The Future Diaries
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Please note: I'm usually writing german Stories, but I tried an english one too. The language might not be perfect, maybe the worst you've ever read ;)
Metroid is (c) Nintendo (used the word in it ;) )
All other characters, Ideas and so on are (c) me. Possibilities with other persons are not wanted. Have fun with reading. Maybe I'll write part 2 soon :)
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The Future. The obligatory Future exactly. The time where everything is possible and impossible at the same point.
If you're reading this, then the time transfer had success and I'm able to tell you something about my life here - oh, I forgot, my name is Noxx. Noxx Clayton. My Father was Gerald Clayton, my mother was Katera Hing. Both died at an "accident" at the local Mall. Much of my friends and their parents died there, so I was all alone in this cold world which you would call "Post Apocalyptical" in your time.
I read much about your time at the "new millennium" in the years from 2000 - 2010.
Today is the 21st November 2750. To describe my situation, I'm an 18 Years old Bounty Hunter - that's the only Job I could do cause I can't finish school without the money of my Parents. But I love it. The earth, as you might know it, is destroyed, as much of your scientists said. The Nuclear Weapons of the "Big Nations" were weak; no one could stop that, so they detonated. The first bombs detonated in China, then Russia, the UK, then the US - but only because they tried to throw the weapons into the sea.
Unfortunately, they only caused the end of the world through this, because the weapons detonated in a multiplied way in cause of an unknown physical phenomenon - the Freiburg effect, which was discovered by the Austrian Scientist Georg Hermann Freiburg some years after - the Explosion changed the atoms in the water to Radioactive ones and just multiplied the power of the detonation, so the earth was cracked up in it's middle and blasted in a very long process... it took about 10 months till the earth was completely destroyed, and no one was able to leave it to our base here at the moon - or the other bases at Jupiter, Saturn or Mars... It was terrible, even if I was not born then. This happened in 2269, the year where the Jupiter was conquered.
But, back to my story. I'm alone, my family is dead or lost, my friends are somewhere in the universe where I'm unable to find them (we have colonized many planets in much different systems) so I have to fight for my own. My jobs are given me by phone and they all have something to do with "kill that person" or "Clean that Sector from mutants".
To you, my unknown friend, I'll send my Diary Entries, my whole story of my life as an intergalactic Bounty Hunter, but please don't give them to others. Enjoy your life at the planet as much as you can, the catastrophe is inexorable.
So, the next file you'll find will be my first entry, from this day... I have others too, but I want to keep them here, to remember about my family and friends, I hope you understand that.
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Dear Friend, if you are out there.
You are the only one I have. I'm alone, my mother and my father are dead, all my friends are "lost in space", hunting for their own adventures. I'm Noxx Clayton, freelance Bounty Hunter in the United Federal Galactic Civilizations, also called "Earth Memorial Zone". I'm living on FQR-10 12 Abragos, which is the only thing left from the Earth, its moon.
I'm doing my Jobs on all Planets in this sector (S RTG 6), and I earn enough money to live a good life. But this life can be destroyed every day, cause I'm often asked to clean up contaminated Areas - contaminated by the nuclear waste from the explosions of the Earth's Water which turned into a kind of radioactive stuff just before the Earth exploded... it was spoiled through the whole universe and brought terrible mutations.
I am one too, everyone is, we are no Humans anymore, and we are anthropomorphic animals. But this is a positive development, cause the humans got known about the positive attributes of the Animals - they got better Senses like seeing, hearing and smelling, without them we won't survive one day now.
I, personally, am a thing that you called "Wolf" in your period of time. My father and my mother have been wolves too, just before they died. Much of my friends were felines, like cheetahs, tigers and panthers. My "Chief" is a bear... a strange guy with really odd abilities... He's a kind of godfather at FQR-10 12 - but I'm glad to work for him, not against him. No one knows what happens to his opponents when he have them...
As there is no Oxygen out there in the outlands, I have to wear a special suit, which was made by a really Old Company, who once produced Videogames and Game consoles, also a Game called "Metroid" - I'm sure you know it! Well, they saw their chance to create a suite like that in real, and after hundreds of months, they produced it and sold it to multiple rich persons without knowing what they will do with them... and I wear one of them at the moment, nearly unable to put it away... just when I'm hurt and need to get to a hospital, they could remove it from my body.
But let me tell you what happened this day...
I was called to Mr. Turio's (that's the name of my Boss) Rooms, but forced to wait outside cause he has "a little problem to solve" - the only thing I heard from the inside were "No! Please don't do that! I'll pay within.... "Silence... I don't know what happened, and I don't want to know it... as I said, I was happy to work for him, not against...
Then I was allowed to step in. Turio was looking... fat, more than the other times, with some odd bulges in his belly. But I simply ignored it, it was better not to look at another part of him than the face, that makes him angry... so I stood in front of this big bear, waiting for my instructions "You called for me, Sir?" I asked, not without a submissive sound in the voice. Even If I had weapons with giant power in my suit, I heard of a remote control to turn them all off - and that Turio owns such a thing.
