The Other Bionic Man
Chapter 3
"Jamie keep pressing on me to tell her if I knew anything." Rudy started pacing a bit. "You know I hate lying to Jamie and even Steve."
"I hate lying to them too Rudy." Oscar leaned forward in his chair. "Especially Steve, but you know the government force me to keep it quiet for now." Oscar gave Rudy a serious look.
"Did you find out who took the file?"
"No, Steve is working with me on that." Oscar answered leaning back in his chair.
"And we have to keep everything quiet huh Oscar?" Rudy gave Oscar a doubtful expression.
"I had to have Steve help, can you imagine if I got Hansen involved in this. Rudy, we can't let them find out about him yet." Oscar insisted.
"Alight Oscar, but I don't know how much longer I can hold out." Rudy ran his fingers through his hair.
"Hopefully it won't be for long." Oscar hate lying to his friends, but when it came to his job he had no other choice.
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As Steve and Jamie approached Rudy's office building they saw Carla Rudy's assistant nurse engage in a conversation with some man. Steve used his bionic eye and zoomed his focus on the person. It was the same guy they encounter the night before.
"What is it Steve?"
"There's our man from last night" Steve pointed towards the direction where Carla was standing.
Jamie couldn't help that her Bionic ear picked up on the interested conversation.
"The other file?" Carla sounded surprised she stood by the man's car "You already have one on Steve Austin."
"I want to see if there's another file for the "Cyborg" project" The man replied.
"You know if I get caught they'll fire me." Carla voice match the concerned expression on her face.
"I just want you to get me inside this time my love. I'll do the rest." The man touched the side of her face.
"I don't know about this." Carla looked away
"Please love I want to know everything about Cybernetics." The man drew her face back to his and then took her hands in his. "You wanna help me get better don't you?"
"Of course I do" She paused. "Alright, I'll help you." Carla her good byes to the man and headed back inside.
"Oh my god Steve they're going to steal another file." Jamie whispered to him so no one else can hear.
"Ok, I'm going to follow this Barney character guy while you get checked up by Rudy." He kissed her on the lips.
"I'll see you later on tonight." Steve was about to leave before Jamie grabbed his arm.
"Hey be careful" Jamie watched Steve head back to his car and then headed inside.
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It was late in the afternoon as Steve followed Barney to this club. He watched Barney exit the car and enter the building. He waited a few minutes before going inside, he had to know what this guy wanted with top secret information.
"Well, well Col. Steve Austin we meet again." Barney drank a couple a mouthfuls of his ale. "What's the pleasure of this presence?"
"Barney Hiller the race car driver."
"The one and only." Barney smirked.
"How did you find out about me?"
"Mr. Goldman told me about your situation after my accident. He figured it would help me cope with what I went through" Barney lied a little that was only half the truth.
"Help you cope in what way." Steve raised his eyebrow.
"Well they said I haven't psychologically accepted my new limbs or my new strength." Barney did some hand gestures to show off his bionic limbs.
"It is hard in the beginning Barney, you've got to learn how to control it." Steve took a seat on the stool next to him.
"Yeah I know" Barney sounded disappointed. He still had trouble doing that now.
"Let me help you adjust" Steve offered.
"Yeah" He drank some of his ale again. He didn't seem interested.
"Or maybe I can talk to Oscar and he turn down your strength a little" Steve offered the other alternative.
"Reduce my strength" Barney couldn't believe what he was hearing. He didn't like that alternative the ideal of turning down his strength power.
"Never" angrily Barney got up from his seat. Then shoved Steve hard against the bar and went outside to his car.
Steve angrily followed him outside. "Barney I had it up to here with you." Steve made a hand gesture up to his chin. "No body made you bionic."
"You know what driving me nuts" Barney got into Steve's face.
"What?"
"You the one driving me nuts Stevie boy, because you made it and I can't." Barney balled up his fingers into a fist and hit Steve so hard in the mid section, it caused Steve to bend over in pain and fell to the ground.
"That woman that you were with last night" Barney kneel beside Steve on the ground.
"I know about her" Barney lean towards Steve and in a whisper says. "I've seen how fast she can run, just like you." He looked at Steve like he knew something more about Jamie.
Steve looked back at him in silence, did he already know about Jamie's bionic limbs? But how? "What other tidbits have Carla been give ya?" Steve nurtured his mid section with his arm.
"Enough to know what I have to do" Barney smirked.
"What are you talking about?" Steve tried to get up, but gave an expression of pain from where Barney hit him.
"You'll see." Barney got up and stood over Steve. "I gotta go, time to pick up Carla and maybe give Jamie a ride as well." He laughed as he got in the car and drove off.
To be continued...