Chapter Three: Ignition

[Leo]

Trapped, like a rat. I cursed my own stupidity. He was one of my friends from my past, so there was no implanted memories, so I knew that he had just stabbed me in the back. Autumn was alone, but I knew better, she was like me, maybe more than what I could believe. She might be stronger, there was no telling, and I wasn't about to find out. My body automatically went into a defensive stance.

"I'm not here to fight you Leo. I'm here to help you." she said, putting her hands out.

"So you trap me like a rat, put me in a corner so I can't escape. You know dangerous people don't like being trapped or cornered like this. You take another step closer and I'm going to break your skinny little neck. I mean it."

"I know you do. That's why I'm staying where I'm at. Listen Leo...this isn't what I wanted."

"What the hell do you mean?"

She sighed and looked at me.

"I told you it would be hard...for what you had to do. But you told me to do it anyway...five years ago I was apart of a program...named "TANED" or "Technological Advancement of Nomad Environmental Directive". We studied the evolution of Nomad parasites and their bloodlines. I was the team lead and discovered the first Nomad fighter without a Nomad brain. I used it after it's alteration for Human usage and the tech merged with my mind, making me the first ever Nomad-Human hybrid with control of my body...and my first to discover the resistance to the infestation."

"What does this have to do with me." I said, staying in a defensive stance.

"You were my husband when I became infested, or...altered. You accepted me for what I became and told me everything would be ok...but then...an Order representative came to me, telling me he was exactly what I was, a Nomad-Human hybrid with control of his own body, he said that he could help me, only if I had paid attention to you, telling me he was bad news...because..."

A holographic image shuttered and yelling could be heard.

"She's using the holo-emitter...transmissing on a frequency...it's scrambled!"

"Listen Leo...I'm not who you think I am...stay away from the Omicrons!"

The channel cut off and the holo image dissappeared.

"You are involved with some freaky people Leo." Kacachi said staring at the spot where Autumn's holographic self was once standing.

"Shut up Kacachi, and tell me the best route out of Kyoto with out being detected."

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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.

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