So sorry, I didn't even acknowledge my reviews last chapter. Too busy getting into Junior's story I guess. That was just a brainwave; I just had to type up all I could that night. I will write one chapter for this, then PD Kids and revert back to this unless I run out of ideas for one or the other, but for kids I've got a few more ideas. This is taking a lot longer due to me being busy now, I had virtually nothing to do a month ago, hence the reason why you were getting updates every three days.
Cristalina: Yeah Trent is a bastard. Nothing new there, but don't think of Junior as a mini Trent despite his name or names rather, not that you were. You are going to find that Junior is very different from his father. I knew you'd find it funny if I used the nameless "well duh" guard again.
As for your chapter 1 review, yup Sean is back, and yes a sequel to the prequel if that makes any sense at all. How do I know all this stuff? Well it just goes to show how much time I had on my hands before, various web pages have information on things that are/were going to be in Perfect Dark. More interesting information will probably leak somewhere, like that some of the gadgets in Goldeneye were going to be in Perfect Dark, even some that were never going to be in Goldeneye like the grenade pen.
Spiderbear: I will… don't worry about not saying anything useful if you can't think of anything. I know you like it by reviewing it.
Lets begin…
Joanna faced Trent and fired the first shot. It glanced off the shield as Trent fired his Magnum back, he was far too slow as Joanna side stepped it firing multiple shots. They were not weakening the shield at all, how could he be beaten if she couldn't shoot him…
"I take it you like my new shield… if you can get this thing down with that popgun, ill eat my Magnum" Trent taunted
Joanna ignored the comment as she tried to think up a way she could defeat him. Trent suddenly drew a rocket launcher. Jo was caught of guard, badly, she tried to get away but there were lasers around her blocking her way, she was trapped! Trent had bobby trapped the room, damn that guy was cheap.
"Now I personally think you move too much, time to put a stop to that so I can hit you. This is the end my dear" Trent smiled and fired the rocket
It blew up on contact with the wall, the window behind Jo shattered and she was pushed back by the force of the explosion.
"Goodbye Miss Dark" Trent laughed evilly
"Hey I've always wanted to do that… just like Cassandra" Trent continued his evil smiling
Sean meanwhile was continuing through the building, there were only a few mirage guards, but they were no problem as once the original was dead the others faded. He continued and went into this garden like area, which compared to the military like base, with its electric fences, outposts, and large amounts of mirage guards it looked out of place. Three real guards came and opened fire, Sean took cover and then locked on to all of them with the CMP150, before he heard some take cover and he jumped out and shot one of them who was waiting for Sean to make the first move, because of the lock on it was easy to see when they were going to jump out, taking advantage of this he killed both guards easily.
He moved through the garden into another building with another unlocked door. Sean was puzzled, why were there so many unlocked doors. Something didn't seem right. This time 4 guards came, so Sean retreated back outside, and used "the wait outside and wait for the guards to come to you trick". Predictably the guards thought there numbers were greater so gave chase but by the time they opened the door Sean had locked onto each of them and blasted 3 of them by the time the door was completely opened and the last one by the time he raised his weapon.
"Well that was easy" Sean said to himself
He walked back in and the first locked door was in front of him, but yet again, one of the guards held a key, it was lying on the ground not far from the door. He went to pick it up.
"Hold it right there" A male voice was heard. Sean felt the gun of the person near him, it was a pistol of some sort.
"Stand up slowly" He ordered
Sean stood up but in doing so he rose a little faster then the guy behind him had anticipated knocking him in the nose. Taking advantage of the impact, Sean turned to face his opponent and quickly shot him down. The gun was holding a Magsec4, rather unusual for dataDyne, Sean thought. He also had a key card on him, it seemed this guy was highly ranked because of the blue uniform.
