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Games of Invictus Chapter 61 (YEAR 2052)
I folded the piece of paper into a more manageable shape and tucked it into the chest pocket of my jumpsuit. I would have to show it to Mallet when I returned to the Firmament-this was the start of something big, I just knew it. The only exit to the crumbling stairwell was a half-buried metal door, similar to the one I had thrown myself through about three storeys upstairs. I gave the door a solid push, and when it didn't budge I was ready to hammer against it before I noticed the handle. The door had to be pulled inwards, but its usual path was filled with bits of stone and debris. Clearing the rubble away from the door was simple but stressful-with every stone I moved I became more aware of the huge amount of rock just barely suspended above my head. Eventually, I managed to clear enough of a path for the door to swing inwards a bit. I darted out of the stairwell the instant I could fit through the gap. I found myself in a dingy basement-clearly I had fallen farther than I had a
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"Please state your full name for the record," grunted a heavily-accented voice. The ringing in my right ear had yet to disappear, so I leaned in close to the monitor's tiny speaker. From what I'd pieced together so far, what I was watching was footage from a Russian interrogation. An interrogation of my father. "Obadiah Henry Quinn," my father replied, "but my friends call me Obi." He looked tired-his brown eyes sagged with fatigue and his bald head was slick with perspiration. His attire, a blue windbreaker, was torn in several places, as if he had been in a fight. He sat in a metal chair that looked too small for him and shifted his weight uncomfortably. The footage was grainy and filled with digital snow-in fact, from the long period of silence that followed this first exchange, it looked as though the video hadn't been edited at all. The room my father was being held in resembled the basement I was trapped in. Grey concrete walls surrounded him on all sides, utterly featureles
Games of Invictus Chapter 63 (YEAR 2052)
The mighty Apollo advanced on me, each thunderous footstep sending spiderweb cracks through the asphalt. With the street choked with debris from Harlow's demise, navigating the boulder-sized fragments was difficult. I made little progress, and every step brought the Apollo that much closer. I was about to be crushed. But just as soon as they had begun, the thumping footsteps stopped. The Apollo turned its cockpit to face the other direction, now focused on a new target. Taewi Park. Taewi's Lynx barreled down a side street a few hundred meters away and collided with the yellow mech, shoving it nearly a block away. The sound of colliding metal was cacophonous, only drowned out by the ringing in my right ear. The Apollo lurched backwards and struck the side of a nearby building, unleashing a torrent of sparks and rubble that tore up the pavement of a nearby intersection. The Apollo lurched away from the building, dragging a mess of shattered glass and stone with it. The side of it
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My new comms headset was clasped tightly over my left ear as I fell from the sky. It crackled as I adjusted the frequency until I began to hear voices from my team clearly. Since I'd escaped the first explosion my right ear had been ringing, but now it was completely silent. I tapped the microphone that hung in front of me with my hand and spoke out loud. "One two, one two, anybody getting this?" My voice sounded muted behind the earpiece, but the others got it loud and clear. Several sighs of relief echoed across the airwaves. "You're lucky Lucas was there to grab you," Taewi chuckled, "or you'd be a pancake right now!" "Lucas?" I intoned. "I got picked up by some mystery woman! She gave me back the Prowler!" Silence for a few moments, punctuated only by the jerking sensation of my mech touching down. "Jax, did you hit your head?" Kedrick sounded genuinely concerned. "He's not kidding," Alyx gasped, "the Prowler just landed. Is that...a new paint job?" "Honestly," I replied,
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of dust. Impacts at the base of the dam shook me in my seat. More mechs. We had taken too long, so Axion had brought reinforcements of their own. Worst of all, because I was standing on the sluice gate above their drop zone, I was only a mere hundred meters away from all of them. Regiments. Goliaths. Legions. I counted thirty new mechs, dropped just in time to ensure that Stalnoy stayed in Axion's hands for good. If the enemy noticed me standing above them there was no amount of fancy piloting I could do to avoid being obliterated. Slowly but surely, one of the Regiments turned its head, gazing up at the top of the dam where I stood, frozen. Something flashed in the air about a kilometre away. The sky glittered, lights twinkling like falling stars. However, the stars weren't what were falling. At long last, we had reinforcements of our own. armour plating glinted in the sunlight as the Chinese-Canadian Alliance arrived in full force. My comms crackled. "Hey, guys! Miss me?" It
Games of Invictus Chapter 66 (YEAR 2052)
Report: Quinn Just off the coast of Nova Scotia. Canada. Alliance home base. Designation: "The Firmament" Upon returning from the second battle of Stalnoy, the Firmament's resident medical staff subjected me to a battery of medical tests. As I had suspended, Harlow's explosive end had also deafened me in my right ear. Statistically, I was extremely lucky to have escaped the explosions with nothing but a ruptured eardrum. I was diagnosed with unilateral deafness and told that my hearing would likely never return. Fortunately, medical advances from the time after the Third World War had provided the public with implants used to supplement hearing loss. A device about the same size as a wireless earbud now resided in my right ear canal, allowing me to hear once more. It wasn't perfect, but it worked. As a bonus, a built-in microphone and transmitter system meant that I could now receive comms signals without having to wear a bulky, breakable headset. I fiddled with my implant dur
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The room was quiet for another moment. Even no-nonsense Mallet herself waited patiently as Laura thought, lips moving slightly as she pondered how to tell her story. Finally, she straightened up. "Okay," she decided, "it began like this." Everyone in the room leaned a little closer. "In the years before the Iron War," she continued, "I toured the world as part of the Canadian Armed Forces." She smiled, but there was no happiness in it. "I met Marissa on my second tour in Uzbekistan. We were tasked with restoring power to some rural communities and defending them from bandits." I glanced at Mallet. She, too, had a sad smile on her face. What had torn those two apart? Overcoming her emotions, Laura continued. "We lived together for a year, even wanted to return to Saskatchewan and build a farm, get married. But Mar just wanted to continue touring. She couldn't rest when someone else was doing the fighting." Laura glanced at Marissa. "I knew you weren't really living when you w
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"Nobody would suspect the real insurgency while they were busy hunting a legendary mech," Laura grinned. "If an insurgency infiltration was about to go bad, I would be dropped into battle to create a mess and cover their escape. I was their escape. An Exodus." Taewi chuckled nervously and pushed Laura's fist away. "So," Alyx piped up, "you're saying that all of our Chinese assets went into making that Exodus mech?" Mallet nodded. "Laura and I had to agree to disagree about how them I had a mutual interest in their control of the area. The so-called legend of the Exodus was that I could work for any faction at any time, so they accepted. They knew that they couldn't very well kill me anyway." "But then why did you attack Jax?" Kedrick probed. "I missed the notice that there was an active infiltration mission," Laura responded, "and my allies in China told me that the Lighthouse power plant was going to be the site of a weapon test of some kind. I was sent to disrupt their operatio
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