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Chapter 8 Memories are killer sometimes

March 12, 2484 / 1730 hours / Barungan system / planet Altair / Military base specialized for Black Rouge's and other special ops.

After we got back from the training course and got the left orange glove I decided to tell my history. "You remember that Dr. Orison told us on the first day that the most surprising result was that one of us destroyed an entire company of slicers?"

"We kind of already guessed after seeing you on the course that it was you, not to mention the blades on your arms make you more dangerous than most of us."

"Yeah, I should have known that you two would put two and two together, my suit, as you already know, is more advanced then the suit of the Black Rogues, and one thing about my suit that you didn't see is that it has weapons on it. I always knew that there was something coming because of my ability to control tech allows me to hear things that are sent over communications, it has two swords sheaths built into the hands to make my natural swords more dangerous. Well at first I was dumbstruck because I couldn't cut these 'slicers' as she called them, then I noticed their swords, and the fact that they seemed to be made of electricity, that gave me an idea. Although it pained me to do it because it hurt Frani, I sent an electrical charge through the suit covering my natural swords and it worked well enough for me to get one of their swords, it was made of electricity it was plasma with an electrical current going through it, well I used their own swords against them and it ended up taking less than ten minutes" After finishing my story I was curious as to their past so I asked. "Ok I've told the two of you about my past how about recounting yours, you go first Miguel, we already know some about your past but what's the rest of it, and what did you do when the Arbodu showed their ugly heads."

"Well as you mentioned I gained my powers at age four and like Dr. Orison said I set the cake on fire trying to put it out, what she didn't mention about that is I lit on fire three people on the other side of the table, one of them was my dad with the camera, I don't know if they lived. Being run out of town was horrible, I didn't know what was happening with my body but it hurt, it hurt a lot. Running only made it worse because since I also had control of the earth, every time my feet hit the ground while I was running the ground cracked and shook violently, huge holes started to open behind me, I think at this point the people had stopped following because the yelling and enraged screaming started to get quieter and farther away. The forest was a welcome change from the harsh brutality of the people who shunned me, even hated me, at this point I was worn out from running for so long, and I was hungry because I hadn't gotten to eat before any of this happened, as the good Dr. pointed out I started to cry and cry I did but unlike usual tears this water was as pure as it could be. From there I started to hunt, I would usually create a rock and spear whatever I could find for the day and start a fire inside and out to make it have a nice even cooking, for a while I could only burn it, eventually I learned how to control the fire element as easily as the other three, of the four air is the easiest to control, I lived on my own and any other humans came near I used earth and air to block them off from me."

"Rough going for you."

"But you still haven't told us what you did about the Arbodu."

" Well by that time I had perfect control of the four basic and was learning how to combine them in deadly dangerous ways, I could use earth and fire to make glass from sand, from there I used the air to spread the glass as traps, I would move the earth out of the way and put a glass pane over the top of it and then get plants and some dirt and put it on top of the glass till it was at the point that if anything bigger then about my torso stepped on it, it would break under their feet forcing them to fall into the hole underneath onto rick spikes I set-up below. The Arbodu for the most part fell into the traps I had set-up because of how much the individual troop weighed, that took out around two to three hundred, and from there I resorted to my elements and knowledge of the surrounding area. They didn't seem to be prepared for my elements, but there were some with these glowing yellow swords that could cut the fire balls and ice spheres in half, so I stopped air from getting to these particular units but it took forever, they seemed to have an air supply of their own. Around the point that their swords deactivated and they fell to the ground I had killed a grand total of about three thousand of the Arbodu, there were several different types, about six or seven types of the armor they wore and each armor was different. Then the Black Rogues showed up, I didn't kill them because they were putting bullets in the head of all the Arbodu around and didn't even seem to notice me in the middle of the carnage until I decided to light all the remaining heads on fire just to be sure. You probably know what happened then, the first thing they asked was 'how did you beat a regiment of Arbodu?' 'I did what I always do, Attack'"

"Dang man you have one hell of a power, but I like mine better."

"While your power is good I like the ability to make my opponent's weapons work for me, Daniel how about your history?"

