Fate Itself Ch. 01

Fate Itself 0

Joe at the young age of 25, was a recently retired war veteran. He left the marines due to loss of friends, and has since then isolated himself to rural parts of the state of Washington. Between the dense pines and where the wind beats the houses with loud smacks.

Joe was setting up his alarm clock and getting ready to go to sleep, he set it to 9 pm as always and pulled the blankets to go to sleep. Joe started thinking of how he spent his last 6 months all of whom were filled with misery and nightmares of his fallen friends. "You know what," Joe said to himself.

"Tomorrow I'mma wake up at 4:00 am and go for a run," Joe said to himself. Joe went to sleep this night with nightmares as always but this time he was committed to do something productive.

Joe got up the next morning at 4:00 am and put on some clothes to go for a run. He had a quick morning coffee and went for his run through the pine trees with a compass to find his way back. He kept running and for the 1st time in 6 months he felt good about something, he finally called it a day and headed back.

Joe headed back when he felt as if something was watching him, he ignored it and continued with his day. The next morning at 4:00 am he started the same process, and went for his morning run. He continued running to his same spot where he ran last time, it was an abandoned sewer tunnel left and forgotten. Joe got to the tunnel and started heading back when he heard some sounds coming out of the tunnel.

"Hello anyone there," Joe called out. No response. Joe started heading back when he heard it again. Joe for sure knowing that something was in there, got his phone and turned his flashlight on and looked inside. When he saw nothing, Joe proceeded to head inside to take another more thorough look.

He saw what appeared to a small tent and approached it. "I'm just here to help," Joe called out.

"Get away, I know what you want," A raspy voice called out. Joe Alarmed that there was indeed someone inside the tent, tried to find his words of what to respond back.

"I'm not leaving until you can show me that you are indeed fine," Joe said to the tent.

"If I surrender now will you leave the others alone," it said again.

Joe was unsure on how to respond that there were others in a similar situation as this. Joe thought that if he said yes and got some answers on this one then maybe he could help out the others. "Yes I will leave the other's alone," Joe responded.

What appeared to be a female form got out of the tent. "Okay I'm going willingly," she said

"What is your name?" Joe asked.

"Bella," she said with her head down.

"Okay, bella can you walk fine?" Joe asked, she nodded.

"Okay then follow me," Joe said as he turned to walk away with her. Joe was unsure on how to handle the situation. He made up several scenarios on how to handle this, but before he knew it he was at his house and opening the door for her.

"Are you Hungry?" Joe asked her, she shook her head. She looked up at his eyes and started undressing.

"What are you doing?!" Joe asked

"I'm doing what I agreed to," She responded while still undressing.

"What! No this not what I agreed to!" John said to Bella. She looked up at him in confusion.

"Put your clothes back on, and are you hungry?" Joe asked firmly while turning away to the kitchen.

"Yes please," Bella said with her head still down. Joe got the idea that she must have suffered abuse and started thinking of ways to gain her trust.

"You can sit on the chair, while I cook Bella," Joe said. She proceeded to go sit without answering. Bella however started wondering why he was acting like this.

"Here, try this," Joe said while offering her a sandwich. She looked up at him in confusion.

"Sorry, I don't really have anything else to offer you," Joe said. She however was still wondering the same thing. Joe was thinking that she thought it was poisonous and got a knife cut a piece off and ate it.

"See it's good," He said. Bella picked up the sandwich and took a bite, and then another, and another.

"Wow she must be real hungry," Joe thought to himself.

Eventually she finished and Joe picked up her plate. "So what were you doing in the tunnel?" Joe asked her while washing her dish.

"Normally people aren't like you and we choose to hide," Bella said still with her head down.

"What do you mean, most people are really nice in this part of the state?" Joe Asked.

"Humans are," Bella responded.

"What do you mean, are you saying I'm not a human?" Joe asked with a laugh in his tone.

She nodded. Joe was thinking she must have some PPD problems. So he let the subject go and just shrugged.

"Follow me," Joe said. Joe led her to one of the other rooms.

"You can sleep here," Joe said, and she responded with a nod and her eyes still down.

"I however have to go to work so see you later, and also you're welcome to explore around the house," Joe said while leaving his house and going to his truck. Most people would not trust a stranger in their house but Joe's thinking was that sometimes stranger's in Iraq would give them shelter and food, and thought why not give back to other's for the same thing.

