*breathing comes from the dark* A young man comes from the shadow in a green jacket and a cigar in his mouth. He stops at the corner and looks around. The rainy weather makes his eyes shining while searching for somebody or something...
It was a bad period of my life. I was...lonely. Since I left the orphanage, I wanted to search my parents. Thats was the only one goal in my life. To find my roots and be somebody. I was nobody...
The very first day was terrible. I just roamed across New Berling while tried to find somebody who could look in my eyes. But there were nobody...except a young, blond haired girl with her mother.
She was around 7 years old, and couldnt see elsewhere, just into my eyes. When her mother realised, she got the girl and turned into a hotel. That was the very first time, when I found somebody who showed some interestings on me.
As I remember, it was a Monday, but I'm not sure. I was in pain and lonely. I wanted to die...
After a day with walking around in nowhere, I found myself in a park. The Sun went down and there were nothing just the silence and some odd sounds from the sky. It must be the daily patrols over the city. The guys, who protected us from any danger. *grins* Hah..danger...we have lived in dreams...I mean nightmares.
Since the war with the Nomads...*sighs*...My parents...
I decided to join somewhere since I didnt want to kill myself without any attention. I wanted others to see my pain and share my feelings. I wanted to live.
I have been in a church once. As I remember, I was around 6 when the educator took us to a priest to learn from the ancient times.
The times about the Sol era. I never thought that it could impress me, but it did! The priest belonged into the Soul Seekers society who left the Earth with the nation of Rheinland. They were a cult or something like that...but well, I couldnt get more information about them.
This priest was the very first person, who asked me to find my parents if I feel them into my heart. He told me, that I could do anything in my life. I just need to decide something and walk...walk straight. I remember, he smiled and pointed on the altar. This was my decision...
I wanted to find something what could be my altar. I didnt care about it, I just needed something to follow. Something to meet with. I was alone...
*The young man dropped his cigar and turned into the street while closed his jackek around his body. He walked away...he walked alone*
*Some strange noises...a light from somewhere...a baby crying....I can't breath...what is this...its...oh my God...*
It was just a dream? Where am I?
This isnt my bed...I dont understand. How can I got in here? My arms! They are tied down. And I cant move my had. My head...it hurts...what about my hair? I'm bald...
*He woke up in a clean, white room with tied arms and legs. His head was in a cell and there were wires around his body. The room was empty just some strange noised filled it.*
I remember something. A doctor says something about a test, what I have to try to earn the acceptance. I got an injection and everything went into dark and I dreamed...
I know this place. It looks like familiar...its the base, where I belongs to...Its the home of the Marinenachrichtendiensts. Oh my God...it was just a dream.
*The man fell into sleep again, and everything turned into grey again around him*
*Wake up...we're already here...wake up cadet....*
Their eyes slowly opened, and the light hurted much. The room has been changed and now, he was in his own bed, while a doctor standed by his bed. The room was silent, but there were noisy sounds from the corridor.
He tried to stand up, but his legs were weak and he felt to the floor. The doctor took his arms and helped him to sit back on the bad. His head hurted and tried to says something...
Where am I doctor? It was just a dream?... I was in a white room with tied body and I couldnt move my head. Am I passed the test?
The doctor turned around without saying a simple word, than left the room. The young man was alone in his room and was very confused. He get some dreams what changed his mind, so he needed something to help to clear his head.
But there were no time to hesitate, since in the next minute a soldier entered into the room and told him to dress up. His legs were weak, but he couldnt stay in the bed. His superior ordered and he had to follow the instructions.
He picked up his uniform from the chair and standed before the mirror. His green uniform fitted well on his body and their eyes felt down on himself. He got some injury...that was all what came into his mind...
He washed his face, than picked up his hat, and opened the door.
There were many people on the corridor and all of them were upset. There were something important.
The special forces of the Marinenachrichtendienst have arrived to their destination...they were in the Edge Worlds...
