Christalina: I'm not actually sure. I was just told by somebody that I shouldn't mention celebrities in fics. Even though what I did doesn't mention the actual person.
Spider-bear: Yeah, I needed some excuse to shift him to undercover and I was tossing between doing it at the near end or the very end of the story. I see you like my work on the time line making everything fit into place and not just letting it fall into a plot hole.
As the sun was setting and it was clearly visible due to the new surroundings. Jonathan gave a deep sigh as he looked down to his legs, they didn't seem any different by look and judging by what happened he thought to himself that he should be grateful that he was walking. He looked down from the middle floor overlooking part of the hangar and saw Sean training with another agent. Sean seemed faster then his training partner, he was almost jealous of him but he knew that Sean had gone through a lot to get to where he was. The nameless agent gave a punch but Sean easily grabbed it and tripped him up. Sean then waved to Jonathan and he returned it.
"Oh Jonathan… are you sure you are okay?" Carrington asked from inside.
"Yes sir… Sean's quite strong isn't he?" Jonathan commented trying to change the subject
"Well yes, but so he should be" Carrington said as he looked over the balcony and watched Sean and his partner go for another round. "That style he uses… quite powerful" Carrington said
Jonathan had to get used to driving home instead of just being able to walk it, although it was a relaxing drive and only near the end in the city there was some traffic. The next morning he woke from his sleep and made some quick breakfast at home, no longer was he able to eat at the Institute, he sighed deeply as he drove to work again. When he entered and headed to the main floor, Foster got Jonathan's attention.
"Carrington wants to see you, Sean is already waiting" Foster said
"Thanks" Jonathan said quietly
"Are you alright?" Foster asked. Jonathan was sick of that question. He had nearly lost his legs in an explosion, and would probably never to the work of an active agent again and on top of that he lost the woman he was going to marry.
"Yeah I'm fine" Jonathan lied just as he done to Carrington
"Okay…" Foster replied
Jonathan tried to remove those thoughts from his head as he walked into Carrington's office, ready from the briefing on tonight. It would be a good experience if nothing went wrong and the capture went smoothly but Jonathan knew that was not going to happen. He even thought it was risky being one of Cassandra's guards again.
"Okay, now I know you both have your doubts but this is the only card we can play" Carrington said
Jonathan was tempted to counter with "do we both get a suicide pill" but he held it in.
"Firstly, change of plans. Jonathan you go in first, do what you did last time and become a guard. Since the front door will be closed it is up to you Jonathan to change the controls from the top floor after jamming the cameras. Should be quite easy for you" Carrington said
"Yes sir" Jonathan said without a bit of sarcasm in his voice, that did seem easy if nothing had changed and everything was still in the same place, knowing dataDyne it probably would be.
"Meanwhile Sean will be waiting around nearby waiting for you to say you've opened the door. After you've unlocked the front door it should be easy for Sean to get in who will probably be immediately questioned by the guards since the door is almost always locked at that time and in which he just knocks them out since there are always two guards on the front door, it should be quite easy for you to knock out both of them." Carrington said
"Yes" Sean said
"After that Sean works his way up the building and you Jonathan try to find the switch that unlocks the door to Cassandra's office. She will definitely be there as she is getting ready for a meeting with some of the other dataDyne officials. After you find the switch that unlocks the door do not touch it as this will obviously blow your cover, just let Sean know of it's location and let him know of how they are placing guards, this will make it really easy for him to swat them down or better yet avoid them. Jonathan after you have scouted the top three office levels go back to the room near the helipad exit and when Sean has Cassandra come back and help escort her" Carrington said
Both agents nodded. Maybe it would work, although it really shouldn't be that easy and they both knew that. However Carrington seemed to have it well planned and he could always advise as he did should anything go wrong.
The time came; both of them ate dinner after training in the morning and relaxing in the afternoon so they would be ready for tonight. Jonathan got on the jumpship and it took off. Sean meanwhile drove himself into to the city and waiting in the park about 2 blocks away for Jonathan's call, no need to be too close yet. Sean wore a red and black jacket on top of a blue T-shirt with black pants and black sneakers.
He ran his hand through his hair and tried not to think about the mission ahead too much. Carrington was never this hasty or risky before why the sudden change, maybe the old institute being destroyed had this effect on him, although he did say the people were the most important thing and not the building but that didn't mean the building was worthless.
