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Ch. 14: The Return of a Friend
Kyle turned to face the person who had just saved his skin. He was shocked to see who it was in front of him now, as she finished the guard off by throwing him into the wall of the warehouse. After disposing of the guard, the girl turned to face Kyle, a smile showing on both of their faces.
"What are you doing here?" Kyle asked her, forgetting about the guards behind him.
"Adam called Sarah and she turned around almost immediately," Jessi said, a little out of breath. "We can talk later, watch out!"
Kyle turned around just in time to block a punch from one of the guards. Kyle pulled off an amazing roundhouse kick that knocked the guard to the ground. While Jessi faced off with another guard, she went for a punch, but the guard dodge it. The guard countered with a kick that hit Jessi in the leg, knocking her down to one leg. From there, Jessi blocked multiple kicks and punches before she got back to her feet. Once she did, she kicked the guard in the face, sending him to the floor.
Kyle was having problems with one of the last two guards, due to his internal bleeding and was still coughing up blood every so often. Kyle began to get dizzy and did not see the numerous punches and kicks coming his way as every shot nailed him in the chest or in the face. He quickly fell to the floor, coughing up even more blood. Jessi, who had just taken out a guard ran over to his aid. She was able to take both of them out rather quickly. Though as she got rid of the final two, the two others that were facing off with Kyle were getting back to their feet. Kyle attempted to get to his feet with some help from Jessi. As he did, he could not keep his balance and fell to the ground once again. Jessi turned to face the guards and ran towards them. The guards took a defensive martial arts stance, but was not prepared for what the girl was about to do, they were not aware that the girl had the same abilities as the boy had. She jumped and took out both guards with a very tricky martial arts move that took out both guards instantly.
After disposing of the final two guards, she looked around, numerous guards lay either knocked unconscious or laid dead from the fire fight earlier. She helped Kyle to his feet and walked him back to the other side of the cars that were littered with bullet holes. As they walked around, she saw the rest of the Tragers, Amanda and her mother, Declan, and Tom Foss. Most of the guys had cuts and bruises from the fight and Foss was still bleeding from the gunshot wound that he got earlier. She allowed Kyle to sit down on the floor before turning to leave.
"Jessi," Kyle said in a near whisper. Jessi walked back towards Kyle and kneeled down to where she could hear Kyle talking.
"What is it Kyle?" Jessi asked, a worried look starting to show on her face.
"I just wanted to thank you for coming back," Kyle said softly, as if he was taking his final breaths. "I couldn't have finished the rest of the guards without you."
Jessi stood to her feet, and was about to walk out the door, when she heard multiple screams coming from behind the vehicles. She ran back towards the group to see everyone surrounding Kyle. Her face turned pale as she saw Kyle's lifeless body being clung onto by Amanda.
"What happened to him?" Jessi questioned, as she fell to her knees and looked at the rest of the group, all of them with tears in their eyes.
"He has some internal bleeding, apparently for a while," Foss said, the only one who was standing over his lifeless body. "Apparently his heart stopped due to the loss of blood."
Jessi walked over to Kyle, she felt that this was somewhat familiar to her. And she was right, just that the roles had changed, Kyle was the one who's heart had stopped and she had to save him. She doubted herself slightly, not knowing if she would be able to restart his heart, as well as, heal his injuries. She took a hold of his hand, while Amanda held on to the other, refusing to let go of Kyle for good. Jessi placed her hand on Kyle's chest and focused all of her energy on restarting his heart.
The lights in the warehouse started to flicker on and off quickly, the alarms from the vehicles started to go off around them. And the panes of glass that were still hung, broke due to the amount of energy Jessi was building up. After a few seconds or so, Kyle suddenly shot to off the ground, jumping to his feet, while Jessi stayed on the ground, a little shaken up from using so much energy in a short time. She looked up at Kyle to see him only fall back down again, he was still out of energy from the long night he had had.
Amanda looked at Jessi, she gave her a slight smile, showing gratitude for what Jessi had done for Kyle. Amanda got to her feet and reached a hand out so that Jessi could get to her feet. Jessi took her hand, reluctantly at first, and stood on her feet. As they walked over to Kyle both of them gave each other a look, both inside saying sorry to each other. Kyle turned to face Amanda and Jessi, who both were walking towards him.
