AST
PHASE 2 . CATASTROPHIC
“Ah, shit! Why disconnected, anyway?” gerutu Adnan when his phone connection was cut off. His eyes caught a bus that had just arrived. He got up and sat in one of the seats on the bus.
His eyeballs occasionally looked in various directions, digesting everything the bus passengers did. Some are fast asleep, playing games on their phones, and some are engrossed in chatting. Not infrequently, Adnan caught the complaints and also the grunts of passengers to something that had just made him sniff annoyed too.
“Signals here often break up suddenly. Damnit damnit! I can't call my superiors like this
go on!”
“What western alliance severed its channel? In recent years they have been hostile to us.”
“If they disconnect the channel, do you think they've created their own channel, huh? Optical cable line
the world is interconnected. Where could they cut off the path that would later kill them themselves!”
“What happened for four years here?” adnan thought strange.
The two neutrals throw a glance out the bus window. Viewing the city streets and the high-rise buildings in
surrounding. The focus was also on a mountain on one side of the city. It was quite a distance away from the position of the bus he was riding at the moment. Adnan looked back at his watch. A strange feeling suddenly engulfed his mind. His chest felt tight—but he tried to ignore it.
“Where to?” ask a man who just got on the bus and sat next to Adnan. Wrinkles clearly visible on the look of his face. He smiled friendly.
“Civil records office,” replied the young man with black eyes—replying the old man's smile.
Silent moment. Adnan's mane strands occasionally slammed gracefully in the gust of wind that burst from the slightly open window. He took a long breath for a moment. Enjoying the air that he has not even breathed in since four years ago. An event made him have to move to a different place and forge everything there. Education, a series of lives, and even careers. However, there was only one that made him have to return to this city. That girl's.
“Civil records office is quite far from here. You have to take the train to get there.” The old man came back
blur. “But this morning I saw on the news, the station temporarily stopped its activity.”
Adnan looked at the man. “Why?” tanyanya.
“Entahlah. Old men like me very rarely understand the news on television, Nak.”
The young man returned strangely.
“Many disasters have devastated the Earth over the past few years. Floods, volcanoes erupting, earthquakes. And there are even issues that have sprung up if the western alliance declares war,” the man said. “Ah, an old man like me would rather die now than have to feel death by war or
disaster,” his complaint raised.
“But ... I heard this city is fine ...”
“I've been sniffing carnations since this morning. This what, yes, means?”
The man muttered while combing the white beard strands with his fingers. While Adnan, he was silent again
while thinking about the old man's words. Yes, the words made by elderly people are usually true and will become reality. A bad feeling the man may have felt. So is Adnan who is now feeling anxious. His anxiety increased when the bus stopped suddenly and unraveled his daydreams.
“What is this?”
“Why stop?”
The passengers asked each other, looking in different directions. Shouts echoed as the bus driver turned the speed of the vehicle he was driving. Passengers are falling down on each other. They wondered why the driver turned the bus upside down and even maneuvered lightning on the now boisterous highway.
“Pak! What happened?” one of the passengers.
“Do you think I want to die, huh? There's hot lava in there!” The driver screamed.
Adnan jerks. He turned and looked back. The red river lit up with smoke billows all around
started down the mountain that he had seen just a moment ago. His delicacy was restrained as a bang sounded and unraveled his focus. Adnan's body rolled several times, collided with the bodies of other passengers and landed unnaturally.
The wheels of the bus he was riding on fell into a large crack, causing the bus to roll over several times
and it ended after breaking through several buildings. The momentum coming from the only mountain in the city sounded loud. Accompanied by the roars of the residents who saved themselves.
Adnan regained consciousness as his phone rang. His eyes opened slowly, looking at the phone that had been thrown from his pants pocket and landed not far from its current position. For a moment he tried to reach the phone while grimacing with pain because his body was hit by the iron blade of the frame of the bus. While around it, many bodies were scattered like fish carcasses. Her net surged in shock when she saw the old man who was chatting with her just now was stretching his life towards her. His mouth was gaping like he was about to say something to the young man—but was restrained.
Adnan again grabbed his phone with great difficulty and hurried to pick up the call that had been since
fussing his ears.
