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The Stigma (Continued)

“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.” —Marcus Aurelius “Poverty is the mother of crime.” —Marcus Aurelius “The path to paradise begins in hell.” —Dante Alighieri And many more quotes from philosophers and other cool dudes to set the mood. (Yeah, I know that rhymed!) ————————— When given the choice between a greater evil and a lesser one, do you simply just not choose? Or is that a choice in of itself to let the evils rule you? To let the evils put you into proverbial chains? Screw that. How about rising up and owning the chains? Asserting one’s own will as the more desirable evil? Would that then… be good? ————————— The world is in chaos. The common man can’t make ends meet in a Second World Depression. Behind the blacked out lines of lies and secrecy the world’s governments are in crime lord’s pockets. All the while villains fight a de facto royale against the world and amongst themselves. With the glass world already cracked, now only a pebble is needed to make it absolutely shatter. ————————— The Black Baron is a MyDarkSide influencer—kidding—he’s actually an unhinged supervillain and acts like some sort of bad-boy playboy. Sometimes comical, petty, childish; he isn’t afraid of death or having Waya, his enforcer, completely annihilate his foes. His neutral “only me and mine; screw the rest” philosophies are shattered when Dan—his father of a friend—is slain by the most powerful syndicate in the world. Why? Because they were targeting the Baron. Now shaken and brooding, war has only just begun. The only certainty is uncertainty itself. Oh yeah, and casualties. That’s not the dominant thing on the Baron’s mind however. Instead it’s the last promise he made to Dan; to make his life count. ————————— Elizabeth is Dan’s daughter. Her father’s involvement with the Baron led the last family she had left to the grave. The perfect example of zeal and passion in the ranks of the Angels, a police force she was conscripted into, she doesn’t hesitate to take the undercover assignment of infiltrating the Baron’s inner circle to destroy every fiber of their being from within. “So you’re giving me a small undercover task?” “Well,” the ArchAngel said, bobbing his head side to side, “undercover missions tend to unfold from sounding like that into things much more… delicate.” Yeah like betrayals, blackmail, cloak and dagger, tights, cool quotes, forbidden love and more. What could go wrong? During her stay with her father’s indirect killer however she sees that people are people. Be they a Castro or a Lincoln, be they benevolent or malevolent, these “degenerates” begin to infiltrate a part of her heart she thought was dead when stripped from her biological family when she was forced into the Angels as a little girl. The deeper she gets, the harder it is to betray them. With bonds forging in battle it becomes harder and harder to lie. Over time, she struggles to continue the little party game of Mafia she needs to keep up in order to merely survive the coming days and even darker nights. The only thing certain, is uncertainty itself… and lots of casualties. ————————— Koltin_0562 is my old account. It’s been so long I think it was a new phone that made me unable to access the old account. I don’t know. Regardless, I’m picking up from where I left off. After the comical intro things steadily get more and more serious. The sometimes cringe worthy hilarity is just part of the ramblings of a mad man. Also, there is blood, gore, and intense violence up to and including torture. (C’mon, they’re villains.) In my draft, I’m probably about to dive head first into some philosophical clamor. Hopefully this will make memorable and unique characters. Or maybe make you think… & No, this isn’t satirical wish fulfillment fueled by the recent economic downturns. On Koltin_0562’s version I mentioned I wrote some of this years ago. Enjoy~ ;)

xWandererx · Sci-fi
Not enough ratings
17 Chs

Chapter XIV (14)- She Knows

"Semper Occultus"

(Always Secret)

-the MI6 motto

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AllFall

...15 minutes prior

I came to Salamay's room, shutting the door and yelled out a greeting,

"Salamay? You there?"

Funny, the soldier said she'd be here, a cabin out by itself, well away from the radiation. Inside was a calico cow-skin rug and a few trophy bucks and other miscellaneous cabin ornaments on the walls and window seals. Pretty much the whole cabin was like this save the carpet I was on and different mounted animals throughout. My voice and footsteps echoed through the wooden floors and hallways until I found the woman in the library.

It was a spacious place, and all the mounts had some sort of predator grabbing prey. Something felt ominous about the cougar getting the mallard, or the lynx getting the field mouse, and Salamay's gaze. The gaze was waiting for me with an even more unsettling smirk,

"Hello," she said from under the eagle getting a trout.

She set her book down on the nightstand next to her and stood. Odd enough, she smiled evilly at my shoes and said,

"I love how you tie your shoes," her eyes met mine, "very... 'professional' don't you think Elizabeth?"

A shock harder than electricity hit my brain case.

Elizabeth...

Elizabeth...

Elizabeth...

She knows who I am,

"Funny for a street girl to tie her shoes like a soldier or agent..."

Kill her.

Kill her and say that I found her that way.

Paste her to the ground and snap her neck with a swift stomp and tip a candle over. My hands shot up and I increased gravity to insane levels. However, instead of falling face first cracking her skull on the wood floor she smiled as the floor creaked and groaned. She shook her head making a clicking sound, evil pleasure on her face,

"What if I were faking you out Angel?"

Panic struck me, a trap?!

"Don't worry," she purred as if reading my mind, "the others don't know, but in the bachelor war you gave them reasons to suspect."

"How'd you?"

"What?"

"How'd you-"

"The gravity belt or hacking into the Angelic database?"

I went silent,

"Alien has been suspecting that I can hack but not that I'm better than him or his machines. Your safe little birdy." She said it in a condescending superiority.

"You going to turn me in?"

She pulled out her phone and tossed it to me, "No, I will help you."

A camera had been hacked into on the film room with everyone inside. They had paused the video and were arguing over me,

"Why are you doing this?"

"Because," she hissed, "I want a pet."

"Pet?"

"Maybe a puppet, or a little mole."

I looked back at the activity on the phone in confusion, a soldier was talking to them urgently.

Salamay had a pistol out in case I was trying to fool her, I tossed it to her and didn't move. She glanced at it and said,

"Oh, and when the Baron was implying that you had a remote explosion spider drone attached to your brainstem?" She pointed to her phone with her pistol to say that she could kill me whenever. "I also have a special failsafe in case I die... sooo..." she looked at me with a smile on my face and said after I was still standing there, "the soldier is probably sending someone to get you. If you were suspicious they'd blow your head... sooo... ta-ta!"

She swiveled and went to a room farther back in the house. I waited for the the soldier to come in; running, gasping for air. I checked my phone and a message had been pending for four minutes:

<Report to the film room: Baron and Waya>

Well, so much for sending a soldier to get me…