text: [Themes: modern]
  
  "Whatever, I'm freaking out for nothing. Screw him if he's following me, let him run and chase me and interrogate me if that's his intention", you think as you keep walking.
  
  For some reason I think you wouldn't have thought that way before having your memories erased. I'm not sure what would you have thought, but not that, certainly; whatever, let's go back to the interesting thing.
  
  You reach the Police Department with no problems at all, so you suppose your "pursuer" simply happened to have the same route as you. After some minutes thinking on what the hell are you going to tell the police officer in front of you, and noticing that you don't even have a wallet or some sort of identification, or money, or ANYTHING (except for a cool-looking lighter stored in your right pocket), you decide a serious approach will be the best way to finish this. Problem is, taking "a serious approach" is complicated in your current position:
  
  You: "Hi, do you think you could you help me with some problem I have?"
  
  She: "What is it?"
  
  You: "Thing is... I'm really... disoriented... I've woken up in a house I didn't know, with no identifications or anything, and I can't remember anything about myself. The owner of the place didn't recognize me, but he suggested I came here"
  
  She: "Well... Eh... I think it's the first time I've heard something like that. Be honest: Are you on drugs and/or alcohol?"
  
  You: "O.o... No, not that I can remember... Why does everyone ask me that question?"
  
  After a while, she informs you that they have no reports of any missing person who might fit your description. She also says that an investigation to find out who are you may start if you wish so, and while they are at it you could go see a psychiatrist or they could give you a new, temporal identity and some money so you can go and do something useful, you fucking junkie (alright, she doesn't use those words, but that's the impression you get, anyways)
  
  > decide the Police is useless here and try going somewhere else
  You were wise choosing not to trust the police. Or perhaps you weren't, who knows :D Anyways, you feel that you can't trust them to really help you on this matter, and before they can ask you more questions, you walk out of the building.
  
  Soon after leaving, a blond 20 year-old guy walks up to you and asks you if you've got a light.
  
  You do have a lighter, indeed (although you don't really know why), so you lend it to him. As he starts smoking, you wonder why would you keep a lighter and not a wallet, and you think you've been quite stupid to leave the flat without thinking on *that* detail.
  
  Guy: *as he smokes* "Yeah, it certainly has been an stupid movement by your part, but you shouldn't really feel guilty about it. You're fucking confused right now, after all"
  
  You: "Uh? What did you say?"
  
  Guy: *giving you the lighter back* "Me? No, nothing. But you seem kinda cool, come meet me later at the Kasi bar. You only have to go straight ahead in that direction, you'll see it easily. Tell them Dani told you to go and have something to drink. See you there!" *running away*.
  
  Well, booze probably brought you to this situation, and when you have a drinking problem drinking more is rarely the way to fix it. On the other hand, this Dani has invited you to go, and it's very rude to ignore an invitation, especially when you have NO MONEY AT ALL with you.
  
  > Unknown people's offers can't be good for you
  "Nah, trusting unknown people can't be good", you think. You walk with no direction hoping the cold will put in your brain some random inspiration on what the **** to do now.
  
  You are so focused on these thoughts of despair that you don't notice some guy is walking straight towards you. This person probably trusted you to step aside because he is carrying a heavy-looking box. But as we've previously said, you don't notice him in time, so you two crash, and the box falls painfully on your right foot.
  
  Man: "Oh, I'm so sorry, are you alright?"
  
  You: 'obviously not, you bast...' "Yeah, yeah... no problems"
  
  Man: "You are the bastard, you should have stepped aside!"
  
  You: "Eh? What did you say?"
  
  Man: "I SAID YOU DIDN'T STEP ASIDE! What the hell were you thinking?"
  
  You: "O.o Well it's a long tale, you know"
  
  Man: "Let me guess: you wake up with all the symptoms of a bad hangover and you have no idea about who the hell you are"
  
  You: "O.o N-No, that's not it at all. Why'd you say something like that, ha ha..."
  
