UNVEILING THE RESISTANCE

Present Day- PRIME city

Darkness dominated this part of the city. Only few street lights and lights from places such as night clubs pierced through the city giving this part of the city some form of illumination. Most buildings in this part of the city had been demolished leaving the city in ruins. Most roads had been destroyed and noise from old car engines echoed throughout the city.

This was prime city alright but not the pleasant part. Prime city was divided into four parts and this part was commonly known as "The Ruins". This place was paid no attention to by the rich or those in power. It was a place where people who didn't have enough money to live a comfortable life would dwell and a place where shady business was mostly done. 

Crime ruled that part of the city and no sane person would decide to live there. But that part of the city was overpopulated and had more residents than the other parts of the city.

In one of the few buildings left standing in the part of the city was a young-looking man standing alongside a woman. The man was holding a suit case waiting for someone. He was getting impatient because it was getting late and to him it was dangerous to be out there by that time.

He heard foot steps approaching him in the distance and it turned out to be the people he was waiting for. They were three men, they looked like they were in their mid-thirties and one of them had two bag with him.

"Let's do this quick its not safe to be out here by this time"

The young man with the suit case approached them whiles opening the suit case.

"That's good, give him the money "The man standing in the middle of the other two said.

One of the men handed the two bags over to the young man, he checked the bag and there was a sign of relief on his face.

"My part of this money could get us out of this place for good" He thought to himself whiles thinking of his younger sister.

"Drop the suitcase and step back"

This statement echoed through out the whole building. The source of this statement seemed to be lurking in the shadows with no movement. It didn't say anything else but seemed to just stand there watching them.

The man holding the suit case didn't seem like he was letting whatever was inside it go. He did drop it all right, but immediately he did it opened up and he and his other two mates took whatever was inside it and run.

In a swift motion, the man in the shadows finally moved and slashed the neck of one of the three men. A gunshot was heard and another one was down. The man who was in the shadows rushed to the last man but he had injected something into himself. He had a weird smirk on his face and in a low but harsh tone he said

"You are dead now"

The man in the shadows jumped back he had finally revealed himself. 

"Strange choice of final words but it will do"

He was tall and had a broad chest. One would say he was average weighted. Much could not be said about his face but the mask on his face was quite strange. Some parts of the mask had something like a luminous energy flowing through it. Same could be said about what ever armor or suit he wore on his body.

"Stay right there I will be back in a sec"

He looked back and said to the young man and woman.

Suddenly a pitch-black shadow began to spread out from the remaining survivor of the three men. He was growling and twitching parts of his body. Suddenly the pitch-black shadow engulfed the man with the strange mask and him also. It formed a sphere around them before vanishing into thin air like it was never there.

The young man just kept staring into the distance. He was trying to process what he had just saw. It happened too fast.

"Hey, Heyyyy "

He turned and saw the woman trying to get his attention.

"Take the bags and let's go"

The young man gave no response still puzzled by what he had just seen, he just stared at the woman.

"Don't tell me you are going to actually wait for him, what makes you think that we won't end up like those guys?"

She asked whiles pointing to the other two that where killed. The young man looked at them and he came back to his senses. He took one of the bags and affirmed that he was ready to go. They both run out of the building.

"Ahhh, it's been long since I've been here - the other side of our reality. You would have been a strong one ill give you that. Unlocking an enclosed system void on your first go is a crazy feat. Right now, there is no way you can deactivate this on your own will, unless you either run out of energy or die. I have things going on so personally I will go for the second option. Don't worry I know you are incapable of speech right now but your reasoning is intact though. You're probably thinking that you've got me trapped in here since you can basically feel like you are everywhere. Hate to break it to you but you are the one who is trapped"

He then pulled out a sword which began glowing. The pitch black "void" he was in began to change form vigorously and appear in the real world. As if the presence of the sword distorted the power of the void and its creator.

The other two with the bags in their hands made to an alleyway and just as they were running through someone came out of the shadows with a gun, blocking their path. He looked much skinnier than the guy with the sword earlier. But he had the same mask and armor has him. He had the build of a skinny teenager not too skinny Tho.

"Stand down you two where do you think you are going, weren't you told to stay put?"

The young man realized that this might be the man that gunned down one of the other men, and if it is actually him, they might not survive this encounter.

"Alright we are sorry, we won't go anywhere just don't kill us"

Just after that statement two gunshots echoed throughout. Everyone stood still for a while trying to put together what had just happened. Until the young man lowered his head and looked at chest and saw his clothing was soaked with blood. The other man rushed towards them and dived in an attempt of getting them down and he did. Right after that another gunshot was heard. He then directed the other two to a corner in the alleyway.

"Put some pressure on that wound, Hurry! "

The man with the gun said to the woman who was shocked at what had just happened. For a moment she just stared at the young man in shock. But she came back to her senses after hearing the man telling her to put some pressure on the wound which she went ahead doing.

The man deployed a drone in an attempt to find the location of the one who fired those bullets. After some while he spotted the person. He was holding a sniper rifle and had already scoped waiting for them to appear. Immediately after seeing this, he run out of hiding right into the open and range of the sniper. You would have thought he would have been immediately sniped but his quick reaction was just different. He took out a gun even before the sniper could react to his presence and shot right through the scope getting a direct shot on the sniper's eye. He then proceeded to taking out the sniper's right leg too.

It happened so fast that the sniper's reaction time to the pain of the gunshots were delayed. He looked back to see if the man with the gun was still there but he wasn't. This wasn't looking good for him so he decided to run away but moving would be difficult since he had taken a shot to the leg.

He suddenly heard heavy footsteps approaching towards him. It sounded like someone was running towards him and at a very high speed. The only thought that run through his head at this point was if he would survive whatever was approaching him or not.

Suddenly he saw someone jump into the sky, so high that he could only see the silhouette of the person. He was then hit on the head with a gun knocking him out.

The young man was on the ground with two bullet wounds in his chest. His vision was becoming blurry by the second and with the way things were going it didn't look like he would make it. The man with the gun came rushing to them to check on the condition of the young man on the ground. He had a look at the wound and wasn't sure he would make it. There were no available hospitals in this part of the city and if they were to try and transport him, he still wasn't sure he would survive.

All the man with the gun could do was to stand there and watch as the young man fought for his life. Flashes of a similar situation run through his mind.

 "Take the money save her, you both should get out of this place as fast as you can"

The young man, barely holding on to his life muttered these words to the woman.

"I'm sorry, its all my fault" She replied

"No, it isn't. Because of you, now she has a chance to finally live" These were the final words of the young man and his final moments all he could think about was his younger sister.

They both watched as he took his final breadth, with the woman breaking down in tears.

Moments after the man with the sword appeared. He looked at the young man on the ground being held by the woman then shifted his attention to his partner.

"Where is he?" The man with the sword asked

"I tied him up on the roof of one of the buildings, he won't be moving anywhere for now" The man with the gun replied.

"I want to kill him, take me to him"

At hearing this they both shifted their attention the woman, they paused for a second then the man with the sword broke the silence

"It won't bring him back neither will it make you any different from him, don't worry we got this he will face a penalty far worse than death"

He then threw a car key to the woman

"Take the van you see on the main road make sure to give him a proper burial and do what he said"

They both walked away to meet the sniper the man with the gun had tied up.

"He might be knocked out, but I don't think we even need to ask him who his boss is. I think I might already know who he is"

The man with the gun then pulled up the sleeve of the unconscious sniper indicating a tattoo which might had given him the clue to who his boss is.