"Yes. One of my factories is sending an S.O.S., cause Mutants are attacking it. Solve that. You'll get the money afterwards." he growled with a dark voice.
As always. At first I have to kill them, then I get the money.
"Should I simply guard the Factory or should I kill all the mutants?" I asked, shyly.
"What a dump question!" he yelled. I stepped back, in fear he would hit me. His paws were nearly as big as my head, and I whimpered softly, hoping he won't hear it.
"Of course you have to kill them all! What am I paying you for? Now, out! And don't move your dirty ass in here again before this scum is dead! Instructions will be sent to your HUD. OUT!"
I stumbled out of the room as fast as I can. "Damn. Now I can forget the Bonus... next time I simply say nothing" I thought while I was going to one of the ships which should take me to the factory. I waited in front of it, waiting for Turio's instructions to arrive in front of my eyes. 2 minutes later, some signs arrived in the little display:
>Destination: GWF 70, S RTG 7
>Job.ID:13488562
>Reward: 12000 C
>Time: undefined
I nearly jumped when I read the reward... 12000 Credits, I never earned that much! Not even for the last assassin Job where I had to kill another Godfather of FQR-10 12... I didn't even thought about, what will await me at GWF 70... Which is a planet in the next system, Sirius, a planet called Bargos. A cold planet, full of ice and Snow, but with much silicon under the big ice fields...
I jumped into the Ship, which started automatically, routing the way to Bargos without any action of mine. The flight took about 20 minutes, in that time I thought about Turio, and his appearance. One time, after he had an opponent of him in his room, he had red fur-pieces at his lips while talking to me... I wonder where they come from... or that odd bulges in his gut... or sometimes that wet maw of him... well, just don't care about - I don't want to know what happens to his opponents when they are inside the room...
Some minutes later, I arrived at Bargos. Near the factory Turio was speaking of. All was quiet, beside that alarm from the Landing spot for the Ship. I jumped out - and I was glad that my suit had a climatic control; my sensors showed me that if I would be here without, I would freeze immediately - -80°F!
I slowly stalked towards the factory, until my Foot hit something. When I looked down, I cried out in fear and the sensors of my suit loaded every weapon I had... There, in front of me, was a person... dead, obviously... but how he was looking, his eyes were turned around, his arms were... in an strange position, as like as he was preying to a thing you might call a god... which doesn't exist in our time... and his whole body was looking... empty, not filled with anything but flesh, bones and blood, but no life.
After I resumed myself, my weapons were unloaded automatically; I stalked towards the factory again. When I reached it, I opened the door - it was not locked.
When I went in, everything was quiet. I've been here before, to do a kind of parcel delivery, and it was loud like hell, and everywhere you could see lights... now, everything was cold, quiet, not even a light was shining anywhere in the big hall with this giant machine... Don't know what it did before, but now it was standing there, not doing any action... I turned on the Built-In flashlight and looked around. Dead people everywhere, all in that strange pose with strange looking in their faces... Dogs, Wolves, Cheetahs... even an elephant lays there... I shivered as I walked through the hall, looking around. Then I turned my speakers on:
"Hello, Someone there?"
I waited. But nothing happened. I loaded the Beam in my left arm, just to get sure. The sensors in my suit recognized that I was afraid of this place, and turned on all the flashlights in my suit - I was looking like a shining star!
I turned them off. "I really need to configure this silly suit" I thought, while slowly stalking around the giant machine in the center of the hall. I turned my speakers on again.
"Hello. This is Patrol 225283-W from FQR-10 12. Is someone there?"
I was glad every time I said that. I got the official permission to call myself "Patrol", even if I wasn't working for the government. That feels so cool...
Nothing. Only a cold wind, which made my suit freeze for a little while, was inside the hall. I loaded my Radar into the HUD, looking for some infra-red signals... and there! In the dark corner, at the other side of the hall, there was something warm... at least it was not as black as the other things around him. I hurried, running towards it... and then I stumbled back, screaming loud.
In the corner, that thing, whatever it was, was not a human... anymore. It was a kind of glue, or slime, which had the form of a Raccoon... and it was a kind of alive... after I resumed me, I slowly stalked towards it, softly poking it... it was moving softly, and then looked up, at me, at my face... I was really scared, so I couldn't move...
"They are here... "It hissed... it was a terrible noise in my ears, tears filled my eyes while looking at this creature... "They are... here... they killed us all... they devoured our souls..." it whispered again.
"W...what is a soul?" I stuttered
"I... am..." the creature said, with this terrible noise in its voice...
"Where are you from? And who is there?"
I was totally afraid, that was the biggest fear I ever felt, that terrible noise in my ears made me weak, I shivered and whimpered some while talking to the "soul"...
"I am from the inside of everyone... and no one... I am a soul... and they... are here... now..." the creature reached my hand... I didn't feel anything, and then a terrible scream filled the air, the blue thing in front of me, which was a raccoon like blob before, exploded.... and nothing was left over. I fell over, losing conscious...
