Memories In My Head

by Daniel Burnett, Age 13

The city, was in a state, much worse than before. It was only a month after the attack of China on America and many were still recovering. However, lots of the buildings had been re-built, and a new day was set.

The yellowish red of the sky was hidden from the ground, as buildings towered further than their eyes could see, into the thick smog above. The buildings were stained with a yellow like colour, similar to the smog.

The sun burnt down, as many people were in their buildings. The year… 2078. By this time, the fashions had moved on, and so had the style of buildings, but not dramatically , like in the science fiction stories, no

The only thing that moved towards that, was when The lazer rifle was invented, without burning the metal it was built with. Chicargo, was in a state worse than most cities however. But on a building, deep, deep into the city, and high, high up, twenty times the emipre state buildings height.. was the average height of a building, a figure was moving about, cautiously. It was a man, in his late twenties, wearing a set of blue armour, with A shiny breastplate, and two guns. On his ankle, and by his waist. His eyes darted from here to there, sensing an intruder. He gripped his gun firmly, and was ready. So he walked forward and looked to the building across, below him. He saw a man dressed in black, with A massive rifle, aiming at him.

He pulled his gun out and jumped away from the edge with incredible speed and agility, only just dodging the blast of lazer that crumbled the side of building. He then, began to run, towards the edge, and with a leap, he was On the same building as the black figure. The figure looked up with amazement.

" Very clever, but stupid," escaped his lips just before a shot did. Only the Blue man did a barrel roll just out of the way. The black man turned and fired again, yet as he fired, he saw the blue man was gone.

He looked around, but nothing was there. He knew he was there however, and that in any second he would leap out. He heard the words" You're heart is beating a lot," But he couldn't seem to understand where it was coming from. Sweat trickled down his neck, and he turned, gripping his gun, with all of his strength.

Still nothing, No thing or noise dared disturb the silence. He walked back towards the edge. He sighed.. What a wimp, leaving like that, he thought as he began to relax. This was the moment … With a yank the black man lost his balance.. he hadn't felt that the blue man was Climbing the edge of the building, and pulled his leg. He began to fall, and he shrieked a horrible scream, and then , disappeared into the smog, whilst falling to his doom…

A circular device, almost looking like a UFO, only with several photo Cameras and motion cameras hovered above a building, while a policeman, in red armour set it's task. It was the size of a queen sized bed, and it was divided into two sections, by the middle. The top was a silver red, and the bottom was a grey colour.

The cop punched in a few more things, on the keypad on it and then it shot away, with the speed of a model rocket times five. It sped past many buildings, looking for any suspicious behaviour , and scanning people, in case any criminals had escaped. Then it stopped, outside a building, and it's camera zoomed in on the window.

They all sat down, in their office.. each wearing a red suit, with a black tie with the exeption of one, who was wearing blue, with a white tie. The room, was carpeted with black carpet, and Grey walls, with a few paintings on the wall. The table in the middle of the room, had many Papers on it, and one briefcase, with an electronic lock. The window was shut, so that no smog could get in. " Right, This is the day, we've been working on for many years now, and the day has arrived," the one in blue said. He seemed to be a sort of chairman. He stood up, and pulled out a black box, and placed it on the table. "This is what it will look like."

He said, as a hologram of a kind of gun appeared. " It is rounded like , well a pen lid really, if you think back to the 1900's! It is like this, so you can wear it on your arm.. It is the first lazer- sub machine gun ever invented, as you know all the others burnt themselves out, or the lazer systems failed and it broke down, but this one is working!" He said as he pulled up his briefcase. " We can not open it, for obvious reasons, involving secruity, but once we get the word, you will be the first to see it's test," he said with a smile on his face. He seemed to be like a con man, you could tell it in his voice. But not his looks. He looked neat, and respectable, with his short black hair, and thin glasses.

