The Dark Files

The Last of the Deals (I)

It has been 5 years since I started to work with the plague and started my criminal record. It has all been fun from then on... at least for me. The Plague has told me several things it has seen through the years about humanity. People reject others when they aren't the same. People lie only to survive and always stay behind someone who does a better job at anything. They place their blame on others just to not get in trouble, to avoid being rejected, to bypass anything wrong that could happen. Anything that doesn't follow the rules, they won't accept unless the rules change or they are proven wrong. I noticed that anything that is supposed to be over, they won't appreciate it when the only reason it comes back for them, to protect them. They always take and take and give back too little, which is how this world almost died two millennia and a half ago. They never change. 

"What is our next move?" I ask. 
"

We need to move faster and strike humanity. With you, I can make more moves than before. But first, we need to find commanders for the army." The plague says in my mind. 
"Commanders?" I ask wondering what for. Since we both have the same mind it only takes me a couple seconds to fully understand what it meant.  
"You can't be the only one fighting. You need soldiers that will be at our disposal when we need them and for them to fight for us in the meantime. I started the search for candidates; I have found five near the northern border of Trinus. They came from the Illicon Kingdom, devastated two cities and came to Trinus. They are robots who didn't get to become human as their process was stopped. Why not go and ask them as the first one to join our army?"
"Let us do it." I try and see what pair of eyes the Plague is looking with so I can see where it is and rush there, I don't want to do a slow trip. "I see. Not that far." 
"With the power I provided you, you can get there in 3 minutes. Even if it is about 700 kilometers from here. 

After I did the long run, I don't even feel tired I could go on for a while. The town is quiet and gray, people aren't on the streets. 

As I walk through by, I see blood and what looks like scratches on the road and on the walls. I change my appearance to look like a victim. I walk around the city hoping for them to appear and attack me.

 I walk for about 35 minutes until they decide to strike... or at least one of them. Something pierced me from my back and when I look behind I see that it pierced other buildings too. It looked like a sort of appendage, it wasn't long until it retracted to where it came from leaving a whole on my chest, so I collapse on the street. 

I lay there for a minute, not feeling dead or pain, but I felt more alive than I have ever felt, I lay there only to see if whoever attacked me shows up, and indeed it does. I start to hear metal scratching the ground and metal hitting the floor as the thing approaches. Then it starts speaking to me. A corpse on the ground.

"Did you forget little boy? You shouldn't wonder out these days, but thanks for your sacrifice." 

"No," I say back as I stand up. She releases a gasp surprised at me still alive and rising. 

"I just came here from out of town for a visit," I say back as the hole on my chest closes.

"What are you? How are you not dead?!" She says as she tries to stab me with her six appendages. I dodge them with ease and block those I want to.

"Your attempts are useless. Even if you landed a blow on me," I say as I get close to it and punch it hard enough that crushes it to the ground leaving a crater on the street as far as least 30-meters. "You wouldn't be able to kill me. I came here to talk to your little group. I have a proposal for the five of you." it doesn't respond for a while. At one moment I felt I went too hard, but then it starts rising.
"Fine, but we aren't a very... rational group. You will have to talk to our leader Sornak," it responds. 
"Then take me to Sornak, IT?" I reply. It gets mad at me for a moment. 
"I am not an it, I am a she." 
"You are a she? well isn't that surprising," I respond. She responds with an attack using her six appendages from different directions. What a joke, thinking she can land another blow on me. I too play the same game. I create six tentacles and stop all six. She looks at me with fear, then without a word starts walking and I follow.