"So, what happened at Latnok?" Jessi asked, wondering how Kyle had gotten in and made his way out alive.
"It's a long story," Kyle said, as he started to explain the events that happened over the past few hours. Going into very great detail about every encounter with a group of guards while in Latnok. Even explaining how many times he had used his abilities throughout the mission. Jessi listened in shock as she heard about all the horrific things that had happened in the facility. She could not believe that Kyle did the things that he did in their. Nearly beating a guard to death with his bare hands, to actually shooting and killing some guards near the end of the mission. She herself had only killed one person in her lifetime, and that was before she knew anything about the world. Kyle was not as innocent as she would have presumed. And now she knew, along with Kyle, that there was only one thing left to do.
"You know what we have to do," Jessi said immediately after Kyle had finished filling her in about the previous events leading up to her arrival.
"Yes, are you sure you want to come?" Kyle asked her, Amanda still oblivious of what they were talking about.
"What are you guys going to do?" Amanda asked, Kyle looked at her, not knowing how to put into words what he was about to say.
"We are going to get rid of Latnok for good," it was Jessi who said it, as Amanda looked from Jessi to Kyle, her face pleading that he not go.
"Amanda, I have to go, it's the only way that you and everyone else will be safe," Kyle said, pulling her into a reassuring hug. She looked up at him and nodded her head in agreement, though she did not want him to go, she knew what had to be done.
"Just promise me you will not die again," Amanda said slightly smiling at him. He had died three times in such a short period of time, she could not imagine him dying again, because he may not come back the next time.
"Alright then, let's get going!" Jessi said, she was already near the door. And before anyone could notice, Jessi and Kyle were out the door. The only sign that they were gone was that they heard an engine fire and take off suddenly.
"Where are they going?" Nicole asked.
"Knowing those two," Foss said. "They are probably going to finish what they have already started, they are going to take down Latnok, once and for all."
Kyle sped down the highway, in the car that he had stolen back at the Latnok parking lot. He had not told Jessi about the standoff he had with Taylor and decided to mention it to her while they had some alone time.
"Jessi?" Kyle asked, Jessi turned to face him. "I ran into Taylor earlier, when I ran away from the warehouse."
"What?!" Jessi screamed.
"He was in the parking lot when I got back there," Kyle started to explain. "He was just leaving the parking lot and was in his car when I arrived. He attempted to run me over but I jumped onto the roof." Kyle continued to explain, as the car he was currently driving sped through the city, the sun starting to rise, proving that it was around 5:30am. "I got into the vehicle and he started to shoot at me, I dodged them, but one of them struck a tire, sending us into oncoming traffic. The car clipped another one and sent Taylor's car rolling, a total of four times to be exact. And it stopped in the ditch off to the side of the road."
"How did you survive, and what happened to Taylor?" Jessi asked, wondering if Taylor finally met his demise.
"We both survived, I got a bad cut above my head," Kyle explained, pointing to the area where the gash still lay, but was not currently bleeding. "Taylor had a few cuts, as well as a broken wrist and ankle. He still had a few rounds left in his gun and shot at me, one missed, but the second grazed my arm. He told me why he kidnapped Amanda, how he was trying to get back into Latnok. And he told me about what they called Phase Two."
"But what happened to Taylor, did you shoot him or just leave him there?" Jessi was still looking for the answer to that question.
"I left him alive. Though I did make sure to give him a nice concussion to go with his broken ankle and wrist," Kyle said, both of them smiling at the thought of Taylor's pain.
Kyle continued to drive down the highway, trying to locate the position of the parking lot once again. After another 10 minutes of driving, he saw a tow truck attempting to pull a vehicle out of a ditch, as well as an ambulance that was occupied and taking off in the position of a hospital. Kyle and Jessi both knew who was in that ambulance and shuddered to think that he would return once his injuries had healed. Kyle suddenly turned to the left, pulling into the parking lot and placed the vehicle in the same spot that he had found it in.
They got out of the vehicle and walked down the path that led down to the entrance to the facility. As they reached the area where he had entered the previous time, he looked at Jessi as he pulled the ring out of his pocket once again and found the carving of the Latnok symbol where he placed the ring and twisted it. The door opened once again and he walked through, entering the building for the second time in less then a few hours. Though this time was different, he was not here to rescue someone, he was trying to get rid of the threat that haunted him and the ones he loved.