The Irangel | Prequel Story |

Chapter 4 ~ Direct Kill

Excitement increased as Tori prepared for her trip to planet Iredescent. Detailed plans were drawn for a large glass building that Tori intended for her secret lab, creating rooms where she could dream and scheme to her heart's content.

The floorplans included a bedroom with its own walk-in closet and master bathroom. Though it wasn't as grand as her bedroom, it was sufficient for Tori. There was also a study room, a basement, a personal office, and a kitchen.

There was the transformation room where Tori would turn herself and others into Iredescents, and a room she labeled 'the wing chamber', which was housing for the people she intended to turn into Iredescents.

As it turned out, Tori wouldn't be the only human to become an Iredescent.

During the entire construction, Tori never revealed her motives, playing the role of a jetsetter. None of the workers knew why a socialite wanted a private building in the forest; they incorrectly assumed it was some sort of luxury house.

The glass building was built on a private part of government property that Tori had purchased for personal reasons. Because Iredescent was discovered by the German government, giving her a newfound love for everything German, Tori chose to build the glass building in a German forest on a piece of government property, now privately hers. The forest was called Wachstyen Forest and it was located near the suburban city of Mondlicht, Germany.

As Tori's ambition grew, so did her drive to keep everything secret and exclusive. The construction workers who built the glass building mysteriously died in sporadic pattern so that suspicion wouldn't be drawn. Tori orchestrated each death to make it seem natural, to make unaware that it was her own doing. Tori didn't want anyone to discover what she wanted to do, fearing it would be the end of her dreams if people knew that she constructed a secret lab.

Midway through construction, Tori bought a new mansion in a remote part of Germany near Liechtenstein, a country surrounded by Austria and Switzerland. Tori's new mansion was in a quiet, hidden mountain valley with a stream of water flowing in part of the land she owned. Her new mansion was about an hour away from the glass building, located in between Munich and Liechtenstein. Tori planned to move there sometime after her return trip from Iredescent. Tori's mansion would be the perfect place to hide a stolen spaceship and work on her research.

Before the glass building was completely built, Tori took over satellite in order to cut off certain areas of Wachstyen Forest and the areas surrounding her German mansion. Nobody even knew there was a hacker that sectioned off certain areas from satellite view. That part of government property wasn't even monitored; there was no need for monitoring since it was just a quiet forest and a scenic drive from the city. And Liechtenstein was a small, beautiful country that posed no harm.

But Tori took every meticulous precaution to ensure the complete success of her plans.

A plan was carefully devised for her secret mission to travel to the sparkly alien planet alone. It wasn't something the government would allow, since they saw no point in going to a planet that clearly wanted to be left alone. But persistence was one of Tori's greatest strengths....

And assets.

Of course, Tori thought, lifting her head as she looked up from the piles of notes on her desk. I need a spaceship.

A spaceship was extremely vital in her lone secret mission. In order to obtain it, however, Tori had to steal it. The government wouldn't let her use one, even though she had clearance and her CES status. Theft was the only way Tori could ever get her hands on such an expensive spacecraft.

The spaceships at Aerospace Station Nieznane operated very much like cars and commercial aircraft. There was a steering wheel, making the pilot feel like he or she was turning the wheel on an old-fashioned sailing ship, though most of the newer ships had autopilot options and digitalized screens with guidance, just like on modern airplanes.