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About five minutes later, the blaze lost its final fight. It’d drained all of the mana captured in the dome to fuel itself, and the fuel had finally run out. The remnant wisps of flame gathered together in the shape of a human, then flared up with a bright yellow flash before the light faded and left a young man lying on the ground, naked and unconscious.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
In that instant of pain, rage, humiliation, and loss, he decided that if his mother didn’t want paradise, he would take it from her as his first, and final, act of revenge.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“First you took my father, and I could do nothing. I was powerless to stop you! But now you impy dogs stole my mother without my permission!?” he growled, his bloodshot eyes beginning to faintly glow red. His hair also began turning bright red, like the heart of a fire. “This place will BURN!”
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“First you took my father, and I could do nothing. I was powerless to stop you! But now you impy dogs stole my mother without my permission!?” he growled, his bloodshot eyes beginning to faintly glow red. His hair also began turning bright red, like the heart of a fire. “This place will BURN!”
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
As Murphy said, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong, and at the worst possible time. Just hours after Aron received his weekly briefing about the increasing crime rate, an event that would change his stance on the remnants began.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
And though he hoped the police could deal with the rising crime rate, it didn’t prevent Murphy from coming out swinging.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Still, the remnants had been chokeslammed back to before the industrial revolution and a lot of effort would be required to lift them back to what passed for modernity to them. And that was something that Aron wasn’t willing to do.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“Excellent. For a unified Earth,” Jeremy said, wishing he wore glasses so he could push them up the bridge of his nose like his favorite anime schemers.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
A few minutes later and a whole lot lighter, he opened his eyes and looked at the television screen in the waiting room that was still tuned to the coverage of the incoming disaster. The timer on the bottom corner of the screen still showed six hours to the end. “So this is what they were after...” he muttered to himself, then slumped in the chair he was sitting in and laughed at his own powerlessness.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
With trembling hands, the phone to his ear and took a deep breath. “My name is Sunday Khan, and I officially request imperial citizenship for me and my family.”
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“So for once, I’m going to be selfish. For me and for our son.”
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“Babe,” the man said with a choked sob. “I know you’d rather die than become an impy. I know what happened to your family in the war... but I can’t do this by myself. I need you.” He clenched her blanket in his fists, then used it to wipe his tears. On some level, he knew it could cause more problems, but a man drowning in an ocean of tears wouldn’t fear the rain.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
“Babe,” the man said with a choked sob. “I know you’d rather die than become an impy. I know what happened to your family in the war... but I can’t do this by myself. I need you.” He clenched her blanket in his fists, then used it to wipe his tears. On some level, he knew it could cause more problems, but a man drowning in an ocean of tears wouldn’t fear the rain.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
His eyes moistened, then tears dripped on the blanket covering the woman and his shoulders shook in silent sobs. He wanted to wail at the top of his lungs and shout curses to the sky, but every time he was tempted to give in to that urge, he couldn’t help but remember the premie that was currently struggling to survive, or the woman on the bed who was doing the same... he hoped.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
The imperial space agency, in conjunction with the imperial press corps, was even doing everything they could to ensure that everyone could see what they thought was their doom approaching. There was a timer in the corner counting down to when the CME would arrive at Earth and end everything they knew, and the past eleven-and-a-half hours had seen people glued to their screens with a sense of morbid curiosity as expert after expert was paraded past their eyes, all of them virtually shoveling doom and gloom into viewers.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Some people believed that, if something beyond their control was about to happen to them, it would be better if they were caught off guard by it. That way they wouldn’t spend the time leading up to the event in anxiety and panic. “Ignorance is bliss,” they claimed, and in a sense it was the absolute truth, because the moment one was notified of a crisis they could do nothing about, the panic would set in. That was why, in the face of crises in the past like pandemics, people would make some truly weird decisions... like buying all of the toilet paper in stores everywhere.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
Some people believed that, if something beyond their control was about to happen to them, it would be better if they were caught off guard by it. That way they wouldn’t spend the time leading up to the event in anxiety and panic. “Ignorance is bliss,” they claimed, and in a sense it was the absolute truth, because the moment one was notified of a crisis they could do nothing about, the panic would set in. That was why, in the face of crises in the past like pandemics, people would make some truly weird decisions... like buying all of the toilet paper in stores everywhere.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047
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About five minutes later, the blaze lost its final fight. It’d drained all of the mana captured in the dome to fuel itself, and the fuel had finally run out. The remnant wisps of flame gathered together in the shape of a human, then flared up with a bright yellow flash before the light faded and left a young man lying on the ground, naked and unconscious.
Getting a Technology System in Modern Day
Sci-fi · Agent_047