Post by †Lak† on Jul 14, 2009 0:19:49 GMT -5
"Alice, I dont think you should go." Adam said, his wrist hooked up to the crane at the trash yard. He moved the crane's square load into the incinerator and turned to his little sister. She had her hair in pig tails and her rosy cheeks made her look like a school girl.
"Why not? Mister Hanson says he has a special job for me in another town, and that he'd let you stay in the apartments even though i'm not here."
It was true that Alice got Adam a job at the trash yard, and they could stay in the run-down apartment complex for free as long as Adam worked and Alice kept Hanson in a good mood.
"But that's this special job, Sis?" Adam asked, he pulled the crane back up and grabbed the next boxed load of trash.
"He wont say, he just told me that it pays me triple what you make, and that he'll keep you safe as long as i do it for him." Alice tilted her head and looked at Adam with her eyes that looked like lush oasises.
"I'd do anything for you, Adam. I love you."
The day after she left, Adam receive a pay stub and a letter saying that this was his last day of work. It also said he was no longer going to be able to stay in the apartments. All signed by Mr. Hanson.
Adam showed up for work at the crane, his fists balled up, the crane jerking violently at top speed.
'How could Alice lie to me like that? Why did she abandon me... Was this Hanson's job, to get rid of me?'
Adam lifted the container marked 'Shell Parts' and he hesitated. The number one rule he was given was to not look at the trash, just to destroy it.
Adam dropped the box onto the ground and unplugged the crane controls.
Adam ripped open the large container with his bare hands. Expecting to find useless parts, Adam wanted to just leave Mr. Hanson with a final 'F You'.
Adam's jaw dropped.
Inside were Shells, all ripped apart and broken. Some were beaten, and had missing limbs. Some were women, with their clothe ripped off and their bodies broken and violated.
Adam vomited.
Looking back into the container, in the farthest corner, was Alice. Her body was bare and her eyes were left open, but the oasises were gray and void of the life they once had. She had fingernail markings all on her body and her hand lay stretched to Adam as if she was calling for his help in her final hour.
Adam shut the box. One thought consumed him.
Hanson.
The next think Adam knew, he was in court. For murdering a man with his bare hands. The attorney he faced was the best money could buy, and his was provided by the state.
He was sentence was to be destroyed.
Adam didn't know how, but before his day to be shut down, the police release him to a woman in a suit. She had a limo outside the prison.
And that's when Adam Joined the SRS.
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Adam grabbed two large boxes out of the back end of the jeep. Opening up the first box, Adam grabbed out an Ion Cannon. It looked like a rocket launcher with lights. Throwing it to Jace, Adam opened the next box. Inside was a sword with a laser cutting edge. Pulling it out and plugging the blade's controls into his wrist, the blade glowed and hummed.
"Caroline, Stay with the car, we'll be back."
Manny's estate was well guarded, and had a stone wall surrounded the grounds. Inside were tanks, and soldiers with guns. The mansion at the center of the grounds had a deck that could view the entire facility.
Standing on the deck was Manny and a woman with shoulder length hair wearing a black body armor. She looked over the suit uncomfortably.
"Manny? Is this really necessary?" She asked. Manny wrapped his arms around her from behind. He breathed softly against her neck and whispered with a gilded voice.
"Of course, i wouldn't want anything happening to you, would i, Love?"
The woman blushed so deeply, he cheeks looked bruised.
"Now close your eyes."
The woman closed her eyes and smiled, waiting for a surprise. Manny's face changed from luring to serious, and he ran his finger down the back of her neck. His finger stopped just before the first bump of her spine. Quickly, he slid his fingernail, hard into her skin. Pulling down, a small hatch opened and a small computer chip lay exposed. The woman's eyes opened with shock and she shouted.
"Manny! Don't!" Her hands reached back to stop his.
Just as her hands grabbed his wrists, Manny slammed his thumb into the chip and smashed it. Her face went pale, and all emotion vanished. Her eyes dimmed to gray and her head nodded down an inch. Her hand's dropped to her side and she stood like a statue...
