The Day I met Mack
Blaring sunlight on my face, the southern wind to my back all thats running through my head is payday. My name is Drexx I am a treasure hunter/ adventurer extraordinaire, I live for excitement. The power crystals’ that most scavengers find are rare and followed by ba Zorak Sighting and attack. Zorak…..no one has claimed to see it or the “thing” and lived, with an exception of the tall tales the older folks talk about. The Sandworms of the southern dunes just outside of regular civilization are home to these bio-worms a cross genetic specious that was engineered to facilitate the waste that Zorak would expell while it was Terra-forming.
They feed of his waste and excrete a powerful energy in the form of crystalline stars a super clean energy that we Vermillions and Azrurians alike can utilize. As I Said before Zorak wasn’t called Zorak it was an ordinary terra-forming mechanism that arrived prior to first settlement on delta-5 some 400 years ago. Well whatever this thing is or was its going to be my eventual payday plus I have a poker game to pay off. I have been running the dunes for what seems an eternity glancing down checking my timepiece its only been a few hours. My tank I own which was won in a bet from a friend, the Marauder a S-Class medium tank with a built in navigational tactical computer which I namedI call Sara. “Dunes Of Zorak within Range Drexx, multiple energy signatures under the ground 1000 yards from currant location” “Thanks Sarah, estimated time of arrival?” “20 mins” Sarah chimed I Grasped the Throttle on the Marauders console then slamming it forward, I can hear the halftracks gears shift hard and swing into drive.
“Warning Drexx I am tracking a sandstorm bearing 2 miles west of our currant location” “that’s my girl looking out for her boss, close all vents and find a suitable location but don’t lose those signatures!” “I have an outcropping that will serve as a suitable location for cover” “Sounds good Sarah update me when the storm passes” The horizon fades and the two Suns Apollo and Helios are engulfed by the torrent of sand and wind. The pounding on the Hull of the tank is relaxing and puts me to sleep. Ever since I can remember I have had these vivid dreams that come to me of what seems to be the past and then it jumps forward to the future and in these dreams an angelic like female is watching over me. Her hands are always outstretched to me beckoning for me to come closer but I never do.
This time it is different, I feel an overwhelming sensation to grasp her hand then came the blinding light. As though she was showing me an entire world in brief flashes, first a beautiful blue planetoid with humanoids living in peace but a flash and the world started to die before my eyes. Then there is a glimpse of a huge Spacecraft hurtling itself towards the heavens leaving the dying planetoid, many humanoids are aboard but only survivors. Darkness again and then an overwhelming sense of fear tears through me, The ship something has infested it as most of the humanoids sleep the awake are fighting something evil in nature but that’s all I see. She Whispers in my ear “Find her she is the key for destruction is at hand”.
I am violently awoken and jolted from my seat…..”Sarah Report!” “Drexx Sandstorm has pased and the Sandworms have found us” “Dammit All” Grasping my pistols and slamming the hatch open I am greeted with sharp claw like teeth. It has latched on to the hatch and wont let go “looks like I have graduated to worm dentistry Sarah” Satisfyingly unloading a clip out of each pistol down the worms throat, the beast backs off and thrashes violently and with the worst sounding screech I have ever heard . “Drexx The other worms are breaching the Hull of the tank you must abandon the Marauder.” “I will lay the mines to cover your escape” “Sara eject CPU and belay the mines I may lose the Marauder but I wont lose you” “understood Drexx” As I jump from the Marauder a rumbling sound is heard and as I hit the ground I start to feel it. Starting as what water would look like in a drain the snad and dirt start to swirl and the ground shaking like a quake. What’s left of the Marauder is grasped by a huge metallic/sandy hand despite my horror I find it funny as it throws the tank along with those nasty worms into the valley. The laughter is cut short and the ground starts caving and the rest of the robotic beast starts to ascend, its glowing eyes of yellow lock on to me. “Why have you disturbed me Humanoid? Do you wish for death like all the others?”
“Zorak isn’t it? I meant no harm only scavenging” “If so why are my little ones being harmed? That is not peaceful but an act of aggression they were only feeding” “Some appetite those worms have then they ate my Tank” “Humanoid you are nothing but a plague on this planet as Tombstone has said I must purge you from this existence” With that statement Zorak blasts and energy beam from its mouth hitting the rocks above me the rock hit me and knock me out……………………
I am Mother……Mother……Mother…….MOTHER!!!!!……………. Opening my eyes the gun pointed at me. His finger squeezing back…….I close my eyes. Then suddenly a yell of defiance through the rubble. “Azurian Scum so killing children is your new agenda now? Only a weak soldier would kill innocent children. Grunting and frowning the Azurain throws his rifle down and draws his sword. “Vermillion your words are meant to enrage me, it will not work for I am superior to you and this child” Standing firm the Vermillion Soldier looks at me and tells me to run…..Run Boy Run!!!!!don’t ever look back keep running don’t ever look back……………… The sounds of swords clanging is the last thing I hear the man that gave his all to save a young boy. The sounds of booming get louder and louder Drexx……Drexx…….Drexx…..DREXX!!!!!!!
Opening my eyes I can feel the pounding in my skull and the smell of fresh blood as it runs down my face……. A face coming into focus shouting my name , “Drexx!!!” Eyes come into focus on an older Vermillion man white beard and hair “Son lets get you out of here” the man said “BOB has that machine busy for us. “BOB???wait who are you?
“Just stay calm and rest my name is not important right now your safety is” A short wave radio on the gentleman’s belt screeches then clears up “Mack I have the Machine far enough away from you two proceed with extraction” “Hey that guy on the radio called you Mack, Are you Mack?
?” He smirks and keeps dragging me to his tank, I can now see who was calling him on the radio it wasn’t a man it was a machine. “Go Little BOB go the man yells out, I bet your wondering why it is I have a robot? Since they were outlawed years ago.” Drexx replies “the thought did cross my mind” smiling at the man “so your Mack?” Then I need not wonder anymore” He calls out on his radio to the little Bot “BOB lets get out of here” Zorak is seen roaring back into the ground till it disappears a small and distant problem now.
“Mack, How did you find me?” “Well Kid lets just say I have had my eye on you your whole life and your not the only fella out here looking for Power Crystals” Looking at the old man and smirking “Your supposed to be dead you look pretty alive to me” “I had to disappear for a reason which you will find out soon why. “Just glad that rumor has stuck this long, we have a lot of work to do a storm is coming and we have to be ready” “What’s going to happen?” I asked the old man” With a fim look on his face he replies “ This is Desolation anything can happen”
Macks Jackal-57 is a refurbished Tank from the Azurian /Vermillion Civil war he utilizes it as a Junk transport and its littered with bits and pieces of junk either for the look or some have purpose
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