Chapter Three: Ignition

[Leo]

"I'm alive..."

A shocking realization...I was alive, that's all I knew...The lights hung dimly and a song played...a melody that was from my childhood...something started to happen, an intert feelings grew slowly. I saw a blue haze, and the men behind the glass smiled, they wore their suits. Corrupt government members, and criminals who were interested in what this technology could do...

A HUD appeared in my field of view.

"Break Loose Leo...it's your only chance..."

I snapped the restraints quickly and broke free-

"Leo!"

I shook my head, I had fallen asleep on the trip back into Bretonia Space where Sarah had agreed to meet me again.

"You looked concerned, like you were having a bad dream."

"No, no just a typical dream."

"Typical?"

"Whatever, do you have the info I requested?"

"Nice to see you too...yeah, I have it here." she passed me an envelope. "It was buried in the archives at-"

"At where?"

"No where."

"If you didn't want to say it, you wouldn't have almost said it."

"Worthless slime, I don't even know what she see's in you."

"What?" I asked.

"I didn't say anything." she replied.

The world around me dissappeared again.

"Because she loves me."

"Then why are you here, being strung up like some f***ing experement?"

I couldn't answer that one.

"You're a failure anyway, they're just going to kill you."

I blinked trying to clear my thoughts. Sarah's concerned voice seemed far away in the distance. Another memory tried breaking in over the one already recovering.

"I love you Leo..." she said leaning over me, her face looking calm

The memories were fighting with one another the other one over ran the other and it continued.

"You're lying...I'm going to escape...and you're the first to die..."

I heard a melody in my head and a blue haze snapped in front of my vision again, but only for a second before the song stopped again, this time Sarah was across the tram with a mix of shock and anger crossing her face.

"So you remember." she said.

"I remember." I replied, anger crossing my face as well.

"What now?"

I threw the envelope aside and with a flash was across the tram, pinning her to the wall.

"Now you die."

Her eyes switched over to what Takashi's looked like when he went Nomad.

"Incorrect." she said.

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.
The Banished Legion | Astral