"Agalhoff, wake up!", a voice says. "Wake up Agalhoff!", the voice says aloud again. Agalhoff wakes up and sees his squad buddy Sigamore. Sigamore says, "Get ready man, we got another mission from the big man."
Agalhoff responds, "Is that so?", and gets up from his bed and grabs his gear. Sigamore then says, "You not gonna wash first?"
Agalhoff nods and says, "Yeah I'm gonna go do that first."
Sigamore just laughs and says, "Alright just don't be too long man. You know Mr. High Horse is looking to demote anybody these days."
"I don't care.", Agalhoff blurts out in a hysterical voice. Sigamore laughs again and walks out the room. Agalhoff washes up and then puts his gear on. He then makes his way to the Arch Squad mission meeting. Agalhoff looks around and sees a female smiling and waving at him to get his attention. She then waves to signal him to come stand next to her in the circle. Agalhoff smiles and goes to where she is standing and places himself in the circle next to her. She then says, "Didn't think you were gonna make it."
"And miss this opportunity to go on a mission with you again Diana; I don't think so.", Agalhoff says and looks her in the eyes while smiling. Diana looks him in the eyes while smiling as well and says, "Elder Adameth!"
Agalhoff confused says, "Huh?"
"Elder Adameth, wake up!", she says again. Then everything around Agalhoff, disappears and goes pitch black. "Elder Adameth, are you alive?", a voice asks aloud. Adameth opens his eyes and sees a few of his kinfolk standing around him. Adameth sits up and his kinfolk helps him off the ground. He then asks, "Where are we?"
One of his kinfolk says, "We don't know. We washed ashore just like you, once the storm ended."
Adameth then says, "Ok thanks Colio. Anyone know how long we been here?"
A different kinfolk of Adameth, responds, "Well the Sun is in the South now, reaching Southwest."
"Not close to Sunset just yet huh? Thank you Akka.", Adameth says, and then asks, "Do we have any food with us?"
Colio responds, "Me, Akka, and Miadell looked all around and picked up whatever bits of food that had washed ashore the riverside. Its enough to last us some days, but that's without considering how far we are from the others and the garden."
"Alright, I will figure that out from the Supreme, see if he can give us a sense of direction on where the garden is. In the meantime bundle up the food, make some spears, sharpen some rocks and tie them to hand-length and two fingers thick, sticks.", Adameth says and commands. All the kinfolk say together, "Yes sir Elder!", and goes to find the materials they need. Adameth then blurts out, "Supreme!"
A shatter of lightning can be heard from the sky in the distance. A messenger from the Supreme comes down from the sky to talk with Adameth. Adameth asks, "Where's the Supreme?"
"Unfortunately sir Oliver is busy with something at the moment so he sent me to assist you instead.", the messenger explains. "Okay, what's your name?", Adameth asks him. "My name is Mercurial.", he responds. "Well then Mercurial, me and my three kinfolk need to find out which direction our garden is in because a storm happened while we were crossing food supply over the river and now we don't know where we're stranded.", Adameth expalins to Mercurial. "Ah yes! The Old Eden Garden, used to be a park when sir Oliver's generation inhabited the planet. Let me just look at my map.", Mercurial says as he opens his hand facing upwards and out pops up a holographic map. Adameth impressed by what he sees before him, says, "Woah!", and tries to touch the hologram. "Oh! My apologies, I forgot you haven't seen anything like this before. This is technology available to all of Oliver's Arch Squad members. We use a special glove that acts as a sensor when touching the three-dimensional map. Here, give it a try.", Mercurial explains while taking off the sensor glove and handing it over to Adameth. Adameth puts on the glove and looks at it; and as he looks at the glove Mercurial starts talking, but Adameth stays fixated on the glove as it looks so familiar.
