Anyway, this is just a short little prologue to the story, so hopefully you will like it!
Enjoy!
Prologue
“They all said that the hardest thing to do is to be a hero,
but what if the hardest thing to do, is not in fact to be a hero, but instead,
is to be a innocent trying to get through life?” my teacher continued to read
from the book.
“ Does anyone have an idea about what that could mean? Why
the author may have chosen to use those words?” no one raises their hand, so I
raise mine. He chose those words because no one can be
innocent, not even a hero.
“ The author chose those words, because…” I trail off before
I finish. Thinking about the way I word the next part. “ because he understood
that throughout life, everyone is a hero, but no one is innocent,” then the
looks come. The ones where people are questioning what I mean. And whether I
even heard what I said. Or if I was just blabbing some words that sound nice
together.
“ What makes you say that?” The teacher’s head is tilted
slightly and her eyebrow is raised, proving too, that she doesn’t know if I
really meant what I said or if I had the right backing behind it.
“ I mean to say, that everyone does something in life that
would make them a hero to someone. They don’t have to save a life or run into a
burning building, but its something little and significant. And no one comes
through life innocent, people lie and cheat and do the wrong thing all the
time. They can say sorry and try to make up for it in many ways, but it doesn’t
make them innocent again,”
I hear someone slowly clapping from the back of the room,
and I can hear the defiant clicks of the shoes as the walk along the
rubber-like floor.
“ Miss Helgorn, you are very wise for someone so young,” the
deep voice is encouraging, but also quite stern and dark.
“ Thank you sir, but when you go through the things I have,
you learn much of which others could never understand,”
“ Which is why I need to speak to you right away,” I turn to
look at the man who was speaking. He was over 6’ tall and had dark brown hair,
almost black. He was built and tough looking, but payed it down a bit by
wearing a suit.
“ I’m sorry, but as her teacher I’m going to have to ask
that, whatever it is you need to speak to her about, wait. Not only are we in
the middle of class, but from what I know you are in no way related to Whitney,
so I’m going to ask you to leave as well,” Miss Thigle was using her strict
teacher voice, she reserved that one for the worst of her students.
“ Would it make you feel better if I showed you this,” the
man pulled out a badge and ID card. He was some sort of cop, but not a
traditional one. You could tell, and the logo on the badge was one I had never
seen before.
“ Fine, you may talk to her in my office, but make sure you
don’t try anything,”
* * *
And that is how I found myself here, standing face to face
with possibly the weirdest guy I have met yet.
“ My name is Derek Greendale. But you can call me Derek. I
am here because of your history with an organisation, Hostage Rage, the people
who are hired to kidnap people,”
“ I am well aware of what they do, and if you know I was
involved with them, then you know I was trained to do exactly that, and worse.
You would also know that after being almost killed by those people, that I was
taken in by a group of people working against them and had my name changed.
Which makes you finding me quite an impressive trick. Now what do you want with
me?” I spoke fast, my tone was strong and was used to make him realise just how
serious I was about my past.
“ What I need is for you to come back to our organisation. I
am from Fallout 16, a division of Fallout, the group that saved you. We need
you to come in. so we can re-train you and send you in on something big,”
“ What happens if I say no,”
“You won’t. We know your history well enough to know that
even now your itching to fight and get back into being an agent, whether good
or bad. You won’t turn this offer down,” They had me down to a fine art. My
history, my wanting and who I was. They knew before they would send someone in
that I was going to come. And that made me mad, but still impressed, that even
after three years, they still kept an eye on me.
“ Well, how can I refuse when you put it like that?” I gave
a small smirk and narrowed my eyes.
“ I will meet you in your apartment after school, from there
you will be taken to Fallout 16’s base,” he gave me a firm look before
continuing,” this isn’t going to be easy. I know that you’ve gone through a lot
but that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to get through this easily, your going to
get tired and we are going to make you sweat,”
“ I honestly wouldn’t have it any other way,”
I told you it was short! anyway, this is all i have for now, but hopefully next week or the week after you will see chapter one of Fallout 16. That is the title of the story, and maybe you got an idea what the story is about. If you think you know ( cuz you probably won't) tell me in the comments below!
See ya later armadillos! (little YJ talk there. If you know which character said that and in what episode, i will be very impressed!)