The UFO like object suddenly turned and sensed something. It's computers began to flicker past to Identify, then It got it's answer.. a very weird one, but an answer, so it returned to the window.

A human like figure smashed through the window, and ripped through the table, which was ripped up into splinters, one of which, ripped through a mans chest. The thing got up, and they could all see what it was.

" It's Ultra cons Andriod," The chairman shouted." It's come to steal our technoligy," he shrieked.

The andriod, wore no clothes, as it did not need any. It was coloured blue, with purple lines all over it, flowing in different patterns. It's eyes flashed past each object, scanning them with no more than a second.

Then it saw what it wanted, and it leaped over the room, and grabbed the briefcase. Security hurried in, and began to shoot the android, But it just held up it's gun, and shot them all with no effort.Then, as quick as it jumped in, it was gone… Only as it jumped out, it noticed something.. looking like a U.F.O.. It was a police probe, and that meant proof.The last words the chairman spoke was " We are Techrone corp, we won't fail..

Ultra Con, will, He will stop you… arrggh.."

In a darkened room, There was a set of computers, and A man, sitting in a red chair, smoking a cigar, waited for a report on how it's worker was doing. Then the messages began to flicker past on the screen.

He smiled, and inhaled the smoke, then as he exhaled… He saw some bad news. His facial expression changed, and he picked up The phone. " Yeah, it's me… listen, about that task.. yeah.. Well it was perfext, yeah all good.. I'm getting to that, anyhow A police probe saw him.. Nah it's returned… Where it is, it was last seen near Tyrop Industries. Okay, bye." He hung up the phone, and continued smoking.

On the top of a roof, above most of the smog, where the tops of all the buildings were , the floor began to shift, As if it was an illusion of a floor being there. As it moved, like when you disrupt water, An elevator Rose up, with five men, all wearing complete black suits, and armed with guns, stepped out, and looked around., then they all Began to run in different directions, one leaped onto the building on the left, another

jumped onto a different building and so fourth. But one jumped down, to a lower building, and then began to leap buildings. After five minutes of doing this, he saw a Police Probe. He remembered the colours it was, red and blue…. Yes… the one in front was red and blue. He smiled and pointed his gun at it. With a zap it exploded into various fragments, one was a box, which dropped onto the building. The man picked it up." The film box… Evidence.. retrieved ," he said smiling. Then he was dead , and he fell to the ground, with a dagger in his back, and the box fell to the ground, to be picked up by the man in blue armour.

As night approached, blue walked down the streets of Chicargo. The streets were infestated with moss, and dirt and Graffiti was everywhere. Not to mention the gangs that were beginning to come out, since night was near. He slowly walked by, holding the box in his hand, until he arrived at his car. The door opened, as it detected him, and he hoped in. " begin," he said, and the engine came alive.He gripped the steering wheel, with his gloves, and he drove off down the street. But nearby, in the darkness, another car was waiting for them, and it drove out, and began to hurry after them.. Blue began to increase speed, much faster than the speed limit in our time, no he was driving at a normal pace of 345, which wasn't unusual. Turning past streets was a breeze, and he arrived at his house, and the door lifted open. He slowly climbed out, and walked over to the building, which was nearby. He opened the door with the number 45 on it, with the assistance of keys.As he creaked the door open, he groaned. Thump.He was unconsious , And that was that.

His eyelids slowly Opened, to see the blinding white light that was directly overhead of him. He turned his head to see lot's of doctors hurrying past. He was in a white room, which seemed awfully sterile. The roof was white, as were the walls, and the tiles on the floor were reflecting the light. He then noticed that he was strapped onto a bed,

and no matter how hard he tried to struggle, he couldn't break loose.His hearing seemed to be multimplied by five, and his ears were picking up lot's. Then he felt a sharp pain, in his head, some-one was drilling into his skull, but it was so small… then he felt wires being pushed into his head. He turned his head, and he fumbled the words Box, of evipence…. Phou an't win..