Then FLASH!...."Okay everyone listen up! Your mission is to secure this facility that's under the control of Cor's Authority members. This facility contains a lot of secured documents and equipment that we can use to our advantage. They believe we're too distracted by the battles in other parts of the planet, but that doesn't mean they're not ready for battle. You members of Arch Squad are to hit them with the element of surprise and take out the Cor Authority members. Now lock in these coordinates on your maps and be on your way.", A man in the middle who looks like the Supreme says to Adameth in this sudden flashback memory. He then remembers a nudge on his shoulder side from someone, and turning his gaze to see Evena standing beside him. She says to him, "You ready for this Agalhoff?"
"I couldn't be more ready.", Adameth remembers himself saying to her. Then he turns his gaze down to the palm of his hand and out pops up his holographic map. He then types in some coordinates. Adameth then snaps out of the flashback, and Mercurial seeing his confused face, asks, "Are you ok?"
Adameth says, "Yeah but I think I used this before."
"Oh the fake memories! I forgot you're the leader of the New Generation who ate the fruit that plagued your mind with fake memories that feel so real to you. I can assure you that you have never used this device before.", Mercurial explains. "Ok then, but take this back.", Adameth responds while handing the glove back to Mercurial. Mercurial puts the glove back on and says, "Ok let's see......Your garden is Southwest in that direction across the river."; Mercurial points in the Southwest direction and Adameth looks in the direction he's pointing and says, "Okay, I figured we didn't get dragged too far South by the storm."
"Ok, will that be all for today?", Mercurial asks. "Yes that would be all for today.", Adameth responds. "Well then have a good day and see you soon maybe.", Mercurial says as he takes off into the sky. Adameth watches him fly away in the air and then starts to gather some materials of his own for the journey. After preparation for their journey to come, Adameth tells Colio, Miadell, and Akka the direction they need to head in to get to the garden. Miadell asks, "What about Kalimah and the others? Shouldn't we find them first?"
"No need. I remember telling Kalimah to continue on with the others and get the supplies back to the garden. We will make our way back to the garden as well.", Adameth explains. Miadell nods and Adameth then says aloud to them all, "Alright, let's make our way home."
They build a raft out of logs and vines to get across the river. Once they reach the other side, they set out on foot in the Southwest direction. The Sun eventually reaches Southwest as they continue on in that direction. However, continuing on in their direction they eventually come across a bear lurking about. Adameth signals the other three to stop, but the bear already noticed them. Adameth then says, "Get ready!", as the bear charges towards them. They all jump and roll out of the way of the bear and disperse in different directions. The bear then focuses its attention on Adameth and goes after him. Adameth takes a quick look behind and sees the bear is chasing him at an incredible speed. He then grabs his whip that he made from vines, and turns around to wait for the bear to get closer. The bear draws near and Adameth jumps to the side, lashing his whip at the bear as he dodges. He lands a mark on the bear but not without managing to take a scratch on the leg from the bear's claws. Adameth falls on the ground in pain and drops his whip. He grabs his whip and pushes himself upwards off the ground to get up, knowing the bear is not yet ready to give up. He faces the bear and starts lashing his whip at the bear really fast, landing 10 marks on the bear. The bear then let's out a loud agitated growl, and Adameth screams, "Give up!", and lashes his whip at the bear again and then jabs his spear in the bear's right arm. The bear then stands up and smacks the spear out of Adameth's hand. Adameth then quickly backs away from the bear and tries to make a run for it, but he falls on the ground due to his wound injury on his leg. Then Adameth flips himself, facing upwards to see the bear approaching him.
He pulls himself up from the ground, realizing he has no choice but to fend off the bear for his sake. Adameth then picks up a handful of dirt and throws it in the bear's face. This stuns the bear for a quick second, and Adameth uses that second to lunge onto a tree on the side, to give himself some high ground, then quickly jumps onto the bear's back. Adameth quickly grips the fur of the bear, grabs his sharp stone and quickly stabs the bear in the nose, the right eye, the left eye, and repeatedly starts stabbing the side of the bear's neck before getting clawed and thrown into a tree. The bears let's out some more growls in a panic, and then gets hit with spears from the back. Miadell, Colio, and Akka make their way to the scene, and the bear runs off. They see Adameth on the ground breathing heavy from the intensity of the pain he feels from his wounds. Adameth sees them standing over him, but they look very blurry. Adameth hear's Colio say, "Okay we n-ed to do -----hing abo-- his woun-s. He's l-ing too m-ch bl--d."
