(Some of the Characters mentioned in this chapter belong to my friend @TAngel96, They're from the book Dust to Dusk. I reccomend that you read that one too, it's great!) 

James was still offline after nearly four hours. James was reaching the final part of his memories. Charon didn't know this, but as the time the download progressed, James was experiencing his memories. A hundred years passed for James while the world around him had only a few hours pass. 

"Come on James we need to get these evac birds in the air!" A woman stated to him. The woman was clad in a blue armor with wings of sorts on the back. The armor was also a gold of sorts in places. 

James got off the ground and had a rifle in his hands. "Understood," James said to her. 

James ran off to the massive ship ahead of them. The woman took off for the sky, and many a civilian were scrambling. James looked up to the heavens and saw a black cloud and so many explosions occurring in the skies above. Soldiers with the insignia of the MDU on their shoulders were guiding the civilians to the evacuation vessels. 

"Sir we've lost communication with Evacuation ship 11-0!" A soldier exclaimed into his radio. 

"Operatives Codename TR and S76 were on that ship! Do you have communications with Operative Zen?" 

"No sir, the unit went dark on the rock ten minutes ago!" 

"This has all gone to hell. Make a prayer to your god Sergeant, judgment has come." 

James ran across the way with a rifle clutched in his hand, this was all so real. He could see the panicked crying faces of the people he came across. The world was crashing down around them, and there was nothing that they could do to stop it. 

"James! I need your help!" He looked over to his left to see another woman in a suit of armor with wings. Hers was white and had a red cross on it. In one hand she held a staff, and the other was a man heavily injured. James crouched down close to him; the man had shrapnel in his arm a piece of glass from one of the windows that had broken above. James heard a fighter jet fly overhead and glanced up. He couldn't understand what was going on, as far as he knew there was only the darkness above him. 

"What do you need me to do Angela?" He asked looking at his injury. 

"Administer Novocaine, 12 milliliters!" 

"Got it," James replied. "What the heck, I can't do that." He thought to himself. His actions weren't his own; he was forced to watch himself do all of these things. He then watched in awe as a needle poked itself out of his index finger and he inserted it into the man's arm. 

"Okay, this is still going to hurt a bit." Angela stated to him calmly. She then pried the shard of glass out of his arm. The man grunted in pain. "Let's get you patched up." She said aiming a yellow beam at his arm, James noticed how his wound was healed instantly because of it. 

"That's golden age tech for ya, always able to amaze." James thought to himself. 

James then looked over to his left and saw a crowd fleeing toward the evac ships then one of them was gunned down by an all too familiar purple blast. "The hive?!" He exclaimed in his head. He then watched as his past self began to fire his rifle into the acolytes that advanced. 

"ANGELA WE HAVE TANGOS!" I yelled over the sound of my gun. 

"Keep them off me, James!" She replied trying to get more people to the evacuation ships. 

Then James looked up and heard a crash, followed by glass and metal falling from the sky then a Hive seeder impacted in front of him. James readied himself, and the hive seeder pierced open revealing many hive soldiers. His past self then fired into these creatures, all the while he could understand the panic that was going through his head at the time. 

"What happened to our operatives on Venus?!" James asked her. 

"A group of three people are there right now; they call themselves fireteam Riptide." 

"Wasn't that a name of a black ops unit?!" James yelled cracking the butt of his rifle against an acolytes skull. 

"We can't say for certain, but one of them seems to possess the abilities of Thundercrash." Angela remarked getting another civilian up. 

"Cameron?" He thought to himself. He learned a few things about her during this whole experience. One, she was the first guardian, or at least the first titan, until he learned about the three other beings with special powers who disappeared shortly after the traveler arrived. Their names were Alaura, Tanis, and Malachi. Now they were back and on Venus. Two, she and James did like each other but never said anything about it. It went nowhere. Three, he was a part of the UN peacekeeping force known as the MDU. He fought terrorists across the world before this happened. Four, Cameron was the first woman to set foot on Mars. 

James looked up as one of the evacuation ships was destroyed. "I know what I have to do." He said to himself and ran over to the position of one of the air to space fighters. James hopped inside and took off for the sky. The ship thrust up into the atmosphere much like the ships that he had used before. He breached the atmosphere and immediately noticed the massive black cloud ahead of him. Then the fragment finally fell into place. The puzzle that he never understood finally made sense. 

He knew who he was. But there was one thing that was nagging him. It was the first memory fragment that he had witnessed. Out of all of the things he had seen, from his activation on the operating table in the MDU base on the Strait of Gibraltar to his eventual death at the hands of the darkness. That one fragment didn't fit in the timeline that his mind had put together for him. At no point did his birth make sense, it literally didn't fit in anything. From what 76 told him when he woke up, he was created for them.

But his mom told him something else, in fact, his past self didn't remember anything about his mom. He didn't understand why. 

James then woke up from the bed, and the clamps undid themselves. 

"Charon?" He asked looking around.

"Yeah, you alright buddy, you were shaking for the past ten minutes." 

"I just witnessed the collapse, Charon. All my friends in the MDU, how they died. There was so much death and destruction. I was terrified." He said sitting up on the table.

"Did you learn everything you wanted to know James?" He asked him hopefully. 

James didn't know how to answer that question. He knew only half of his life's story, but he knew how badly Charon would like to go home and see his daughter. So the decision for him was easy. 

"Yes, let's get out of here." He said placing his hand on the computer. 

"What are you doing?"

"I just learned a new ability that I have. I can place my hand on any electronic device, fix it, and absorb its memory." He said removing his hand. He took everything that he could know from the computer, including a schematic of the building. 

"So, you want to get moving?" He asked glancing at him. 

"Yeah, you still want to go get a drink? That sounds like you've had a pretty traumatic experience." 

"Yes, I owe you after all." 

Charon laughed. "Okay, let's get out of here." 

The pair of warlocks exited the building, and both were blinded by the light of the sun above them. 

"So I was out for four hours?" James asked looking at the sun beginning to lower. 

"Yep, on the dot," Charon replied hoping on his sparrow. 

The two then sped off back towards the city. "How could he be alright after seeing stuff like that? I mean, the collapse had to have been a pretty terrifying time to be alive, yet he's just shrugging it off."

James wasn't shrugging it off, what he had seen truly shook him down to a fundamental level. He watched as his teammates were killed in battle by the hive broods and the worst part of it was that he couldn't do anything to save them. He was up in space trying to help the evacuation vessels escape, and he could hear them scream as the darkness consumed them. 

James wanted to cry so bad. But he couldn't, not in front of Charon. He could hold his emotions in until he was with Cameron. But something that made him better was that he could tell her about her past. The things that she had accomplished and her part in the MDU. Those people were his friends; they meant a lot to him. What made him upset more than anything was that he had forgotten about them for a long time. People like that should be honored, and it made him more convinced that the heroes museum needed to be completed. 

"So you have a particular spot in mind for us to go get a drink?" 

"Yeah, Vintagi's, it's a nice place good food, great drinks, and an excellent Russian bartender." 

"Sounds like quite the time." 

"It is, I'll just call Cameron and tell her we're going."

"Okay, I'll do the same for Nova. And James?"

"What?"

"I look forward to what you'll teach Nova."

"I look forward to teaching her," James replied smiling under his helmet visor as the two approached the city's gates.