After discovering clues from her astray father, the first hybrid offspring joins forces with her ragtag friends, embarking on a mission to regain the planet Safforia from the dystopian regime.
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Year E3029
Beck
"Ray!" I yelled down the dark tunnel, watching her walk behind the guard with my daughter.
Ocea was not the young girl I once knew. She grew into a beautiful lady and a mirror reflection of her mother. My life had been in darkness for years. Like a black hole, I had failed as a dad.
A tear dropped from my eyes. I fell into the chilly dirt. I gripped the papers scattered around me, the drawings of how I saw Ocea on our last day, and of Kat and her sunshine smile.
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"Kitty, please forgive me," I whispered, cradling her.
Her limp body shook my core as I ran between the buildings, hearing the bombs in the distance. Guns fired around me in the houses while the Men of Suits took over the city we loved, the city we grew into a family.
The fence stood in the distance as I eyed the blood tree. A woman cried from a side alley before walking aimlessly beside me. Her eyes glazed over as blood dripped from her head, clogging it with chunks of her hair. She staggered away, unfazed by me.
I ran, seeing a MOS grab her. My heart stung without helping the hurt woman, but Kat needed me. She will not become a body on the street that Men of Suits clean up with a dumpster beetle.
Crouching near the fence, I set Kat on the ground and pulled at the metal wire. With no movement, I yelled internally. Kat's blood on my hands dried as I froze, feeling the panic sink in.
"Here," a deep voice said, cutting the fence, and the chief from the Saviors knelt before me and cleaned my hands. "Beck, right?"
"Yes," I replied. "I thought you left with my—"
He glanced around at his soldiers. "So she is your daughter," he whispered. "Miracle."
"Please don't tell anyone," I said, feeling I messed up.
"I won't," he replied. "The girl is at a safe house right now. Let me help you with your wife and bring you to her."
I nodded and grabbed Kat from the ground. We crawled between the broken wire and raced to the blood tree. I fell in love with Kat while this tree grew, reflecting my life with her.
Laying Kat's dead body at the base of the tree, I hugged her chest, wishing for a tiny beat. A small tear escaped before I pulled at the blood roots, needing the tree to take Kat's body.
"Thank you, Chester," I said while he knelt beside me.
He placed his hand on my shoulder, squeezing it. We watched the blood roots slither toward Kat and wrap the bleeding snakes around her ankle. It froze while a bomb near us shook the ground. The vine quickly tucked back into the ground, and branches vibrated, raining leaves on us.
