Only falling you rise further
Go ahead, look to my back... nothing... damn is too cold, wish I had a warmer coat but the dam nazis took everything... turn the next street look to my back... nothing...Is almost midnight, I try to make the less noise posible on each step, now I'm in front of the building, look the whole street... nothing. Knock the door in a specific pattern , 4 notes, the first two short, then the next two long, then wait a couple seconds and do another one. some seconds pass and I look to the whole street.... nothing. Then someone opens the door just a little bit, is an old lady, probably 50 or may be younger but this damn war has made everyone older, like ten years older.
"Yeah?" says the lady, now don't forget the salute, don't forget....
"Hello... Mr Krank... Mr Krank send me to... eh... " What was the word? what was?.... I can't forget it in a moment like this, not like this!....
"Krank send you?... ok go in" Say the lady opening the door and nodding to me.
"Eh... ok" I look one more the rest of the street... nothing, thank God, no one has saw me. I move quickly to the building. It is an apartment complex, I move to the seconds floor and knock the apartment 202, nothing happens, did they heard me?... then the door opens, is a man, just like the old lady seems older, but is probably younger.
"Yeah?" says the man, a couple of scars on his face, very pale, it look like he is going to beat me at any moment.
"Krank send me" I replied to the man, he has such a menacing look, those light eyes had seem death many times, way more than I.
"To what?" he replied.
"Eh.... to..." common, now is the time, remember, remember Krzesimir, you have to remember! "To... look after his daughter... she's ill" Was his daughter... or son? the man just look with doubt to me, he may think I'm a nazi spy or something... oh no, is over I've ruin it.
"Is ok Filip, let him in, I know him" said a voice behind him and the menacing man just move a little so I can go in, he stills look at me with some doubtful eyes, he does not trust in me. I Move quickly to the main hall of the apartment, feels like home, old furniture, a radio at the center, a bookshelf without any books, the only difference is that everything is so disorganised, paper sheets everywhere, dust and rubble, the air is thick, too much cigarettes here and the windows are heavily cover, a faint candle is illuminating everything, no one can know someone is doing something here.
I tried to breath heavy, is warm here and I was freezing out there, winter is almost settling in and due to the lack of food, this winter is going to be the longest one yet and above anything else... there is no hope for the end of the war... they said the Nazis are moving rampant in the Russian soil, unstoppable, unbeatable they are besieging Leningrad and probably are already at Stalingrad... If Stalingrad falls I think the war is over.
I look to the main table at the center, full of papers, there are some cups of tea there, a gallon of gas, if anything happens they are ready to set everything on fire and burn all evidence and looking at the papers is the man, the legend himself, the West call him Dr. Lead, the Republic calls him The Defender, we, his students call him the Professor, he has prepare his whole life or this moment, ever since the last war, he knew about the inevitable coming of this war, and now at his 50 years, his hair if full white, even his padlocked beard, despite that, he seems really healthy, I think those powers of him had helped him to stay strong like a young man, like me... I wish I was as healthy as him...
After he sees me, he smiled at me "Krzesimir! thank God you made it!, I was fearing you would not be able to came here" he quickly hugs me, I have never been able to be so sporadic with some one else... with his hand on my shoulder he greats me to the menacing man, his name is Filip, is his assistant here. "You should see him in the Maly Pies, I think he is an incredible pilot" The man just nods, his eyes look at me with total distrust.
"Hi there Filip, my name is Krzesimir, I'm a student of the Professor" - "His most notable one" said the Professor interrupting me.
"Well, I trust you Defender, I wished for more pilots or machinist, not operatives..."
"Worry not brother, you'll find his skill really useful for us, everything theory I don't know he does"
He was right, the Professor was an incredible inventor, but many of his works came from his powers, he could barely explain in words or scientific terms how his machines worked, he tried to learn engineering in the past but he couldn't, for him the numbers never make any sense with what he feel on his powers, ultimately he left the number part to us, his students, I myself was a prodigy, if not for this war, I could have been studding with the British in their most prestigious universities, at the end, I had to chose between being here with the Professor defending the Republic or leave, now I don't think I made the right choice, but there is no going back now.
"More importantly, just like myself, he also has certain special skills" said the Professor, I wished he would not say that so openly, I dont think my special gift is a reason to brag....
"Yeah?" said Filip surprised, le looked at me with intrigue "How so?" He asked me, he was still in doubt to me.
"Uh... well... I can make the machines work without... gas..." It was the simplest way I could describe my gift.
"What?..." His look show that he did in fact not understood me "Do you shit gas by yourself?" the Professor left a mocking laugh.
"No, not like that, his body can generate electricity, enough for the cores of the Machines to work without the use of diesel" Said the profesor, he seemed to understand my gift way better than I, but it was to be expected, he is The Professor after all. "I have created a set of especial machines that could work better for his gift"
"So, you are a Pilot after all" Said Filip, pulling out a cigarette and a lighter from the pocket of his shirt.
"No... not really, I'm.... I get nauseous easily"
Filip just rise an eyebrow, after inhaling and expelling some smoke, he din't say anything, I think he is expecting a better answer than that.
"I mean... the cores are powerful generators that power up the machines... but they work base of diesel so..."
"I know the theory dummy! I'm a pilot!" Filip looked upset, does this man had even been happy in his life?... well maybe, but I guess this war has left everyone on a bad mood. The Professor intervened.
"He doesn't have the experience to control a machine yet, but I guess he doesn't need to pilot the machine, the only thing he needs to do is power it"
"That's seems ok to me, I guess, is better than anything else we have right now...." said Filip, then he looked to the void of the room like he was thinking on something "Actually, this is the best posible thing to happen right now"
"Ah!, so you finally get it!, see?"
"The boy just power up the machine, while other can pilot it... " said Filip- "Correct!" Said the Professor. "How much power do you have kid?"
"Am... voltage wise I guess... I have never thought exactly what my limits can be..."