He continued through the building, and came to a strange lab. There were already dead guards in there. Falcon bullets, Joanna had already been here. Using the key card on another door he expected to find more dead guards. Not so, they gladly opened fire using their Dragons. Slightly caught off Sean took cover once more, there was no other option. It seemed there were 5 of them at least, so Sean didn't jump out and try to kill them all, he just hid behind the wall and fired in the narrow corridor until the ammo ran out, judging by the screams he had got most of the guards. He swapped for his Falcon 2 scope, and moved on.
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"What do you mean you can't get inside!?" Carrington demanded
"The gate is electrified and Velvet's device got blown up. There is nothing we can do" Jonathan replied to a slightly angry but more worried Carrington.
"I hope they'll be alright" Carrington sighed "Although why were you sidetracked in the first place? Why didn't you enter with Jo and Sean?" Carrington asked
"We were attacked by a strange group. Velvet and I held them off and chased them while Joanna and Sean climbed the fence" Jonathan explained
"Why did you continue to pursue them?" Carrington asked
"Nobody just shoots at a group of people looking like they will go over a fence in a suburban area. Especially with Dragons" Jonathan continued "Velvet and I chased, and they fired back, eventually we got them all" Jonathan said
"Dragons? Now that makes it very interesting, no street gang could afford Dragons" Carrington thought
"That's what we thought, but couldn't make anything else out from it" Jonathan replied
"I'll keep you posted on that one. Tina!" Carrington called for Tina, Grimshaw's new assistant in Hacker Central, unlike Grimshaw she was really nice and got along with everybody, she was the one who did most of the profiling at the Institute these days. Jonathan and Velvet could hear Carrington saying something to Tina but couldn't hear exactly what.
"Anyway keep me posted on Jo and Sean will you? Carrington out" Carrington said
"Definitely" Jonathan replied as Carrington cut the line
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Sean continued up through the building, the 5 guards he encountered in the corridor were the only ones, until he came across two guarding a door. They hadn't seen him, and Sean took full advantage of the scope of the Falcon 2 and nailed both guards. On approaching the door it seemed to have a coded lock.
"Sean to Grimshaw" Sean said, hoping he wouldn't regret having to ask Grimshaw a favour later.
"Yes?" His voice replied, Sean was tempted to hang the line there but decided against it.
"Hack the door for me would you?" Sean asked
"Ooookay" Grimshaw said in a strange way that made Sean take a few steps backwards as if he was freaked out even though Grimshaw wasn't there.
Within 10 seconds the door was open. Sean looked around, it was an office. There had definitely been a fight here. The papers that were probably neatly stacked on the desk a moment ago were on the floor and there was glass on the floor, not to mention the hole in the wall.
"Could it be?" A voice said
Sean went for his Falcon 2. It was Trent.
"So you are back after 8 years" Trent said
"Who are you?" Sean had never met Trent before
"You work for the Institute, I know you, yet you don't know me?" Trent asked
"What's it matter. Where's Joanna" Sean had worked out it was probably Joanna who this guy was fighting. Joanna wouldn't lose to this guy, he looked weak.
"Geez you get right to the point don't you, I will answer one of your questions, I'm Trent Easton and I will be the man who will be killing you now" Trent went for his Magnum and started to fire. Sean ducked behind one of the chairs and continued moving as the Magnum bullets could pass through the chair. So this guy was the much talked about Trent Easton former head of the NSA, he looked a lot weaker than Sean had imagined him. He stood up and fired but they bounced uselessly off Trent's shield. Trent smirked but it was a mistake as he expected Sean to continue firing.
Sean tried a completely different strategy to Joanna before him, he went after Trent while he tried to get a chance to reload knowing Sean couldn't shoot him. Trent was not prepared for this tactic and dropped the gun because he could never reload it fast enough since Sean had thrown a punch. Trent expected it to merely bunch off the shield. It wasn't to be.
"OW! You bastard!" Trent shouted as he took a blow cleanly to the eye, his shield didn't protect against hand to hand blows.
A/N: This will be probably Sean's last hand to hand combat for a major fight scene at least for a while. I use it a lot and it's time I tried something else, but it's needed for this part of the fic. Also since when does a tense battle scene in Bond movies and stuff end where the bad guy is simply shot instead of a cool fighting sequence or something… only one or two from memory. So if you are wondering why I use a lot of fight scenes that is the reason… purely to make it slightly more exciting.
