Chapter 3 - Reunion And Memories

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“Yes, I know those 2”
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“What!?... Zahav is after them!”
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“Fine. I’ll send some agents over to help.”
Henry stood out

“Don’t you think Henry that it ought to be time you let me out of this place? I mean you got what you wanted.” Win said in an agitated voice.

Henry stared blankly back at her “Sorry. I forgot we locked you in there”
Win mumbled something unintelligent under her breath and sighed staring at the plain wall as Henry moved to the cell door to open it.
“What are you thinking about?” Henry asked a he moved to sit next to her.
“Huh? Oh just wondering how Tommy is. He’s so.... not used to his powers and I fear that he could lose trust in us.” She stared at Henry with concern. “Maybe if you could partner him up with me I could look after him and make sure nothing happens.”
Henry sat there in concentration “I’ll have to talk to Allison but right now he is not our biggest concern. We have a few more people to collect and fast or Zahav will do something that will leave a lot of mess”.
“And I am guessing we’ll have to clean up after. Why can’t he just roll over dead instead of being an ass and making us do everything to find him? Argh!!”
At that moment a woman walked into the room so silently that when she cleared her throat both Henry and win jumped. “Sorry to bother this conversation but we still need to find Khiem and Janette”
Henry stood up and faced the woman. “Sorry Allison. We should have been concentrating.”
“Whatever.” Win said in a bored tone. They moved out of the door. “I have to find Dylan. But killing him will have to wait.” She mumbled under her breath. She pulled the door shut and paused to sigh before she turned and started jogging to catch up to Henry and Allison.

“You son of a...why did you have to do that for, woman? If I had done something more you would have been dead”
“Sorry Dylan but you got to admit that was pretty cool. You should have seen your face”
“Aida, looking at your face is what scares me”
“Well, you look like a monkey”
Just at that moment three people walked in.
“DYLAN YOU LITTLE MONKEY! I am going to kill you”
“Oh shit, it’s Win”
“WHERE IS MY FIFTY BUCKS YOU OWE ME?”
“I told you. I was drunk and high on something. I have nothing left” he whimpered behind Aida. Win flung herself towards Dylan but was stopped suddenly by a huge amount of pressure.
Henry spoke in a clear calm matter “Win, control yourself or I won’t let you go.”
“Fine. But I’m not letting it go that easy. I’m getting my money back some way, and my Hello Kitty bag from the first grade. Yes Dylan I know you took it”.
“I told you I didn’t know it was yours”
At that moment Allison interrupted “You two stop fighting or I will personally stop you myself”
“Sorry Allison” Both Dylan and Win said in unison. Henry released Win and kept an eye on her to make sure she didn’t try anything that would get her thrown back into a cell.
Allison waited awhile for things to be completely settled before starting to speak again. “Dylan and Aida we have a new assignment for you two. This will be a bit difficult so you need to work together. Okay?”
“I wish you never had partnered her with me. She is so annoying. I signed on because I thought we were trying to save the world not kill Dylan by annoying him. I demand a new partner.” Dylan pouted.
“Don’t worry Sunshine. I won’t scare you again,” Aida said with a mocking smile.
Allison interrupted Dylan’s attempt to retaliate “You two, grow up. The new targets are really important. I’ll give you the background and after that Henry will give you their files. Their names are Janette Pacheco and Khiem Lam. They are on the run so be careful. Janette will be easy to take down because she won’t use her powers unless provoked to but she might cloak herself. Khiem on the other hand will be a bit more difficult. He can create weapons, though he is afraid to use it but he served the country so he has some good self defence.”
“This is going to be fun. Sunshine let’s take my car. That way if you explode it again it won’t be completely destroyed.” Aida said in a cheery, joyful voice.
Dylan starred at everyone else in the room pleadingly “Oh god! Help”.

Later in Aida’s car with Dylan at the wheel...

“Aida? Aida? Aida why the hell are you staring at me for?”
“You are my sunshine....” She started to sing.
“No, no, NOOOOO” Dylan said pleadingly.
“My only sunshine”
“Stop it. Stop it. Stop it.”
“You make me happy, when skies are gre...” The car suddenly stopped and a small explosion went off in the car.
“Darn it Aida. You had to turn into metal didn’t you?”
She laughed and started her song again “You make me happy, when skies are grey.”
Dylan sighed “this is gonna be a long ride.”

Somewhere in a dark alley...

