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Sharp Edge Of A Sword

Chapter one: The Sharp Edge.

Chapter one: The Sharp Edge.

Feb 26, 2024


It was finally time. 2 years after Agnar's first attempt, the time had come for the rebellious ant to succeed in his great escape. Today, was the day he'd leave his final mark in the ant colony, the Aries Empire. 


As usual, he'd got up and wore the hoodie which always protected him from public recognition, he wore his favorite bag that contained a multi-color spray can, a kitchen knife, and his hologram ring. He looked back at the mattress he and his father used to share a few years back, before the incident. Once finished, he left the 'house' (if it even had enough space to be called that). Agnar was never going to see that place again. 


Wandering through the giga-nest, his mind fixated on the thought that he'd never see this again, the fake tunnels designed to feel exactly how'd it feel when wandering through an ant nest billions of years ago, the small apartments and tiny houses located all around, the only homes that every ant could barely afford. Agnar was glad to leave it behind, but he'd still feel horrible on how the other insects won't be so lucky. 


During his walk, the Argentinian ant made sure no patrol was around before sneaking to a lonely, dark red alleyway. Once further in, he took the spray can awaiting it's last use from out of his bag. He spray-painted an artwork which depicted the opening of a door covered in dirt, wires, bills, eviction notes, and money, leading to a place being the complete opposite of that. Once finished, the ant tagged his artwork with an image of a sword's edge before placing his spray can on the ground. The spray can had the words "Sharp Edge" right on it. 


Ready to leave, he climbed the walls surrounding him in the alleyway all the way to the roof, starting his journey towards the military spaceships which were assigned to leave in 40 minutes. He sped through the roof on top of each house, shop, or building to eventually reach the ships 5 minutes before their leave. His eyes drifted their attention to one of the few soldiers who happened to be completely alone. The only soldier to be close enough to knock out quietly. 


Agnar carefully jumped down from the roof he stood on, crouching his way to the soldier before grabbing them by the throat and choking them, putting them to sleep. The ant removed the soldier's shirt and replaced it with his hoodie, then his bag after taking out his hologram ring from it. He hid whilst putting on the red based military shirt.


Five minutes later, the time for the ships to leave had arrived, Agnar rushed to the lines after the sleep-less commander took attendance. He marched with the rest of the soldiers in 'his group' to their assigned spaceship. Once inside, Agnar snuck to the weapons room to search for anything strong enough to be used for self defense. His search granted him 4 sharp, grey swords and an uneaten lollipop left on the floor, but also the curiosity of what was behind an extra door he noticed right after picking up the lollipop. 


A door labelled "Soldiers Keep Out" caught his attention, urging him to find out what was behind it. There was nobody around to reprimand him for it. He could find out what was inside without any consequences. The urge only got stronger the longer he gazed upon the door, until he stood up and walked up to it, twisting the knob, Agnar found himself 9 feet apart from 6 barrels filled with a glowing, yellow liquid labelled 'QUEEN'S RESERVES'. This piqued his attention past its limit, causing Agnar to move himself close enough to the barrels to be able to spit in them. 


Although, something interrupted him from even doing anything to the substance, the spaceship shook up and down, side to side as they almost came close in contact with a black hole. Every barrel was knocked towards Agnar, some of the substance spilled right onto his exoskeleton, burning it, climbing through the cracks from past injuries and somehow finding it's way into Agnar's blood. The ant's entire body writhed on the floor as he tried his best not to scream at the top of his lungs while the substance fused with his blood. Seconds later, he felt a change in strength and possibly smarts.


 It didn't matter much anyway, he needed to get out of the room as soon as possible to ensure he wouldn't get caught. 


He ran out of the room, limping, eventually falling to the ground while breathing through his mandibles. Surprisingly, he wasn't bleeding at all. He weakly crawled towards a crate to force himself off of the ground as two soldiers came up to him laughing.


"You have a rough time in here? Was it fun?"


The words of the mocking were based on how ridiculous it looked for Agnar to be limping around the weapon room. Agnar glared at the soldiers as he stood up. "Shut up." He told them, gaining an eye roll from the taller of the two before leaving Agnar and heading towards the spears section of the weapons room. More soldiers had entered the room after that, all which headed towards different sections of the weapons room. Agnar snuck past them, and sat down on the floor outside the room. Apparently the ship was only 3 minutes away from it's destination. 


Agnar and the rest of soldiers waited for the ship to land, the commander was giving out oxygen masks to last 78 hours without refills that also had a button to camouflage the masks as invisible if preferred.


Now all that Agnar had to do was wait for the doors of the ship to open. 


2 minutes left.


1 minute left.


0 minutes left.


Finally, the spaceship had stopped moving and the doors were opening, showcasing to Agnar what seemed to be a completely different solar system. An artificial planet with the shape of a beehive the size of Jupiter was right at the center, but not for long. Hundreds of ant soldiers poured out from hundreds of other ships including the one Agnar was on. Those soldiers delivered blood and agony to the opposing bee soldiers who defended their hive. Agnar watched in horror as he witnessed ant soldiers ripping the heads off from the bee soldiers, spears were being thrown constantly and guns were shot at every turn.


Agnar hid behind the ships, taking off the shirt he stole revealing the gray, sleeveless turtleneck he currently wore. His shirt blended in more with his surroundings now. Unfortunately, the Queen, Ares Skata had taken notice of him for being behind everyone else. She ordered a few dozen soldiers to go after him, while she got off her ship to sneak into the beehive. 




oct0willow
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Agnar attempts escaping his colony once again, 2 years after his last attempt. Also funny thingy uh. Agnar's dad killed himself

#war #graffiti #ants #Capitalistic_society #This_is_anti_capitalism_guys

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