"Alright, well I haven't had my powers for as long as either of you two have, I got my powers at age seven, but they seem to have developed more quickly than Miguel's, but they cant have developed as quickly as Juli's because I still don't have a complete hold on my strength because sometimes I can't lift more then myself and other times I can do what I did against the Arbodu."

"So what did you do against the Arbodu?"

"Wait and I'll tell you. Anyway when the Arbodu attacked I was helping at the shipyard because some of my long time friends stayed friends even when I got my powers because of the fact that I just got enhanced strength and healed faster unlike the two of you my powers were helpful to others, no offense"

"None taken"

"Ok, good I hate to think I might have offended you two am I right?"

"Got that right." We both agreed.

"Well anyway as I was saying, I was working at the shipyards unloading a freighter with food supplies that were several weeks overdue, after we unloaded about three dozen cargo crates we came across something, a robot, I unloaded it thinking it was something to help us unload the heavier crates that were in the back. Once I finally got it unloaded, it activated. It was an Arbodu battle-mech unit. At that point the rest of the freighter started to come alive with more mechs. It was then that the siren that told us about an incoming Arbodu invasion fleet. At this point I was already picking up the now empty freighter (a freighter weighs in at about 20,000 pounds empty) and crushing the nearby mechs. After that the Arbodu were sending landing craft down with soldiers, it was odd they seemed to be talking our language."

"Wait what?"

"That is odd, I remember hearing over the waves that it was destruction target designation 9011, the one they lost an entire fleet at."

"Yeah I'll get to how that happened, the leaders in the black armor seemed to be yelling out orders to the lighter colored armored ones, it didn't matter to me at the time, they were shooting at me so I threw the freighter at them and the landing craft. All this time the mechs behind me seemed to be getting up and coming towards me. One came up right behind me and locked into the ground, causing me to notice it, so I turned around and tried to yank it over my shoulder to throw at the others coming towards me. It was stuck, so I yanked harder and tore up the ground that it was locked into and threw it at the remaining mechs. At this point I started to pay attention to what the Arbodu were saying because it referred to me, they were pointing at me and saying 'Charge!' and 'The monster wants a fight so give it one!' All the while I'm going through the crates labeled that they were from the UCSC: Ground Forces because some of the guys at the shipyard had taught me how to use all the different kinds of guns that came through our shipyard in case something like this happened. While I was tearing the crates open the self defense force and the workers were going through the crates I had already ripped open and equipping themselves to defend the area, I kept going through crates until I found what I was looking for, an RPG, I strapped several rounds to my back and aimed for the forces charging towards us. Right as I fired there was a ship that went overhead, one of our troopships. They landed right after my RPG tore through several of their units before exploding. The troops on it were dressed in green armor and black suits, there were thirty some of them onboard. After yelling at me to drop the launcher and get back they finally turned their attention to the enemy charging towards me, I fired another rocket and charged myself, all the while reloading. I dodged behind a wall and when I finished reloading, hit it out from in front of me and shot one of the RPG's at it propelling it forward on fire. Running to the left I bashed several out of my way and shot the other round at the dropship coming down before it could drop the troops. At that point the Black Rogues came back and saw the devastation that I had wrought, at that point I think I blacked out because the next thing I remember was waking up on the troopship with the Black Rogues to my sides."

"Amazing, you seem to have a natural instinct for protecting yourself and others you care for as friends."

"Hmm it sounds like you have an enhanced reaction time during a bad situation."

"well what ever it is I am glad it happened because it saved my life."

"True, I wonder which one of us can take care of the most Arbodu by ourselves."

"You," they both said unanimously.

"You're probably right, but Daniel you still haven't said, how did you beat the fleet stationed over the planet?"

"A nuclear bomb, what happened was I said to some of the remaining soldiers that it was a peace offering. Apparently they sent a copy of it or something to all the other ships because when woke up and told the Rogues what I did, they said 'Well it they must have cloned it or something because about five minutes after you went to sleep all the ships in orbit over the planet blew-up from the inside at approximately the same time each.' So it seems that they killed themselves."

"Nice work."