Trent tried to go for this computer console but Sean saw the move and blew it up with the Falcon 2 before Trent could get to it.
"Damn, that was my best chance yet" Trent said. He knew he could never face Sean in hand to hand combat. He tried to look for another opportunity, but Sean had already come to him. Trent went for a low kick but Sean caught it and hit him in the face multiple times before tossing Trent outside onto the balcony that overlooked the city. Although normally it would overlook the city and ocean on a beautiful blue cloudless day, today it was fairly cloudy so it didn't really deliver the look it could have. Still it looked good.
"Nice place you have Easton" Sean said in the tone of someone who was just staying at their place for a social visit.
Trent was too bloodied up and annoyed to reply. He coughed up a bit of blood, before standing once more to face Sean.
"For so young you fight well… but this ends now" Trent said
"For you?" Sean replied
"You wish" Trent had got a bit of energy back as he went for a remote control. Sean tried to stop him but he had already pressed it by the time Sean knocked it out his hands it was too late. However it had seemed nothing had happened. Sean went to punch but Trent blocked and it seemed he had a lot more force, Trent seemed more confident in his abilities too. Trent went for a punch but when Sean blocked it still hurt more then it should have. Somehow Trent must have greatly improved his strength in a second. Trent was soon standing in front of him and went for a kick, he seemed faster too, Sean dodged and moved into a fighting pose ready to take Trent seriously.
"It is no good. You may have the power naturally but you should know, that alone can't win" Trent gave a smile
Again Sean didn't react to Trent's taunting. Trent went in and charge his punch, Sean knew blocking wouldn't be much better then taking the hit directly so evaded and tried to counter with a quick standing sweep but Trent jump backwards to avoid it. Sean continued his defensive pose waiting for an opportunity, his father may have been long dead and may have betrayed him but there was one lesson he taught that he never forgot…
"When it all seems overwhelming, watch your opponent, a mistake is certain to appear out of overconfidence" Adrian echoed through his head. As much as Sean disliked his father now, he knew that memory couldn't be more accurate.
Trent continued to attack trying to corner Sean but he was too quick, rolling underneath Trent's attack or jumping over it when in the corner to get more space. Trent was getting frustrated, and Sean moved in for an attack, but it was a feint and Trent fell right into it. Trent swing his fist high but he missed as Sean retreated and then Sean let out a kick to Trent's stomach. The same one he had used on Adrian to kill him, it was designed to be forceful and push the opponent backwards, and this is exactly what it did to Trent as he staggered backwards and crashed through the wooden barrier around the balcony and fell off. But Trent's left hand fingers grabbed the edge. He tried to get up, but Sean stood in the way and stood on his left hand with his foot.
Trent winced as the pain went through him. Trent said nothing. Neither did Sean. Both just stared at each other. Eventually Sean decided to finish this and stomped heavily on Trent's hand, the pain was too great for Trent as he let go and fell to his doom, screaming the entire way down.
"SEAN!!!" Somebody's voice yelled out for him, it was somebody over the balcony…
He looked down, on another balcony somebody was waving trying to get his attention. It was Joanna!
"Joanna!?" Sean asked puzzled
"Don't just stand there! Call the jumpship in. Don't bother with the door it's locked…" Joanna shouted, she seemed like she was in pain.
"Lomberson to Carrington" Sean put in through the radio
"Carrington here" Carrington replied
"Joanna is hurt, she needs a jumpship on the…" Sean thought for a moment "East side of the building" Sean told Carrington
"Will she be okay?" Carrington asked concerned. Despite his mission is the top priority attitude he did begin to relate well and became caring over his better known agents, and staff.
"I'm not sure, I can't see her too well… she about 5 floors up" Sean guessed by looking from the top to the bottom. She must have been blown out the window and fell 3 stories, how on Earth did she survive that? Sean thought.
