Safehouse in Cuba
Hours later
At a large table, Samantha, Toma, and Levine sat there with only candles lighting up the room. Room was covered with expensive paintings, hanging onna red wall.
Samantha started, "Whatever problems we have with each other we gotta forget about it. I have a proposal."
Toma replied, "Which is?"
"If you guys can help me get my son, I'll pay you all greatly. And also, I need the 3 - 4 nuke ingredients from Volk. Haines is a ghost so we can forget about asking him."
"I don't supply Shaw any longer."
Levine replied, "Me either. Things had come up. Volk has been captured by American forces. And Volk is known to break at pressure. Shaw tried to kill me when he heard Volk was taken. Blamed me."
Samantha answered, "So that means Volk is basically gonna tell them everything. Great. Do any of you have guys on the inside?"
Toma said, "No. And I'm not siding with the Americans. All of us at this table want the same thing. World domination. Just like Shaw does. Hell, the Americans are trying to kill us."
"So what's our next move?"
Levine said, "First off, we need to kill Jasiah. He knows too much about IVY. Way more than the kid Triston does."
Samantha commented, "No what? My own son? No. Yes I know he's a threat, and Triston, but that's not our main focus. Our main focus is getting the nuke ingredients from Shaws camp. I wanna use them for myself."
"The white house?"
"Yes and the Pentagon. But, I'm gonna get a man to go into the Pentagon and retrieve things for me. Then we'll be ready to go."
"Shaws plan is pretty similar. But he wants to kill off all leaders and Presidents, bomb and raid major states and cities, and hack the entire network system. And he's already killed five leaders and three presidents. Leading to world domination."
"But since Volk has been captured, it put a stop to him for a moment."
"Exactly. But only for a moment. Shaw will figure something out he's smart."
Toma said, "It's only a matter of time before the Americans bust in here. We gotta go."
At the safehouse Jasiah and the rest of his crew were at, Jack, Rachelle, Brandon, Cindy, Cage, and General Dudnean were video chatting with the President on a giant screen.
President James said, "I seen the live feed from New York obviously. Seems like Jasiah and Triston are sleeper agents. You need to get those chips out of them before Shaw says something that might make them go insane."
Cindy said, "Don't worry Mr.President, we're having that taken care of now."
"Good."
While they were talking, Jack pulled Rachelle to the side and said, "Somethings not right."
Rachelle replied, "What?"
"On the news, and the President, stated that theres bunkers underground all over the world that can hold up to 100,000 people."
"Yeah so?"
"So, the bunkers had to been already in the making leading up to this war. Cause I've been inside the bunkers, and they made it look like a whole city. It takes time to make something like that."
"What if they were built years ago and we didn't know about it?"
"Then we would've been found it years ago."
Brandon told the president, "James. Volk is being held against his will in a steel room. He claims he won't talk but, we got something for him."
James said, "I just wanna know where Shaw is headed. Since we already have a team headed to his recent location, the location you exposed to the world."
Cage responded, "No, no pull them back. Shaw and Haines is known to set traps. It could be a set up."
Cindy added, "Cage is right. It's got to be a trap. Shaw maybe figured you were sending Jasiah and his team, so he probably rigged it. Plus, we already checked the place out for you with recon drones. They saw the building was deserted, with trucks moving out of it. We couldn't follow because the signal out there was trash."
James said, "Okay. So all we need now is Volk to tell us about the 3-4 ingredients for the nuke. But I heard Samantha has recently joined forces with Toma and Levine; and their trying to get their hands on it. Yeah Holland's been helping us too. The death toll upon civilians already from this war is close to eight million. The more Shaw, Haines, Samantha, Levine, and Toma stays alive, the more people that die."
Dudnean asked, "Do you want us to kill Volk?"
"At this point I don't care what you guys do to him. We just need answers. I'm pretty sure you guys will know the questions to ask him."
Jack said, "Trust me, we'll find every single one of them."
"Sure. They predicted that in less than a week Shaws plan will be carried out. I advise you guys to send drones to large scale areas, seems like shaws addicted to them."
Rachelle said, "Already on it. Holland is giving us Intel from the carrier out in the sea. He said he's gonna stay following Shaws trails."
"And this information can be trusted?"
"Yes. One point from his Intel has been confirmed. Shaw and his team has been having things shipped to them from the carrier out there where he's at."
"Okay. Keep Holland online. Run clearance on every intel he provides."
Cindy reminded James, "Mr. President, about Shaihya's daughter?"
"She's where Shaw is. We find Shaw, we find her."
"And if she's not?"
"We'll find her along the way."
Brandon said to the President, "Sir, North Korea and Canada are at war in the Pacific. It's live right now, 40,000 deaths so far. And Russia and Great Britian are at war in Baghdad, 30,000 deaths so far."
"This just gets worse and worse. All this because kids escaped his little IVY camps, maybe putting a dent in Shaws plan. He wants Jasiah because he's stronger, and he knows more than Triston. We need to ask them what they experienced, saw, and heard in those camps."
Rachelle said, "But why does he need him?"
"I don't know. But I know Jasiah knows. Don't question them yet. Do it tomorrow, give them their down time from catching Volk. Any word on Samantha? Toma? Levine?"
Cage said, "We believe their all gonna go far the 3 - 4 ingredients. To use it for themselves. And as for the remote that controls the space missiles, we know that's in Shaws possession."
"Seems legit. I mean if that nuke gets set off, then half the earth will fall. We need those ingredients."
"Holland might have something. We'll check in with him to do an investigation on the rig out there."
Cindy said, "If I had any kind of source or line to Shaws system or even a phone or computer, I could get into their whole entire system."
James said, "We have men trying to get you connected, they'll let you know if they get something. If they have a trace, they'll send it to you and you can do your nerd stuff."
"Yes sir."
"Alright, we know what we need to do. Let's get to it. We're running out of time."
Cuba
Hotel Artemis
Toma was laying passports and papers across the bed, and carefully analyzed them. His phone rang on the bed, he picked it up and answered the unknown number.
Toma said, "Who's this?"
Shaw replied, "Did you get in?"
"Yeah. Levine was there also."
"I know that. Whatever you do, tell lies, but also tell truths; only when you know when to say something. She knows not to ask for a location, she wouldn't know what to do if she saw us."
