Sentinel, the
Episode/Issue 1

A bright light gradually forms from darkness. As it becomes brighter, a voice is heard.
	"We have created a monitor of all great activity, which we call the Presscam after the English "press" meaning reporters of information in the media. Presscam 1 has found this planet Earth to hold great potential despite its general insignificance. There are some forms on this planet with the capability of incredible power. They may future be the protectors of the ALL. For this reason we monitor and record the lives and actions of the leader Sentinelia and the LifeGod known as Tygehr'hra. Transmission commencing."
During this transmission, the light is shrunken and then transported into a tiny metallic ball.  Once the light is inside, the ball becomes black and vanishes. Intro.
	ULI
Uni: Machiverse
Gal: 1st
Pln: Earth
Time: 4/32/210 AM; 23rd; 6:22 AM Local
Nat/State: U.S.N.A./Mary'sland
City/bldng: ShadySide/Darco
Room: Underground
POV: Presscam 58
	
A crowd of hooded spectators watches as a man steps up to a podium. With a gesture he silences their cheering. When the area is completely quiet, he speaks.
Kalvos: "Nowday, a great event occurs. A moment we long await, when the only warrior who can stop us is found... and defeated. There is a new scripture in the book, which we read. (Reading) 'Thisday, the Sentinel will be uncovered, the only one who can stop the coming wrath and destruction.' We find the Sentinel, and destroy him before any harm can be done against our campaign. 
Soon, we are unstoppable."
As he speaks this last sentence, zoom on his left eye.  Show Kalvos' Kross in eye.

POV: Kausthe

Suddenly, a young woman wakes up. As she begins to move, she flinches as a high-pitched sound is heard.
Kausthe thinks: "Aah! It is not good to be awake when the sleep alarm disengage!" She stands as her grav bed shuts down and begins the auto-prep process. As she dresses, a small sphere from the wall flies in front of her and becomes a glowing orb, which shows the 3d image of the face of another young woman.
Schuarts: "Meisep, Kady. I not believe you forget about the early meetin today? Five [m]."
Kausthe: "I need sleep, Koni. I not get it either. I get to base in five." She walks into kitchen and orb follows. 
Schuarts: "I figger! On you wager." Kausthe grabs an apple from a counter.
Kausthe: "Good."

City/bldng: ShadySide/Ap. 19207305 of Schuarts
Room: Outside- PA lot
POV: Schuarts

The woman seen from the orb opens the door of her craft and leaves the PA lot of her apartment, traveling at top speed (mach 2) to get to her Enforcers base over 100 miles away in two minutes.
Schuarts (thought): "I get up an hour earlier, and I'm late. Kady wakes with five min and she thinks she's on time. As if. (smiles) Hey! First-generation; I need to get somethin' for Kady. 15 only come once a century."

City/bldng: ShadySide/Enforcers Base 21065
Room: Main area
POV: Presscam

Schuarts walks through the third hallway of her Enforcers Base in a hurry. As she nears the end of the hall, she takes a right into what appears to a labeled section of wall. The wall opens into a doorway, and Schuarts enters the meeting room. Searching for a seat, she finds her friend, Kady, already seated.
Kausthe: "Take long enough, que."
Schuarts: "Kady... Sometime you amaze even me. The woman in the front of the room speaks."
Lt. Kmatami: "Enforcers... we have a problem. This, alone, is enough to cause disarray. There has not been a major crime in over 20 years. As is known you the Enforcers are successful, over 25 years. That begins to change now. A group of powerful nemesi are creating trouble now, and current surveys suggest a cult. Heavy muttering and clamor ensues. Nat[urally], I understand. This possibility is brought by the fact that such nemesi have the same fashion- black cloaks. They also have much accessibility to advanced weaponry and technology. The Police are of no use as we have no prisoners yet, and the Detectives not find a trail. We need prisoners to confirm the center and purpose of this believed cult." She looks around, trying to find something else to say, and fails. Dismissed.
Most of the Enforcers gathered in the room disperse, except for Kady, Koni, and seven others (Menni, Shinni, Kenni, Kalou, Su, Kmatami, and Cptn. Tyger).
Shinni: "Are these cultists former civilians?"
Kmatami: "Ordinary workers, just vanish from their homes or workplaces."
Shinni: "Can I get a survey of those workplaces?"
Kmatami: "Maybe... yes. Here. Perps work for varying companies... all subsidiaries of Global Tech. 
That's an excellent lead, Tennem, and I'm surprised no one think of it yet. Get to that main building and investigate the situation there."
Shinni: "I have work here. Um... Private Kausthe and Corporal Schuarts undergo that kind of investigation."
Kmatami: "Well then... Schuarts, Kausthe, get to the Global Main-"
Schuarts: "I hear. We complete." Kady and Koni leave the building, get into Koni's ENF craft, and head off towards their destination.

