On that day, supposed to be a free and relaxing period after the session, the only thing I can do is curse my luck.
Those men saw me accompanying the girl, rushes towards our direction. They seem small from a far but, when they got nearer to me, I saw two buffed men, nearly a raging bull centuries ago charging itself towards our direction, but the thing is, they have guns.
Despite being the officer here, training for 4 years in a prestigious academy, the best course of action I can think of is to run, tagging along with this unknown woman, and at that moment, they began shooting at us.
"Who are they?"
"I d-don't know", she replied in exhaustion
In frustration, I let out a long sigh of anger and trying to save our lives while running away from the problem.
'Seriously, why are we been chasing by buff men in the middle of a crowd?!'
They bumped into strangers until entering an alley where a narrow space is not an excellent choice. Nico tried to search for something in his jacket, but he couldn't find it.
"Where is my phone?" searching up everywhere until he realizes he forgot it in his apartment.
As he heard footstep, they both hide at the back of the dumpster. Seeing both men wearing a loose jogging pants and a fitted tank tops.
"Where is that thief and that man who's
dragging her along?"
As I heard those words, I immediately turn around, but the girl pushes me, revealing myself from the one who's been chasing us down.
"There he is!", pointing out my direction with a gun
Pain formed up in my back as I turned around for the girl. She vanishes out of the blue. I hold my stomach while running. Unexpected for the girl thrust is heavier for his body. I use the object at the side to create obstacle. A minute pause and having this vision of myself where they shot me at my back and seeing myself bleeding.
Adrenaline rushes through my veins, and I avoided the shot in sheer luck. The same thing happened again, but this time I fight back. I see myself got shut in the face, then avoiding it by lowering down my head and giving the first man a heavy uppercut, knocking him unconscious.
"You little shi-" before he can finish what's he's saying, he pulled the trigger multiple times and echo of gunshots defines the surrounding.
I move around his field of vision, gripping down his hand until he releases his gun as if I saw everything, then hitting his jaw using the back of my hand and putting my right leg behind his body then grab his shoulder, pushing him backwards while sweeping my leg behind his body dragging him down.
I felt so much heat in my body, making me dizzy after that fight. I lean for a minute on a wall, tried to relax, then I recalled the things happen.
'Did I just do that, I mean did I just saw myself from the future?'
Just thinking about it stresses me out so much.
After a few minutes, I heard an irritating voice. It was an officer, also a friend of mine in the academy before.
"Yoo!, Officer Faust, how you doing there, looks like you're bitten up, I mean that's very usual."
"Just take these men away from me, Emma, please," glaring at her and expect her to shut up.
"Geez. I know, I know," while walking in my direction.
When she's trying to get close, she's surprise that they're both unconscious.
'Did he just stop this muscled man? I mean, he can fight back, but making them unconscious is unbelievable'
She immediately handcuffs them. She reaches out her handheld transceiver and called out the department.
"This is police officer Emma Weiss of the 4th Ward Division; I captured already the 2 men who cause the rumpus near the facility, please send a mobile and a medical support here, we have 1 casualty, sending location, over."
"Roger that, Officer Weiss. Support is on the way, over."
I look up and stared over the sky; Saw the same girl looking back at me, then my visions blur. I heard someone shouting my name but I can't hear it properly, like someone muted everything down. Next thing I knew is that I'm back in the facility.
Seeing the same face before I lost my consciousness and being backed here in the facility where I didn't want to go back, I questioned my luck.
'Am I out of luck this time, give me a break.'
"You're awake Nicks! I thought you going to die," she shouts, like there's no tomorrow.
"Can you tone it down, I just recovered back my senses and you're shouting hysterically. And thank you, by the way."
"I'll take that as an apology after you try to shut my kindness, Sir!," saying it in this weird French accent of her.
Both of us chuckled down, it's been a while since I heard her jokes.
"I shall take my leave then, going to do this report, before somebody scolds at me," saying it while creating this unknown gesture of her.
"I'll be back, Nicks, Take care."
Before she leaves, I remembered something; I want to ask about the girl but then my chance didn't come as she's now gone. After a couple of minutes, Mr Mayer entered the room.
"Looks who's back earlier than expected," said in those annoying tones of him bring out two separate papers.
"Everything seems normal before you leave the facility earlier and you came back here unconscious. What happened?" asking curiously while looking up the paper.
I told everything happened from the girl who randomly pop out of nowhere to where I saw myself in the future and knocking down those men whose been chasing us down.
"W-wait a minute. You're telling me you just dragged someone and saw yourself from the future? Am I right," repeating what I have just said earlier.
'Is this man kind of sort a recorder or something?'
"You sure not having a transaction of drugs, right? I mean, sometimes our machine doesn't function well, and rumors spreading about police officers who's doing bad stuff, so you know," glaring at me as if I'm a sort of drug addict.
"You know I don't use any drugs and besides, what time I can leave?"
"You can leave at 8pm later on."
"Wait, what time is it?!," I asked him with this stupefied expression of mine.
Pointing out the clock in my room and said, "Its 7:37 pm, Mr Faust. You have been unconscious for almost 8 hours."
I slouch in my bed, give off a long sigh of irritation and complained everything in my head.
"Oh… Before I leave, I shall put this paper here at the table and go get your medicines at the pharmacy. Don't forget it."
I just wave my hands up and down, saying that you can leave me alone now so I can take a brief nap. I startled when he slams the door, as if he reads my mind and replied in that way.
Turning my sight in the clock, it was 7:52 pm; I get up from my bed, take the paper on the table, and rush to the pharmacy to get my medicines. I showed them my prescription, then they handed me this two yellow colored bottles and I leave.
The sun is nowhere to be found as soon I step outside, and light pose illuminates the surrounding. The crescent moon shone like a silvery claw in the night sky while the stars dance around him. Vast buildings stood beside the street as I walk through, and the sound of silence is the only music you can hear.
Smell of pleasing aroma surrounds the area then hunger surge up when I saw someone selling this sausage on a stick that been coated with a thick layer of batter and deep fried, in short, a corn dog. I remembered I haven't eaten something; I run towards the vendor but by the time I checked my jacket, my wallet vanished and the only thing left is my badge. Tried to search all up, but it's nowhere to be found.
Walking away from the scene while my stomach growl every step I made, a tall black woman reaches out of me and hand over me this golden corn dog out of nowhere.
As he hands me down the food she said something, "Don't go into a fight with an empty stomach."
Before I can even thank her, she walks away, leaving traces of her oceanic sapphire eyes.
I chewed up this golden corn dog, not having any second thought about whether these contain some poison. Like they have rewarded me after the entire struggle I face this day.
At the time I arrived at my apartment in the 3rd Ward, it was 10:29pm, I'm full and tired. Walking through my bed, seeing my phone laying down there in the table where I need it the earlier. Also, my wallet is missing and my allowance is there, making me broke for a month.
Jumping onto my bed without even taking off my clothes, I tried to recall everything while gust of wind slamming down my window.
'Who is that girl in that red dress? I can't even properly remember her face.'
Thinking of this making my head hurts like crazy so I close my eyes and hope that another fascinating day will not come.
After he falls a sleep, a strange silhouette emerges, looking through the window, creating the same maniacal grin Nico saw.
'We will meet again, Officer.'