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Chapter two
Okay, so. I bet your all wondering about this whole “Divine Imperium”, right? Yeah, don’t blame you. I’d be sure as hell curious.
Okay, kiddies! History lesson.
Divine Imperium started maybe about… Fifty years back, as this teeny tiny group who wanted to take over the world.
I know, so totally clichéd, right? Trust me, I kid you not.
Anyway, these people decided that they wanted to take over the world. I swear, this was like a group of maybe, five people at the most. But then, it started getting bigger. People decided that they wanted to help take over the world.
So, by that time, They’d decided to call themselves the “Divine Imperium. Do you happen to know what Imperium means? It means power. So, basically, they named themselves “Devine Power”. They wanted to try their hand at playing God. and as everyone knows, God created the universe, the planet earth, and all the animals who the whacked out scientists used the DNA of to create us. At least, that’s what we think. Not one of us who’s DNA has been combined with that of an animal knew our parents. We weren’t reproduced, we were created. Being reproduced is the normal one’s job.
So, we’re not completely sure, but we’re thinking from what we heard scientists saying and stuff, back from when we were with the Imperiums, but Devine Imperium needed a weapon to take over the world. Or, if you would, weapons, plural.
It actually makes a lot of sense. Naphina, with her bat genes, could hear things from far away. She could then tell Trilly, with the bird genes, who would deliver the message to superiors. Loki, with his chameleon genes, would make the perfect spy, along with the loads of others who got practical DNA. Even James, for Pete’s sake! Those gills have actually come in handy a time or two.
And me? Well, I guess the Imperiums were just bored that day, and decided to see just how screwed up they could make me.
Anyway, all bitterness aside, the actual government in the real world decided that they weren’t liking how the Imperiums were doing their thing, and told them to stop. Which, surprisingly, they did. Or, at least that’s what they told everyone else in the world.
In actuality, what they did was create another world. Not using divine powers but another one that comes as close to being divine as it gets without actually living up in heaven.
No, they used computers. They created a holographic world, complete with sun, moon, stars, water, earth, trees, and towns of Imperiums. And, as far as we know, they’re the only ones who know how to get out of this world, and back out into the real one. Am I making sense here?
Anyway, when they came here, they decided to bring their science projects, A.K.A, us, and continued to study and analyze and train us into the fiercest army of freaks that there ever was!
But, we didn’t want to be an army of freaks, thank you very much. So, we hatched a plan. It was a great plan, and oh man, it took a helluva long time to hatch, let me tell you. And, we came out of it alive.
Well, most of us.
There were casualties, as there always are with the best plans. It was just too bad that one of those casualties included one of my best friends.
Kayla had koala genes, and one of the sweetest girls I had ever met. Her calm and placid personality evened out my firecracker let-me-at-them-so-I-can-kick-their-asses attitude. She was normal too, except for two tiny koala ears that she could easily hide under a hat. Lucky.
Even to this day I have no idea what went wrong with the plan. There are times when I’ll sit by myself and analyze it over and over, trying to find the glitch that had to be in there. The glitch that had cost my best friend her life.
Somehow, the Imperiums had found out about our Master escape plan. I don’t know how they did it. Maybe they overheard us discussing it, even though we’d always been careful to speak when they were out of earshot. Maybe those monitors they were always hooking us up to had read our minds. I don’t know, and I probably never will. All I know is that they somehow found out, and set the squad on us.
This is basically how it goes with the Devine Imperiums. In the real world there are the police and the S.W.A.T team and all that good stuff. Well, here, in oh so fun Imperium Land, we’ve got the squad. Steroid hyped macho men with clubs and stuff that beat the crap outta you if you struggle.
Anyway, we got tripped up. Ran into obstacles we hadn’t expected. There were more Imperiums around that day than I had ever seen. They trapped Kayla somehow. I wanted to go back for her, I really did. I would never leave one of my gang like that. Loki wouldn’t let me, though. He said that if I went back for Kayla, I’d, to put it bluntly, “Screw the entire thing up and kill the rest of us.” So I didn’t. Instead, I continued running, feeling my soul scream along with my best friend.
Depressing as hell, isn’t it? Yeah, well, that’s life.
