BlackRoseApocalyps: Glad you like the chapter I wasn't sure if I did
the character credit enough. PS. For some reason chapter 2 of Shattered
Resistance isn't showing up.
CHAPTER 8:TAKEN
A few more days and passed and by now everyone was used to their new 'guest' as it were and everyone was interesting in seeing how Mary and Shadow were going to work out.
Benny actually had a bet going with Liz. Vincent, well he didn't object but he didn't like her choice. Maybe he was just a little overprotective but she was one of his oldest and closest friends and he wanted her to get the best, but he also wanted her to be happy so he didn't interfere.
It was currently in the middle of the night. Shadow wasn't sleeping on the couch this night, he was in a bed, Mary's to be exact. He was surprised when after their latest date they stopped outside her door and she led him in.
Now Mary was curled up next to him. Then her weight shifted and she turned over and sat up keeping the sheet to her chest. "Are you going to leave now?" She asked quietly.
Shadow wasn't sure what she was talking about. "Why would I leave?"
"We all know the only reason your still here is because you wanted me, now that you got me..." She trailed off.
Shadow stood up and wrapped his arms around her. "I'm not leaving. Just because of this I'll just pick up and leave. I want to stay with you. Look I've been all over the States and this country you know why?"
She shook her head. "Because I've been searching for a place to fit in, a place to call home. When I'm with you I feel like every time I've come home, you fill a void in me that I've been searching to fill." He said softly to her. "I find that I actually don't want to leave, and that's a first for me."
She turned to face him in the night, the room only lighted by the night sky. "Your not just saying that are you? I mean if I found out that's just one of your lines or something so help me I'll hunt you down and skin you alive."
He smiled at her attitude. "Oh I know you will, and that's why I'm only saying the truth." She smiled to herself and kissed him.
She pulled away slightly. "You better be Daniel." She said to him.
He whined at the use of his real name. "Why on Earth I told you my name was Daniel Witter I'll never know. I never even told Marianne my real name, I don't think I've told anyone that."
"Don't worry I'll just use it between us." She assured him.
The next morning Vincent was up and about as usual, he was just walking in the hall on the way downstairs when he saw Mary's door open. He thought it was a little strange since she usually doesn't get up early in the morning.
He saw her step out in a bathrobe. "Hey Mary why are you up so early?"
She literally jumped at his voice and turned to face him. "N-nothing! I mean nothing, my showing is...broken so I want to use the public one we got before the kids get to it."
Vince nodded and made a note to tell Benny about the shower, he was about to leave when a sight he wished he never had seen appeared. Shadow with wet hair and pulling on a shirt went up to Mary and kissed her on the cheek. "Thanks for letting me use your shower." Then he noticed Vince and the look he had on his face. "Uh " Mary said. He didn't need to be told twice and took off. Vince blinked a few times then went after the man. Benny and Liz heard the commotion and came to check it out.
"What's going on?" Liz asked wiping the sleep from her eyes. Then she saw Mary in her bathrobe and Vincent chasing Shadow down the stairs. "Please tell me you didn't." She moaned. Mary just blushed. "Aw damn it."
Mary looked at her like she was crazy. "You owe me thirty bucks Liz." Benny said grinning.
Mary's jaw dropped. "You two bet if Shadow and me would spend the night together?" She said shocked.
"More like when the if, but yeah." Benny said. "Hey don't look at me like that you know we all need social lives and this is our way of compensating."
LATER
A few hours had passed and by sheer luck Shadow had avoided Vincent's wrath. He sat down at the kitchen table taking a breather. "We need to talk." Came a cold voice that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
He slowly turned and saw Vincent there behind him with a stern expression on his face. He looked for a quick exit. "Don't even think about it." Vince warned him. With a sigh he let the man lead him into the basement, all the while he was wishing he wasn't being led down there so Vince could hide his body.
When they got down there and they were alone Vince let out a very long breath. "Look I know Mary is an adult and she can make her own choices. But if you ever hurt her I will make you wish for death, got it?"
Shadow nodded. "You bet I don't want to hurt her either."