Time: 7:43

Kady and Koni leave the main building of Global Tech., walking on the inverted PA lot.
Schuarts: "That's a dead blast."
Kausthe: "You know. You almost kill the president of Global Tech."
Schuarts: "Try to get information. It makes sense that the cult movements stem from here."
Kausthe: "You conclude too fast. You probably get demote for this."
Schuarts: "Nah; the presi not press charges." Stops briefly... "I trust you Kady." Stops again. "On another thought, you want me demote, don't you?"
Kausthe: "Koni, I'm surprised! Hell yes. ...Wait."
Schuarts: "Eh que?"
Kausthe: "I look over this list of converted now-cultists and most of them are from Darco inc. by a bare majority. Darco specializes in weapons/tech manufacture and trade."
Schuarts: "That makes sense. It explains their access to such hi technology. But we don't have a warrant." As Koni finishes her sentence, they are both surprised by a special alert which they hear in their minds only, and immediately start running toward the craft.
Schuarts: "Excellent! We follow this cultist robber and find their main base."
Kausthe: "If possible. They have security but... I agree. Let complete!" They jump into the top of the craft and begin heading toward the site of the last alert at top speed. After traveling for a few seconds, they briefly see another craft going across their path.
Kausthe: "Pull 255º! That's them!" The Enforcer lite craft takes an extremely sharp left without slowing and follows the perpetrator craft. Inside the craft, two men in black robes watch behind them.
Driver: "We have an enforcer craft following now."
Passenger: "Excellent. This plan works perfectly." 
The perp craft leads the ENF lite into a main section of Sub-Annapolis, where they have greater chance of eluding them, or at least making it seem as though they want to. The craft lifts slightly above the chase, then suddenly puts on reverse, but Schuarts, having seen this move coming, pulls up and behind, staying directly behind the perp craft, which almost causes a collision.
Driver: "They're good!"
Passenger: "They probably have high clearance, if they can pull that." The perp craft lurches into a right bank dive, passing between two close buildings, and Schuarts, with an excellent eye to every detail, follows suit perfectly.
Schuarts: "HA! I not fall for that!" Between the buildings is a dark alley that runs between a large group of structures (obviously a Plaza). The leading craft takes random turns, presumably trying to lead the lite off guard, but Schuarts doesn't miss a beat and stays right behind them.
Schuarts (casually): "They're leading slowly closer to the Darco main." The craft emerge from the alleyway, dodging between various buildings, and the two stay stuck together.
Schuarts: "This is getting old!" The perps seem to agree, for they pull into a sudden, and steep, dive. The lite tails them of course, falling behind at a slow but steady rate because the light doesn't have adequate propulsion. They fall several thousand feet, the ground growing closer.
Kausthe: "2000 km! We hit the surface, Koni!"
Schuarts: "Idonccharé, Kady. I catch them!!" Less than a hundred feet from the surface (a great deal closer than they're allowed by law to go), the craft pull up in a relatively large curve. There, above them but directly ahead, is the Darco main building.

City/bldng: Annapolis Seco/Darco outside
Time: 7:59

Kady and Koni approach the Darco main building. Inside, the President of Darco, Kalvos, watches- through vid- the enforcers heading toward his main building.  The cult robbers head to the extreme right of the main building, then in a surprise maneuver, begin to dock in Darco main.
Schuarts: "Ha! That stupid trick, not surprise me." They follow into the building dock bay and see the cultists leaving in levator.
Kausthe: "Follow!"
Schuarts (opening the top and climbing out): "No. Really?" As they leave the Enforcer craft, however, their eye sensors detect visible cloaking shields and automatically bring them down. The cultists in cloak, not surprised at the loss of their shields, move in instantly, catching the jr. enforcers before the two can arm themselves.

