Behind the Glass

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                            Prologue

War. It's all I have ever known.  When you grow up in a place like the North American Sector, it's how you live. After president Countess Warner, or as we all call her the countess, took control in 4045, everything changed.

        The countess created the Infant Rights act a year after being in office. This law decreed that the government had rights to any infant born in the sector. As soon as a baby is born, doctors come and take it to a large room and do a full body scan. If the child has allergies or problems of any kind, it is given back to the family. If it is strong and healthy like I was, the child is taken into the custody of the government and raised to do whatever task they thought best.

       The countess's henchmen saw me as battle worthy. So they took me away and tossed me into the Military branch. I've lived my whole life with 3 AM alarms and 5 mile morning relays. The government had me locked in Academy One until I was ten. That was where I learned all about the histories. Long ago, the North American Sector was actually three separate sectors called Canada, The United States of America, and Mexico. The part of the sector where I live is right in the middle of what used to be Ohio, a state within the United States. All of that changed when the Xavium arrived. It is said that it was quiet at first, the Leaders of a country called Russia found the wreckage of a small ship after it plummeted to Earth in the year 2013. There was a lone survivor on that ship. He went by the name of Jayveece. The Russians took this alien in and taught him our ways, human ways. Records say that the alien became fluent in a few human languages, Russian, English, and French in the two years he lived there. Everything was good, they made him public, the world was astounded. Until he betrayed us all.

On the night of June 2, 2015, all of Jayveece's guards were found slaughtered and he nowhere to be found. The Russian military was alerted and soon the news spread worldwide. Witnesses say that on that night, a blinding red light lit the sky in the shape of odd symbols. It was after that, that the world went to hell. Jayveece was not a harmless alien, he was a killer out for blood, for the domination of a helpless race. Ships began to arrive by the hundreds. and the biggest war in human history broke loose. The War of the Worlds.

It was a bloody fight, millions upon millions of casualties. The Xavium were much more advanced than us humans, having brought with them a WMD that would neutralize any gas of their choice. They began to destroy our life source, the precious oxygen in our world was beginning to disappear. The human race was doomed, until President Dante Warner, the Countess's ancestor, devised a plan to capture Jayveece once and for all. Warner ordered a surrender peace council and met with Jayveece. Now Jayveece didn't know of the secret tests being performed on Xavium POWs and that Warner had found a significant Xavium weakness. Cyanide gas was found to temporarily paralyze the Xavium race in true form. The Xavium were shape-shifters and had two forms, human and true. When in true form, their skin became more sensitive to the elements and chemical reactions would occur, helping them sense. Tests showed that when Cyanide connected with Xavium skin, it caused the sensory receptor cells to freeze, immobilizing them completely. So when Jayveece strutted into the meeting in true form, showing his superiority, Warner's men blasted him with the gas and took him into custody. The arrogant fool actually came to the meeting alone. Warner saw to it personally that Jayveece was executed somewhere remote. After the execution, the Xavium army fell apart. Most fled the planet and the stragglers were rounded up and publicly executed. Dante Warner was the world's hero.

During the war, alliances were made between countries. These alliances formed the sectors of today. The North American Sector, The North and South Asian Sectors, The European Sector, and the African Sector. All other places were abandoned and all the inhabited small countries moved to one of the large sectors. It took a few decades to repair the world. All of the earth plants were destroyed after all the chemical weapons ruined the soil, as soon as the Xavium brought the oxygen neutralizer into the picture, scientists worked night and day to find a way to manufacture Oxygen before the world's oxygen reserves ran out. One month later, they found it. A way to manufacture oxygen and keep the human race from dying off. The machines are called Porters after their inventor, Maxwell Porter. The old man died a week after his invention went public. Poor guy didn't get to see his work save the world. 

I know the histories by heart now. That was all my first ten years consisted of. After I graduated  Academy One, I was shipped off  to Academy Two to begin combat training. I spent the rest of my childhood and my teenage years there, learning how to shoot guns, how to throw knives, and operate military vehicles and machinery.  That was also the place where I met Chief. She was a tall woman with black hair cut in a short bob and dark skin. She was assigned as my commander when I arrived. I spent my time with her as much as possible. I guess she is the closest thing to a mother I ever had. When I was still in academy One, I also met Jax Newman. A boy who I came to be great friends with. We trained together, spent free time together. We were best friends. Sometimes, during free time, we would pretend to be super humans. We gave each other code names. He was Sandstorm, and I was Ghost. We spent every moment we could with each other. He was smart though, and around my 12th birthday, he was shipped off to a different squadron that need his expertise in technology. I was left on my own once again. Time soon passed and I didn't waste my time with friends. After my birthday I was shipped to academy two. I focused on my work. After all the years training, my moment finally came. I was given my first assignment.