>Battery Low... Warning... Battery Low... Warning....
>Danger!
>Danger!
>Danger!
...was the only thing I read at my HUD when I woke up. "FUCK!" I yelled and jumped up, trying to get as fast as I can to my ship to load the suit's batteries again. Without the Life-Saving systems in my suit, I would freeze immediately at these temperatures! When I reached the Gates of the factory hall, the first weapons went to sleep mode, I was totally weak at the moment, if one of the mutants would wait outside, and it could kill me with ease!
I focused all the power to the jump unit, starting to run as fast as I can through the Snowstorm which was outside, towards the landing spot where my ship was... where was my ship?
"FUCK!" I yelled again while running on the platform. There was nothing, not even a sign of my ship. I was doomed.
"FUCK! FUCK FUCK FUCK!" I screamed while sinking on my knees, hitting the floor with my fists.
I cried. I felt the suit's energies going to its end, my body got colder and colder... I lay down on the metal ground, looking in the air, and screamed!
There was another Creature now, some looking like a Tiger, but with very odd appearance, looking submissive... a mutant!
"No... Please..." I said, without power, while the mutant reached down to my neck, lifting me up slowly. I was not able to struggle, my body was at the end of its resources...
The Mutant simply growled and I saw the blue slobber at his maw... one of "them"... I cried.
"No! Please don't! I'm nearly dead; you can't eat anything from me without dying too!
I should mention here that my suit contain a biological scanner, which inserts a heavy toxic substance into my body to kill me fast and without pain...
The mutant lift me up again, and then he opens his maw... I felt a kind of sucking at my body, all over, a terrible feeling, while my body itself simply loses control over my mind, I screamed, not in pain, but I was in heavy fear and a really odd feeling started to overcome me...
then it suddenly stopped.
"Where is... it..." the mutant growled."Where..."
I looked at him, slowly gaining my control back. I closed my eyes and concentrated all the energy I had left in my body to my head, just to think about how to escape... as the strange feeling started again, harder as the last time "give it to me..." the mutant growled, "GIVE IT TO ME!"
Then, I don't know how, something really strange happened. As I opened my eyes again, the mutant froze and looked at me with a painful face. I felt that I lost the control over my body again, but it moved. My paw reached for the mutants neck, pushing it hard, as I could see a blue substance coming out of his maw, directly flowing into my suit, and suddenly my HUD turned on:
>Battery Full!
>Starting Up Weapon System... Done!
>Starting Up Health System... Done!
>Starting Up Climatic Control System... Done!
>Suit completely loaded!
I couldn't believe what happened, I still was unable to move my body, as my legs pushed the weak tiger-mutant back, which stood up again immediately and attacked me. But just before it reached me, I loaded my beam and fired it at the creature, which was thrown back several meters... My body started to walk towards him, pushing the metal foot at his chest. The mutant growled loudly, opened his maw again, and the strange sucking feeling was there again... "GIVE IT TO ME!" He screamed while I kneeled down... And then, I said something, what I never thought to say...
"What's not there, can't be given..."
Suddenly, my other arm turned into a large knife, which cutter the throat of the mutant slowly... "Die, prayer..." I said, and I was scared by myself, I never thought to say something like that... Was it the Suit who took control over my body?
The mutant struggled, crying painfully, while the sword cuts his throat more and more, and then his head falls off... as this wasn't enough, I just stood up and slammed the whole sword into his gut, I screamed in a kind of barbarian way, and then I fall over... getting back the control over my body again...
I was weak, not knowing what I've done before, where did my body got the energy? What was this sucking feeling? My HUD just blinked again...
>Strangers approaching...
>counting... 2300 Individuals
>Danger Level: high.
>Danger!
>Danger!
>Danger!
I stood up and looked at the battery status... full. Completely full. What happened?
I didn't have the time to think about it, the strangers, mutants, were approaching to me, no way to escape... When I saw the first, I fired my hardest beam into their direction, as hard as I can, kneeling down and holding my arm up so I could aim better. I didn't saw what I was firing into, I only heard the screams and growls of hit mutants... some of them reached my near, starting to suck again, but then I hit them with the beam again and they died... It took about 3 hours until al the mutants were dead, and then the Storm stopped immediately...
"That's strange, that's really strange... I'm dreaming...." I thought while I was looking at the HUD to get the batteries status. Full...
I stalked towards the factory again, now when I could see it. Hundreds of dead mutants, including Foxes, Wolves, Bulls, were lying there, dead, frozen already. When I reached the door, a call from Turio reached me.
"The Signals stopped. What is with the factory? Is everything okay there?" he growled into the microphone. "Location cleared, but they're all dead..." I said
"DEAD...?" I couldn't hear the rest, but it was a really bad language.
"Come back! Immediately!" he yelled and cancelled the call. Get back? How? I lost my ship...