“What do you want? Leave me alone.” Said a soft, quite voice obviously belonging to a young girl.
“You know exactly what I want. You have what I need” said a much older voice belonging to a man in his early twenties. He was wearing dirty army pants and a singlet with a dog tag around his neck.
“No. Never, Get away from me.” the girl bolted down the alley way and the man followed closely behind. The man reached out his arm and grabbed the girl by her arm and spun her around. He held tightly and starred at her fiercely.
“Listen to me Janette. I need your help. You’re not the only person running away because of that evil man. He killed my wife and my new born baby and he killed your Aunt. We need to find him okay. And I can’t do that without you.” He stared at her face and when she finally found the courage to look at him all she saw was the sadness of a man who had been stabbed and tortured in the heart a million times. A man who looked sleep deprived properly because of the nightmare of his loved ones death, who has lost all except for the hurt and hate.
“I’m sorry Khiem but I can’t put myself through something like that. I never thought I’d see you again, not after my auntie’s death. Thank you for saving me but I just can’t” She looked up at his face and the saw shock in his eyes. She thought to herself that it couldn’t have been that hurtful of words but then he spoke in a panicked whisper.
“Janette get behind me now and get ready to us your powers” she had no time to react before he moved her behind him shielding her from what the problem was.
“Hello Khiem. I haven’t seen you for a long time. When was it, Oh yes I remember now. It was when I was listening to the tortured screams of your wife. She was pleading for her life, how pathetic it was” He snickered and edged a little bit closer. “What was it she was screaming now? Oh I remember, it was please, please I need to go to hospital, my babies coming.” An evil laugh broke from his voice. “But I cut her throat and she stopped. Her blood ran down her body and it looked absolutely amazing. Of course you interrupted and now, I need to destroy you so the whole family can be reunited.” Janette peeked out from the side to see what was happening and saw a tall man dressed in black pants and a white buttoned up shirt standing in front of her. In that instant a flood of memories rushed through her in a span of one second and she froze like all thoughts was pushed out of her head as she realised she was starring into the eyes of her aunties killer. The same man responsible for the death of probably many more people. And he was looking right into her deep brown eyes as well. “Ah, I see you brought me a little extra something to hunt. I like it when it’s hard. Your wife was too easy that I could have done it blind fol-”
“STOP IT!” Khiem yelled with frustration and anger. He eyed Janette and spoke in a whisper so that only she could hear. “I’m going to attack and when I do you are going to turn invisible and bolt for it. Keep going and do not look back. Got it?” Janette looked at him with concern and doubt but then replied by nodding her head. She looked around for any escape route and the only one was back through the ally way. “On the count of three. One...... Two..........Three”
Janette ran for the alleyway and out through the other side. The man saw this and reacted by moving toward the ally way but something sharp caught his legs. He stumbled and fell hitting the pavement. When he looked down he was shocked to see a big lioness digging into his leg. He relaxed and for a split second there was no sound, no sight, no taste, and no smell. The world just seemed to disappear but in the same amount of time it all flooded back and everything seemed normal again.
“Damn it he got away” A frustrated woman’s voice yelled.
“Well this guy didn’t but I think when we get back he may need his head checked out. I hit him pretty hard.”
“Dylan why did you do that? They were supposed to come back safely.”
“Aida wasn’t a girl part of the retrieval mission as well?”
“Take him to the car and keep an eye on him. I’ll find the girl. Aaarrgh” She sprinted for the ally way and morphed into a big dog this time.
“What am I going to do.” Janette thought to herself as she ran by house after house and entered a park. She ran past the swings and the playground when finally she reached the exit. She slowed down to a walk and tried to breathed in a lung full of oxygen and tried to remember what just happened. Everything went by in a blur. First she was talking to Khiem and then she was running for her life. She stopped and tears started rolling down her eyes but before she could burst into a cry she heard movement. Stealthy movement very deep breathing and in a flash everything was blank, all she saw was a deep pit of darkness and she feared for her life. Was it that evil man? Was I being kidnapped? Am I going to die? She thought to herself. She awoke in a bright lit room with a single bed and plain, grey walls. On one side were a door and a big patch of glass. “Where am I?” she asked even though it was unlikely that she would receive a reply. She sighed “I Knew my life would end badly but I never knew it was going to be this short” She went back to her bed and lay down hoping her death would come swiftly.

Somewhere nearby where Janette was being detained...

“Tommy, do you think she will trust us after what Aida did to her? Poor girl, she looks so sad.”
“Win, she is perfectly fine. And plus we have an assignment to do so we got to go see Henry before he gets mad” Said Tommy in a rushed tone.
“Who are we looking for?” win asked in a bored tone.
Tommy looked worried and replied “Zahav”
Win starred at him in confusion “I thought Dylan and Aida were working on that case”
“well Allison says that maybe they aren’t the right ones for it” he said in a happy tone. “but that’s not all. We also have to look for Thinzar as well. It’s amazing how busy you all are.”
Win looked at Tommy “Well do you wanna get lunch before we head of then.”
Tommy had a wide grin on his face “Yes please, and can we call Khiem along to. He looks like he needs it.”
“Fine but I’m still not talking to him after he threw that knife at me”
“You don’t have to cause I’ll do all the talking.” Tommy smiled. They stepped out of the room and started walking out.
“Whatever. I feel like Chinese”

By: Win