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Title: Zero Gravity
Post by: The Host on May 26, 2009, 05:40:58 pm
Zero Gravity
Quantum Legacy Institution
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Before I begin this epic, I'd like to add a small comment pertaining to the creation and making of this story.
A while ago, KnightsFan had a contest(like his monthly contests) about writing a futuristic story, under 50 pages in MSWord. Well, I produced Quantum Legacy. A neglected this story soon after the contest was finished, but I am now prepared to try and finish it.
There is one main similarity between Quantum Legacy(now called Zero Gravity) and Speed Galaxy. Both have the existance of Speed Galaxy in the solar system. Apart from this, the two stories differ greatly. SG takes place thousands of years earlier than present day, while ZG takes place hundreds of years in the future. The font beneath Quantum Legacy Institution is High Tower Text. The words Zero Legacy Shadow is my former username. When I worte this that was my name.



Prologue

   I looked out of the window, down into the darkness below. The armoured cyborg who stood at the door guarding the exit nodded his head, and through the reflection in the mirror, I was able to see it slip its robotic arm outwards, and towards me. The metal scraped against the cold iron floor, and I knew at once that he was coming for me. Whipping around, my hair tied in a braid behind me knocked a sword from the fall into my hands, the hilt sliding comfortably into my readied hands. The cyborg continued to move forwards, the light in his robotic eyes gleaming, reflected by my sword and the window blinded me for a split second, enough for the cyborg to grab hold of me, clutching me with his titanium built fingers. The lights in its eyes dimmed, and as the lights in the room began to fade, I realized I was about to faint. I tried dutifully to move my hands, to fling my sword out at it, to kick or punch it, anything to make the cyborg release its grip on me. And then the cyborg held me up in the air, and my feet began to flail, one of them knocking against his silver coloured head. The light from his eyes went out, and I dropped to the cold, hard floor. Grabbing my sword, and shoving it back into the sheath, I kicked the door with my foot, forcing it to crash open. I tore down the hallway, pulling off all of the candles that lit the hall down on my way. The carpet behind me caught fire, but I knew that it would either kill me, or that my suit would protect me. My braid swung behind me, keeping a steady rhythm against the back of my head as I ran, and soon the sound of scraping metal greeted my ears. The cyborgs of Quantum Legacy Institution started filing out of their rooms, the iron crowbars in their hands ready to hit me at any opportune time. The door on my right opened suddenly, and a metal hand reached out, shoving me into the left hand side wall, and as I tried to get up, I realised that in seconds I would be surrounded. I phased out of view, silently inching forwards now, the cyborgs unaware of my whereabouts, but still knowing I stood in the hallway. I stood still, listening, and suddenly, I had located my suit. Rushing forwards, my sword battering cyborgs out of the way, I passed three doors, and burst into the fourth one. And stood face to face with a man wearing a bullet proof vest, pants, and a tall hat. Not a cyborg, a human. Pulling my sword in front of me, I swung it dangerously close to his head, but he didn’t flinch. Behind him, I saw my suit. Deep blue, with green lines all over it. And a large energy gun in one of the hands, hidden of course. I reached down, pulling a dagger from my side, and threw it at him. The man reacted with a lightning fast hand motion, catching the dagger only inches from his chest. But that was all I had needed him to do, as the first dagger was only a decoy. The second dagger had hit him in the head, and as he fell backwards, he revealed a rifle pointed at me. A computerized voice spoke out in monotone, and I knew it was almost the end of my time.
   Intruder alert… Intruder alert… you have unauthorized access beyond any point at this moment. All weapons fire in five…four…three…two…one…
   There was a massive explosion all around me. And as I began to fall, I saw that the cyborgs had been unaffected by the blast, and as they picked me up, limb by limb, I closed my eyes, and awaited death…


Three days later

   The body of a thirteen year old girl was found two days ago, by Sir Leonard Gacy, head of the Quantum Legacy Institution for robotic and technological studies. Sir Gacy says that there seems to have been a breech in security, and that the girl had interfered with confidential documents, and had changed the mechanism of many of the prototype robotic humans known as cyborgs. Sir Gacy also discovered, with the help of several co-workers, the body of a 28 year old man known as Rod Fender, creator and inventor of the very first solo-flight Galactic Space Travel Cruiser, also known as the GSTC by employees of Quantum Legacy Institution. Fender had been found dead, with a wound to the head, but no weapons were found. The girl’s name is not authorized to be released yet, as she is not of age. The most mysterious thing about this whole situation still evades police and detectives though; the girl does not seem to exist at all. There are no DNA traces, no parents or anything of the sort found. The girl may be dead, but according to many databases in Quantum Legacy Institution’s mass database of the world, she did not even exist, and therefore, says Gacy, is the most disturbing of all…




   The man in the black suit and red tie turned the 3-d plasma screen Biovision off. Kicking the wall with his steel toed boot, he walked out of the room, and into the bar. Pulling out a small phaser from his side, he pressed three buttons in sequence, disappearing into the crowd, knocking people out of his way. Once he was out of the bar, the phaser seemed to float into the air and connect with something. The man reappeared, now insight of anyone looking. But no one was looking, and so no one was able to see the man reach into his pocket, put the phaser away, and pull out a small computer chip. The man twisted his hand in a most unnatural way, and tossed the computer chip towards a small crack in the wall. With amazing accuracy, the computer chip slid through the slight gap in the wall, and the building exploded.
   The man leapt backwards, turning fast, and ran away. Turning down narrow alleys, dark passages, and deadly streets, the man arrived at a tall skyscraper. In the midst of the large clearing, the towering building rose up, and expanded north, east, south and west in vast measurements each way. About thirty feet up on the front of the building, in black lettered writing, shadowed by a high overhang, the words Quantum Legacy Institution stood out darkly, and even higher up, a statue of a cyborg loomed outwards. The man looked on the building with awe, as he did every time he neared the building. The towering building of Leonard Gacy’s company stood out as an international sign of power to all people. The man stepped up to the front of the building, sliding a laser into a small, almost unnoticeable hole in the door. The iron door clicked and whirred as many locks and chains undid themselves, and the door swung open. The cyborgs guarding the doorway walked up to the man, and the three of them walked down a long corridor, arriving to their destination, a door embroidered with gold and silver writing, and the name Eleanor on it…