"What do you want me to do?"
"Just stay in your place. Fit in. Tell me everything their gonna do and when their gonna do it. The 3 - 4 ingredients for the weapon is on the way here, its Haines flashdrive."
"Who has it?"
"It's on a rig out there on the sea. I'm going to have some men go there and pick it up later."
Okay. Seens like everything's in line then."
"Not yet. Samantha, Levine, President James, that reporter duo, and Jasiah are the main ones that's annoying me. We gotta get rid of them, but keep Jasiah alive. We need him. Even though my forces and other forces are trying to kill him on the battlefield, I know they won't be able to get him. Only I know what it takes to disarm that kid."
"Yeah."
"I have Shaihya's daughter. I know the Americans will try to save her. Which will lead them to me easier."
American forces Safehouse
Health room
Jasiah was sitting in a bright white room, with futuristic doctors equipment and machines inside. He was sitting on a white bed, while the nurse was dabbing his shoulder with alchohol.
Jasiah looked at the nurse and said, "This gonna hurt? I don't like needles."
The nurse responded, "It's okay it wont hurt that bad."
"Do yall have candy?"
The nurse laughed and said, "Yes. You'll get one after."
"Where's Triston?"
"He passed out. Apparently he doesn't like needles either."
"I'm not surprised."
Jack walked into the room slowly, walking and closing the door behind him.
Jasiah said, "Jack?"
He replied, "Jasiah," he pulled up a rolly chair and sat down in it.
Jasiah asked, "What do you want?"
"What happened at IVY?"
The nurse looked at Jasiah, then looked at Jack, then continued to work on his arm.
Jasiah replied, "What do you wanna know?'
"Everything. What were they trying to turn you guys into? What were they planning? The President told us to wait to ask, but we're running out of time."
Jasiah hesitates to speak for a moment, but begins to tell the story of what happened at IVY, and their escape.
9 years ago
Ivy lab and camps
10 year old Jasiah woke up from a nightmare as he sat up in his bed breathing heavily. The cell was dark, with a little bit of dark yellow light from the outside shining in the room. Kacey, an 11 year old girl was in the other bed looking at him, keeping calm.
Kacey sat up and said, "Another nightmare Jasiah?"
Jasiah slowed down the pace of his breathing and said, "Yeah. I wanna go home. What are they going to do with us?"
"Their gonna do like evil experiments on us. I heard the others talking. And Ms. Koleji is gonna be the leader of it."
"What about Shaw? He's even more scary."
"I don't know. The experiments is going to happen today. But some of the other kids are planning to escape. You in?"
"How? Their guards are really strong, and their guns hurt."
"Trust me we got this. Triston is gonna show us the plan when we get out of these cells."
"I don't know. I don't really trust him."
"It's either we try to leave her and go home, or stay here and let them torture us to death. It's your call Jasiah. I don't wanna leave you here. It's now or never."
"...Okay."
A bell rang like a horn, and the cell doors started to open.
Shaw was walking down the hallways yelling, "Up! We have a big day kiddos! Were gonna collect a certain number of you guys by fours, while the rest of yall go into the marksman building. You'll eat breakfast after training. Again, if I see you falling asleep, you'll be locked in your cell for 3 days with wild dogs."
All the kids in the cells started to exit them, staying together as the guards eyed them. Kacey grabbed Jasiah's hand, and led him down in the crowded hallways. There was small commotion and one kid was crying on the way to the marksman.
Kacey said to Jasiah, "Stay calm. They can detect feelings."
"I've never been to the marksman."
"After alll the training we've done, I've never seen or heard of it until now. But we can use our skills to get out of here."
"Dang it."
The kids in that cell block were roughly escorted down large steps, by the guards with weapons that can shut down the children with beams, no bullets though, the guards wouldn't survive. The guards were yelling as they rushed the children down the steps. The kids made it down the steps and approached a room with a very tall door. Some of the guards took groups of children out the crowd and took them someplace else. Jasiah, Kacey, and 11 other kids were the ones going into the marksman room. They stood near the door, and the door opened slowly.
Guards were yelling, "Get in there, now!"
The kids walked into the large light grey room. There was two Panthers tied up inside a big cage, and the some of the kids trembled. The Captain of the Marksman, Vladimir, was sitting on a big chair at the end of the room, drinking a glass of red wine. The kids stood on the other side of the cage, in a defensive stance.
Vladimir waves his hand swiftly, making the doors behind them shut. He began to speak saying, "Well, well, well. You kids were chosen as to be among the best among them. So we're gonna put that to the test, in this cage. And in thisCage, you'll be in teams of two, and you have to kill these wild animals. If they catch you, their gonna kill you. If you refuse to participate, you die. Survive before 2 minutes, and you'll be escorted to the labs to get a few tests done. Am I clear?"
The kids nodded their heads in understanding.
Vladimir said, "Good. First two: Beezus, and Jess."
The kids looked around at each other, Triston was in the room too looking around. Beezus and Jess looked at each other, and started walking to the entrance of the cage. Beezus opened the cage, and her and Jess walked in it. There was weapons on the floor, a blade, a machete, a sword, and a spear. They picked up their weapons, and the alarm buzzed. The panthers broke from their chains and rushed at the Bezzus and Jess. They charged at the wild animals, and attacked.
Triston walked beside Jasiah and Kacy, and said, "Okay, everything's ready."
Kacy said, "What's the plan?"
"Liam is gonna shut down the power, and Micah is gonna disable the security cameras and electric doors, giving us an easy path. I've told every child here the plan already, and their in on it."
Jasiah asked, "Okay what about when we get out? Where will we go?"
"I've been sending my cousin letters, he found out the coordinates to this building a few days ago, and he has friends that could tell us where we came from. He'll have guys waiting to take us back."
"So when do we move?"
"As soon as you get into the Shaws lab and see what their planning. Every detail you hear, tell us. And were burning this place down as soon as we escape. But we wanna make sure every kid is out. Its 100 kids here, we got this."
Kacy asked Triston, "Do you have a map?"
"I took one from the security office."
"How did you manage to even get in there?"
"Each one of us have our own abilities. Because the things they injected in us are poison."