"Can you power up a Gwiazda?" He sounded upset still, but I guess that is his standard mood.
"I guess yes, If the machine has the modification to work with my gift... It should be easy..."
"Fuck, finally some good fucking news..." He expeled another cloud of smoke, and took out a sip flask, his face changed to another one, more relaxed, it was really strange now.
"Yeah, I have a prototype, the modifications are set, the only thing ready to do is testing it"
"So, what are we waiting for Defender?"
"Testing it would be... complicated at most, doing that would compromised our secrecy here"
"Mmh... you are right... Do you think it can work at the first go?"
"I'm completely sure... about the machine..."
"Not so much about the kid eh?" said Filip looking at me with disapproval... that was the look of my father when I told him I would stay with the Professor rather than escaping to Britain.
"I... I'm sure I can do it" Now both of them look at me... this is awkward, I shouldn't have said that. "I guess..." some silence flood the room.
"This kid... I knew It was not going to be so easy"
"If it were to ever be, do you think we would have been on this situation?" said the Professor now organising his papers, he was putting then on a portfolio, along side a little can of gas in it.
"No, no, you are right, It never is" Filip put out a revolver and looked the chamber, counting the bullets, at this moment I start getting nervous.
"What... what is happening?"
"We are moving to the basement" said the professor "Follow us"
We move quickly to the basement, is dark and creepy and full of humidity like any other basement, full of damage furniture, some old industrial machines and boxes with tons of tools, but nothing else... is strange I guess I hoped this to be a proper workshop... And just after that thought, Filip start moving a heavy and big shelf revealing a rat hole in the wall, the Professor pull out a lantern and gave it to me.
"You go first" the Professor tells me, I crouch and enter the hole, It feels really claustrophobic to be honest, and the humidity on the walls make It all gross, I think I can see some rats going by the side too, when I could finally see the end a smell of cooper and other metals along side the smell of oil and gas invade me, this is a workshop, the workshop of the Professor, I finally made it out, in retrospective, the hole is not that long, but... well is not a pleasant experience, I wonder how many times does the Professor goes through that hole... not exactly an heroic did to be exact, but this war is anything but heroic.
After both the Professor and Filip made it out, a sound is heard at the other side, I can only asume someone else had put that big shelf back in its place, maybe the old lady?. I now decided to give a pick to the place, the lantern only gives me so much light and then the Professor moves a lever in the wall and the place is illuminated in a yellowish tone, very faint light, but enough to work there.
"Wow... how... how do you manage to..."
"In theory, this place does not exist, the building on top is abandoned and any entrance to the basement has been cut out, this is pretty much an uncharted zone of the city"
It was a small place no doubt, but it had everything in need, at the center was a Gwiazda, a massive machine of cylindrical form, it had a turret and a cannon, four legs that allow it to move in any terrain, at the side was what I could only asume a control station, maybe to make test for the machine and what else, at the other side of the room were several tools and scrap parts, several barrels of oil and gas and tools.
"Impressive eh? years before the war, I talked with the government to make several secret bunkers and basements like these across all of Warsaw and other cities of the Republic, in all of then I leave machines and some other useful gadgets for a posible resistance... so far the Nazis had found some of these secret basements, but we still have several more" the Professor move to the Gwiazda and give it a tap. "Now that you are finally here, we could proceed with the next step of the plan"
"Mmh?... what? Defender, are you sure?... I mean the kid just got here..."
"Is ok, the modifications I did to the machine would help us, I think so far, this is posible the biggest machine yet, not in size but in power"
"Really, how so? It barely has ammo to stay in battle for a couple minutes..."
"Well, the gift of Krzesimir will help us, just like the Bialy Miecz, the cannon is modified to shot a powerful bean of energy, is a simplified version of the siege cannon"
"Nice, so the kid power up the machine and provides the ammo as well eh?"
I feel completely overwhelmed.... this was not the thing I imagine myself doing when I decided to stay with the Professor here... he told me I was going to help him but not like a soldier, not like a pilot.
"Mhh. Professor?"
"Yeah Krzesimir?"
"Are you sure?... I mean, about all these... I think I was left out of all these, you just asume all this is going to work just fine and... well... honestly, I never imagine myself being a pilot you know? don't you think my skill would be better... on the papers?" Filip just changed his expression to a judging one, the Professor just stayed calm.
"Oh, well... I supposed I expected to much of you, you are just a student after all, you never officially joined the White Eagles after all..." the Professor just took a seat in an old rusty chair "I guess the young people is not as prepared as the older obviously... you know, sometimes I feel like the ghost of my past follow me all the time and I tried everything to put them away" he revised his coat and pull out what looks like a photography "Look, this is met at 25" It was a photo of himself standing at the side of an artillery gun "I participated in the first Great War, fighting for the Germans, I was the one controlling the artillery barrage and mortars, I... I saw my country on war, not the German lands, Our country, the Polish lands, the dead on no mans land, the hundred of small villages that were erased from the map... the long and agonising nights... I really don't want to see that again...but here we are, on that same scenario again" the Professor looks now so melancholic,, I guess for someone who has been on two horrific wars, this is probably the least place he wants to be "The thing is... just before the war, the British government offer me asylum on their country, they thought a man like myself would be better of alive and protected... everyone told me that for our land to survive, I was to abandoned them and serve in the British forces and they all were right, they all were, I'm not stupid, we all know the war would come and our country would once again suffer the spoils of war as it always had been... but... I couldn't, I could not abandon the men that served me, I could not abandon my land to be sacked and burned for the enemy, not again, I just could not live knowing that I abandon them..." He looked to the machine, the dim light made the machine look bigger and menacing "I don't judge you if you don't truly want to do this, I know what you must be feeling right now, trust me, the first day I shited my pants...The plan will continue anyways, we were just waiting for you since you would give us the best chances of success."
