Full Lore of DTF

The Full Lore of Defend The Future

A Document by Lucian

The founding of FEE took a long, disreputable time but for certain it was founded in the early 1960’s by Miles Fedorov. Miles was a descendant of a big-shot millionaire, Jazzy Fedorov. He had a lot of power and decided to use that to create a pseudo military originally titled simply “Fedorov Excel Exploration” though changed later. In the late 60’s, he had a son whom he named Vestikov Miles Fedorov. Vest would later be the next “founder” of FEE, taking it after his father passed away. Miles had originally created FEE as a money laundering scheme, but Vest had other plans.

Vest, along with many other scientists started experimenting with human and animal life. Vest had wanted to create an artificial animal-human hybrid, mostly to gain more power and fame then he already had. They had been slightly successful at creating human life artificially, though this specimen died after a week. It had been decided that the best bet was to use an already existing human life and inject it with the animal cells. This baby would have to be newly born, at least 3 days old in the least. Scientists gained access to a local hospital and stole 2 babies, ones who would quickly end up dead due to overdosing on the animal DNA cells.

Vest would not give up, though, and in 2000 he would successfully create a hybrid. A shifter, as you must. These little bundles of, well, creepy, could shift into their animal form or their human form at any time. This process is called shifting. It is described as excruciatingly painful the first few times the shifter changes into the animal form and back into the human form, though once said shifter is 10 years old it becomes an easy and mostly painless process.

Though, they weren’t exactly careful with the animal they picked. They had gotten some animal cells from a dead bird not too far from the FEE building, and with that the shifter escaped in their bird form at the age of 2. Everyone, especially the scientists were furious and quit on the spot. They supposedly futile attempts in the past, and now this had set them on edge.

It wasn’t long before Vest set out to find a new scientist, and or scientists, by stapling an ad out around the town.

When a certain scientist discovered this ad, though, it would start a new era.

The new scientist was an interesting human, as put by Vest. He had responded to It a week after Vest had created a new shifter. He didn’t know what to do with it, he didn’t even know how the mutation had happened, but he somehow created a dragon shifter. Were dragons even real? Everyone of course knew the answer to that question, they absolutely were not. He contemplated getting rid of the baby, after all it was huge threat to society. But then he realized this was probably going to be a good thing to have incase humanity ever gained too weak to function. The new scientist, whom he recognized right away was Nikolias Winter, the escaped arsonist who had just burnt down his school, the usual. Of course, Vest sought this as the perfect opportunity, and hid him from the world in an instant. Helping him with the name change and the new paperwork, he was now Nikolai Schwarz, a long-time doctor looking for a place in science. Nobody could tell that was fabricated, at least not that he knew of.

Vest decided to see if Nikolai wanted the baby shifter he had created, Nikolai was overjoyed at this new branch in science, and took up the little child in a heartbeat. He named him James, James Schwarz, as he would now be called. The little baby had bright, blonde hair with a slight blue tint to the right, it was pretty. He also had long horns protruding from his head. Nikolai raised him in the FEE building, the public absolutely couldn’t know about this discovery.

Nikolai soon became well known around FEE, mainly for taking care of a shifter and for his unique style. He conducted a lot of experiments, mostly time travel for Vest, though. Vest never actually told him why he wanted to discover time travel, he just assumed it was for the power and fame, again.

Again, the real reason why Vest wanted time travel was for power and fame, but also to destroy the history of mankind and “start fresh” with him as a leader, how fun would that be (not a lot). It had been in his agenda for years, it was crazy, but he knew he could achieve it, since he had a lot of the best scientists. Though, now, all those scientists left. At least he had Nikolai, right?

Basic Information on Nikolai:

Nikolai, Nikolias, he didn't care. Nikolias Winter was still a murderer, and so was Nikolai Schwarz.

Nikolai Schwarz was just a pseudonym, he wished he wasn't good at hiding like that. He had everything changed, from his name, the way he dressed, his hair, everything. Had to be thrown in the dumpster at that night in 2003. He was class of 2004, he was only going to graduate next year, and it was gone.