Jonathan made a perfect jump from the jumpship on the helipad. He signalled to the pilot that he made a successful landing and he flew off. Again as always there was a single guard with a security camera, Jonathan shot the guard and quickly followed by blasting the glass out of the camera with his Magnum. At least he could still shoot accurately, Jonathan smiled to himself as he took the guards uniform and hid the body behind a box and took the CMP50 they hadn't upgraded it yet, probably because of the time he broke in and stole the prototype.
Jonathan walked in, same dim witted guard as last time.
"Hi, good to see you again, it's been a more than a week hasn't it" the guard said. Jonathan nodded.
How dumb could you get? Didn't you notice a difference in the guy that walked out and me, thought Jonathan.
"Are you alright?" He asked and Jonathan was overwhelmed by the urge to knock this guy out, and he did so and shot the cameras that were fortunately turned in the other direction with the guards CMP50 and was quiet about it.
"If I only I could have done that to Foster" Jonathan said with a slight smile, he had wanted to nail the next guy who asked him that for ages.
Jonathan moved on and used the data uplink on the control system. Carrington was wrong for a change, an ECM mine would be no good on this type of computer, they changed their systems. Grimshaw hacked away into the computer and turned off the security cameras and then opened the front door. Grimshaw also shut off the jamming and tracking of radio transmissions so Jon and Sean could talk without fear of being intercepted.
"It's open" Jonathan said
"Understood" Sean replied
Sean sat up and hid his Falcon 2 scope and walked past the automatic sliding door that was normally locked at this time of night but just as Jonathan had told him it was indeed open. The two guards came out.
"Hey kid what did you do?" One of the guards asked. For once Sean was glad he was called a kid, it meant they had no idea who he really was.
"Oh, no idea…I was just walking past" Sean replied
"Ah… damned door, honestly the number of times…" the second guard started but that was all he got out as Sean elbowed him and head butted the other guard and entered.
"That was easy" Sean said
Jonathan scouted the first three levels as instructed, he also worked out that the switch was on the highest of the office levels and Cassandra's office was on the opposite side of the room across the walkway which was almost like a bridge. This wasn't as hard as Jonathan thought, he was done. All he had to do was return to that room and repeat what he knew to Sean. He went up the stairs and kicked the dim witted guard again for good measure as he returned to the helipad.
"Hey Sean?" Jonathan said
"Just a… sec…" was the reply as Jonathan heard a gun shot over the radio.
"Okay…" Sean said
"Basically the set up is like this…" Jonathan gave a basic positioning of the guards of the three office levels as Carrington had instructed although Sean knew it was only required of him to kill any of those who saw him on getting out of the lowest office level.
"The office switch is on the highest office level, Cass' office is across the bridge like entrance. It's very easy to spot, it's on a table and it's guarded by just a single guard with another walking around. That should be easy for you to break shouldn't it?" Jonathan said
"Piece of cake" Sean replied "I'll let you know when I have her"
"Be careful though" Jonathan said "Let me know if you need back up"
"Will do…" Sean said
Sean put aside the radio and reloaded the Falcon 2 once more. He entered the lift and crouched down so that he may be lucky and none of the guards on the lower office level would see him otherwise he would have to go into a fire fight. The lift door opened and the glass on the right of Sean shattered as gun fire passed over his head, he turned around and fired a few shots, but the guard had hid behind the wall.
"Get him!" The guard shouted. He had no time to think as three guards went on the attack and he had to hide in the stair case and tried to return their fire and took down two of the guards but in doing so he attracted attention from three more.
"It's no good, surrender" They shouted as they fired some more. Sean took the CMP50 and fired around the door and heard a few screams and redrew his Falcon and finished the last two off. He knew he had drawn attention as two guards from the second floor rushed down and fired catching him slightly off guard, but he dived around the door and they predictably followed only to be shot.
"Whew, close call" Sean said to himself as he loaded the Falcon 2.
He went up to the top office level and opened the door, just as Jonathan had said a single guard standing guard over the switch and Sean simply nailed him in the head and heard the footsteps of his comrade and dived out and shot him as well. Pressing the switch he heard the unlocking sound, maybe Carrington's plan would work after all. He walked across the bridge and opened the door.