Vince took a close look at him and saw the sincerity in his eyes. "Good. Make sure of that." He threatened and left Shadow alone.
"Great, now I got to worry about him now." He sighed. "But she is worth it."
Benny was looking through the fridge noticing they were running low on food. "Guess I better get some shopping done." He muttered to himself. He saw Rick pass the door and went to catch up to him. "Hey Rick I could use and extra pair of hands."
"For what?" Asked the teenager.
"I need to go to the corner store and Liz just took the van and I don't know when she'll be back so we got to walk it."
"Are we going to the one a few blocks down?" Rick asked.
"That's the one, we only need a few things and I'm not walking all the way to the other one." Benny told him.
Rick shrugged. "Sure why not."
As they left the house they didn't notice a certain black van down the street behind them. "Is that the one they wanted?" The driver said to his partner.
His partner had a pair of binoculars. "Yeah that's him. We won't get a better shot at this let's get him." The van moved out and up to the two unsuspecting people. As the van just passed them it jumped the curve and went right in front of them. The driver and the passenger got out and Benny got a bad feeling about all of this.
"Hey what's your problem?" Rick yelled at them. One of them pulled a dart gun and fired it at Rick. A dark hit him dead in the chest and he fell to the ground after a second. One of them went to pick him up but Benny went to stop them.
The other one pulled out and collapsible baton. The man with expert skill hit Benny in the joint of one of his arms and he yelled out as he felt his arm dislocate at the joint. The grabbed his arm out of instinct and then felt another blow behind one of his knees and he suddenly found himself on his back.
The wind knocked out of his lungs. He turned to see the two men put Rick in the back at the van. "I hope those science geeks are paying good money for this specimen."
Benny watched them helplessly leave with Rick. After he groaned he managed to pick himself up. Cradling his arm he limped back to the house. 'I got to tell the others.' He thought.
He opened to front door and nearly fell down onto the floor. Kate saw him and rushed over. "Benny what happened?" She asked slightly panicking from seeing him so hurt.
"Get the others." He groaned out.
"Help! Vince! Mary! Somebody!" Kate started to yell at the top of her voice. Soon the entire house was on the scene. They moved him to the couch and Lisa went to get the first aid kit and Kate went to get the iced gel packs.
Benny looked at Vince and Mary. "I'm so, sorry I tried but I couldn't stop them."
"Stop who Benny? Where's Rick?" Mary asked him.
"They took him, I don't know where. All I hear was something about science geeks and specimen." She weakly told them and the pain he was feeling was making it hard to think.
"Mary look after him I'm going to get his location." Vince said and went into the back of the house. Shadow gave him a strange look.
"Get his location? How?" He asked following him.
"We planned for something like this and had the Underground make something special for us. All the kids wear special watches that got tracking devices in them, even Jack's holo watch has one in it." He stopped outside the computer room and punched in the door code and then walked in.
He sat down and powered up the computer and began to run a special program he made. Shadow watch trying to follow what he was doing but gave up. "What is all of this?"
"I'm hacking my way into certain satellites the kind that no one is supposed to know about." He told him without taking his eyes off the screen.
"Then how do you know about them?" Shadow asked.
"Luck. I found a few things by accident." On the screen a map showed up and a moving red dot. "There he is. He'll have to wait until he stops to get him." He said darkly. Shadow didn't say anything and they waited. Eventually they stopped outside the city.
Vince looked up the area and didn't like what he found. "It's supposed to be a decommissioned military base." He told Shadow.
"Guess it's not so abandoned after all." Shadow commented. "So now what?"
Vince got up without a word and left him there. He went up to his room and closed the door behind him. He went to a rank and pulled down a sword he had kept for years. It was a Japanese Katana, the one given to him from his sensei.
He held it in his hands. He thought about what Benny told him about science geeks, most likely scientists. And when he said subject Vince had gone cold inside. He knew full well that they had grabbed Rick for experimentation. He may have an X-gene but it wasn't active.
Unless that's what he wanted. Now Vince knew from personal history what it was like being experimented on, he still had nightmares from it all. Now one of his kids, the kids that he was responsible for was taken to only the kind of Hell he and others like him knew about.