Meanwhile, in Kalvos' office

Kalvos: "Juniors?! I need real Enforcers. Kill them and lure some senior enforcers!"
Priest 1 /5): "We can't; they know their people have been kidnapped because, we can't cut communications completely. This is the best we can do."
Kalvos: "Rrrrrrrrg. Ah well, at least it's not a total loss." He leaves the office toward the hold in the "basement" (storage garage, bottom floor).

Kausthe and Schuarts are suspended by a cryn beam and suspended in Cryo-hold so that they can't move at all voluntarily, but can think in techno-teleph to communicate.
Kausthe thinks: "Well, Mz. Hacker, get us out of this one que."
Schuarts thinks: "Yeah, yeah, I'm workin' on it." Kalvos enters the office casually and acts as though he's surprised that they're there, but not with the normal level of surprise of someone finding two Enforcers suspended in their office.
Schuarts thinks: "So, the evil madman show himself."
Kalvos: "I am Kalvos."
Schuarts thinks: "Oh, the impressive intro. I see. You give us that "I beat you and there's nothing you can do about it" speech?"
Kalvos: "Shut up! I've far from won, and I need some information on the Enforcers' knowledge of our operations to ensure success."
Kausthe thinks (slightly exasperated): "We not tell you!"
Schuarts thinks (at the same time): "The Enforcers know almost nothing about you, Kalvos! Shinni only find out where you are!"
Kausthe thinks: "Good move, genius. I see why you're higher ranked than me."
Schuarts thinks: "Who are you, 'Kalvos'?"
Kalvos: "I have no reason to tell you that. You've served your purpose."
Schuarts thinks: "Cici, evil people have a gene that makes them love explaining their plan over and over a-"
Kalvos: "Not me! NOT ME!! Get rid of them!"
Kausthe thinks: "You kill us, and I let the Enforcers know exactly where you're operating!"
Kalvos: (after heavy thought) "Very well. I give you two choices to let the Enforcers off us. We send you back with memory blocks, or we tell you everything and then kill you."
Kausthe thinks: "Actually, I prefer just let them know now."
Schuarts thinks: "No! I want the info." To Kausthe only: "I get us out by the time he tell us everything."
Kalvos: "Very well. Interesting choice. 
I'm a simple person. I own a weapons technology manufacturer that often participates in illegal smuggling and houses the main part of a large cult, the Omega. I not tell you the purpose of this cult.:
Schuarts thinks: "But why? Why lead a cult anyway? It's an incredibly human thing to do."
Kalvos: "My motives are simple but as for acting human, well..."
Schuarts thinks: "YOU'RE A HUMAN?!"
Kalvos: "Of course, girl. I'm born of about 10 thousand years ago!" Both Kausthe and Schuarts let a mental gasp.
Kalvos: "Ha. I'm not exactly a human, you see. And I have will to carry out my father's purpose."
Kausthe thinks: "Yavül!  There's no possible way to succeed, whatever your plan."
Kalvos: "Though I am far from won, I am too far to let a few Enforcers stop me. A lot of enforcers, however..."
Schuarts thinks: "What is your goal?"
Kalvos: "I not tell you! I'm no fool."
Schuarts thinks: "Then WHAT... ARE YOU?"
Kalvos: "I am a demon. Another mental gasp from the two. Heh. You begin to understand now. As for my father that I speak of... His name is Satàn, yester."
Kausthe thinks: "A demon? Shouldn't you be frightening and fiery, instead of bald?" Kalvos rushes up to her to look into her eye so that she can see his Kalvos' Kross.
Kalvos: "You think me not intimidating, girl? I am in human form. In full demon form, I am terrifying enough that you, seeing me, faint!"
Kausthe thinks: "You think me a weak girl? I'll show you power. You could never frighten me!" Kalvos doesn't respond, as he's lost track of the conversation. Upon saying his last line, he has noticed the faint, almost invisible, trace of a skull in Kausthe's eyes. He recognizes the "Skull-in-eye" as the mark of the Sentinel, the warrior he has been expecting to meet.
Kalvos: "The Sentinel? A girl?"
Kausthe thinks: "Hey, I'm 15! Today."
Schuarts thinks: "By the way, first-generation."
Kausthe thinks: ".Tae ke."
Kalvos: "Of course. The ten factor. You're 150..."
Kausthe thinks: "WHAT?!" 