"How the hell did you get here!" Cassandra demanded
"Never mind that, come here now!" Sean demanded in return
"I will not be pushed around by some kid" Cassandra replied in the same tone
"Well I could pull this trigger right here… but you don't want me to do that do you" Sean said
"You wouldn't shoot me. Carrington wouldn't allow that" Cassandra said
Sean walked closer to Cassandra.
"Let's see how you deal with…" that's all Cassandra got out as Sean had thrown his Falcon at her as she looked like she was about to press a switch. It landed perfectly and knocked her out on the forehead. Sean was about to radio Jonathan when suddenly somebody dropped from the ceiling and kicked it out of his hands and out the window.
"So… this is what has become of you" The man said, he didn't have a gun on him and stood a distance away. Sean's gun was underneath the table and he had no chance of reaching it and also had no way of contacting Jonathan. He looked at this man, he was slightly taller than he was with short black hair with brown eyes.
"What do you mean by that?" Sean replied. This man did look familiar
"Sean… do you not know who I am?" The man replied
"Not a clue… I've got stuff to do so if you don't mind move out of the way, or I will make you" Sean said knowing the man wouldn't budge.
"Your mother had that in her too, using empty threats. While I am slightly impressed with your skill, it is no match to my own" The man said
"But…" Sean started. That line, it was said by his father all the time, to his opponents before wiping the floor with them. "You can't be" Sean said. This man was exactly as Sean remembered his father.
"Yes, it is I Adrian Lombreson, your daddy… took you long enough. Carrington knew what had happened, but he didn't care to tell you and I knew he wouldn't, he always kept secrets from his agents until the last minute or in your case until it was too late" Adrian said with an evil smile.
Sean could only stare at him in disbelief.
"The Skedar only killed your mother where as I told them where the secret was and if only Carrington hadn't arrived, the Skedar would have won this war long ago" Adrian said "And ever since those Skedar's allowed me to do something like this I could never refuse their offer" Adrian finished and transformed into a Skedar before Sean's eyes and back again.
"But I don't want to rip you to pieces since that would be too easy, I want to see what you have taught yourself and how Carrington has trained you over the years" Adrian said
"So you joined the race of cowards, I hope you are happy with yourself" Sean said, anger flowed through him for numerous reasons. Why did Carrington never tell him, why did his father betray him.
"Well, you should be remotely amusing but let's see what you can do" Adrian said and stepped even further away.
Sean stared at Adrian, he charged at him with a dive kick but Adrian sidestepped. Sean aggressively moved into an elbow attack but Adrian blocked and grabbed but in doing so Sean head butted, it hurt Sean but it hurt Adrian worse.
"Not bad, but let's see what you are truly made of" Adrian said as he began to go into a high kick but Sean ducked underneath and gave him a punch straight to the face and tripped him. Adrian quickly stood back up but Sean was so angered that Adrian was punched once more as he staggered backwards into the wall and Sean immediately followed by giving him an elbow to the stomach. Adrian fell to the floor, there was a bit of blood on the carpet. However again Adrian stood up.
"Haha… excellent, but this is just the beginning" Adrian said as he jumped over the desk and punched out the window and picked up Cassandra. Sean just noticed the jetpack on Adrian's back and he went out the window with the unconscious Cassandra. Jonathan soon entered the office he just saw Sean looking out the window.
"Hey where's Cassandra and why didn't you radio me?" Jonathan asked
"Cassandra got away, somebody took her by jetpack. I…" Sean started. Jonathan knew something was wrong but after all these people had been asking him if he was alright, he didn't want to ask the same question.
"What happened?" Jonathan asked
"My Dad… he's alive… but… he's a Skedar now… I don't understand it. What I REALLY don't understand is how Carrington knew all these years and never told me. We fought for a moment but eventually he took Cassandra and got away out the window using some kind of jetpack" Sean said
"Oh I see… are you sure Carrington knew?" Jonathan asked
Something just occurred to Sean, maybe his father only told him Carrington knew to aggravate him.
"No… I still don't understand why, he would want to join a race of such cowards, a race that doesn't care whether they kill thousands of innocent people as long as they get what they want, it just isn't anything like him at all" Sean said
"We can deal with your Dad later. There was something very interesting I found out. Check it out" Jonathan said
Sean got his weapon from underneath the table and they went down to the bottom floor and on the opposite end of the secret research labs was another wall which Jonathan tapped and it opened. Both walked in and it was a strange cave like passage way. At the end of it was a motor boat, and Cassandra was talking to Adrian as they were loading stuff onto the boat. The cave seemed to exit to an outside area which must be an underground river of some kind.