In the cage, Beezus was laying on the floor bleeding heavy, as she tried crawling to the cage door, one of the panthers was dead already, and the other beast charged at Beezus. The panther jumped in the air above Beezus, until Jess jumped and threw his spear inside the animal's gut. The panther fell dead beside Beezus, and Jess was on his knees, with a large bite mark on his hip. Jess got enough strength to move towards Bezzus and check on her.
Jess said, "Beezus we did it. We passed."
Beezus, sat up a little bit and said, "We did?"
Vladimir stood out of his chair and said, "Amateur performance. I've seen better. Very well, you passed. Head to the doors over there behind me and you'll be escorted to the labs."
Jess rolled his eyes and helped Beezus off the floor. They got to their feet and started walking out of the cage, they got out, and started heading to the door behind Vladimir.
2 more animals were escorted into the cage, but these weren't panthers, they were jaguars. They were locked into the cage, and started roaming around in it, with their mouths foaming and drooling.
Vladimir then said, "Next up: Jasiah."
Kacy yelled, "Wait! You said two people!"
Vladimir responded, "You see kid I can do whatever I want in here. And based on what everyone's told me about Jasiahs ability, I wanna see for myself. Appears he's a 'threat'."
Kacy looked at Jasiah and said, "Jasiah, I wish I could go with you. Be careful. This will all be over soon."
Jasiah took deep breathes, and started walking towards the cage. The jaguars sat at the end of the cage, staring and gnashing their teeth; Jasiah knew that as soon as he closes the cage door, the jaguars were gonna after him. Before walking in, he spotted a weapon to the far right of the cage, it was a spear with blood on it. He opened the cage door, then walked inside, the Jaguars walked towards him very slowly, like they were hunting. Jasiah, slowly, started to close the cage; the cage shut, and the Jaguars rushed at him quickly. Jasiah ran and slid towards the spear, he grabbled it, and one of the jaguars jumped at him. Jasiah rolled over fast, dodging the Jaguar as the beast hit the floor. Jasiah was up on his feet, the Jaguars ran at him. Jasiah ran towards the beasts, and jump flipped high over one of them, then jammed his spear inside the other jaguar, driving it into the floor killing him. The other beast rushed at him once again, and Jasiah ran from it, jumped on the cage bars, and jumped off, spinned, and kicked the Jaguar. The jaguar flew far back, as its face was bloody. Vladimir was leaning in closer to focus on the fight, he was smiling, impressed by Jasiah's abilities.
Jasiah yelled at the Jaguar saying, "Come on!!" Blood run down Jasiah's face, and the Jaguar growled and sprinted at Jasiah. Jasiah ran towards the gnashing animal. They got closer and closer, the kids were all worried and some were covering their eyes.
Kacy said, "Come on Jasiah!"
Jasiah spun, ripped the Jaguars tooth out, hopped on its back, and jammed the tooth into the animals skull multiple times. The jaguar died instantly, falling to the floor, Jasiah still on it's back. Jasiah was bloody all over, and the kids started cheering. Vladimir stood and gave a slight clap. Jasiah was confused, looking all around him as the exit door of the cage started to open.
Vladimir said, "You can leave now Jasiah. Seems like I underestimated you."
Jasiah wiped his face, and nodded. He got off the jaguar, and started to walk to the exit to get expiremented on. On his way out he looked back at the other kids including Kacy and Triston, they nodded at him, Jasiah blinked twice. He was escorted by two guards as they led him through a dark hallway with tiny bits of white light shining.
They took a right down another hallway, and kept walking.
One of the guards pushed Jasiah and said, "Your that Jasiah kid huh?"
Jasiah instantly turned around, jumped, and used his hand to bash the guards head inside the wall. The other guard raised his gun, but Jasiah already had the other guards walkie talkie cord and wrapped it around the other guards neck. Jasiah, still holding on the cord, jumped, planted his feet on the wall, and slammed the guards face into the floor. Both were unconscious. Jasiah started to quietly celebrate, then got himself together, and got ready to go spy on the scientists and Shaw in their meeting. Shaw, Koleji, and Haines and a scientist were all in a bright room standing there talking as kids were getting tested, and being dragged to a testing table.
Jasiah was already in the vents, crawling silently. He could see the rooms, and saw the testing they were doing on the children.
Shaw said to the scientist, "How much dosage are you guys giving them?"
"Only 500mg. That's the minimum. If we need to up the dosage, we'll only do it if they start breaking out."
"Meaning?"
"If the start acting berserk, like most of them did, upping the dosage calmed them down and also settling their mind. But it's dangerous. We've had close calls."
"Well the Jasiah kid is on his way here, he has the right DNA for this procedure. He's different from all the other children here."
"His DNA is corrupt. It may not work."
Shaw sighed in irritation and said, "The stuff in his body has the power to turn these kids into super soldiers, the older they get, the stronger they get. And Jasiah just took down two Jaguars in less than 30 seconds. Just imagine what we could do with him when he gets older. My original soldiers are okay, but their not as strong as these kids."
"What will happen if they decide to rebel? We sent these kids out on missions to kill important people. What if they reminisce on that?"
"These kids arent mind controlled. I bet their already planning to escape. Our mission is world dominance. Starting a world war is priority number one, deploying these kids out there will scare civilians. And if that fails, we'll do it manually. But if all these kids die, and Jasiah lives, Jasiah is all we need to conquer the nations."
From the vent, Jasiah had a disgusted look on his face, shaking his head slowly.
Shaws phone rang, Shaw reached in his pocket, pull out the phone, and answered it.
"Speak," He said.
"Sir, Jasiah is gone. The two guards who were escorting him are dead."
Shaw's face started turning red, he lowered his hand, then smashed the phone onto the floor.
Shaw yelled, "Keep these children intact! Find Jasiah now!! Take him alive!"
Some of the children started to sit up from their test beds, worried. The alarm started buzzing and red lights flashed on and off. Shaw ran out the room, as the lights shut out; only the red alarm was shining in and out. Jasiah sat back, lifted his leg, and kicked a hole in the vent, he crawled through the hole, and fell to the floor. He got up and he saw the children attacking the guards, and the guards shooting everywhere. In the marksman room, 20 guards were fighting the children. Kacy flipped off the wall, and kicked a guard in the face. Triston grabbed a bow and some arrows and ran through the middle, he shot an arrow, and killed a guard. The guards were getting pummeled, thrown, and crushed into the floor.