Fuck, fuck, fuck, now I feel guilty... but... is true, I don't want to do this... well, I feel like I'm not ready to be a pilot, I rather stay doing paper world or anything but the front line... What should I answer? Should I accept? what if I cannot make the machine work? what if it is too much for me? what if...
"hey kid? calm down, is ok, alright?" Filip put his arm on my shoulder "Everyone want to be a fucking hero, guess what? dead heroes are as good as sand bags, if you want to stay out of this, is ok for me, no one gona judge you or call you a coward"
Somehow that help me calm myself... Filip was menacing and I think I may not be someone of his liking, but this gesture of his is actually surprising... I think I judge him too early.
"Well... I'm scared yes... but... I guess there is no going back now, I mean... I either do it now or regret myself for the rest of my life you know?"
"Tha'ts good to hear kiddo" Said Filip while the Professor smiled at me.
"Well them, if everything is ready, I think we can start the uprising now"
"Mmh... Professor?"
"Yeah?"
"Do you happen to have something to eat... and a bathroom first?"
"Oh God, help us, fucking kiddo...."
I was checking up all the sensors, they seems to be working just fine, now I'm in the the Gwiazda in a copilot seat, Filip is in the Pilot seat, normally these machines only required a single pilot, but this Gwiazda was modified to have a copilot seat in the place where the diesel motor would be, since this machine is meant to work with my powers It didn't needed it, I could only see a bunch of dials and sensor, the small chamber is illuminated by a dim red light, I'm starting to feel the heat now. "Well, how is the signal?" said te professor through the radio "Loud and clear Defender" said Filip, "well, now we just wait for the signal, I have already set the plan on motion, did you need a reminder?" - "No sir" said Filip - "Wait, wait, I think I do... I don't know exactly how this gona work?" I tell to the ratio receiver. "Is alright Krzesimir, I'l make a summary, On the city there are several secret basements like this, the resistance has control over most of them and on each of then there are machines like these, is just a matter of when to give them the signal and start an uprising, If everything goes well, just a couple of machines would rise and after just no more than 30 minutes, we would sparse and hide again, leaving the machines behind, activate the auto destruction before that and then we will prepare for the next strike. for the time being the principal targets are the soldiers hospital, the command center and the ammo storage, all those places are fairly defended, but they have no way to defend against our machines" "Well, that is more clear..." "One more thing Krzesimir" "Yeah Professor?" "Once you left the Machine, stay close to Filip, he will teach you to hide out" "Understood" Said that, the radio signal was cut and Filip pull out a cigarette, the small chamber flooded on smoke, my hands are sweaty now, but nothing seems to happen, I peek down the seat of the pilot to see Filip and his window to the exterior, but I cannot make any assumption of the few things I see.... "Em... Filip?" "Yeah kiddo?" "How are we going to exit? I mean, the basement, It didn't had any entrance, nor any exit" "We make our own..." Filipt expeled some smoke. "What?... what do you mean?" "We make our own exit" "Sure... clear..." "You just do your work kiddo and I'll make mine" just after that a radio call sound. "Blitz here" answered Filip. "Alright Blitz, you are clear to go, the Pilots today will be Thunder, Trueno, Blyskawica and Foudre, good luck" "Foudre? fuck me, anything but her..." "What does that meant? Is this a problem to us?" I tell to Filip. "Last time we fucked I tell her something I shouldn't and now she has a grudge on me... An advice with women kiddo, don't mention their previous lovers and don't even try to compared yourself with them alright?" "Sure..." I don't have anything else to say, I really don't want to touch this topic... I have not been with a woman yet... I think I had put too much focus on the Professor and the White Eagles...I could die.... I could die a virgin and this though definitely embarras me. "Well, them, do your magic kiddo, turn on this beauty" "Alright" In my copilot seat I have access to two bobines and some special gloves, normal gloves are made of rubber to protect one from the electricity, these ones are special, they are the oposite in which their palms hold a screen of pure gold, is a metal that transfers electricity so well, I put on these and touch the bobines. I took a deep breath, inhaling almost all the smoke from the cigarette and tell my body to start producing electricity, soon, all the sensors and dials and button of the machine start working. "The fuck...?" said Filip, he takes the radio caller "Hey Defender, is this working right?...." "Sure is", you see, the thing with electrical engines is that... they don't produce any sort of noise!, now I'm gona pull out the auxiliary power, you'll be totally on your own now, got it?" "Got it" Filip cuts the call "Dammit, I love the sound of the engine, really puts your heart to beat" Just after that a clipping sound is heard and I feel how the energy on the machine drastically decreases, the machine loses energy for a moment and I know that is the signal to myself to increase the voltage difference. I see a dial in front on me indicating the range on which the voltage should be, as well as how many ampers should I produce, I start increasing the quantity until I reach the acceptable parameters, the machines is working at its fullest. "Yeahs, that's incredible kiddo, keep like that" This is more complicated than I thought, now that I'm in this situation, I have realised I have never uses my powers for so long, will I be able to keep going on like this for some more? well the Professor say this operation should not take mora than 30 minutes, I guess I can go on for that time. "Now, lets test the bean cannon..." I heard some gears move, than must be the bean cannon, due to the cylindrical form of the machine, It can aim to any direction. "Now, kiddo, I'm gonna shot that bean cannon and open a gate out of here" after pressing some buttons and moving on some switches, I could feel how the machine generates a difference in voltage really drastically, I'm.... seeing the full circuit of this machine, where every little particle of electricity is moving through, I can see now how the machine works at a level never seem before, no numbers, no measures... just... the energy moving through... is beautiful, this machines is a marvel of engineering.."Incredible, this bean cannon take an eternity to charge, you are charging it up really fast" I got so exited now... I don't want to stop now... "Yeah, now..." An explosion breaks my ears, the machines moves abruptly and I lost focus for a short time... "Holy fuck kiddo!, this cannon should be another modification of the Defender, is brutal!, now lets go, this explosion should alert the Nazis, we should move quickly!" I sense the machine moving, on the land first and then moving diagonally and vertically, to once again be on a plane. The machines generates a movement similar to the one of a horse or a car in a really rocky road, I don't know how fast we are moving or where we are going, I can only trust on Filip, then I heard some shouts... German shouts. Fuck, they are here... And