(CODE X) 5500 Rebellion

CODE 1 Game

"Attention, the curfew is now in effect. Please stay inside your own mecha districts. Anyone caught outside their district will be prosecuted by the firing squad of the city of Imperial Mechapolis. Please co-operate." A computer announced from the peak of the Intellect tower situated at the centre of the city.

The city was dark and full of smoke and fog. The buildings looked more like brick factories emitting smoke from their chimneys. And from this darkness emerged a tall figure of a young man. He was thin and walked swiftly across the dilapidated streets, with slouching shoulders and light, pink eyes that almost looked misty. He gave out soft fog as he breathed through his mask, almost looking as if he were smoking, but he wasn't. He was wearing a blue hoodie and black jeans which were worn out from dust and rusticity. He paused suddenly and knocked on an old door. He was looking around when suddenly the door opened. Another man greeted him and they exchanged a kiss on the cheeks.

He had his face covered with a mask and only his green eyes would speak for him. A pair of bright, big, hooded green eyes.

Then, he took him inside.

"Another two species of birds are extinct today leaving us with only 35 more species of birds left in the states. Now, to the next news, mecha robots and the Mechapolis government ran into a huge hassle at the courthouse, killing 4 government officials. Russia to give a gift of 2K euros for every one human birth in order to flourish the declining human population." The news reporter spoke on the VR box as a hologram while they walked across the room.

It was a cosy home with warm, woollen carpets and tiny sofas. The walls were full of photo frames of both of them together, some with them still in their lab coats holding jars, while the others were polaroids of them spending time together, going on long hiking trips, skateboarding across Mechapolis or swimming.

He looked straight into his green eyes as they conversed and soon reached another room after crossing two doors. That room opened into a staircase towards a basement. As they walked down, the darkness seemed to fade away with a dull, neon green light and TV noises were soon subdued. The basement was lit in a sour green, UV light consisting of 5 colossal glass cells, as big to fit an entire human in them. Both of them moved towards the glass cells filled with a white gas making them look opaque.

He looked at the green-eyed guy as he held out a suitcase and opened it. It consisted of an entire computer system inside it. He quickly typed certain commands in the computer and the glass cells raised perpendicular to the floor. The ceiling above them moved away and opened all the way up to the chimney. The glass door of the cell opened and all the gas evaporated away, highlighting a female figure inside the cell. He picked her up on his back, "Good work, Nicole," He said to his green-eyed friend, "Now, start the time machine," He had a breathy voice and an unnatural, unheard English accent.

The green-eyed guy typed faster. Suddenly, they heard a knock on the door and turned back, alarmed and a bit terrified. They looked at each other, "They found us, hurry!" He whispered.

A brunette female walked inside their house, breaking the door into two halves.

"Another news, a terrorist cell was captured in California, two of them are still missing-- The mecha police are going under search," The news reporter said as she walked down to the basement. Her eyes glowed bright blue as she walked and picked up her gun. She had her name tattooed on her left shoulder: 'Beatrice'. She reached the basement and walked towards the cells. There was only one cell left out of the five.

She smiled and began shooting at it with her gun. It broke down and all the gas evaporated. She looked inside but it was empty. She was enraged. She crushed the glass beneath her boots and looked up at the sky through the chimney. The pink eyes of the man were shining brightly as he walked on the chimney stairs with that blonde female figure on his back. He walked up and reached the chimney top.