"So that boy is your son?" Cassandra asked
"Yes… I never would have thought Carrington would have sent him out. I heard rumours, but didn't believe them. To think that he killed the Skedar prince… well it won't be long before the King orders to have his head" Adrian said
"Why couldn't you beat him yourself, what kind of bodyguard are you?" Cassandra asked
"He's a lot stronger then I thought, I made a stupid mistake and I paid for it, but I got you out didn't I?" Adrian replied
"I suppose you did. Are you ready?" Cassandra asked
"Yes, let's move" Adrian replied as the engine started up and they went inside the boat.
"Jonathan got a tracker?" Sean whispered
"Yup, of course" Jonathan replied and carefully ran out so Cass and Adrian wouldn't see them and with perfect aim he threw the tracker and it landed on the ship as it sped away through the exit.
They walked outside and the jumpship came to them in the middle of the park and headed back to the Institute.
"What happened? Did you not capture Cassandra" Carrington asked them as they walked into his office
"No, she got away" Jonathan said
"How?" Carrington asked
"A man took her using a jetpack. We fought but I couldn't stop him, Jonathan came and showed me this secret passage, and we found him and Cassandra getting on a boat. We placed a tracker and we just have to wait and see" Sean explained
"What did this man look like?" Carrington asked.
"He… he's my father…" Sean said "He… became a Skedar I don't know quite how or why or whatever but it was him… there was no mistaking it" Sean said. Carrington gave a deep sigh.
"I knew you would find out sooner or later… I'm sorry I never told you before but I was just waiting for the right opportunity and I just kept delaying it and delaying it." Carrington said
"So you knew? I understand keeping it from me when I was younger but surely you must have known the chances of me meeting him again were reasonably high" Sean replied
"As I said I'm sorry… telling somebody that their father has not died but turned into a Skedar isn't easy, for one you may not have believed me and you may have gone looking for him, or you may have even turned to the Skedar yourself. As you are older you saw your father as nothing but an enemy" Carrington explained.
Sean thought this over in his head, Carrington was right he did consider his father an enemy, maybe that was why his father wasn't trying very hard in the battle to see whether Sean would not fight.
"I can't understand why. The Skedar aren't exactly the most tolerant race of humans are they?" Sean asked
"Of course not, but your father had something the Skedar wanted. Information on the Maians, and as long as your Dad was an agent for us he would be useful to them. However he wasn't actually supposed to be present that night when you're mother was killed, but your mother suspecting something and asked your father to stay at home instead of going out somewhere I never got the full story. Anyway as a result the Skedar only pretended to kill your Dad and they actually did kill your mother and took him just before we entered the house" Carrington explained
"But after he lost his cover, why did the Skedar keep him alive?" Sean asked
"Because as a true human he knew Earth much better then they did, which would help them find whatever they are searching for. Your Dad joined the ranks at dataDyne and ironically trained Terrence there, your Dad however spent more time at the European and Asian dataDyne areas so this is why you did not encounter him before. I do not know however how your Dad is able to become a Skedar, but the fact is he can, which can't be good for us" Carrington said
"What's our next move?" Sean asked
"Simple. We wait and see where that tracker leads us. I don't know what they are planning, but did you see what they were putting on the boat?" Carrington asked
"No sir. No idea" Jonathan said, a little surprised by how much Carrington knew about basically everything.
"Very well. You are dismissed" Carrington said
Sean was more understanding of why Carrington did not tell him about his father before, but it didn't mean taking it was any easier.
"Don't shoot me for asking but are you alright?" Jonathan asked, he now regretted getting so annoyed about people asking him that question before, it was only because they cared.
"Actually I am. Seriously. I can ask myself why he did this, but all that's important is that I put a bullet in his head or knock him off a tall building" Sean said
"Or put a grenade in his mouth" Jonathan added
"Exactly, if I think about it too much when or if it comes to facing him I may not be able to go through with it" Sean said
"Alright. I'll be seeing you later" Jonathan said
"Thanks. See ya" Sean replied
Sean was finding it difficult not think about why his father did what he did. Was it greed of wanting power or was there a much deeper reason.
