Wrath's Wisdom
“If the anger of the ruler rises against you, do not leave your place, for calmness will lay great offenses to rest.”
– Ecclesiastes 10:4
It’s Monday again, freaking classes again. 7 a.m. in the morning, only one hour before my school. The sun greeted me with its rays shining through my window as I open them. It’s still early but I’m already up, as usual. I head to the bathroom to brush my teeth. I get my brush in a little cup as well as the toothpaste beside it. Brushing my teeth as I stare at the mirror I saw, my body looking…. blurred? I suddenly remembered a thing I need to get.
“I think I need new glasses, and contacts too while I’m at it.”, I said my thoughts out loud. “I guess I’ll go to Dr. Kris later and order a new prescription.”
I finished brushing my teeth and went out of my room. I head downstairs and to the kitchen, excitingly prepping up to cook my breakfast. I finished cooking a simple egg with rice, putting it on a plate, and brought it on the living room. I turned on the TV to fill the silence inside the house.
~ There was a huge brawl happened yesterday on 10:30 a. m. at the capital of Terrus, K city, near the big UBM building. The fight between the terrorist group Covenant’s Ark or AC and the police, with the help of the World Government funded private group Sins of the Seven or SOFT. ~
“They’re really active these days. I think they’re really desperate to get what they want at this point. What do they want though?”, I again said my thoughts out loud.
I keep chewing at my yummy breakfast as my alarm clock ring from inside my bedroom. ~RIINNNGGGG~
“Damn it, it can be heard from here? And I was enjoying my breakfast too, ugh.”, I groaned as I quickly finished my breakfast.
I head to my room and shut the damn thing off. Ugh, so loud. I look at the time, 7:30, gotta get ready. I head to the bathroom to take shower and brush my teeth.
“I shouldn’t have brushed my teeth earlier if I was gonna do it again, ugh.”, I mumbled with leaving a small groan at the end. After a couple minutes, I stepped out of the shower with my towel on and went to my wardrobe. As I pick clothes to wear, I could hear the TV downstairs still talking about the incident earlier.
“When are you gonna shut up about that lady?”, I mumbled in annoyance. “Well, it’s better than the house being silent. And how can I hear it from here? Did I turn on the volume too loud again?” I tend to do daily things unconsciously due to repetitive activity. Sometimes I get angry about that, well, most of the time.
~ The group named Covenant’s Ark or CA in short, is a terrorist group responsible for many crimes in the world. They are the ones who almost started World War III to USA and Russia by almost killing the President of the United States and blaming it to Russia by having the killer caught on CCTV of the White House wearing Russian Special Forces Military uniform. Luckily, The President of Russia stated that the attack was not theirs and someone was framing them to start a world war. After a year of investigation, this terrorist group was finally exposed to the public. The people with power and authority from all over the world gathered and tackled this issue. They came up with a solution of having greater security and communication between countries to further keep the terrorist group in check, more strict security in public places, and filling basic information before going inside. And if tighter security were to fail, the World Government decided to create a project of a task force specialized in immobilizing the issue that arises. The project is called Sins Of The Seven or SOFT, comes from the carnal desires of man. ~
“Is news really like this nowadays? Internet had these types of information though.”, I said as I put on my school uniform. I then quickly took my bag as I went downstairs. The Tv continues to go on as I tie my shoes in the living room.
~ SOFT picked 7 out of 10,000 anonymous people that wants to be part of the project, out of respect for the seven desires. Once picked, they are to be remained unnamed and unseen until the project is finished. These seven are given enhanced physical abilities through finalized enhancement drug that is made by the best scientists in the world. Due to the drug, they are given abilities beyond human capabilities denying every law of the world. They are also given proper training on every possible training in the world ranging from simple mental training to military. After a year of proper training and observation, the seven are sent home to their hometown without informing the world who they are. They are just seen wearing cool black stealth/leather suits (depending if it’s day or night) with their codenames at the back of the suit written in white lettering while fighting crime. It has been 3 years since the project and the terrorist are still on the loose. While SOFT is indeed hiring people to become agents to help the seven, some people speculate there are more than just the original seven wearing those suits. ~
I got up, took my bag, and turned the TV off. I locked the door to my house and immediately walked away and turned east, towards my school. I usually take the 7:45 train but it seems it will not be the case today.
