Origin

Chapter II �" Origin

 

„Please!! Please.. Don't do this!!“

 

„Mr. Walker.. Can I ask you a question?“

There was a man tied to a chair with chains in a dark room with three other people.

 

„Please!! I didn't do.. Anything wrong!!“

The tied man replies.

 

„And.. What do you do here?“

The man over him said.

 

„I.. I just serve as a waiter!! I sometimes cook..!“

The man interrogating looked at another man in the corner of the room.

 

„You.. cook?“

 

„Yes...“

 

The man punched Walker in the face several times, he started to bloat blood. And the man asked him again.

 

„WHAT DO YOU DO HERE!!?“

 

„I.. I.. Im.. Just.. Im just a.. Cook..“

 

„Hm.. You're a cook eh? Well tell me then Gary.. Who do you cook for?“

Gary Walker sat there quietly not saying a word. The man struck a few punches at him again. Pulled out a knife and set it to his mouth. Walker spoke.

 

„Mr... I cook for Mr.. Borisov!!“

 

„Hm.. That's right.. You're Gary Walker.. Famous chef... Especially famous.. For your milkshakes.. Am I right?“

Kruger smiled at him lightly.

 

„Ye-Yes..“

Walker said with a terrified expression.

 

„Mmm.. You know.. I love milkshakes.. And Mr. Borisov loves 'em too.. Stop me if Im wrong.. But I think you made one for him today?“

He was emotionlessly looking at Walker, while Walker started immensely sweating.

 

„I did.. But.. Why are you doing this.. I didn't do anything wrong..! I swear!! I swear on the Holy Bible!!“

Walker said starting to lose control with an emotional breakdown.

 

„You know Gary.. I always thought of me and you as friends.. But.. Friends do not lie to each other.. Do they? Now tell me this Gary.. How is it.. That in the Winter season.. While the city is on the ground, here in the mountains.. Next to a lake.. Your bank account storms upwards with several millions of dollars in three days.. For no apparent reason.. You decide to purchase a boat.. Your terminal goes dark.. Meaning we can't track your location.. You leave a farewell note to your cousin.. And.. Best of all.. Mgghhaha.. You leave a f*****g milkshake for mr. Borisov.. Tell me.. Gary.. Is this all coincidence?“

Kruger said with a smirk.

 

„I.. I DON'T KNOW OKAY? SOMEONE SET ME UP!! I DON'T KNOW! I DIDN'T DO ANYTHING! PLEASE!! YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND!!“

Walker said screaming and crying.

 

„I see... Alright then, Walker.. I think we're done here.. You can go I guess..“

Kruger said and stood up.

 

„Wha.. Re-Really? Oh.. Oh thank you.. Thank you so much!“

The guards started untying Walker and he stood up touching his face with pain.

 

„Hm.. Oh.. Yeah.. Yo Gary.. Ehm.. Go ahead and drink that so it doesn't go rotten..“

Kruger turning his head quickly and gestured towards the milkshake.

 

„..Wh..You want.. Me..To.. drink.. that..?“

He asked uncomfortably.

 

„Yeah man.. Go ahead.. So we don't have to throw it out eh.. It's a waste..“

Kruger said standing with his back turned. He set a wide smile with no one being able to see it.

 

„Something wrong Gary?“

Kruger said.

 

Total silence overcame the room. Kruger slowly turned around and saw Walker holding a knife to one of the guards throats. He had a maniacal look on his face.

 

„STAND THE F**K BACK!! IM NOT DRINKING S**T!! HEY!! I'LL CUT HIS FACE RIGHT OPEN I SWEAR!!“

 

„Im already standing back.. Im not asking you to drink s**t.. And you already swore on it.. So you better go ahead and do it..  Before God condemns you to eternal martyrdom..“

Kruger said calmly and approached Walker.

 

„Don't COME ANY F*****G CLOSER!! I'LL DO IT!! IM TELLING YOU I'LL CUT HIM THE F**K OPEN“

 

Kruger silently approached him, gently took the knife out of his hand, and released the guard with Walker showing no resistance. The guard grabbed Walker and held his hands back.

 

„Well.. Gary.. My friend.. Since your so excellent at throwing the Good Book around.. Swearing onto this onto that.. So.. You swore onto that, that this milkshake you made for Mr. Borisov.. Is perfectly fine and nutricious.. Go ahead and drink it then!“

Kruger pulled out his knife and stuck in between his teeth forcing his mouth open, he poured all of the milkshake inside his mouth and hit him on the neck.

Walker collapsed on the ground shaking and coughing blood all over the room.

 

„I think.. That we're done here.. Now.. I swear.. Hehehehahahaha...“

Kruger said, spit on the body of Walker and left the room with his guard.

 

„What happened in there!? Did you find out what happened!?“

Nethremayer Christina was outside the door waiting with her lieutenants. She wanted to see what happened, but Kruger beat her to it.

 

„Chrissy.. Calm down.. I took care of it.. Yo Bentley!! Let's get a guy down here to clean up that mess eh!!?“

 

„Right away Colonel!!“

Sergeant Bentley called upon a squad of three man to make the room usable again.

 

„Don't you Chrissy me a*****e! Why'd you kill him..!? He could've had information!“

Christina looked angrily and grabbed his arm.

