Chapter 14
"Semper Occultus"
(Always Secret)
-the MI6 motto
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AllFall
...15 minutes prior
I came to Salamay's room, shutting the door and yelled out a greeting,
"Salamay? You there?"
Funny, the soldier said she'd be here, a cabin out by itself, well away from the radiation. Inside was a calico cow-skin rug and a few trophy bucks and other miscellaneous cabin ornaments on the walls and window seals. Pretty much the whole cabin was like this save the carpet I was on and different mounted animals throughout. My voice and footsteps echoed through the wooden floors and hallways until I found the woman in the library.
It was a spacious place, and all the mounts had some sort of predator grabbing prey. Something felt ominous about the cougar getting the mallard, or the lynx getting the field mouse, and Salamay's gaze. The gaze was waiting for me with an even more unsettling smirk,
"Hello," she said from under the eagle getting a trout.
She set her book down on the nightstand next to her and stood. Odd enough, she smiled evilly at my shoes and said,
"I love how you tie your shoes," her eyes met mine, "very... 'professional' don't you think Elizabeth?"
A shock harder than electricity hit my brain case.
Elizabeth...
Elizabeth...
Elizabeth...
She knows who I am,
"Funny for a street girl to tie her shoes like a soldier or agent..."
Kill her.
Kill her and say that I found her that way.
Paste her to the ground and snap her neck with a swift stomp and tip a candle over. My hands shot up and I increased gravity to insane levels. However, instead of falling face first cracking her skull on the wood floor she smiled as the floor creaked and groaned. She shook her head making a clicking sound, evil pleasure on her face,
"What if I were faking you out Angel?"
Panic struck me, a trap?!
"Don't worry," she purred as if reading my mind, "the others don't know, but in the bachelor war you gave them reasons to suspect."
"How'd you?"
"What?"
"How'd you-"
"The gravity belt or hacking into the Angelic database?"
I went silent,
"Alien has been suspecting that I can hack but not that I'm better than him or his machines. Your safe little birdy." She said it in a condescending superiority.
"You going to turn me in?"
She pulled out her phone and tossed it to me, "No, I will help you."
A camera had been hacked into on the film room with everyone inside. They had paused the video and were arguing over me,
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because," she hissed, "I want a pet."
"Pet?"
"Maybe a puppet, or a little mole."
I looked back at the activity on the phone in confusion, a soldier was talking to them urgently.
Salamay had a pistol out in case I was trying to fool her, I tossed it to her and didn't move. She glanced at it and said,
"Oh, and when the Baron was implying that you had a remote explosion spider drone attached to your brainstem?" She pointed to her phone with her pistol to say that she could kill me whenever. "I also have a special failsafe in case I die... sooo..." she looked at me with a smile on my face and said after I was still standing there, "the soldier is probably sending someone to get you. If you were suspicious they'd blow your head... sooo... ta-ta!"
She swiveled and went to a room farther back in the house. I waited for the the soldier to come in; running, gasping for air. I checked my phone and a message had been pending for four minutes:
Well, so much for sending a soldier to get me...
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Chapter XV
"You killed my friend!"
—The Little Train That Could, Major Payne
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The Baron
When AllFall was inside and told to be seated the soldier switched Delirious with Eddie Murphy to the MyDarkside profile of the Dragoons and pressed one. The screen flickered and then showed the Dragoon insignia glinting from out of the dark screen and then showed a super villain.
The villain was like a cross between Deadpool and Deathstroke with a beret and special helmet enhancement like night vision, thermal, and his other DarkTube camera. On his hands were gauntlets with guns, grapples, and sword attachments on them. On his back was a black cape probably hiding his power core or rear sensors so that he has eyes in the back of his head. He spoke saying,
"Good day, my agent ID is," he rattled off a list of numbers and letters for fifteen seconds, "aka and my fans call me this, DeadLead."
He let that set a moment, like most villains do, like their name alone will strike fear into the world.
"As it turns out..." he said, "this is a video petitioning the Council to send reinforcements; the target had caught on to Magmantis' betrayal and killed all my men. Operation Set Up is still go however."
He pointed at the screen with his index, thumbs up,
"Now for the fun part!" He began typing something and as he did that the Dragoon insignia loaded in during the wait times. Then what slapped me like nobody's business was on the screen. It was unimportant data: the date, time, and place. Only a bold villain would show off his position and the screen showed the crosshairs on my friends face: AoDD.
Sarah exclaimed 'Teddy!' But everyone shushed her as the sniper gave its diagnosis:
"Winds are high, it's raining, and I spy three miles away a Baron and sidekick."
We all waited and had seen his position, and Alien began searching for it,
"The weather is bad but I got this."
Two shots were fired in one second and then twelve seconds later we're getting shot in the head. The rest was history but in a first person shooter...
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Elizabeth aka AllFall
Thank God they didn't catch me jumping off the mansion. The film ended and the lights came back on. No one said anything for a long moment. A Dragoon, three miles away? Hit two people in the face with bad weather? That's-
My thoughts were interrupted when the Baron slung his chair overhead, screaming in rage, throwing it into the twenty-thousand dollar flatscreen. He did it so suddenly that everyone jumped(, except Waya,) and hit the TV with such force that the chair went THROUGH the TV and weakly embedded itself into the wall before falling down.
He stormed out and the last reminder of his presence was the door slam and the TV sparking away in the silence.
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