Episode 2: Hidor Utopia A.K.A The City Left Behind

My name is Gumi. Seven years ago the human race left Eart and made home on a nearby planet. No one knows why its here, or why we can live on it. We established a government and soon it became known as planet Utopia. I live in the capitol city, Hidor Utopia. I was an orphan seven years ago but I met a man and a girl with pink hair who took me in. When the mn died mysteriously, i was an orphan again and so was the girl with pink hair. One day we teamed up and decided that it would be good for us if we came up with a disguise and a plan so that when ever we went out to steal something that was necesary for us orphans to survive, we couldn't be recognized. The plan fell through though when i found out that my pink haired friend was none other than Sharoket, the most evil and powerful person on Planet Utopia. She had resourses and was the reason that Earth was now a lazy asteroid shirting through the void of space. My name is Gumi, and I an the Panda Hero.

 

Gumi walked out of the warehouse and down the street. she did not run, and she did not push. She didn't even feel the gaze of passersby who wondered why this girl had pand makeup on her face. She was umb with shock. She walked by a bank and stopped to look inside. She saw a man pull out and gun and saw the Sharoket insignea on his jacket. She calmly walked in and walked up to the man. He pointed his gun at her.

 

"I said get down kid!" He went to smack her across the face but she caught his hand. when he tried to pull it away she twisted it until it broke. He screamed in pain and fell to the floor. She calmly stood ontop of his back and took the bat to the side of his head with a gruesome whack. The people in the bank gasped and then, seeing that their attacked was subdued, they all rejoiced around the somber Hero.

 

"Thanks for saving my bank!" A fat balding man in a suit cried. She turned to him.

 

"I want your money."

 

The man looked confused and began to swaet. "W-What?"

 

Gumi brandished the bloody bat. "I want all of the money." She picked up the sack om money and began to walk away.

 

"W-Who are you?" The sweaty man called after her.

 

She turned and posed, showing a cruel smile. "I'm the Panda Hero." Then she turned on her heels and ran quickly out of the bank, grabbed a TV in a near by store, and down to her little hideout. There she walked over to a small hole in the ground, hidden away by only a few leaves. She removed the brush to show a bronze ladder that led under ground. She followed it and came to a small cavern. Gumi felt a tug deep in her heart as she remembered not the time that she had spent here with Arane, no Arane was dead to her, but the time that had been spent here before Planet Utopia.

 

The only reason that the humans had the brilliant technonlogy that they had currently, the momentum gun, hover cars, and food pills, is because they got it from the former residents of Planet Utopia. Without them, humans would have died along with Earth. Gumi walked over to some carvings on the wall and pulled out a note book and a small pencil. She had spent some time trying to decipher them months ago but never finished. As she wrote, she spoke aloud.

 

"I was somehow left behind. The others of my race a fled. In a desprate search for them, I will have to leave my home, and my planet." Then another entry began to what seemed like  journal. "I met the strangest people today. I left home and went to a planet called Earth. I met with a man who told me about Earth's misfortune. The planet had been bought by a company known as Sharoket. They obtained the wealth to buy the planet, from stealing, murder, and other unmentionable things. They have made the inhabitants slaves to the company. I don't much like the humans." Then another entry began. "We have been attacked by Sharoket today. My people have only just returned and we are already fleeing again. I am old now and cannot leave. I will bargain for the planet's freedom." The next entry was the last. "I met a man today and gave him many blue prints and alot of technonlogy in return for the planet's and my safety. I do not trust him."

 

Gumi leaned back and looked at her work. Sharoket was the reason that she was an orphan too. They had enslaved her parents when she was young. Gumi filled with hatred and stood wiith her bat in her hand. She was, in a way, like the old alien. She was in a city, left behind by the rest of the world. She looked at the tattoo once more. Then she turned on the television. Splayed acroos it was her face and people who connected her with murders that she had not comit. "Seems like people will blame anyone but themselves." Gumi said to herself.

 

"This just in." the anchor man spoke, "There is another hold up at the Nations Capitol. I repeat, the President is being held hostage!Is it this new Panda Hero?"

 

Before she could hear the rest Gumi had clambered up the ladder with a screwdriver in her hand. She picked up her bat in her other hand and used the screwdriver to press  small button in the hell of her shoe. She bolted through the door, propelled by her shoes. She ran up to the capital, expecting Arane to be there. No, not Arane, Sharoket. She ran up the side of the building and up to the top floor. As she passed row after row of windows she heard screams calling out "Its the Panda Hero come to kill us!"

 

Gumi broke through the window on the top floor using her bat and jumped inside. She saw the president tied up in a corned and Arane speaking to him.

 

"Hello Panda Hero." She said with a malicious tone. She untied the president who istead of pleading for his life, remained quiet.

 

"How old are you Sharoket?" Gumi asked, gripping her bat tightly.

 

"Twenty eight. But my brother who took us in was near forty. He started Sharoket."

 

Gumi growled. "I'm aware."

 

Arane smiled cruely. "Why don't we take a trip down memory lane?"

 

"Don't go there..."

 

"Oh, Gumi. How young you are. I AM taking you back there. Besides, I'm sure the president would want to know the background of Hidor Utopia's new hero!"

 

Gumi took a deep breath and closed her eyes. Slowly she opened them and then charged at Arane. Gumi held the bat ready but was stopped short when Arane pulled a gun. The stood in a locked stare for what seemed like an eternaty.

 

"You want memories? Remeber when I said that I would kill you?"

Reviews

[L. Catherine]

Great chapter ending. Once again, I loved it :)

[Jesse Jacques]

hmm....the beginning sounds a little bit more like a chapter 1 sort of thing. but, i like how it's in present at first and then explains who she is, etc.