"I don't follow the news much. I never considered that a failing until now. Not being aware of current events has a good chance of being the death of me.
"I suppose I should explain. I am a beast, a killer, an Angosian super soldier. I was a weapon in a long ended war, a weapon that those that made me could neither destroy, nor easily cast aside. They tried to bottle us up, deny that we existed. I got away, one of the many that did. But, what is a monster to do?
"I found a profession in doing what monsters do best. But not like you might think. Yes, I do take contracts, and I kill people. It hasn't gotten me a single slip of latinum. I never kill the target, I kill the targeter. Those that wish others to die, and are unwilling to do the job themselves are monsters too. The best employ for an out of work monster is putting down monsters.
"Back to current events. My last monster was a head of state it seems. One would think such people would have their own monsters on call, and not need independent ones. Deniable force I suppose. In any case governments do have resources. I had a hunter on my tail, a good one. I have been trying to shake him for over a week, and I still had a hunter on my tail. I still have one trick left, time to use it."
Magwar dropped down behind the hunter and he spun to face him at the same time. Neither shot, weapons ready.
Magwar's eyes went wide. "Argon?"
"Magwar. I was starting to suspect something, you are hard to catch." He did not drop the aim of his weapon.
"Why are you doing the bidding of the Cardassians?"
"They asked me to, nicely. Killing the Senior Councilman wasn't exactly something they could let rest."
"He needed to die Argon. He hired me to kill someone else."
"I heard your morals had twisted some funny way."
"He was a monster, just like the rest."
"I never considered it my right to decide even if living in peace seems impossible to do."
"So, why haven't you shot me?"
"I can ask the same question Magwar."
Magwar looked down the barrel of the phaser. "At least some good will come of this Argon."
"How so old friend?"
"No mater what happens, one of us will be free."
Freedom -- Garry Stahl, February 2009
A dark night and dark thoughts. Right after I told Jay Hailey my head was empty.
For those that do not recall the background this is from the List of Star Trek Races, in Wilkapedia. The episode was from TNG "The Hunted". What does an out of work monster do? "Usually considered non-violent, 'Angosian authorities were responsible for genetically and chemically engineering soldiersto fight in their Tarsian Wars. But the process was irreversible, and the 'super soldiers' were considered outcasts and criminals that could not function or co-exist alongside the normal population of Angosian society, and as such were forced to be permanently confined to a penal settlement on an Angosian moon."
"I suppose I should explain. I am a beast, a killer, an Angosian super soldier. I was a weapon in a long ended war, a weapon that those that made me could neither destroy, nor easily cast aside. They tried to bottle us up, deny that we existed. I got away, one of the many that did. But, what is a monster to do?
"I found a profession in doing what monsters do best. But not like you might think. Yes, I do take contracts, and I kill people. It hasn't gotten me a single slip of latinum. I never kill the target, I kill the targeter. Those that wish others to die, and are unwilling to do the job themselves are monsters too. The best employ for an out of work monster is putting down monsters.
"Back to current events. My last monster was a head of state it seems. One would think such people would have their own monsters on call, and not need independent ones. Deniable force I suppose. In any case governments do have resources. I had a hunter on my tail, a good one. I have been trying to shake him for over a week, and I still had a hunter on my tail. I still have one trick left, time to use it."
Magwar dropped down behind the hunter and he spun to face him at the same time. Neither shot, weapons ready.
Magwar's eyes went wide. "Argon?"
"Magwar. I was starting to suspect something, you are hard to catch." He did not drop the aim of his weapon.
"Why are you doing the bidding of the Cardassians?"
"They asked me to, nicely. Killing the Senior Councilman wasn't exactly something they could let rest."
"He needed to die Argon. He hired me to kill someone else."
"I heard your morals had twisted some funny way."
"He was a monster, just like the rest."
"I never considered it my right to decide even if living in peace seems impossible to do."
"So, why haven't you shot me?"
"I can ask the same question Magwar."
Magwar looked down the barrel of the phaser. "At least some good will come of this Argon."
"How so old friend?"
"No mater what happens, one of us will be free."
Freedom -- Garry Stahl, February 2009
A dark night and dark thoughts. Right after I told Jay Hailey my head was empty.
For those that do not recall the background this is from the List of Star Trek Races, in Wilkapedia. The episode was from TNG "The Hunted". What does an out of work monster do? "Usually considered non-violent, 'Angosian authorities were responsible for genetically and chemically engineering soldiersto fight in their Tarsian Wars. But the process was irreversible, and the 'super soldiers' were considered outcasts and criminals that could not function or co-exist alongside the normal population of Angosian society, and as such were forced to be permanently confined to a penal settlement on an Angosian moon."
