Ben and I arrive on a spaceship he owns, and after twenty minutes, we soon start cruising down to Earth’s lower surface. The sun begins to darken as we pass through a thick haze that hovers over the ground. Ben flicks a dial and the screen changes from a camera-based display to a wire-frame mode…
The texture of the bland nutrition bar crunches in my mouth tastelessly, like the thousands of others that came before it. I never counted how many I’ve eaten; they just became a fact of life at some point. By the time I was barely out of diapers, around age thirty or so, I had consumed…
I walk up to the door at my suite and pause to reflect on the day so far. Marie is gone for a little while, though to where, I don’t know. I have free reign to change things as I wish, and she thinks she’s going to bring back an elite squad to take me…
" Locate. " Marie’s location doesn’t come to me as I had hoped, but that’s okay. I assumed it wouldn’t. Ben and I finish riding the hover-shaft out of Marie’s red-level facility and step off after a quick surveillance check to make sure nobody was outside. He taps some buttons on the wrist-communicator he pulled…
The feeling of the ship’s sonic shower washes over me, and I rub my skin slowly to get the blood off. For over an hour I’ve pummeled my body with waves of sound to wash the smell of death away, but even after scrubbing my skin raw, I barely feel any cleaner than before. I…
"Actually, I would suggest starting a little earlier, Master Hiro." Gyro’s blank face hums around in front of me and stares at me with his soulless eyes. "The formation of the United Earth Federation came during turbulent political times and was part of a genius plan executed as a joint operation between yourself and Miss…
My consciousness swims, as if I’m trapped in the ocean under a sheet of ice, and I can’t escape. I open my mouth to speak, but feel a painful sensation in my chest, as if I’m running out of air, but I can tell it’s a figment of my imagination. Suddenly a robotic male voice…
At the back corner of my cell, there’s an annoying dripping sound that makes it hard to sleep. The puddle of water that’s formed under the metal pipe above makes an audible ‘plop’ noise whenever a drop of water falls off it. I roll around a little on my blanket and sigh quietly to myself,…
Ben and I walk for several minutes without saying anything. I keep wondering to myself how I’m going to ditch him without it looking suspicious, but also if I should even try. He’s close to Marie, and the two of them are in a relationship of some sort. I can probably get information about Marie…
"I can’t believe she killed him. I mean, I can, there just wasn’t any hesitation. It may have even been unintentional." The words flow freely as I pace back and forth, and Marie watches silently as she leans against a wall. "I’m the Supreme Commander! Can’t I get her out of jail?" My question makes…
