Chapter 5

There was several hundreds of ghettos scattered all over the vast land of the Urano faction’s massive territory. This group had about fifty percent of planet Rindat's land mass. There was several factories that were erected to help support the “war effort” against the “evil” Ibor faction. The people were given constant propaganda to get them to work until they dropped dead. The lower class were made to feel terrible if they did not work until they dropped.

People were forced to work until they dead and they left many a child behind, as too many of the faction’s lower class worker died all too young. Orphans were becoming all too common these days on planet Rindat.

Pete was one such orphan that was left behind when his parents had died to overworked. The boy lived in an old worn down orphanage that over one hundred children lived in uncomfortably.

The small orphanage was five to six times the allotted housing capacity and it was a large fire hazard to all the children that had to dwell within in the rundown dump. All those that tried to escape were forced to go without food for three days on top on being physically abused.

The leaders of the institution could care less about the people that they were paid to care for but only care for the paycheck that it gave them.

The proprietors beat the children with whips and rods to give them “character”. Children were whipped nearly to death over something innocent as simply spilling milk. The children lived in constant fear of retaliation from the adults at the orphanage.

The children were given a poor excuse of an education at the institution and most was not able to learn anything from the piss poor teachers. Most of the children were illiterate but would pretend that they could read in front of the teachers. Once a year, inspectors would come to check up on the orphanage. The children were forced to put on a dog and pony show to fool the would be inspectors. The month before the inspection children would work day and night to get the orphanage in shape enough to pass inspection. It worked hook, line, and sinker every single time and within a few hours the inspectors would leave for another year. Then the children would get mistreated all over again.

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Bob was another lad that stayed at the same horrible home as Pete did. Bob was not very popular since he was both short and fat.

Most of the kids, would go” Squeal piggy piggy piggy! Squeal piggy piggy piggy!” when Bob got near them,

Bob yelled back at first at the terrible comments, but after some time he would ignore all the ugly comments.

The boy was naturally very chunky and he could not help how his body weight was distributed.

Bob was slower than a one legged sloth and none of the kids wanted to play with him on their sports team. He was always left the lone man out.

The one thing that Bob had better than everyone was his very good eyesight. The other children ignored this good trait and decided to focused on all of his negative traits. People often do not like to focus on the good things of life and focus only on the bad traits.

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Pete was always a very tall child we compared to other kids and he was also very lanky as well. His body was like that of a bean pole.

At the orphanage, Pete played all sorts of pranks on others, including on both the kids and

adults. Pete was always in trouble, but he did not fear being punishment. He even enjoyed the negative attention, since someone was actually paying attention to him once in his life after his parents had died. The boy was always causing trouble for the orphanage’s owners. It was like clockwork and everyone knew that it something was going to happen. The adults dreaded the wait until Pete acted out especially if the lad acted well for a few days. The adults would begin to squirm, until he finally disobeyed.

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Pete’s parents were both factory workers before they died due to being overworked by their heartless bosses. His parents worked up to one hundred and thirty-six hours a week for months at a time. They were both in their mid twenties when they were found dead at their work stations mere days a part. The couple were both died for days before they were found. Days went by before the staff finally figured out what to do the bodies.

Safety standards at the manufacturing plant were next to zero and people being killed daily by faulty equipment. Rats were gnawing on the couple when they were found by their coworkers.

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Pete was home alone for days when he decides to go to his parent's workplace. The boy would go home by himself after school until they arrived when they returned late that night to just have to leave early that morning. He was told to go straight home after school and to never leave the house alone was he got there. Pete was worried about his folks and ran to the old factory anyway after a few days.

When the boy finally arrives at the factory hear a commotion and was curious to what the hub bub was all about. He fought his way through the crowd to his utter horror. It was his dead parents lying next to each other like mere sacks of potatoes. They had bite marks all over their bodies

due to be eaten upon by the factory’s many hungry rats.

Pete ran over to the corpses and tried to wake them up but he did not realize that they were

already long gone. He was lost in his grief and did not even know that he was hauled away by some of the factory security guards. He was thrown roughly into a well worn van and taken to where he is at the present, a slum of an orphanage.

