*in distant voices*

Unaware how much time had pass by, sound slowly creeps into the darkness that had enveloped his consciousness as his mind gradually began to regain its clarity

(Voice on Tv:- today the Gaia confederation made a big hit once again on the rebellions and android set to destroy the peace of our beautiful world

We are g......)

The voice continued anchoring the news as Victor slowly regained consciousness fully, the first thing he heard opening his eyes it the big fact lie been broadcast

Gritting his teeth in rage, he clenched his hands into a fist, not realizing he had applied too much force and his nails had dug into his flesh

"Those bastard, they cover a mass genocide as dealing with the rebels, are those old and weak people in that slum rebellion

Those that could barely live, talk more of picking up weapons to fight against the federation"

"Hah, you are awake now, you sure are one Lucky one" a voice trialed in from the side, catching him off guard as he had not bother to check where he is

He immediately tries to get up from his lying position but was assaulted with pain from his chest

Bring his hands to his chest, he noticed it had been fully band with bandages, "stay still, you might reopened your wounds

You won't be so lucky as not to die of blood lost the second time"

Second time, Victor thought when he heard the lady's voice once again, only then did the incident that occurred before replay in his head

The betrayal, the aguish and the pain of being shot in the chest by that Gaia confederation soldier

As if recalling something, his eyes shone in confusion, how did he survive that blast, he thought he is done for when he was shot

"Wondering how you could survived such a grave wound, well you can own that thanks to the colex found in the sea water amongst other chemical waste dump on our side of the sea"

A young and elegant lady step of the shadow, appearing in his line of sight, he had been unable to move his head ever since he woke up

His guess is, its a result of the wound he sustained in his chest, looking at the Lady closely, he noticed something in her eyes when she came close

"You are an android?"

"Yes I am, a synthetic human android, one of the very few to still be alive and running around in this slum" she replied warmly as she bent over to help him up

Now that he is sitting straight, he could see the full view of the room and the small size television at the middle of the room surrounded by over forth people watching the news

(......, Gaia confederation is not the enemy, we are set on keeping the peace and life of humanity, its the Android's who are the enemy

Where ever you are and can hear me, if you have any information of androids or rebellious Ai, report to the nearest Gaia confederation military base and you would be rewarded greatly)

One of the military official took pride in his speech as he went on and one over the fact that the area they just cleared are housing rebels of but android and humans alike

Picture of the scene filled with the bodies of humans and android was displayed for everyone to see

Kids, elderlies, young men and women, the whole place was a mess of human bodies and machine parts

This further stir Victor rage, his eyes pouring flame, especially when he saw the image if his little sister and sick mother been displayed before him

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Not a word escape his mouth, but his eyes said it all, his gaze fastened on he TV made it obvious this man is drown in rage and pain

The sound of his knuckles cracking due to too much force applied on them further confirmed it, "its all you people's fault"

"Huh" Victor word surprise the lady standing beside him, watching the broadcast along with the others

Everyone who heard what he said though not loud as he didn't scream it, turned towards him, each of them had their own mix expreoas some of those people were relatives to them too

"Its all your fault" now his voice is picking up as madness seem to be over taking him, ignoring the pains in his chest as he raised his gaze toward the android beside him

Being an android had a certain up, like not feeling the express feeling of fear hut the gaze victor gave her instilled what she could only express as fear

Stepping away from him unknowingly, it looks like a predator just set its eyes on her

"If you guys hadn't been so greedy enough to start a war, none of this would have happened, Nana and Lora would have still been alive

You greed for power and control brought this on all of us, we have to pay the price for sins we didn't commit".

Victor tries to get up from the bed, bloody veins pop up in his eyes, stretching as far as one can see, he is totally consumed by rage

"Calm yourself down kid" a figure appeared before Victor in a flash, pressing down on him as his mechanical arms in place of his original hands held Victor in place

No matter how he struggles, he couldn't break free, only his endless tears were lucky enough of break free and run at free will

"Let it out, let all of it out" the allowed Victor to let out his emotions uninterrupted, he very much understand his pain, he had been their before

A while past before Victor got hold of himself, "I'm sorry I lashed out"

"We understand" the man pulled away from Victor, helping him up, as his wound had been reopened and his bleeding badly now

"We have all been in that spot once or more times as you are now" raising his mechanical arms in stead of a human one

A notion that indicate his survivals had cost him a lot, now locking around, he found out most of the people here had the same feature

Having mechanical part replacing the original, and this part are all old version of technology, part that seems to be piece from the scrapes dump on their side of the world

"Mind telling us the true senerio that played out there" the man pointed at the TV still broadcasting but now a different topic been aired.

"We were sold out" Victor replied bitterly, the taste of betrayal is still very fresh on his lips

"Those foolish bastard that thinks they are in the right and doing all of humanity a favour" the man muttered under his breath

"Well since you are awake now, we can do a simple introduction, I'm Greg, leader of this faction of survival

Just like your settlement, ours had been raided and everyone killed, we one way or the other managed to survive or escape"

Cyia Herr helped us fix our missing limbs with the little she could find from the scrapes, she is the one that saved me and ever since we been on the mission of saving others like us"

"Hmm" Victor didn't seem interested or he was just too down to care, no one can truly tell what was going on in his mind at the moment

"Hope you can hold up a bit all by yourself, we are about to head out to that site raided by the Gaia's" cyia enquired once she is done redressing his wound

"Huh" now Victor is more than confused, shy would they want to head to that area, if his memories serve him well

The area would have nothing left there other than dead bodies, or are they going over to give a max burial to all the dead as a way of showing respect or what

"You don't have to worry about us, we might not be strong, but we can still do damage to what ever it is they are there to do"

Victor couldn't stand it anymore, his brain cell are at the verge of burning out, what is going on, what damage and what is this what ever they are there to do

Didn't they just come there to deal with them because the were interacting with androids, or is there an hidden agenda?"

"Take it east with the lad Greg, can't you see his all fried up" cyia cut in and decide to help victor out, so he can catch up to speed

All in all, when he was brought to speed, he felt like dying from rage, this Gaia confederation had been going on a genocide of the poor masses all because they are conducting an experiment

Who does that, I mean, ain't the people they kill all in the name of rebellion and their stupid experiments humans like them

Victor was swallowen with rage he refused to sit back anymore, he wanted to go with them, he wants to see things for himself and confirm what he was told

A few moments of back and fort argument went on due to Victor request, after a short while, they came to an amiable conclusion

Cyia had a device that Victor could were to help his movement, but he would have to put up with the pain of his wound

Due he didn't die thanks to been saved by the colex in the sea water that watched his body down away from the scene

He is still badly Injured, the blast barely missed hi heart, if it had shifted just a mini inch forward, he would have been dead

Still his stubbornness didn't want him to sit back, so they had to let him be, he is only to stay a distance away from the site and escape immediately things get serious

With that said, the fifty something people hiding in one small dark room having one a few interiors set out for their journey at the cover of night