Adameth tries to make out what they're saying but he starts closing his eyes for just a quick rest. Hearing their voices faint in the background as he passes out. All he can feel is his breathe as he drifts from consciousness. "Agalhoff!", he hears a voice call out. "Agalhoff!", he hears again and then opens his eyes. "Sleeping in class again huh. Look you're on the verge of being held back from this class if you keep sleeping during a session.", his teacher says. Agalhoff responds nonchalantly, "Mhmm, got it."
"Do you now? Well then we should discuss this more after school sir.", the teacher says. "Yeah sure whatever.", Agalhoff says still in a nonchalant manner, then he grabs his bookbag and books and leaves the classroom. The teacher then says aloud, "You better show up here after school Agalhoff or you're looking at detention time!"
Agalhoff just continues to walk off. Later that afternoon, in an alley way, "Haaa haha! Mr.Steinburg really thought you were gonna stay to see him after school? What an idiot!", says his friend Daniel. "Yeah I don't even know why he even bothers trying.", Agalhoff says with a little chuckle. "Ah this school stuff is canibulo(dog ass). Its just a means to brainwash us into being the Authority's indentured servants. They say its to have everybody use their powers in a productive way and maintain peace by restricting what we can do with them to certain limits, yet the Authority gets to freely explore their powers anyway they want.", Daniel rants. "Isn't your cousin part of the Authority?", Agalhoff asks. "Yes and that's the reason why I don't like him and am no longer living with him. The Authority unjustly took my parents away because they were and I quote, 'Teaching me problematic things', which was just something they said to hide their discrimination against people of the Craig bloodline. Gerald knows this and still decides to work with them and let them take my parents away. Then he expected me to fall in line with their rules after all that. To death with the Authority and their rules.", Daniel explains angrily. "I get you. In the meantime we need to get us some money, deposit safe is getting low.", Agalhoff mentions. "Yeah I know which is why I wanted to mention to you that I came across a mansion that's by itself in the middle of a forest. Some rich fat cat lives there, and he's got a safe of big bills sitting inside. I have been watching his property for the longest now. He has two Authority guards watching his property while he's away right now, and they must be good if there's only two of them watching over a mansion that big. I'm going to need you to create a distraction while I burn a hole into the safe and get two bags full of money for us. There's enough in there to keep us covered for three months.", Daniel explains. "What kind of distraction you need me to create?", Agalhoff asks. "Well I have no doubt that these two guards can feel vibrations within the ground given that they're able to manipulate rock matter, so you would need to divert their attention to a strong vibration within the ground and that's when I can make way to the power and cut that off so I can get in without being detected by any hidden cameras.", Daniel explains. "Okay, did you make sure there is no back up generator?", Agalhoff asks. "No, those are usually hidden in the basement, but that won't be a problem if there is.", Daniel responds. "Okay, let's get to it then.", Agalhoff says with enthusiasm.
As time passes, Daniel and Agalhoff are staking out the mansion from a nearby hit top. Daniel then asks him, "You ready?"
"Yeah.", Agalhoff responds. "Hey wait!", they both hear a voice from behind them say. They both turn around and see Diana, Cythia, and Bangledesh walking up behind them. "You two were not planning are doing another heist job without us now were you?", Cythia asks rhetorically. Diana smiles slightly and lifts one hand up a little and waves hi to Agalhoff. Agalhoff smiles slightly, back at her and waves hi back at her. "Actually, I'm glad yall are here. The more the merrier.", Daniel replies. "What bones do I get to crack today?", Bangledesh asks. "Well no bone cracking today, but you can knock the two guards out when Agalhoff lures them over here. Giving me and Cythia a lead way into the mansion. Diana will come with me and Cythia, that way we can grab more of the cash.", Daniel responds. "I love when you think on the fly, so sexy, wroof!", Cythia says to him. "In private settings you two.", Diana says. They let out a laugh, and Diana goes to hug Agalhoff and sits on his lap. Bangladesh sits on a furniture chair opposite side of the alley soda where Diana, Cynthia, Agalhoff and Daniel are sitting. Daniel then says, "Okay let me give yall the plan!"