But this couldn't be a simple operation. Using an army base even an old one took a lot of power and these people must have had some serious backing. He sat down on his bed. He knew that there was no way to just go into a military base filled with who knows what and get Rick out without killing anybody.
It just wasn't possible. He put the sword down on the bed next to him and held his head in his hands. He didn't want to kill again. He already had seven lives on his hands, yes it was in self-defense but that didn't mean he liked it.
Now Rick was most likely being examined right now. All the memories came flooding back to him. All the pain, the suffering, everything. He didn't want Rick to suffer through any of that.
Tears weld up in his eyes. But how could he get him out. He had no help and there was no way he could do it alone, they might kill Rick. He and read the reports of teams going into labs and what they found. The fact that Rick was most likely in one was horrifying.
He was brought up by a priest, and was told all life was precious. But he was also brought up in the way of the warrior. The voices of both his mentors rang through his head.
"All life is sacred."
"To protect others is a noble way of life."
"Killing is never right, even if the cause if just and God can forgive."
"One must do what is necessary to protect those we care for."
'What do I do?' Vincent thought to himself. 'How can I do what is necessary to save Rick, but if I do I'll most likely take a life in the process. But how can I just leave him there to suffer and die?'
"We all must make hard choices in life Vincent, we just have to do the best that we can, and hope we can life with them."
"You must ask yourself. What would you do to protect others you care about? What are you prepared to do?"
Vince looked at the sword next to him. He thought of what Rick was going to go through and not to mention who knows how many others. He couldn't leave him to that fate, he couldn't live with himself if he did. He gave an oath to protect him and the kids and he would do anything to protect them.
"What are you prepared to do?"
"Anything I have to." He said coldly and picked up the weapon. He was no longer Vincent Freeman, the kind big brother that the kids looked up to. No he was bringing out a darker part of his nature a part of him he hated to use and for others to see.
Those that took Rick weren't going to go up against Vincent Freeman, they were going to have to face Mayhem now. And he would get Rick back by any means necessary.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 9: THE RESCUE
CHAPTER 8:TAKEN
A few more days and passed and by now everyone was used to their new 'guest' as it were and everyone was interesting in seeing how Mary and Shadow were going to work out.
Benny actually had a bet going with Liz. Vincent, well he didn't object but he didn't like her choice. Maybe he was just a little overprotective but she was one of his oldest and closest friends and he wanted her to get the best, but he also wanted her to be happy so he didn't interfere.
It was currently in the middle of the night. Shadow wasn't sleeping on the couch this night, he was in a bed, Mary's to be exact. He was surprised when after their latest date they stopped outside her door and she led him in.
Now Mary was curled up next to him. Then her weight shifted and she turned over and sat up keeping the sheet to her chest. "Are you going to leave now?" She asked quietly.
Shadow wasn't sure what she was talking about. "Why would I leave?"
"We all know the only reason your still here is because you wanted me, now that you got me..." She trailed off.
Shadow stood up and wrapped his arms around her. "I'm not leaving. Just because of this I'll just pick up and leave. I want to stay with you. Look I've been all over the States and this country you know why?"
She shook her head. "Because I've been searching for a place to fit in, a place to call home. When I'm with you I feel like every time I've come home, you fill a void in me that I've been searching to fill." He said softly to her. "I find that I actually don't want to leave, and that's a first for me."
She turned to face him in the night, the room only lighted by the night sky. "Your not just saying that are you? I mean if I found out that's just one of your lines or something so help me I'll hunt you down and skin you alive."
He smiled at her attitude. "Oh I know you will, and that's why I'm only saying the truth." She smiled to herself and kissed him.
She pulled away slightly. "You better be Daniel." She said to him.
He whined at the use of his real name. "Why on Earth I told you my name was Daniel Witter I'll never know. I never even told Marianne my real name, I don't think I've told anyone that."
"Don't worry I'll just use it between us." She assured him.
