Helix Operatives: Creation

Darkness: Ceves

It was late at night as Tendro sat in the hospital room with Ulfrin in the bed. The windows were blown out, the building was in disarray, and the halls empty of all signs of life. "So... Still asleep hun?" Asked Tendro as he looked down at Ulfrin. "Don't blame you... If I were you I'd wish I'd never wake up... You know, at some point in my life I thought that I would live forever or at least die old... But now..."

He looked down at his right hand, his pistol held firmly in it. "Now I'm not so sure," said Tendro as he tried to look away. "All this time... I thought I was fighting to protect everyone from some megalomaniac dictator of the year from taking over the world and turning everyone into his own personal play things, but now... Now I know I was fighting for him. And I was just a pawn in his scheme. All this time too... Why am I such an idiot when it comes to stuff like this? Why do I let this happen to me and anyone else?"

He got up, walking over to the window, looking down at the streets with only two lights coming towards the hospital. "Ceves and Certainia... They have more of a reason to fight than I do. They actually suffered without helping them. I aided them, respected them, thought I was their equal... but no.... Just their play thing," said Tendro with tears starting to form in his eyes. "Why am I an idiot? Why am I like this? Why do I just let this happen? Why can't I just accept the fact that I fucked up big time and now... Now I know I did. I'm... I just know that I'm a fuck up. But... it doesn't matter now. I have no reason to fight, I'm no hero, I'm just another face of a villain. All I've ever done was fuck up and be fucking stupid. It's all I've ever done and it's all I'm good for, I guess. I should... I need to prevent myself from allowing that to happen to my friends. I should have never been born."

"So, you're going to try and fix the situation by ending just your problems?" Asked a voice from the darkness in the room. Tendro turned around to see Ulfrin's head pointed towards him, his eyes still closed. He had his shoulders slumped down and his ears slightly flattened. "Listen, I get that you're feeling down on yourself but frankly this isn't the solution," said Ulfrin as he tried to approach Tendro.

"Then what is? Frankly, I don't see much of one that's gonna turn out good. I either stay quiet and let everything keep going, I either help fight back and commit genocide, or I hide from some kind of search party for us when everything goes shit up. And I could die in any of those situations..." said Tendro as he looked back and forth between his pistol and his empty paw.

"Well, yeah. But here's the thing," said Ulfrin as he stopped, ushering Tendro to lower the weapon. "Think about it like this. You could try to fix the problem, survive, and everything would be right in the world again. Listen, why don't you explain what the whole situation is first, then try to think through it."

"The situation?" Asked Tendro as he looked up at him, tears starting to roll down his eyes. "The situation is that I joined the army, I fought for Sinderlos while they enslaved Anthros, I let them do this. I was in an officer's position before being discharged, I had Anthros under my command and I... I let it happen. I let them enslave and abuse our kind."

"Did you know it was happening?"

"Well... No... Nobody did until..."

"And who was always in charge of you?"

"S-Some Sinderlo, it always changed between them."

"Well, yeah. But the fact is, is that Sinderlos were always in charge. Giving you orders or at least instructions as to what to do."

"Yeah... So...?"

"That means that they're at fault. That means that they're responsible. Not you, you were just a puppet."