 

„Touchy.. Touchy.. Look Chrissa.. This kinda s**t happens all the time.. The only difference now is.. That you're sticking your nose in it.. Which isn't good.. Cause this! This is my line of work.. It's what I do.. And I don't appreaciate you being all over it..“

Kruger said while turning through a conference room.

„I know that! This is different!! The guy tried to kill Borisov for f***s sake..“

Christa said uncomfortably.

 

„Like I said.. This crap happens all the time.. An influental man with a lot of Benjamins decides he wants the Chancelar dead.. So he pays some lowlife little man, that's close to Borisov.. Like for example his f*****g cook.. To poison him.. And this is where I come in.. Any attempted way of murder directed towards the Chancelar.. Has been rendered useless.. Because we have countermeasures for everything.. There's no way in hell.. Anyone could even get close to achieving this.. Now if you don't mind..“

Kruger left her side and headed towards his office.

 

„What they don't know.. Is that if they actually succeed.. We're all dead..“

Kruger thought to himself in his office.

„In other news today, Chancelar Borisov's former cook, Mr. Gary James Walker. Has been reported missing and will be substituted, as soon as possible.“

„Why is the news always such.. Garbage“

He turned off the transmission. Turned off the lights and lit a smoke.

The door opened with a slight screetch.

 

„Daddy.. Is that you?“

A little girl came inside the living room rubbing her eyes.

 

„Gaige.. Why the hell aren't you in bed yet..?“

 

„I was.. But then, I heard you come home and I wanted to say hi..“

She said sadly and looked at the ground.

„Gaige.. School starts early tomorrow.. And you've got that exam on Thursday..“

Kruger said and tapped her on the head.

 

„Daddy.. Im ten! It's not college you know?

 

„Alright.. Alright.. Go along to bed now..“

„But dad.. I can't sleep.. Tell me a bed time story..! Please!“

Kruger looked strangely, and replied.

„A bed time.. Story eh? I don't know.. I don't know any of those..“

Gaige looked at him making a pleading face with her sharp light grey eyes, same as her dad.

 

„Alright.. I think I can.. Tell you one..“

„Yay! Let's go daddy!“

She dragged him inside her room and lied in bed. He sat on the chair next to her bed.

 

„There once was a little boy.. His name was Victor, now Victor was an only child, the son of a powerful monolith, and he was really lonely and sad. But then when he turned eleven, his mommy got pregnant with his baby brother.“

 

„That's great dad! That means he's finally going to be happy!“

 

„Yeah.. Yeah.. Don't interrupt..“

 

„Im sorry! Go on please!“

 

„So his mom was about to make birth, but something bad happened, something terrible, and the mommy died along with his baby brother at birth. The daddy couldn't take that, so.. He leaves Victor with all his power and influence, and he goes to heaven.. Victor soon grows up to be as powerful as his father.. He blames society for killing his family.. That the health system and medicine wasn't good enough, that someone made a mistake.. No one is taking his words seriously and everyone goes on living stating, that mistakes like that happen all the time.. Living in Victor's nation wasn't easy.. There were harsh regimes and only the most powerful could survive and prosper.. Live like human beings.. Everywhere on the streets.. Were poor people.. Begging for money and starving to death.. And Victor witnessed it all.. He grew up to learn that these sorts of human beings.. Were only parasites to the well fed, healthy, human body that are the rich.. He claimed they spread disease and despair throught the world.. He also believed that humanity is deemed as the only pure race in the world.. He didn't have a problem with other's before this Michael H. Wolf was assigned as defense minister.. You see.. He was a werewolf.. And he went berserk one night and ate one third of the board defense ministry.. His mind was burdened with all these problems.. And he wanted to fix them so bad..He wanted to live perfectly.. In a society with no problems, with no disease.. Where anyone could prosper and total equality amongst any human being would exist.. But he couldn't.. He couldn't find a way.. Then ten years later on the year of 940, Aven, the nation he lived, found itself at war with the biggest nation in the world.. Lexon.. Aven found itself losing.. And at Spring that year.. Lexon did something horrible.. They unleashed a deadly assault upon Aven.. A bomb powered by a material uknown to us.. Some say it fell from space in the form of a rock.. Some say other things.. The horrible weapon had no effect  at first.. But with time.. It infected the drinking water and breathing air.. Some died out.. But most of the population.. Was never found.. No one knows what became of them... This was the last straw for Victor! He decided to take his dreams of a Utopian world.. And turn them into reality.. And built a perfect world sacrificing all his power, influence, might and money.. 30,000 Human individuals were taken to the city.. The only way in or out.. Was a transport system called the „Gate“ .. It was impossible to leave Atlas or intrude it.. Everything operable was controlled by Victor.. It was locked to his DNA.. And it was his perfection that allowed humanity to truly live, prosper and reproduce.. A forever lasting world of perfection..Isolated from the rest of civilization.. Free of opression..! The city.. was named.. Atlas!“

 

He looked down on his daughter who was already sleeping, he gave her a kiss on the forehead and lied next to her.

Morning came soon, but it was an unusual morning, something didn't feel right. Kruger's terminal was going off while he slept, with a repeating sound, and a text alert on the panel- WARNING! POSSIBLE INTEGRITY BREACH! POPULATION COUNT EQUALS 30,001 INDIVIDUAL! Warning...