Panting heavily, a man seems to be running through webs of alleys confused as to where to go next, mumbling something under his breath.
"I need to find that exit quickly, or they are going to find me just where the hell is that exit." Thinking this, he heard some distant voices.
"Find that bastard," the team leader yelled at other members, "where can that big ass man hide? Find him and bring him to me."
Hearing the team leader howl at them, they started to scatter in different directions. Just as they got a few meters away, the team leader started shrieking again, "Find him quickly or you'll be going to lose your jobs." Hearing this, they started sprinting.
Watching all this from a safe distance, hiding in a gap of a wall, the man in question is now starting to panic. "How are they here so quickly? I am sure they didn't see me fleeing here." As he is thinking this, he hears footsteps coming in his direction.
"F@$% does he think of us as animals?" Team member 1 mumbled under his breath.
"If team leader hears you, he will kill you," team member 2 suggests to his friend.
"Yes, I know that as well, but how can you stand that beast?"
"I am used to it now; we just need to find that man and hand him over to the team leader; after that, we can go home."
"Alright, after this is over, I'm quitting this job."
Observing them from the gap, he saw an opening for his escape. Just as he was going towards that opening, he saw them turning around, so he stopped right there.
"I will have to knock them out and escape from this hell hole." Looking around, he saw a metal pipe lying in a corner. Moving towards the pipe silently and picking up the pipe, he started moving towards those two.
As he got close to them, something moved in the background, knocking a tin can down. Hearing this sound, both of them turned around.
"What sort of shit luck is this?" saying this aloud, he prepared himself for a fight.
Seeing the man they were seeking in front of them, they started moving towards him to capture him.
"Where are you going to hide now, rat?" Saying this, one of them started running toward the man in front of them. As he got close, he started swinging his fists to hit the man.
"Why are you fighting him with your hands? You have a gun," shouting this, he pulled his gun out and aimed towards the man.
"Why do they have guns on them? I need to knock them out quickly." Mumbling this, he started swinging his pipe and hitting the man in front of him. Just as he was about to knock the man down, he heard the sound of a gunshot.
Looking at his shoulder, he saw blood coming out of the wound. As he touched his shoulder, an intense pain shot through his body.
"Please don't kill me; my wife's life is at stake if she is not treated quickly; she will die." pleading to them and hoping that they will let him go, "Please let me go."
"If we let you go, what about our family then?" team member 1 said.
"Just give us the item that you stole."
"No, I can't give that item to you. I need that to save my wife." Saying this, he tried to stand up but failed.
"Why the hell are we talking to him? Just call the team leader so we can finish this job," team member 1 said.
"Okay, you can call him; I'll be on standby." Saying this, he pulled out handcuffs from his back pocket and started walking towards the lying man.
Seeing this, the lying man said, "Please let me go. I can give that item to you."
Hearing this, the man with cuffs stopped and questioned him, "Where is that item? Is it on you?"
"Yes, it is on me in my pocket."
"Don't try something funny; I am coming to take it." Reaching his hand toward the man's pocket, just as he touched the pocket, he saw a metal pipe towards his face. He tried to block the pipe, but it was too fast and ended up hitting his face, knocking him down.
The wounded man turned his neck towards which the metal pipe came flying, and saw that the one who threw that pipe is none other than his best friend Sam.
"Why are you here? I told you not to follow me," the wounded man said.
"Are you stupid? I was worried about you," Sam said and pulled his friend on his feet. "Why are you doing this? We can find other solutions to this problem."
"Okay, I will answer your question, but first we have to escape from here." Looking around for an exit.
"How did you get in? Do you know where the exit is?" questioning his friend.
"Come with me this way," pointing at an Almera that has been sided, exposing a hole in the wall.
"How do you know there is a hole here?"
"I have my ways. Quit asking questions and follow me," having said that he jumped in that hole and the wounded man followed him.
Coming out of the alley and onto the street, Sam questioned, "Now what? You are wounded, and we have to treat that."
"Yes, I know that, but first we have to hide this," taking out an item from his pocket.
"So, you're telling me that you risked your life for this tiny item." The said item is just the size of a fingernail, circular in shape, and if you look closely, you would see stars shining in there. If anyone doesn't know what that item is, they would think it's a marble, but it seems fragile.
"yes"
"You are insane. Wait till your wife finds this out." Sam said while walking towards his caral and sat in his car, following his friend wounded man also sat into car clutching his shoulder and grimacing.
"Are you sure that not going to the doctor is the right option here?"
"Yes"
Starting the engine, Sam's car started to levitate a few inches of the ground going towards an abandoned house. Turning autopilot on, Sam turned his head toward his friend but didn't call out.
As if having an eye on the back of his head, the wounded man, without turning his head spoke, "Just say it."
"Ahh… I was just thinking nothing else," but it is just an excuse from Sam's side; he did have some questions to ask his friend.
As the wounded man is staring outside, he sees tall buildings whizzing past in his vision, and memories of his wife laughing, dancing, singing, and having a happy smile on her face overlap the outside view; just thinking of those happy times would put a smile on his face. Caressing the pendent that his wife gave him.
"It's not the time to reminisce about the past now that I have this; I can finally save my love." Just as they were about to reach the abandoned house, he saw a bright flash from the corner of his eyes. He yelled at his friend, "Brace yourself for impact, Sam."
After that, there was a bright flash of light, and 'boom' their car flipped in the air, doing four-barrel rolls. Landing upside down as he opened his eye, which still can't see clearly, and his ears ringing from the sound of impact.
The wounded man checked himself and his friend for any injuries; they had some minor injuries, but the wound had stopped bleeding and is now bleeding profusely.
Through his blurred vision, he saw a 6-armed man's moving towards him and his friend.
"No, don't touch Sam; he has nothing to do with this. This is all my fault," shouting historically as he saw two of them grabbing Sam, who had fainted from impact. "Just leave him alone; he hadn't done anything."
As they took Sam and the wounded man out of the car and headed toward the team leader.
Getting close to the team leader, he saw him sitting on a bonnet watching them. They stopped in front of him, and one of them said, "Team leader, we have two men; one is injured and the other has fainted."
"So, what is your name?" the team leader asked the wounded man. Having heard his question, he answered.
"Leon west"
"So, Leon, you know what you did, right?"
"Yes, but it has nothing to do with my friend." Leon said
"The thing that you stole is very valuable; you know that right, and there are many groups who are chasing that item, and because of that, we can't leave any witnesses." Then he pulled his gun out and aimed at Sam's head.
Seeing this, Leon pulled the item and said, "You want this, right? what If I destroy this, then what?"
Hearing this, he pulled the trigger, and Sam's head got blasted off. "You are not in a position to threaten me, and this is what you get to threaten me."
Seeing his friend die in front of his eye, he screamed at the man, "You bastard, I will not give you this item." Saying this, he throws that item into his mouth and crushes it between his teeth.
Having seen all this, the team leader aimed his gun at Leon's head and pulled its trigger. "What a shame."
Leon could only see darkness all around him. He tried to feel something by his hand but could not as he was searching; he heard a notification sound.
Ding.
'Startup condition has been met'