“Captain!” Someone called from behind the phone. “I just found out you resigned. Are you back to
there's? You're moving there?”
The young man in black knew very well who was contacting him now. He snorted between his pain ringis. Trying to reply to the words of his interlocutor.
“Captain, I detected a large-magnitude earthquake in your old house just now. You been there?”
“This jerk's boy ...” Adnan grumbled inwardly. “I've already sent her a resignation letter, I'm definitely here now. Am I a fraud until she doesn't believe that? So stupid!”
If only Adnan could open his mouth, he would immediately scold his interlocutor. But he's better
turn off the call and immediately press an icon on the screen of his phone. While the young man who was the interlocutor of Adnan just got a notification on his phone.
“Share location?” muttered. A split second later his eyes glared.
“ADNAN!!”
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The tanned iris was clearly visible on the eyelids that had just opened slowly. The young man squirmed. Feel the percentimeter of his body suddenly like a cracker crumb. He almost felt numb. His gaze swept around the whitewashed room where he lay now, and ended at a few infusion hoses that constricted him.
“You are aware?” ask someone who just entered the room. “Captain Unit 3—Adnan Harris.”
Adnan cleared for a moment. “Where ... me?” tanyanya rasp.
“Cosmo treatment room Unit 1,” replied the all-white dressed woman. “You have an accident due to
disaster that happened in your old hometown, Captain.”
The young man nodded. “Bencaster?” telisiknya. A few seconds later, he jumped—remembered something—and almost fell out of bed before the woman finally helped him.
“You are still in care and forbidden to move, Captain.”
“I'm not a captain anymore!” his voice was upset while grimacing withstanding the pain all over his body. “I have to get out,”
said.
“But, Captain ...”
“I told you, I'm not a captain anymore!”
The woman who was a nurse was stuck for a moment. “Sorry, Young master. But you are forbidden to come out during the treatment period,” he said Gidik, “iron skeleton bus that hit your body causing some vertebrae of Your spine to be destroyed.”
Adnan flinched, glaring. “What?” tanyanya lirih—don't believe.
“That's right, Young master. I'm a nurse here, so I can't possibly fool you. You've even had one
week of unconsciousness since that event.”
The black-blasted youth again surged in shock. Silencing in his behavior. “How ... how can I get back here again?” ask again, still a little glistening.
The sound of the open door unravels the focus of Adnan and the nurse. A brunette young man
seemed to enter the room and immediately approached Adnan's bed. A second later, he frowned strangely at the young man who had just regained consciousness from his long slumber.
“You're aware?” tanyakanya.
“You sent me your location point back then, Captain. So we can send help for you. Anyway, why did you resign from your job?”
Adnan was still shaking and throwing his face away.
“Captain.”
This second, Adnan exhaled a very rough long breath. “I, right, resigned yesterday. Why do you still call me that?” tanyanya still did not want to look at the brown-shelled young man.
“Commander asks you to come back after you're healthy later,” timpal the young man ignored Adnan's question.
“Frederick Add.”
The young man gasped as Adnan mentioned his name. Especially when Adnan looked at him with those two mysterious eyes.
“Erick,” call Adnan. “Explain to me, why did the Commander ask me to come back?”
Erick lowered his gaze for a moment. He exhaled a deep breath before finally pulling out a chair and sitting near Adnan's bed.
“Earth destroyed,” said.
“Hah?”
“Events that happened one week ago have destroyed many regions, including places to live
your old. The eastern alliance was on the verge of collapse at this moment. At least that's what I got from the news spread in Cosmo until this second,” Erick said. “The leader of the western alliance sees this moment as an opportunity to launch that declaration. He contacted Cosmo and asked us to support his decision. I think the Commander ignored him. But it turned out to be all beyond expectations. The commander agreed to that and he called me to ask you to return to the military again.”
Both eyes of Adnan widened—surprised. “What? So ...”
Erick nodded. “As you realize now. The commander just decided it unilaterally. And ... peace may no longer apply now.”
“Tch.” Adnan grumbled annoyedly. His mind was instantly muddled.
“Lalu ... regarding the number of victims in your old residence, it is recorded that about 25,000 people died ...”
“Is there any name Adara on that list?” Adnan stroked to ask until he made Erick frown a little
to him. “Air. Yusagi Adara her name is.”