Sean decided to meet up with Jonathan and Velvet back outside. He walked back into Trent's office but there was somebody there, it was a kid, he couldn't be older than 9, he had clothes that looked too small for him, and looked well worn out. What was a kid doing here of all places?
"Who are you?" Sean asked in a calm way. How on Earth did he get in?
The kid stayed silent, he seemed upset about something.
"I… I am looking for someone" He said finally said.
"Who?" Sean asked
"It's not important… I'm leaving" The kid said
"There is no one here but me now, come on let me take you outside" Sean tried to be on his guard, this kid could very well be a new kind of trick Trent had planned for him, however there was some kind of instinct that told Sean this kid wasn't playing games, so it was hard to be ready to draw his Falcon at a moments notice.
They passed through the many dead guards however the kid didn't seem to be bothered by it. He seemed to be thinking about something else.
"What's your name?" Sean asked trying to make conversation
The kid was silent again.
"Jack" The kid replied
Sean suspected the kid made the name up, but continued to play along.
"I still don't know how you got in… I mean this is fairly high security" Sean said
"Meh" The kid shrugged
They were soon outside the building. The kid seemed to walk in the direction of the park, it was empty though, Sean needed to get information out of him, there was no way he could have got through the front door, and the fence was electrified so how did he get in?
The kid continued to walk around in circles around the park, Sean tried to think up something to say.
"Where are you going?" Sean asked
"Why do you care" The kid suddenly changed his tone from a very quiet one to highly aggressive one.
"You killed my father you bastard!!!" The kid shouted and punched Sean in the stomach and tried to follow up by stepping on Sean's toes but Sean stopped him, and pushed him away in an attempt to stop him but he pushed a little harder then he wanted to and the kid fell to the ground. He sat up and suddenly burst into tears…
A/N: This may be a little unusual for my writing, but again there is a point for it.
"I… I am sorry" The kid apologized through the tears "I am ... so lost and confused" he continued "I don't know what I am going to do"
Sean sat down beside him, his father? Was it one of the guards? Or could it be Trent himself. Unlikely this kid looked really poor.
"I only killed your father because it was my job. It was either him or me… I'm sorry too" Sean said
"Don't apologize. I am grateful for you killing him… I think…" The kid continued… now Sean was very confused. The kid goes and attacks him for killing his father, now he is grateful for it.
"What's your name… you're actual name" Sean asked
"… Junior… is what everybody I know calls me, but I was actually named Trent as I found out today" Junior told him, he was still very upset.
"Junior as in Trent Easton Junior?" Sean asked
"Yes. Trent Easton is… well was my father" Junior explained
"Okay, why don't you tell me your story, everything that has got you here with me. I think you need to tell somebody" Sean said, he wasn't very experienced in this fatherly stuff so tried not to say the wrong thing.
"Do you really want to hear it?" Junior asked
"Of course" Sean replied
"If it isn't obvious enough, my mother and I were very poor. She had some kind of illness that needed to be treated but there was no way we could afford the treatment. I wake up today and she asks me to go find Trent, she tells me he is my father so I go to the office where she told me and tell the guards that I am supposedly his son. I didn't think they'd believe me but they did and they let me in and took me up to Trent. Trent says he doesn't know anything of me or my mother, I beg him to help my mother but he said no before getting me kicked out of the building. I come back home, to find my mother in her last moments…" Junior started to cry again "she… she… died soon after" Junior cried more.
Sean remained silent. He decided it would be wrong to push Junior any further at this time. However he begun to speak again.
"She told me that…" Junior stopped there
"It's alright, you don't have to tell me now" Sean said
"No… I want to do this, I don't know if ill be able to tell anybody else" Junior replied. Sean let Junior continue. "My mother said that she and Trent were married and they split up while she was still pregnant with me. I don't know why, but she thought it was her fault or something and named me Trent but later learned it wasn't her fault but in fact that Trent had betrayed her so then started to call me Junior from then onwards. I hated Trent deeply when she told me that, I wanted to do something… I don't know what I could have done, but it anything was better then nothing. I walked back and there was a gun battle and I took one of pistols on the ground and hid it…here" Junior said handing the Magsec4 to Sean. Sean had questions, but he decided to let Junior tell the full story first.
