There he is. The kid I’ve been tailing for a week or so. I know the route he takes to and from school like the back of my hand. Of course I do, since it’s the same path I used to take. Cut down Main, and there’s a little dirt path off to the side….
Marie lights her ‘siguhret’ on fire and breathes it in. She told me it makes her feel good, though I think it smells stinky. I don’t understand why something so smelly would be enjoyable, but I don’t know a lot of other things. It’s better I don’t ask. Marie looks at her wrist gadget. "He’s…
The hover-shaft continues to take me up, and to my relief, nobody gets aboard with me. This particular shaft stops about fifty floors before the top of the stratoscraper, and those floors are usually reserved for crop engineering and other such things. I learned this thanks to my trusty datapad, which never back-talks me or…
A sharp beam of light pierces the solar screen outside and lands directly on my face, making me blink my eyes and raise an untrapped arm to shield my face. A computerized voice speaks from the ceiling, softly so as to not wake the other in the room. "Supreme Commander, it is the designated time…
Master Jason looks around one last time. The old man is gone. I watched him leave… he vanished in just the same way Master does. One moment, he was there, the next he wasn’t. Master turns back to me slowly. "I’ll see you tomorrow, or whenever. Remember your training, and ditch that armor as soon…
Earth, 45,153 L.Y. These are numbers that mean nothing to me. I am a part of the future, now, a place where fantasies become a reality. Starships, warp travel, and stratoscrapers that extend miles into the air, almost past the atmosphere itself. The future is a place where all humans are immortal, all diseases are…
A flash of movement to my side. As expected, the seated commando is in on this charade. I reach down and tap a button on my belt, which sends an emergency short range hypersuit deactivation signal. The Commando flops to the ground uselessly as his suit turns against him, giving me a comical moment that…
"Supreme Commander Hiro, the UEF Mothership is cleared for landing. Please proceed to the designated docking point marked on your display in three minutes, five seconds." The robotic voice speaks to me, and I fiddle with the display console commands. Every time I look at something or interact with a computer, a fragment of memory…
For several agonizing moments, I lose my ability to think clearly. The oxygen vanishes from the room, the air screams in pain, and space begins to warp. The lone pebble blasts forward at 99% the speed of light, leaving a wake of destruction in its path. The air superheats with a force not dissimilar to…
Silvia and Lora trudge along the hallway in front of me. We’re supposed to find and take out a rogue commando who’s been attacking and capturing demons in the Labyrinth for the last couple weeks. Yama seems to think this one is more troublesome than a few others, but he also appeared to care about…