Spider-bear: Yeah, I needed some excuse to shift him to undercover and I was tossing between doing it at the near end or the very end of the story. I see you like my work on the time line making everything fit into place and not just letting it fall into a plot hole.
As the sun was setting and it was clearly visible due to the new surroundings. Jonathan gave a deep sigh as he looked down to his legs, they didn't seem any different by look and judging by what happened he thought to himself that he should be grateful that he was walking. He looked down from the middle floor overlooking part of the hangar and saw Sean training with another agent. Sean seemed faster then his training partner, he was almost jealous of him but he knew that Sean had gone through a lot to get to where he was. The nameless agent gave a punch but Sean easily grabbed it and tripped him up. Sean then waved to Jonathan and he returned it.
"Oh Jonathan… are you sure you are okay?" Carrington asked from inside.
"Yes sir… Sean's quite strong isn't he?" Jonathan commented trying to change the subject
"Well yes, but so he should be" Carrington said as he looked over the balcony and watched Sean and his partner go for another round. "That style he uses… quite powerful" Carrington said
Jonathan had to get used to driving home instead of just being able to walk it, although it was a relaxing drive and only near the end in the city there was some traffic. The next morning he woke from his sleep and made some quick breakfast at home, no longer was he able to eat at the Institute, he sighed deeply as he drove to work again. When he entered and headed to the main floor, Foster got Jonathan's attention.
"Carrington wants to see you, Sean is already waiting" Foster said
"Thanks" Jonathan said quietly
"Are you alright?" Foster asked. Jonathan was sick of that question. He had nearly lost his legs in an explosion, and would probably never to the work of an active agent again and on top of that he lost the woman he was going to marry.
"Yeah I'm fine" Jonathan lied just as he done to Carrington
"Okay…" Foster replied
Jonathan tried to remove those thoughts from his head as he walked into Carrington's office, ready from the briefing on tonight. It would be a good experience if nothing went wrong and the capture went smoothly but Jonathan knew that was not going to happen. He even thought it was risky being one of Cassandra's guards again.
"Okay, now I know you both have your doubts but this is the only card we can play" Carrington said
Jonathan was tempted to counter with "do we both get a suicide pill" but he held it in.
"Firstly, change of plans. Jonathan you go in first, do what you did last time and become a guard. Since the front door will be closed it is up to you Jonathan to change the controls from the top floor after jamming the cameras. Should be quite easy for you" Carrington said
"Yes sir" Jonathan said without a bit of sarcasm in his voice, that did seem easy if nothing had changed and everything was still in the same place, knowing dataDyne it probably would be.
"Meanwhile Sean will be waiting around nearby waiting for you to say you've opened the door. After you've unlocked the front door it should be easy for Sean to get in who will probably be immediately questioned by the guards since the door is almost always locked at that time and in which he just knocks them out since there are always two guards on the front door, it should be quite easy for you to knock out both of them." Carrington said
"Yes" Sean said
"After that Sean works his way up the building and you Jonathan try to find the switch that unlocks the door to Cassandra's office. She will definitely be there as she is getting ready for a meeting with some of the other dataDyne officials. After you find the switch that unlocks the door do not touch it as this will obviously blow your cover, just let Sean know of it's location and let him know of how they are placing guards, this will make it really easy for him to swat them down or better yet avoid them. Jonathan after you have scouted the top three office levels go back to the room near the helipad exit and when Sean has Cassandra come back and help escort her" Carrington said
Both agents nodded. Maybe it would work, although it really shouldn't be that easy and they both knew that. However Carrington seemed to have it well planned and he could always advise as he did should anything go wrong.
The time came; both of them ate dinner after training in the morning and relaxing in the afternoon so they would be ready for tonight. Jonathan got on the jumpship and it took off. Sean meanwhile drove himself into to the city and waiting in the park about 2 blocks away for Jonathan's call, no need to be too close yet. Sean wore a red and black jacket on top of a blue T-shirt with black pants and black sneakers.
He ran his hand through his hair and tried not to think about the mission ahead too much. Carrington was never this hasty or risky before why the sudden change, maybe the old institute being destroyed had this effect on him, although he did say the people were the most important thing and not the building but that didn't mean the building was worthless.