I feel the difference on voltage happening again, is another bean shot. "Keep steady kiddo!" The machines moves abruptly and a spark of light is reflected on the window of Filip, various screams are heard and shots of arms, the bullets are hitting the hull of the machines but they seem inefficient. "Holy shit!, they are... gone, that bean literally make them disappear!.... is disgusting honestly... ok, worry not kiddo, I'll be using the machines guns for the moment" for the next moments the sound of guns in the outside and the machines gun in the inside would be ear breaking, I think I may be left deaf after this. But above the sound of guns, is the sound of screams and shouts that are the most clear to me, from Germans insults to Polish ones and this machines is not stopping. I don't know how many minutes had pass, but I'm sweating full but also really excited I don't think my heart has beat so fast before. "We are in our target kiddo, changing to bean cannon" "Which... Which one is?" "The Hospital of course, hope there are some bastards Nazis still suffering from their wound against the Soviets, just to suffer even more now" That is... honestly horrible, yeah, they are the invaders and all that but... those soldiers are injured, they cannot defend themselves... We are no... Fuck... the voltage difference.... I heard a zaap sound and glass breaking, followed by more shots from the outside. "Changing to machines guns, we are at our last bullets now, but the objetive is done, the building is now starting to set of fire, I guess another shot would do..." "Alright... just tell me when..." "What in the name of!..." "Huh?.... what's wrong?" I don't really like that expression, from someone like Filip to say it is not something good. "They have a tank... A fucking tank..." A tank?.... fuck, fuck, this is not good, not good at all... "And the bastard is aiming to us now...." Then the machine moves repentantly to one side while the sound of another cannon is shot, just behind me I heard the shot hitting something in the background... I guess It missed... "That fucking bastards, changing to bean cannon, you better charge up that think at once!" Of course I will, I don't wanna die here!.... Oh, God help please help me!.... The voltage difference is starting to grow more and more... I lost control for over a couple seconds and the ampers levels pass out of the acceptable range, I lowered them down.... This machine is moving from side to side, so abruptly, I'm being drag away by these movements, "Cannon almost ready..." I heard the bobines generating a bzzz sound, they are really hot, I think I'm burning my hands right now but I don't care.... "Is donde!" I hear a strong zaap sound and a massive shot from the tank, the tank hit us causing the machine to be pushed away, I just feel the bullet hit the hull of the machine, the inertia just makes my head hit the walls of the chamber and all the sensor and dials start to go crazy, my ears are numbed, I'm absolutely disorietnte right now... did we hit it? did it hit us? of course it did!, the machine is going crazy... "Dam tank hit us...argh!... If you didn't notice kid!" "Did... did we hit it Filip?" "Like hell we did!, the tank has a massive hole at the center, Is not moving so I asume is out of service...but the bean cannon is broken as well, the bean shot just... exploded the cannon, I guess you use too much power... but dam It was such a great shot!" Filip start to move some levers and press some combinations of buttons, a sharp noise echoes through the chamber. "What is that?" "The auto destruction sequence... Is going to overflow the system and fried the whole machine, there is a small box of explosives at the bottom of the machine..." Filip just kicks out the door of the machine, it seems the hit stuck the door, "Common, let's get out of this place now..." I took out the sea belts and move towards the low side of the chamber, once outside I can finally breath some fresh air for once, the ambient is cold and I could finally see what we have done. This is the center of the city, several buildings are surrounding us, I see the hospital on fire now, the first and second floor are bright and hot... soon the whole building will be engulf on fire... I just wonder how many defenceless soldiers did we kill... They may not be innocent, but they definitely didn't deserve this... but I guess that is war after all... "We must move kid, soon more reinforcements will be here..." "Understood..." I see the tank we just blow up, It has just a small hole in it, I can see the other side of the street through that hole... It was indeed a great shot... Filip pulls out his revolver and we moved to the next street, in there we saw a shadowy figure... Is... Is a person, with black uniform, complete with hat and coat and a red band on his arm... fucking dammit!.... he also has a white band lower the red one... now were are fucking screw!... a black uniform is bad enough, a black uniform with that white band also... means... means that person is like the Professor and I... it meas he has powers as well.... I cannot see his face, that hat of his cover his face well but he has his hand on his pockets and walks a couple steps, Filip just aims at him immediately. "Filip... he's... he is a...." - "I know kiddo... this is bad..." The hand of Filip is shaking... He fires his gun to the man... but noting happen, like if the bullets just missed him, did Filip miss? Is this man inmortal...? The gun of Filip is making click sounds now, he has no bullets now, the Nazi seems to laugh and raises a hand giving a disapproval gesture, moving his hand side to side with a finger pointed up. "Hund, Hund, Schön Hund" Says the Nazi and his shadow suddenly moves from wall to wall and stops right in front of him, a black pool forms and then a formless body just half his height surge out of it, some gutural noises came out of that hellish spawn, it tweaks and screams and after a couple seconds it finally takes form... of a dog? wolf? I don't truly know, It is just staring at us with red glowing eyes while emanating smoke... "Run...run!" Filip screams and we start running in the oposite direction... a strong gutural noise surrounds the streets, I don't want to look back that thing is terrifying! we go through the street in Zigzag pattern, I don't know where Filip is guiding me, I only hope is a safe place out of this. We finally came to a dead end, is an alley back of some apartments buildings... there are several doors at the sides but none seem open... "Fuck... Fuck.. I think... I think I did the wrong turn..." Said Filip... just now the whole place becomes even darker, I hear some heavy steps from the street and then.. a couple Nazis appear along side that Black uniformed Nazi and his demon spawn... the Shadowman I guess... They all point their guns at us... "Gib dich jetzt hin" Yells one of the soldiers... I just rise my hands in sign of surrender like if it were an instinct, Filip has his gun aim at them but is empty now... after a couple seconds he throws his weapon to the floor and raises his hands up as well... this... is this the end? are we dead? maybe, but if so, they would have shot already... "Is over kiddo..." Two guards move at us aiming their guns at our heads, one of then start to tied the hands of Filip while the others are on guard , then all of the sudden... something hits me cheek... is cold... is small, like a sting... is... water... then again