[??:??] [?/?/2038] [Military base underground facility, Earth]
A man sat in a cell in the middle of an underground military facility, his hands were tied behind his back into a wall and his mouth had a piece of metal that doesn’t let him bite his own tongue.
His hair is long and dirty, his clothes are completely full of mud and torn apart, he was completely bloody. Seven fingers, one leg and all of his teeth already long gone from him.
‘Why did all of this happen to us?’ The man thought while lifelessly looking at the ceiling of the stone cold cell.
He couldn’t speak, couldn’t feel emotions, couldn’t eat the soul food his family made for him anymore, he felt lost.
After spending months in this place, his mind has already started giving up, he’s becoming more and more like a walking dead man.
‘Will i see them again in my dreams? I miss them so much… Why did they even start this war…. Why did they made me a prisoner when i’m from this country…’ He slowly closed his eyes, feeling the embrace of the only thing that maintened within him.
Sorrow.
And together with it dreams accompanied him in his first sleep in a few weeks, collapsing from deep exhaustion.
[18:00] [15/1/2029] [Bruno’s house, Earth]
“Happy birthday dear Bruno, happy birthday to you!” Close to fifty people around started screaming and clapping for Bruno’ Birthday.
Bruno was 1.92 meters tall, one of the tallest boys of this city, he had a tanned skin, black hair that was slightly disorganized, deep black eyes, a sharp jawline and he had a pretty fit body since he loves to run in the mornings.
Today was the day of his 16th birthday, ‘I’m closer to finally reaching 18 years old, i have a girlfriend, i’m working in a part time job so i can buy her a ring, i’m still in school so i can’t do anything drastic, my family loves me. I can’t really ask more of this life, i’m happy.’
He quickly blowed the fire out of the candles in the dimly lit room they were in, he didn’t ask for anything in particular, his wish was a simple one, the continuous happinness of his family.
Immediately everyone around him started shouting, “First slice! First Slice! First Slice!”
“Well, this is easy, the first slice of the cake will always be for my beloved mom.” The moment he said this his mothered showered him with a big smile while everyone was calling him a ‘suck ass’ as a joke.
He quickly hugged everyone after giving each of them a slice, everyone stayed by the house for some hours before everyone started getting back to their homes.
“Thank you for making me the party, mom, dad and sister, i love all of you, i’m going to sleep now since i’m tired from the party.” Bruno said while they finished saying goodbye to the last person who exited their house.
“Good night my dear, i’ll make a special breakfeast for you tomorrow, sweet dreams.” Said Nubya, his mother was incredibly similar to him, the only different was her long curly hair and the lower height of 1.6 meters, they were almost always confused as brother and sister when going out as a family.
“Night, son.” Curtly said Richard, his dad which was a little taller than him and was stacked with muscles since his job envolved him being fit, he had many scars that covered his body and had crystal clear green eyes, he talked coldly like this since he didn’t like to show his emotions that much, but he knew that he was crying rivers the moment everyone started singing him happy birthday, he’s always been a soft dad inside his heart.
“Night night big bro, see you tomorrow.” Said Jessica, his little sister which basically was a mix of their parents, their father green eyes and their mother curly hair, she only had 10 years old at the moment, she rapidly gave him a hug before he went to bed to sleep.
[08:00] [16/1/2029] [Bruno’s house, Earth]
“The government is already trying to enter in a consensus together with the other party, right now the recommendation is to stay calm and not deliberately try to say anything accusatory of them in the internet before more documents are brought to public view, please stay safe everyone.” Said the reporter while the whole family watched the tv.
“Honey, will you have to go?” Said the mother with a scared tone in her voice.
“I’ll have to, my superior already called me for some meetings, i’ll only be gone for some days for now, i promise to come back soon.” Said the dad while giving a reassured smile to his family.
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All of them were scared about what they saw in the television, but even more scared that one of their family will have to go to such a dangerous place.
Richard quickly left the house while feeling unsure about what was happening, but if there was one thing he had to do, it was to protect his family from those who dared to attack his country.
[11:32] [27/03/2031] [Military base, Earth]
“Noooooo…. sniff… sniff… Why? Why did it have to be him?” His mother cried in his shoulder in hope finding answers with her son, unnable to understand what happened to her beloved one.
Bruno was quietly hugging his mother and sister while trying to make both of them calm down, after 2 hours of consolling her he quickly got up and said, “I’ll talk to the officer and try to get some answers, stay here with sister for a little while.”
His sister had the look of a dead person, she didn’t move even a single finger and her face was as pale as a ghost, which made her look like she was in a vegetative state.