  Man: "Quit being a retard and come with me"
  
  Well, this taller-and-fatter-than-you-man whose age you can't tell seems to know a bunch of things and might help you to find out what the hell has happened to you. On the other hand, the fact that he knows all of that might mean that he is the one who has caused you to *be* in this situation, and you have a feeling that whatever they've done to you, they aren't done with you (for better or for worse)
  
  > The man has information that you need to know, follow him
  The man picks up the box again and starts walking. Other than telling you that his name is James, he stays silent until you two reach an old but pretty normal looking building. Once you two are in his flat, he tells you to wait for him at the living room and shortly after this he comes back with a couple of beers, handing you one of them.
  
  James: "I guess you wonder many things right now, like who am I and what's happened to you"
  
  You: "Well, yes"
  
  James: "Ok, I'll tell you what I know, questions later. What's happened to you? I can't tell you what exactly, since they like trying new things, and that means it might be pretty much anything. However, it all started when you met one of them who found you using whatever their system to detect us is. You were found and later poisoned. But you survived, and either you didn't even notice a thing or the symptoms were way fewer than they should have been. So they went for the second part of the plan: preparing a "mix" with all sorts of weird... unhealthy... natural or artificial substances they had around the lab, inject them in your blood and wait for the ef..."
  
  You: "HAHAHA yeah, sure."
  
  James: "I told you to be quiet. As I said, they injected something in your veins and waited to see what effects it had on you or if it killed you. And just in case, they also added one extra thing to make you lose every single memory of your life up to that point.
  
  Usually, you either die, and they get rid of your body in whatever random way, or you develop some random ability. Obviously, after your "brain-reset", they are the only ones you can trust, so at its due time and once you are able to fully control your power, they start sending you to fulfill their missions.
  
  As for me... Well, I went through that process. Got any questions now?
  
  You: "... Do you really expect me to believe that?" 'HAHAHA this guy has seen way too many weird movies. And he's got ideas to make an even weirder one!'
  
  James: "Of course I don't expect you to believe me right after telling you. As you are thinking, and with good reasons, it sounds too much like a crappy and weird movie"
  
  You: "... So, uh... I take it your power is hearing other people's thoughts?"
  
  James: "Sure, you could call it like that..."
  
  You: "Ok, let's say I believe it. Who are these people with enough free time to do that and why do you keep on calling them "They" when it seems you are part of their weird experiments?"
  
  James: "Some sort of sect, or that's what I remember being told by someone. We should go meet some friends tonight, they'll explain all of this much better than I can. If you are interested on it, of course"
  
  You: "Well, I don't really have plans for later... By the way, now that you mention the whole "hearing people's thoughts".... I think I found someone earlier who did the same, but I thought I was being paranoid"
  
  James: "Hmm? Who is this "someone"?"
  
  You: "Some blond guy called Dani, I think... he told me to go see him to a bar... Capi, or Kati..."
  
  James: "Kasi, I guess. But I don't know any Dany who goes there... Anyways, that's enugh procrastinating for me, I should go back to work. Stay here today and don't even think of going out. That Dani might be one of Them and I think they don't like it when things don't go exactly as they expect them to go..."
  
  After saying that, James finished whatever was left of his beer and left. The dark tone in his last sentence sounded convincing enough to keep you calmly watching TV the whole afternoon until James came back, when you two left to see the "friends" of this man.
  
  Around midnight, you two arrive to the place, which seems to be a club filled with teenagers... ok, whatever it takes to cover your activities, or something. After introducing you to a couple of friends, Marta and Alex, James tells you to go to the room next to the toilets, "the one with the "NO TRESPASSING" note, yeah".
  
  > Sure, why not?
  Once in the "office" or whatever this room is supposed to be (Honestly, who would put their office next to the toilets in this lame mockery of a Club? Your memories may have been deleted, but you think this city isn't really normal) You see a blond guy wearing sunglasses, sitting behind a desk reading a newspaper. For some reason, the only thing you manage to say is:
  
  You: "AAAAAA WESKER!!!!"
  
