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 Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:52 pm
(Good. Still in flashback mode.)
"Kray, We must tell you something. Can you be a big boy and listen to us?"
"Sure, I can do that." Kray responded to his mother.
"You are our son, but..." His father was suddenly cut off in mid sentence, as the think blast doors to the lab explode inwards.
"Quick there is no more time. Go Kray, go into the air ducks, crawl your way out. Then run as fast as you can. Don't look back. Just run and never return here." His father turns around, and charges the nearest Scarab, bull rushing it, but to no avail, for the Scarab warrior simply shoots a laser blast into his fathers chest, burning a hole clear through. His mother blocks his sight for the most part, as Kray's eyes grow big.
"Run, now. Trust us, and remember, we will always love your our son." She pushes Kray into the air duck, and quickly closes the grate, just as a flash of bright light illuminates the slits in the crate. There was no scream, no cry, just a flash of light and that was it.
Krayton, following his parents last wished, crawls through the air ducks, reaching the outside. He slips behind a Scarab patrol and runs, only looking back once, to see his home, burning, with black smoke pouring from the windows.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:03 pm
Luca waved his hand in front of Kray's eyes. "Sir, I think I made his brain fry." He said, looking over at Night with a dumb look on his face.
Night sighed. "I'm going to go check on Quickpaw...." He said, walking out of the lab.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:20 pm
"You can get your hand out of my face. My... brain if fine. I was just remembering something. I think this was what my parents were trying to tell me three years ago, before they died." His eyes look wet, like he is about to cry, but holding the tears back, not wanting to fall to the emotion.
I am stronger than this. I wont cry!
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:22 pm
Luca sat down in one of the chairs in front of his desk. "You can cry if you want," he said, "I'm not going to tell anyone...."
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:40 pm
"I shouldn't. This happened years ago. I shouldn't feel this way. If I am an android, then how can I cry anyway?" Kray fights with the tears more, he blinks his eyes, trying to clear his vision.
(Geesh, now I am almost crying!)
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:48 pm
"That's what I want to know..." Luca said, "I'll check in with Rose to see if she'll let me use the master computer to access your parent's records..."
The speaker in the corner of the room buzzed, then Rose's voice rang through the room. "Night Greyfox, Chakat Quickpaw, Garrek Whitepaw, Krayton Tranorious...." The voice continued on, listing the names of marines. "...Please report to my quarters on the double."
"Well kid, there's your cue..." Luca said. "We'll talk later."
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 7:51 pm
"Okay. Tell me what you find. It should be an advanced robotics brain, with higher thinking functions, though they were supposably working on it's cognitive thinking stages when the lab blew." He quickly runs out of the med lab, almost running into the wall instead of going thought the door, all due to blurry vision from holding his tears back.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:01 pm
"Sounds easy enough..." Luca said, "And have fun." He laughed as Kray ran out the door. He turned back to the moniter and began typing on a keyboard that appeared from a slot in the wall.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:08 pm
He makes it to the meeting room, although he had to ask for directions a few times, making him fun a little late.
"Here. Sorry, had to ask how to get here." Kray's eyes are no longer teary, but they do look a little red.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:12 pm
Night, Quickpaw, Garrek, and several humans in federation armor were standing around the circular room with the long table in the middle. Night looked over at Kray. "Sure did take your time getting here." He said with a laugh.
Rose walked out of her bedroom and into the meeting room, adjusting her glasses a little.
Everyone in the room stood up straight and made a salute.
"Sit," Rose said, taking a seat at the end of the table. "We've got a rescue mission to go over."
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:14 pm
Kray sits, just as he was told. He didn't salute, but that was because he wasn't expecting to.
I hope no one noticed that.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:27 pm
"You don't have to salute me...yet." Rose said to Krayton as everyone else took their seats.
"We received a distress call from a section of New Gettysburg in Sector 9." She began, "It appeares that a large group of survivors have fortified an appartment complex and taken shelter in there from the attacking Scarabs." She looked over at Garrek, then Quickpaw. "Normally, we would send in a normal platoon to evacuate them, but their leader says that there are woman and children in the "fortress", and that they're not going anywhere until I can personally gauruntee them a safe route off the colony." She said. "There is a somewhat large group of Scarabs in the premisess, and they say that there's been a phycopath running around with two energy blades butchering everything he sees..."
A few of the soldiers began whispering to eachother.
Rose ignored them and continued talking. "They've also managed to reconfigure some of the computerized lock systems in the building, so we need Garrek to do some hacking and overriding...Any questions?"
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:36 pm
"Am I coming? What am I to do?" Kray asks.
That was dumb. She wouldn't call him here if he wasn't coming.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:39 pm
Rose looked over at Krayton. "You're coming because you have insider knowledge of the city of New Gettysburg." She said.
"You might even be able to tell us a little about the psyco dude that the group leader told Rose about." Garrek added.
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Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 8:55 pm
"Understood. I shall help any way I can. I think you already know that though." Kray says, rather simply.
Does she know what I am? if the rest of them find out, would it change their opinion of me?
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