and again.... it started to rain now...a heavy rain start poring out of the sky, no one seems to be bothered by it... but... water... It has an special property, It can transfer electricity... I had an idea but, but Filip... I looked at him and he is looking at me, with those menacing eyes again, I think he knows exactly what I'm thinking and he just nods subtly to me... Well, maybe this is his way to say, *Do it, don't worry about me*. I have never try this before, I have always use my powers to complete circuits, to create differences in voltage keep everything running, If I were to created a current strong enough to affect all of them... it must be a voltage with immense difference... like, like a thunder... The time ends and the guard moves on to me, he puts my hands together and remove my special gloves, then I use all my strength to created the biggest voltage difference I've ever have, the guard is in front on me and behind him are the others, my hands created a spark, a string of light connected to each hand, I separate my hands and more strings of lights came out pointing to all directions, the guards yell and I just increase to voltage so much... so much... Screams, shots, gutural noises.... I heard everything, I just have my eyes closed and join with everyone else screaming as loud as I can.... I can feel the electricity going through me in all directions, I used to feel the electricity running in a close circuit before but now... now is Open, there is no end or beginning, the electricity just want to go through the path of least resistance, I'm now breathless and have stopped screaming.... I decided to open my eyes... there are no noises now... only the heavy rain poring out. Everyone is on the floor, I check myself to see any wound... but nothing, I don't feel pain or anything resembling a shot... some guards are twitching and shaking, the guard in front of me is on the ground, bleeding out, the guards shot at him to try to kill me but... I didn't really work... I look at Filip and he... he is on the floor, pouring blood everywhere, then a scream catch my attention at my back... Is the shadowman, he is trying to get up, the shadow spawn at his side is shaking like crazy, like several snakes fighting each other in a box... that spawn is still producing some gutural noises... I need to kill it... I move to him and he just seems to not have any strength left, even trying to getting up is an incredible effort to him, the best he can do is kneel in front of me... I decided to put my hands on his head, on his ears, now the dim light of the night shows his face, pale, a smooth skin, light eyes and blond hair, he is... handsome, really handsome, how can a monster like him be this handsome? but he is looking at me with eyes of hatred... he cannot speak, I can see how his muscles are all tense... the shadow spawn is starting to gain form again and I know I need to do this now, I create a voltage in my hands and start electrocute him, he is screaming of pain, I can sense how his body is forming a circuit, an horrible circuit, I need to pour more voltage If I want the electricity to go through all his body, this is... this is horrible, he tries to put his hands on my forearms, but he has not strength left, his screams are echoing on the alley, maybe someone is hearing his screams of pain but maybe this rain is silencing it all. A smoke is pouring out of him, a smell of... of meat, of cooked meat is catching my smell, is.. like pork meat... a small though of pleasure invades me, because that smells is delicious but quickly it turns into disgust just realising how horrible that though is. "Die! Die! Die you bastard!" I keep electrocute him several seconds more until he stops screaming and now his body just shakes and twitches because of the voltage... I decide to stop now. He is kneeling, I can see his face now, his eyes are completely white, his face shows several burn patches all over it.... and his mouth is open like a monster trying to eat a small baby... the shadow spawn at his side is now just a pool of some black goo, it is not moving any more... I pull out my arms an the body just fall to the ground one the wet floor...I just... throw away everything I have on my stomach. Everyone is dead now... I guess... I moved to Filip and decided to look closer, he has several shot wounds on him, he is flooded in a small puddle of blood, after I kneel to trying to do something he just spilt some blood out of his mouth. "Good... f..uking job kiddo..." "Filip! stay calm... I... I can help you..." "No kiddo, you can't... you better get going now before more of them come..." He spits more blood. "I cannot leave you here..." "I'm already dead idiot... I have more holes than a cheese.... argh!." he pulls with great effort a simple paper sheet out of his coat, is tainted on blood. "These... these are the instructions to find a new hide out..." and he handles me that paper. "One more think..." he also pulls out a pocket watch "Give this to... Foudre, she'll understand..." I... I cannot leave him like this... I need to do something... "Filip... I really cannot leave you here dying like this..." "Do something for me... would ya?" "Sure... sure..." "Lest... praise... together... " Praise... like... like...what? praise now? here? but... "Our father who art in heavan... Hallowed be thy name" says Filip immediately. "Thy kingdom come... Thy will be done" he is... starting to cry out loud... "On Earth as it is in Heavan, Give us this day our daily bread" The rain is poring more and more... I hear some thunder on the background that illuminates the whole alley and for a short moment I can see his face, is cover in blood, his face is now like... like a child crying for his mother. ""And for...give our trespasses... As we forgive those who trespass against us" "Lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil" "For thine is the Kingdom... the Power and the Glory" "For ever and ever..." - "Amen" we said both at the same time. now silence...just the rain going and going, his eyes are closed and his hand is at his hearth. I decide to leave him there... move through the next alley, a couple more blocks, this rain is getting worse and worse, finally I came an alley that is covered, I can rest here from the rain and see better the paper, there I can read some instructions covered in blood, a direction, is encrypted in the language of the resistance, thankfully I know it so I know where to go, just before moving out, I decided to see the pocket watch closely, I open it and discover the broken watch, on the back of the cover, I see a photo, Is... is Filip along side a woman and a girl, on this photo he seems younger, way younger... I close the watch and another thunder falls from the sky, the dark alley is illuminated just enough to see the carve portrait of the watch, is an eagle and in the bottom some words. "Only falling you rise further" this is the motto of the White Eagles and is mean to represent the history of our country... how time and time again we ere invaded and conquered by outsiders, just to once again rise even further than before... At the end, I hope for a day where our people can look to the sky proud and secure that this is their country. That may be the reason why the Professor didn't leave us and decided to stay here. I put the watch on my pocket and continue through the rain and the night, we are just falling now, but our time to rise would eventually come.
