Ryan opened his eyes to daylight. He was laying in a bed inside of a small bedroom and had no idea where he was. He attempted to sit up, but immediately felt a sharp pain in his chest and laid back down while clutching it in pain. Ryan remembered now, him and Jared had exchanged shots; Jared was killed by it. Ryan's body then fell into shock shortly after being shot as well. He forgot everything following the event.
The door opened a few moments later and Ryan saw Paige enter. "Oh, you're up now. How's your chest feeling?" She sat down by him at the edge of the bed.
"I can't really move yet, but it doesn't hurt otherwise...how long have I been out?" He asked.
"Just overnight, Lucc and I got you out of there, but we aren't safe for long. You're at my home." She said while remembering that she nearly forgot to show him the device that was used to save him. "Oh! I used this to...basically preserve you, it sealed your wound by freezing it over or else you may not have survived. I think it's pretty neat." Paige explained while letting him see it before stuffing it back into her pocket.
"Thank you Paige, a lot...but we can't just forget about timə so quickly. I mean sure, Jared is gone now, but the bases are still out there. They may be able to continue whatever the plan was without him."
"Ryan, we stopped the main cause and you need to rest, do you really want to go that much deeper into this anyway? You can run from it all now, you can finally get away...why would you dive right back into it?" She eyed him with just a bit of confusion in her gaze.
"I know but- I just don't feel complete, I thought I would after this, but I know there's more to what Jared was doing; I feel like it's our responsibility to find it since we're the only ones that truly know about it." He knew Paige likely wouldn't understand, she probably thought he was crazy. Maybe he was, but Ryan didn't care. He had to know.
"Even if we did go back, how would we find anything else out?" Paige wanted to know what he had in mind, especially since as soon as it's found out that Jared was dead, the building would soon be inaccessible.
"We'd search around his office for answers first, then go on from there. There has to be something in there Paige, and if we can somehow find out and shut the bases down…" As she listened, Paige did gain a bit of interest in what he was saying. It would be risky though.
"I don't know Ryan, but you need rest. We can discuss this later."
"If anyone else gets their hands on whatever info is in there, who knows what'll happen? We have to be the ones that get to it first." He knew that he couldn't necessarily get up and go right now, but they couldn't let too much time pass.
"I get it Ryan, but you still need to rest this out for a while. We'll see how you feel soon okay?"
And all Ryan could do was give in, watching her exit the room. He was in no shape to head back out as much as he wanted to.
Lucc had been sitting on the front porch of the house, he knew his trainer was fine, but there were two others that may not be. Silva and Aura, he'd love to see either of them again. He looked around at the surrounding houses and the woods that stretched beyond them. Silva could be anywhere and Lucc only had a few ideas about where she could be, it was either the police or that odd masked gang that had her. He'd find out either way.
As evening began to set in, Ryan sat up in bed after falling asleep for a few hours. He sat up, Ryan felt happier already. There was still some pain felt but not enough to hinder any movement. He was able to get off of the bed but only sat up on the edge of it for now,
"I'm guessing you feel a lot better now huh?" Paige stood in the doorway.
"Yeah, but I forgot to ask...was the bullet extracted from out of my chest?" Ryan was so worried about timə that he forgot to care about himself, but he figured it had been done.
"My partner got that done and stitched it up well...here" She grinned at him and turned her head away in order to call his name out and he showed up a few moments later.
Ryan noticed that he looked pretty tired in his eyes, but that may have something to do with the fact that he was recently in some form of hypersleep. "Luis...is it? Thank you..." Ryan recalled Paige giving a name.
"Yep, glad you're awake and well now." he replied. "So you wanna go back to that building eh? Bad news, those Scorpio guys just got there."
"Wh-what? No! They're the worst possible people that could be in control of...anything!" Ryan winced from a sharp pain he suddenly felt in his chest after the slight rise in his tone.
"Calm down, we can't just rush on in there now. That's a big gang." Luis said, and he was right.
Lucc had overheard some commotion and took a spot near the doorway.
"We also can't let them know of Jared's plans, especially now that the ability to time travel is readily available to them! They're heartless people too, who knows what they'll do with that much power?"