The sunrise wakes me, I lie there on my couch for a few moments, with my eyes closed, thinking of my world. I hear a sudden knock on my door, I roll over to look at the time. I mutter, “Who the hell would be awake and knocking on my door at this time in the morning, damn it.” I walk over to the door, and I open the door, “Yeah?”
“Are you Zach? Zach Jameson?” A man in a black suit backed by 2 other men also in black suits. They looked important so I replied.
“Yeah, so?” I yawned and rubbed my eyes.
“We’re from the government and you’ve been chosen for a special government program. Please come with us, sir.” I stop yawning instantly.
“What the f--....” I fall to the ground as one of them injects a sleeping drug into me, I pass out.
Three weeks later...
I awake with a yell. Huh? Where am I? I blink a couple of times. Is this...something from the future? I’m in a pod of some sorts, I have a breather connected to me. There’s a window, I can see through it. What...Scientists? Wait a sec, that stuff, those computers...This isn’t the future. If this isn’t the future then what is it? Wait...I remember...those men in the black suits. Government program? ‘The hell is going here?
I hear a distorted voice, “So, you’re awake, Subject number 097913. Looks like you were a success. Our first one too.” I feel something enter my blood system, I pass out again.
2 days later....
“Hey Reaper, what’re you doing?”
I reply with silence, as I glare at him. I go back to my combat practice using the Armoured Spiritual Battle Suit, ASBS.
“Oh come on, don’t reply like that. Why’re you always so quiet? You barely ever talk.” Guarder huffs, “Is it because of that forced spiritual surgery? Come on, all of us had to undergo it. Look on the bright side; at least we’ll be able to protect what we love most!”
“Oh shut up. How can we protect anything if we’re stuck in here?” I spoke. Guarder looked at me and shrugged.
“You’re a man of a few but impacting words too.” He sighed, “I wonder...when do we get out of here?” I shrugged, he spoke, “It better be soon though!”
2 weeks later...
I walked out in front, my true identity hidden by my ASBS, my identity in this suit and when I’m fighting without the suit, I’m the Reaper. I used to have a different name about 5 weeks ago. I used to be Zach Jameson, now, I’m just Reaper. A person who has the ability to destroy the world with one twitch of my arm. I use limiters to keep myself under control. As I walked out into the sun from my ASBS Carrier, the sun glinting off my white metal armour. I’m followed by my Spiritual Elite Division, aptly nicknamed, Soul Exorcists, because we were the first ones to receive these powers and the most powerful. We stood there, in the middle of a plaza with a crowd surrounding us. We all took off our helmets as per our order, and the crowd gasped. One person screamed out my name, I saw her. She used to be my girlfriend. My eyes glowed, the main identifying feature of us Spiritual Soldiers. She went silent; I looked away, straight ahead.
5 years later...
I woke up from my standby mode, and woke the rest of my squad as the sun rose over the horizon, revealing a devastated world from the war with the demons. The Soul Exorcists are one of the very few squads left alive from the war. The war is still ongoing.
“Get your asses up, we’re moving out. Let’s find some demons and kill them.”
“Sir, Yes, Sir!!” My squad follows behind me.
Soon, we’re racing along the desolate wasteland in an APC, searching for demons. One of the soldiers come up to me and taps me on the shoulder then he points to his console. I walk over, and his radar is showing demons nearby.
“Alright, soldiers! Stop this APC, and bunker down! We’ve got a host of demons coming our way!” The APC becomes a frenzy of activity as we prepare for the demons coming, as for me, I simply grab my sword and start walking in the direction they’re coming.
