LIGHTNOVELWORLD Chapter 7: Chapter 7: In The Eye of Spies
Breathing heavily, he tries to calm down once more his racing heart as he takes a seat and takes out a bottle neuro suppressive drug, though he doesn't take the drugs anymore, it's best to continue with the facade using a placebo pill inside.
His hands trembled as he opened the bottle. Sloan had picked up the fly he had hit and walked over to drop it down on his hand. "Before today, many things were impossible for you, and what you are experiencing is not an anxiety attack. Your heart beats more than 400 times a minute, producing a lot of adrenaline, which makes you observe and react faster than ordinary people. It is a skill that you inherited from your father."
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Ten kilometers above the Textile Mill, an unmanned reconnaissance drone was flying around, spying below. In a house thirty kilometers from the site, three people could be seen sitting with high tech equipment around them, one of them could be seen operating a joystick thats controlling the drone, while the others are staring at monitors with satellite images of the Textile Mill.
Behind them are 2 more people, a man and a woman. The woman spoke, "Carlos Gibson, codenamed Cross, discovered that Sloan is hiding the truth. He has officially defected and is currently hunting members of the Fraternity outside. His method of action is to dwindle down outside members of the Fraternity before going after the core members. Sloan has found his son, the only person he can't kill and who has his ability at the same time. He can control the adrenaline production of his body, allowing for heightened senses and peak human ability."
"Good, now we have another backup target," The man said.
"Sir, aren't we going to clear the Fraternity?" The woman asked.
"No, this is not our job. This is the job of the FBI and the CIA. We are responsible for global security. Although SHIELD was established in the United States, it now belongs to the management of the World Security Council. You have to be clear about our work. This time, we are just selecting talents to be recruited. Carlos and Ajentt are our goals. Just pay attention to them." The man simply stated to her, as not to deviate from their objectives.
The Fraternity didn't know that they were being watched. Sloan continued to persuade Ajentt, "There are only a few people in the world with an ability like yours. Your father can do it, and so can you. Just a little training and you can use your ability at will."
Ajentt knew that it's time to book it. It's not good to join them now, he still has to cash out the money first before it's taken away. Living a poor life is awful and so he must secure it before it goes missing.
"Stay away! I have a gun and I'm not afraid to use it, understand sir?" Ajentt started his act, to stay as weak and afraid in their eyes, a man who is yet to be ready to take someone's life. Just how the information they had on him, a coward who had been cuckolded and did not dare to protest.
Of course, even though he knew the other party would not kill him, doing such an act still makes him absolutely nervous.
"My name is Sloan, this is Fox, Everyone else around here is a killer." Ajentt points his gun at Fox then to everyone else, "They are all top killers, I suggest you keep the gun pointed at me, or the consequences would be hard to say."
Ajentt focused the gun back on Sloan, "Good, Keep it on me."
"Are you mad?" Ajentt says to Sloan in his act.
"No, the real madness is when you have the blood of a killer, but you waste your time doing nothing. The real madness is when you have the tiger hidden in your heart and the key to release it is in your hand, yet you are willing to live a miserable life." Sloan approached Ajentt step by step as he talks down on him.
"The gun in your hand belonged to your father. An Imanishi 17 (Custom Beretta 92S), the gun your father used to play a symphony of death, now for you to play. You can use it to exact revenge on the killer of your father, the very man who tried to kill you last night." Sloan says.
"Your father was one of us, We are the Fraternity, the weapon of fate. We have transferred your father's entire fortune to you. Believe me, it is a considerable sum. This is what fate had in store for you, come join us."
Though very convincing and enticing to join them, most people would have succumb to their offer, but for Ajentt, and the original Wesley in the movie, won't easily be moved, specially Ajentt since he knows their ploy and the entire story of his supposed fate even with all this difference.
Ajentt held the gun against Sloan, his expression is that of struggle in wanting to join them yet can't, and then he said, "Step back, please step back. You don't know anything about me." With that, he walked to the stairs. Fox was standing there. Ajentt came up to her and switch to pointing the gun at her. "Can you go away? Please go away?" His serious yet pleading expression was a comedy to their eyes. Fox smiled and moved out of the way, and Ajentt went downstairs with the gun in one hand and the fly he had just shot in the other.
Once outside, he threw away the fly, put the gun in safety and shoved the gun in his waist hidden by his pants and shirt. Now proceeding to the car he came in with that Fox had stolen for their use. Driving out of the Textile Mill without looking back.
Quite professional of them not to pursue him and convince him further, knowing full well that he would come back to escape his old meaningless life.
The sun was about to rise when Ajentt nearly reached home, though he never went directly to his home but went on several detours, parked the car a little farther away and walked the rest of the way home. Upon reaching home, he stripped off his shirt and shoes as he laid down on his bed and fell into a deep sleep.
The rumble of the engine, the screech of the brakes, the click-clack of the wheels on the rails could be heard again. Ajentt slowly opened his eyes, and took a glance at Casey beside him. 'She must have gotten used to the sound as she isn't showing any signs of waking.' He got up and headed for the bathroom before closing the door, taking out the pistol still lodged in his waist. "Cortana, got any information on this gun?"
"The Beretta 92 Series Pistol uses 9mm bullets and has a capacity of 13 rounds." Cortana simply stated, with him using 2 shots, he is left with 11 rounds. Ajentt grabbed a bag, placed the gun on it then sealing it and hiding it inside the water tank of the toilet, unlike the original that had water logged the entire gun.
"Time to look at my savings, hopefully a heart attack amount just like in the movie." He cleaned himself and wore a new set of clothes before grabbing a suitcase and leaving the house, of course not forgetting to leave some food for Anny as Casey might have forgotten to feed her again.
Reaching an ATM in a street early in the morning with barely any people, he inserted his bank card and accessed his account, clicking on the quarry, a series of numbers showed up.
Ajentt is wide eyed as it truly did show up, a number he never had in both his old and current life, $3.6M+. Taking a deep breath not to look suspicious and gaining attention from people, he withdrew a few thousand dollars before putting them in his wallet, old and worn out, with his new wealth, it did not match his new status of wealth, he put it in his mind to get a new better wallet when he has time, but for now it will do.
"Cortana, time to finally have a good high calorie meal. By the way, with how much energy I was producing yesterday, how is the sorting and organizing of all the information you downloaded?"
"About one in a millionth of the total information had been sorted. Progress is going smoothly and should speed up with your future intake of calories and energy to burn." Hearing Cortana's mention of such a staggering amount, he can't help but sigh as to how long it would take to finally have an upgrade for Cortana.