I was checking up all the sensors, they seems to be working just fine, now I'm in the the Gwiazda in a copilot seat, Filip is in the Pilot seat, normally these machines only required a single pilot, but this Gwiazda was modified to have a copilot seat in the place where the diesel motor would be, since this machine is meant to work with my powers It didn't needed it, I could only see a bunch of dials and sensor, the small chamber is illuminated by a dim red light, I'm starting to feel the heat now. "Well, how is the signal?" said te professor through the radio "Loud and clear Defender" said Filip, "well, now we just wait for the signal, I have already set the plan on motion, did you need a reminder?" - "No sir" said Filip - "Wait, wait, I think I do... I don't know exactly how this gona work?" I tell to the ratio receiver. "Is alright Krzesimir, I'l make a summary, On the city there are several secret basements like this, the resistance has control over most of them and on each of then there are machines like these, is just a matter of when to give them the signal and start an uprising, If everything goes well, just a couple of machines would rise and after just no more than 30 minutes, we would sparse and hide again, leaving the machines behind, activate the auto destruction before that and then we will prepare for the next strike. for the time being the principal targets are the soldiers hospital, the command center and the ammo storage, all those places are fairly defended, but they have no way to defend against our machines" "Well, that is more clear..." "One more thing Krzesimir" "Yeah Professor?" "Once you left the Machine, stay close to Filip, he will teach you to hide out" "Understood" Said that, the radio signal was cut and Filip pull out a cigarette, the small chamber flooded on smoke, my hands are sweaty now, but nothing seems to happen, I peek down the seat of the pilot to see Filip and his window to the exterior, but I cannot make any assumption of the few things I see.... "Em... Filip?" "Yeah kiddo?" "How are we going to exit? I mean, the basement, It didn't had any entrance, nor any exit" "We make our own..." Filipt expeled some smoke. "What?... what do you mean?" "We make our own exit" "Sure... clear..." "You just do your work kiddo and I'll make mine" just after that a radio call sound. "Blitz here" answered Filip. "Alright Blitz, you are clear to go, the Pilots today will be Thunder, Trueno, Blyskawica and Foudre, good luck" "Foudre? fuck me, anything but her..." "What does that meant? Is this a problem to us?" I tell to Filip. "Last time we fucked I tell her something I shouldn't and now she has a grudge on me... An advice with women kiddo, don't mention their previous lovers and don't even try to compared yourself with them alright?" "Sure..." I don't have anything else to say, I really don't want to touch this topic... I have not been with a woman yet... I think I had put too much focus on the Professor and the White Eagles...I could die.... I could die a virgin and this though definitely embarras me. "Well, them, do your magic kiddo, turn on this beauty" "Alright" In my copilot seat I have access to two bobines and some special gloves, normal gloves are made of rubber to protect one from the electricity, these ones are special, they are the oposite in which their palms hold a screen of pure gold, is a metal that transfers electricity so well, I put on these and touch the bobines. I took a deep breath, inhaling almost all the smoke from the cigarette and tell my body to start producing electricity, soon, all the sensors and dials and button of the machine start working. "The fuck...?" said Filip, he takes the radio caller "Hey Defender, is this working right?...." "Sure is", you see, the thing with electrical engines is that... they don't produce any sort of noise!, now I'm gona pull out the auxiliary power, you'll be totally on your own now, got it?" "Got it" Filip cuts the call "Dammit, I love the sound of the engine, really puts your heart to beat" Just after that a clipping sound is heard and I feel how the energy on the machine drastically decreases, the machine loses energy for a moment and I know that is the signal to myself to increase the voltage difference. I see a dial in front on me indicating the range on which the voltage should be, as well as how many ampers should I produce, I start increasing the quantity until I reach the acceptable parameters, the machines is working at its fullest. "Yeahs, that's incredible kiddo, keep like that" This is more complicated than I thought, now that I'm in this situation, I have realised I have never uses my powers for so long, will I be able to keep going on like this for some more? well the Professor say this operation should not take mora than 30 minutes, I guess I can go on for that time. "Now, lets test the bean cannon..." I heard some gears move, than must be the bean cannon, due to the cylindrical form of the machine, It can aim to any direction. "Now, kiddo, I'm gonna shot that bean cannon and open a gate out of here" after pressing some buttons and moving on some switches, I could feel how the machine generates a difference in voltage really drastically, I'm.... seeing the full circuit of this machine, where every little particle of electricity is moving through, I can see now how the machine works at a level never seem before, no numbers, no measures... just... the energy moving through... is beautiful, this machines is a marvel of engineering.."Incredible, this bean cannon take an eternity to charge, you are charging it up really fast" I got so exited now... I don't want to stop now... "Yeah, now..." An explosion breaks my ears, the machines moves abruptly and I lost focus for a short time... "Holy fuck kiddo!, this cannon should be another modification of the Defender, is brutal!, now lets go, this explosion should alert the Nazis, we should move quickly!" I sense the machine moving, on the land first and then moving diagonally and vertically, to once again be on a plane. The machines generates a movement similar to the one of a horse or a car in a really rocky road, I don't know how fast we are moving or where we are going, I can only trust on Filip, then I heard some shouts... German shouts. Fuck, they are here... And I feel the difference on voltage happening again, is another bean shot. "Keep steady kiddo!" The machines moves abruptly and a spark of light is reflected on the window of Filip, various screams are heard and shots of arms, the bullets are hitting the hull of the machines but they seem inefficient. "Holy shit!, they are... gone, that bean literally make them disappear!.... is disgusting honestly... ok, worry not kiddo, I'll be using the machines guns for the moment" for the next moments the sound of guns in the outside and the machines gun in the inside would be ear breaking, I think I may be left deaf after this. But above the sound of guns, is the sound of screams and shouts that are the most clear to me, from Germans insults to Polish ones and this machines is not stopping. I don't know