The very next day, Daniel says, "Alright, Cythia and Diana. Let's make our way down there. Agalhoff, you know the queue."
"That I do, now go!", Agalhoff responds. Daniel, Cythia, and Diana head off towards the mansion. Bangledesh stands along side Agalhoff as he watches Daniel, Cythia, and Diana reach a certain point, which is his queue to let off the distraction. "Alright here goes nothing. Follow me!", Agalhoff says to Bangledesh, as he starts running in the opposite direction. Bangledesh follows behind him, and then he stops and says, "Right here!"; he then places his hands on the ground. The ground starts to vibrate intensely in the one spot, but then the vibration quickly spreads to cover a wide range of ground. Agalhoff increases the intensity of the vibration causing Bangledesh to have trouble standing. Agalhoff then says to him, "Bangledesh, get ready to jump, in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1....", he then quickly transfer the intense energy into his and pushes his hands towards the ground, causing all the concentrated energy within his arms to be released into the ground, causing a massive combustion reaction spreading over a hundred feet. Bangledesh manages to jump, avoiding the blast of energy and rubble flying into the air. The two guards at the mansion immediately become alerted and go to investigate.
As the guards reach the area, they see no one in site. Bangledesh sneaks up behind both of them and punches them with all his strength in the sides of their necks. The guards both go flying in the direction of where the force on their necks pushed them in. Agalhoff cheers a little for their accomplishment, and then says, "Alright, I'm sure those two are out cold, so let's go join the othe...."
"Wait, they're getting back up!", Bangledesh says in surprise. "Wait how?", Agalhoff says. The guards both laugh. One then says to them, "Do you really think a rich person would leave only two guards to watch over their mansion, if we weren't the best of the best? Jindo, handle these two. I will deal with the others."
"Sure thing Kraun! Let's dance you two!", Jindo says. Kraun uses part of the ground to carry him back to the mansion. "Oh no you don't!", Bangledesh blurts out, and then tries to jump in the air to chase after Kraun, but Jindo sinks his body into the ground and closes him in, leaving his head exposed. Agalhoff quickly slams his hand on the ground to vibrate the spot where Bangledesh is trapped, loosening the ground's particles which allows Bangledesh to break free. Jindo quickly stomps on the ground loosening up a pile of dirt which he clumps together to form a solid boulder, and kicks it at Agalhoff. Agalhoff gets hit by the boulder, sending him flying into three trees and crashing into the ground, BAM! Adameth wakes back up from his unconscious dream to him being carried on Colio's shoulder.
Colio feels Adameth's body twitch, and stops, "Elder Adameth are you awake?", Volio asks. "Yes.", Adameth responds as he lifts himself off Colio's shoulder. Miadell and Akka stop after hearing Adameth respond and turn to face Colio and Adameth. Adameth then asks, "How much ground have we covered so far?"
"We covered a good amount of ground. We now have started to reach the watery grounds that are close to the region of our garden.", Akka explains. "Good to hear!", Adameth responds. "That's not all Elder Adameth, we managed to slay the bear and collect it's meat.", Colio mentions. Adameth shocked to hear that says, "We do not slay the animals, we tame and use them!"