  Man: "... yes, sometimes people say the same as you, although not in such a weird way, I must say. I'm Marius, and even if they've told me about you, no one told me what's your name...?"
  
  You: "I'd tell you if I knew it, but..."
  
  Marius: "Oh well, who cares. I've been told you are wondering who were the guys who used you to try their new drugs. You see, I don't know who directs their organization, although I imagine their leader to be the classical mad scientist who was always failing until one day, not too long ago, he created by mere chance an artificial drug that looked promising. As he had no one to experiment on due to a short budget (Because really, who would have financed his research?), he decided to try it on himself.
  
  This probably got him even crazier and gave him some sort of special ability. And like that, he decided to try conquering the world by creating an army of people like us.
  
  You: " You "imagine" that? Then what the hell are you talking about? O.o"
  
  Marius: "The thing is, one of the side effects of that tratment over my brain made me develop a pretty good intuition... I'm not completely sure about those things being real..."
  
  You: "Excuse me?"
  
  Marius: "Never mind... Hey, would you like helping us kill this mad guy?"
  
  You: "But... From what you are saying, the only thing he's done is removing our memories in exchange of some superior power, it isn't THAT bad, is it?"
  
  Marius: "Well, have you ever wondered whether this was something that you wanted to happen in the first place? what kind of life did you have before the experiment? And do you even know what is *your* power?"
  
  You: "Well... now that you mention it..."
  
  > Agree to help him kill this scientitst
  Now that he has you where he wanted, the blond man looks much happier.
  
  Marius: "Excellent. I knew you were reasonable :D"
  
  You: "Fair enough. When do you want to do it, or how, or what exactly are you planning on doing?"
  
  Marius: "When: soon. Where: he's in this very city, although I assume he'll move soon enough to look for new test subjects. There's a limited amount of people who can endure the stuff those 3, you and me have. Until then, I suggest you talk to James to get a job and find out what, if any, is your power, because it should be useful to you"
  
  You end up working a couple of weeks in the delivery company James was working for, and Alex allows you to sleep in a spare room in the flat where he lives until you find a place for yourself.
  
  As sad as it is, you either have no skills or you can't guess what is yours, so the Friday when Marius tells you he has a plan, you are the first one to ask what are the available weapons for the task.
  
  Once they make you shut up in exchange of an AK-47, he informs you that the "mad guy" you have to terminate is residing alone and happy in the house where he has lived his whole life, because apparently his mad deliriums tell him no one has enough power to destroy him and doesn't even need guardians to protect himself.
  
  Marius himself admits this sounds ridiculous, so he asks for a couple of volunteers to join him, because this really doesn't seem like it'll be any difficult.
  
  > Are too lazy to be a volunteer, just be quiet
  Well, if someone else can do it, why should you go? Marta seems to think the same, so Alex, James and Marius leave the bar while you 2 go for another round of drinks to make some time.
  
  Two hours of drunken conversation later, these 3 still haven't come back, so you decide to go somewhere else. You go back to the club at 4 a.m and still no sign of these guys. Too bored and drunk to do much more, you decide to simply say your goodbyes and head back to your places.
  
  The next day, the radio news talk about an explosion in a house that killed at least one person and hurt 2 more people badly. You try telling yourself it's just a coincidence. just to try avoiding the guilty feeling of being drinking happily as the place exploded. In any case, Marta and you decide to go see the survivors, James and Alex, in the hospital. Neither of them remembers what happened the night earlier.
  
  You never heard again about/of Marius and the scientist whose name you never learned seems to be missing in action, so you guess it's mission complete or something, whoever the dead person was. So from now on, you'll try to live the most-normal-you-can life you can.
  
  Not the best ending, but at least you have some friends who can understand you around ;)