Jonathan made a perfect jump from the jumpship on the helipad. He signalled to the pilot that he made a successful landing and he flew off. Again as always there was a single guard with a security camera, Jonathan shot the guard and quickly followed by blasting the glass out of the camera with his Magnum. At least he could still shoot accurately, Jonathan smiled to himself as he took the guards uniform and hid the body behind a box and took the CMP50 they hadn't upgraded it yet, probably because of the time he broke in and stole the prototype.
Jonathan walked in, same dim witted guard as last time.
"Hi, good to see you again, it's been a more than a week hasn't it" the guard said. Jonathan nodded.
How dumb could you get? Didn't you notice a difference in the guy that walked out and me, thought Jonathan.
"Are you alright?" He asked and Jonathan was overwhelmed by the urge to knock this guy out, and he did so and shot the cameras that were fortunately turned in the other direction with the guards CMP50 and was quiet about it.
"If I only I could have done that to Foster" Jonathan said with a slight smile, he had wanted to nail the next guy who asked him that for ages.
Jonathan moved on and used the data uplink on the control system. Carrington was wrong for a change, an ECM mine would be no good on this type of computer, they changed their systems. Grimshaw hacked away into the computer and turned off the security cameras and then opened the front door. Grimshaw also shut off the jamming and tracking of radio transmissions so Jon and Sean could talk without fear of being intercepted.
"It's open" Jonathan said
"Understood" Sean replied
Sean sat up and hid his Falcon 2 scope and walked past the automatic sliding door that was normally locked at this time of night but just as Jonathan had told him it was indeed open. The two guards came out.
"Hey kid what did you do?" One of the guards asked. For once Sean was glad he was called a kid, it meant they had no idea who he really was.
"Oh, no idea…I was just walking past" Sean replied
"Ah… damned door, honestly the number of times…" the second guard started but that was all he got out as Sean elbowed him and head butted the other guard and entered.
"That was easy" Sean said
Jonathan scouted the first three levels as instructed, he also worked out that the switch was on the highest of the office levels and Cassandra's office was on the opposite side of the room across the walkway which was almost like a bridge. This wasn't as hard as Jonathan thought, he was done. All he had to do was return to that room and repeat what he knew to Sean. He went up the stairs and kicked the dim witted guard again for good measure as he returned to the helipad.
"Hey Sean?" Jonathan said
"Just a… sec…" was the reply as Jonathan heard a gun shot over the radio.
"Okay…" Sean said
"Basically the set up is like this…" Jonathan gave a basic positioning of the guards of the three office levels as Carrington had instructed although Sean knew it was only required of him to kill any of those who saw him on getting out of the lowest office level.
"The office switch is on the highest office level, Cass' office is across the bridge like entrance. It's very easy to spot, it's on a table and it's guarded by just a single guard with another walking around. That should be easy for you to break shouldn't it?" Jonathan said
"Piece of cake" Sean replied "I'll let you know when I have her"
"Be careful though" Jonathan said "Let me know if you need back up"
"Will do…" Sean said
Sean put aside the radio and reloaded the Falcon 2 once more. He entered the lift and crouched down so that he may be lucky and none of the guards on the lower office level would see him otherwise he would have to go into a fire fight. The lift door opened and the glass on the right of Sean shattered as gun fire passed over his head, he turned around and fired a few shots, but the guard had hid behind the wall.
"Get him!" The guard shouted. He had no time to think as three guards went on the attack and he had to hide in the stair case and tried to return their fire and took down two of the guards but in doing so he attracted attention from three more.
"It's no good, surrender" They shouted as they fired some more. Sean took the CMP50 and fired around the door and heard a few screams and redrew his Falcon and finished the last two off. He knew he had drawn attention as two guards from the second floor rushed down and fired catching him slightly off guard, but he dived around the door and they predictably followed only to be shot.
"Whew, close call" Sean said to himself as he loaded the Falcon 2.
He went up to the top office level and opened the door, just as Jonathan had said a single guard standing guard over the switch and Sean simply nailed him in the head and heard the footsteps of his comrade and dived out and shot him as well. Pressing the switch he heard the unlocking sound, maybe Carrington's plan would work after all. He walked across the bridge and opened the door.