What'd he does? How did he do it? Simple, fire. Nikolias Winter, as he was called at that time, had been getting bullied quite a lot in that year alone, it started from rowdy shoving and name calling, to slur shoving and full out fights. Nikolias had been suspended twice, and it was only November. November 16th, 2003. What a day. Nikolias had of course been getting the ass of the bullying, he had gotten a bloody nose thrice today. He wasn't yet finished with his yearly science project, though. He had been big on science and chemistry, ever since he was 7 years old, he had been getting in his mother's medicine cabinet, he was lucky he didn't accidentally make mustard gas from all the concoctions. It was a big yearly thing, too. You got to do your own experiment, live in the auditorium. He had always been extroverted, so this was kind of a treat. He got special permission from his teacher and the principal to stay in the school and finish, since his project was much too big to just carry out the door. He was working on it until his bullies appeared in the doorway. Three. Three young men picking on this man for no reason other than being queer and German. Nikolias scoffed, he could smell them and their pungent cologne. He heard one of them snickering, and then they entered.

"What's wrong, Fag Grenade?" That still echoes in his mind. He was always called fag grenade, it was kind of funny, not to him though. Nikolias snapped. He wasn't thinking at all. He clocked the first bully on the head with a large test tube. The thing shattered on contact; he didn't care. He picked up another one. The others stormed in, wondering what the hell had happened. The adrenaline coursed through his veins. He went over and threw the short, blonde headed bully on the table. His friend watched in disbelief, trying to pull Nikolias off him. He shoved him backwards on the other table. He punched and punched the boy until he didn't feel like it anymore. All of them were unconscious.

He had an idea. He got extra rope and tied them all up, though it took a while. They woke up eventually. Nikolias had a matchstick and some gasoline, from his car. He had doused them in gasoline, and he was going to blow them up. The raven haired gross faced bully screeched. Nikolias just smiled, he lit the match and threw it in his lap. He backed away as he saw the flames quietly and quickly engulf the boys. Their screams were haunted.

Nikolias had just expected them to burn alive, but a leak in his gasoline tank said otherwise. It leaked all the way to the hallway until he realized. The flames were following him, the fire alarm ringed in his ears as his world turned slow. He dropped the gas canister and ran out the door with his backpack, practically collapsing out the door. He caught his breath and started running back home, that didn't take long. Nikolias got his clothes, some food and water, and his favorite things and bolted out the door, his mother ran after him, calling out "Nikolias! Lias! Come back! What's wrong!" He didn’t care. He wanted to leave immediately.

The news the next day was shocking to Melinda and Axel Winter. They had been out all night looking for their son and eventually turned him missing. They turned on the TV.

"Three young men were burned alive in Gustav Amel High School today, no living men or women have been found so far, the three men were identified as Damen Z, Alex S, and Robert L. The main suspect for this crime of arson is Nikolias Winter, the only one there after hours, this has been confirmed by his science teacher, Mr. Bob Hustian."

They didn't believe it.

After then, Nikolias went ahead and changed his name to Nikolai Schwarz, a young man who just graduated college looking for a job in Chemistry. He got the job at FEE after he noticed they were hiring. It didn't take long for him to forge his confidential information; he had studied it prior in grade school. He met a younger Vestikov Fedorov, a man with dreams far above what he had gotten. He had been hired as an apprentice scientist and doctor at the military group. He also got to meet an unusual child there, unnamed. He took him under his wing and named him James. James Axel Schwarz.

Mikolaj Nikolaev, sound familiar? That’s right, he’s Aleksandr Nikolaev’s son, we’ll get into his file in a couple of hours. Anyways, Mikolaj used to be an apprentice security guard at FEE, he had been working there for years. He had known Vest for a while, of course not since childhood, but very close.

He had to leave, immediately, though. He learnt what FEE wanted to do, what Vest and Kiel and everyone else had in mind. To destroy history, to destroy the earth, everything. That wasn’t what he wanted to do, of course, so he attempted to quit, but Vest didn’t let him. He didn’t know what to do, so he just tried to leave and never come back. Vest made sure he didn’t just leave.

When he tried to exit, Vest drugged him with a hallucination drug. Mikolaj hallucinated a large demon like humanoid chasing him down the hall while he was trying to escape. When he got to the door, it was locked. It looked like paint, but it was just locked. He was done for now; he was cornered by most FEE guards and Vest. Vest tried to reason with him, telling him he couldn’t exactly leave because of all the secrets he knew. That’s when he pulled out the gun. The gun was long and silver.

