Chapter 2: Van Gaze: Edward

Hi, I’m Edward Van Gaze

I’m an ordinary 20 years old boy. My parents died on a plane crash when I was 7, and since then, my older sister, Emma, always took care of me. I like sports, I like them a lot, therefore I do them a lot as well. Not that much actually, can’t do much because I wasn’t that fit. When I was a kid, I really wish that I could play in some sport team, maybe a Basketball, Tennis, I’m bad at football though but I really like running. I never had the chance back then, because I have a weak body to even join a team so all I could do was just watching them from afar.

Back then, I really hated it when someone commit some bad stuff, even if it’s a minor one, such as stealing and all the way to the worst like bullying. I saw weaker people getting beaten up by people in more power. But I can’t do anything about it, again, all I did was just watching from afar. When they saw me, I ran as fast as I could to escape them, I once got beaten really bad, like really really bad, the worst that you could’ve imagined. I broke both of my legs and totally crippled for almost a year, I still remember how Emma’s cried that time. The couple next years, I would still trying to figure out how to walk properly, feels like my legs isn’t the legs they’re used to be.

We’re supposed to have a lot of money, but when my parents died, all the inheritance was gone somewhere else but us, I’m suspecting The Gaffers, of course, we tried to track it down but we never find it. And because of that I was helping my sister for our financial need, she’s a baby sitter at Poppy’s Daycare 8/5 a week. At the age of 13, and because of my legs, I can’t do much about it but I could still do some small works, such as delivering pizza with my bicycle, with a very minimum wages since I can only carry 5 pizza boxes at maximum. At least I’m not burdening my sister by getting my own money whenever I want to buy something for myself.

2 years later, I can walk normally again, but at the same time, I’ve mastered my own body balance, like, crazy how that happened, but in a course of 6 months I figured everything that’s going on with my body. I won’t fall or trip unless the most unlucky thing happen to me. And then on my 16th birthday, Emma gave me a pair of shoes and I liked it so much, and since then, I stopped riding my bike, I would either walk or run whenever and wherever I want to go, if it’s reasonable enough to be taken by walking or running.

A year ago, I quitted my work, because someone offered me to work with them, little did I know, their company were selling information of stuff related to The Gaffers. So I’m literally working as their spy you could say, well I’m not their official spy because the work seems to be dangerous. Instead, I’m applying myself as their partner, so I’m more like a fetch dog, I would gather as much of information as I could, and they will pay me for it. And because of this work, me alone is enough to fulfil our financial need. The pay is fine, although it was on the edge, we could make a living out of it which is good enough.

You guys might be asking what this job is all about. All I can say is, it’s dangerous and that’s pretty much it, Imagine got caught in your investigation. Well, The Gaffers was not a bad organization, but people behind it, humanity is long gone from their dictionary. Humans like us, are just goods for them, they will use us, exploit us, and they’ll eventually disassemble our body parts and organs whether it’s for money or their military purpose. Yes, Cruel.

All I do is just getting myself slightly involved with them and try to sneak myself in and out, it doesn’t matter if they found me, they will never figure out what hits them, after I got what I need a decent amount of information and maybe some extra stuff that I could grab on my way out, I’ll cut it right there and go back, and if they ever catch me lacking, I’ll just run and carefully disguise myself so that I’ll be fine. Though running from them is not as easy as the first time I got caught 3 months after I took this job. They started to be aware of my presence, and strengthen their guard up. Although you probably ten times the amount of effort on putting your guards up against me and perhaps it’d work. We all hate The Gaffers for all what they did and how they treat us, how they used the earth, and the way they see humans as livestock and cattle for them. But we can’t do anything about it, as how strong their ruling is.

I hate The Gaffers and I know you too. So, beside of doing my job, I’m actually planning on destroying them, of course for me alone it’s going to be hard, but I have Emma on my side, and probably people with the same intention as me who wants to take part in this small rebellion of mine. So far, I know how to get in and out the Saturn Facilities, their Outermost region of their Huge base and couple more of their buildings, I think that’s the most progress I’ve made as an individual person in human effort to fight back against The Gaffers. Who knows, there could be others that might be one or two step ahead of me.

One of my powerful weapons against them, of course, is myself. I can easily control my body, disguise myself as their lowest guard in their environment, not easy, but I can sort it out, and not a single problem for me to get away from their sight. Also, not only the money I got from this job, I’m occasionally stealing from their Storage Point because of my hatred for them, and boy I don’t know any how of their stuff works, of course sometimes I got caught red handed stealing from their place, if only I wasn’t so clumsy and careless about myself, maybe thing has gone smoother from the start. But I’m not the wrong one in the first place, since all the stuff that I stole, are supposed to be our goods if they weren’t taken from our hand in the first place.

I couldn’t even think of any good stuff when I hear the name “Gaffers” not a single thing, not in a small amount, not even a peck of it, they’re just straight the absolute worst. Oh Gaffers, what you’ve taken from humanity, from the earth, from me… from Emma.

I will destroy The Gaffers.

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