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“Daisuke!” I yelled as I banged my fists on my cell door, “Daisuke! Help me! Please!” I yelled for him even though I knew he couldn’t hear me because my beloved Daisuke was far away, waiting for me and I couldn’t go to him. I was locked under my basement in a freaking cell where my World ruling father often kept me and his World ruling government tools. I slumped against the door and lowered my head. For a few moments I sat. I was still sobbing when I turned to look at the machine my father built that got
him his world ruling position. The cryogenic nuclear particle photon transport system. Damn thing. My father made it when he was young. He had degrees in quantum mechanics, physics, and genetic alteration. He was determined to make something useful, something astounding that had only been seen in sci-fi movies. It was designed to travel the universe faster, better, and more efficiently than ever before and in turn found the answer to the age old question. Do aliens exist. The answer? Yes. Before my father was able to use his machine he needed permission from, guess who, the government. that’s right! The united nations! He almost didn’t, and I think that, hopefully, in another universe the UN expunged him from their presence without even a look from his machine. Although, in this one they saw this man was brilliant, just his presence anointed them with the feel of genius, so they heard him out. He and his assistant, whom I share DNA, preformed perfectly for them. They were astounded and gave him all the materials he may need for space travel. Men, money, land for building and inventing, everything and anything. We made contact with other intelligent, more complex life forms. Some had horns and green skin like in the movies. Others looked exactly human. Others were intelligent, but very…Yoda like? Small and amorphous with weird clicky languages that were hard to decipher. As the years progressed on and earth came to share its spaces with other creatures, my father wanted to create another thing. One that had never been thought of before. He wanted to make something that could live on any planet found without having to worry about the air burning it inside out, or the water turning it into acid. that’s why in 2053, the day I was born, my father built his best creation yet and destroyed any chance I had at living a normal life. I stopped thinking about the infernal contraption for a moment long enough to remember why I looked at it in the first place. When I got my thoughts back in order in realized the photon transporter made a noise. I stared long and hard at it, waiting for it to say something else. As I turned my head away it did. I flipped my head back in time to see a purple sea urchin type bug fly out of its doors. It swirled around my head and whizzed back to the door. It hovered for a second before it bobbed up and down. After it repeated the process I got the idea it wanted me to follow it. So I stood, dried my eyes and walked over to my nightmare. I pushed the doors apart, they were already slightly open, and walked on in. the machine kicked on the moment I stepped inside and hummed to life. I looked at the little bug thing who was now perched on my shoulder, and proceeded to finish the booting process. I gently, yet gingerly, lifted it up and sat it on a scanner. This machine read brain waves to see where we wanted to go, so it took the insectoid and found its planetary location. I looked at the holographic monitor to see where I would be sent to. “Endetridon…?” I laughed a little. Endetridon was a large galaxy on the far edge of Andromeda’s expanses. Most of the planets were hostile and I couldn’t fight against the aliens there…but really, there wasn’t much turning back, the doors for this booth were locked now and the absolute zero ray fired up. Momentarily we froze. Me and the bug thing. All my bodily functions stopped, but suddenly we were ripped to shreds. Molecule by molecule. It didn’t hurt much, but I’ll never get over the feeling of being…separated…but I was put back together on a small cliff over looking a building in a marsh. There were plants every were. But more so than plants was the water. The clear green water could be seen straight through, all the way to the sand underneath. Large coy creatures swam underneath its surface. I didn’t realize how big they actually were until one of them jumped out of the water. It soared over my head for nearly a minute. Its huge golden scaled body was larger than a freaking starship! It made me happy actually, seeing a creature so powerful for the first time always gave me a rush. As the magnificent creature landed in the water, drizzling me, the insect became impatient. I flew about my head all the while pressing a needle like nose to my face. It stung, so after swatting at it for a second or two I followed it to the open building. The building resembled an old 2007 tin workshop on the outside, but on the inside it was a technologically advanced system of intricate hologram computers and password doors. I would have been amazed if, one, I hadn’t already seen these type of doors and computers, and two, if the doors hadn’t been left open idiotically. I lazily walked in after the bug. I took me in and out of hallways to a specific room that was closed off. That bothered me. If all the doors were open but this one then it was done deliberately. something behind that door was meant to be left alone for reasons unknown to me. baffled as I was, I still moved forward unthinkingly. the bug thing followed me steadily as I pried open the door. it took too long to force open a door that been sealed with hydrogen pressure hydraulics. I would've used the computer to open it, but sadly there was a complicated string of firewall crap that kept anyone unfamiliar with this planets systems out. hat angered me, but I got in anyway thanks to my father reengineering my body as a child. once inside I was a bit shocked at what I saw. snake like wires, thicker than my arm ran all across the room. they hung from the ceilings, and swept across the floor, finding their way into what looked like bed pans filled with that green water. I looked at the bug momentarily to see why it lead me to this room. it hovered for a moment before taking off to sit at one of those pans. I followed it, like I had