Chapter Three: Ignition

[Leo]

My first instinct was this is an elaborate trap. But Jadyn was looking over his shoulder and around the club on a regular basis, eyeing his men and watching them patrol the area, looking for any suspicious activity. He motioned for me to follow him up to the VIP section and sit down near him.

"They're watching us closely. Every move we're making they are proding us for info, seeing what we're doing, that and they are interfering with the bounty, which is a breech of contract. I'm here to help you Leo, free of charge because I know what they are capable of. They're monsters beyond monsters...and they have someone you love...they told me to use it as leverage to get you to come to me...to kill you, but I'm not going to.

"What I'm going to do is tell you where they are. And then it's up to you Leo. It's up to you to finish what they started because they can't do it themselves. Good luck Leo, here are the plans for the base where they are staying and the instructions on how to get there. I wish you luck, you're going to need it."

He got up to leave and exited the club in a hurry with his men, I stared down at the schematics and star charts that he handed to me and gaped in amazement...what I was staring at was a detailed path through the Omicrons, into heavily Nomad infested space. The base was buried in a magenetic field screened from Nomad interferance...the details of the base were complicated...but I knew what several of the things meant in it...conversion rooms.

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

I snapped the restraints quickly and broke free. I fell to the floor groaning. I was negative any clothes on my person and the floor was wet and cold. Electricity flicked throughout the celing and the thing holding me was a circular cage with four latches where my legs and arms went, each was now melted and still smoldering. I looked up to the window seeing guards approaching.

"Ignition." I heard in my head, and heard a melody from what I could figure was from my childhood echo throughout my brain. In front of my vision hung a blue haze and everything slowed down, from the guards movements to my own breathing. My arms seemed to move at normal base as I took down countless guards and then eventually stood infront of Sarah.

"Stop this Leo...get back to-"

"You were supposed to love me...and yet you stick me in these...these conversion rooms. I don't even remember who I was, I don't remember...I don't f***ing remember!

"Leo, no!"

An explosion of blue and Sarah fell through the door leading into the room. She was going into spasms before she passed out. I searched her body and found two guns, I ran into another room...and found my belongings from a life I didn't remember. Two energy swords, and a fighter suit. I quickly put on the fighter suit and exited the room standing in front of me were countless guards...

"I will give you once chance...you have seconds to live if you stay here to fight me...you will leave now...in order to preserve your lives..."

None moved and I sighed.

"If that is how you want it..."

They rushed me-

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I came out of it panting, I was on the floor now. People were walking by giving suspicious glances my way as I stood up. A bouncer came up and asked me if I was using. I only shook my head and he made another statement on how the club does not support drug use. I only said again that I wasn't and I had been feeling sick. The bouncer shrugged and told me to see a doctor. If he saw me doing it again he said he would kick me out and make sure I was blacklisted for using.

While he walked away I got to a chair and wiped the sweat from my brow and panted a little bit. So, there was something to that melody...something about it was fimilar...like it was from my childhood a long time ago, I struggled to remember the tune but was only met with some kind of wall...seems I needed more memories in order to remember. I rose to my feet and walked out of the club quickly, being eyed the whole way by the bouncer until I made it to the street, and to my ship.

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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