"I went to the front door, but nobody was there. I got to the door and I remember the guard pressing 4 buttons by putting his hand in a certain spot. I only guessed and didn't expect it to work but it did and the door opened. I went through the base and saw a few dead guards, but when I was taken through the first time there were many more. I went back up to Trent's office and saw you kick him off the edge of the building, after that you shouted to somebody called Joanna, I watched you and just as you were about to turn around I went to hide, but you had already seen me" Junior finished explaining and put his head on Sean's shoulder and cried once more. Sean didn't know what to do, he just did what he instinctively thought and put his arms around Junior and let him cry it out. This kid must have had it pretty rough, living in a neighbourhood that seemed to have violence regularly, by the look of him he looked like he had barely eaten for a while, finding out that his mother was related to Trent Easton and losing both his parents on the same day. It reminded him of himself, he too had lost his parents on the same day, well almost, he did lose his mother and he lost his father as far as him being there for him was concerned, although clearly the younger Trent or Junior as he probably would like to be known as had it a lot tougher then he did. Sean felt slightly guilty for killing Trent, even though Junior seemed to be far more upset with losing his mother, as for his father it was tough to judge Junior's true feelings, by words he wanted him dead, by actions he wanted him alive. Actions speak louder then words, but did Junior attack Sean out of wanting his father alive or out of everything that has happened and wanted somebody to blame for it since Trent was dead.
Junior stopped crying and pulled back.
"Thanks for listening. I guess it's a bit late now, but what's your name and what is your job that requires you to kill?" Junior asked
"My name is Sean Lomberson, I'm an agent for the Carrington Institute, we basically keep the peace and stuff" Sean said. Junior did tell him a lot about himself, so Sean returned the favour but of course he couldn't tell Junior everything.
"What am I going to do now though? I have nothing" Junior sighed deeply
"Hey, listen… I kind of killed your Dad so.. I guess you can stick around with me for a while... if you want… if not…" Sean started
"Would you really?" Junior asked
"Yeah, at least till we can work something out, I don't know what. I lost my parents too when I was around your age" Sean said "A man came and took care of me too"
"Thanks… I guess you understand how I feel a bit" Junior said
"Yeah believe me, I have to go back to the Institute and let my boss know what happened but we can get something to eat or whatever you want there…" Sean said
"Okay… but… I don't know, I'm hungry but I'm not, I'm so lost and confused in everything… I mean I am grateful for you looking after me for a while, but I am going to miss my Mum a lot" Junior looked down
"Know the feeling, you don't have to explain it to me" Sean replied
Junior was still upset inside, but at least he wasn't going to die alone on the streets or get shot or something. He had something to live for…
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I'm sorry I'm not very good at that kind of stuff, but it needed to be done, and now it has… Hopefully I will be able to update a lot sooner then I did last time… Oh and as for Suzan, she in Chapter 4… I couldn't resist… I like her character a lot thanks Cristalina.
Cristalina: Yeah Trent is a bastard. Nothing new there, but don't think of Junior as a mini Trent despite his name or names rather, not that you were. You are going to find that Junior is very different from his father. I knew you'd find it funny if I used the nameless "well duh" guard again.
As for your chapter 1 review, yup Sean is back, and yes a sequel to the prequel if that makes any sense at all. How do I know all this stuff? Well it just goes to show how much time I had on my hands before, various web pages have information on things that are/were going to be in Perfect Dark. More interesting information will probably leak somewhere, like that some of the gadgets in Goldeneye were going to be in Perfect Dark, even some that were never going to be in Goldeneye like the grenade pen.
Spiderbear: I will… don't worry about not saying anything useful if you can't think of anything. I know you like it by reviewing it.