*Some strange sounds got his ear from a room and he entered there. There were his superior with a communications officer. And there were sounds...sounds what he never heared before...*
*Everybody was quiet and tried to keep his breathing. The room was silent, just strange, frightening sounds were around. Men tried to see each other, and waited for somebody to say something*
These sounds reminds me for something...In my dream...I...I understand it. The man tried to hide his feelings while focused on his superior's face. He stand like a statue and was confused.
Some men stopped at the corridor and looking into the room at the opened door. They told something for each other, but now they were shocked.
The silent has been broken by the alarm sounds and everybody ran out from the room. Just the man standed there and tried to remember for his dreams. He saw something...a face, or something like that, what saw him and told something.
Suddenly he realised the situation and got the headphone what layed on the table. He couldnt understand the whole, just some words...
*We're waiting for you...we are here for you...*
He dropped the headphone on the ground and ran out from the room. His heart strongly reflected while stopped at the corner. He saw, that everybody ran into the hangar, and he followed them.
There were the fleet admiral with his men and told something to people. The man tried to walk closer but there were a lot of people and he couldnt move. He've heard some sentences...
*We've arrived. We've found them...We've waited so long....*
Suddenly a hand took his shoulder and he trembled by the feeling. His superior was behind him and pulled him with himself. They were headed to their aircrafts...
*He had no time for thinking. The pilots jumped into their ships and launched from the carrier. He turned on the lights of the ship, closed the cockpit and prepared to launch...*
The hangar bays were opened and more and more ships launched from it. When he tried to enter the lane to launch, some strange objects spotted near the carrier. More and more incoming signals disturbed the communication channel...
*We are here...*static*...*static*... It's our home...*staic*...you'll die here...*static*....*
He understood the messages, but it looked like, other pilots didnt know what to do with them. They are just tried to launch from the ship in safe. They tried to survive...What?
Suddenly hundreds of unknown "things" spotted around them and started to chase the ships. They were...they were unknown.
Some pilots tried to escape from them, but they had to wait for orders... they lost too much time... It started....
*Hundreds of unknown objects opened fire in the same time. They dropped their cloaks and spotted from the nowhere. They were killing machines or something like that, but they're lived.*
Screams and emergencies filled the communication channel. He tried to launch from the ship, but the automated gattling cannons opened fire on unknown vessels, so he had to stay in the hangar.
He couldnt help and he had to see how they died out there. They cant hit those unknown ships... they were too slow and their guns were inappropiate to pick a fight. Some of them tried to dock on the mothership, but the automated defense system didnt let a single person to approach the ship.
Their own guns killed them while they tried to escape.
He couldnt stay and just watch how they die out there. They didnt felt more just anger, but he knew what he had to do. He launched from the hangar bay and switched the system on manual use.
It was a miracle, but he could avoid from the gunfire and succesfully launched from the ship.
He powered up the weapon system on his ship, but he couldnt fire... those "things" didnt let him...
*He was the only one, who got no damages from those unknown ships, he was the only one, who couldnt fire a single shot...he was the only one who still alive...*
*Just breath... breath slowly. Good, than try to weak up, just slowly... Open your eyes...*
He was in a dark place, He couldnt see with his eyes. He was...blind, or something like that. There were some light blue lights far, far away in the walls.
He tried to move his body, but he couldnt do it. He didnt know...its just a dream, or something else. It was just a vision? He already feel those strange voices into his head.
He was alone...
*Suddenly a pain came into his body and he started to shake. He tried to close his eyes, but something couldnt let him to do. He wasnt alone in the room. There were others. There were... unknowns.*
His body was open. Some strange things came into it and he felt no pain. He was out of his body and flew around it.
There were blue ghosts and some kind of animals what are reminded him about humans but their body was strange and their eyes were empty. They were more animals than humans.
Those blue souls were silent and worked slowly while those half-humans standed like statues.
He tried to see their face since they looked like peacefull. They didnt move but their eyes followed him... They observed him... They guarded something...
*He felt a strong pain in his head, than everything turned into dark again* It have been started...
Its just a dream. He knows it, but there are tears on his face. He see his mother as young. She was lovely. Blond hair and those amazing green eyes. The tears covers his face...
