Chapter 12
Opening the door to our apartment, was the last thing I remembered. Well, that and a loud boom inside my head. I woke up with the biggest headache I had ever experienced, and the sudden realization that I couldn't move. I had been tied to something, but everything was completely dark and I was unable to see. I could hear shuffling around near me, sounding like someone was struggling.
"Hello, is anyone there?" I asked, praying it was a friend.
"Edd, are you okay?" called out Sammy. "What's going on?"
"I don't know, I just woke up, did you see what happened?"
"I saw a gun flash and that's all I know. I woke up just a few minutes ago myself."
"Where's Kevin and Kenny? Have you seen them or heard anything?" I asked.
"Don't know, you are the first I've heard." sighed Sammy
Bright light flooded our eyes, temporarily blinding us. When we could see again, Jimmy was standing in the room with us, dressed in black from head to toe, even his blond hair was dyed black. Looking around I saw Kevin tied to a chair like I was only he had a gunshot wound in his right shoulder. Kenny was slumped against the far wall unmoving at all, I wondered if he was even still alive. I turned and glared back at Jimmy, wondering what was he had going through his head.
"Thought moving out here would hide you and your little fairy boyfriend. Both of your pansy asses should have been taken out when you first started fooling around. You are both sick perverts and nothing more. The only reason I had to put up with it was to get to you and Kevin so I could get into this project and complete my mission" he spat. "I wonder if you even know just what is going on with your company. All the secrets they are playing with the backing of a great deal of governments. I bet you didn't even know your parents are working on taking over the world's governments. Putting it all under their control, where they are grooming their only son to follow in their footsteps. And you are falling for it hook, line and sinker." He was ranting, good now, and very animated.
"And what about you and your family?" I asked, "In with the Third Reich, and you are one to talk about trying to take over a government."
"We are working for the better of the planet, and the advancement of people who can take us there." He yelled.
This kid was completely brainwashed. This was not the friendly, clumsy kid from the Cul-de-Sac. I was busy trying to activate the com on my wrist, to set off an emergency signal. But it seems nothing was working, I noticed that Sammy was having the same luck. With the number of security around when we came in, I wonder why our bio-sensors hadn't set any alarms either. This was not suppose to happen, and Kenny was linked to the mainframe, something was not adding up.
"Where are we?" I asked, trying to get some information out of him, while we were tied up and all.
"Oh, we are still in your apartment. In the spare bedroom, to be exact. Getting here was an easy affair, even with all of your security running around. Wonder why your puny little police force hasn't come running to rescue you yet?" He pointed over to Kenny half lying on the floor. "Without their little computer, they are completely blind to what, going on. They think there is still four good signals coming from this apartment. One of the easiest ways to blind and cripple any organization, is to take out their electronics. They didn't tell you about your little buddy over there did they, oh I see they only told you part of the story. That's why this has not been making any sense to you. I can already see it in your eyes. I remember now, you were told that Kenny's brain was replaced with a wireless connection to the company mainframe, well that's not true you know. He is the Mainframe."
Things started to click into place with me but I continue to struggle against my bonds, to keep things going. "Please let me check on Kevin and Kenny, you know I can't fight back, that was Kevin's thing not mine. Besides, Kenny's body is still human, let me at least check and make them comfortable." I was begging with Jimmy and I think he like the power play, with him being more powerful over me. Swelling his ego was a good thing at this time. "Please, Jimmy, just let me look, then you can tie me back up again. I won't even move toward you, I'll just check them out and sit back down, that's all."
He began to smile, with a sneer, and I could see Sammy looking at me like I was crazy. He pulled a pistol from the small of his back, pointed it straight at my head. "You do not move, until I tell you to, if you do, I will put a bullet in your head." Giving us a wide berth, he moved around behind us to loosen my bonds. I could tell he was doing it one handed, so that meant he still had the gun trained on me. He never completely removed anything, before moving back around front. "Get yourself loose, and tend to your fairy friends. Make no move in my direction, or your parents become childless."
After getting out of my bonds, I first checked with Kevin. The bleeding had stopped for the most part, but he looked very pale. I could tell he had a front and back wound and knew that the bullet had passed right though, I just hope he hadn't lost too much blood. He did look very pale for right now, but he was alive and breathing, I padded the wounds to help anymore bleeding, and after a light kiss I went to Kenny. "Stay away from his left ear, I'm not as dumb as you think." Jimmy yelled. I could hear my father's voice, telling me from the time I was very little, "Always have a backup, encase loose your primary copy." Making sure Jimmy could see his left ear, like he wanted, I was able to hide the right. I placed my fingertips, on his neck, and my thumb on his right earlobe, as I was moving him to lay flat on the floor. I felt a small electric shock through my fingers and I hope it was a good sign. I returned to my chair, staring straight at Jimmy while I was sitting. He went the same process of tying me back up, before returning to the front of the room. Looking over the four of us, he huffed and exited through to the front room of the apartment. I didn't dare tell Sammy what I had hoped would work for fear of Jimmy overhearing.
We sat in silence for about 15-20 minutes, maybe even 30, it was so hard to tell in there. Startling us Jimmy came bursting through the door into the room with his pistol drawn.
BLAM