Triston grabbed a walkie talkie from the floor and said, "Micah, opened all doors."
Micah responded, "I'm on it. And I'm looking at the cameras, the guards are trying to block the alternative exits that lead to the underground."
"Don't worry they'll move. And see if you have eyes on Jasiah."
"I don't see him yet. Don't worry."
Triston put the walkie in his pocket, and yelled, "Everyone head to the stair cases!"
The children finished beating up down the guards and started to run out the marksman room. The inside of the building was still pitch black, with flashing red lights. Triston and Kacy led the way as the children followed, holding each other's hands. Jasiah was looking around the laboratory, inspecting everything. He saw four pieces of that looked important, he snatched them and put them in his pocket.
Jasiah said to himself, "I have to destroy this building."
Jasiah grabbed a gas hose, turned on some water, turned a heater on, and placed the hose under the heater. He then hurried to escape. He started to run out as fast as he could. He was running down a dark hallway, as he tried to find a walkie talkie off a dead body as he ran. He busted through double doors, and he saw a man standing there. It was Vladimir. The first adult super soldier Shaw has mutated.
Jasiah stopped in his tracks, as Vladimir smiled.
Vladimir said, "I'm impressed kid. You had your fun."
"Why do you do this? Come with us, your literally Shaw's pet. You want to be a leader, then be one. You could help us escape."
"No. My orders were to collect you and your friends. You may succeed in escaping, but you will prepare to see the future and what lies in it."
"I don't wanna kill anymore people! You guys made us kill people! Innocent people! Put chips in us, made us destroy things, were done. Are you with us or not?"
"I don't wanna fight you, but if I have to, I have no problem putting you down."
"Alright then."
Vladimir pulled out a big blade from his back, and charged. Jasiah just stood there, watching. Vladimir got closer, and then swung; as soon as Vladimir blinked, Jasiah was gone. Vladimir was confused, seeing Jasiah had vanished. Suddenly, a rope reached down in the shape of gallow, and caught Vladimir's neck. The rope tightened, and Vladimir went straight up, hanging from the ceiling with a rope around his neck. Jasiah was standing on the other side of Vladimir, and Vladimir was astonished.
"Impossible.." Vladimir said losing air. More guards bashed through a set of double doors and charged with their weapons at Jasiah. Jasiah ran to them, slid between one of their legs, kicked it, jumped up, grabbed another guards head, and threw him against the wall. One guard swung punches, Jasiah dodged them without even trying, then Jasiah kicked him in the stomach, jumped on his back, jumped off and punched a guard in the nose, breaking it. Vladimir was still taking his last breaths, watching Jasiah destroy the guards. Jasiah flipped one of the guards on their back and grabbed one of the disarming spears. The last two guards pulled out blades and started to approach Jasiah. Jasiah did a Karate type stance, spinning the spear in a stylish way, then getting into his final stance. The guards started to swing, Jasiah dodged them all, jumped, and swung his spear against the side of the guards head, knocking him out cold.
The other guard staggered back in fear, and pulled out his pistol saying, "You kids aren't invincible. Anything can kill you."
Jasiah responded, "We know."
Before the guard could pull the trigger, Jasiah ran up quickly and kicked the guard against the wall, breaking the guards back. Jasiah reached to the floor, grabbed the gun, turned around, and shot 3 incoming guards dead. Jasiah had blood running down his hands. He looked around and saw nothing but bodies. He put the pistol in his back pocket, grabbed a walkie talkie off the floor and ran off.
Shaw was watching that entire fight. He smiled, and started to walk towards Vladimir's hanging body. Shaw examined Vladimir's face, then shook his head and walked away.
Jasiah turned on his walkie talkie and said, "Kacy, Triston, can you guys hear me?!"
Triston responded, "Thank God! Okay, were over at B hallway, can you meet us around that? The trucks are waiting for us! Make sure to have your ear plugs in, so they wont use the sleeper code on us."
"Yeah I'll be there!"
Throughout the entire building, children were going berserk, fighting the guards and the guards fighting them. Triston, Kacy, and a large group of kids were running alone in a hallway, as they approached a large door that was closing down slowly.
Kacy said, "Go! Go! Go!"
They all made it to the door, and made it through to the other side. They were inna large garage, as a tank sat there at the end of it. Triston's heart dropped.
"Dang it."
Kacy replied, "We cant take down a tank from this distance. The outside world is behind him."
"We can't give up. We'll figure something out."
The tank rolled up some, and shot a shell towards the children. They braced themselves, until Jasiah sped in the way, and blocked the shell with a steel board. The shell blew up, and Jasiah still stood his ground, standing in front of the children.
Triston said, "Jasiah!"
Jasiah replied, "Okay um, could you guys move out the way for a moment."
Jasiah ran towards the tank and the tank kept shooting shells. Jasiah dodged them all, but either sliding or jumping. A shell raced towards Jasiah, Jasiah jumped over it, flipped, and slammed the steel board into the tank. The tank had a big dent in it and started smoking. Jasiah kept bashing the tank with the board, And the smoke got worse. The gunner of the tank couldn't get out. The tank blew up and Jasiah flew all the way back. He hit the floor and slid right at Kacys feet. The tank was in flames, and was completely wrecked.
Triston and Kacy got down to Jasiah, and helped him up.
Jasiah said, "Did we win?"
"Not yet," Triston said.
"We gotta go like right now, the building is gonna blow up."
All the children of the Ivy started to run towards the outside world, they ran and ran as parts of the building began to blow up. The inside was crushing down, the building was falling apart, fire bombarded every area. The building blew up all together and there was nothing but ruins and smoke in it left.
The kids were outside laying on the ground, some where hanging onto each other. Every kid made it out. Trucks started pulling up, 30 all together, swerved in and a man yelled, "In the trucks let's go!"
The kids started running to the trucks, and stepped in.
Present day
Medical room
Jasiah finished the story, and Jack was tuned in all the way.
Jack asked, "You can die, right?"
"Yes. We're not made of steel. That's why we fight. But we were made to kill the innocent. Which I hated doing."
"Was that the only building IVY made?"