The next morning Vincent was up and about as usual, he was just walking in the hall on the way downstairs when he saw Mary's door open. He thought it was a little strange since she usually doesn't get up early in the morning.
He saw her step out in a bathrobe. "Hey Mary why are you up so early?"
She literally jumped at his voice and turned to face him. "N-nothing! I mean nothing, my showing is...broken so I want to use the public one we got before the kids get to it."
Vince nodded and made a note to tell Benny about the shower, he was about to leave when a sight he wished he never had seen appeared. Shadow with wet hair and pulling on a shirt went up to Mary and kissed her on the cheek. "Thanks for letting me use your shower." Then he noticed Vince and the look he had on his face. "Uh " Mary said. He didn't need to be told twice and took off. Vince blinked a few times then went after the man. Benny and Liz heard the commotion and came to check it out.
"What's going on?" Liz asked wiping the sleep from her eyes. Then she saw Mary in her bathrobe and Vincent chasing Shadow down the stairs. "Please tell me you didn't." She moaned. Mary just blushed. "Aw damn it."
Mary looked at her like she was crazy. "You owe me thirty bucks Liz." Benny said grinning.
Mary's jaw dropped. "You two bet if Shadow and me would spend the night together?" She said shocked.
"More like when the if, but yeah." Benny said. "Hey don't look at me like that you know we all need social lives and this is our way of compensating."
LATER
A few hours had passed and by sheer luck Shadow had avoided Vincent's wrath. He sat down at the kitchen table taking a breather. "We need to talk." Came a cold voice that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.
He slowly turned and saw Vincent there behind him with a stern expression on his face. He looked for a quick exit. "Don't even think about it." Vince warned him. With a sigh he let the man lead him into the basement, all the while he was wishing he wasn't being led down there so Vince could hide his body.
When they got down there and they were alone Vince let out a very long breath. "Look I know Mary is an adult and she can make her own choices. But if you ever hurt her I will make you wish for death, got it?"
Shadow nodded. "You bet I don't want to hurt her either."
Vince took a close look at him and saw the sincerity in his eyes. "Good. Make sure of that." He threatened and left Shadow alone.
"Great, now I got to worry about him now." He sighed. "But she is worth it."
Benny was looking through the fridge noticing they were running low on food. "Guess I better get some shopping done." He muttered to himself. He saw Rick pass the door and went to catch up to him. "Hey Rick I could use and extra pair of hands."
"For what?" Asked the teenager.
"I need to go to the corner store and Liz just took the van and I don't know when she'll be back so we got to walk it."
"Are we going to the one a few blocks down?" Rick asked.
"That's the one, we only need a few things and I'm not walking all the way to the other one." Benny told him.
Rick shrugged. "Sure why not."
As they left the house they didn't notice a certain black van down the street behind them. "Is that the one they wanted?" The driver said to his partner.
His partner had a pair of binoculars. "Yeah that's him. We won't get a better shot at this let's get him." The van moved out and up to the two unsuspecting people. As the van just passed them it jumped the curve and went right in front of them. The driver and the passenger got out and Benny got a bad feeling about all of this.
"Hey what's your problem?" Rick yelled at them. One of them pulled a dart gun and fired it at Rick. A dark hit him dead in the chest and he fell to the ground after a second. One of them went to pick him up but Benny went to stop them.
The other one pulled out and collapsible baton. The man with expert skill hit Benny in the joint of one of his arms and he yelled out as he felt his arm dislocate at the joint. The grabbed his arm out of instinct and then felt another blow behind one of his knees and he suddenly found himself on his back.
The wind knocked out of his lungs. He turned to see the two men put Rick in the back at the van. "I hope those science geeks are paying good money for this specimen."
Benny watched them helplessly leave with Rick. After he groaned he managed to pick himself up. Cradling his arm he limped back to the house. 'I got to tell the others.' He thought.
He opened to front door and nearly fell down onto the floor. Kate saw him and rushed over. "Benny what happened?" She asked slightly panicking from seeing him so hurt.
"Get the others." He groaned out.