POV: Kausthe

Suddenly, Kausthe loses perception of the world and feels herself falling through darkness. She lands on something hard, not able to see anything around her, yet somehow she herself is not darkened, as though a light shines on her and on nothing else. She looks around, and a figure moves, as though into a spotlight, within her current visible range. It is a giant skull, and it looks somehow friendly.
Kausthe: "Who...?"
Skull: "I am skulleye. I am the skull seen within your eyes."
Kausthe: "Yeah. There's a skull visible in my eyes. And nobody happens to notice."
Skulleye: "No one ever looks in your eyes. The symbol is there, though hard to see. You are the Sentinel."
Kausthe: "The... S..."
Skulleye: "Of course this is a shock to you, but I not see it necessary to point this out to you yester. Now, you meet the demon Kalvos, which you are created to destroy. "
Kausthe: "Created to destroy? I'm not created."
Skulleye: "Yes, you are. You don't need to know the whole story at this point, but you are created of the Godlies, mainly Onni and Sam-hein/Death, to destroy the demon Kalvos, born of the destruction of Satán. You are embued with the power of Life. That is, the Life beams. They are generated within your brain and released from your eyes. You must learn to use them."
Kausthe: "What the hell are you talking about? Where am I?"
Skulleye: "Most accurately, you're in your own head. This is the part of your brain that I live in. Don't worry, Kalvos and everyone else are still out there. But time perception within this small space is accelerated."
Kausthe: "Yeah, whatever. Might as well try this."
Skulleye: "Good. Once you are in your own world again, focus your energy slightly behind your eyes and outward. You'll feel the power of the Life beams; at least, I hope so." Kausthe makes to speak again, but suddenly she is lifted into the "air" and carried out of the recess of her mind. She sees once again Kalvos, about to kill her.
Kalvos: "I don't need to tell you anything about your existence Sentinel, if you don't remember. Kill them!" Kalvos turns his back and begins to walk back to his desk.
Schuarts: "Wait!" But the guards who have entered the room don't care what these Enforcers might say now. They lift their pswords, ready, prepped, and fit to kill. At that instant, Schuarts drops the cryn beam and the two land on the floor. Then Kausthe, as though she has done it all her life, releases a green beam from within her eyes, and the two guards are quickly evaporated in a green light.
Kausthe: "Why's it called Life beam if it kills people?" Kalvos quickly stands, and Kausthe turns to face him, eyes glowing with long-held back power. Schuarts is already facing him, psword aimed to his head.
Schuarts: "Whatever the hell's going on, Kalvos, I'm killin' you now." Kalvos laughs. 
Kalvos: "Like I said, a few enforcers are no matter to me. I also said that in demon form I am very frightening. Observe." Kalvos flicks his hand as if to snap. The friction creates a small flame on his thumb.  He then rubs this flame against his face. It catches fire. Soon his entire head is a tempest of heat, and the fire runs down his back, catching his clothes. Schuarts and Kausthe are too disgusted and frightened by this strange act to do anything. Suddenly, Kalvos' eyes explode, and as if starting a chain reaction, his entire body is quickly encompassed in fire.  It burns away, leaving only a flaming skeleton, which speaks to them in an amazingly unchanged voice.
Kalvos: "Like I say. And now, Sentinel, you die as prophecied." Hot napalm stretches across the floor, and Schuarts begins to move to the exit. Kausthe stares at the heat.
Kausthe: "So that's what fire looks like."
Schuarts: "Let's go, dalron!"
Schuarts thinks: "Computer, open window." 
Computer thinks: "Window locked."
Schuarts thinks: "11001111 11110000 01100101 11101110 10110111 10100000 11100100 11100001 11101101 11101110 10100000 01101001 01110100 00100001."
Computer thinks: "Window opening." Kausthe and Schuarts jump out of the window and land on an inverted PA lot directly below. Schuarts begins to lead Kausthe toward an end of the PA lot.
Kausthe: "Where in szehll are we going?"
Schuarts: "There's a craft over here I see coming in!"
Kausthe: "We're can't escape their primary building with their weapons!"
Schuarts: "I can try. You can hang on." Schuarts leads Kausthe to the end of the PA lot and they jump off. After a second of falling, a speck becomes visible below them. They land in the bed of a cargo trailer, and Schuarts runs to the console. The top opens and she begins to climb in.
Kausthe: "You see this down here flying in at over a mach?"
Schuarts: "Well if I know it's a flatbed, I find something else!" The top closes and the trailer pulls off quickly. Seconds later, when Darco main is almost a speck, several craft are seen behind the trailer, and the people inside are firing automatic pswords at it.
Schuarts: "Whoa. I got to get me one of those."
Kausthe: "Koni! Speed!"
Schuarts: "This thing can't hit even standard speed. I guess they not think they'd want to go fast while carrying dangerous weapons."
Schuarts thinks: "On another thought, it has hyperdrive." Kalvos' limosuite pulls ahead of the other pursuing craft and he climbs onto the top, still a flaming skeleton.
Kausthe thinks: "He's good. I can barely stand up right now."
Skulleye thinks: "Sentinel, remember who you are!"
Kausthe thinks: "Life beams aren't very useful right now!"
Skulleye thinks: "Sentinel, you are the General of the Army of the Dead. You control the Dead.  To bring about skeletal buddies, say 'E'tokch'. To get rid of them, 'Ke'daunch.'"
Kausthe thinks:  "Yeah, whatever. Might as well try it."
Kausthe: "E'TOKCH!" After several seconds of Kausthe looking like an idiot, two of the craft are detonated. As the shards clear, a couple of skeletons jump onto Kalvos' limosuite.  Kalvos reacts by shooting napalm into the skeletons' faces, and it has absolutely no effect. So he tries a simpler method, and punches them. They go flying. 
Kausthe: "KE'DAUNCH!" The skeletons falling suddenly become powder. Kausthe watches them collapse in the air as nothing is left of them, and instinct takes over.
Kausthe: "I AM THE SENTINEL!" Bones blast out of her back, shattering her clothes, and cover her body to some extent. Kalvos stares in amazement, then reacts by sending a spurt of napalm toward the trailer, straining to push it faster than the speed his craft is going. The Sentinel fires Life beams which keep the liquid flame at bay.
Schuarts: "Kady, get in here."
Kausthe: "I'm doing something right now!"
Schuarts: "I mean it."
Kausthe: "I'm busy!"
Schuarts: "Going to hyperdrive in 5... 4..."
Kausthe: "!Dalron!" She leaps through the open top of the craft and gets situated just as the craft is thrown forward even faster than before.
Schuarts: "Glad to see you make it. We're currently cruising at mach 32, approx. 11 kilos above the surface. Keep all appendages inside-"
Kausthe: "Shut up! You almost get me killed!"
Schuarts: "Don't worry, we probably die soon anyway. Kalvos has a limosuite capable of 48-mach hyperdrive. In other words, we're screwed right now."
Kausthe: "!Dancha! Now what?"
Schuarts: "I try evasive if this thing's not so unstable. It's coming apart slowly now."
Kausthe: "Crap!"
Schuarts: "By the way, NICE suit."

