Chereads / ZX: The foreverlasting / Chapter 58 - Chapter 57: Barry Holden part 3

Chapter 58 - Chapter 57: Barry Holden part 3

21 February 2024

10:00.A.M.

Barry stands wearing a yellow T-shirt with blue shorts pants and flipflops, leaning against the front door of his car; A red 1969s Ford mustang with black stripes, parked on the side of the long highway (U.S Route 66) facing the direction that leads to Los Angeles. He has a map n both hands holding it up to his face before He hears his phone's ringtone in his pants pockets; taking his flip phone out and answering the phone.

Barry: Hel—

[Angry male client]: WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU?!

Barry: On the highway man, relax.

[Angry male client]: Relax?! These bastards are after me!

Barry: ...What do you mean?

[Angry male client]: THEY'RE HERE!! IN THE FUCKING BUILDING!

Barry: Damn... [Sighs] Told you not to socialize, Tony.

Tony: The name's not Tony, asshole.

Barry: Oo-hoo! Sounds like someone woke up on the wrong side of bed, huh? Forgotten who's your guardian angel, hm?

Tony: [Starts hyperventilating] Please... Help me.

Barry: Sure Tony, RIIIIGHT after I see more than one zero on the acc, man.

Tony: No, No one gets paid until the job's done.

Barry: [Chuckles] Who died and made you king.

Tony: Look, man. I don't trust anyone, alright? Not even... not even my goddamn grandmother, Okay? SO GET YOUR FUCKING ASS OVER HERE AND WASTE THESE ASSHOLES, NOOOW!!

Barry: [whispers to himself] Wow, so loud in the morning... [Speaks to Tony] No.

Distressed Tony: Oh, come on man...

Barry: Hey man, there's lots of other clients outthere who are way more richer than you are and are placed onhold because I'm here, helping your grumpy ass.

Tony: Okay, okay...

Barry: [He glances at his phone and sees $1,000,000 deposited into his account. He whistles]

Tony: You see it?

Barry: Yeah... Don't you worry, Tony, I'll be there in 5 seconds... [Ends call, tosses the newspaper into his car and walks over to the trunk he opens and takes out a black helmet with a red visor and he puts it on before taking out two black Gauntlets that he puts on both forearms before shutting the trunk and afterwards sits inside his car.] Show time... [He leans to the passenger seat and opens up the storage compartment to see a shiny, oblong-shaped device that glows with a faint blue hue; it has three geissler tubes connected to a small screen that displayes a countdown timer and a illustration of the car. He starts tapping on the screen before a light appears, pulsing rapidly on the tubes from the screen to the device. Seeing the light pulsing rapidly, Barry shuts the compartment and starts the car. He looks at the road with steady breathes before the car disappears.]

[Los Angeles]

In an instant, Barry with his car appear parked aside infront of a penthouse.

Barry: [He gets a call that he answers.] Hello?

Tony: [whispers] I see a car parked outside the penthouse, is that—

Barry: Yep, It's me.

Tony: Fucking hell you fast.

Barry: Remember that module I gave ya?

Tony: Yeah?

Barry: Press it and place it against the door you hiding behind. [He hears Tony moving to the door and activating the module.]

Tony: Oh! Shit. What's it doing?

Barry: Nothing, Tony. Just stay calm, okay, bud? [He opens the storage compartment and sees the device nolonger glowing but the screen is still on, on the screen, Barry starts scrolling and tapping on the screen before seeing a illustration of the penthouse with his client and others inside the penthouse highlighted in red.] Perfect. [He presses a turning arrow on the screen before looking away from the screen and towards the penthouse where he sees red highlights of people carrying guns walking around inside the penthouse.] Damn, Tony... I'm seeing twenty... maybe thirty men walking around your place, heading riiiight where you are.

Distressed Tony: [whispers] Okay... Kill em then.

Barry: Triple the amount.

Distressed Tony: [whispers] What?! No.

Barry: [Sees 15 men in an elevator heading up to the top floor Tony is hiding on.] Oh. They heading your way, T.

Distressed Tony: Tch... You son of a bitch.

Barry: [He glances down at his phone and sees the money deposited into his account has been tripled. He chuckles.] Real pleasure doing business with you, Tony. [Barry ends the call and tosses his phone onto the passenger seat before looking at the screen of his machine in the storage compartment and presses an option that says start before getting out of the car and seeing a bright blueish light flashing from the top of the penthouse windows.]

Barry opens the trunk of his car and puts on a right shoulder cannon with a ballistic vest before assembling a heavy type of weapon and a weapon drone with nano tech gadgets in the trunk, he activates the drone after assembly; having it fly out the trunk and hover behind him. He carries the weapon and shuts the trunk before locking the car. He then walks into the entrance of the building and sees 5 men in total carrying their rifles all looking at him in confusion before the drone flies in and fires 5 shots; each aimed for the head, killing the men instantly.

Barry [commands the drone]: T1, hunt mode activate.

The drone starts flying around finding and shooting down the assassins while heads up to each floor with the elevator; killing everyone with his shoulder cannon that fires upon thermal detections; launching sharp projectiles that leave larger holes on the target's bodies, and not only with the cannon but with his heavy weapon with a high fire rate, seen by Barry firing ballistic projectiles that ricocheted off of surfaces to his targets; sometimes nearly ricocheting back to him. Going floor to floor in the penthouse, Barry successfully kills every assassin until he reaches the top floor where Tony is hiding. Exiting the elevator, Barry's shoulder cannon nologer on him and the drone is no where to be seen, He cautiously walks into the floor seeing 15 unconscious assassin every where, he walks to the room, Tony is in and sees that he is also unconscious and breathing.

Barry: [Sighs in relief.] Can't believe that worked... [Turns his head back to the unconscious assassins with a pocket knife in his hand.] Urgh, I'm never gonna forget this...

[7 hours later.]

Outside of McDonald's, Barry stands; leaning against the door of his car with a burger in hand. He takes a bite from the burger before hearing his phone ring in his pants pocket. Irritated, Barry picks up the phone and answers the call.

Barry: Finally awake?

Tony: What the fuck did you do?

Barry: I triggered this flashbang kinda feature in the module that blinded everyone in the top floor while also releasing this toxin that knocked everyone out in the whole building. Giving me time to walk in and...

Tony: Leave focking pieces of everyone, everywhere in the building, you sick bastard.

Barry: Hey, atleast you alive, right? [Tony ends the call.] Hm... so fucking ungrateful. [He takes another bite from the burger before getting a message from "Anonymous User D35l"]

[The message]: Hi, Barry! This is Cheri. You don't know me but I know you and more importantly I know WHERE you come from. Want to finally go home? Meet up in Mainro, location; 6250 Hollywood Blvd. Bring no weapons.