Endless War (Complete)

Chapter 10 "The Chip"

Staring at the computer screen is not telling me much, other than this computer is so much slower to load than the information on my chip. I let out a sigh as I sit beside him and wait to see what is on the mystery chip. I hear a groan and look over to the corner where we left Grim tied up. To my amazement, I see a man where a fallen had previously been. The chip that the guy placed into my port must override the previous card.

He looks up at me with his beautiful sparkling blue eyes, "Why, did you tie me up?" He shakes his head. "Sorry." Then he proceeds to weave a line of confusing sounds and chirps. I assume that it is the language he had to learn to trick the chip.

"First I understood you the first time you asked and second you thought my chip was malfunctioning. You knew I would have to repair myself and you were planing to kill me. Did I leave anything out? Oh and by the way you can ask him," I point at the little man behind me. "My chip was fine, just like I told you!"

"You can understand me?" Is all he takes away from everything I just said.

"That is all you take away from what I just said! You were going to kill me, and you don't even deny it!" Again I find myself yelling at him.

"Why do you think I told you to call me Grim. It is my job to see that all dangers are taken out before involving my family." He looks down at the ground, then back up at me. "It was nothing personal, I still don't understand how you can understand me."

"New chip, apparently I have extra slots in my cerebral port." I leave it vague.

"Are you going to untie me?" He looks up at me and raises his eyebrows.

I shake my head and turn to face the computer screen. "Why bother, you have just about finished freeing yourself."

The small man beside me, excitedly squeaks. "I found a file on the microchip. Here I am going to go ahead and open the file, it seems to be a video file."

It takes a couple seconds to load and a woman face appears on the screen. I gasp at my resemblance to her, I try to focus on the face of the woman who raised me and I know that she is not that woman. She is looking into a hand held mirror. "My sweet, Phoenix Aurora, I know you won't recognize me, but I am your mother. I am sure they are calling you something else more traditional as they never want to encourage individuality among the fighters. I am going to tell you about what I am trying to accomplish here. I am not sure how much you will know by the time you hear this, so I will start at the beginning."

I look upon this woman's face for the first time wishing that I had known her as my mother, not knowing why she didn't raise me. I refocus on her voice as she explains the last 18 years of my life.

"The 200 year war, hmph, it may as well be a thousand years. We are not free, we also may as well be called slaves, everything you have learned about the past 200 years from that chip in your head is a lie. Overpopulation was the one and only reason for this war, this planet could no longer sustain the life we were inflicting upon it. It was not just the large population for the Earths problems, we were using too much of everything she gave us, leaving her with nothing in return."

"In the decent prior to the war, we were moving toward an extinction level event. Our pollution, made the air hard for us to breath, removing ore from the Earth's crust, caused earthquakes and typhoons. Storms that were once considered hurricanes increased in strength so much we started to call them Cataclysms. They would wipe out all proof of life as soon as they hit shore, leveling cities, we would quickly rebuild just to have it wiped out again ten years later. Basically the Earth was trying to cleanse itself by getting rid of the parasites that we had become."

"The worlds governments had a brilliant idea, population control, they first tried to limit the number of children each family could have. When that didn't work they started the purge, they bombed areas where the population was less developed. They would then send in troops to kill off the rest of the remaining populations. That only helped in reducing the number of people who were not even responsible for the pollution. They then waged war on inner cities where crime rates were high."

"Again they were not addressing the true cause of the Earth's decline. They then turned their guns toward the poor and low income populations abroad. Again not the problem. The soldiers executing these orders from on high, began to abandon their posts and others just stopped killing, until the purge just stopped. During the last months of the purge the governments saw where they were failing, by allowing us to see what we were doing to the innocent, so they concocted the invasion."

"Media outlets were flooded with horror stories of The Fallen. They told us that these aliens carried a virus that would wipe out the human race. Though no one actually ever saw the creatures we started becoming ill, they were offering a vaccine for the sickness the government inflicted upon us. When you went in for the vaccine they would give you a shot that actually knocked you out, that is when the microchips were first implemented. They used them to cause mass hysteria by finally allowing us to see "The Fallen". When they became visible parents would kill their children and then themselves to keep what tortures the government was telling them of."

"Populations plummeted, as people killed one another in the streets. The government was finally getting the results that they had craved, but they had to push it further. The rich needed to be kept safe so that they could continue financing this nightmare and the intellectuals needed to be protected so they could continue development. Everyone underwent intelligence testing, from the very young to the elderly, and they started a special program that relocated all of them. Walls were built around the cities to keep everyone else out."

"If that weren't enough they rounded up the common people and put them in concentration camps for organization purposes. The ones they caught were all chipped and unleashed upon the ones they didn't catch, who were also the ones who didn't go to get vaccinated. As technology advanced, they started to bring in the chipped ones and changing their chips, brainwashing them to think they were soldiers. Sending them out to war, they said for two years, but their memories were wiped every two years for the next ten.."

"After ten years they were brought back in, the men were killed and their organs harvested as well as their semen. They impregnated the women and well that is where I am now. As long as we are in our child bearing years and continue to reproduce they allow us to live. Like you our children were taken from us and raised in nothing short of a prison until you are old enough to fight."