Jace aimed his cannon with computer precision and fired. The stone wall was blasted through and Adam ran in quick as a bullet with his sword out. The tank's began to turn their barrels to Jace, but Adam was already to the first one. He slammed the blade's edge into the cramped space where the operator was concealed and he made a quick Zig-Zag. The tank stopped moving. Jace fired his cannon again and it blew directly through the second tank's barrel and ripped the top off the tank. Adam ran and flipped. Landing like a cat on the tread of the topless tank, He saw two soldiers draw rifles. Moving faster than human reflexes, He sliced both guns in half with one swipe, and with the other we decapitated both men.
Jace ran up to Adam at a slower pace. The Mansion doors opened up and more soldiers ran out. Jace dropped to one knee and began firing as Adam charged forward...
As the last soldier outside the mansion fell, Adam wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"Now to find Manny." He said as he looked over at the door where the soldiers came out of. Walking out, clapping his hands, was Manny Ripper.
"Well done, Tomorrow was payday. You just saved me quite a bit of money..."
"Shut it." Adam said bluntly. Jace walked up to Adam's side and aimed his cannon at Manny. Adam pointed his sword's point at Manny's neck.
"You're dead."
Manny snapped his fingers and a black blur shot out of the door behind him. A woman Shell with two pistols kicked Jace's cannon out of his hands and punched him out with her left gun, and with her right she fired a series of bullets at Adam. Blocking the bullets with the sword, Adam rolled towards her. Swiping at her with as much force as he could muster, Adam sliced at her torso. The swords cut cleanly through the first few inches of her gut, and the sword's laser edge cauterized the wound. Instead of crumpling over in pain, The woman took the opportunity to fire at Adam at point blank range. Blocking most of the shot's Adam fell onto his back and yelled. A few rounds pierced his good arm. He could feel his blood pooling beside him. Adam saw the woman had no emotion, no facial expression, just empty dead eyes, like Alice's.
"Like what i did?" Manny said, walking up to the empty Shell.
"You killed her." Adam said, gripping his shoulder with his wounded arm with his left hand.
"I turned her into a useful Machine!" Manny shouted. He rested his hands on her shoulders.
"She obeys every order, she feels no pain, she moves as fast as any Shell." Manny's voice grew softer and his face got closer to the side of her's.
"And i dont have to make her think i love her to get her to protect me."
Manny stepped back to the doorway and snapped his fingers again.
The Shell lifted her pistols to Adam's eye level. Just before she pulled the trigger, Jace tackled her. Pinning her forearms to her sides, Jace yelled.
"Kill it!"
Adam picked up his sword, but she already started twisting her shoulders. Her forearm stretched and the protective sleeve at her elbow dislocated. The Shell's entire right forearm ripped away and she pointed her arm at Jace. From the joint, an ion charge fired out. Jace was blasted in his shoulder and his entire right arm was blown away.
'A hidden Ion Cannon?' Adam had never seen a Shell with such disregard for it's own life. It made him feel disgusted. The Shell lifted it's left arm and aimed it's pistol at Adam. Adam brought his sword up to block but the Shell was blasted down by an ion blast.
Standing a few feet away was Caroline, holding Jace's Ion Cannon.
"Manny." She said, her voice was like magma.
Manny's face drained of color and he took a step backwards.
"Love! They made me! I had to say those awful things... To protect you! You know I love-" Another step backwards.
Caroline raised the Ion Cannon to Manny's eye level.
"Oh? How could you love me? ... I'm just a Machine."
Adam heard an Ion Cannon fire, but Caroline's eyes widened in shock. Her cannon was still charging as she saw Manny stop moving. Where his heart would have been, Adam could see the doorway behind him. Adam looked down, and the Shell had aimed her severed arm up to Manny and fired.
If her arm wasn't missing, Adam could have imagined her hand stretched to her master as if she was calling for his help in her final hour.
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Adam walked with Jace down the hall, passing office after office in the SRS headquarters.
"How's the new arm?" Adam asked.
"It's ok, not as responsive, but that'll come with time." Jace answered. Adam couldn't have picked a better brother and partner.
They both paused as the hall ended with double doors.
Pushing it open slowly, Adam saw the director sitting behind her desk. She looked older than when he saw her the first time, outside the prison. Beside her was a blond woman, wearing a suit like theirs. She had a smile before they walked in.
"Agent Adam, Agent Jace, meet your newest partner. She just joined the SRS. This is Agent Caroline."
