Reddened Wasteland by Kyle Perkins

Author:Kyle Perkins [Perkins, Kyle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2016-01-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

The last few weeks had been particularly hard for Alerik. The disappearance of Velar had torn his heart out. He began drinking a lot more, much to The Union’s dismay. Everything seemed lost and hopeless to him, but a person would never know that from looking at a television screen.

Despite his newfound depression and self-destructive drinking habits, Alerik had brought countless people from Liberty’s Hammer to justice. He was beginning to be something of a celebrity, a legend. He didn’t care about the fame — or notoriety— if that’s what it was. All he cared about was taking down those responsible for taking Velar. It was all he had to live for anymore, just a fiery desire for vengeance. He had finally accepted that Velar was likely dead, and he was going to make everyone involved suffer. He stopped caring about what was right and wrong, as long as he got results, and that’s what The Union was all about. He started to actually work with The Union, helping them whenever he could, without prompting. He started to understand the need for them, and started aligning with their views. If the world had a bit more order, perhaps Velar would still be alive.

Alerik sat in his same bar that he used to frequent with her — the one where he got his ass kicked the night she went missing — and soaked his sorrows in alcohol. The patrons of the bar yielded to him whenever he walked in, it seemed that everyone had a newfound respect for him. Or fear, maybe. How could they not? His image was plastered across every TV set in the settlement. The Union had done exactly what they said they would do. He was their poster boy.

He sat on his stool and contemplated something that confused him. No matter how many times he thought on it, he could not shake the uneasy feeling it brought him. Back at the farm, Eden had slashed a giant wound in Lucius’s chest. It should have killed him. But the guy just got up, completely unaffected, and kept on going as if nothing had happened. That had stumped him at first, but when the wound revealed wiring and circuitry, he understood why the man felt no pain.

So that wasn’t too crazy, there were robots in The Union building, but they looked like robots. Lucius looked and acted human. Why would The Union create something like that? Why would a robot need to appear human? Alerik thought on this a lot, and he tried to come to his own conclusions, but he always hit a dead-end. Lucius, himself, didn’t even have the answers… apparently, he wasn’t programmed to.

After a few drinks, the door to the bar slid open and Saskia stepped in with a frown already firmly in place across her face. She was wearing her normal elite-style black armor that hugged her body and revealed her athletic and curvy frame. The men in the bar knew that she was Alerik’s partner so they didn’t attempt to hit on her.

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