Later that evening Joe returned home to find Bella had been sleeping. He made 5 sandwiches, he ate 3 and left 2 next to her desk where she slept. After a long day as an electrician, he went to bed and put on his alarm clock and got ready to go to sleep when it all just went Dark.

Joe awoke to chains around his feet and arms along with a blindfold, and the shittiest headache in history. With what Joe could gather from what his current situation was, his only response was "What the fuck?"

"I see you are confused," called out a femine voice. Joe's blindfold was removed, and all he could was a blinding light.

"Actually yes, I'm wondering what I'm doing tied up," Joe asked calmly, he was thinking if he was nice to his captors they would be nice back to him and, oh shit bella, what had they done to her. Joe however thought that maybe they had missed her and just left her at his house, so he thought to say nothing about her.

"Acting so innocent now huh," called out the voice.

"Am I not supposed to?" Asked Joe.

"Ugh it's useless talking to you, I'll just deal with you at the trial," said the voice as it faded and a door on the other side opened revealing another lightsource in the room but it quickly shut along with a feminine figure leaving through it.

"Trial?!" Asked Joe with a frightened tone into the darkness.

Joe started trying to figure out what happened, thinking of just going to sleep and then pain and darkness he got nothing.

Some time passed when the same door opened again but it also quickly shut, along with some footsteps getting closer. "Here's your food," Said a different voice this time.

"Thank you," said Joe with an appreciating tone, but as he reached up to grab the food it was quickly swatted out of his reach, and spilled all over the floor.

"If you think you will get luxuries such as this you are wrong," said the voice with an angry tone. The outline of the figure turned away to leave, but Joe spoked up.

"I'm sorry if I did anything while asleep, but I have no idea what you are talking about," said Joe with a polite tone.

"Yeah right," The voice scoffed as the door opened and closed. Leaving Joe to sigh at himself in a hungry state.

Sometime later the door opened along with a group of footsteps. They roughly got him up and put on new chains so he could barely walk.

"First comes your trial, and then your sentence," The lead Women said harshly. Joe looked around him seeing all of them as women, he started drawing up theories in his head as to why they were all women, but that just left him with more questions than answers.

After setting him down harshly, in a room full of women too, he started looking around and that is when he saw her again. Bella. He tried to get her attention by waving at her and shouting, but they kicked him in the gut. " Shut up, or do you want to make your punishment worse!" The leader said.

Joe decided to keep quiet as it would be his best case scenario for him and Bella to go back safe. A few minutes later a female, appearing to be the judge present for the trial, came out and took her seat in front of the podium.

"Get up," The leader said as she pushed him to a seat in front of the judge.

"Do you plead guilty to the crime of rape and kidnapping," the Judge said firmly. Joe Instead of screaming out that he didn't do such a thing, took a deep breath and decided to play their game.

"May I ask a question, your honor?" Joe asked calmly. People around him looked at him with curious eyes.

"I normally would have just sentenced you to death straight away but sure you may have that last equest." The judge responded.

"Don't I get a lawyer?" Joe asked. The room around him descended into laughter.

"Our ways aren't like your Male counterparts," The Judge responded with a shake in her head.

"What the fuck?" Joe Asked himself, nevertheless he had to keep his cool so he could get out of this.

"Who did I rape?" Joe asked calmly. People around him scoffed and started demanding his death.

The judge angrily questioned back. " Do you think this is a game?"

"No, but I'm being accused of rape of which I don't remeber, so who did I rape?" Joe asked again. Some people even started laughing at him pleading his innocence.

"Very well, it was the girl you took home, and for being so difficult about it I sentenced you to death by whipping!" She spoke angrily as Joe. The guards started moving in to retrieve him when he spoke up.

"Did you she accuse me of rape?" He asked with a shouting manner so she could hear him over the cheers of his sentence. The Judge however seemed confused by his request and told the guards to wait.

"Where are you going with this?" The judge asked.

"It is a simple question, did she accuse me of rape?" Joe asked calmly. The judge started flipping through some pages when her eyes widened.

"WHAT IS THE MEANING OF THIS YOUNG MAN!" The judge screamed. A young girl ran to her said trying to calm her down.