He held the gun to Mikolaj’s head, and with no hesitation he pulled the trigger. A long, eerie gunshot sound echoed through the hallway of the lower deck of FEE. Barely anyone twitched, or even did anything to stop him, they just watched with a sickening poker face.

When Mikolaj died, his death was reported as just a hit and run. 2004, it was. His wife got the call from his own murderer on that day. Aleksandr Nikolaev, of course, believed that his father died at the hands of Vest; or someone else entirely. They covered it up, there wasn’t even a news airing of the event, just a phone call and a funeral. All FEE staff attended, pretending to cry and sob. Aleksandr knew it was bull, though, it was obvious.

After that, the small family was never the same. Jakob Nikolaev, Aleksandr’s little brother, never saw his father again, for him it was more impactful.

Slight Biography:

Nikolias Winter grew up an amazing childhood, being an only child, he was loved and cared for daily. He never had any fallouts with his parents as far as he remembers. When he was little, his mother used to sing to him a small lullaby. Nikolias can't remember it. He hasn't seen his parents in almost 20 years since that night.

The FBI had been looking for Nikolias for years until they finally gave up, they knew he was long gone. They suspected he either ran into hiding, killed himself, or died naturally. His mother and father forgave him.

After he left, his parents had his little brother, Matthias. Matthias grew up hearing rumors about his big brother, wondering where he was and what he was doing. He has never seen him.

Where Nikolias was now, nobody knew. His parents just wanted closure. They knew something was wrong with him already, he had been struggling with students in that school but never asked him since he never asked them. They have deep regret for not stepping in sooner.

In 1999, a slight scandal happened at FEE. One of the staff there was accused of holding at least a kilogram of cocaine at the building, notably in the laboratory. The police were notified, and it got on the news. It was later proved to be a false accusation, and the person who accused the other was fired.

It was still a funny thing to look back on if you were a long-time staff member of FEE, though at the time, no one was laughing. A scandal as big as that was not a laughing matter, especially for Vest.

Much, much blood has been shed at FEE in the past years, including Mikolaj’s death, and the occasional breaking in and murdering an innocent employee just trying to get paid. But one of the most scandalous incidents was the Red Blood incident. This was a long-lived argument between two sides of the employees back in 1988. One side was a believer in the goals of Vestikov Fedorov, the other side was trying to protest this. Vest could not take this any longer, though. He slaughtered the 6 workers trying to protest, many persons from this time describe the blood as being bright red and pooling at their feet as Vest shot all of them a bundle of 16 times. It took years to get that blood out of the shiny white floor. Vest managed to manipulate all the staff into believing they deserved it, which they didn’t, but they believed it.

Everyone feared Vest, because of his immense and stupid amount of power he held. His narcissistic tendencies have really plagued the entire staff of FEE for more than 20 years. Everyone who works there is usually miserable unless you take Vest’s side, but more than likely they don’t even know what he’s planning. It’s almost like he’s controlling them.

Most of the employees get paid well, which is why most of them stay through these hard conditions.

A physical description is hard, because it looks like a lot of other buildings, though we’ll try our best.

The FEE Building looks regular, though has a second story on top of the first, technically it’s the actual first story, and the “first” story is the ground level. There are 7 more floors down beneath the building. The building is made from hard concrete bricks, it almost looks like a run-down middle school of sorts. When you enter the building, it seems to look like the waiting room to a doctor’s office. You’ll see one or two of the three receptionists, and if you are just a visitor, you’ll have to wait for a staff member to guild you around. This is just to make sure you don’t see anything you shouldn’t.

The waiting room has dark blue cloth chairs that line the right and left walls, along with small tables to set your things on. It has a large desk in the middle for the receptionists. The lights are dim but bright enough to see. If you take the elevator up, that’s where Vest and Kiel’s offices are. Both rooms are identical in size and shape, though very different inside.

If you decide to go underground, however, you must be taken down by a guard or HR. Guests are not allowed to go back level 4. Most of the science stuff resides there, besides the empty office where a former employee used to work.

Level 5 is the deepest level, and its where “prisoners” are held for the time being. Sometimes, when captives are too dangerous for a regular prison they’ll be transferred to FEE. Not many prisoners are there because there’s not many people that can be considered “too hostile.”

