A New Leader

Part Twenty Two : Your President

"Good... Whatever time it is my fellow Hyperion employees." People stopped and looked up at me curiously, "not many of you know exactly who I am, but today is the day that it all changes." I smiled and looked onto the crowd gathering in front of me. "I have worked at Hyperion for three and a half years, I was tucked away in the shadows and given the fearsome name," I paused, adding dramatic effect, "The Big Bad Wolf."

There were gasps amongst the crowd, as I really caught their attention now. My smile growing more by the second, their faces in disbelief and their postures going down.

"I'm not here to hurt you, I'm here to tell you that 'Hey, I'm the mysterious president that you have all been taking orders from and if you stand in my way of that position then I'll kill you.'"

Their faces still looked nervous as my threat to kill anyone made them obviously feel uneasy, I sighed and rubbed my temples.

"I don't mean to scare anyone, but I'm leavening Hades to go and work on a few things with my friend here." I patted Rhys's arm, "if I see that my space station is down on Pandora then I will kill whoever did it, and I mean it this time."

I walked away from the large stage I was standing on, people keeping their eyes on me. Some people had a skeptical look on their face, others seemed convinced. I continued walking towards the loading docks and called my ship back, Rhys standing there awkwardly and looking around.

"I don't think they took that speech so well." He stated.

"I had a feeling, I'm not too good with speeches if I know people can see the nervousness on my face."

"You were nervous?"

"Yeah, nervous as hell."

"You played it off really well." He smirked.

"Thanks." I replied, the ship landing back on the docks, "you can get in first, I want one last look."

I looked at Hades, people watching outside of the window and keeping their eyes on my every move. I pulled the hood up on my cardigan and dragged down the mesh to cover my face, watching their eyes grow wider. I waved toward the people and finally got in the ship, buckling myself in.

"Where to?" My driver asked.

"The lab back down at Pandora, we have some business to attend to." I smiled under the mesh.

We lifted off of the landing pad, descending back towards Pandora to find the brain modular. I sighed as my back pressed perfectly against the seat, I could feel Rhys's eyes on me as the ship continued to move at a moderate speed. I turned and looked at him, obviously shaking him from his thoughts.

"Something you'd like to say?" I quipped, raising my eyebrow.

"Well, I just never thought you'd reveal yourself, it was a brave thing to do." He commented.

"I know, and I regret doing it deeply."

"Why is that?" He asked.

"We'll, I'm a traitor to the bandits, and people at Hyperion now know who exactly I am and who exactly to kill to get to my spot." I twiddled my thumbs.

"You've made it this far."

"Yes, only because I was in secrecy and killed anyone who learned my identity by accident." I looked up my drivers eyes that shined in the mirror.

"Jeez... well they know how dangerous you are..."

"Danger means nothing. Jack was one of the most feared men in the solar system and he was killed." I crossed my arms, "twice." I glared at him before he began rubbing the back of his neck.

"Well it was life or death." He replied as I stuck my hand up in his direction.

"I'm aware, Rhys."

"He wasn't even alive, it was just his AI."

"His soul was trapped in that AI, that means there was life." I felt myself getting defensive, but he didn't reply.

We landed safely on Pandora and exited the ship, the humid air hitting us and quickly weighing down on my body. I kept my back strait and walked calmly towards the lab only a short walk away, Rhys quickly trailing behind me and taking in the planet once again. I wasn't sure how he could walk around comfortably in all black in this weather, I always sweat when I'm here.

My hand hovered over the door as we were soon granted access, I smiled under the mesh and waved towards the guard. He waved back and let me through the testing doors, we tried to find a type of fertilizer that worked rapidly for the Helios crash site. I was already paying for that as it was right over a protected skag reserve, it was pretty alarming when I would lift up a piece of metal and be greated with a skag that's ripped in half.

We climbed up a few sets of stairs and made our way into the sample lab where we kept ancient alien DNA in the hopes to study them, obviously seeing how that was a bad idea because everything on this damn planet is hostile, we stopped a few months back. I walked further into the room and slid the door shut, Rhys jumping as the loud noise caught him off guard.

"So all I'll need is a quick strand of hair, I will put it into this device right here and it should track the brain modular." I turned around, the green and black blinking object in my hand, "If not then we try with blood."

"What if that doesn't work?" He asked curiously."

"Don't jinx it." I replied.

I plucked a small strand of hair from his head, he winced before I placed it in the chamber where the samples were kept. It made a little chiming noise as I closed it up, the chamber soon flashing as it examined the piece of hair and filling with purple liquid. I smiled as a red light started flashing and a map with a marked way point popped out of the ECHO distributer.

"We're in business."