It was then he noticed the Asian man, wearing a black suite, black tie, and had black hair, and a pair of black sunglasses. He felt a surge of energy pass through him, and the last words he heard was Memory…..

On the pavement, lay a man, with long hair, with a ponytail, ragged clothes, and you could tell he hadn't shaved for a while. He was lying next to some broken bottles, so It appeared he was drunk, and fell asleep.

As people walked by, they would avoid him, or even kick him. This went on until midday when a policeman woke him up. He pulled himslef up, to see his shoes had been stolen, and that he was only just outside his apartment. " Man I've got a headache," He muttered to himself as he opened the door, and entered. I know what I need, I need some coffee , yes that's it, he thought to himslef, so he put a jug of coffee on, as he made some toast, and walked into the bathroom. He got undressed, and had a nice hot shower, to wake himself up. After he had a shower and got dressed, he ate his toast, and drank some coffee.

He looked at his watch, and realised he'd better hurry up and get to work. So he walked into the bathroom, and he got his toothbrush, and put some toothpaste onto it. He looked up at the mirror. It was fogged up, so he wiped it. He brushed his teeth, and gurgled some water. He paused, and looked at the mirror. He was amazed, and shocked at the same time. He spat the water out in the sink, and he gasped. " That's no me… what the hell.. that is not me! ," He shouted out aloud. He looked at his face, he had brown hair, and it was in a pony tail, his build was different, and he was more flexible… yet he felt something was right about himslef, but that was a small feeling, which he kept away . He hadn't shaved either, and that made himself look more like a criminal . He felt his face with his hand, he felt all over it. " No! Nooo! What the hell is going on… Am I going mad, who am I? I don't even know who I am!," He shouted. He picked up a glass and smashed it on the ground. He then picked up a chair that was in there and he smashed the mirror with it." Okay, Okay.. calm down.. I'm sure, there is an explination for all this. He walked out of the bathroom. He saw his answering machine, and he pressed the button. " This is Jerry, speak after the beep….," BEEP. "Hello? It's me.. good luck with That building, it's very hard, and you've done it before.. we are all counting on you jerry." The machine stopped. But the voice echoed in his head You Jerry, You Jerry, You Jerry, You Jerry You Jerry, YOU , YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU, YOOOOUUUU! He screamed, out aloud, a horrible shriek. " This is not ME! This Is Not ME!!,"

The door opened, to a dark room. Some light managed to get in, but only just. The room, had three chairs. Each had a very Important man in it. They all wore black suits, and were smoking, but you couldn't see their faces, only their basic figure. The android walked in , with the box. He handed it to one of the men. He leaned forward, revealing Chinese eyes, and a slim figure. He grabbed it, accompanied by a menacing look, and he leaned back, returning to the shadows. " This, is the evidence, that nearly got us into a lot of trouble yesterday. ," He said. Another voice said " Yes, but what about him…"
"Him… well we took care of him, you could say he's a different man!," responded the Chinese man.

He still called himself jerry, so jerry walked out of his apartment, and locked it behind him. It was now day time, and the streets were bare, except for the cars coming past now and then, but that was rare to see, in this part of town, now that most were at work. Jerry, approached a car, and said "open."

"Please, step away from the vehicle," was the response. Then he remembered, He wasn't himself, so he had to hope that this man, who's body he was in , had a car of his own here. He spent 10 minutes trying other cars, but finaly found this mans car.