All sectors need to be closely guarded, especially level 4 and 5. The reason for this is obvious, the science stuff is dangerous and if leaked could get FEE in big trouble, and the prison. If those people escaped, it would be all over.

Said “Shifters” (Which is short for shape shifters) are mutated humanoids created by FEE. Most of them are artificial, but if two shifters have a child it is possible to be natural. The way they’re created is by taking the DNA of said creature they want to shift. They inject that DNA into the blood or brain of a newborn child. (Must be newborn). It usually takes affect after a week or so. Most noticeable physical change is the fact that the child will get a feature from the shifted on their body, most so a tail or ears if said animal has those. The way that the shifters shift is confusing to most scientists in FEE. It is presumed that they just, “do it”. They will shift into the animal they are able to. It will be essentially the animal they were “born as” but with most of the same features, like eyes, and vocal cords. They can speak, it just hurts.

When a young shifter attempts to shift, most of the time it doesn’t work without proper training. But they try to shift to the first time, it usually hurts like hell. It hurts after a while, too, but after a few years the pain starts to swell down into just slight headaches.

Shifters cannot leave FEE or anywhere they are kept. The reason for this is just because if shifters got out of the public, it could be very, very troubling and dangerous. FEE hasn’t created a new shifter in a while, mostly because not many people are willing to give their newborn child for science experiments.

Most of the shifters don’t have parents, or any adoptive parents. James is an exception. Most of them are willingly given up by their parents (which is sad enough), but they also conduct HORRIBLE experiments on them, like durability, fighting tactics, shifting EVERYDAY, etc. James was the only shifter who was stolen, but it was only as an “act of revenge”.

Known Shifters:

James Axel Schwarz (Dragon Shifter)

Ray Smith (Fox Shifter)

Cupcake (Midiayah Graham) (Snow Fox Shifter)

Ace Cealmon (Unknown)

Tori Smith (Ram Shifter)

Jack (Bird Shifter)

How would time travel even exist? The scientists at FEE have it figured out, for sure. Well, for the most part.

Time travel was not easy, with all this worm-hole stuff it could be quite confusing. A time machine or what they call it “A Time Alter”.

As you already know by now, it’s for altering the future. You see, it’s much harder to access the past then the future. That’s because the future has not happened yet and can be altered. The past cannot be altered, no matter how hard you try. All stuff you do in the past will not suddenly appear in the present.

If you killed, let’s say, George W. Bush, it would not alter his death cause by any mean. The real reason why Vest wants to go to the future is already probably known by everyone by now, he wants to rule mankind as the eternal ruler/presidents, whatever. Nobody knows how he’s going to do this, but he sure Is confident. Figures.

Scientists at FEE have been working on it for YEARS, possibly 20 years. It’s been a crucial part of their mission at FEE, though it’s not even public. If they do finish time travel, they aren’t even going to share it with the public, which is odd. It seems like Vest wants all the power, doesn’t he?

Well, it was slightly correct. You see, this would give him the most power in the world. Time travel was huge, and he could easily alter the course of the future in a matter of minutes if he had so called time travel figured out. The time alter would never be figured out, though, at least that’s what the scientists were thinking. Vestikov Fedorov was confident, though, and never gave up on trying to discover a wormhole.

He would use it for many things. No one wanted to see what it was exactly going to be for.

Part 08: Document 3B: Aleksandr’s Arrival

Aleksandr Nikolaev, that’s the man you’ve all been waiting for, I think. I don’t know.

Aleksandr is a new but well-known employee at FEE. He’d start working there in his 20’s, after his father. He’s always been an apprentice security guard, mostly because “full-time” security must do more in-convenient work, you know?

Where to begin? Oh right, his job.

He’s been “happy” there, he just can’t make another job application for any other job. Plus, if he left this job without notice, it’d be the death of him, literally. You see, Vestikov Fedorov and Kiel Sins have always been kind of, “violent” with his ways of dealing with fired or leaving employees. As you know from Mikolaj, he’ll just kill them. Which is why he \*can’t\* leave. He wishes he could, really, he does, it’s just, he doesn’t want to die at the hands of the man who killed his father.

