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Chapter 4 - This has to End
There is good and there is evil… right and wrong… heroes and villains. And if we’re blessed with wisdom, then there are glimpses between the cracks of each where light streams through. There are nearly seven billion people on this planet. Each one unique. Something unknowable that dwells in the soul of each one of us and presents us with a unique set of challenges that will help us discover who we really are, the hero or the villain.
Hydro, Will, Mike and Amy approached K4, each one knew what they had to do, to stop Baktar and this operation. However each of them knew that they might just die trying.
Mike grimaced, ‘It needs to be operated from some room on the 23rd floor if we are going to control the prison, it won’t be easy getting up’. This was perhaps an understatement as the rows of armed guards outside the entrance looked impossible to get past. ‘Mike looked at Hydro ‘Looks like we’ll need a blackout’, Hydro nodded.
23 floors up in the room Mike had just mentioned, General Baktar sat in his office. He was speaking to a woman via a transmitter. ‘When would we be able to receive these prisoner drugs, mam?’
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‘I don’t know one of our test subjects has just died who was assisting with the power negation aspect,’ Consuela replied. ‘We’ve ordered a batch ourselves but it won’t arrive until…’.
‘Mam?’ responded Baktar quickly the lights had gone out and the transmitter cut off. However Baktar immediately turned out the battery supplied back-up power, just for his office and a dim light illuminated the four figures in front of his desk.
Using his experience and ability with firearms gained from the arms, Baktar knew these were unwelcome guests, he drew his pistol and fired at one of the four.
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Amy collapsed back, blood issuing from her chest wound. Will and Mike gasped, Mike immediately dropping to Amy’s side, Will disarming Baktar. Hydro looked down at Amy, a sorrowful look on his face. This flicker of emotion vanished and Hydro stepped forward to kill Baktar, his arm raised and face determined.
Mike still clutching Amy’s lifeless body, looked up at Hydro, ‘No, we need him for entry to Area 19’. Hydro igonred him and proceeded towards Baktar. Suddenly Will screamed throwing Hydro back and he hit the wall, rendered unconscious. This noise was not to go unnoticed below, twenty or so guard’s footsteps could be heard coming towards them and Mike shut and locked the steel door to the office.
Mike then turned to Baktar, ‘Now’, he said, ‘the computer?’ Baktar didn’t moved but when Will stood behind him, he decided he’d be better to oblige. Walking over to his desk Baktar mumbled something and a compartment opened he stepped aside and Will placed his hand on the computer.
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Twenty miles away in Area 19, the prison cell doors simultaneously opened, to the great surprise and delight of the hundreds of escaping prisoners and the dismay of the guards.
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Mike looked back at Will and smiled, but just behind them Baktar had retrieved his gun. He turned around to face the two jubilant fugitives when he was blasted out of the window by a torrent of water, down 23 floors to his death.
Hydro then turned to Will ‘Now its your turn!’, both evolved humans unleashed their abilities, Will screamed whilst Hydro fired. At first Hydro was knocked back and Will prepared to take another devastating scream towards Hydro but he dived to one side and taking Will by surprise, fired him out of the window.
Mike looked shell-shocked he backed away from Hydro, ‘I trusted you’ he said disgusted.
‘Your mistake’ Hydro responded and both men turned to face the door where agents had just knocked down at were flooding in. Knowing this building, its agents and now Hydro had to be stopped, Mike concentrated and detonated explosives below them.
He looked back at Hydro who was not there, instead a puddle of water was sliding towards him. Mike too became a watery form just as the building exploded.
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Two weeks later Mike was sitting in his new apartment, contemplating why Hydro had saved him, but knew he still needed to be stopped.
Not too far away, Hydro killed an evolved human. He looked at the body, smiling, no remorse in his eyes, suddenly a voice came from across the room 'Impressive', from a shadow. Suddenly a man walked out smiling. 'Who are a you?' responded Hydro, still surprised. 'Someone just like you, someone powerful, yet insignificant, but that can change. Join me and history will never forget us.' Hydro smiled, 'we have much to discuss'.