(ooc: i wrote this out mostly for the story, and i didn't think too much for the action, if you can tell
What do you guys think?)
"Why not? Mister Hanson says he has a special job for me in another town, and that he'd let you stay in the apartments even though i'm not here."
It was true that Alice got Adam a job at the trash yard, and they could stay in the run-down apartment complex for free as long as Adam worked and Alice kept Hanson in a good mood.
"But that's this special job, Sis?" Adam asked, he pulled the crane back up and grabbed the next boxed load of trash.
"He wont say, he just told me that it pays me triple what you make, and that he'll keep you safe as long as i do it for him." Alice tilted her head and looked at Adam with her eyes that looked like lush oasises.
"I'd do anything for you, Adam. I love you."
The day after she left, Adam receive a pay stub and a letter saying that this was his last day of work. It also said he was no longer going to be able to stay in the apartments. All signed by Mr. Hanson.
Adam showed up for work at the crane, his fists balled up, the crane jerking violently at top speed.
'How could Alice lie to me like that? Why did she abandon me... Was this Hanson's job, to get rid of me?'
Adam lifted the container marked 'Shell Parts' and he hesitated. The number one rule he was given was to not look at the trash, just to destroy it.
Adam dropped the box onto the ground and unplugged the crane controls.
Adam ripped open the large container with his bare hands. Expecting to find useless parts, Adam wanted to just leave Mr. Hanson with a final 'F You'.
Adam's jaw dropped.
Inside were Shells, all ripped apart and broken. Some were beaten, and had missing limbs. Some were women, with their clothe ripped off and their bodies broken and violated.
Adam vomited.
Looking back into the container, in the farthest corner, was Alice. Her body was bare and her eyes were left open, but the oasises were gray and void of the life they once had. She had fingernail markings all on her body and her hand lay stretched to Adam as if she was calling for his help in her final hour.
Adam shut the box. One thought consumed him.
Hanson.
The next think Adam knew, he was in court. For murdering a man with his bare hands. The attorney he faced was the best money could buy, and his was provided by the state.
He was sentence was to be destroyed.
Adam didn't know how, but before his day to be shut down, the police release him to a woman in a suit. She had a limo outside the prison.
And that's when Adam Joined the SRS.
____________________________________
Adam grabbed two large boxes out of the back end of the jeep. Opening up the first box, Adam grabbed out an Ion Cannon. It looked like a rocket launcher with lights. Throwing it to Jace, Adam opened the next box. Inside was a sword with a laser cutting edge. Pulling it out and plugging the blade's controls into his wrist, the blade glowed and hummed.
"Caroline, Stay with the car, we'll be back."
Manny's estate was well guarded, and had a stone wall surrounded the grounds. Inside were tanks, and soldiers with guns. The mansion at the center of the grounds had a deck that could view the entire facility.
Standing on the deck was Manny and a woman with shoulder length hair wearing a black body armor. She looked over the suit uncomfortably.
"Manny? Is this really necessary?" She asked. Manny wrapped his arms around her from behind. He breathed softly against her neck and whispered with a gilded voice.
"Of course, i wouldn't want anything happening to you, would i, Love?"
The woman blushed so deeply, he cheeks looked bruised.
"Now close your eyes."
The woman closed her eyes and smiled, waiting for a surprise. Manny's face changed from luring to serious, and he ran his finger down the back of her neck. His finger stopped just before the first bump of her spine. Quickly, he slid his fingernail, hard into her skin. Pulling down, a small hatch opened and a small computer chip lay exposed. The woman's eyes opened with shock and she shouted.
"Manny! Don't!" Her hands reached back to stop his.
Just as her hands grabbed his wrists, Manny slammed his thumb into the chip and smashed it. Her face went pale, and all emotion vanished. Her eyes dimmed to gray and her head nodded down an inch. Her hand's dropped to her side and she stood like a statue...
Jace aimed his cannon with computer precision and fired. The stone wall was blasted through and Adam ran in quick as a bullet with his sword out. The tank's began to turn their barrels to Jace, but Adam was already to the first one. He slammed the blade's edge into the cramped space where the operator was concealed and he made a quick Zig-Zag. The tank stopped moving. Jace fired his cannon again and it blew directly through the second tank's barrel and ripped the top off the tank. Adam ran and flipped. Landing like a cat on the tread of the topless tank, He saw two soldiers draw rifles. Moving faster than human reflexes, He sliced both guns in half with one swipe, and with the other we decapitated both men.
