Chapter 1

Setting: All out Space war. Fighter jets and torpedo jets flew everywhere. Lasers and missiles shot back and forth between ships and fighters. A galactic war seemed to be taking place with explosions ringing across the field, and thousands of soldiers fighting in spacecraft. They were even on top of space craft engaged in melee combat.

SCENE 1: A pilot struggles to keep his spacecraft straight and it begins to descend as more lasers scrape the back of his craft damaging it further.

" Shit, Shit, Shit I can't die yet. This isn't fair."

He pulls his lever up as hard as he can activating his afterburners to do a summersault behind his target

once in range he fires his last torpedo destroying the enemy ship.

His fighter had already taken to much damage, and he was sure it would explode any minute now. Even if it didn't his plane was now falling towards a planet he knew couldn't have really existed.

His only thoughts were

'If only i got to tell her happy birthday'.

He closed his eyes waiting for his impending fire death. But instead awoke to a completely different environment. He was completely submerged in water; his lungs began quickly filling up but before he could react everything went black.

SCENE CHANGE: A house on the edge of a semi poverty struck neighborhood. Most of the people looked and were very poor with very low-income jobs. These were the minorities of the country Tarban . At this house on the corner of elm street, there were bikes, cars and vans parked outside with people filling the front and back yard with equal amounts filling the porch and inside of the building as well. All of these people were of different races and color but all of them got along willingly. They all stood around a table where one curly green haired brown skinned girl with tentacles for her lower half of her body sat. She had kind of a forced smile on her face, like she was happy but also worried. The door slammed open, and She jumped to her feet (or tentacles) quickly. Max, A light brown skinned boy with a wooly high-top fade haircut who stood about 5 foot 10, fell onto the floor spilling gifts everywhere. There was 3 small ones and 2 big ones. He hurried and grabbed his things after noticing everyone was staring at him and squeezed his way up to the front where the girl with tentacles sat.

" Sorry I'm late and for Causing such a commotion. I brought presents though." Max said cheerfully with a smile on his face.

"You are an hour late,you know.... you already missed the birthday cake and song.... Again." Said an irritated Mira who was still eyeing the front door like a hawk.

She sighed and sat back down.

"Hey Mira, don't let that bother you, max does this every year so it's no big deal, cheer up you have been down this whole time."

Max looks around and checks the audience then says

"Hey, Mira, where's Jason?"

Mira quickly responds "I don't know, have you seen him anywhere. He said he would be late 5- 10 minutes tops, but he is even later than YOU! That's a problem!"

" Hey, you don't have to do me like that but still I will go look for him I'm sure he just got held up at work." Said Max

"Held up at work .... ON MY BIRTHDAY....DON'T BE STUPID MAX!!! He just told me last week that they have been cracking down on arlaxians at work for almost no reason at all. They have been going to jail left and right none of them ever comeback and I'm pretty sure they are thrown in prison. Why is he not here? Did he get caught up in this scandal? I don't know what to do .... please help me max." She yells then Hysterically starts crying into max arms. Everyone began to disperse and give them their space. It was very common that race would be targeted and there would be mass arrests or people put into "containment camps" Now people of the minority have begun to just be robots of the society. They won't do anything that allows them to have fun relax or even be entertained. They work, sleep, eat and repeat. The only joy they partake in is to celebrate each other's birthdays. The one fact they can all be proud of is that they were born into this world. But is it really something to be proud of?

Max calms Mira down

When she finally wipes away her last tear he says, " I'll go look for him, and i won't come back until i find him i promise."

She hugs and thanks him then he runs out onto the street to go look for Jason.

Jason was a tall arlaxian with green cropped back hair and tentacles for his lower half just like Mira. He worked at an aeronautics lab where they built and tested airplanes and aerospace weapons. Max went there first.

After what he heard about Jason's last words about the scandal reaching his job, he could do nothing but worry. He lost his only family and race that way. Max was the last remaining human on the planet due to the government persecuting humans mercilessly. The only reason Max was even free was because before he was caught, he got a new id forged those states he is an argus, whose DNA structure and physical build is very similar to humans.

Hearing this happen to his closest friends almost made his heart stop.

Max finally reached the aeronautics lab: Raiden.

He walked through the front glass doors breathing heavily

There was armed security at the front doors and along inner walls about 12 in total.

Max thought that was a lot of guards for a research lab.

He walked up to the front desk where 2 Secretary women sat.

The guards eyed him the entire time.

Max felt like his head could explode with them staring at him so hard

After catching his breath, he asked the clerk "Excuse me miss I was wondering if Jason Arlax clocked out today?"

She quickly responded, " I'm sorry I have never heard of that name here before."

She looked kind of nervous and scared. Max realized this was the same lady that lived a few doors down from Mira and Jason. Max leans closer and speaks,

"Please tell me what happened to Jason for Mira's sake, I know you are they're neighbor please let me know"

"I said I don't know who either of those people are. They never existed"

She repeated in a cracked voice as if she were on the verge of crying.

Max took 2 steps back, his heart shook.

Those were the same words his little brother and sister's teacher said to him when he went to go pick them up from school. They never existed. How is that even possible? How can that even be an excuse? You can just say someone doesn't exist and they don't? Max felt his world crashing down on him all over again. He shot out the glass doors back towards the house. All he could think was

"No No No not again. I should have never left her."

He sprinted faster He wasn't much of a runner, but he didn't have much time. Once they get one family member the rest come in quick succession. Max turns the corner and spots the house the next block over. He stopped dead in his tracks. The yard was empty the front door was open, and it was completely silent. Max ran and jumped the fence and dashed into the house. When he entered there was no one to be found and all the presents were still wrapped except 2. One was of the bigger presents he got. It was half ripped open and, on the ground, so you could tell that was the present she was opening when the agents first arrived. The present was a basketball and even though Mira had tentacles for feet she loved playing with max every day. The other present was a smaller one and it was completely unwrapped and missing, indicating that Mira still had this present with her. This one was a keychain and attached was a compass with a map of her home planet on it with the north pole pointing towards the true north of her home planet.

Max sat in the chair Mira was in and looked around solemnly. He then stood up and picked up the presents that fell and organized them. He began cleaning up the house. He cleaned like an emotionless robot. He didnt even know why. He knew she would never return to this house but felt as if it would be disrespectful to leave it the way it was. Once he was done. He walked to the front door, took one last look inside and locked it up. He sighed and walked down the steps. He had realized it gotten dark out and wonders " Can things get any gloomier".

Just as he asked the universe gave. Max lifted his head to flashlights and beams pointed at him from every direction. He was dumbfounded. The soldiers began yelling to get on his knees and that he was under arrest for some sort of spy business. He couldn't really hear everything because his heart was beating so fast, he could only hear the thumping. All other sounds were quickly drowned out. Then suddenly something hit Max's leg, and a shock went through his body, then he fell over and hit the ground with loud thump as his mind sunk into unconsciousness.

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