"Yes. But, the headquarters is somewhere else. No one knows where that's at. Headquarters have no kids in it, just business."
"So, Shaw was gonna use all of you to take over, but since you guys escaped and destroyed some of his experiments, he decided to take over without you guys. BUT, he wants to capture you so he can use your DNA to make more super soldiers?"
"Exactly."
"Do you know if Shaw made himself a demon too?"
"He got it before any of us. Injecting the largest dosage which almost killed him."
"It's all starting to make sense now. Knowing that, his army is already strong without the super soldiers anyway right? Also your DNA is on some X Men mutant situations."
"Triston too. His DNA was mutated before mine. He was the brains of the operation. Shaw just wants every kid back, it doesn't matter if were grown or any age, he wants to take us back in."
"This is just a question, would you go back for the sake of your country?"
"And do what?"
"Destroy them from the inside."
"I can't destroy an army haha. Not by myself. If I'm gonna go in, were gonna need a plan."
Rachelle and Brandon walked in, and Rachelle said, "You couldn't wait Jack?"
Jack responded, "Too many lives are at stake to be waiting Rachelle. Time is ticking."
The nurse was taking the chip out of Jasiah's arm, while he just sat there content.
Brandon said, "Jasiah can't go in. It's better we all go to Shaw when the time is right. Or, let him come to us."
"Sounds like alot of waiting to me. Gotta do better than that."
Rachelle said, "We have Volk in the interrogation room."
"Is he gonna talk?"
"If we make him yeah he'll talk."
"Well let's go. Jasiah we'll talk later."
Jack stood up out the chair, and walked to the door, following Rachelle and Brandon out. After 10 minutes, the nurse removed the chip from Jasiah's arm, and placed it on a tissue. Jasiah looked at the chip and almost threw up.
The nurse chuckled and said, "All done."
Jasiah responded, "You promised candy."
The nurse laughed again, reached into a bowl of candy beside her, and handed Jasiah a piece.
Jasiah cheerfully took it, the nurse examined his face.
The nurse said, "Tell Triston he's up. He should be waiting outside."
Jasiah stood up and said, "Okay. Aye nurse, you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine, just lightheaded that's all."
"Mhm okay," Jasiah walked out the room, and saw Triston sitting in a chair, with his eyes watery.
Jasiah walked towards him, and sat beside him.
"What's the matter?"
"Why us? Why did we have to turn out like this? Shaw ruined me, turned me into a freak."
"You seen and witnessed what he turned all of us into. You think I love being like this? Having a heavy burden knowing we killed innocent people when were only kids? I know how you feel. Escaping was for the best, if we would've stayed, who knows what we would've been like."
"And I haven't heard from Kacy since like three months ago."
"Wait really? What did she say?"
"She didn't say much, she was on the phone with me, we were planning to meet up with you together, but while we were on the phone, I heard gunshots and yelling and fighting, and the line cut out."
"Why didnt you tell me this sooner? That Kacy was alive?"
"I didn't know how you would react. Plus I don't even know if she's still alive now."
"We have to find her. I know you was in love with her."
"Ahh shut up."
"Go in there and get your chip taken out before I say the code."
"You won't."
"Ozone, Tango -,"
"Okay okay! I'm going."
Triston and Jasiah stood up out of their chairs, Triston walked inside the room, and Jasiah walked down the hallway. Minutes later, while Jasiah was still walking, Leah walked out of a bathroom near him, and they locked eyes.
Leah said, "Well well well."
Jasiah asked, "Where is everybody?"
"Watching a movie."
"You going back in there?"
"Yes. Are you going?"
"If you want me to," Jasiah grinned.
"Your friend Keslan seems to be getting along with Kayla," Leah said walking to the movie room, Jasiah followed.
"Who would've known. He's scared of females."
"Like you."
"Nope not at all. I stand my ground cause I'm from the hood ya feel me."
Behind them, Tank placed his hand on Jasiah's shoulder strongly and said, "You from where white boy?"
Jasiah quickly said, "Nowhere."
"Haha. Tighten up kid," Tank finished while walking ahead of them.
Leah smirked, and Jasiah said, "Shut up."
They were in the movie room, and it was pretty big, could hold up to people. A large screen sat in front of them, and everyone was focused on the movie.
Jasiah was sitting beside Leah, and saw she had no interest in the movie. Keslan was on the bottom row, talking to Kayla. Mitchell, Donnie, Tank, and Triston were actually watching the movie, it was a boxing movie.
Jasiah said to Leah, "You hate this movie don't you?"
"Always have. This movie is like every other boxing movie."
"Come on, Creed Was a good movie."
"Eh. It was decent. Only difference between that movie and all the others one is that he actually lost in the end, when everyone thought he was gonna win."
"What about rocky? You can't lie that was a classic."
"Ha, that movie was like two hours long. I like the others one better."
"See now I just wanna know what kind of movies do you like anyway?"
"Anything with action, horror, thriller. How about you?"
"Same. I can't stand drama shows though their too cringe."
"Drama shows ew. I'd rather watch the news."
"The news ew. I'd rather watch golf."
"What's more boring than golf?"
"Well, you got um, cricket. Wait no cricket is actually interesting," Jasiah said as Leah laughed.
"Best thing to watch on t.v is ufc. Hands down."
"Of course it is. What fun is it to not watch people beat each other up?"
On the t.v screen, there was a fight scene, and everyone in the room was shouting cheering the main character on. Jasiah and Leah just watched them and laughed. Jasiah looked at Leah, and Leah looked back at him. They kept looking at each other, and Jasiah remembered something.
He said, "You know what we forgot to do?"
Leah responded, "No what?"
"Come with me," Jasiah said standing out of his chair, and Leah stood as well, following him out the room.
Minutes later, they were in the training yard, with guns and ammo laid out on tables, and stationary targets.
Leah said, "Bet was a hundred right?"
Jasiah said, "Yep."
"Say less."
Leah walked to one of the tables and started getting her guns. She picked up a rifle, filled it with ammo then sat it back down. Then she picked up a pistol, and did the same. She was ready. She stood at the start, and was already aiming.
Jasiah pulled out his phone, went to the timer, and started the time saying, "Go."
