Ederios

Balance of Morality - Part 6

"Oh my god....Yind..." said Lei.
"I can't believe it.....Yaon..."
"NO. I REFUSE TO BELIEVE THIS. YAON IS NOT FUCKING DEAD. OKAY? SHE IS NOT DEAD."
"Lei...she was in that hallway....the fire..."
"NO. NO STOP IT, STOP FUCKING MESSING WITH ME. SHE'S ALIVE, AND I'M GOING TO FIND HER."
"What if she didn't survive it, trying to find her would be fruitless.."
"I have to try...she's my best damn friend."
"HOW? HOW WILL YOU FIND HER?"

She thought. Yind was right, Yaon was probably dead. That explosion was too big to have her survive. It just wasn't possible that she could have lived through that, unless she escaped before it blew somehow...

"We're going to disguise ourselves as Imperials."
"What?"
"We're going into headquarters, disguised as Empire officers, and we're going to find out what happened to Yaon."
"How will we find out there?!"
"They must have made account of the casualties, we can look through documents to see what they found in the hangar we were in..."
"NO. I can't risk losing another one of you. Not after Dima."
"Dima.....was a long time ago.."
"She was still my responsibility, Lei. And I let her go into a trap, because of me......she's dead." Yind's head hung, Dima had been his only lover.
"YIND. STOP IT. STOP PUTTING THAT SHAME ON YOU. IF YAON IS DEAD, IT'S NOT YOUR FAULT."
"I was carrying her, I let her down and...." he heaved a cough of a cry.
"YIND. STOP IT. YAON IS ALIVE AND WE'RE GOING TO FIND HER, YOU HEAR ME?" she grabbed his hands, and took them from his face, lifting his chin, "If anything did happen to Yaon, it wasn't your cause, just like Dima wasn't."
"I can't....risk you."
"You're not risking me, Yind. I'm risking myself. Just like Yaon did, just like Dima did, they were willing to die. Even if your mistake led them to death, it was their choice to sign up for something that could lead to death."

Yind thought over what she had said. She was right, they did put their lives up to this, and if anything had happened to Yaon....it wasn't his fault.

"Okay. I'll go with you into HQ."
"We leave tomorrow, nine am."
THE NEXT DAY.


Yind and Lei walked down the estate towards the looming tower of the headquarters of The Empire. They were suited in black cloaks, mascara clouded their eyes, allowing them to go undetected as rebels inside the tower.

"Remember. Third floor, Matters and Investigations folder, look for 'Casualties of Empire Strike' that's what they're calling it."
"Okay," Yind's cloak billowed behind him, "Be careful."
"I will, I'm not going down today."
"You better not."

They departed ways at the front door of headquarters, Yind going towards the stairs on the left, and Lei to the right. She walked down a dark stone hallway, keeping her head down. She was distraction, to allow Yind to get into the third floor and search with enough time.

She reached the end of the hallway, turning right and walking up wooden stairs. She kept stepping until she reached the top floor of the right wing. She checked the hallway she was now in, then proceeded to bend down and take out a cord of metal, and plug it into a socket. She clicked a red button, and covered her ears.

Huge wails and sirens blasted through the whole building, Lei almost fell over with the force of the sound. She got up off her knees, and looked up. A vent was sealed just above her head. She took out a grappling gun and fired it up as her eardrums veered on the brink of explosion. She then pulled the wire that had shot from the GG and the vent clattered to the ground. She took out her second GG, firing it up at the hole she had created in the vent, making sure her other GG was still attached to the vent seal, and pulled herself up. Once up, she sealed the vent again, and began moving her way through the system.



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Yind's ears were practically bleeding, the sounds that Lei had set off were so loud. People ran down the stairs, thinking a fire had started somewhere, but Yind climbed the case and reached the third floor.

He ran over to the first drawers he saw. Nothing on the Casualties of the previous night, he rummaged through multiple more drawers. No luck. He kept looking, until finally he found the document. He opened the letter like a savage and scanned its contents.
He searched for her name. Yaon, Yaon, Yaon, Yaon.
"YES. HERE." He stared at her name, which was printed in bold.

The documentation read:
Due to involvement in the attacks on the Prison sector of Hijekinshyna, and to connections to the rebel alliance, Yaon Haesfaor has been placed under inspection of a new formula named the 'Ederios' She will be tested upon this chemical, to investigate the outcomes of the test subject and the effects it has upon a human being.

"SHIT. WHAT-WHAT THE FUCK IS AN 'EDERIOS'? WHAT IS THE EMPIRE PLANNING?"
Something fell at the end of the room, it sounded like glass.
Yind spun, his mouth dropped at what he saw, a woman dressed in full black. Her eyes read, showing pain and the willingness to devour everything in it's path. Yind was looking at a complete monster, and in her palm lay a red fireball. This-this was the effects of the chemical The Empire called the 'Ederios'....

"You're not escaping this time." She said.
Not Soulanz. But somebody else entirely. She was no friend, but a monster. A demon, a weapon for The Empire.

It was Yaon.

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