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Title: The Mist Post by: Suprax on July 20, 2008, 10:12:55 pm Mist
by Black Knight (George Murrell) A hazy mist arose from the cold ground and slowly surrounded me. As I opened my eyes in astonishment, the mist slowly shaped into an old man's face. I had no time to think as it spoke to me; "Trust nobody, not even yourself." Stunned by its presence, I froze in my tracks as a tremendous power surge ran through my veins. I reached up toward the sky as if to ask for help. I had no idea what was being done to me. Then, all became quiet. The mist slowly seeped back into the ground, and was gone. The surge was gone; however, I felt stronger, smarter, and more agile than I did before the mist engulfed me. What I had witnessed was something that was very rare out here in the Wastelands. It was called the Oracle. Only two men alive had ever seen one, and they became obsessed with the idea that it could happen again, so they ventured off into the Wastelands, and was never heard from again. It was a cold morning as I rose out of my bunk. My head hit the railing underneath Viper's bed. "Hey! Watch where you put that head of yours! It could get chopped off one day." He snapped, pulling out his razor sharp Tevix-Bahn. "Sorry," I said in a soft voice. Viper was well known to be the best killers of all the recruits. He had all the best weapons, armor, and was the strongest of all the Hexmen. They say he once had a glimpse of the Hydrite's base, but before he could get inside, he fought two-hundred hydrites in about a half-an-hour. I couldn't argue with them because I had just gotten at the Main Complex three days ago. I was just a "rookie" to the other Hexmen. I hadn't even told anyone about the Oracle I had seen. "Just another dumb newcomer!" they would say. I was practically thier slave. Just couldn't reason with anyone in that place, except for one recruit. An older guy had a long white beard, huge hands, and a very strong sense of togetherness, his name was Top Kat. He had told me the story of the Hydrite takeover of the planet and how they want all the water on the Earth. Got me a little scared. But one day, it all came down to the last fight. Suprax and I were on watch partol on the Second Tower right over the Sand Mountains. We had been assigned to monitor a Hydrite settlement on the Plains of Yorkshire. "Movement!" she wispered in my ear. I had my Salanger ready to be plunged into some Hydrite gut when I turned and saw a huge mass of radiation coming at me quicker than I could react. The "Mass" struck me with his tentical and tore away my armor. Suprax, being more experienced than I was, ripped out her Electric Sword and swung it into the heart of the "Mass". It quivvered for about three seconds and died. "Thanks," I said to her. "No problem," she said with relief. I looked onto the ground and I saw a weapon buried lightly into the ground. It was a Trans-axe. "You lucky son-of-a-gun", she said. I picked it up and it was fully charged with 200 rounds of ZZETS Shells. I strapped it to my back and was ready to do battle with these monsters! I heard a hummming sound coming from the sky. As I looked up, there was the Hydrite spacecraft ready to land on the campsite. "So that's what this settlement was. It's a landing site for the spacecraft," I said in amazement. The craft was about 250 meters in diameter and had a hole in the bottom of it that could hold 20,000 Hydrites. As it landed, alarms rang and those little green monsters swarmed around the craft and bowed as the hatch opened. "There he is!" Suprax said. And it was. The infamous Overkill. The leader of all those maggot eating Hydrites. As he glided down the ramp, his long red cape flowed behind him in the greatest charm as I had ever seen. This...THING...was 15 feet tall, had bright green scaly skin, and a weapon like I had never seen. "What is that thing he's holding?" I asked Suprax. "That's an Xendrix. The most powerful weapon of the Wastelands. It could cut through a solid titanium block 12 feet thick with one swoop. You don't want to mess with that guy." She said with quite a warning to her voice. We must had been talking too loud, as a monitoring device picked up our life signs and an alarm sounded off louder than 20 jets taking off at the same time. "GET THEM!!" Overkill yelled raising his right hand and dropping it in attack. We were faced in front of an army of 400 Hydrites. We were not dumb Hexmen. By the time I looked around, Suprax had already footed it 45 meters ahead of me, transmitting a radio device to the Complex saying that the Hydrites have found us, and they will attack in 15 minutes. "Received," Viper acknowledged. "Get the cannons in place Top Kat. Col. KAT! KAT!!" Rolling