Hand-Eye sits alone in her dingy apartment. The reminence of mostly eaten takeaway is scattered infront of her. The dim light from a thin panel in the wall displaying the news illuminates the room. She uses a cloth to clean the barrel of one of her pistols to remove any dust or dirt. But suddenly with her superhuman periphery vision she notices an intresting story on the news.
The sub text at the bottom of the news reads "BREAKING: Former EHRR Leader Murders Multiple Police officers and FBI agents in New Washington"
"At 15:35 UTC today in New Washington Chibwe Mapalo, commonly known as former terrorist leader "Metallic" of the EHRR, attack multiple officers and FBI agents who have been declared dead. He used an unknown weapon to do this but physcicists suspect some sort of fusion bomb. He also appears to escape through some sort of portal, but scientists are baffled at this possibility. Another accomplace has been identified as missing child Bioseus Kevin from 2000 by billionaire CEO, Dr Phillip Talc, of Talc Tech who claims to know him." The reporter annonces while showing live videos of the scene and the video of Bioseus and Metallic escaping via portal.
"Call Kyela Mapalo," Hand-Eye commands, seemingly to no one.
A hologram appears on the table, a miniature Kyela sits at a desk seemingly talking to someone.
"Wait a minute," She tells the other person. "Hey how are you?" She then asks Hand-Eye.
"Have you seen the news!" She exclaims back
"No why? What's happened?" She asks in confusion and anxiety. She switches it on as a panel in her office lights up.
"We now turn to or guest Dr Philip Talc, now how to you know who this accomplace is?" The interviewer asks Talc.
"No way, that's the Techno-Wizard!" Kyela jumps on her chair "What happened?"
Hand-Eye slow nods and points as Kyela reads the caption at the bottom of the screen. Kyela is speechless.
"That man groomed my son 30 years ago, he kidnapped him. No wonder he's in cahoots with a murderous terrorist like Metallic!" Talc replies
"So this is the first you've seen of him for 30 years and no sign of your son?" The interviews returns
"No, the police could'nt locate him. My son, John Talc, has been stolen away from me!" Talc tells the interviewer.
The interview continues as Kyela dims the sound.
"I'm gonna kill him!" Kyela excalims. "Add Chibwe Mapalo to call,"
A catchy ringtone fills the ship as Bioseus cleans his wounds.
"You hear that?" Bioseus shouts through the ship.
Metallic walks in with a confused look on his face until he sees his phone on a seat. He hasn't heard his ringtone for a long while.
He touches the screen of the very thin but wide phone and images of both Hand-Eye and Kyela appear. A hologram of Chibwe appears in front of the others.
"What on earth do you think you're doing! Blowing up the authority in the middle of New Washington! The EHRR has enough negative attention as is. Now the terrorist label with be even more prominent," Kyela shouts down the speakers.
"Not to mention they think we have nuclear weapons now!" Hand-Eye chips in.
"New Washington?" Bioseus questions in the background listening in.
"What was I supposed to do? Let them arrest me?" Metallic asks back with a harsh tone.
"Maybe don't go to New Washington then! You know what survellance is like there!" Kyela rebutes. "And what in the world was Bioseus doing with Talc's wand?"
"Well..." Metallic replies without a chain of thought.
Bioseus sneaks away to the cockpit and Metallic seems as if his skin would be blushing if he wasn't coated in metal.
"We messed up," is all that leaves Metallic's mouth.
"That's an understatement!" Hand-Eye points out
"Very!" Kyela adds
Metallic grits his teeth and ends the call. "Get going!" He calls to Bioseus. The ship jerts forward and flies at supersonic speed out of the atmosphere, leaving Earth once again.
John gets changed into a suit of armour, without the infinity court symbol, and lifts his shiethed sword. He storms through the infinity court corridors with blind determination.
He kicks down the door of Empathy's extravegent room where Empathy sits on his throne of glimmering gold (now smeared with blood in John's eyes).
"What's the matter most gracious Infinity Guardian?" Empathy gestures as John bounds in sword in his hand. He sits idely in his throne, now with an aura of a usurper.
"You lied, you manipulated me, you ruled by fear, torture and death! And now is the end!" Infinity Guardian shouts as he walks forward, sword in his hand.
"What do you mean?" Empathy asks with a false sense of concern.
"You know full well!" John replies sword at Empathy's neck.
"Go on then, kill me, if it will make you feel any better," Empathy tells John reasuringly.
John grunts but finds his sword unable to move. He lowers his weapon and it drops to the floor.
Empathy suddenly bursts out in maniacle laughter.
"So amusing when the puppet discovers it's strings! But those string are made of what cannot be unstrung! You will forever be mine! And theres nothing... you... can... do," Empathy says keeping his calming, tranquil and reasurring voice despite the deeply concerning meaning behind his words. But John does nothing.
John's eyes glaze over and he turns around and walks back out of the room. Magnus watches hiding in the corner with a solumn stare.
Bioseus holds out his wand while looking outside of the ship. They are orbiting Mars. A large portal appears infront on the ship.
"Here we go!" Bioseus announces and he glides the ship in the portal.
The ship enters the Baraxian System, portal closing behind.
"What are we doing here now?" Metallic asks as Bioseus navigates they system.
"More business," Bioseus replies monotonly.
"No we go back!" Metallic commands getting infront of Bioseus' interstellar map.
"Sorry but thanks for the help," Bioseus says with a small smirk.
Metallic looks confused until he realises the wand is aimed at him, before he can act he isn't there. He's in a dark room, no exits, only metal walls.
The ship enters the atmosphere of a familiar Barax-12. He lands his shuttle in a now clearly done up hanger and is greeted by a squad of robots which begin cleaning and refueling his ship aswell as moving his cargo. Bioseus walks out and heads into some sort of lift which transports him though a mechanised city before reaching a lounge room. Inside woman wearing a brown longcoat with a wide brown hat and a some sort of respirator sits comfortably on the couch.
"Greeting Bioseus! My condolences to the loss of Tanya, she was a great crewmember and friend! I got the message and I am pleased to announce that my crew is available for the siege and my contacts have been able to track down many of the escapees from The Spatem Avem to aid our cause. Numerous other deep space mercenary crews have also rallied to our cause in order to escape the tyranny of The Infinity Court," The woman tells him as he enters.
"I thank you graciously Captain Levanski," Bioseus says as he bows to her, she lifts her hat.
Bioseus walks through to a different room, computer screens at every angle and the bust of a humanoid robot infront of him.
"The fleet is operational my lord" The bust announces to him. "Doomsdayan mercenaries Haste and Maleviolence wish to enter our facility my lord,"
"Let them in," Bioseus commands.
The bust nods and Bioseus gets back in the lift with Levanski to meet the mercenaries.
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Infinity Guardian
Ciencia FicciónAn orphan boy is gifted with astonishing powers on 1st January 2000. His best friend is meddling with chemicals and creates a dangerously destructive weapon. His foster father is a crazy chemist. He is bullied at school. But soon everything will cha...