His mother quickly nodded while he went inside a room to the side.
There was a man inside of it behind a desk, he was wearing a military green uniform and arranging some documents, he had blond hair and black eyes, the man quickly noticed Bruno entering before speaing.
“It appears that you’ve calmed them down, i’m sorry to only bring your family this notice now, i just received the info so i d-”
“Who killed my father?” Bruno asked with a cold toned voice, looking directly into the eyes of the man.
The military officer felt cold out of nowhere and glanced at the man while giving him a smile, “We can tell you where they are if you join us, we’re always in need of young blood in these times” He said while extending his hand for a handshake “You in?”
Bruno didn’t think twice before shaking his hand.
Maybe he should have thought more about it at that time.
[21:34] [13/11/2034] [Bruno’s house, Earth]
“MOTHER!!! SISTER!!! WHERE ARE YOU?!?! PLEASE ANSWER ME!!! PLEASE, be alive….” Said Bruno while taking concretes blocks out of the space that he once called home.
‘Fucking bastards! They stood so low that they started using rockets aimed at civilian cities now. They will pay!’ Said Bruno while fuming with anger, he had been doing this for a few hours already, then he finally saw it.
With only one more boulder taken out of it’s place, the bodies of both his mother and sister were huddled together, almost if they were hugging each other before their final moments, their bodies being smashed and pierced by th debris almost seemed to make no sense, their crushed corpses had became one.
RED
Bruno saw as the world gained this color, his last family members died because of these bastards, he’s not going to let them off easily, ‘They will die by my fucking hands, i won’t fucking stop before those lunatics are dead’
[12:24] [02/01/2038] [Military camp, Border of the war zone]
“You fucking assholes, what the hell are you doing with me? Aren’t we on the same side?” Said Bruno while being handcuffed by people he called friends before.
“Sorry man, this is the order from the higher ups, they need to blame someone as a spy now that the war is losing force and the government is investing loads of money on weapons, apparently it’s gonna to a degree that we need to get more people in the ranks and the popullace isn’t willing to join, they hope that saying that a spy was caught, it would make people feel like they’re on the better ground and that spies can’t infiltrate us anymore, you’re not the only one that will be choosen in this plan.” Said João, one of his longest partners in the military, they had entered together and were of the same platoon.
“Apparently the ones we will send you to will already know about the scheme, i’m just telling you this because i’m feeling like shit doing this to you, i’m sorry, they will have my family as a target if i don’t do this.” He said while tears started falling from his eyes.
‘What? What do you mean?’ Bruno didn’t know how to respond, after all these years of service, was this his final destiny? He worked hard and traded shots daily with the bastards that killed his family. Did they not kill his family? What truly happened to his dad then? What is-
[??:??] [?/?/2038] [Military base underground facility, Earth]
“Wake up insect!” Said a man in a green military uniform after throwing a bucket of water in Bruno’s head.
He slowly opened his eyes and then got up.
“Apparently you already know what’s going to happen, let’s quickly deal with you, go on you fuckin spy insect!” Said the man while kicking him out of his cell and into the corridors.
They quickly went in random directions and reached a metal door that was already open with some people in white lab coats inside, they were messing with some cables that connected to a chair with a helmet on it.
They quickly made the required procedures and left the area, leaving only Bruno in the room, stuck in this chair that was finally going to take his life.
The months of torture had already made him numb to pain, he was almost non-responsive.
The mirror in front of him quickly changed and he could now see a few people in military green uniforms and some with lab coats.
“Sadly, a rat like you still have some rights, so one more thing that you can do, any last words?” Said the man who brought him in while snickering.
Bruno had a moment of clarity after all these months, he quietly looked in the mirror, there were even some people he knew in the other side of it, what should he say to them as his last words? Well, there was one thing he wanted to know.
“Did the military kill my father in the same way as i am right now?” He said while looking at the expression of the people on the other side of the mirror, ‘They all flinched, so that was it, i’m sorry father, i failed y-’
SHOCK
HEAT
IT’S BURNING
I’M MELTING
HELP M..
[??:??] [?/?/?] [?]
There was a path in the void, quintillions of white flames the size of a fist went with the current, the gap between space and time guided them through this path which was known by few.
It was slow and calming, almost like the waves in the ocean, they slowly but surely were being taken more and more towards it’s deapths.
One being was looking and analyzing each one of these white flames that transversed through the void. After he was close to finishing this section of the corridor to the cycle, he noticed a specially bright one in their midst and got closer to it.
“What a poor soul, just by looking at this specific one i can feel the sorrow that it emits, let me check it personally.” Said the being before coming closer to the white flame and picking it up.