Which is why he’s trying to get FEE taken down for the better, gathering all their secrets to get them shut down, it seems simple, but really, they closely guard their secrets for the better. They barely let the new and untrusted employees in on anything besides guarding the wards and sectors and just sitting around doing nothing. The receptionists can’t even go downstairs in fear they’ll leak something.

He has a friend, co-worker, etc. on his side, too. Dwight Arlinghaus, a young white-haired man.

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Basic Information on Aleksandr Nikolaev:

Some basic information is that Aleksandr is an apprentice level 2 guard for FEE/FEC, Future Excel Exploration and or Future Excel Corp, founded by Miles Fedorov, though passed down to his son Vestikov. He got his job at 25, mainly to have someplace to work but to also uncover the secrets behind his father's death. His father's death had been covered up for years and he finally had a chance to give clarity to himself and his family, but what if he found things he shouldn't have. Exactly. He uncovered way too many secrets about this place, enough to get it defunded and to get Vest and Kiel arrested, possibly them too since they were under Vest's reign. Aleksandr is very secretive, as well, keeping the fact that he wasn't exactly too glad to be starting a job in the tar pool that was where is father lived and died in a matter of seconds from his mother.

His mother had always been the sweetest, especially when his father died that fateful day, when she got that phone call from his own murderer, Vestikov Fedorov. it was 2004, he was barely 13 years old. His brother was no older than 5 that day. He has never forgotten his mother's ear-piercing wail as she sank to the floor hearing of her husband's death. She thought it was just a little mishap, someone broke into the building and shot Mikolaj dead. Wasn't that. Even at 13, he knew it was just a cover up, something was going on behind the scenes. 12 years later, he was given the job recommendation by his friend, Dwight Arlinghaus. Since then, he'd been working as a Security Guard ever since, guarding the same exact place his father's blood poured out of him, he could still see the red stains pooling downward sometimes, even though he'd never been there to see it.

Now that he was 30, he had been working in FEE for nearly 5 years now, taking the role of Security and guarding Sector 008, a lower level in the FEE building though not exactly the lowest, far from it. They were so far underground; he was surprised they didn't hit the core of the earth just then. He assumed it was just an illusion. It scared him. The pit that was always in his stomach was "What if I go through the same fate as my father?" He thinks about that every day he steps into the dreaded building. FEE had been involved with a lot of scandals, whether all of them were true or not never really crossed Aleksandr's mind. One of the funniest ones was a drug scandal that was obviously fabricated by some worker there, it was back in the 99's, though, so he had a tough time remembering it, it was still hilarious.

He lived with his brother now, because his mother had wanted it, she thought it would be best for them to catch up. Now, Aleksandr was 8 years older than this man, Jakob was 21 years old, and he was 30. Jakob always kept his distance despite their mother's persistent tries to get them to connect with each other. Jakob acted like he despised his brother sometimes, but deep-down Aleksandr knew he loved him, say for that one-time Jakob tried to drown him in the bathtub, that was probably not a brotherly thing to do, but Jakob was only 3 at the time, plus Aleksandr laughed it off at the end.

Now, about that morning that opened the story. Only 3 am, and the police were already out arresting someone right next to him. It wasn't an oddity, since he had lived in a pretty "bad" neighborhood, though this was a lot worse, from what he'd seen. Around 5 cop cars lined the house, and another 2 swat vehicles. He couldn't make out the name, he assumed it was his county police, though. He had seen a young man, no older than 17, being pulled out in handcuffs. His hair was long and the lightest bright blue he'd ever seen. It was like his hair was yelling at him, despite all the red and blue flashing before him, his hair was keeping its gaze on his eyes. He was pale, and had a crazed look on his face, he assumed him to be another weird maniac that had happened to be his neighbor. Before entering the police vehicle that he was practically forced into, he stared deeply into Aleksandr's eyes, the stare was like a stab in the eyes. Their eye contact didn't last long, though, because before he knew it, the funky haired man was driving away, drowning in the red and blue lights.

He also found a camera, that's fun. He had no idea who planted it, maybe Jakob. His brother would never, though, right? The camera was small and had a tiny red light. He turned it off in a blink and went back to sleep.

Part 09: Document 3C: Dwight Arlinghaus

Dwight Arlinghaus is a security guard at FEE, much like Aleksandr. He has his own office down in the 2nd level.