Kalvos: "Hyperdrive, now!" The driver engages hyperdrive much faster than the trailer did and his NIUR tells him exactly where the pursued craft is. 
Driver: "We're gaining. Reach pursued craft in approx. 1.4 minutes, morrow."
Kalvos: "Hyperdrive is a bad idea for them. Now there's nothing they can do." Nothing is said within the two craft as they race to see who will win. When there is approximately 8 seconds before the trailer is within striking range of the armed limosuite, the pursuing craft is suddenly hit in the side and plummets uncontrollably to the surface. As soon as it hits, the limo explodes, killing the driver inside from the velocity of the crash. Kalvos is mostly unscathed, and he looks around the forest to see, if he can, what shot him down. Finally, he spots a figure, humanoid but with a tail waving behind it, up in one of the trees.
Figure: "This is as far as you go, Kalvos."
Schuarts: "Kalvos is no longer on our tail." The craft returns, several minutes later, to the Enforcers base. As they are leaving the craft to enter the building, Kausthe speaks.
Kausthe: "I don't know why Kalvos isn't still behind us."
Schuarts: "Who cares? Hey, you keep wearing that, or do you want to change?"
Kausthe: "My clothes are shredded. I guess I have to go back home and get some more."
Kmatami: "Well? What's going on here?"
The voice heard at the intro speaks again:
The Sentinel has discovered her identity, and has met the demon she is to destroy, Kalvos. She has much to learn, and the tailed man who stopped Kalvos has not yet been introduced to her. 
Transmission break.