and so cannot see the journey ahead. We however, live outside time, without those constraints. Surely you can see what is to come. And IF the future does not turn the way we envision, surely it is not the end of this world."
The first figure was left alone where he stood, continuing to look at the scene in front of him. His companion walking away.
The second figure stopped mid-way and turned back. "Remember this," he muttered, "I am Omega. I do not bow down to the worlds, the worlds bow down to me."
Lightning rolled across the night sky and rain fell heavily in sheets. The air around was filled with brilliant lights from parked vehicles and countless people were screaming and yelling. People looked on from a distance as emergency vehicles rushed past, more lights blazing and sirens sounding loudly.
- Location: Angel's Bridge, North District -
- Time Sacle: 14 Months Ago -
"Multiple pileup, we have a multiple pileup on the Angel's Bridge. Emergency vehicles are on the scene and administering aid.."
Voices with a sense of urgency in their tones, footsteps falling with a sense of necessary.
One of the Officers stopped at a nearby vehicle which had turned upside down trapping it's driver inside. For all intense and purposes the vehicle had been totally wrecked, several impacts from all sides.
She lent down and looked inside. "Can you hear me?" she asked. She took a small flash light from her pocket and shone it inside to get a better view. The driver's hair and face was matted with blood, and the driver's clothes were ripped and torn exposing several more injuries. She looked into the driver's eyes and saw them partially opened. "This one's conscious!" she called out looking back across the bridge.
The driver let out a long, painful breath, making the offier look back.
"The medics on the way!" she said looking deep into the driver's eyes.
From the far side of the bridge two figures stood in the shadows, watching the events unfold in front of them.
"Did it have to be like this?" one of the figures whispered softly as he looked around at the chaos.
"It is the beginning," a second figure answered. "This is how it happened, this was supposed to be, however, unpleasant at the time."
They looked up towards an upturned vehicle, where kneeling next to one of the doors knelt a female officer lookin inwards.
"Listen to me?" the female was calling with a strain in her voice. "Can you feel that? That's my hand. Hold it. Go on .. as hard as you can .."
"I only wish this never happened in the first place," the first figure commented softly under his breath.
"We are not empowered to change the past," the second person replied. "There are rules that we much obey. Consequences for our actions. All we can do is watch the future and bend it to our own means."
They turned their attention back as they continued to hear the female officer speak to the crash victim. "It's over, and I've got you, and you're safe. You're safe now. You got that? Don't let go. Don't let me go .."
"It is complete," the second figure stated as he turned and started to walk away.
"Wait," the first person called. "How would you know this is complete? You know of the force that is against us, against me. What if .."
"What if?" the second person interrupted. "The future cannot be foretold, simply because these people measure their existence by it. They know no other means and so cannot see the journey ahead. We however, live outside time, without those constraints. Surely you can see what is to come. And IF the future does not turn the way we envision, surely it is not the end of this world."
The first figure was left alone where he stood, continuing to look at the scene in front of him. His companion walking away.
The second figure stopped mid-way and turned back. "Remember this," he muttered, "I am Omega. I do not bow down to the worlds, the worlds bow down to me."