Leah quickly moved up and started spraying holes into the targets. She ran forward towards an obstacle, jumped over it, and shot down some more targets. Jasiah grinned nodding his head. Leah flipped over a dummy target, jumped, and kicked its head off. She landed, turned and shot down 2 more targets. She then pulled out her pistol, rolled, and got chestshots against the dummies. Leah finished and Jasiah stopped the time.
She walked over to Jasiah and said, "How long square?"
"Twenty seconds. Not bad actually."
"Yeah get ready to pay up."
Leah handed Jasiah her guns and he laughed. He was fully equipped and waited for Leah to start the time.
Leah said, "Go."
Jasiah dropped his rifle, and pulled out his pistol only, ran, kicked the head off one of the targets, flipped, and shot a dummy in the head, and then got another headshot on a separate one. Leah had a suprised look as be moved like he wasn't human, but, super.
Jasiah slid and got three more headshots, stood up and shot another one down. He ran, spun once again, and drove his fist through a dummy made of bricks. Leah stopped the time, and Jasiah pulled his hand out the dummy without ease.
Jasiah made his way towards Leah and said, "Time?"
Leah said, "Fourteen seconds."
"Ahhhh, looks like someone lost the bet."
"Ahhhh shut up."
Jasiah grabbed Leah by the waist, pulled her in towards him and kissed her. They held the kiss for at least ten seconds. After those seconds, they slowly let go, and Leah found herself holding onto Jasiah's waist. They looked into each other's eyes, and Leah was astonished silently. She put her hands on the side of Jasiah's face, leaned in, and they kissed again.
In the interrogation room, it was fully empty, and Volk was tied up against a chair, while Rachelle and Jack was standing in front of him. Cindy and Brandon and Dudnean was watching inside that room, from a window that Volk couldn't see them in.
Jack said, "Volk I'm going to tell you right now if you do not tell us what we wanna know you will die here and we were given permission to kill you if you don't cooperate."
Volk responded, "You fools. That's murder."
"You helped Shaw kill millions. Thats enough to have you on death row."
"You won't get anything out of me. Your bluffing."
"Or, we can call Jasiah in here and have him kill you, which one do you want? Talk, or die?"
"What do I get out of this?"
"If you tell us accurate information, we won't kill you. Trust me, we don't have alot of time on our hands so the best thing to do is kill you off right here and now with no worries about anyone avenging you, because Shaw doesn't care about you. And I can tell your family does because they seem like they've been missing you."
"What are you talking about?"
"We found your family hiding in a safehouse out in Bejing. Tell us everything, or they die as well."
"That's murder."
"Who's gonna tell on us? You'll be dead."
"Shaw didn't think you guys would make it out of New York alive."
"We know he wants Jasiah."
"Yeah but the war won't stop. He already has the German presidents daughter."
Rachelle asked, "Why does he have her?"
"He's gonna kill her later on. And broadcast it on live T.V. He was gonna do it in New York but, they were having high pings on their location, so he's gonna wait."
Rachelle looked at Jack and whispered, "We gotta find her."
"I don't know. She's not really on our side."
"But it's the right thing to do. Letting Shaw kill a young girl is just barbaric. It's already bad enough hes killing everyone."
"I'll have some of my guys look into finding her location with Cindy, and we'll go from there."
Rachelle looked back and Volk and started walking around him slowly, and asked, "How are the missiles guided?"
"Manually. The missiles are from space, and the man who has the controller can see an entire area, maybe even a whole a state wide."
"Where is it?"
"Shaw has it. I overheard that he's going back to Texas to find the Galzar device that you guys destroyed in the museum."
"It's broken. Why would he want it?"
"That device is used just in case anything goes wrong. He can still take the details out of it and use it as a worldwide EMP. It could take over your entire defense system. It's an impossible mission. If you guys are gonna stand any kind of chance, you must send every force you got. And since you have someone you trust on the oil rigs to gather the 3 - 4 ingredients, then your one step ahead of him. But everyone will be on you guys head even more. Everyone wants both devices."
"We have to get that device before he does. And for the controller that controls the missiles, we have to take that off of Shaw ourselves."
Jack asked Volk, "Is Shaw a demon?"
"Uh, what?"
"Like a super soldier."
"Yes. The experiment effects everyone differently. But Jasiah was technically a screw up, as well as him being the strongest and fastest."
"Where does Shaw plan on attacking? And where is the EM
"He plans on sending missiles to Canada. But he's gonna wait until he's retrieved the ingredients. Which the ingredients are on a flashdrive. He moves north every few hours, and since you pinpointed his last location, you guys maybe could cut him off."
Rachelle said, "Wait. What about oil rigs on the sea?"
"How did you know about that?"
"Doesn't matter. Doesn't he transport things there?"
"Backwards. They transport things to him. But now, he has no need for them anymore."
"He's gonna destroy them."
"Ding ding...look guys I'm just trying to get money here. Okay, I didn't want to do this. For the sake of my kids. Shaw threatened them also if I didn't help him."
"We know. Aye Cindy let em in."
The interrogation room opened, and Volk's kids (son and daughter) and his wife walked in the room. They moved to him and hugged him tightly.
His wife asked him, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine baby I'm fine. My legs just feels broken. I'm just confused right now how did you guys get here?"
Jack said, "They got here before we invaded New York to capture. We know we were gonna get you, we already had surveillance on your family before, finding their location and asking them to come with us. And yes, the guards that were watching them are all dead. Volk, you have the chance to be safe and your family be safe. Help us catch Shaw, your closer to him than anyone."
Volk looked at his wife and kids, and his wife nodded.
Volk looked back at Jack and Rachelle and said, "Okay. What about my leg?"
Rachelle responded, "Your leg is actually broken. We'll get that fixed."
Jack said to Volk, "What's the news on Samantha?"
"She found out her son is still alive. Now I'm not entirely sure, but I think she'll try to kill him."
"Kill her own son?"
"Jasiah could destroy everything she's built. You see, Shaw sent Levine in to act like he's on Samantha's side. Toma was there but, he's gonna die. Samantha wants the ingredients to destroy the United States and Shaw all at once."
Cindy, Brandon, Cage, and Dudnean were focusing on the interrogation from the window, taking notes and everything.
Jack said, "That means we need Holland to retrieve the ingredients before Samantha or Shaw or Haines gets to them."
