Paradox Season 3 Short: Seeking the Truth

Paradox Short-Seeking the Truth

All the words go around my head
Searching for the signs I misread
Black and white
Wrong or right
It's an inner war we all fight

Somewhere buried under these lies
I can see a truth that are beyond your eyes
In the tears you cry

This is my life (this is my life)
And I don’t know where to begin
Looking for the voices within (voice within)

This is my life (this is my life)
I think I found a place to begin (think I found a place to begin)
This is my life
This is my life!

-Now or Never by nano

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Eclipse floated around the main server of his HQ…frustrated of his mind. He beaten several games without a sweat to distract himself, but it was only temporary. The cause for his frustration: he was wondering what sort of vendetta Ollivander had against that blonde-haired devil spawn, Para, causing the mission that cost him his body rather than his life. And to top it all, the battles was still going on and he was wondering what he could do to help those that were left!

He would hack the Gallia’s servers to find out, but he promised to not to as a thanks for the ride home.

He felt so frustrated and helpless, he now wished for a miracle to happen…

“Yo, E,” Panther’s voice perked up and his face appeared on a screen, looking very concerned. “You haven’t even opened up another round of Solitaire for the last hour. What’s up?”

“I’m trying to figure out what Ollivander has against Para,” he replied, thankful to the technology department for getting rid of the pop-up problem he had at the start. “That black coat-wearing git never bloody well said.”

“Whoa easy with the Brit thing E!” Panther replied as he threw his hands in the air before inserting a flash drive on his end. “I think I have a way.”

A file suddenly popped up in front of him and inside was a pass-code in the shape of the ticket for the Gallia he once had! “How in the bloody heck did you get this?!”

The black-haired agent just shrugged. “A guy that I swore was Dr. Ollivander’s twin sent it over, sayin’ his brother says it’s O.K.”

Eclipse thanked him before shooting off in Cyberspace to the Gallia’s servers.  Panther sighed as he looked behind him to a man that looked exactly like Ollivander. “I hope you two know what you’re doin’. E does hate nasty surprises.”

The other man chuckled. “He would’ve found out sooner or later. Olli and I felt he waited long enough.”

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Eclipse soon found himself at the gate to his destination. He saw a place to insert the pass-code so he did so and the gate opened.

*O.K…now to find those answers…* he thought as he went through some files and then he found one that looked like a diary of some sort. *I know it’s rude to snoop but I need to-WHAT IN THE BLOODY-?!*

As he read the file he soon saw why Ollivander hated Para. He read about her separating him and his twin Percival from being conjoined at the head at birth…without some sort of antiseptic! He soon saw many magazine clippings from various sources indicating their successes as a way of getting revenge, and newspaper clippings showing her arrest and escape. There were also many mentions of the victims that were involved, including himself, and Ollivander’s tracking techniques in finding Para on that planet.

Eclipse suddenly felt sick to his stomach despite not having a body.

But he DID come to one conclusion: Ollivander can be trusted after all!

Suddenly multiple transmissions came in that Para was captured and all of the survivors are now being treated for the virus. Wasting no time, Eclipse went to speak with Ollivander, and his brother Percival.

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“So she got a taste of her own medicine,” Eclipse perked up through a computer, scaring the twins when they checked on her and her condition from taking her own virus. “A fitting punishment if you ask me.

“And how long were you in there?” Ollivander asked with a smirk.

“Long enough,” the hacker replied and another figure came in. “Hey Solstice.”

Solstice smiled, sporting a new uniform similar to Eclipse’s old one. “Hello Eclipse. The higher ups saw what I attempted to do and let me off the hook. Especially with saving your life and taking care of the computer virus for them.”

“So where is it?” Percival asked and he held up a single black flash drive.

“He’s in here…and he agreed in the fact that she was not worth his time, practically flipping the bird at her in his own way. No he said he’d rather would like to help Eclipse more than do her bidding since he found him the stronger force. No the main programmers are thinking of making him into a partner program for Ben rather than a mind-controlling virus once I get back to base.”

“Thank goodness,” Eclipse commented then he turned away, “If anyone needs me, I need to see a certain survivor.”

He left before anyone could ask and flew through the network system to Faeza’s room.

He popped up on a screen beside her bed. “I see you no longer have that fabric on your eyes.”

“I figured there was no need,” she commented with a smirk. “How’d you get in here? I heard you died but cheated death thanks to an old friend of yours.”

“Becoming a digital entity has it’s advantages. I read in your file what Para had done to you and I figured I use it to help by showing my favourite colour.”

“And that is?” she asked with interest as Eclipse suddenly made the screen a minty green colour and she suddenly felt calm and relaxed. “Oh I see now…”

“I figured you needed a more…therapeutic colour to see considering what happened to you,” he said as he regained his original image. “After all Para put you through a lot of pain through the condition she created in you, just as she caused me to be like this. I’m sure I’ll get a body again but for now I’ll just do my best to help like I am; a digital hacker.”

They both smiled then said goodbye before he went back to HQ.

*Finally…* he thought with a smile. *This game is now over…*

Little does he know…a new mission will soon begin…

Continue…?