Chapter 2

Apparently he had many hours of sleep needed before he could open his eyes again. Matt noticed it was dark outside, the same as when he felt asleep. He looked at the alarm clock on his nightstand and saw it was indeed night already. He had slept throughout an entire day and part of the evening.

Time to get something to eat... I'm starving.

Matt grabbed his goggles from the place he put him before and put them on his head, resting on his forehead. After that the search for clean clothes began. A search that became more difficult every time he did it. It took a while, but eventually he found a green and black striped shirt - he had something with stripes - and put on some jeans and combat boots.

When he walked out of the bedroom he noticed the living room was quite a mess.

Hmm, since when does it look like this? Should I clean it up?

...

Nah, I'll do it another time.

He crossed the living room to get to the kitchen and pulled out a Monster energy drink. After some looking through the cabinets he decided he would have to shop for some more food soon, but for now a bag of chips would have to do.

With his breakfast, diner or whatever you would call it, he made his way back through the living room to his what he liked to call his "tech cave". This room was packed with computer screens, all of his game devices, his games, wires that lay everywhere and more. It was where he normally gamed and did his hack jobs.

Matt turned on his PlayStation and went to his computer. It was already on as he didn't turn it off the day before. With a few clicks he checked if he was paid already for his hacking. He was. With a satisfied sigh he went to his PlayStation again and sat down in front of the large screen connected to it. Taking a large sip from his drink he picked up a controller.

It would be a long night of gaming before he would look if there was another hacking job to do.

Now it's only me and my games and no one to disturb us.


'We are going to disturb him so bad!' Sam said excited.

Mike grinned. 'He doesn't know what's going to happen to him.'

Paul was in the passenger's seat of the white van they were in right now. They had discussed things about how to make sure the hacker wouldn't survive and made sure their weapons were working perfectly. He felt his gun in the inside of his jacket and smirked. No, it wouldn't be possible to get out alive for the guy. They were heavily armed and with four men. He was all on his own.

Sam and Mike were in the back, being very excited about the task the boss had laid upon them. The two were pretty new by the gang so this would be their first real task.
Raoul was the one behind the wheel and driving them to their destination. He was longer with them like himself.

'How long before we are there?' he asked Raoul.

'We're almost there. I'll park the van some blocks away from the hacker's whereabouts.

He nodded. 'Just as discussed.' He turned around to see Sam and Mike babbling excitingly. 'Quit babbling so much and concentrate on your task. The boss wants us to do this without failing, so no mistakes.'

They immediately stopped their conversation. 'Yes, sir!' they said simultaneously.

Paul rolled his eyes and before he could make a reply Raoul stopped him. 'We're here.'

It was time to kill a certain hacker.


Just when you think you can get a new high score, something had to disturb the moment.

There came a sharp high beeping sound from one of his smaller computers. Knowing what it would mean he paused his game and turned his attention to the beeping computer.

I knew those special cameras would come in handy.

He had installed several camera's around the area of his house with infra-red to see in the dark, but also a special sight to spot a lot of metal in one spot, such as a gun or a big knife. There were some false alarm in the past seeing that he lived in a not very nice neighborhood, but it seemed this time was for real. Four men were sneaking through the dark night, staying in the shadow and coming closer and closer to his house. The guns were ready to fire.

Damn, no time to safe some of my stuff...

It was a pity to leave his games, but he could always buy new ones. Only his goggles were irreplaceable. They had some happy memories he didn't want to lose.

He went to his bedroom, the room all to the back of his house and opened the window. Just when he wanted to go through it he remembered the gun he saved for this sort of things in the drawer of his nightstand. He retrieved it and tucked it safely in his jeans.

BAM

The front door slammed open as if someone kicked it with quite some force. Footsteps sounded in the living room and he heard voices.

'He's not here, try one of the other doors.'

'Can't we have a little fun with him before we kill him?'

'Stick to the mission, Sam!'

Not waiting any longer he threw both his legs out of the window and let himself fall down quickly. He landed soundless on the ground in the darkness of the night.

Stupid idiots...

Then the window had to betray him. It came down and slammed shut with a bang.

'He's escaping! Go outside now!' barked a tense voice.

Matt gulped. Time to run.

He rushed to one of the dark alleys and run as fast as he could. Running footsteps where not very far behind him. Not daring to look behind him, Matt ran through the many narrow streets and kept in the shadows of the night.

'You won't get away alive, hacker!'

Matt ran out of the area where his house was between others and went over a larger road. Luckily there were no cars on this hour so he wouldn't have the risk of being hit as he had no time to look left and right before crossing the road. He ran in another alley, but stopped when he saw a wall made of bricks in front of him.
The alley was a dead end.

Matt stared in shock at the wall and he knew there was no time to get out and run in another direction. He grabbed his gun and turned around, pointing his gun to where the four men would be soon enough.

I can shoot one or maybe two of them, but never four. I'm as good as dead already.

He took a deep breath and stood ready to shoot for his life.


Mello could not believe what he saw happening with his human. One moment he was happily gaming and one moment later he was on the run for four men that were wanted to kill him.

I knew that job of his would be the end of him some day...

Though he also knew there was still a chance Matt would manage to escape and survive the surprise attack. It wasn't all lost yet.

And then Matt ran into a dead end alley.

He resisted the urge to face palm. Goddamnit, Matt...

He stood up and spread his white feathered wings that lay folded on his back before. He took a step back and dived head first into the hole in the cloud through where he had been watching Matt.

He sure as hell wouldn't let him die on his watch.