Renegade

Prologue

Renegade

When I was 7, my parents and 4 year old brother went missing while I was away at camp. It wasn't till a month later when their bodies washed up ashore. No one knew how or what happened to them. We lived in a city full of gangs and mobs so the local police called it a "wrong place and wrong time" case and closed it. 

Since then, I have been placed under the care my aunt and uncle. They moved me to a new school as well as changing my first and last name so that I wouldn't get sympathy looks and would be safe from who ever killed my father. 

My aunt and uncle couldn't have kids of their own and so they accepted me with open arms. Bless their hearts, they were very kind, generous, and patient with me. I had a very normal childhood, considering. I was healthy, I went to school, hung out with friends, involved in extracurricular activities, and raised in a very loving house.

I was also a very well behaved kid and didn't follow trouble. I was a straight A student, never missed a curfew, not even a speeding ticket. 

From the age of 9, I decided to train in every martial arts that I could. From kung fu to judo to jujutsu to Muay Thai to aikido. You name it, I practiced it. 

What my guardians didn't know was that when I turned 18, I was shooting in a shooting range. They also didn't know that I could hack into police databases. I started hacking into small things at first, like cleaning records, but then I grew and learned. I could hack into banks and make loans disappear or I could read and change confidential documents. 

I had a recruiting process. First, I would look for people to save, to give a purpose to so that they would be forever be indebted to me. Those souls made the most loyal allies. A few examples would be people who couldn't pay for their mothers chemo treatment or their sister's surgery or their college tuition or maybe they wanted enough money to have their family taken care of or i would bail them out of jail and make whatever problems they had disappear. I would then call them with a voice changing app and introduce myself as renegade and sent them on a paying job. The job was more of a test for them. To weed out the weak and disloyal. They would spy on other gangs and would steal from them or beat up some of them. Some would fail and other passed with flying colors. 

It wasn't long till renegade was everything people talked about. I had judges, prosecutors, police officers and sheriffs, FBI agents in my pocket. I even owned people with normal jobs like bankers and doctors and grocery clerks. Soon, the name renegade was on every news station. Other gangs feared me. But of course, no one knew who I was or what my real name is. Not even my own men have heard my real voice much less have seen my face.