"We know Elder Adameth, but there's no food around, and if we don't eat, we'll starve to death before we get back.", Akka explains. Adameth still not pleased to hear this but still nods his head in understanding, "Ok it's fine.", he tells them and they continue on their journey for days, taking necessary rests to stop and eat the raw bear meat and sleep. Adameth unfortunately doesn't get much rest at night as he keeps having dreams about him being a child and watching his parents get killed from a fatal fight with some thug beings with powers, also him getting placed in orphanage where he would receive schooling and in his first class session he met a kid who lashed out about the Authority of Cor, and that kid later became his friend along with two girls and a guy who was the brother to one of the girls. He remembered the one girl who he locked eyes with and just knew from there they had a connection which they bonded over through their robberies with their friends. He then remembered their first real conversation sitting on a roof top looking up at the stars, "You sure are one angry girl!", he said.
"You sure are one angry boy!", she said, and they both laughed. "So what happened to your parents?", Agalhoff asks. "Heh, isn't the story always the same for any orphan in this world. They were killed fighting to survive an attack and protect me at the same time.", she explained. "Same here, some thugs who were never given a place in the system to survive so they were abandoned and decided robbery was the way to go. So my family were victims to their will to survive.", he explains. "That's some way of looking at it, but I guess it doesn't matter now as we both doing the same thing those thugs did.", she states. "True, that's why I can't stay mad at what happened, I got a first hand view of what it's like to be considered not useful to the system. So in a way I see those thugs reasoning for doing what they did, but it sucks it had to come at the cost of my parents.", he says. "You're right it does suck, but now we know the reason so we never have to ask why, just have to live with the closure.", she states. "Yeah... what's your real name by the way?", he asks. "The name I go by.", she firmly states. "Not your gang name, your real name. The one your parents gave you.", he says. "You should already know why I don't claim that name and don't tell people that.", she says. "I know why, but I would really love to know.", he mentions. She smiles and says, "Diana is my real name."
"Cool.", he says. "Well are you going to tell me your real name, since you want to know real names!", she asserts. He just chuckles and say, "My name is Agalhoff."
Diana smiles and says, "Ok....weird name, but ok."
Agalhoff smiles back and says, "Oh really weird name, huh?"
"I'm just saying that's not a typical name you hear daily.", she says while laughing. Agalhoff just laughs with her, and Adameth's memory fades into another with him and Diana standing before a crowd cheering. The Supreme comes from behind them and says to the crowd, "Thank you, these two will go on to start a New Generation that will create everlasting peace on Cor, with my supervision. One person from the crowd screamed out, "Nonsense! You just plan to keep us prisoners here, following your every command because you wanted absolute power of Cor. You just want to be praised as some sort of saviour of Cor, but really you're just some twisted Monarch with a superiority mentality. Me and my crew shall take you down and I shall resume my rule and free everyone once again, right before you came along!", Agalhoff got a closer look and it was his old friend, Daniel Ingersoll, now going by his title name Ender Victor. "You dare defy me Ender!", The Supreme says. "Of course I do, and so do my loyal supporters! Charge now y'all!", Ender commanded, and they all charged forward, The Supreme just raised his hand and charged up electrical energy in his hand, and smited Ender and his crew from the sky kingdom. The Supreme then said, "Now that the disturbance has been squashed, we shall resume. Agalhoff and Diana, you both have chosen this mission of starting a New Generation on Cor. You two are aware you will no longer have any memory of your past life to make the mission more of a success right?"
Agalhoff nods yes, and so does Diana. The Supreme then says, "Ok let's begin!", and shocks them both in the face. Agalhoff then remembers waking up next to Diana, and The Supreme coming down to tell them their mission of reproduction and replenishing resources they take from the garden, teaching them to communicate with him effectively, and being fruitful and not to eat from the forbidden tree. The Supreme then gives Diana the name Evena, and Agalhoff the name Adameth. It then Adameth wakes up in the middle of the night, takes a walk away from the encampment, and screams for The Supreme. The Supreme shows up, and asks, "What is it you call me for Adameth?"
"Those fake memories are not fake, are they?", Adameth asks calmly. The Supreme seeing the look of betrayal upon Adameth's face says, "No they are not fake."
