Through the Fire and the Flames
Chapter 2
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I've only really begun to venture from my house, but at least it's a start. I've seen reports of people rioting, and massive casulties from their being killed because of many having weapons to try and start a rebellion against our so called 'leader'. My amnesia is so bad that I don't remember what his name was. The news doesn't even say his name either, so that's not really helping much.
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(Somewhere in Dutropolis, nearing noon)
William walked outside of his house for a moment to catch some fresh breath when he started to notice things that seemed more out of place than usual. There was a group of soldiers surrounding what seemed like a smaller group of anthropomorphic animals. William tried to look closer, and he saw the soldiers were about to fire on the animals.
Quickly, and instinctively, William ran down the stairs to the ground floor to stop the soldiers from slaughtering the group of animals. He reached the plaza just in time to get to shout, "Stop! WHat the hell are you doing?"
The soldiers lowered their guns and reaimed at William. The leader stood forward and told William that, "These animals are wanted by the master. Now, stand back and don't try to stop us."
"Make me, " William said defiantly, seething with anger at these soldiers' merciless attitudes to who William only knew were about to be taken in by their 'master'.
"Don't make me do this, but I can order my men to fire on you if you don't comply!" The squad all trained their guns directly at William, but he stood his ground. "Fine, I'm sorry, but you give me no choice. Fire at will!"
The bullet seemed to come out of the guns at slow motion, and WIlliam tried to duck, when he realized something. This is my mutation...
With ease, William dodged all the bullets, and the entire squad stopped an just looked at him, dumbfounded. "He just dodged all our ing bullets!"
"He's got like, inhuman reflexes!"
"I'll get him!" The group's leader fired at William again, and again William used his slow mo reflexes to dodge again. This gave the group of animals time to escape and by the time the soldiers realized it, the group was out of sight. William smirked. "You're going down!"
"They're gone! The animals master wanted are gone!" This got the leader's attention, and as he look for the group, William ran for his life in the direction he saw the animals go. Unfortunately, the soldiers had a different idea. They shot again, and a few bullets grazed William's arm, and cried out in pain. He blacked out.
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Flashes of images went through William's mind. He recognized none of them. It was like seeing someone else's life in fast-forwards, but he knew they were remnants of his old life. He saw an old lady, probably his mom, then an image of a small child and a toy the child had gotten for his birthday.
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"Hey! Don't leave me here!" A voice yelled after a pretty young woman. William recognized the voice as a younger version of himself.
"It's not my fault you weren't there when I needed you most," The woman replied as she walked away.
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"I can't take this much longer!" an even younger version of William cried out. This seemed to be when he was around 8 or 9 years old.
"Your father was a great man, and he died with honor." WIlliam's young self looked at his mom, who was now a young version of the old lady from a previous image.
"No he didn't! He was slaughtered by robots! That's not honorable!" The young William began to cry.
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"Hey Joe! Look at this one!" A current day William voice rang in the real William's head.
"What is it?" Joe, a guard from William's old job asked as he looked into the bottle William held.
"It's one of those alien scorpion things they were experimenting on a few days ago!"
"Cool dude!"
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"Wake up hunny!" William's mom said to the yound William. It was snowing outside, probably around Christmas.
"Did Santa come around yet?"
"Yes he did..."
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"Wake up! Ugh, I tell you, he'd dead."
"No, I checked. He's got a pulse."
Wiliiam began to think, This is a weird one that happened...
"Just keep trying! He saved our lives, so we've got to save his! It's the least we could do..."
Williams suddenly remembered about the soldiers, the animals escaping, he getting shot and blacking out, and his eyes shot open.
"He's awake!"
Shouts rang through William's ears. Someone's happy to see I'm still alive...
"I told you he was alive!"
Hands helped William sit up, and he took in his surroundings. Muffled voices were coming from the room next to the one he was in.
"Hey, can you hear us?" Someone popped in William's face. It was an animal, one that looked familiar too. "It's a good thing you saved us from those soldiers back there! We thought you'd died after we heard those first gunshots! We did our best afterwards to save you from the soldiers."
"Fortunately, they were reloading when we attacked them, and we took 'em out real quick like man!" a cat interrupted the other animal, which William couldn't really recognize. It seemed like William was having more trouble with his amnesia than he though at first. Now he was starting to forget what animal types were standing in front of him. That's not something good to forget...
"Where.. am I?"