"How the hell did you get here!" Cassandra demanded
"Never mind that, come here now!" Sean demanded in return
"I will not be pushed around by some kid" Cassandra replied in the same tone
"Well I could pull this trigger right here… but you don't want me to do that do you" Sean said
"You wouldn't shoot me. Carrington wouldn't allow that" Cassandra said
Sean walked closer to Cassandra.
"Let's see how you deal with…" that's all Cassandra got out as Sean had thrown his Falcon at her as she looked like she was about to press a switch. It landed perfectly and knocked her out on the forehead. Sean was about to radio Jonathan when suddenly somebody dropped from the ceiling and kicked it out of his hands and out the window.
"So… this is what has become of you" The man said, he didn't have a gun on him and stood a distance away. Sean's gun was underneath the table and he had no chance of reaching it and also had no way of contacting Jonathan. He looked at this man, he was slightly taller than he was with short black hair with brown eyes.
"What do you mean by that?" Sean replied. This man did look familiar
"Sean… do you not know who I am?" The man replied
"Not a clue… I've got stuff to do so if you don't mind move out of the way, or I will make you" Sean said knowing the man wouldn't budge.
"Your mother had that in her too, using empty threats. While I am slightly impressed with your skill, it is no match to my own" The man said
"But…" Sean started. That line, it was said by his father all the time, to his opponents before wiping the floor with them. "You can't be" Sean said. This man was exactly as Sean remembered his father.
"Yes, it is I Adrian Lombreson, your daddy… took you long enough. Carrington knew what had happened, but he didn't care to tell you and I knew he wouldn't, he always kept secrets from his agents until the last minute or in your case until it was too late" Adrian said with an evil smile.
Sean could only stare at him in disbelief.
"The Skedar only killed your mother where as I told them where the secret was and if only Carrington hadn't arrived, the Skedar would have won this war long ago" Adrian said "And ever since those Skedar's allowed me to do something like this I could never refuse their offer" Adrian finished and transformed into a Skedar before Sean's eyes and back again.
"But I don't want to rip you to pieces since that would be too easy, I want to see what you have taught yourself and how Carrington has trained you over the years" Adrian said
"So you joined the race of cowards, I hope you are happy with yourself" Sean said, anger flowed through him for numerous reasons. Why did Carrington never tell him, why did his father betray him.
"Well, you should be remotely amusing but let's see what you can do" Adrian said and stepped even further away.
Sean stared at Adrian, he charged at him with a dive kick but Adrian sidestepped. Sean aggressively moved into an elbow attack but Adrian blocked and grabbed but in doing so Sean head butted, it hurt Sean but it hurt Adrian worse.
"Not bad, but let's see what you are truly made of" Adrian said as he began to go into a high kick but Sean ducked underneath and gave him a punch straight to the face and tripped him. Adrian quickly stood back up but Sean was so angered that Adrian was punched once more as he staggered backwards into the wall and Sean immediately followed by giving him an elbow to the stomach. Adrian fell to the floor, there was a bit of blood on the carpet. However again Adrian stood up.
"Haha… excellent, but this is just the beginning" Adrian said as he jumped over the desk and punched out the window and picked up Cassandra. Sean just noticed the jetpack on Adrian's back and he went out the window with the unconscious Cassandra. Jonathan soon entered the office he just saw Sean looking out the window.
"Hey where's Cassandra and why didn't you radio me?" Jonathan asked
"Cassandra got away, somebody took her by jetpack. I…" Sean started. Jonathan knew something was wrong but after all these people had been asking him if he was alright, he didn't want to ask the same question.
"What happened?" Jonathan asked
"My Dad… he's alive… but… he's a Skedar now… I don't understand it. What I REALLY don't understand is how Carrington knew all these years and never told me. We fought for a moment but eventually he took Cassandra and got away out the window using some kind of jetpack" Sean said
"Oh I see… are you sure Carrington knew?" Jonathan asked
Something just occurred to Sean, maybe his father only told him Carrington knew to aggravate him.
"No… I still don't understand why, he would want to join a race of such cowards, a race that doesn't care whether they kill thousands of innocent people as long as they get what they want, it just isn't anything like him at all" Sean said
"We can deal with your Dad later. There was something very interesting I found out. Check it out" Jonathan said
Sean got his weapon from underneath the table and they went down to the bottom floor and on the opposite end of the secret research labs was another wall which Jonathan tapped and it opened. Both walked in and it was a strange cave like passage way. At the end of it was a motor boat, and Cassandra was talking to Adrian as they were loading stuff onto the boat. The cave seemed to exit to an outside area which must be an underground river of some kind.