His parents’ bodies were thrown into the factory’s incinerator and burned in the flames as if they were trash. Pete was given no help with his grief at the orphanage and he was in his new found hell.

Pete was crying when he entered the establishment and attacked by one of the children.

He was hit in the side of his head with a large rock as soon as he entered the crummy building.

Pete fell to his side and clasped his blood drenched head.

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Bob’s parents were both miners in one of the Urano faction’s many infamous deathtraps, mines.

They were named Robert and Roberta and they were both only around four feet tall. They were forced into the deepest, narrowest mine shafts. The pair could get into nooks and carnies that most miners six foot plus could not enter into. They were forced to risk their lives to mine precious metals needed for the Urano war effort. If they did not do it then they would be branded as traitors by the Urano government. Robert and Roberta were very good miners but they were paid next to nothing. The Urano faction was very cheap in paying it’s blue collar workers.

One morning as always Bob was fed and given hugs and kisses by his parents. Then they left for work in their rugged miner’s outfits.

Roberta spoke to her husband as she walk with her husband,” Robert, I do not know what is up

but something is wrong, I just do not what.”

Robert spoke,” It must be your womanly intuition talking to you.”

Pete was on the ground grasping at his bloodstained head as he was in sheer bewilderment of what has just happened to him.

One of the orphanage’s staff grabbed out Pete off the ground as they begin to curse at him.

The rude lady staff member spoke,”We do not put up with crybabies here at Urano’s Best Orphanage! The sooner that you learn that the better!”

Pete fought against the evil woman but she pulled out a syringe from her coat pocket. She then jabbed the lad in his left shoulder with the syringe.

Pete passed out into his slumber.

The delivery driver that dropped off Pete to the orphanage throws a clipboard at the female staff member’s feet.

The man speaks.”I don’t care if you kill the brat I need you to signed that piece of paper so that I can get my money!”

The female staff member laughs as she picks up the clipboard signed all the lines next to the big “X”’s. The man catches the thrown clipboard from the staff member.

The driver returns the laugh and returns to his van. The drives off into the sunset.

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Pete has a spiked dog collar placed on him and is dragged with a chain through the orphanage by his neck. The boy was being mistreated even by the standards of animals. Pete was being made to be a spectacle for any of the children that even had the thought of rebelling against the staff members here. The lad was taken to the filthy attic and thrown into a huge metal case. The woman cursed as she was placed the padlocks on the large case. She then left the attic and she locked the door behind her.

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Pete had been drugged and he was in la-la land for about three days. He wakes up and he begun to groan out of pain. The boy feels and determined that he has been imprisoned in some sort of box. He starts to grow afraid and begins to panic.

After about thirty minutes, he quickly tires.

The boy thought,”I lost my parents and I have been thrown into this hell hole! What I have done to deserve this punishment?” I had always obeyed Mom and Dad. I am so hungry and thirsty! Why am I in this box?”

Pete was too weak to fight his way out of the box but his mind was still raging.

He said,”I must not give up! I will get out of here if it kills me! I will not let that witch beat me! Dad told me that if my body is beaten that I must not let my mind be beaten down as well! I will win!”

Three more days by, Pete hears the case rattle, and it opens up.

The boy bolts out of the box and tries to run out of the room. But the female staff member had locked the door behind her, when she had entered the attic.

The woman begins to laugh like a madwoman,”This is not my first rodeo, you little brat!”

The staff member beats Pete with a whip as blood gushes from his back.

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Bob was at school when he sees a man come to him in the middle of the blue.

The large man says,” Boy, come with me!”

Bob stands to feet and yells,”No, I will not do so! Mother and Father told me to never go with a stranger!”

The man laughs,” Your parents have both died in a mine collapse!”

Bob yells,” You are a liar! That is not true!”

The man speaks,” Teach, you can see that I am from the Urano government and have papers to take this brat! You can see my papers if you want.”

The teacher says,” No, that is okay! You can take him!”

Bob screams as the teacher returns to his lesson. The large man grabs up the boy and throws him into his state van.

