Far Horizons: Tales of Sci-Fi, Fantasy and Horror. Issue #12 March 2015 | Page 53

a coward. Please forgive me, my love?” She asked in
tears as she heard the attic door close and lock behind
her trapping her.

Shattered Lives
*May 14th 1985*
The war between the Humans and the Powered was
almost at a standstill. The two armies had been suffering losses and the Powered had recently lost territory.
Their army was pushed all the way back to the upper
northeast of America, and the leaders of the Powered
had called in an old villainous foe for help. The help
required was not a matter of advice, but a matter of
internal assassination.
The three primary leaders of the Powered sat in a
disused parking garage awaiting the person they contacted for help: The Mighty Sentry, a formerly proud
and masculine man but now withered by the constant
war effort, his lover Roina’s hair was now grey instead
of the usual wavy red hair she kept in a loosely bound
pony tail, The Techno Knight, his armour mostly
broken in a fight earlier that day. They were all, by this
point, barely able to stand as The Nemesis flew in as
quietly as possible.

single one of you. You want me to make a grand spectacle of myself, and silence our favourite little incest
born abomination.” Roina nodded as The Nemesis sat
down on an partially destroyed Oldsmobile to contemplate his decision.
The Nemesis looked at them with an odd fervent
rage. His eyes red as flame in stone silence, hatred and
malice like an inferno swelled inside of him before
he finally spoke. “I will do this for you, I will be your
“traitor”. However I do not do this for you, nor for my
own child, nor even for myself. I do this for the fact
that it was you who delivered this order. It was not me
who betrayed my own kind, it was their three leaders.
It was the