Jace ran up to Adam at a slower pace. The Mansion doors opened up and more soldiers ran out. Jace dropped to one knee and began firing as Adam charged forward...
As the last soldier outside the mansion fell, Adam wiped the sweat off his forehead.
"Now to find Manny." He said as he looked over at the door where the soldiers came out of. Walking out, clapping his hands, was Manny Ripper.
"Well done, Tomorrow was payday. You just saved me quite a bit of money..."
"Shut it." Adam said bluntly. Jace walked up to Adam's side and aimed his cannon at Manny. Adam pointed his sword's point at Manny's neck.
"You're dead."
Manny snapped his fingers and a black blur shot out of the door behind him. A woman Shell with two pistols kicked Jace's cannon out of his hands and punched him out with her left gun, and with her right she fired a series of bullets at Adam. Blocking the bullets with the sword, Adam rolled towards her. Swiping at her with as much force as he could muster, Adam sliced at her torso. The swords cut cleanly through the first few inches of her gut, and the sword's laser edge cauterized the wound. Instead of crumpling over in pain, The woman took the opportunity to fire at Adam at point blank range. Blocking most of the shot's Adam fell onto his back and yelled. A few rounds pierced his good arm. He could feel his blood pooling beside him. Adam saw the woman had no emotion, no facial expression, just empty dead eyes, like Alice's.
"Like what i did?" Manny said, walking up to the empty Shell.
"You killed her." Adam said, gripping his shoulder with his wounded arm with his left hand.
"I turned her into a useful Machine!" Manny shouted. He rested his hands on her shoulders.
"She obeys every order, she feels no pain, she moves as fast as any Shell." Manny's voice grew softer and his face got closer to the side of her's.
"And i dont have to make her think i love her to get her to protect me."
Manny stepped back to the doorway and snapped his fingers again.
The Shell lifted her pistols to Adam's eye level. Just before she pulled the trigger, Jace tackled her. Pinning her forearms to her sides, Jace yelled.
"Kill it!"
Adam picked up his sword, but she already started twisting her shoulders. Her forearm stretched and the protective sleeve at her elbow dislocated. The Shell's entire right forearm ripped away and she pointed her arm at Jace. From the joint, an ion charge fired out. Jace was blasted in his shoulder and his entire right arm was blown away.
'A hidden Ion Cannon?' Adam had never seen a Shell with such disregard for it's own life. It made him feel disgusted. The Shell lifted it's left arm and aimed it's pistol at Adam. Adam brought his sword up to block but the Shell was blasted down by an ion blast.
Standing a few feet away was Caroline, holding Jace's Ion Cannon.
"Manny." She said, her voice was like magma.
Manny's face drained of color and he took a step backwards.
"Love! They made me! I had to say those awful things... To protect you! You know I love-" Another step backwards.
Caroline raised the Ion Cannon to Manny's eye level.
"Oh? How could you love me? ... I'm just a Machine."
Adam heard an Ion Cannon fire, but Caroline's eyes widened in shock. Her cannon was still charging as she saw Manny stop moving. Where his heart would have been, Adam could see the doorway behind him. Adam looked down, and the Shell had aimed her severed arm up to Manny and fired.
If her arm wasn't missing, Adam could have imagined her hand stretched to her master as if she was calling for his help in her final hour.
______________________________________
Adam walked with Jace down the hall, passing office after office in the SRS headquarters.
"How's the new arm?" Adam asked.
"It's ok, not as responsive, but that'll come with time." Jace answered. Adam couldn't have picked a better brother and partner.
They both paused as the hall ended with double doors.
Pushing it open slowly, Adam saw the director sitting behind her desk. She looked older than when he saw her the first time, outside the prison. Beside her was a blond woman, wearing a suit like theirs. She had a smile before they walked in.
"Agent Adam, Agent Jace, meet your newest partner. She just joined the SRS. This is Agent Caroline."
(ooc: i wrote this out mostly for the story, and i didn't think too much for the action, if you can tell
What do you guys think?)