The name’s Shura. And apparently, I interest Omni enough to become a Prime.
I won’t bore you with the story of how I got here. I’m sure it’s the same as every other person to show up in the Nexus. I headed to Coruscant afterwards. Found myself a patron of the Empire.
Crazy technology, has this Empire. I knew right away that this wasn’t just the surface world, or some other part of the sky. Omni wasn’t lyin’. This wasn’t Skykansas.
‘Course, with me being here, I had to guess that my boss Enel had arrived well ahead of me. A few scans of the Dataverse confirmed that. He’d made the dumb mistake of getting on the wrong side of the Empire, right away. Killin’ stormtroopers? “God”. That’s what every fresh-faced Prime does. Me? I did the smart thing. I joined ‘em straight away. I always find the winning side.
Bein’ an Imperial’s got its perks, of course, but it has its downsides too. Obligations, for sure. Coruscant’s a dirty place. Once you get down to the real city, the bowels, it’s a cesspool the likes o’ which I ain’t never fuckin’ seen. Frankly, it makes my stomach turn. I learned a lot since comin’ here, I ain’t too proud to admit that.
But it’s what you do to make a living. The prideful get to die. I get to live comfy. That’s the difference between me and the real villains like Enel. I see things as they are. I know my limits.
Things were going peachy. I had my bird (not a girl – an actual bird, Fuza. She breathes fire, does what she’s told and I get a flying mount – it works.) I had my apartment. I had a broad two nights a week, courtesy of the Empire’s wage packet.
Until that dipshit Gedatsu came along.
I got the call on my Den Den Mushi. It was my boss, SS-371. All these stormtroopers have weird-ass names.
“Shura, is that you?”
“Boss,” I acknowledged.
“You know Enel?”
My blood ran cold. It took me a second to regain my composure. Of course, I knew this day had come. I’d thought about what I was gonna say.
“Enel?”
Play it dumb. I didn’t know what they knew.
“Man named Gedatsu just rolled into town. We caught him after he … forgot to breathe and passed out at the fountain.”
I bit my tongue. Typical Gedatsu. He wasn’t a terrible fighter, but he smoked way too much sky-weed. Man would forget his own eyeballs if they weren’t attached to him. Why him? Why not Ohm, for fuck’s sake? I’d even take one of those fat brothers over fuckin’ Gedatsu.
God dammit.
SS-371 – I privately thought of him as “Essess” – continued. “He says you and him worked for Enel back in your homeworld. Told us all about Skypiea. How Enel was the ruler back there. How come you never told us of your connection?”
I bit my tongue so hard it practically drew blood. I wanted to knock something over. “I didn’t … think it was relevant.” I smiled, keeping my tone neutral despite my overwhelming rage. Fuza was behind me, and cawed with concern. I shushed the overgrown bird, covering the receiver before continuing into the stony silence on the other end. “The past is the past, right?”
“You know the Empire values its information. Report in at once.”
“Kacha,” said the Den-Den Mushi, imitating the sound of the phone being put down.
And that is how I ended up on a mission to the Dunes, to reconnect with my old boss, Enel. Meanwhile, Gedatsu gets to stay at Coruscant, so they can assess his loyalty. Is he? That’s like asking if a snail is loyal to the guy who picks him up. Probably, unless it’s a real dumb snail, which Gedatsu is. So who the fuck knows?
I’m flying to the Town With No Name on Fuza’s back. I’ve avoided the Dunes as much as possible, out of fear of running into Enel, but I could only run away from the inevitable for so long.
And of course, there are flames on the horizon. I sigh and circle in.
I won’t bore you with the story of how I got here. I’m sure it’s the same as every other person to show up in the Nexus. I headed to Coruscant afterwards. Found myself a patron of the Empire.
Crazy technology, has this Empire. I knew right away that this wasn’t just the surface world, or some other part of the sky. Omni wasn’t lyin’. This wasn’t Skykansas.
‘Course, with me being here, I had to guess that my boss Enel had arrived well ahead of me. A few scans of the Dataverse confirmed that. He’d made the dumb mistake of getting on the wrong side of the Empire, right away. Killin’ stormtroopers? “God”. That’s what every fresh-faced Prime does. Me? I did the smart thing. I joined ‘em straight away. I always find the winning side.
Bein’ an Imperial’s got its perks, of course, but it has its downsides too. Obligations, for sure. Coruscant’s a dirty place. Once you get down to the real city, the bowels, it’s a cesspool the likes o’ which I ain’t never fuckin’ seen. Frankly, it makes my stomach turn. I learned a lot since comin’ here, I ain’t too proud to admit that.
But it’s what you do to make a living. The prideful get to die. I get to live comfy. That’s the difference between me and the real villains like Enel. I see things as they are. I know my limits.
Things were going peachy. I had my bird (not a girl – an actual bird, Fuza. She breathes fire, does what she’s told and I get a flying mount – it works.) I had my apartment. I had a broad two nights a week, courtesy of the Empire’s wage packet.
Until that dipshit Gedatsu came along.
I got the call on my Den Den Mushi. It was my boss, SS-371. All these stormtroopers have weird-ass names.
“Shura, is that you?”
“Boss,” I acknowledged.
“You know Enel?”
My blood ran cold. It took me a second to regain my composure. Of course, I knew this day had come. I’d thought about what I was gonna say.
“Enel?”
Play it dumb. I didn’t know what they knew.
“Man named Gedatsu just rolled into town. We caught him after he … forgot to breathe and passed out at the fountain.”
I bit my tongue. Typical Gedatsu. He wasn’t a terrible fighter, but he smoked way too much sky-weed. Man would forget his own eyeballs if they weren’t attached to him. Why him? Why not Ohm, for fuck’s sake? I’d even take one of those fat brothers over fuckin’ Gedatsu.
God dammit.
SS-371 – I privately thought of him as “Essess” – continued. “He says you and him worked for Enel back in your homeworld. Told us all about Skypiea. How Enel was the ruler back there. How come you never told us of your connection?”
I bit my tongue so hard it practically drew blood. I wanted to knock something over. “I didn’t … think it was relevant.” I smiled, keeping my tone neutral despite my overwhelming rage. Fuza was behind me, and cawed with concern. I shushed the overgrown bird, covering the receiver before continuing into the stony silence on the other end. “The past is the past, right?”
“You know the Empire values its information. Report in at once.”
“Kacha,” said the Den-Den Mushi, imitating the sound of the phone being put down.
And that is how I ended up on a mission to the Dunes, to reconnect with my old boss, Enel. Meanwhile, Gedatsu gets to stay at Coruscant, so they can assess his loyalty. Is he? That’s like asking if a snail is loyal to the guy who picks him up. Probably, unless it’s a real dumb snail, which Gedatsu is. So who the fuck knows?
I’m flying to the Town With No Name on Fuza’s back. I’ve avoided the Dunes as much as possible, out of fear of running into Enel, but I could only run away from the inevitable for so long.
And of course, there are flames on the horizon. I sigh and circle in.
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