Chapter 4: A Surprise for Alex
"Just my luck. I get stuck checking the darkest rooms in the whole building. When I get my hands on Fawkes..."
Monroe was carefully checking all the rooms near the Keep. She kept her glasses on and her tranquilizer gun ready. There was no way Fawkes was going to catch her off guard. She had just started checking the archive room when she thought she heard something move behind her. She spun around, but saw nothing.
"Hobbes? Is that you? Come out here and show yourself!"
Just then someone pushed her hard from behind and she was knocked to the ground. Her glasses fell off and landed behind some boxes. Her tranquilizer gun was sent sliding across the floor. All she had left was the syringe filled with counteragent. She held it tight in her hands. It was now her only line of defense.
"Fawkes? Where are you? Are you just going to hide in the shawdows like a coward?"
"Me? A coward?" laughed Darien. "I don't think so. You see, I'm not running away from my problems. I'm confronting them; in my own special way."
Monroe could here his voice but she couldn't tell exactly where it was coming from. She tried to get up, but her ankle looked broken and had started to swell. She had just started to get her footing when she was bombarded by two large stacks of boxes labeled 'Hobbes, Robert A. Files'. After a few moments Darien un-quicksilvered and started moving the boxes off of Monroe. Monroe turned her head to see Darien's red wyes and then passed out cold. Darien tied her up and put a gag in her mouth. He smashed the syringe of counteragent she had been holding and threw the radio across the room into a wall. He then quicksilvered and decided on who to see next.
"One down, four to go."
