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Interview #0050 - Ved

24 days after 'The Change'

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Hey. I'm Ved. Jay's younger brother. Before I came here I was something called a 'Techno'. I guess I'm the only actual officer Techno still around. I was here after the epidemic to. I guess I'm pretty good at surviving. That's about it for who I am…was. Whatever.

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Shade just showed me something, a sign. He wants me to illustrate how I got here. His words, not mine, obviously.

Um…My brother and I were searching an area, along with about seventeen other Technos, we weren't really looking for anything, you know? But, um…yeah. We were looking for trouble I guess. Jay to stop it, me to start.

Short laugh

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I really wish I knew where Jay was right now. I know that I…never mind. That wouldn't make sense anyway…

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Shade wants me to get back to the story. Okay, I can do that.

Um…

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We were walking around, you know? Like I said earlier I suppose, but then, something really weird happened.

My brother was the first to notice it, all bow down to the prince slash advisor of the Technos, my big brother.

Shade put up another sign, he wants me to stick to the story. I will, I will. Damn, can't anyone have a little fun around here? Stupid…things.

I'm getting to the story Shade, don't rise another sign up.

Mumbles

Like I said, my brother heard something, he looked to me and asked if I heard that. I shook my head no and rolled my eyes at him.

I thought he was trying to scare me.

That wasn't it.

It didn't take long for my brother to split the Technos up to figure out what the sound was. He of course ordered me to stick with him.

I did, I was still in trouble for - well, that doesn't matter now, does it?

Anyway, my brother and I were searching around an alley when suddenly one of our troops screamed, like really loud and blood curdling scream, you know?

I'll be honest with you, you know? I was scared, I was ready to run the other way, but my brother, being who he was just had to go and figure out what was wrong - so we did.

When we got there, about three members of our troops were gone. We heard metal scraping the ground again (the rest of the troops came to figure out what was going on to) and we all looked, there were these… things. All huge and…metal. There were like, seven of them. But one of them were…walking, rolling? How did they move? I don't remember…

I remember looking up to my brother, waiting for him to tell us what to do.

The things saw us and when he saw that, he turned around and pushed me, told me to run and tell Ram immediately or something like that I said no, I wanted to stay.

The things were beginning to pick up speed, they were like about a block from us now, not that far (we were in the middle of one of the old main streets if you didn't figure that out already). My brother told the others to get ready to fire. We all started to set the things to '9', you know? Because we were all scared (but all wondering what the heck was going on, so we stayed).

He told us to shoot, we did, and the things barely stopped. He told us to fire again. One of the things actually paused for, well, enough time that we didn't have to move. I think we did this like two or three more times before my brother told everyone to retreat.

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I know Shade, I know. I'm gonna keep telling it. Let me just remember for a sec, okay?

Now where was I? At retreating, oh yeah.

Yeah. My brother told us to retreat. After this point, two more Technos were grabbed and we had no idea what was going on still - we were now missing five Technos. 19 Technos to 14 in less than one minute. Or at least it felt like that.

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We were running…really running you know, like, for our lives running. These things were not close to getting off of us. It was nuts.

Rubs face around eyes.

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A couple of others were grabbed. Jay and I were still running from them though. We were still fucking running. It wouldn't stop coming at us - none of them. The things-

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What did they look like - the things? Oh…they were large, huge. They didn't have mouths, huge eyes - red. I'm pretty sure that they sort of rolled… I guess, or 'floated'. Something like that. Did they have wires connecting from the head to the 'arms' - that's a sign Shade just showed me.

Yeah, they did.

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They're called Myrmidons? Okay. I suppose I can go with that. I'll try to remember it.

Anyway, the Myrmidons wouldn't leave until it had, like, three people to take back

Back to the story - sorry, got off track again. We were still running. There were about eight of us left now - the great Technos running for their lives, that was a lot of fun.

I suppose the technically at that point it was all we could do. My brother ordered us to run, retreat where we wanted but NOT towards headquarters. Said that that was to dangerous.

I think one or two of them did try to run for headquarters, but it didn't make a difference. They were grabbed, and taken back to wherever those things came from.

That leaves… like, what, ten Technos? Four Myrmidons. We outnumber - don't matter. We out numbered them from the beginning, practically half of us are already gone.

We're still running. The thing was gaining on me and Jay. I don't know about the rest of the Technos now. Suddenly, I felt my brother get a grip on my shoulders and he pushed me into an alley, to small for these things to get into - and then I heard him yell.

Like the one from the others.

I couldn't stop or do anything.

Voice changing pitches rapidly - Suggests he's crying

He was taken - I saw it. Suddenly, it was like 'Okay, these things have my brother - you should probably run now' and I was. I was sprinting to the other side, and these things were starting to chase me. It was scary as hell.

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Do I admit that I was afraid? What do you think I just DID Shade?

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Can I quit now?

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Get to the part with Chloe and have her finish it? Alright, I can do that.

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So, now I'm running down the street. This thing shooting at me when suddenly I saw Chloe and those two children behind her. She looked panicked - these things were all over the city you know? And apparently they got this Lex guy while they were there, and another guy - Pride.

They were all scared to - obviously. When I saw them I told them to run, it didn't take them a second to start doing just that, seeing the th- sorry Shade, Myrmidons behind me.

After a while, I figured out that we kept on running forward. I gained speed when we were closer to an alley that I knew had a way to go down. Not into the sewers, but into the lower part of the building, you know?

So I just pushed us all into there and that was it. Chloe can tell you the rest.

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