He got in the car, and began to drive off, and as he was driving down the street, one word began to flash through his word…. Ultra Con, Ultra Con, Ultra Con. He wondered why, and tried to remember something.. but nothing happened. He turned onto the freeway, which was a bridge. Then his mind began to trigger. He suddenly remembered A black box… which could stop the evil Ultra Con, but why did he want to do that, and… He suddenly came out of his trance, and realised he was about to Smash into the side of the bridge, and plumit into the sea. This was when, his unknown skills popped in, and he kicked opened the door, and leapt out,, with such agility , that he managed to land on his feet, while his car smashed through the railings and hurled down… down.. down. Some of his other memories, which he never had before, were coming back, and he had worked out, Ultra Con.. had alot to do with what was going on, so decided that night, he would go there. Night crept upon the sky, and the stars could only be seen from the tops of buildings, for the smog blocked them. Jerry, had worked out he had skills, and he intended to use them now.. as he peered at the Ultra Con building. He saw an electric fence around it

and two guards. He instinctively felt for his gun, but it wasn't there. " Why did I feel for that?" He muttered to himself. He studied the fence, and judged it's height. Then he got up and walked over to a building nearby that was still being rebuilt, there were some poles near it, along with some wooden boards and bricks. Jerry, walked over and picked up one." Too short," he said. Then he picket up another one, slightly bigger." Still too short," He muttered, then , he grabbed another pole, which was a little longer. "MMM, perfect," He said grabbing it. He then got on the ground, and he crawled as close to the fence as he could, without being seen. He saw one of the two guards, who was talking to a woman nearby. Jerry, took this chance, and he Got a run up, and he used to pole to leap over the fence. He landed on the ground , behind the man. Then he grabbed his neck, and threw him to the ground. The guard stumbled up, and he pulled out his gun.. Jerry, then kicked it out of the way.. "How did I.. Oh well," He said leaping for the gun, when he got it, he aimed it at the guard, but hit the guard on the head with the gun instead. Then he began to walk around the corner, and he saw the other guard. But the guard saw him first, and took a shot at him. Jerry, leaped out of the way, and then Fired back at the guard, He missed, the guard, so the guard took another shot, Missing. Jerry, then fired again, hitting The guard in the chest. And then The guard was dead, and that was that.

The Chinese man handed the box of film, to one of his workers. Dispose of this, will you?" he asked.

The man took it, and nodded . Then he turned around, and left the room. Everyone in the room, continued smoking, as the Chinese man leaned back once more, satisfied with all of his work.

Jerry, was satisfied with the job he'd done. Of eliminating the guards. So he climbed a bit of the building, and jumped back over the fence. Then, he ran over to the building closest to Ultra Con. It was the Feri Hotel, the biggest hotel, in all Chicargo . Jerry smiled, this was going to be easier than he expected. He put his gun in his jacket, and he slowly waled over to the car park of the Hotel. He saw a couple walking by, one was in a tuxido. He saw the man walking of. Jerry, raced over, and hit him on the head. The Tuxido, Fitted Jerry perfectly, and he had his gun ready… so he walked into the hotel… which was also a casino. The room was filled with people, each person seemingly rich.. and he saw an archway, which led into the casino.

He couldn't see an elevator, so he decided to go into the casino, in search for an elevator. He looked around, at all of the rich people , playing their games, and some not so rich people Gambling away of what money they had to survive. The carpet was red, and the classic 90's music was on. He walked past some people, and he saw an elevator. He tried to walk over to it, but found it quite hard, because of the crowd.Deep, deep into the crowd,there was a man wearing a white tuxido, and a pair of sunglasses. He was bald, with a moustache very much like hitlers. He looked at Jerry, and his face burst out into a grin. " You are foolish my child., foolish," he said.

Jerry, looked rather odd, against all of the rich people, in the elevator, since he hadn't shaved. Most people got off at their stop, but he kept on going till he reached the top floor. The doors slid open, revealing a darkened room, and jerry stepped out. The room was mostly bare, but there was a window in it, big enough for him to climb.. this was good. He opened it, and saw the Ultra Con building.He thought to himself, that this was going to be hard.. but something urged him on again. Suddenly he lost control . He found himself taking a run up, then he ran for it….. zaarrp!

