Chapter 1: All 3 of Us

    Two men and a woman are laying on a hillside in jeans and T-shirts on a sunny day, grass blowing gently in the breeze. Roland has light brown messy hair, and eyes, fair skin, and is a wiry frame. Riyik has dark hair that is spiky but going towards the back of his head with a wide shiny white hairband that runs through near the center of it, darker brown eyes, also fair skin and his build is also thin but muscle tone is more visible in his frame. Reiyeka, Riyik’s younger sister, has Blonde hair with various colored stripes in it, blue eyes, fair skin, and an athletic frame. “Hey Roland, what’s that cloud look like to you?” The deep voiced one among them asks, “I guess kind of like a ship” and what about that one, the deep voiced guy asks again, “maybe consolidated water vapor suspended high up in the atmosphere” Roland retorts, cracking a slight smirk. “Not that shit again man, you need another noogie, huh?” Riyik says with his deep voice, right before giving him one. Suddenly a beeper alerts each of them, it’s work, they have to go. Reiyeka and Roland, sigh and Riyik chuckles.

    “Maybe this time it’ll be fun” states Riyik. “Yeah, you destroyed the robot army in a single minute last time, Riyik. If we had a title for you, it would be Riyik, Spoiler of Fun,” his sister says looking over at him with a glare. “Yeah, yeah, yeah, well if you just took the initiative before I destroyed them all you could have maybe had some fun too, the early bird gets the worm they say.” Each of them now at World Ark’s mutant base, in Delta faction’s hangar, donning their gear.

     They work for World Arc, the governing body of the entire world, where they are part of what was once the 2,500 mutants there, in the Delta faction of 100.They are tasked with stopping catastrophic events, many even having the potential to become apocalyptic if not kept in check, some mutants already having lost their lives to stop these events. This is taking place in the city of Ushinatta in Caligo, one of the two largest cities in the world, that are in the center between The USA and Europe on one side, and in the center of the Atlantic ocean on the other, between The USA and Asia with large bridges that connect them to the continents. Ushinatta In Caligo being the city over the Atlantic Ocean where the aforementioned mutants live, and Los Sukui being the city over the Pacific Ocean. Set 1000 years in the future, yet is modern rather than highly advanced for some unknown reason.

    Back at the base now, “these suits are pretty lame looking” states Riyik, motioning to the stretchy all black material. “They boost the efficiency of” Riyik cuts off his sister’s lecture “yeah U-energy consumption I know, but did they have to go to the reject’s section to make them, seriously who designs something this ugly” he says while stretching one up from the ground to his face. Reiyeka turns around, and Roland is now in the corner trying not to laugh as Riyik ties up a suit and uses it as a slingshot to launch things between the lockers in the room. A foursquare ball hitting the wall near Reiyeka, she turns around with a look of severe irritation, this being one eyebrow raised and a frown on her face. The two boys point at each other. “You need to be serious, we need to get to our mission” another ball hits the wall nearby, “okay, I’m leaving” states Reiyeka dryly. “You can find someone else to pilot the helicopter, or just eat dirt for all I care.” The other two finish getting ready, one stretchy suit appendage at a time, and head out to the helicopter. The two boys give her large smiles, and she closes one eye and sticks out her tongue back at them, making a *nlaaaahhh* noise at them before taking off.

    “So, do you have any gum Riyik, I really don’t like when my ears pop” Roland asks as the helicopter blades start to rotate rapidly. Riyik points to a piece of gum under the seat, “it probably grew new flavors if you want to try it” says Riyik “Thankssss… but I think I’ll pass on that one,” states Roland with a sheepish face (his eyebrows down, eyes wide, and a slight grimace on his face). Reiyeka completely focused, now having her focus broken for a second. “I thought I asked you to get rid of that last time, BROTHERRRR!” Reiyeka yells, with a sour look on her face. “Meh, fine, I guess I will,” he says as he picks it off the underside of the seat and flicks it off his thumb and out of the window, frowning exaggeratedly as he does it, and saying “goodbye friend”, then going back to a neutral facial expression. “So our target is a T-Rex that’s been rampaging downtown, around The Crossers district, it’s engineered with bio-mechanical implementations, meaning that it can…” states Roland giving the briefing, interrupted by Riyik’s loud smacking on chips, Roland sighs and starts again from where he left off “shoot small missiles, or machine guns, and can” another loud smacking noise, “it can bite through surfaces harder than stone, and create shockwaves via its feet the surrounding area” he says quickly to finish the sentence this time, breathing heavily from having said it so quick. The urban camo helicopter now drops its elevation and the blades start to slow down, their whirring comes to a halt.

    There are loud thuds echoing in the distance along with screams, and the smell of smoke. “It doesn’t look like the party has ended yet” says Riyik, with a smirk on his face placing he arms behind his lower head and neck area as he walks forward, black scythe still sheathed on his back. “Yeah…” says Roland, as he places his sniper rifle’s strap on his shoulder and draws his pistol, while Reiyeka gets ready her own pistol. They start moving closer to their target. “Our target is 1000 yards North West” we should use the construction area east of it, for cover. It expands 200 yards south of its location, that should give us the edge,” states Reiyeka. With Roland at the back of the group as they draw nearer, the stomps become more pronounced, the brown construction beams stacked on the ground tumble off each other. One of the beams nearly hits Roland after rolling off, ahhhhh he mentally screams and audibly gasps, but Riyik catches it before it hits him. Riyik smiles at him, and makes the shhh noise, with his black fingerless glove up against his mouth, then waves him on to Reiyeka’s location up ahead.

    He sees the chaos ahead, one of the local stores is on fire, there he spots the head of the yellow T-Rex, it has got a metal plate over its head, and just as described earlier armaments on both sides, this being a minigun on both sides, and a mini missile salvo on each side, and scar on its tail with a large metal blade equipped to it, metal plates on both sides of its legs down to its feet, with metal spherical shapes near what would be its ankles. They prepare the sniper rifle by mounting it and set an escape route just in case things go awry. Roland then sets a device that’s designed to make a loud alarm noise, in their direction intentionally, it starts running toward their location loudly with a roar, then leaving its mouth gaping open. He is about to prepare a tranquilizer round, but Riyik gives him a grin and hands him a canister with yellow liquid, “load this one first, wait until it opens its mouth then give it a good squeeze, after that hit it with the tranq.”. He follows Riyik’s instructions, the canister pops open its mouth releasing the yellow liquid. The dinosaur puckers its mouth, and lifts its chin up and its leg starts to tense up like it was on its tip toes, then it falls over asleep with its eyes now closed. Roland to Riyik “did you see that”, and Riyik makes a puckering face while standing on his tip toes, “you mean dis”, yeah “dis” and Roland makes the expression back, both are laughing hysterically with tears streaming down their eyes. Reiyeka sighs, “ugh, what will I ever do with you two” she says with her right palm over her face. Roland tugs on her sleeve to invite her, and she says “what the heck” and starts making the expression too, with all of them pointing and laughing at each other, as each one makes a face.