"You told me, and the love of my life they were fake. We had nonstop arguments over that to the point in drove us apart, having me think she was in the wrong because she doubted you and believed they were real memories. I thought she couldn't be trusted, I told our sons not to fully trust their mother. I trusted in you, and nothing more, but now I find out you turned me against the love of my life. A woman who was by my side and I was by her side, our whole lives.", Adameth states with tears of frustration. "It does not matter what you two fight over, if those memories showed you anything, is that you two were inseparable no matter what you went through with each other and outside the two of you. I understand the part I played in the dispute y'all had that somewhat affected the whole family, but I never planned for you two to have a falling out, I just didn't want past things disrupting the forward movement of the mission I gave you two. After Ender had you two eat from that tree, that reconnected the links to those nerve cells that contained the old memories, I needed you two to ignore those memories and push forward, making new ones.", The Supreme explains. "You made me shun not only my wife, but one of my own sons too because you said curiousity was corruptive. I really thought my wife's curiosity led her astray from you, and I thought it would affect my son Khan too. I gave more attention to Steff because I thought preserving him would keep him close to you, that caused a major problem for his relationship with his brother, causing Khan to feel like he needed to prove himself to me and go against directions just to stand out, getting Steff's and Kalimah's only son killed; then Steff and Khan started to fight on the horses, leading to Steff's fatal fall off a cliff. You've done more than divide us, you're responsible for the death of one my first sons and the mistreatment of the other!", Adameth asserts.
The Supreme sighs and says, "Excuse me Adameth, but I guess my focus on my own mission made me disregard the emotional impact I brought upon your family. I swear to you this, I did not mean for any of that to happen. I will say, Ender also did have a part to play in this as well. He had created and released those creatures that came to attack the garden in the first place, so that whole battle would have never happened if it wasn't for him. I'm not denying my part in any of this as I have caused your family emotional distress, but I want to make sure you're aware that a lot of what I had done was in response to Ender's disruptions."
"Yeah I see; you and Ender just strategically fighting each other with me and my wife's family. We're destined to suffered from this hatred between you two.", Adameth states angrily with tears.
"Make no mistake Adameth, I want you and your family to thrive. If I could find a way to avoid y'all getting caught up in this battle, I would make it so. If there's anything I can do for you now instead?", Oliver asks. "Lead me and my grandsons back to the garden.", Adameth answers while wiping the tears from his eyes. "Will do.", The Supreme states and leads Adameth and his grandsons back to the garden.
Kalimah guarding the front entrance barricade of the garden, waiting for her father's return, sees them and signals everyone in the garden that Adameth has returned. Evena rushes over to him immediately, and hugs him and showers Adameth with kisses. Adameth notices some of his grand and great grand children are gone, and that Khan, Aqualis, and Harmona were also not present. Adameth asks Kalimah where is Khan, Aqualis, and Harmona and their children. Kalimah stated that she had them go out and search for him and his grandsons. Adameth turns to The Supreme and asks him to send someone out to find his children. The Supreme agrees and orders one of the Arch Squad members to go find them. The Supreme then sees Promisithios with Durgrah, and notices she's holding two baby girls.
"Promisithios come here!", The Supreme commands. Durgrah gets concerned and Promisithios ensures her everything will be ok and goes to talk with The Supreme. The Supreme then says, "I had you come here to assist them, not mate with one them. Mating with the New Generation is strictly prohibited!"
"I understand my violation Supreme, but I could not help but to fall in love with Durgrah. If its okay with you I will except any punishment you throw at me as long as you spare Durgrah and my daughters.", Promisithios requests. The Supreme agrees and has Promisithios taken away. Durgrah becomes sad about the fate of her lover, and Kalimah stays with her to comfort her. Adameth and Evena reunited, have a long talk where Adameth tells her about the memories not being fake and that they were all the times they spent together. Evena tells Adameth that she's been having more memories too and that she also was starting to feel like they were never fake but wasn't sure what to say sense it caused their relationship trouble before. Adameth chuckles and embraces Evena. The two mate once again through passion and the love they felt for each other for a long time.
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