He stopped, and looked behind him.. A bald man was standing there, in his white Tuxido. " You're that nosy twerp," He said. Jerry looked at him "How would you know," he said, as He pulled out his gun. The Bald man smiled, and aimed his gun at Jerry. They both gripped their guns firmly.. " Put it down," the white man said. Jerry refused to. "I want answers and I want them NOW!," he shouted. The bald man took this opportunity , and fired at him . Jerry, did a barrel roll, out of the way. Two more shots came, which he dodged again. " Like yer Barrel rols eh?" He said, and this time aimed at the floor, several times. Jerry did a back flip out of the window, and grabbed onto the ledge, then swung back up, kicking the bald man in the head. He fumbled back, though jerry grabbed him by the neck, and aimed the gun next to his head. " I said I want answers, so start talking pretty boy," He said. The bald man smiled. "My life does not matter… you kill me.. you have no answers.,"

" That's fine by me buddy," Jerry replied sharply.

" Oh really, well you'd be very surprised buddy, you don't even know who you are.. you could've done many , many things… you do know that."

Jerry looked at the ground, he had killed the man, he had no idea what came over him, but he did know, he'd better get to that building and quick, so he did a run up, and he leaped over to the next building.. top floor.

They all sat in their chairs, except for the Chinese man, he was walking around, when he saw something on the ground. He picked up the small box… It was the evidence. " I thought that android took it out.. I wonder why he didn't take it out." One of the men got up as well.

" Androids aren't supposed to stuff up like that.. what is going on?"
" I don't know.. We'd better destroy it though."

" wait, wait .. Let me check it… I think it might be different film. The window suddenly smashed, and Jerry rolled in, with thousands of tiny cuts on him. He was bleeding a lot, but he got up and he looked at them all, and he saw the box. " That's the evidence isn't it?"
" We're not scared of you, not one bit."
" Oh really.. well you should… Because I'm taking that."
" I see, well You can have it,"
" what?"
" I said you may have it.. but.. you must answer one simple question."

" what question is that?

" What is on this film." Jerry stopped, he thought about it, but he didn't know.

" You have a feeling deep down Inside, that says.. you must take that.. and you follow it. Yet you don't even know what is on it. Well, this means, that of course you failed the question. So, have a nice death."

Jerry, looked around with fear in his eyes. It felt so right, but these people seemed more powerful than he thought. They weren't scared of him.The Chinese man threw the box to a man in the darkness, and jerry looked at him. He could see him in the darkness, and he shot him. He heard gasps , but all he did was walk up, take the box, and walk over to the window calmly. " As much as you'd like me to be afraid of you, I'm not. I merely hate you. Ta ta!" And with that, he ran and jumped out of the window, into the Hotel. The Chinese man was in a state of shock. " You just stood there," A voice said. The Chinese man wiped the sweat of his face. " It wasn't the film, the android took it, didn't he?"

" We don't know that."

" In that case, there is only one thing left to do, eliminate, and retrieve."

" Yes, you got something right, how very clever of you."

Jerry raced out of the Elevator, he knew he had to leave and fast. The crowd was too much, he couldn't go around them, so he had an idea. He grabbed one of the passing women , and pulled his gun to her head. "Okay, everyone listen up, I move out, you let me pass, or the girl dies," he shouted. The music stopped, everyone went quiet. Jerry whispered in the ladies ear " Don't worry love, It's just I'm in an emergency situation, keep acting, and You won't die, in fact, you won't die from me tonight at any circumstance."

The lady stopped screaming, She whispered to him " I know you, you were there… I was a failure, I can remember!"

Jerry stopped. " You can remember?"

" yes, I'll keep screaming."

" sure," He said as he raced outside.The two of them ran into the distance.

They kept on running, until, they arrived at a restaurant . Well, it was more like a bar, like Macdonalds. Anyway , they went in, and they sat down at the bar. "So, you have this problem, being trapped in someone elses body?" Jerry asked.