how many minutes had pass, but I'm sweating full but also really excited I don't think my heart has beat so fast before. "We are in our target kiddo, changing to bean cannon" "Which... Which one is?" "The Hospital of course, hope there are some bastards Nazis still suffering from their wound against the Soviets, just to suffer even more now" That is... honestly horrible, yeah, they are the invaders and all that but... those soldiers are injured, they cannot defend themselves... We are no... Fuck... the voltage difference.... I heard a zaap sound and glass breaking, followed by more shots from the outside. "Changing to machines guns, we are at our last bullets now, but the objetive is done, the building is now starting to set of fire, I guess another shot would do..." "Alright... just tell me when..." "What in the name of!..." "Huh?.... what's wrong?" I don't really like that expression, from someone like Filip to say it is not something good. "They have a tank... A fucking tank..." A tank?.... fuck, fuck, this is not good, not good at all... "And the bastard is aiming to us now...." Then the machine moves repentantly to one side while the sound of another cannon is shot, just behind me I heard the shot hitting something in the background... I guess It missed... "That fucking bastards, changing to bean cannon, you better charge up that think at once!" Of course I will, I don't wanna die here!.... Oh, God help please help me!.... The voltage difference is starting to grow more and more... I lost control for over a couple seconds and the ampers levels pass out of the acceptable range, I lowered them down.... This machine is moving from side to side, so abruptly, I'm being drag away by these movements, "Cannon almost ready..." I heard the bobines generating a bzzz sound, they are really hot, I think I'm burning my hands right now but I don't care.... "Is donde!" I hear a strong zaap sound and a massive shot from the tank, the tank hit us causing the machine to be pushed away, I just feel the bullet hit the hull of the machine, the inertia just makes my head hit the walls of the chamber and all the sensor and dials start to go crazy, my ears are numbed, I'm absolutely disorietnte right now... did we hit it? did it hit us? of course it did!, the machine is going crazy... "Dam tank hit us...argh!... If you didn't notice kid!" "Did... did we hit it Filip?" "Like hell we did!, the tank has a massive hole at the center, Is not moving so I asume is out of service...but the bean cannon is broken as well, the bean shot just... exploded the cannon, I guess you use too much power... but dam It was such a great shot!" Filip start to move some levers and press some combinations of buttons, a sharp noise echoes through the chamber. "What is that?" "The auto destruction sequence... Is going to overflow the system and fried the whole machine, there is a small box of explosives at the bottom of the machine..." Filip just kicks out the door of the machine, it seems the hit stuck the door, "Common, let's get out of this place now..." I took out the sea belts and move towards the low side of the chamber, once outside I can finally breath some fresh air for once, the ambient is cold and I could finally see what we have done. This is the center of the city, several buildings are surrounding us, I see the hospital on fire now, the first and second floor are bright and hot... soon the whole building will be engulf on fire... I just wonder how many defenceless soldiers did we kill... They may not be innocent, but they definitely didn't deserve this... but I guess that is war after all... "We must move kid, soon more reinforcements will be here..." "Understood..." I see the tank we just blow up, It has just a small hole in it, I can see the other side of the street through that hole... It was indeed a great shot... Filip pulls out his revolver and we moved to the next street, in there we saw a shadowy figure... Is... Is a person, with black uniform, complete with hat and coat and a red band on his arm... fucking dammit!.... he also has a white band lower the red one... now were are fucking screw!... a black uniform is bad enough, a black uniform with that white band also... means... means that person is like the Professor and I... it meas he has powers as well.... I cannot see his face, that hat of his cover his face well but he has his hand on his pockets and walks a couple steps, Filip just aims at him immediately. "Filip... he's... he is a...." - "I know kiddo... this is bad..." The hand of Filip is shaking... He fires his gun to the man... but noting happen, like if the bullets just missed him, did Filip miss? Is this man inmortal...? The gun of Filip is making click sounds now, he has no bullets now, the Nazi seems to laugh and raises a hand giving a disapproval gesture, moving his hand side to side with a finger pointed up. "Hund, Hund, Schön Hund" Says the Nazi and his shadow suddenly moves from wall to wall and stops right in front of him, a black pool forms and then a formless body just half his height surge out of it, some gutural noises came out of that hellish spawn, it tweaks and screams and after a couple seconds it finally takes form... of a dog? wolf? I don't truly know, It is just staring at us with red glowing eyes while emanating smoke... "Run...run!" Filip screams and we start running in the oposite direction... a strong gutural noise surrounds the streets, I don't want to look back that thing is terrifying! we go through the street in Zigzag pattern, I don't know where Filip is guiding me, I only hope is a safe place out of this. We finally came to a dead end, is an alley back of some apartments buildings... there are several doors at the sides but none seem open... "Fuck... Fuck.. I think... I think I did the wrong turn..." Said Filip... just now the whole place becomes even darker, I hear some heavy steps from the street and then.. a couple Nazis appear along side that Black uniformed Nazi and his demon spawn... the Shadowman I guess... They all point their guns at us... "Gib dich jetzt hin" Yells one of the soldiers... I just rise my hands in sign of surrender like if it were an instinct, Filip has his gun aim at them but is empty now... after a couple seconds he throws his weapon to the floor and raises his hands up as well... this... is this the end? are we dead? maybe, but if so, they would have shot already... "Is over kiddo..." Two guards move at us aiming their guns at our heads, one of then start to tied the hands of Filip while the others are on guard , then all of the sudden... something hits me cheek... is cold... is small, like a sting... is... water... then again and again.... it started to rain now...a heavy rain start poring out of the sky, no one seems to be bothered by it... but... water... It has an special property, It can transfer electricity... I had an idea but, but Filip... I looked at him and he is looking at me, with those menacing eyes again, I think he knows exactly what I'm thinking and he just nods subtly to me... Well, maybe this is his way to say, *Do it, don't worry