The day for the meeting came quickly for the doctors. All reported to the Entech Building at 6:00 PM. They were all chauffeured there by cars that were provided by the company. The doctors all sat quietly during the drive, not really having anything to say. Well… save the occasional Maria complaining about it being cramped in the car next to Gabe. It was a relief when they finally arrived at the building.
It was nothing too impressive. Just seemed like a standard office building to them. They were greeted by one of the employees who introduced himself as Anthony and to be referred to as such.
No last name? Gabe thought as he followed the man inside with the others. Kind of unprofessional for someone to ask to be referred by their first name.
They were lead around the building till they were finally brought to a big white room with folding chairs set up around something that was covered in a white tarp.
"Please, have a seat." Anthony said he made his way over to the draped object.
The doctors did as told, taking their seats.
"I'm glad that all of you could make it this evening. We at Entech have been looking forward into unveiling our latest advancement in technology to the public and help better the world of medicine, but we wanted the opinions from specialists first before doing so."
Tyler grinned. Called it.
"And now…" Anthony trailed off as he grabbed the the tarp. "I give you, the Digitizer!"
He pulled off the drape revealing something that resembled a cannon, just smaller, with odd canisters hooked up around it.
Gabe rolled his eyes. "A toy gun… how interesting…" he mumbled.
Maria elbowed him hard in the ribs. "Shut it, moron."
"Ow!"
The doctors looked at the Digitizer, perplexed about how something like this would be helpful in medical terms. Questions were starting to be asked by some of the doctors and Anthony answered with confidence… but something seemed off.
Derek noticed before questions had started to be asked that Anthony seemed to keep looking up at a particular part of the room. When he took a moment to see where he was looking, he could see Anthony was looking up to a pair of tinted windows that looked down in the room.
Derek looked over to Gabe, giving a concerned look.
Gabe didn't need to hear him speak to know Derek was trying to say something felt off about what was going on.
So I'm not the only one… Gabe thought as he quickly scanned the room and looking at Anthony carefully.
He seems confident in his answers… that's normal… but… there's a hint of excitement in his voice… and the way his eyes keep darting backup the windows that are looking into this room means he's probably giving signals to someone who's looking from those windows… and…
Gabe hadn't noticed it earlier, but the door they had entered through was shut… and shut tight at that.
Those doors better not be locked…
Todd is a nut job and so are his employees, I really don't think you should be there...
Gabe narrowed his eyes.
Okay, taking in those words of advice now, I'm out of here.
Gabe got up stretching, interrupting Anthony in the middle of an answer. "Well, this has been interesting but I think I've seen enough, I'm out of here."
Anthony narrowed his eyes.
Oh, someone is not happy. Guess he DOES have something planned and doesn't want me leaving.
"I wasn't finished." Anthony said, with a slight growl in his voice.
"Sure, these other guys can listen, I'm bored, see you guys later."
Gabe started making his way for the door. The others were confused, except for Derek who decided to join in with Gabe.
"I'll go with him to be sure he doesn't try snooping around the building."
What's gotten into those two? Angie thought.
The room went dead silent as a low hum was heard… and the sound of Anthony chuckling.
"On the contrary… Dr. Cunningham and Dr. Stiles."
The two doctors turned around, their eyes widening a little as they noticed a faint green glow coming from the barrel of the gun.
"None of you are going ANYWHERE!"
Out of instinct Derek and Gabe shouted. "RUN!"
Everyone jumped out of their seats trying to make a break for it… but it was too late.
An odd sensation came over their bodies as they were hit by green lasers. Anthony watched as each one of them was broken down into pixels till they vanished from sight.
He grinned at his success, pulling out a small radio.
"We got them sir, they're coming your way."
