Chapter 10: Freedom isn't Free

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Over the next week after my meeting with Caren about the truth of what was really happening here at this facility I individually lead Vincent, Ares, and Medusa to Caren so the truth would be revealed to them and know we intend to escape. Vincent and Ares immediately signed on after they knew what my stance on the matter was, Medusa needed a little more convincing but she eventually agreed to come with us.


"Well it seems everyone's on board, so whats our plan on getting out of here with out dying?" I asked Caren.


"We're gonna disable the security systems, open the hangar doors, cut the power, then make off in a helo that has it's tracker removed." Caren replied.


"I can take care of the security systems, I have the best chance of evading the guard's detection." I said.


"Me and Ares can take the hangar and get the doors open." Vincent said looking to Ares who gave a nod.


"I guess that leaves me with the power, I can handle that." Medusa put in.


"Alright, I'll focus on keeping people away from the hangar as best I can from here and with my short cut I can easily meet you when its time to leave. Grab what you need out of your rooms aside from weapons unless they can be concealed under your clothes then meet back here asap." Caren said.


We all headed back to our rooms to grab what we needed. When I got into my room I grabbed all the essentials, I stowed my retractable sword on belt before looking at my rifle. I got a pang of regret in my chest as I looked upon the steel.


"I'm sorry I never got to fire you." I sighed as I ran my fingers across the rails.


I looked around my room one last time and spotted a crate from the warehouse in the corner. 'Oh yeah I never opened that' I thought to myself. I opened the crate and found the tan ball cap with the skull on top of other clothes. I picked up the hat and stashed it into my bag before looking at the other clothes. There was a green t-shirt, tan combat pants, desert boots that had clearly been places, and a black jacket with it's left arm torn off at the elbow. I looked at the tag and there was a name written in a faded marker.


KYLE


I got another intense headache as my vision blurred like static the more I looked at the name.


"My name was Kyle, wasn't it." I said to myself as a tear fell down my face.


I found my old name, however the true owner of that name is no more. He died when he lost his memories to this form and became Artemis, leaving behind the past.


"Time to go."


I left my room and headed down to Caren's office to find everyone else there waiting for me.


"Alright everyone's here now, once we start this theres no going back" Caren said.


We all nodded.


"Alright the first matter to take care of is the chips you all have implanted just by you necks. My jamming device will short circuit them when I put it on high, but before that put these on." she said as she laid out four gray combat shirts on the table.

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