Chapter 108: Into The Bunker (1/2)
Chapter 108: Into The Bunker
Aldrich stepped over to the hangar entrance It consisted of two interlocking sliding metal panels that opened up to allow the carrier within out
Because of the sheer size of the carrier, these doors were massive but thankfully just as arreen ring of fire fro down into the hangar, and when Aldrich approached, he waved his hand, willing the flames to fade away
As they dimmed down, the corpses of dozens of fishmen became visible
Unlucky victims that the Deathwheel had either run over, coht in the life draining flames, reduced into corpses so dried and drained of life that they disintegrated into dust when exposed to the night breeze
Aldrich leaped into the hangar and fell several dozen round with a heavy thud When he landed, he looked up to find a crowd ofin terror as they inched back to the walls
"Stay calh the hangar Upon hearing a huy of the crowd lost a bit of its tension, but not h so ht "I'm…human, and I' to leave us like the other heroes!" shouted a man
"You're just like the rest of them! You don't care about us Duds!"
"All of you heroes are useless!"
With that, the crowd gained a surge of confidence All it took was one or two hecklers for thee towards Aldrich
They broke out into a cacophony of angry shouts and yells that distorted into soible, a mess of projected frustration haphazardly thrown Aldrich's way
When Aldrich looked at theer and fear, he could only shake his head
They reminded him too otten this power
It was pitiful
Aldrich knew he should not have thought that way, especially against those that were Duds just like hi an undead, especially a Lich, had and was continuing to change his perception of huh humanity left in him to sympathize
To knoords to say to reach their hearts
"Be quiet" Aldrich projected his voice and the volume of his words resonated outwards in powerful peals that immediately silenced the crowd
This was not because Aldrich's voice was threatening
On the contrary, it was quite calrow silent because they were intimidated, no, they sealed their lips because they knew a force of authority far greater than the very clear: I am not a hero," said Aldrich as he eyed the crowd of Duds "If I were, I very wellyour voice against me
After all, that's what so many heroes do now"
Aldrich planted first the seeds of doubt against the Alterhu how h with betrayal after betrayal already, this would not be too hard
"If your lives are not worth saving, if they don't give the heroes their Achievement Points or more clicks on their social media, then they would not hesitate to just let you die You have seen that happen to you firsthand tonight
That is what heroes are now
That is what the Alterhuency is
But I am here to save you because your lives do le matters to me" Aldrich paused
"What do you know about our struggle!?" said someone from the crowd "About what it's like to be one of us Powerless and waiting for people like you to save us!"
"Oh, but I do know I know all too well," said Aldrich "I knohat it's like to be afraid to show your CID (Citizen identification)
Because you know that when you show that card, when it gets scanned at the store, at the movies, at a restaurant - anywhere - it shows proof that you are inferior
I knohat it feels like to be powerless To always have to look up to a cape for help, and when you do get it, to see that it is handed to you with disgust
I knohat it feels like to be hopeless To know that no matter how hard you try, how hard you try to stand out, the only thing that will ever define your entire existence is that one label of 'Dud'