~ EMERGENCY WARNING! THE TERRORIST GROUP CA ARE LAST SEEN INSIDE THE TRAIN STATION! THEY ARE CURRENTLY HIJACKING THE 7:45 TRAIN! WE ARE SORRY FOR THE DISTURBANCE! FOR THE MEANTIME, CONTACT YOUR SCHOOLS AND COMPANIES ABOUT THE REGARDING ISSUE! ~
Aw man, this sucks. I head towards a shortcut behind the alleyways. “I was planning on catching some sleep on the train too.”, I mumbled as I put my bag near a garbage bin. I looked at my watch and it pressed a button on the side as it says “7:50 a.m.” After I pressed the button at the side of my watch, my school uniform changed into a combat suit with a built-in mask on it, covering my face.
“All-Purpose Combat Suit Deployed”, a hollowed voice inside my mask started talking. “Good morning Sir Edward Alec a.k.a. The Monarch of Madness, Wrath. What shall we do today?”
“Mornin’ R.I.R.I.”, I greeted the generated voice in my suit. “Activate stealth mode.”
I sneaked past the crowd and inside the train station without setting any terrorist alarms. I left my bag in a roof of some café just to be sure that it won’t get stolen. As I looked around the station, armed men are all over the place.
“Riri, can you tell how many people are in here? And where is the boss?”, I asked the voice in my suit.
“Just a sec sir, projecting 3d scanned image through SOFT’s satellite.”, riri replied. Suddenly, an image is seen from inside my mask. R.I.RI. short for Respectfully Immaculate Rather Intelligent, is an A.I. made by the best researchers in the world to assist the seven on their tasks. “There are at least 30-40 people here. 20 of which are terrorists, and the rest are civilians. The boss is at the 7:45 train sir, along with 2 more. Probably his elites.”
I quickly knocked all the terrorists guarding the station with ease and took a shuriken from my metal wristbands. I carved my codename on the shuriken and tossed it outside the station so that the people outside know that SOFT is dealing with the situation.
“Call the police and tell them to rescue the hostage civilians in the station.”, I asked riri yet again.
“Calling on progress.”
These wristbands are 3d model printers with nanotech inside them to create things. It’s also manufactured by SOFT. Pretty handy. Everything is nanotech. When not activated, the right wristband and the whole suit reverts to its natural state and disguises itself as a watch on my left wrist.
I went straight to the 7:45 train, which is stuck halfway on the way to the station. So, I gotta go to the tracks and head inside sneakily. I created a laser saber and smoke grenade to prepare my attack. I begin carving an opening on the side not caring they would hear it. Inside the train, I can sense that they are in a state of panic.
“Riri, enhance hearing sense.”
“Enhancing sir.”
Inside the train, one of the henchmen slowly walks up to the place where I was carving a door. I immediately made a rope with a little something.
“Riri, make nitinol as the main chemicals properties on the rope.” Riri did not respond, he just obediently makes it.
With great timing, as soon as the guy comes to check on my work, I finished carving the door and activated stealth mode to get inside. I then tied the rope to him and kicked him out of the train through my carved door. As soon as I did that, the other henchman shot a couple rounds at me. Didn’t work obviously, the suit is bullet proof. Only people with enhanced physical conditions like me or at least a bazooka can damage this suit. They don’t have that now…right?
Suddenly a bazooka shell went flying at me, hitting me at my side, making me fly. “You shouldn’t have jinxed it idiot, ugh.”, what luck have I. But that goes to show that they don’t care about the civilians in the train, for them to fire a live rpg shell inside a train filled with people. I stood back up and threw the smoke grenade on the ground, with a little chloroform mixed in it. With that, I don’t have to worry about making the civilians calm down. I charged straight to the terrorists and tied them with the ropes. I then carried the civilians one by one out of the train. As I got out, the police and the media along with a crowd of people are waiting outside.
“That’s him!”
“It’s Wrath!”
“Hey Wrath! Look here!”
“As you can see here, The Monarch of Madness has come to take care of this issue. This is the second time in two days that CA has been active though. We can’t help but wonder if they’re making a grand move.”, a reporter says while staring at the news camera.
“Couldn’t you be a little less repulsive? Ugh.”, I groaned in annoyance.
As the crowd continue to go crazy outside, I went inside the train to finally get the two remaining terrorists. As I was about to grab and carry both at once, the leader of the two activated a grenade and hugged me.
“I’d rather die than be put to jail. But you’re coming with me.”, he said as I try to get free. But too late, the grenade has detonated, and I got sent flying. Good thing it didn’t damage my suit that much. Oh God, what a day.