Rachelle suggested, "We need Cindy and Cage to tag Holland's location and to send evac and back up to him immediately. But he doesn't leave that rig until he has the drive."
"Okay. ."
"It's been a few hours since we found where Shaw was last, were gonna trace locations north of where that was, and maybe find him using the drones. If he's not in Texas, we'll send the drones out to find him."
"How long will that take?"
"Not long."
"See this is what I like. Plans."
Volk said, "And about Koleji.."
"We're gonna kill her off, she's useless."
Cindy looked at Cage and said, "Let's get to work."
In the medical room, Triston was sitting on the bed, and the nurse said, "Now I'll be right back, I need peroxide." The nurse walked out the room, and shut the door, and locked it.
Triston stood up quickly and said, "Hey! Open the door!"
The nurse ignored him and kept walking as she was taking her gloves off. Triston smashed his hands into the door out of anger. On the TV in the corner of the room, it cut on, and Shaw's face appeared. Triston stared at it, and his face turned.
Shaw said, "Ah. Triston."
Triston replied, "Get out of my head!"
"Whiskey, Ozone, Horizon, Red."
The T.V shut off after he said that, and Triston paused in place. His eyes started watering red, and his veins started popping, and his fists were clenching. He started to scream loudly. Jasiah and Leah heard it from outside, and Jasiah knew what was going on.
Jasiah said, "Oh no. We gotta go!"
They both started running inside the building. Triston was inside the room still destroying everything, his strength went up to the max as his eyes were bloodshot red. Jasiah and Leah made it to the room and looked inside through the window, along with Brandon, Rachelle, Jack, Dudnean, Mitchell, Keslan, Kayla, Donnie, and Tank.
Kayla asked, "What's wrong with him?"
Jasiah said, "Sleeper. The chip hasn't been removed from his arm yet. Shaw must've appeared on the screen right there. Where's the nurse that was watching him?"
Rachelle responded, "Leah, go get her. Bring her back or kill her if you have too."
Leah said, "Got it."
Leah and Kayla started running the opposite way as the alarm started to go off. Triston was still going berserk, and Jasiah was just watching.
Jasiah said to everyone, "You guys have to go. I seen this before-,"
The lights shut out, and the door busted wide open. Everyone flew back, some even flew through the walls. Jasiah was laying on the floor, and Triston was running out the room. Jasiah quickly got up and yelled, "Triston!"
Triston turned around, and stared at Jasiah breathing heavily and fast like he was an animal.
Jasiah looked at him back and said, "Sorry. Triston."
Triston started running at Jasiah, Jasiah ran at Triston as well. Triston saw a fire extinguisher to his left, and he kicked a hole in it. Stuff got into Jasiah's eyes, but Jasiah still ran through it. Triston kicked Jasiah in the back, and Jasiah flew and hit the wall. Triston charged again, Jasiah headbutted Triston, punched him in the stomach, then the face, then drove his knee in his face. Triston fell on his back with his face already bloody. Triston started to crawl away then eventually got to his feet. Triston grabbed Jasiah's collar, and threw him through the roof. Jasiah busted through the ceiling, and was in another room. Triston jumped high, and was in the same room.
Suddenly, the air vents started releasing toxins that could kill in approximately five minutes. Rachelle started to wake up with her head ringing, she started to smell the toxins, and began waking everyone up.
Everyone started standing up, and Rachelle said, "Toxic fumes in the vents. Someone go and seal all the vents, while I go flush out the toxins; we don't have a lot of time. Don't trust anyone. Now go!"
Everyone split up as they were coughing and staggering while running. The safehouse started to get smokey, and Jack was running while covering his nose and mouth with his shirt.
Leah caught up with the nurse, and tackled her down a set of steps. They both bumped their heads repeatedly as they fell down the staircase. They hit the bottom, and got up immediately. The nurse pulled out a knife and swung at Leah, Leah dodged the attacks, then rolled past her. Leah grabbed a tablecloth as well. The nurse swung again, Leah wrapped the cloth around the nurses arm, kicked her leg, then flipped her hard on her back. The nurse was kicking and screaming, while Leah was stomping on the nurses face. Leah got down on the floor, and wrapped her legs around the nurses neck. The nurse started choking and gasping for air, and Leah was still also pulling the nurses arm back. The nurse passed out, and Leah let go. She stood up, lifted the nurse, and started to run off to find someplace where it wasn't smokey.
Jasiah punched Triston in the stomach, and Triston flew through another wall. Both of them were heavily bloody and bruised. Triston got up and rushed again, he jumped at Jasiah, Jasiah grabbed Triston by the throat, catching him mid air. Jasiah clenched his hands tight, yelled, and slammed Triston on the floor hard. Triston's neck started bleeding, and Jasiah didn't let go. Triston reached over, grabbed a piece of glass, and shoved it into Jasiahs hip. Jasiah still didn't let go, instead, Jasiah stood up with Triston's neck in his hand, and Jasiah slammed him into the wall. Triston kicked Jasiah far back and he slid on the floor. Triston grabbed another piece of glass and skillfully threw it at Jasiah. Jasiah saw it, jumped and flipped over it, caught the glass, and threw it back at Triston. The glass went straight into Tristons heart. And Triston was stuck for a second, then started going back to normal, his eyes were settling back to white.
Triston looked at the glass in his heart and his back hit the wall, and he fell down trying to catch his breath. Jasiah, holding his bloody hip, walked over to him.
Jasiah kneeled in front of Triston and said, "Triston I- I'm sorry."
Triston responded,"Its..It's not your fault. Shaw wanted this to happen. Thank you for doing this. And promise me, you'll kill that bastard."
"I swear to you, I will."
Triston exhaled his last breath, and died. With his eyes still open. A tear ran down Jasiah's face, and his fist started clenching up. Jasiah yelled, and punched a hole in the wall.
Rachelle was flushing the vents out as she was turning a wheel fast, and the vents were already sealed by Keslan and Mitchell. The vents were cleared out and the toxins started to clear up. Everyone started coughing and wheezing, besides Jasiah. Jasiah stood up slowly, and just stared at Triston's lifeless body. Seconds pass, and Keslan is standing a few feet behind Jasiah. Jasiah turned to look at Keslan, and Keslan walked to him, and gave him a bro hug.