about me*. I have never try this before, I have always use my powers to complete circuits, to create differences in voltage keep everything running, If I were to created a current strong enough to affect all of them... it must be a voltage with immense difference... like, like a thunder... The time ends and the guard moves on to me, he puts my hands together and remove my special gloves, then I use all my strength to created the biggest voltage difference I've ever have, the guard is in front on me and behind him are the others, my hands created a spark, a string of light connected to each hand, I separate my hands and more strings of lights came out pointing to all directions, the guards yell and I just increase to voltage so much... so much... Screams, shots, gutural noises.... I heard everything, I just have my eyes closed and join with everyone else screaming as loud as I can.... I can feel the electricity going through me in all directions, I used to feel the electricity running in a close circuit before but now... now is Open, there is no end or beginning, the electricity just want to go through the path of least resistance, I'm now breathless and have stopped screaming.... I decided to open my eyes... there are no noises now... only the heavy rain poring out. Everyone is on the floor, I check myself to see any wound... but nothing, I don't feel pain or anything resembling a shot... some guards are twitching and shaking, the guard in front of me is on the ground, bleeding out, the guards shot at him to try to kill me but... I didn't really work... I look at Filip and he... he is on the floor, pouring blood everywhere, then a scream catch my attention at my back... Is the shadowman, he is trying to get up, the shadow spawn at his side is shaking like crazy, like several snakes fighting each other in a box... that spawn is still producing some gutural noises... I need to kill it... I move to him and he just seems to not have any strength left, even trying to getting up is an incredible effort to him, the best he can do is kneel in front of me... I decided to put my hands on his head, on his ears, now the dim light of the night shows his face, pale, a smooth skin, light eyes and blond hair, he is... handsome, really handsome, how can a monster like him be this handsome? but he is looking at me with eyes of hatred... he cannot speak, I can see how his muscles are all tense... the shadow spawn is starting to gain form again and I know I need to do this now, I create a voltage in my hands and start electrocute him, he is screaming of pain, I can sense how his body is forming a circuit, an horrible circuit, I need to pour more voltage If I want the electricity to go through all his body, this is... this is horrible, he tries to put his hands on my forearms, but he has not strength left, his screams are echoing on the alley, maybe someone is hearing his screams of pain but maybe this rain is silencing it all. A smoke is pouring out of him, a smell of... of meat, of cooked meat is catching my smell, is.. like pork meat... a small though of pleasure invades me, because that smells is delicious but quickly it turns into disgust just realising how horrible that though is. "Die! Die! Die you bastard!" I keep electrocute him several seconds more until he stops screaming and now his body just shakes and twitches because of the voltage... I decide to stop now. He is kneeling, I can see his face now, his eyes are completely white, his face shows several burn patches all over it.... and his mouth is open like a monster trying to eat a small baby... the shadow spawn at his side is now just a pool of some black goo, it is not moving any more... I pull out my arms an the body just fall to the ground one the wet floor...I just... throw away everything I have on my stomach. Everyone is dead now... I guess... I moved to Filip and decided to look closer, he has several shot wounds on him, he is flooded in a small puddle of blood, after I kneel to trying to do something he just spilt some blood out of his mouth. "Good... f..uking job kiddo..." "Filip! stay calm... I... I can help you..." "No kiddo, you can't... you better get going now before more of them come..." He spits more blood. "I cannot leave you here..." "I'm already dead idiot... I have more holes than a cheese.... argh!." he pulls with great effort a simple paper sheet out of his coat, is tainted on blood. "These... these are the instructions to find a new hide out..." and he handles me that paper. "One more think..." he also pulls out a pocket watch "Give this to... Foudre, she'll understand..." I... I cannot leave him like this... I need to do something... "Filip... I really cannot leave you here dying like this..." "Do something for me... would ya?" "Sure... sure..." "Lest... praise... together... " Praise... like... like...what? praise now? here? but... "Our father who art in heavan... Hallowed be thy name" says Filip immediately. "Thy kingdom come... Thy will be done" he is... starting to cry out loud... "On Earth as it is in Heavan, Give us this day our daily bread" The rain is poring more and more... I hear some thunder on the background that illuminates the whole alley and for a short moment I can see his face, is cover in blood, his face is now like... like a child crying for his mother. ""And for...give our trespasses... As we forgive those who trespass against us" "Lead us not into temptation, But deliver us from evil" "For thine is the Kingdom... the Power and the Glory" "For ever and ever..." - "Amen" we said both at the same time. now silence...just the rain going and going, his eyes are closed and his hand is at his hearth. I decide to leave him there... move through the next alley, a couple more blocks, this rain is getting worse and worse, finally I came an alley that is covered, I can rest here from the rain and see better the paper, there I can read some instructions covered in blood, a direction, is encrypted in the language of the resistance, thankfully I know it so I know where to go, just before moving out, I decided to see the pocket watch closely, I open it and discover the broken watch, on the back of the cover, I see a photo, Is... is Filip along side a woman and a girl, on this photo he seems younger, way younger... I close the watch and another thunder falls from the sky, the dark alley is illuminated just enough to see the carve portrait of the watch, is an eagle and in the bottom some words. "Only falling you rise further" this is the motto of the White Eagles and is mean to represent the history of our country... how time and time again we ere invaded and conquered by outsiders, just to once again rise even further than before... At the end, I hope for a day where our people can look to the sky proud and secure that this is their country. That may be the reason why the Professor didn't leave us and decided to stay here. I put the watch on my pocket and continue through the rain and the night, we are just falling now, but our time to rise would eventually come.
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