a choice, and looked inside. the green water wasn't like the water outside. this water was murky, like a swamp. against conscious effort I placed my hand in. the water was chalky, dirty, and all around gross. it was like digging around in dirty dish water. and it smelled. I covered my nose with my hand. there had to be another way to do things I thought. after a tick I grabbed hold of something prickly. I pulled it out of the bedraggled water. my eyes widened as I saw I was holding another bug critter. my heart stopped. the pans were full of them. I pulled one out after another, after another, after another. I sat them down on the counter and even though they were urchin like they heaved at the clean air, gasping for breath. I had steadily been releasing them when my hand gripped something long, thick, and hard. I pulled it out of the water slowly, afraid what it might be. I looked at it. it was one of those wires that strung the room. from my pocket I pulled switch blade from the 70's and gently cut away at the wire. the first layer was just boring plastic rubber stuff...I don't know what its called, but the second layer was a bound screen with number portrayed in a familiar language. I gasped when I found out what it was. it was a bomb, and the numbers were ticking down time. "shit..." I whispered noncommittally, "this won't turn out good.. I ran through the room and poured the tubs out onto the floor. everyone of them. I knew that bomb would go off in just few minutes. that worried me badly. What worried me worse was that these were set deliberately. I watched as the little bugs shook off the water and waited for their wings to dry. it would take too long for that to happen. we were perpetually screwed, but I wasn't going to let a whole bunch of innocent creatures that couldn't even fight against the water they were sunk in die. that was freaking genocide. not gonna happen if I was still breathing anyway. I felt luck that I was wearing what I was that day. a large dark jacket with gigantic pockets. I ran about the room picking up the little guys and didn't run out until I had every last one of them stashed neatly away in my pockets. I smiled triumphantly, because I’m a dork, forgetting there was a bomb in the room. almost immediately I remembered about my impending doom and jolted out the door and into the hallway out into the forested area. I did my best to speed up the hillside back to my little cliff, but this air was heavy with humidity. I chocked and had to take a breather. my chest hurt. "I...really need...to stop...smoking..." I said to myself. the little bug guys squirmed uncomfortably in my pocket before I ran off again. at the top of the hill I was panting miserably and I felt myself begin to freeze as the machine pulled me back to earth. I closed my eyes hoping I wouldn't have to see what I knew would happen. as my molecules tore from one another I felt it happen. the bomb went off. I was terrified for a second but when I opened my eyes again I was back in the booth with the squirming aliens in my pocket. I walked slowly out of the particle system, afraid my knees would give out. I jumped when I heard a voice coming from the cell door. the menacing voice said, "good job boy. what did you bring to me this time." he stood and walked in my direction. I backed away until I couldn't go any farther back. I lowered my head as this man, my father touched my face. he whispered, "tell me. did my monitors lie, or did you bring back a creature from Endetridon?" I shivered. but kept my hands firmly in my pockets and my mouth shut tight. he clinched his face before taking the hand he was using to soothe me and slapped me. I fell to the floor, crying again and the little bugs flew out of my pockets scared as I was. my father hovered over me and smiled his hideous smile and said "I thought so." he kicked me hard before yelling, "never lie to me boy, I will beat you again if you do!" and kicked my stomach again. I let out a tortured cry and began to bawl into my sleeve, hoping to muffle the sound. It did little though and I was kicked again…harder. I screamed loudly, earning my another kick before I was violently ripped from the floor by my dark hair. Tears pored from my eyes from the pain and fear I felt tingling through my body. This man before me just scoffed and my weakness and dropped on he floor before leave me alone with the flying bugs. I lay still for a little while, not sure how long specifically it was, but I laid there crying until I heard a thump. I figured to was father coming back to receive his new specimens, but it wasn’t. I rolled over, ignoring the pain, and saw the one person who new I was alive. “Daisuke?” I asked. He nodded sweetly. My eyes watered again and I cried hard. He squatted and lifted me into his arms so I could cry into his chest. When I calmed down I was lifted bridal style up off the floor. I felt so safe then, in his caring arms. As I lay in those safe arms I thought back to when we met. I was a young girl then. I had met him before father turned me into a genderless freak, but it was after the universal war. Daisuke is an alien from a planet very similar to our own. The creature there were being hunted and slaughtered daily. My father sent me over there to do his dirty work. I pulled what was left of their race back to my planet to help rebuild them. I met him on that day. Not long after, father changed my body so I had no gender and had no way to reproduce. He said, “ if you get raped on a planet the repercussions for me would devastate my career.” I cried all night long, but Daisuke came to my side and kept me from drowning myself in pills. He’s the only reason I’m alive today. After a while of reminiscing, I heard him whisper preciously into my ear, “Xenos?” he asked gently, “are you ready to come back to me?” his voice soft against my heart and I cried again. “yes,” I whispered back after an eternity, and I felt his sad yet, loving smile move on my face. I buried my face in his broad chest. Well, it was broader than mine. I smiled at our differences. I was deadly skinny, but that was fathers fault. He was also skinny, but not so as I. my shoulders were slender, narrow, and frail. His were broader and fierce. Durable. My face was round and chubby, like the girl I once was, but his face. His face was defined. It was squared away at the jaw, but