((OCC in case your all wondering, my name on the forums show up as the RED PLACID, but really its me Striker20, my name on the forums got screwed up during the transition to SOE))

 

 

I was laying in my bed in zion, waiting for the call, a call that would send me out on my hovorcraft for another month, maby even two...

 

My mind was wandering thinking of life, Choices.....Why....

I heard the phone ringing distantly in my head. I snapped back to reality and answered my phone.

 

"Striker, assemble your operator you are goin solo on one of our smaller Hovorcrafts i am giving you with Sartec."

The voice sounded odd, not the familliar one i have heard from Commander Lock for a time now, but a colder harsher voice....and why was it that Sartec and i were being sent out alone without a crew? it seemed crazy to me, extreamly dangerous, but i am not one to betray orders so i set out, knowing in my head that this was a bad choice...

 

"Striker, did you hear were bein sent out on our own, they must really trust us for something like this" said Sartec as he cought up to me, "i wonder what we are being assigned to do."

 

"Sounds like there trying to kill us..." i mumbled softly to myselfe, i started to become weary...

 

We boarded the ship, i looked over and saw the name The Peacekeeper writin on  the side of the ship, with a jolt i realized that this was the same ship i was awakened on....it had been out of commicion because of it being a much older version of the Hovorcrafts, but it looked patched up and ready to go.

 

Exitement and frear flooded my body...

 

We boarded up and were instructed to go through the number 3 exit to leave zion.

 

"i just remembered, this is the ship you freed me on Striker" said Sartec.

 

While i was still part of The Peacekeeper i recruited and trained Sartec. We had worked togeather for ages now.

 

We started upward, the ship was slightly odd for me to be navigating because of it being an older model, but Sartec pioleted it like he had owned the thing forever.

 

Finally we left zion, for another mission...

 

24 hours later:

 

I was still in shock, our ship had been ordered to be settled not even 4 miles from the machine city, we were so close i could see the crops of humans the machines used for batterys. I was frightened, not only were we that close to the machine city, but the person who had givin us the orders was definutly not Commander Lock, i had no idea what to do. i closed my eyes wishing i wasnt seeing what i was, and then opened them and jumped out of my seat in shock. Stationed around the ship were zionite remote controled sentures who patroll the area makin sure no one gets this close to the machines...

 

Sartec looked as shocked as i was, he had fought and yelled about goin this close to the machines, but he finally gave in when i told him there must be a very good reason for it....but now i was starting to doubt my own words. all of a sudden a trasmission was commin through....

 

 

######Static########

 

Peacekeeper you are in an unauthorized area.......you will be EMPd .....we do not risk anyone going that close to the city......marked traitor.......

 

#####Static########

 

" o god no....." i whispered with fear.

 

"that man....he sent us here knowing that we would be EMPd........he sent us to die.....o god no.......STRIKER DO SOMETHING!!!!" yelled Sartec "PLEASE DONT LET ME DIE OUT HERE!!!"

 

i put my hand on the EMP emitter but it was too late, one of the zion remote units had fired an EMP. Our electrical systems all failed, the power was cut, we had no mobility, and we were about a half a mile from the ground... the ship plummited toward the ground

 

Sartec had a look fo pure horror on his face, it seemed to be in bullet time as we fell toward the ground. I didnt know what to do, i just sat there knowing that it was all over.

 

it seemed the instant before we hit the ground, Sartec turned to me and said "Promis me you will kill the sonofab**** that did this to me, live strong Striker"

 

i looked at him and nodded....then there was the impact, so powerfull that i felt like a rag doll in a hurricane.

 

then....darkness...

 

time unknown: Aprox 10 hours after impact

 

I woke up, i had a splitting headache, i felt like i had died and come back, i felt so bad i would of begged for death, but then i remembered...Sartec

 

I looked over, scared of what i might find....he was dead. his skull was split open and a metal pipe had slipped out and gone through his chest.

 

I looked away pleading for it not to be true but it was....i got up, tried all my mucles and was fine, i was bleeding from my head and had a minor fractor in my arm and right leg i guessed, but i could walk, i was ok.

 

I stepped out of my ship, looking around, still crying for Sartec, one of my best friends from the beggining...

 

the place i was at looked like an old area of a previous part of the machine city, i walked into one of the buildings, human built....

 

inside was amazing...i was guessing that it was a test sight for jacking humans into the matrix, and the amazing thing was, it was almost identical to the ones humans use now. same chair type structure, same jacking in procedure, the computer was in front of the human so you could operate it somewhat solo, but it would take work...i needed someone to help me.....

 

i looked around at my new home, this place. i could not returne to zion for i would be marked traitor. i looked at my craft it had enough food and supplies stored in it for a year i had made sure to it

 

I rememberd what sarted had said to me, anger filled my body, i would get reveng on who did this to me.

 

withought a second thought, I went inside the building, sat in the chair, programmed the computer to Dannah Heighs East, and pushed the needle into my head, i jacked into the matrix, knowing that someone was going to pay dearly for what they had done.......