Basic Information on Dwight Arlinghaus:

Now, Dwight M. Arlinghaus isn't playing when he says he's seen some shit. First off, he'd watched his mother get decapitated at the ripe age of 5 years old, and that stuff just kind of sticks out in your mind, huh? He'd seen people get beheaded, people getting shot, etc. etc. He'd never lived in a good part of town, especially since he grew up on low income. He only had his father, Trex, to lean on, and Trex never really liked Dwight and his presence. He'd kept him as a burden since his wife refused to get an abortion, and projected his beliefs on Dwight, he always learnt to get out of these. When his wife was decapitated, his father started abusing him more, to the point where Dwight just couldn't take it, and he ran away at the age of 12. He was found a couple of days later and his father was furious. When he was 17, he fell in love and got a girlfriend, Emilia Rains, a great young woman whom he loved a lot. They were planning marriage, and a family all when they were 18 years old. Trex disapproved, though stayed out of their way. Not long after, though, when they were both 19, Trex murdered Emilia, beheading her and leaving her head on Dwight's doorstep to say, "What are you going to do now." Dwight was absolutely appalled and heartbroken. He spent the next few years of his life suffering before finally getting a job at FEE.

Dwight was much brighter, pushing these thoughts deep inside and only focusing on the lighter times of his life. He has one great friend, Aleksandr Nikolaev, whom he's known since he was 15. When Aleksandr first learnt of Emilia's death, he cried with him and cried all night. Aleksandr knew exactly how Dwight felt and he still does, he'd known this since his father's death was all over the news at the time. In 2012, he graduated at EMAL University to become a doctor, this never worked out though since he felt as though FEE was his best bet. He still has his degree hung up in his office though as a reminder of what he could have become.

He's always wanted to get back after his father for what he did to Emilia and to him, he wanted to murder him in cold but boiling blood, slowly and painfully just like how he did with Emilia. He had hated his father, through birth and through death.

Imagine watching your own mother and girlfriend die before your eyes, that’s obviously rough. Which is why he resents his father, for killing his mother and future wife.

Part 10: Document 4A: Zozcek Planet

The Zozcek are fairly known but recognized by most researchers. The Zozcek planet inhabitants are humanoids who are, well, like humans, though look odder. Most of them have long jelly horns coming from their head and pale white skin. The most common Zozcek have purple hair and eyes.

The Planet is very cold, though in November it gets warmer. The planet is very similar to Earth, and practically the planets are brothers of sorts. Just more mutated, I guess.

Zozcek King and Queen, Carnelian Miseio, and Maliquite Miseio, rule the planet for what it is. Different sections and clans have other rulers, though. Not many Zozcek travel outside of the planet, even though they have enough resources to do so. Only ones who have done so are Night and Sage Mezencovk.

A full government is in place for all Zozcek men and women!

Most Zozcek use voids/voidself pronouns since Zozcek deeply identify with being a part of a void. The only Zozcek that don’t use these pronouns are ones who believe in the solar system being deeply connected to them, these Zozcek use solar/solarself pronouns.

When a Zozcek is born into a dynasty, a trial and or test is held to see if it has “power of the void”. These powers grant them permission to essentially talk to the void and can read minds of Zozcek who a part of a void themselves. If a Zozcek has these powers, they are crowned as next King or Queen of the Zozcek planet. These powers are never supposed to be used in vain in fear that the kingdom will crumble.

Extra Fact: Purple is a sign of superiority and empathy for Zozcek, if a Zozcek wears purple they are

When two Zozcek, Sage and Night Mezencovk traveled down to planet Earth, all hell broke loose. No one had seen a Zozcek in person for decades. The landed right down where FEE was focused, in the city areas. FEE Military was tasked for capturing these two, and that’s when it went south. Both Zozcek just wanted to visit to see the illusive “Earth” and when they did, they got attacked for it immediately.

When they were captured, FEE did unorthodox tests on them. They took their blood, hair, DNA, etc. Horrible, I know. Both escaped by Midnight by bending the void. They returned home and swore never to go back to Earth, until they were forced.

Part 11: Document 4B: Modern Day Future Excel Exploration

It’s nearly the same as it was back in the 60’s. The building hasn’t been redone in years because it “costs too much”. Everything is the same, just modern-day stuff and rules.