Board Thread:Talkplays/@comment-7637833-20141004211234/@comment-7637833-20141211054951

"...I had a sister. Jeannie. Sweet girl, you know. Loved to chat people up and was quite the social butterfly. I was the quiet, nervous wreck that was her brother, funnily enough. She pursued scientific fields, while I went for engineering.

"When I was twenty-seven and her twenty-six, we were approached by a company named BISC - Beneficial Intelligence and Science Corporation. They offered us good jobs that fit our skills - I worked as an engineer while she pursued a career in medical research in a good facility that I pushed her to go to. For the next year, things were going swimmingly...

"...but then, one day, as I went to call her to check on her, I didn't get anything from her phone. Just static and white noise. The same day, BISC had given me an assignment involving the facility I had urged her to go to. I was accompanied by a few guards and another electrical engineer, Jennifer.

"As soon as we got there... everything went to hell. I was separated from my team by..." He paused, trying to get the lump out of his throat. "...what we later found out to be failed super-soldier experiments gone horribly wrong. I later learned that two of our guards had been killed in the attack while I was getting chased, leaving me, Jennifer, and our captain Maxus.

"Maxus gave me assignments to fulfill in order to bring the facility back online, hopefully finding Jeannie."

He paused again, biting his lip as he tried not to show the wetness around his eyes before continuing.

"I eventually found Jeannie... I was at first relieved to find that she was alive, and she said she knew how to deal with this menace - I could construct a powerful bomb that would level the facility and utterly obliterate everything within, keeping the menace from escaping. And so, I went, gathering things to build the explosive.

"...and again, disaster struck. As I was getting ready to place the bomb in its proper place... Jennifer appeared and shot me in the back. I was stunned momentarily, and as I lay there, she told me about her real job - deal with whatever had gone down here, then remove any witnesses to prevent things from getting found out. I was dismayed to find that I was literally shot in the back by someone I found an ally...

"The bomb had begun its countdown by then. I was limping out of there as best as I could, when I found Maxus in a very bad state. He looked ready to collapse, and Jeannie at that point urged me to continue on without him. However, I said I wouldn't leave Maxus behind, and so helped him through the facility for a while.

"Things went from bad to worse later... Maxus and I were cornered near a door, and he had pushed me through, valuing my life over his own. I was forced to leave him behind as he held off the monsters as best as he could...

"The bomb was still ticking down as I finally cornered Jennifer. I couldn't see Jeannie anywhere, but I didn't care - that witch had to pay for what she had done. I aimed to fire at her with my cutter, and got her in the leg, knocking her down. I had then came over and demanded her to explain what the hell her problem was. But she just chuckled, before showing me a holovid..."

He had deliberately hid his face by this point as he spoke, trembling visible through his body as he went on. "...the holovid... it was Jeannie's last hours before she was maimed by the very monsters we were facing. All that time, I was unaware that she was dead... for all I know, she could have been one of the mutants I had gunned down while searching for her...

"I managed to escape and got far enough away to avoid getting caught in the bomb's blast. I had survived... and I was the only one who knew what had gone down there. My sister was dead... and I was haunted by her death... even now, I feel she's raging at me for sending her to that derelict facility to die..."