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V For Vendetta: Eternal: Episode I - New hope

by Vacat1o

Vacat1o Finally, the first episode of the V miniseries is finally here. This story presents a mysterious anarchist, vigilante, and freedom fighter who is easily recognizable by his Guy Fawkes mask, long hair and dark clothing, V. He fights for Vlatava, a fictional country from Europe controlled by terrorists. The episode begins with V stealing plutonium from a nuclear power plant.
The hopes of the society are now gone. It all starts at their new order. All citizens are now locked inside Vlatava, the country located in Eastern Europe that had a long-standing history of cleansing genocides, blood feuds and internal wars lasting for decades, and whose borders currently protect a terrorist organisation that is wreaking havoc across the continent. The innocent people living inside Vlatava have lost their will to fight against them. The laws became too strict, no one has the courage to wrong the terrorists that call themselves the true owners of the country. That is soon about to change.

On the first of November at the nuclear power plant in Onarovk, a town from the North of Vlatava, a bomb was detonated in front of the gate. The alarm was constantly ringing, a lot of guards were running around searching for the culprit, but he was nowhere to be found. Everything was just a diversion, they didn't know that a black figure wearing the Guy Fawkes mask was infiltrating in the restricted area. He knew he caused great panic around there, after all a bomb near a nuclear power plant could cause a catastrophe. While the guards were outside, investigating, the masked figure made it across the back of the building easily without being spotted. No guard or security camera detected him, his velocity was very admirable. As the man in black entered inside the warehouse, which was attached to the main building of the power plant, he sticked carefully through the shadows and ducked through various tight spots. Three men wearing radiation suits were moving a round capsule using a forklift. The masked figure stood still in a dark corner; his dark cape and black clothing helped him to stay hidden.

“Place the plutonium here,” indicated one of the workers

“I think I'll take it from here, gentlemen,” said the masked figure, revealing himself from the shadows


“Who are you?” asked one of the workers panicked, "How did you get inside?"

"I'd love to rant about my schemes, but I am afraid there is no time left,” the masked figure explained whilst slowly approaching the men," now if you will kindly excuse me, I'll be taking the pill."

He revealed his belt full of daggers by swinging his arms and moving his cape.

“Guards!” the loud shouting echoed throughout the warehouse

Suddenly, countless steps could be heard as armed men came inside trying to secure the area. One of them stepped forward holding a Glock clenched in his hands and pointed it towards the masked figure's head.

"Freeze!" the soldier shouted

“So it is then,” said the masked figure

In that moment, the masked figure drew a dagger and leapt forwards stretching his arm and stabbing the guard in the chest. His movement was quick, fluid, something that an ordinary man could not do. The black figure grabbed the Glock as the guard's bleeding body fell to the ground.

The exits of the warehouse were blocked by the soldiers so the masked figure was obliged to take a different path. He snatched the capsule and ran away until he reached a white corridor, where the metal doors were closing as the man in black approached. The masked figure looked at the security camera which was in the corner of the ceiling, near the doors and pointed the gun towards the capsule. It was a warning, if the doors weren’t opened he would shoot the pill which held the plutonium. Behind him, there were a bunch of guards, holding assault rifles, running towards him. The door was opened and the masked figure started sprinting. There was a huge crowd following the masked figure.


"He's getting away!" cried one guard, "quickly, block Gate 3! "


When he got outside, seven soldiers holding assault rifles came from nowhere and surrounded the masked figure. One attempted to press the trigger but he was stopped.


"Don't shoot him you bastard," cried one soldier, "he’s carrying plutonium!"


He gently placed the capsule on the ground and drew two daggers from his belt.


"Identify yourself!"


"I'm the new hope of this country that will counter the despair you left," said the masked figure using a serious tone, "I. Am. V. Remember this well."


After he finished speaking, he quickly dashed towards the soldier in the middle and kicked him in the stomach. Then, he slit the necks of the soldiers next to him, he was too fast, the soldiers didn't have time to react. While the others were ready to fire with their rifles, V grabbed the two dead bodies and used them as human shields to protect himself from the bullets. Then, he threw them and slid between two soldiers to rapidly stab them in their stomach and chests, causing them both to fall over dead. V leaped off of one killed soldier and slit the chest and the neck of the second. Finally, he threw a dagger in the sixth soldier's head and killed him.

"I love introductions," mumbled V taking the capsule from the ground. While running, a wounded soldier grabbed his leg and pulled V back. He kicked the soldier's head, fracturing his skull.

As the word got around, the guards kept searching and securing the entire area, whilst V decided to get out by using brute force. The masked figure moved quickly through the open field until he found a vehicle. He entered inside a van and started hot-wiring it. He placed the capsule on the second seat and marched forward. A rain of bullets followed. The soldiers were trying to stop the van, but every action was in vain, the military vehicle was bulletproof. V mercilessly broke through every single blockade and managed to escape from the hostile area, he drove as fast as possible. It didn't take too long for the soldiers to catch up with their own military vehicles. V turned around quickly and drove through the forest which was surrounding the nuclear power plant. Eventually, the van got stuck and V was forced to get out. When the terrorists arrived and investigated the black vehicle, the capsule was gone and all that was left was a rose on the front seat. There was no sign of the masked figure whatsoever, it was very quiet in the forest. The wind blew smoothly through the trees that were nearly dead.

“There's no sign of him.”

“Keep searching, he couldn't get out of the forest so fast!”

The forest is called Gravecoln, a woodland full of tall trees, and next to it there is Onarovk, a rustic town often covered by a dense fog every morning. A few minutes later a soldier spotted a black bag, he quickly opened it and found the capsule inside covered by a black net.

“I found it!”

V was standing on a twig holding a long rope about three to five meters in length with one of his dagger attached at the end. He threw the dagger and impaled the soldier, then V fell on the ground pulling the rope and hanging the soldier in the process. He quickly took the soldier’s rifle and pointed it towards the bag.

“One more step and all of us will die.” said V staring at the remaining soldiers

“Give it back, you don't know what it can do,” demanded the terrorist

“I can't let your actions destroy the country,” declared V, "not after what happened years ago."

“It's you…” the soldier whispered, "The terrorist from England!"

“What a reunion," V chuckled," but I'm afraid it will be short lived."

V raised up the barrel and shot the soldiers until the rifle was out of ammo. V left them dead and went to the bag to retrieve it, but one of them survived the wave of bullets and pointed their gun towards V’s back. V sensed movement behind him so he quickly turned around, holding another rope with a dagger attached at the end of it, and threw it at the soldier’s throat wrenching him to the ground and leaving him to a slow and painful death by exsanguination