“Yusagi ... Adara ...” Erick muttered while thinking for a moment. “Kurasa ... no,” he continued later.
“Which region is the worst in my city?” Adnan returned impatient. Anxious has been seethed on his face.
“Quick say!”
Erick looked up to Adnan. The young man seemed to worry about a figure named Yusagi Adara until he had to
scooped it up this fiercely. “I don't know, Adnan. But ... schools as well as government headquarters are on the list. I saw him on the news this morning,” he replied trembling.
Adnan suddenly drowned. His gaze cheered sayu. A half-formed grin grin on his trembling lips. His brain is badly screwed. Remembering the figure of a person and also the events that happened to him is something that he cannot believe now. “Takay possible, right?” he muttered alone. He chuckled for a moment, then went back to silence. “I'll just pick him up. I've promised him,” he murmured again.
Meanwhile, Erick chose to let the young man grieve for a moment. Four years is not a short time for him at Cosmo, and this time it's—when Adnan returns to his hometown—all the young man's dreams seem to disappear so quickly. Especially when he mentioned the name Yusagi Adara. Erick is very sure that Yusagi Adara is a figure who wants Adnan to meet a week ago—but failed.
Something unravels Erick's daydream. A code was heard from the earphone that was installed in one of his ears. Erick got up from the chair and rushed away from Adnan's bed.
“Here Frederick Add,” he said softly.
“You told Harris?” ask someone behind the call. “How's the response?”
Erick thought for a moment. “Adnan has not answered it, sir,” the answer is still through—hope Adnan not
overheard him.
“Why? Why so long?” grit the interlocutor Erick.
“Sorry, Sir. Adnan has just regained consciousness and it still takes a long time of care for him to return to the military.”
The man who was the interlocutor Erick screeched for a moment. “Tell him, if he doesn't agree to this plan
then at any moment he won't be able to return to Earth. Say also, if a person like him will not be able to survive with such body conditions,” he stressed, “he must agree to his plan if he wants to return to normal life.”
Erick's chest tightened for a second. He was just Adnan's partner, but somehow he was struck by lightning after
just heard the man's words. He even almost banged his fist against the wall shortly after the man closed the call—but failed. Erick remembers that Adnan is now being hit and impossible for him
tell me about this. But, tell me to keep telling. He had to tell Adnan immediately before it was too late.
“Adnan,” call Erick. Adnan again threw a reluctant face at him.
“What did he just say to you?”
Erick jerking. He had already shrunk the volume of his voice when he received the call, but in reality Adnan heard their talk. He sighed and swallowed his saliva for a moment.
“The commander said, you will not be able to return to Earth under these conditions. There are many ways to
make you normal, but on one condition,” said, “kau .. must agree to his plan.”
Silent. Adnan. While Erick, he doesn't know what to do after this. Or even, he could
just get out of the room and blame himself for telling Adnan that honesty.
“Two months,” says Erick again. “If you agree to the plan, then it will only take two months until we
shipped to Earth.”
“What's the only way that I can meet Adara?” Adnan still refused to look at Erick.
Erick was back. The brown-spirited youth was not even familiar to the figure that his partner was worried about
that's. “Captain like you must have a lot of crazy ways,” he said, “if you can control the situation, I will support you to meet him. Even if I have to sacrifice my life as well.”
Adnan. Making his own eyeballs clear by Erick. “I didn't tell you to sacrifice,”
lirhnya .
“I know.” Erick nimble chimed. “Since I've lived here, you're the only one who wants to
help, Adnan. You are my friend. My friend ...”
“Do not say your sacrifice is only to repay my debt,” interrupted Adnan.
“No! I'm serious!”
“My debt doesn't need you to repay. After all, you were my partner for four years here.”
Erick speechless.
“So, when can I tell the Commander if I agree to his plan?”
The brown-blossomed youth again gasped. His breath was blocked for a split second.
“Ng .. let me tell Commander,” Erick replied. “But ... if you agree to it, then you will destroy your home country, Adnan,” scolds meekly, “kau .. did you do that, while you still have dual citizenship status now.”
Adnan. His eyeballs closed with a breath coming out of his nostrils for a moment.
“Entah.”
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