"So that boy is your son?" Cassandra asked
"Yes… I never would have thought Carrington would have sent him out. I heard rumours, but didn't believe them. To think that he killed the Skedar prince… well it won't be long before the King orders to have his head" Adrian said
"Why couldn't you beat him yourself, what kind of bodyguard are you?" Cassandra asked
"He's a lot stronger then I thought, I made a stupid mistake and I paid for it, but I got you out didn't I?" Adrian replied
"I suppose you did. Are you ready?" Cassandra asked
"Yes, let's move" Adrian replied as the engine started up and they went inside the boat.
"Jonathan got a tracker?" Sean whispered
"Yup, of course" Jonathan replied and carefully ran out so Cass and Adrian wouldn't see them and with perfect aim he threw the tracker and it landed on the ship as it sped away through the exit.
They walked outside and the jumpship came to them in the middle of the park and headed back to the Institute.
"What happened? Did you not capture Cassandra" Carrington asked them as they walked into his office
"No, she got away" Jonathan said
"How?" Carrington asked
"A man took her using a jetpack. We fought but I couldn't stop him, Jonathan came and showed me this secret passage, and we found him and Cassandra getting on a boat. We placed a tracker and we just have to wait and see" Sean explained
"What did this man look like?" Carrington asked.
"He… he's my father…" Sean said "He… became a Skedar I don't know quite how or why or whatever but it was him… there was no mistaking it" Sean said. Carrington gave a deep sigh.
"I knew you would find out sooner or later… I'm sorry I never told you before but I was just waiting for the right opportunity and I just kept delaying it and delaying it." Carrington said
"So you knew? I understand keeping it from me when I was younger but surely you must have known the chances of me meeting him again were reasonably high" Sean replied
"As I said I'm sorry… telling somebody that their father has not died but turned into a Skedar isn't easy, for one you may not have believed me and you may have gone looking for him, or you may have even turned to the Skedar yourself. As you are older you saw your father as nothing but an enemy" Carrington explained.
Sean thought this over in his head, Carrington was right he did consider his father an enemy, maybe that was why his father wasn't trying very hard in the battle to see whether Sean would not fight.
"I can't understand why. The Skedar aren't exactly the most tolerant race of humans are they?" Sean asked
"Of course not, but your father had something the Skedar wanted. Information on the Maians, and as long as your Dad was an agent for us he would be useful to them. However he wasn't actually supposed to be present that night when you're mother was killed, but your mother suspecting something and asked your father to stay at home instead of going out somewhere I never got the full story. Anyway as a result the Skedar only pretended to kill your Dad and they actually did kill your mother and took him just before we entered the house" Carrington explained
"But after he lost his cover, why did the Skedar keep him alive?" Sean asked
"Because as a true human he knew Earth much better then they did, which would help them find whatever they are searching for. Your Dad joined the ranks at dataDyne and ironically trained Terrence there, your Dad however spent more time at the European and Asian dataDyne areas so this is why you did not encounter him before. I do not know however how your Dad is able to become a Skedar, but the fact is he can, which can't be good for us" Carrington said
"What's our next move?" Sean asked
"Simple. We wait and see where that tracker leads us. I don't know what they are planning, but did you see what they were putting on the boat?" Carrington asked
"No sir. No idea" Jonathan said, a little surprised by how much Carrington knew about basically everything.
"Very well. You are dismissed" Carrington said
Sean was more understanding of why Carrington did not tell him about his father before, but it didn't mean taking it was any easier.
"Don't shoot me for asking but are you alright?" Jonathan asked, he now regretted getting so annoyed about people asking him that question before, it was only because they cared.
"Actually I am. Seriously. I can ask myself why he did this, but all that's important is that I put a bullet in his head or knock him off a tall building" Sean said
"Or put a grenade in his mouth" Jonathan added
"Exactly, if I think about it too much when or if it comes to facing him I may not be able to go through with it" Sean said
"Alright. I'll be seeing you later" Jonathan said
"Thanks. See ya" Sean replied
Sean was finding it difficult not think about why his father did what he did. Was it greed of wanting power or was there a much deeper reason.