His hands starts shaking, but he cant move his body. He want to wake up, but his mother keeps his eyes on her. He cant be free. She want him to come closer to her. She want to kiss his face. She smiles.
*Mother...[fear]...wife...[happiness]...dark...knife...[scare]...father...sin...*
His father. His mother loves him, but there is anybody else. A cadet or something like that. He wears the uniform of the Rheinland Military. He follow her everyday. He watching his mother.
He felt some cold liquid into his vein. It filled up his body. The feeling slowly came from his legs and reached his brain. Suddenly his eyes opened up and he jumped from the floor. He screamed, screamed like never before. He wasnt the same. He was one of them. He was it...
His body started shaking and his eyes saw another world than before. He tried to remember, but he couldnt. He was empty. Just those new feelings what he felt before when ha was a human. Those voices filled his mind and didnt stop talk to him.
He felt on his knees or whatever it was now and started to cry. His body skaked and he felt a new feeling into his heart. It was anger. More and more anger what started to fill his body.
Suddenly he stopped groaning and the silence ruled the hall. He standed up, straightened his body and shouted. Shouted as an animal what born by human. He was a beast.
A door opened and the dark room filled by blue and white light. Some human-like creature came into the room and standed around him. They came closer and closer to him while their sound dominated his mind.
He woke up beside a garbage. Ha was naked, just some newspaper covered his body. It looked like as a street somewhere in the city, but it was emtpy. There were just some rats around and some strange music from a flat somewhere.
He got no idea, what have happened, how could he get there. He felt some pain in his body and he was hungry, so hungry.
**Pain...741...green...[follow]...joy...**
Suddenly he standed up and started to search for some clothes in tha garbage. There were no clothes just some trash and a broken knife. He got it and looked around.
There were somebody else not far from him. He looked like as a tramp who was drunk and asleep.
He walked to the tramp while his hand pressed the broken knife. He saw the face of the tramp. He was dirty and beard covered his face. His clothes were torn and smelly.
He crouched than looked around. The street was silent, just him and the tramp was there. He put the knife to the neck of the tramp.
He took the clothes and hid the corpse into the garbage. The clothes were disgusting but it didnt bother him. He wasnt the same before. He wasnt a human. He had no feelings like before, he had new desires.
When he went out to the street people did not even notice him. They walked like shadows in the dark forest. They were a mass without faces.
He picked up the hood and narrowed his coat to hide the fresh blood on the sweater and started to find it. Find the place what will be green and what will be 741..
*...Path...[follow]...us...green...hidden...[cover]...machines...[pain]...brothers...*
He felt a feeling inside what guided him. He could close his eyes, since this feeling wanted him to go. Go to the destination, like a hunter follow his prey. He was the hunter and there was his prey.
The street was grey and the weather was rainy as always on this part of Planet Stuttgart. The inhabitants didnt care about each other, they just wanted to survive their lives. They were a mass.
Since he wasnt the same before, he could walk between them, like a ghost. Most of them tried to avoid from him, he looked like as a simple tramp, who searching for the next bottle of booze to forget his problems.
But he wasnt that. He was the hunter and all of them could be his prey, but not yet. He wanted to hunt something else, something more important. He wanted revenge.
*Joy...anger...[stop]...look...up....[reaslise]...number...green...joy...[anger]...*
He felt something more impulsive like anything before, so he stopped and looked up. There was a huge building. It looked like as a factory, or research complex or something like that, but it wasnt that. It was the headquarter of the Neu-Rheinland Society.
The Neu-Rheinland Society was the first who donated huge millions to the Rheinland Military when they started to intrude into foreign home systems, exspecially Kusari.
They were interested in to force the goverment to acknowledge their agression towards the Tekagi Company. They wanted something from them. They looked for something.
The first journalist who tried to uncover their background disappeared on his vacation. Some weeks later, a tourist found his body in the forest near the Schwine-Lake without the head on it. After that nobody tried to explore their hidden movement in the war.