his cheek bones were low on his face so he had a girlish appearance. His hair was long and it swept across my face with deliberate ease, and his eyes. Oh his eyes. They were unlike any eyes I had ever seen. The resembled the oceans of his home planet. Green tinged with three gold rims and specks that moved there way around his iris. Such an anomaly, but all the more captivating. Like I had almost done on his planet, I nearly drown in those eyes. I was pulled from my trance by Daisuke. He abruptly took to his feet and whisked me up along with. I gasped at the sudden movement and Daisuke smiled lightly at me. I returned that smile. He looked around the mostly empty room for the window to crawl out of. If my father knew of Daisuke’s existence I would lose the only love I had know, so Daisuke always came in through a window instead of a door. I realized what I heard earlier wasn’t just Daisuke, but Daisuke entering in through the window. He gingerly walked over to said window and pushed my slightly mangled body through. I crawled a ways before crumbling on the grass. My body stiff from the fruitless pain I felt. The cool grass felt morose on my wounded face. I cried silently till Daisuke fell beside me and wrapped his arms around my shacking body. My eyes closed and I fell into a sleep. I was happy when ever sleep engulfed me. I always had good dreams of a life I could never lead. I loved it in sleep. I always will, but I love waking in Daisuke’s arms more than even my dreams because this was real. I opened my eyes to see my Daisuke working diligently on his most precious hover bike. It was two round wheels connected together by iron links and highly durable electromagnets. The electromagnets were positioned all around the circumference of the wheel, and when turned on it created its own magnetic field. This gave us the amazing ability to defy gravity. Best part about this bike was that my father had nothing to do with it. Daisuke invented it. Originally we were faced with a problem. How would we turn it? Daisuke brilliantly solved that dilemma by making the wheels move in all 360 degree, sending the magnetic field circling it. The magnetic field changes the air pressure allowing us ride on the air currents gracefully. What ever direction we move the wheels I how we determine our flight path. Its loads of fun, and were the only people who have one. I sat up to see my shirt and jacket gone and my bare male chest wrapped in gauze and bandages. My chest still hurt of course, but not as bad now. I have Daisuke to thank for that. When he noticed I was awake he immediately threw down the wrench he was using to tighten one of the electromagnets and ran to my side. He gripped me in a death vice hug. I cringed at the contact, but hugged him back. He quickly released me remembering my pain. His eyes met mine and he smiled. I, cliché, smiled back. He looked my almost bare chest over and decided my fractured bones would be okay for now and hugged me again. “was it your father again?” he asked into my ear. I nodded into his neck allowing him to know my dreaded secret. He pulled away in an angry yet understanding huff. He nor I could stop my father because according to everything, I was never born. You can beat, maim, and even kill someone whom wasn’t born…authors do it all the time. He turned away, afraid to see his weakness in me, and began to work on his hover bike. His shoulders shook with suppressed anger and I let out a sigh of relief, for I knew he truly cared for me. I smiled a soft smile and stood to take my broken body to him. While he adjusted the bolts on one of the electromagnets I slid my lithe arms around his broad, caramel shoulders. I whispered into his ear, “thank you. Thank you so much for being there for me Daisuke. Where would I be without you?” He whispered back, “ probably in Endetridon.” we both laughed a little, mostly because it was true. Daisuke placed his wrench on the ground and leaned into me. This was probably my favorite place in the world, sitting with him like this. My father could have destroyed my body so much that I could never move again, but if I could get like this I would be so happy. I eventually let go, but believe me it wasn’t without will. I let go because my beloved Daisuke needed to finish his work soon so we could leave this field and go to the school for alien technology, culture, and language. My father enrolled me saying I was found on a foreign planet and had no former knowledge of human language. So now I’m fluent in every human language in existence, plus almost every alien language we have encountered. Soon I will be fluent in that weird bug things as well. I sat back against a tree trunk and closed my eyes, listened to the clank of metal on metal. I listened fro a few minutes when it ended. I opened my eyes to see Daisuke adjusting the wheel of the machine momentarily before calling out to me, “were ready Xenos!” I stood slowly, letting my wounds adjust to the movement, before walking over to Daisuke and his flying machine. He was already seated in the front groove of the seat waiting for me to follow suit. I walked over to him and sat gingerly down. I wasn’t worried about falling out of it so I didn’t grab onto Daisuke yet. In lift off it would only distract him and we might roll down the hill. The small boosters pushed against the ground when fired up. It lifted us just enough for the wheels to begin turning . He flipped the switch and the electromagnets fired on and the big wheels began turning. I could now stop worrying. The electromagnetic field acted as a barrier as well as a steering wheel. If I or Daisuke fell it would hold us up like an invisible hand. No worries! Now that the magnets were functional we could fly, and so we did. We were only just above the tree tops and it felt great! I looked at the swamp land around us and grinned. I knew that this clean water would be soon inhabited by cute little urchin bug creatures and earths swamps would once again have a flourishing eco system. It would be nice to know that I would get thanked for that instead of father but that is a dream not worth dreaming. According to him…I don’t exist. I almost let a tear slid down my cheek at that wretched thought. I kept my composer and finally leaned into Daisuke as we flew to the ATCL campus. |
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