H4X0R: Registered

File: Prologue

In the year 3000, Earth was controlled by a corrupt government. Everything was

controlled by them, even if you would live or die… The group Edge had tried to lead a revolution to bring the oppressed people to freedom, but they had failed. Now a new group called H4X0R had arisen, but what are their true motives?

The blanket of night had covered the city of Tokyo, Japan. Black clouds let loose a barrage of cold raindrops which fell upon the city like tears from the sky. Lighting bolts streaked across the sky like a cheetah across the savannah.

The city below the war of nature was silent and dark. Only a few street lamps flickered and the traffic lights continued with their programmed lives of green, yellow, and red. The wind let out a low moan which sounded like the howl of a wolf; this caused the raindrops to feel like hail to whomever it touched.

No one should be out on a night like this, for one, it was past curfew; two, no one in their right minds would want to be out in a storm like this. But someone was outside in this miserable, ice box of a night; a ten-year-old boy…

Fear was present in his forest green eyes as he dashed through the alleyways like a frightened rabbit in a hunt. His short brown hair was now plastered against his head and resembled a bird’s nest under construction. The child rapidly scrambled over a fence, landed on the other side, and continued to run. Then, a single gunshot rang out; the child let out a cry and collapsed onto the cold, hard, wet ground. An object that the child had held in his right hand fell out and landed in a collection of newspaper and tin cans nearby.

Men dressed in identical business suites and sunglasses appeared, and all of them had their guns drawn and pointed at the helpless child. Before the shadows of darkness clouded the boy’s eyes and mind, he muttered a single word.

“Brother…”