" No, you have it all wrong. You are an ordinary person… and they did something to your head, now this is very complex, so bear with me here.." Gun shots interupted her. She swung around, and her long blonde hair hit him in the face, so I swung around. It was an anderoid, with a very large gun. "Ultra Con, makes those!" he shouted. That was stupid, he thought. The android looked at him, and aimed. Jerry pulled out his gun, but realising his defeat , jumped out of the chair, which was blasted away seconds later. Then something big came over him. " The girl lept away too. " I belive we haven't been introduced, he said leaping behind the counter, "Sandy," she said. " This is what they did, they planted you with skills, only there was side effects." He jumped up, and shot the android several times , before leaping away. Little did he know, that the android was monerting his every move, to learn how to beat him. Jerry, jumped back behind the counter. This time the android leapt over, behind the counter. Jerry did a kick, which made the droid drop it's gun. Jerry grabbed it, and shot it in the head once. It was knocked back, but not destroyed. Of course jerry, got up and began to run, so the droid followed. He swung round and shot the droid again, this time it's head shattering.

"Come on, they know where we are now, and that's very bad.," Jerry said. Sandy got up, and nodded. They ran out of the bar and, ran down the street. " I wish we could steal a car, only we can't," Jerry said.

" True" They arrived at a park, which was huge, and jerry could see a brick wall surrounding it, and a statue.

" We should be safe here," Jerry said.

" Anyway, now I can explain this to you," Sandy began. Only Jerry, wasn't paying all that much attention, he was looking around to see if anyone was coming.
"Whats the matter?"

" I think we shouldn't stop here, It's not safe," Jerry replied.

" No, we are quite safe."
" No really, I really believe we are not safe," He replied. She grabbed his arm.

"No, we are safe here." Jerry looked at her strangely.

" Look, I'm serious,"

" NO," she said pulling out a gun. Jerry looked at it… suddenly several men, in black tuxidos leapt out of the bushes, each with a gun. "I'd give up now, If I were you," One of them said. Jerry almost forgot , that he had a big gun… and he smiled. "Not, in this round," He said firing a massive blast of energy into the man. He fell back , his chest exploding into a shower of red. Jerry, saw a statue and he ran towards that, while they shot at him, hitting the ground. He hid behind it, only showing himself to fire.. and another persons chest exploded open. "Let's go," One of them shouted, as he heard footsteps, towards him. He waited, and the noise stopped. But another skill came back to him…. He could smell three people, so, he turned and shot the statue, and it collapsed onto them. The rest of the enemy, which was still a lot, were still there. He thought to himself, this just wasn't going according to plan. He knew, he'd have to get to the police station one way or another.. so he ran as fast as he could, and once again, the lazer shots hit only th ground. He ran, and leapt up onto the massive brick wall, surrounding the park. He was just jumping down to the other side, when his left arm was hit by the lazer. He shrieked in pain, but he still ran on.. he knew this part of town, and the police were very near. As he ran further down the street, more shots were fired at him, and one got his leg, and his other leg,. Jerry slowly fell to the ground. But even from there, he continued to crawl on, and he still fired shots behind him, stopping many of them. He was not one to give up, and as he crawled more… more memories came flooding back. Then he remembered and realised. He wasn't trapped in someone elses body, he was a very skilled assasin, working for good, and trying to stop Ultra Con. And they knew he had evidence, so they captured him, and put memories in his head, so he would think he's Someone trapped in some-ones body. Only the memories came back! Now he dragged on, he was nearly at the police station, he pulled out the box of film and….

"Daddy , daddy, you're home." A little boy raced over to his father, and wife. They were in a room, with a checkered floor. The man had short black hair, and was a painter. He sat down and greeted his child… and then something flickered in his mind.. as the TV was turned on. Ultra Con, has come out with their New lazer Machine gun….. Which some say was stolen from… He got up, walked past his child.. and he suddenly had a feeling.. He was remembering … the box of film. "Whats the matter honey?" his wife asked. "Nothing, I just have this weird feeling, that I have something to do with that?"

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