The door slams and the man locks the back door. The man gets in the van and drives off to who knows where.

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Bob was not able to bring anything with him and he had nothing but the clothes on his back. The chunky lad had been left with nothing.

Bob whispers,”Mother, Father, I will not let this bring me down! I will find a better life than you two both had! I promise that to you!”

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Bob remembers being told how to be man from his Father.

Robert speaks,”If you feel the need to cry then do so but do not do it in front of your

enemies.”

Bob asks,” Why is that?”

The Father speaks,”Because it will be seen as weakness and you will attacked even harder! You need to learn cry on the inside.”

Bob speaks,”How do I do that?”

The Father speaks,”That is something that you will have to learn for yourself.”

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Bob smiles with a veil of water on his eyes.

The lad speaks,”I know what you were trying to tell me father.”

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The female staff member was still beating on the young Pete with her whip as blood begun to pour profusely from his back.

The woman shouts,” Give your will to me and I might show you some mercy! Good children are spared from beating, such as you are getting! Just give in and I will let you live!”

Pete still would not back down and gives the staff member a look of sheer disdain.

The lad would rather be beaten to death, than obey such an evil woman.

The woman shouts,” Curse you, I will break you even if it kills me! You will soon obey me or I will die trying!”

Pete manages to spit in the woman’s face and it angers her into complete hysterics.

She soccer kicks the young down Pete back onto the ground and she does not stop the assault.

Pete still tries to defend himself and he not allow himself to be broken in like an animal. He grabs the attacker’s leg with both of his lanky arms and is holding onto her for dear life.

Pete sees something flash in the corner of his eye and he sees that it is a rusty screwdriver.

The woman yells,”Let go of me you brat or I will feed you to the dogs!”

The lad’s life before his very eyes and he sees his dead parents before him as he had knew

them last.

Pete yells,”Mom! Dad! I thought that you were both dead, but here you are! Please help me! I beg you! I am being beat! Can you not see that?”

His parents both look at their son with a strong intense gaze of love.

His mother spoke,” Son, our bodies have been long since destroyed and only our spirits remain. We both wish to help you in this matter, but we are not able to do so.”

He looked at his parents with tears in his eyes, as he wailed out of absolute pain and horror of the beating that he had just received.

His father speaks,”Pete, you must not give in to the pain and die! You must fight on my son and not give to the grave! It is not your time to be with us yet! Fight, Pete, fight!”

The abuser looks down at the boy mumbling under his breath unintelligible.

The woman speaks,”The boy has gone mad! I need to finish this quickly or hard telling what he might do!”

The abuser starts to punch at the head of Pete mercilessly.

He spoke,”No, you are the insane one! You are a nutcase!”

He hammers down the screwdriver as the head of a hammer to the left thigh of his attacker.

The woman screams out in horror by the blow which amazes the beaten down boy.

Pete sees that the old rusty screwdriver is now plunged down to the handle inside this wench’s thigh. Pete was too tired to even smile or wonder to how he obtained the tool. But he just knew one

thing: that he had to leave his new found hell.

The female assailant was used to being the attacker not the one receiving the blows and it was very upsetting to self centered abuser. She took pleasure in the pain of others yet abhorred acquiring pain herself. She had lived a double standard because she expect the children to do tasks that she as an adult was unable to accomplish.

She was reaping what she had sowed. She gave others pain now it was time for her to be hurt as she had done to hundreds of innocent children. Of course this was all too hard of a pill for her shallow and she did not like it one bit.

The woman falls down to the floor, while screaming at the top of her lungs and land on her back. The old wooden floor had given no give to the child abuser and nails were poking her in back as she laid there in cringing pain.

Pete saw that the evil woman was writhing out in pain and thus it was the best time for him to escape the attic. The boy saw that the keys were connected to the woman’s waist band.

He walked over to the woman’s keys and Pete had his leg grabbed.

She spoke,”You thought that I would let escape from me? You must be insane!”

Pete was taken back by the sudden response.

He knew that he had to get the key from the evil woman if he was to escape this never ending

torment. He puts his arms behind his back and felt a loose two by four. He grabbed it and ripped it from

the wall.