"What do you mean Judge?" Joe asked.

"It says here, Griya's colony were the ones who accused you not Bella?" The Judge asked.

"I have no Idea what Griya's colony is, Judge, but I asked this question because I did not rape Bella" Joe said firmly. The judge stared at Joe for a few seconds before then staring at Bella

"Bella, come to the front please," The judge called for her. The shy nervous girl came up.

"You may sit on one of the chairs dear," The Judge called back on her. Bella, still shy, ast down. Joe suspected something was off when she wouldn't even look at him in the eye.

"Bella did this man rape you?" The Judge asked her.

"I Thin..k s.oo, I me..an I'm not s.oo sur..e," Bella said shyly.

"How can you not be sure?" The Judge asked.

"Don't all males do, but I don't seem to remember," Bella said with narrowed eyebrows, and eyes tightly closed. Joe looked at her and thought she must be thinking hard.

The Judge looked at the young with confused faces as well as all the others in the room. "Never had they heard such doubt that a male had never raped them when they obviously did," She thought to herself.

"So I asked again in a yes or no answer did he rape you?" The Judge asked more firmly. Joe in his mind was to god that she said no, as he was pretty sure wherever he was right now it was away on a secret island with a secret society of women, who detested men.

"No," Bella responded firmly and calmly. The Room gasped and started screaming.

"She Lies!" One Shouted

"They all do, don't listen to her!" Another Shouted. The room started heating up with shouts pointed at Joe. The Judge banged her gavel and everyone got quiet.

"He didn't," Bella said more quietly while looking at Joe.

The Judge never having heard of such things asked "Are you sure my dear?"

"Yes," Bella responded.

"In fact, he took care of me and gave me food while I was lost. I even offered him my body willingly in exchange for leaving the others alone, but he said no," Bella responded.

"He's trying to trick us into..!" One shouted before being interrupted by an even louder shout.

"Bella I told you not to tell your fantasy story!" One Shouted angrily while coming close to the judge.

"Mrs.Griya, step back or I'll have you arrested," The Judge told Griya.

"I will not let my daughter be tricked into this," Griya said while looking fiercely at Joe. While Joe This whole was still trying to catch up on the conversation happening around him.

"I get that Mrs.Griya, I can promise you no such thing will happen, but you need to step back to your assigned seat." The Judge said with a calming voice. Joe was looking frightened at Mrs. Griya or otherwise known as Bella's mom, because if she lunged at him, he was all cuffed up, and the guards around him didn't seem to be the type to protect him in such a scenario. But to his relief she finally walked back and sat back down in her original seat, unfortunately when he breathed a sigh of relief and looked up the rest of the court was looking at him, well like a rapist who manipulated his victim into thinking he didn't rape but infact took care of her.

"I'm fucked," Joe thought to himself.

"Bella, are you sure of that?" The Judge asked.

"Yes, very much so." Bella responded more confidently.

"Very well all charges are dropped, common recompense in place and put him in the waiting room." The said with a bang in her gavel. This erupted into a bombardment of curses and screams at Joe.

"What are the common recompense procedures?" The head leader asked still hoping for some vengance over Bella's rape.

"Doctor Checkup, a hot meal, 5000 credits, and he gets free citizenship in my city on my authority," The judge said firmly knowing the intent of the leader. The leader snarled under her breath, while unshackling Joe and roughly moving him ahead.

Joe however was still stunned after the outcome, he was expecting much worse, also still quite confused as he had never heard of credits, or where the hell he was.

"Where are we?" Joe asked the guard.

She snarled at him. "Just keep moving!"

Joe, roughly aware of his current situation, decided to stay quiet. He entered what appeared to be a medical building.

"You are now free, you will get a checkup, a hot meal sent to your room, and free citizenship," The leader said. Joe was about to ask for his 5000 credits but he figured it would make it worse than it already was.

"Check in for..." The Lady asked with wide eyes never having seen a male come in.

"Security!" The lady yelled.

"He's free," The leader yelled.

"What, that must be a mistake," The lady said.

"No, Judge's authority, he is to receive a medical checkup and will have a meal sent up," The leader said back firmly while turning around with her guards and leaving.

"My Name is Joe," Joe said with a handshake.

After refusing the handshake she said "After me Joe." Well so they're all women huh.

