Outside the Box

Dark Hope
[ Ch. 3: Memory ]

36 Months Previous

Tate’s chest felt heavier and heavier the more time went by.  The helmet on his head seemed to push his head down more and more and the boots on his feet continued to get heavier and heavier.  The men across from Tate had their heads down, looking at the large guns in their hands.  Suddenly, the convoy containing the group hit a bump, making Tate’s heart jumped a beat.  His adrenalin kicked in on instinct, his hand gripping tightly to his weapon.  After a few seconds, his hand slowly relaxed.  There was a unified release of tension in the room, and the soldier across from Tate made eye contact with the new soldier.

“This is your first engagement, right?”  Tate nodded his head, his eyes never leaving the soldier across from him.  ”Yeah.”

“I could tell.  Relax.  You’ll be fine.  It’s a simple recon mission.”  In all of Tate’s training, this soldier was the first one to give any type of support.  Tate nodded again, then the truck slows to a halt.  A man emerged from the front of the truck, his helmet in his hands.

“Move out, men.  Remember, your training is over.  This is the real thing.” Read the rest of this entry »

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Dark  Hope
[ Ch. 2: Fear]

Eliza shivered, crouched behind a dumpster in an alleyway.  There were the sound of footsteps walking away in the distance.  ’That was close,’ the slender brunette thought to herself. ‘I’ve been having too many close encounters lately.’ She waited until the footsteps were completely gone before standing up and walking quietly to the street.  She walked as quickly as possible; her apartment wasn’t too far ahead and she was determined to not get caught this close to her home, especially after what had happened earlier…

An arm suddenly reached from an alleyway and grabbed her arm.  Eliza’s heart began to pound as the massive arm, now joined by it’s twin, shoved her against the alley wall.  The man attached to the arms was rather large and had a large smile on his face.

“Now, now.  What are you doing out so late?  You know what happens to beautiful girls after curfew.”  His large hand is able to fit around both of Eliza’s wrists.  His other goes down to his belt where he pulls out a shiny circular badge that read ‘CGU‘.  Eliza began to thrash against the civil guard’s grip and the guard laughed.

“You really think your scrawny ass could get away?”  His grip tightens on her wrists and laughs out loud as Eliza gasped in pain and stopped fighting.  ”So here is your choice; I could let you go in exchange for something else…” Read the rest of this entry »

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Dark  Hope
[Ch. 1: Night]

Milo and the others remained hidden as the lights shone through the windows in the front of what appeared to be a type of old store.  Each of the strangers were crouched in the shadows, each of them breathing as quietly as possible to avoid detection by the guards searching outside.  The lights faded into the distance and an eerie silence fell over the now darkened room.  One pair of eyes could still be seen in the darkness, however, and shone bright, as if they were a cat’s eyes.

“Can you turn those off?”  The voice, clearly male and very hoarse,  had come from another corner of the room, but everyone knew who he was talking to.  The eyes narrowed, then a female voice spoke.  ”I can’t help it.  It’s natural.”

Milo’s eyes adjusted slowly to the dark room and the outline of seven others came slowly into focus.  Milo was hidden furthest back in the abandoned shop, located behind a large knocked over bookcase.  After a few minutes of silence, he and the others began to relax.

“Are they gone?”  Another woman’s voice, this time from the front portion of the room.

“I think so.”  This time Milo spoke, his voice a bit dry from the running.  ”What is this place?” Read the rest of this entry »

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DARK HOPE:
The Online Mini-Series

Dark Hope is an ongoing story involving a potential future of the world.  This story does NOT have any relationship to NBC’s Heroes, so don’t think this is a fanfic for Heroes.

Every Sunday, a new chapter will be released and the story will continue to grow.  This story is written by Nick Reitz exclusively.  As a disclaimer, Nick Reitz does not own any Marvel Comic or D.C. Comic character mentioned in the story.  I do, however, own the characters that came exclusively out of my head, including (but not limited to) Milo, Holly, Eliza, Robert, and Samantha Lee.  I work extremely hard to write this story and make it look good, so I would appreciate it if no one would steal/plagiarize/take my work and post it elsewhere without the proper backlink to this site.

DARK HOPE

Chapter One: NIGHT

Chapter Two: FEAR

Chapter Three: MEMORY

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