He smashes down at the woman’s head repeatable as hard as his arms could allow him.

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Minutes goes by and Pete has smashed her head into oblivion. He finally stops and throws

the bloodied two by four to the other side of the room.

Pete unties the waist band from around the dead woman’s body and grabs the key ring. He runs to the old wooden door and desperately tries to find the key to the door.

He finally finds the correct key and escape out of the attic and down a set of stairs unto the second floor of the orphanage. The second floor was for the children's rooms and it had short series of rails that the children could looked down at the staff (on the first floor) as they were given instructions by the staff.

He turns the corner and he screams out in utter terror.

It was the woman that he had just killed!

Pete yells,”I just kill you! How could you be walking before me? That is impossible!”

The woman screams,” That was my twin sister that you had just killed! I will get my revenge!”

Pete yells,” Oh crap! There are two of you! One is more than enough!”

The woman charged at Pete, as the boy back up into a wall.

Right before the woman could catch him, he rolled out of the way next to the old rickety railing.

The woman hits head first into a huge pair of light bulbs. She was electrocuted by the light

socket as she was cut by the glass. The woman turns around and Pete’s mouth was agape.

She had broken grass shards in her eye sockets.

The woman walked backwards and fell over the rails head first.

She screams as she falls face first into the hard concrete ground. She breaks her neck instantly and yields to death’s call.

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Pete was walking in the large junk heap of what was once called a playground a long time ago. He had no rhyme or reason to where he went that day. The lad walked around to keep his mind off the incidents that had gone wrong in the past.

Pete is walking around and sees a circle of kids screaming,” Fight! Fight! Fight!”

Pete was curious to what was going on, so he wanted to see whom was fighting whom this day.

Pete forced his way through the crowd and he was shocked by what he saw.

It was a fat boy being kicked on the ground by five boys. Pete had never even seen this boy before, yet alone had a reason to beat him up.

Pete smacks one of the kids next to him.

Pete says,”Why are they beating up the new boy?”

The boy laughs and says,”Just because he would not get mad for being called names. They could not get a rise out of him!“

Pete asks,”That is it?”

The boy says,”Yeah!”

Pete gets mad and runs away from the beating. The lad looks to and fro for something in the yard. He was desperately in search for something.

Something catches Pete’s eye and it was a long metal pipe.

The lad grabs the pipe and rushes back to spot where the fat boy was getting beaten up

by the five attackers.

One of the boys watching the fight sees Pete with the long metal pipe over his shoulder and

takes off like rats.

Soon the rest of the kids watching the fight ran away as well.

The five kids are still beating on the defenseless boy like they were just playing with their toys. It was nothing to beat someone else for little or no reason.

Pete swings back as he prepares to knock out the tallest of the attacking boys. The four other boys saw him preparing to knock out their cohort, so they left him high and dry as they ran swiftly for their own lives.

He knocks out the remaining attacker and he falls on top of the victimized boy.

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Bob was laying bloodied on the ground with the large attacker of his lying uncomfortably on top of his midsection and his left arm. The beaten boy turns his neck to the side and sees a tall boy with a long metal pipe in his hands.

It scares Bob, so he blocks with his free hand that was not pined under by his attacker.

The tall boy had started to walk away when Bob yells out,” Stop! Do not hurt me!”

The victim was pulled up out from underneath the large boy, and he sees that the

tall boy has dropped his weapon down to the ground.

Bob was helped up to his feet by the tall boy. He dusts himself off and stretches his muscles a little bit.

Bob speaks,”Thank you for saving me! Can I least have your name? I would like to know who my rescuer was.”

The lad stops in his tracks and turns back around facing the beaten Bob.

The tall boy smiles,” I am Pete and it so no biggie! I beat those boys about two or three times a month! It is nothing new!”

The tall boy starts to turn around when he stops as if he had just remember something.

Pete asks,”What is your name?”

Bob walks over to his savior and shakes his hand.

He says,”I am Bob and you have got a friend for life!”

Pete smiles,”No problem, oh buddy, oh pal!”

The taller boy returns the handshake.