PREY II: End of Era

Chapter 16

Heaven and Hell

Omega owned a spacious area of land and his house resembled more of a manor. It was cool inside the house with the air-conditioning going at its highest speed. The group was glad to finally get inside and Omega went to fetch drinks. The kids flopped on to the leather sofas while Ghost took the floating armchair, now all he needed was a cat and he would look like one of those baddies out of the old James Bond films. Omega came back with eight glasses, each filled with a dark green liquid and everyone drank greedily. Once they were done, Omega turned to Ghost and asked, "So you were going to tell me something….important?" he added. Ghost gave a weak smile and said, "Well you know you were made as a safety precaution after we built…Soul…" An eerie silence filled the room and everyone was staring at Ghost but then Omega began to laugh. "Oh! I knew it; the great Tristan never likes to kill! I thought at first there was something wrong, but now this explains everything!"

"So you also know that you have to come with me home…don't you?"

"What?"

"Yeah! Because as soon as Mrs. Foreman released Soul we have limited time to save as many people as possible!"

"I don't have a choice, do I?"

"No!"

"Fine, but are the kids coming?"

"Nope"

Ghost turned to the kids and said, "I'm sorry you'll have to stay here."

A kid, around 14, with red hair said, "Why can't we come? We want to be back with our families! Don't you understand that? I want to see my parents again. I want to laugh, I want to cry again and now you're taking it away from me!"

"I'm sorry but it'll cause too much space-time damage!"

Another child looked up and said, quietly, "You're evil Tristan! You know that?"

Under the city of Bangor 8:46

The ventilation shafts above the groups clanked and groaned under the weight of all the creatures that were crawling around up there. It was hell for anyone with a nervous disposition, never knowing when an experiment would fall through and start attacking the group. The atmosphere of fear was heavy, even though everyone was carrying some sort of powerful weapon. Suddenly through the roof came a creature that looked like a cat crossed with a monkey, it made horrid screeching sounds and attempted to attack one of the nearby scientists but was shot in the head 5 times as it jumped. Its body lay in a heap on the floor motionless and now there was a hole in the roof where at anytime another of those things could jump down. Nicole instinctively looked up as some strange sort of jet-black reptile came crashing down, it was much taller than any human and its protective armour deflected most bullets. But nothing as close as the shotgun bullets Nicole was firing repeating into its head, it gave up in the end and slumped to the floor twitching slightly. A human figure was coming towards the group, but by the way it moved you could tell it was zombified or brought back to life. Soon more and more came from each side and the base began to look, to Nicole, like something out of a zombie, 18 rated game though in this game you had 1 life and no reset button…if hell existed then this was it. Nicole fired a warning shot and hit one of the zombies but they still kept coming no matter what. A few security guards threw grenades but no affect. When the zombies were ten metres away the whole groups let the bullets rip, massacring every zombie insight. Nicole was in the middle of this adrenaline pumping event, secretly whishing that Tristan would be here soon.

Omega and Ghost walked out onto the porch and Omega stopped and said, "You should really tell the truth."

"That's funny coming out of you, Omega" Ghost remarked

"Come on everyone has a right to know the truth; you'll never come back here"

"Yeah, you're right!"

Ghost walked back into the house, he was nervous, how would the kids take this news? Was the technology so advanced that they could suffer from culture shock?

The kids all glared at him when Ghost came back into the main room and one said, "What do you want?"

"I have a lot of explaining to do, look, all of you are robots. You were built out of nanotechnology copied from the DNA of six kids, right and now this would be heaven for you. No-one to take you, no-one to use you and no-one to bother you. Somewhere you can live in peace."

"Won't we get lonely?"

"There is a village not far from here and these are peaceful times, no one will harm you. But now I must go, there is someone who needs my help and I must help her!"

Ghost let it sink in and turned to go out the door but one of the smaller kids said, "Thank you for telling us the truth!" Ghost smiled and made his way to Omega and said, "That's all cleared up!"

Omega smiled, "Do you want to stop off at the medieval times to pick up…supplies?"

"I think that's a great idea!" said Ghost and then the two friends vanished forever from that universe.

End of Chapter 16