"Help! Vince! Mary! Somebody!" Kate started to yell at the top of her voice. Soon the entire house was on the scene. They moved him to the couch and Lisa went to get the first aid kit and Kate went to get the iced gel packs.
Benny looked at Vince and Mary. "I'm so, sorry I tried but I couldn't stop them."
"Stop who Benny? Where's Rick?" Mary asked him.
"They took him, I don't know where. All I hear was something about science geeks and specimen." She weakly told them and the pain he was feeling was making it hard to think.
"Mary look after him I'm going to get his location." Vince said and went into the back of the house. Shadow gave him a strange look.
"Get his location? How?" He asked following him.
"We planned for something like this and had the Underground make something special for us. All the kids wear special watches that got tracking devices in them, even Jack's holo watch has one in it." He stopped outside the computer room and punched in the door code and then walked in.
He sat down and powered up the computer and began to run a special program he made. Shadow watch trying to follow what he was doing but gave up. "What is all of this?"
"I'm hacking my way into certain satellites the kind that no one is supposed to know about." He told him without taking his eyes off the screen.
"Then how do you know about them?" Shadow asked.
"Luck. I found a few things by accident." On the screen a map showed up and a moving red dot. "There he is. He'll have to wait until he stops to get him." He said darkly. Shadow didn't say anything and they waited. Eventually they stopped outside the city.
Vince looked up the area and didn't like what he found. "It's supposed to be a decommissioned military base." He told Shadow.
"Guess it's not so abandoned after all." Shadow commented. "So now what?"
Vince got up without a word and left him there. He went up to his room and closed the door behind him. He went to a rank and pulled down a sword he had kept for years. It was a Japanese Katana, the one given to him from his sensei.
He held it in his hands. He thought about what Benny told him about science geeks, most likely scientists. And when he said subject Vince had gone cold inside. He knew full well that they had grabbed Rick for experimentation. He may have an X-gene but it wasn't active.
Unless that's what he wanted. Now Vince knew from personal history what it was like being experimented on, he still had nightmares from it all. Now one of his kids, the kids that he was responsible for was taken to only the kind of Hell he and others like him knew about.
But this couldn't be a simple operation. Using an army base even an old one took a lot of power and these people must have had some serious backing. He sat down on his bed. He knew that there was no way to just go into a military base filled with who knows what and get Rick out without killing anybody.
It just wasn't possible. He put the sword down on the bed next to him and held his head in his hands. He didn't want to kill again. He already had seven lives on his hands, yes it was in self-defense but that didn't mean he liked it.
Now Rick was most likely being examined right now. All the memories came flooding back to him. All the pain, the suffering, everything. He didn't want Rick to suffer through any of that.
Tears weld up in his eyes. But how could he get him out. He had no help and there was no way he could do it alone, they might kill Rick. He and read the reports of teams going into labs and what they found. The fact that Rick was most likely in one was horrifying.
He was brought up by a priest, and was told all life was precious. But he was also brought up in the way of the warrior. The voices of both his mentors rang through his head.
"All life is sacred."
"To protect others is a noble way of life."
"Killing is never right, even if the cause if just and God can forgive."
"One must do what is necessary to protect those we care for."
'What do I do?' Vincent thought to himself. 'How can I do what is necessary to save Rick, but if I do I'll most likely take a life in the process. But how can I just leave him there to suffer and die?'
"We all must make hard choices in life Vincent, we just have to do the best that we can, and hope we can life with them."
"You must ask yourself. What would you do to protect others you care about? What are you prepared to do?"
Vince looked at the sword next to him. He thought of what Rick was going to go through and not to mention who knows how many others. He couldn't leave him to that fate, he couldn't live with himself if he did. He gave an oath to protect him and the kids and he would do anything to protect them.
"What are you prepared to do?"
"Anything I have to." He said coldly and picked up the weapon. He was no longer Vincent Freeman, the kind big brother that the kids looked up to. No he was bringing out a darker part of his nature a part of him he hated to use and for others to see.
Those that took Rick weren't going to go up against Vincent Freeman, they were going to have to face Mayhem now. And he would get Rick back by any means necessary.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 9: THE RESCUE