A Life Left Behind.

[Tactical Nightmare]

[color=#000000]0105 Hours GC time- Location Unknown

[color=#000000] Tobias leaned back, the chains on his chair rattling. "[color=#006b6b]Well, I guess it started with my parents.[color=#000000]"

[color=#000000] "[color=#ff6633]As so many things do.[color=#000000]" Said Zimmerman.

[color=#000000] "[color=#006b6b]I'm choosing to ignore the innuendo there." [color=#000000]Said Tobias, in an aside.[color=#006b6b] "Well, I grew up on planet New London, south east continent, Thames district. It was a rough area, Ruled more by the street gangs than the Queen[color=#000000]."

[color=#000000] "[color=#ff6633]A situation I'm familiar with, trust me.[color=#000000]"

[color=#000000] "[color=#006b6b]Yeah, I was about sixteen when the riots happened, You remember them? Probably not. They didn't get much media attention. Well, I was at home when they started, my parents were on the street. By the time the fighting moved on, I think I was the only one alive on the whole block.[color=#000000]"

[color=#000000] Zimmerman sat silent. He could imagine that, Leaving the house as a kid to see your neighborhood slaughtered. "[color=#ff6633]But most people'd just break down. Or join one of the gangs. You didn't.[color=#000000]"

[color=#000000] "[color=#006b6b]No, I decided that I wanted revenge, I'd always been a bastard like that. I checked some of the bodies in the area, some of the gangsters had died, and they left their guns behind. I grabbed a few then took to the rooftops.[color=#000000]" He smiled and said with vindictive happiness in his voice: "[color=#006b6b]I hunted down the gang that had ripped my street apart, and rained death down on them form above, every single one died.[color=#000000]"

[color=#000000] Tobias sighed. "[color=#006b6b]Then I had to ditch the guns, they were laser weapons, and they can sometimes track energy signatures on those, somehow." [color=#000000]He gestured with his head towards the cabinet under the sink, where he'd seen Zimmerman stash Tobias's weapons, out of sight.[color=#006b6b] "That's part of the reason I use old-style projectile weapons. No one has a planet wide database for them anymore.[color=#000000]"

[color=#000000] "[color=#ff6633]But how did you go from being an orphan on the street to being a paid Assassin? That seems to me like a bit of a jump.[color=#000000]" Said Zimmerman, Puzzled.


[color=#000000] "[color=#006b6b]You know, It probably would have stopped there, I'd have gotten killed in the rioting, Or killed myself, Or something. If it weren't for John Keel.[color=#000000]"