"We got this. No matter what it costs, we must win this war. Shaw must die."
Jasiah responded, "At all costs."
Minutes later, Cindy and Cage were standing in front of Rachelle, while she was trying to wrap up her hand.
Cindy said, "Our intel checks out. Our drones captured large enemy movement headed towards Texas."
Rachelle asked, "How long will it take for them to actually get there?"
Cage responded, "If we leave in the morning, then we can meet them there. But we have to bring everything we got. Even we'll go if it helps."
"Ha. What do you guys know about combat?"
Cindy said, "My family showed me how to shoot, I can snipe. Yes I know it sounds cringy but give me a shot please I won't let you down."
"Fine. What about you Cage?"
Cage said, "I noticed you guys have manually controlled weapons that connect to a system. I say put that system inna van, keep me from a distance of the fight, and I can tear the enemy apart with it."
"Sounds promising. You guys don't have to, really."
Cindy said, "No, we want to."
In another room, Jasiah was sitting in a chair across from the evil nurse. She sat there ties up, with her face neutral. Mitchell and Keslan was also in the room just looking at her.
Jasiah said to the nurse, "I could kill you right now. You know that?'
The nurse nodded like she was afraid.
Jasiah continued, "Why did shaw make me kill him? Why didn't he say the code to me?"
"He wanted you to feel what it was like to kill someone you saved. Triston was also a threat, knowing you were the only one that could actually kill him righteously."
"You have kids? A husband? Immediate family around?'
"No."
"Good. Mitchell, kill her."
Mitchell said, "With pleasure."
Jasiah started to walk out the room along with Keslan. Mitchell pulled out his gun, and a gunshot went off.
In another room, Cindy was talking with Cage, both of them still catching their breath.
Cage said, "Didn't know it would be this rough."
Cindy replied, "That's what she said."
"Haha."
"No but seriously though, we're getting closer to Shaw each step. Obviously he knows where we are, and now we know what direction he's heading."
"And according to Volk, there's only one more trip he's taking. Which is back to Texas."
"And since we know where the emp device was before, we'll know exactly where he is. The museum."
"Correct."
"....Look Cage, I'm sorry for the way I've been treating you, like, brushing you off inna way. I'm just not used to affection."
"It's fine. We all need comfort every once and awhile. Especially since WW3 started."
"I wonder if the news people are still casting."
Cindy turned her head left and right, and spotted a remote. She picked up the remote, pointed it at the T.V in the corner and turned it on. Surprisingly, there was a newscast on set, speaking about the wars and mayhem.
One of them said, "And as we just shown here, Japan has officially defeated Russia overseas, causing over fifty thousand deaths. China is on their way now to move in on an American Base in South America. This war has caused millions of deaths, and destroyed millions of homes and businesses. I hope everyone is staying safe, and everyone that's in the bunkers, it'll all be over soon."
Cindy turned the T.V off, and Jasiah walked in.
"You guys alright?"
Cage and Cindy replied, "Yeah."
Cindy said, "Jasiah, do you think if we kill Shaw, it'll all be over?"
"No. Well, depends on if we let any of them live. Toma, Levine, Samantha, Haines, Shaw, Koleji, are all in this for control."
Cage replied, "And Shaw is playing them like a puppet."
"Exactly."
Cindy said, "We have to get them all together somehow."
"That's gonna be hard, but it's possible. Just gotta wait for the right moment. Do you know when we're moving out?"
"In a few hours. You need to patch your hip up, don't want you dying on us."
Minutes later, Jasiah was sitting in a chair in his room, and Leah was fixing his wounded hip. Jasiah was grunting in pain as little sharp knocks went through his body. Leah noticed, and massaged his back a little bit. Jasiah almost fell asleep by how good that felt.
Leah said, "Now I recognize the tattoo."
Jasiah replied, "Sorry I lied about it before."
"No I understand. Plus Abigail was in the car anyway."
"The girl you saved right? Heard anything from her?"
"No, I wish I did. I still worry about her. How she and her family is doing. You know they were really kidnapping kids."
"Wait, you said kidnapping kids?"
"Yeah?"
"Ivy. They must be still trying to make kids into super soldiers."
"Meaning Shaw is trying to build the program again?"
"Right. And since Texas maybe our final fight, who knows where those kids are going to be held."
"When I was in the room with those young girls, we were forced to fight to the death. And that woman from New York was there."
"Koleji. So Shaw is trying to make more soldiers. How convenient."
Leah poured medical alcohol on a cotton dab, and dabbed it on Jasiahs hip. Jasiah's wounded started to heal slowly, and Leah was amazed.
"Whoa, you heal pretty fast," She said.
"Yeah it uh, just cleans the wound itself to avoid infection. I just need a band aid, no pun intended."
Leah laughed, and put a large band aid and gauze on his hip.
"All better."
Jasiah looked at his hip, and nodded.
Jasiah looked at Leah, and said, "Thank you."
Leah walked around to walk in front of him and said, "Of course. Now i'm going to go look for something to drink, I'll be back."
Leah walked out the room, and Jasiah sat there in the chair, thinking about everything. The light memories he had with his family, and the dark memories he had at Ivy. He wanted to cry, but didn't; not sure if he has the guts to get rid of his own mother, when he already knows what her intentions are. He started thinking about what the last fight would be like in Texas. Will they die? Will they survive? Will some die? This will be a fight against Shaw and his entire army.
Mitchell was leaning against the door post outside of Jasiah's room.
Jasiah said, "The nurse still alive?"
"Yeah. She had a camera on her, that's what I shot."
"Good, I'm glad you saw it too. I had to improvise with what I was saying to her."
"Look Jasiah, I'm not gonna lie, I hated you when you first got here."
"But I did nothing to you."
"Does the name Eric ring a bell?"
Sudden nostalgia hit Jasiah, Eric was one of the first men that was killed by Ivy, died by Jasiah's hand.
Jasiah looked up at Mitchell and said, "Oh man. He was your father? Look we were kids being turned into weapons, our minds were functioned to do what we were told."
"I know. I've had to live with knowing my dad was killed by children. But it's not you or Triston's fault. Shaw has gotten millions killed, who knows who's next?"
"We're in this together. Tomorrow will be the end of Shaw."