out of his bed, Top Kat awoke in the worst mood he could ever be in. Faced with an army of 400 Hydrites, the Hydrites craft, and Overkill himself, the only thing I could do was to run for my life until I got to the Complex. The battle was about to be underway. As the cannons were being rasied up onto the base, I suddenly felt a trembling in my body. I looked at my hands while I was running and they were glowing with a bright blue mist, like the mist I saw four days ago. Before I knew it, I was running twice as fast as I was before. My arms grew out of my shirt and I felt a sense of courage run through my veins. I didn't stop running though I had to fight myself to keep on going. My fear was gone. Instead, I had a pure fighting spirt. The glow disappeared, but the strength remained with me. "Outer gates close in two seconds." the intercom crackled. The base was equipped with a computer system to run the base system. "Gates close in one second." the computer crackled again. I dove for the opening and just barely made it inside with my legs. "Come on and get us you Hydrite scum. You not will get past me!" I yelled out the complex. I ran back to the closed gates and started to pull them apart trying to get out of the base security. Suprax ran up to me and started to pull me away from the gates as I tore them apart. "Don't go out there!" she yelled. "You will never survive! They will kill you!" My courage had overwhelmed me. I had to get a piece of Hydrite meat between my teeth and crunch their bones to dust. "Are you crazy!" she yelled, trying to pull me from the bars. I was now twice the size of her and had twice the stregth. Those bars were like putty in my hands. I had to chose between fighting in the base, or crunching Hydrites, which at the time was a great idea. "Trust nobody, not even yourself." echoed through my head. I then realized what I was doing. The Oracle had given me a warrior in place of what I really was. I had to overcome the courage and be myself again. The men who saw the Oracle the first time couldn't overcome the courage and tryed to fight the army alone and died in the process. Would I become one of them? Would I be a lost cause because of too much courage? I slowly bent the bars back into place as Suprax grabbed me and dragged me inside the base. Alarms were ringing and Hexmen recruits were scattered throughout the base setting up the Hyperaccelerator cannons with plasma rifles in hand. "Hydrites broke outer defense perimeter!" Col. Kat announced. I took my spot two flights up in the shooting towers as I saw the army break into the base. The outer cannons had blown away about 150 Hydrites already. It was all up to the 50021-HX Unit to defeat this mighty army and their leader. I reached around to my Trans-axe and to my amazement, it had turned into one of those Xendrix's Suprax had told me about. I was now Equipped with full most powerful Reflecto armor, and my Herculean loaded to the max, I ran downstairs in full battle gear. "Die!" shouted a Hydrite dressed in his gear. I ripped out my Xendrix and tore out his insides as I ran past him. Yells and screams were heard downstairs as Hexmen and Hydrites were battling it out. ZZZIIIPPP!! A shot of ice blasted past as a Hydrite Guard fired his Z-Tempest at me. "So you want to play like that, do you?" I asked the Guard sarcasticly. I swung my Hercleon around and blasted a hole through him. Pieces of Hydrite flesh were flying everywhere. I sliced past my last Hydrite before I came across the master himself. "You really think a puny human like you will defeat me?" Overkill said deeply. "No! I know I can!" raising my Xendrix in battle position. "Fine! You want to do this the hard way? Then let the fight begin." He thrashed his Xendrix against my arm drawing blood from it. "A mere flesh wound will not stop me!" I said. I thrashed my weapon into his mid- section. "Now you will, die!" Overkill screamed as he saw the blood. My skills prevailed me as he rushed towards me, and I flipped over his 15 foot high head and landed my Xendrix squarely on his skull. Overkill fell in a pool of blood and lay still. The other Hydrites looked on in awe as they saw their leader enslaved by a human. Their hesitation was their downfall. The other Hexmen in pure radiance sliced the remaining Hydrites into bits. Everything suddenly became quiet. The base was silient as the remains of Overkill soared into the air and disappeared. The fight was over. The Complex remained intact. We had won. I never really figured out what the Oracle meant when it said "Trust nobody,.."------ Until this one time when Suprax and I were having dinner in the Recreation center. "Soup too hot for you, Ma'm?" I asked her. "Oorpt, glupts, hlerpt!" she mumbled. |