The Journey of a young Terran named Lance

[Kikinchikin]

Chapter 1- The Crime

The court roomed echoed with the sound of the hammer. Everyone rised from their seats to hear the old, portly judge's verdict. Among those standing was 16 year old Lance Dashing. He was charged with the murder of one of the Terran Republic's most honorable and elite commanders, GammArkantis. As the judge began to speak in a deep voice that rang throughout the court room, Lance began to sweat with anxiety. He knew that if convicted, he would be executed by a firing squad. Although he knew his innocence, he was unsure if the judge would believe what he had told on the stand, about how a jammer grenade had knocked out the power in the briefing room, about how a single man had crept inside the now pitch black room, and about how a single shot rang out from a jackhammer, and how a body had fallen to the floor. Lance had only caught a glimpse of the shadowy figure as he strode out of the room. That glimpse showed a tremendous scar on the face of the assailant. He could identify this scar with only one person, someone he had never had good relations with, Aaron Von Richten, code named 50cent.

As his thoughts trailed off, and he was snapped back to the harsh reality of the courtroom. Just in time to hear the old judge bellow in a triumphant voice, "Guilty as charged!!!!" A sickening feeling came over Lance. He was immediately grasped by a pair of soldiers both sporting cyclers, and hauled off to a prison cell, where he would await his coming execution. Lance knew that he was a dead man walking...