Vance Honour - A Warmth

You wake up with a start and hit your head on something solid. It hurts like hell for a few seconds. Where ever you are is pitch black and it takes you a few seconds to get your bearings. You are lying down in some kind of small box. Your hands and feet are bound. A thought enters your head that you struggle to push away. Is this a coffin? are you buried alive? You start to panic and struggle inside your supposed tomb but to no avail. Eventually you stop struggling and begin sobbing to yourself.

You think you hear some noise. It sounds like talking but it is muffled. You shout out in a panic "Help! I am alive. Don't bury me. I have credits and power. We can make a deal!"

Light suddenly fills the container as the lid is lifted. A Synth is staring at you with a smirk on its face. "That is the correct attitude President Honour. We do indeed have a deal to make. The stakes however are much higher than human currency or the illusion of your power"

It lifts you out of your prison and onto your feet. You find yourself in the storage bay of some kind of shuttle. The Synth removes the bindings on your hands and feet. "I am sorry about the bindings President Honour. We had to smuggle you through Sky Grid Security and did not want you to wake up and ruin our cover". The Synth still has that same smug smirk on its face.

You slowly begin realising what is happening. The last thing you remember is that a security guard pulled a weapon on you. The blood slowly drains from your face. You have been captured by the Sanctum. Cowardice is a natural instinct to you. You became president because of your ruthless ability to back stab, back chat and generally manipulate everyone around you. You were power hungry and did not consider the consequences. Now you do. Now you are being taken to the enemy to be tortured and mutilated. You feel a warmth grow around your crotch area. It slowly starts to spread down your right leg. 

You swallow and stand up straight. You look the Synth directly in the eye "I will do anything you want. Just don't torture me." your voice is breaks at the end of the sentence and you begin sobbing again.

The Synth looks confused, "Torture you? no I do not think you understand. We are going to try to save you"

A relief washes over you. "Thank the heavens" you bend over with your hands on your knees breathing deeply. After a few minutes you regain your composure. "What do you mean try to save me?"

"I mean we going to try to save human kind. We are going to the Sanctum. You are going to represent humanity in a trial for your species right to exist" it replies with a serious expression.

It takes you a second to process what the Synth is saying. You can only focus on one thing from that sentence. You are going to the Sanctum! 

You begin to panic again. You turn and try to run. You foot catches something and you fall hitting your head on something hard. Your head starts to spin and you begin to feel woozy. The last thing you hear before falling into unconsciousness is a female voice over a speaker system "We are approaching Sanctum. Buckle up. Things are about to get interesting"

Saviour - Pretending

You are pretending to concentrate on driving, while keeping an eye on the Synth and the President in the back of your blacked out Hover-SUV. You keep asking yourself “What the Drek you are doing?” And sarcastically answering yourself in a casual tone “oh, you know, just kidnapping the World President, committing high treason and potentially damning humankind to pain, torture, suffering and eventual annihilation”.

You push those thoughts aside, and try to concentrate on mission. After talking Kilo down from taking out the Sky Grid Defence system, you decided that you needed to work together or at least give the impression you were. Kilo clearly has a conscience, he is the first Synth that you have seen that can be reasoned with.

Kilo was set on asking the human population to vote for survival and hoping the sanctum would agree with the results. This seemed like a bad idea, because you doubt the Sanctum will ever change their mind. You also have no faith that people would vote, and the idea of it would probably cause open rioting and rebellion when unity is needed more than ever. A single Person is clever but a group of People are idiots.

So instead you suggested that a trial should be held, giving humans a chance to state their case for survival and who better than to represent them than President Honour. You will accompany him as his personal guard. Kilo seemed to accept these terms, or maybe Kilo accepted on behalf of the Sanctum, you can rarely be sure who is speaking.

You arrive back at the hanger bay of vector labs. The doors automatically opens when you approach and you drive inside and park up. You hope the shuttle is repaired enough to fly and get you to the Sanctum. Before you get out of the vehicle you go over your plan in your head one more time.

• Step one, help Kilo kidnap the President. ..Tick! heaven help me
• Step two, accompany president and Kilo to the Sanctum.
• Step three, help the president fight for our continued right to survive
• Step four, when that falls on its ass, detonate the personal nuke you are going to pack for the ride and take these genocidal metallic sons of bitches down with you.