Jenny's Location

"A male for a checkup, hell no," Jenny said.

"Sorry I'm the attending physician and you're the med student, now go," Mari said with a firm tone. Jenny just grunted and left toward the room.

"Relax, just shout if something bad happens," Marli shouted. Jenny just ignored Marli and kept on going.

"A Male," She thought to herself.

"He better not rape me," She thought again entering his room.

Joe's Location

"Let me make something clear, if you try to do anything you'll never see the light of day ever again!" Jenny shouted at Joe. Joe could only nod out of worry of him saying anything wrong.

"Lift your arm up, to take blood," Jenny said to Joe.

Joe Proceeded to follow the directions while asking. "Will I need a follow up visit for my blood?"

"No, don't you males do it immediately?" Jenny asked.

"Okay I'm gonna come out and say it, I literally have no clue what your saying, when you say you males, ever since I have gotten here I have been wrongly accused of rape and every single girl has been looking at me like I'm a bad person. Also why are there no males around, like am I on a different planet or some, all I remember is blackness and me right here being looked at like a criminal so please tell me what the fuck is going on!" Joe spoke rapidly.

Jenny's eyes grew wide but quickly turned back to normal. "You're just trying to trick me into me thinking you're being a good person!" I can see right through you know.

"Here it comes again, just explain what is going on even if I'm a bad person, assume I had memory loss and I can't remember anything," Joe pleaded to Jenny.

Just then Security came bursting in, seeing nothing they asked Jenny, "Anything wrong doctor."

"I could say yes and this guy would leave, but something about him just tells me I should keep talking," Jenny thought to herself.

"No everything is fine," Jenny said. With the security gone Joe breathed a sigh of relief.

"Thank yo..," Joe said before being interrupted by Jenny.

"Be quiet!" Jenny said firmly. Leaving Joe quiet as a kid who just got in trouble for spilling juice.

"So you really no nothing about what is going on?" Jenny asked Joe.

"No, also I heard you guys use credits, I have never heard of that currency?" Joe asked.

"What currency have you used?" Jenny asked.

"Dollars only, you know from the United States." Joe responded.

"Oh My God!" Jenny shouted loudly.

'What?" Joe asked.

"If it is true what you say, you need to follow me right now" Jenny told him firmly.

"It is, It is! What is so wrong about it?" Joe asked.

"You must have so many questions, but it is too complicated to explain right now, just follow me and you'll have your questions answered," Jenny said while walking Joe out of the Medical Center.

"Well at least now I know some information is soon to come," Joe thought to himself. They kept walking into what he thought was a government facility from all of the guards in uniform, the doctor had to keep saying I was with her since every time a new guard saw me they would walk to me with guns pointed.

Eventually we approached a desk. "Can we speak to the Solar general," Jenny asked.

"I'm sorry she's on a call right now," The secretary said.

"Tell her I think I have...," Jenny whispered into the secretary's ear.

"Yep totally not weird," Joe thought.

"What the hell is Solar General?" Joe Asked.

"I said questions till later," Jenny said to Joe. The Secretary was typing something on her computer which seemed pretty futuristic. That is when it all clicked in one sudden moment in Joe's mind.

"Shit, I'm on an alien planet aren't I?" Joe asked Jenny.

Before Jenny could answer the secretary interrupted. "She said she will see you now."

They were led behind some doors, inside sat what Joe guessed was the Solar General looking at the screen with planet earth on it. "Is it true what you say?" The Solar General asked.

"Sorry, What?" Joe said, thinking she was talking about him. Jenny looked at Joe with a face of, of shut up.

"Solar General I think he is the missing male baby of King Mike's lab," Jenny," Jenny said. Joe thought he better stay quiet and listen.

"That's a myth, besides he ruled over 200 year ago, also there should be no way any of the baby's survived as they were killed when the dark leadership overthrew them" The Solar General said.

"When I took his blood, his blood cells were appeared to be infused with StarLight Iridium, the strongest one developed in King Mike's Lab, I have been studying the research that was left, and there were rumours that one survived due to cryo freezing his body," Jenny spoke fast.

The General looked at Joe and spoke up "I don't know if it is true what she says but It seems you have no idea what is going on so I'll give you a chance to prove yourself," The General spoke.