Lets begin…
Joanna faced Trent and fired the first shot. It glanced off the shield as Trent fired his Magnum back, he was far too slow as Joanna side stepped it firing multiple shots. They were not weakening the shield at all, how could he be beaten if she couldn't shoot him…
"I take it you like my new shield… if you can get this thing down with that popgun, ill eat my Magnum" Trent taunted
Joanna ignored the comment as she tried to think up a way she could defeat him. Trent suddenly drew a rocket launcher. Jo was caught of guard, badly, she tried to get away but there were lasers around her blocking her way, she was trapped! Trent had bobby trapped the room, damn that guy was cheap.
"Now I personally think you move too much, time to put a stop to that so I can hit you. This is the end my dear" Trent smiled and fired the rocket
It blew up on contact with the wall, the window behind Jo shattered and she was pushed back by the force of the explosion.
"Goodbye Miss Dark" Trent laughed evilly
"Hey I've always wanted to do that… just like Cassandra" Trent continued his evil smiling
Sean meanwhile was continuing through the building, there were only a few mirage guards, but they were no problem as once the original was dead the others faded. He continued and went into this garden like area, which compared to the military like base, with its electric fences, outposts, and large amounts of mirage guards it looked out of place. Three real guards came and opened fire, Sean took cover and then locked on to all of them with the CMP150, before he heard some take cover and he jumped out and shot one of them who was waiting for Sean to make the first move, because of the lock on it was easy to see when they were going to jump out, taking advantage of this he killed both guards easily.
He moved through the garden into another building with another unlocked door. Sean was puzzled, why were there so many unlocked doors. Something didn't seem right. This time 4 guards came, so Sean retreated back outside, and used "the wait outside and wait for the guards to come to you trick". Predictably the guards thought there numbers were greater so gave chase but by the time they opened the door Sean had locked onto each of them and blasted 3 of them by the time the door was completely opened and the last one by the time he raised his weapon.
"Well that was easy" Sean said to himself
He walked back in and the first locked door was in front of him, but yet again, one of the guards held a key, it was lying on the ground not far from the door. He went to pick it up.
"Hold it right there" A male voice was heard. Sean felt the gun of the person near him, it was a pistol of some sort.
"Stand up slowly" He ordered
Sean stood up but in doing so he rose a little faster then the guy behind him had anticipated knocking him in the nose. Taking advantage of the impact, Sean turned to face his opponent and quickly shot him down. The gun was holding a Magsec4, rather unusual for dataDyne, Sean thought. He also had a key card on him, it seemed this guy was highly ranked because of the blue uniform.
He continued through the building, and came to a strange lab. There were already dead guards in there. Falcon bullets, Joanna had already been here. Using the key card on another door he expected to find more dead guards. Not so, they gladly opened fire using their Dragons. Slightly caught off Sean took cover once more, there was no other option. It seemed there were 5 of them at least, so Sean didn't jump out and try to kill them all, he just hid behind the wall and fired in the narrow corridor until the ammo ran out, judging by the screams he had got most of the guards. He swapped for his Falcon 2 scope, and moved on.
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"What do you mean you can't get inside!?" Carrington demanded
"The gate is electrified and Velvet's device got blown up. There is nothing we can do" Jonathan replied to a slightly angry but more worried Carrington.
"I hope they'll be alright" Carrington sighed "Although why were you sidetracked in the first place? Why didn't you enter with Jo and Sean?" Carrington asked
"We were attacked by a strange group. Velvet and I held them off and chased them while Joanna and Sean climbed the fence" Jonathan explained
"Why did you continue to pursue them?" Carrington asked
"Nobody just shoots at a group of people looking like they will go over a fence in a suburban area. Especially with Dragons" Jonathan continued "Velvet and I chased, and they fired back, eventually we got them all" Jonathan said
"Dragons? Now that makes it very interesting, no street gang could afford Dragons" Carrington thought
"That's what we thought, but couldn't make anything else out from it" Jonathan replied
"I'll keep you posted on that one. Tina!" Carrington called for Tina, Grimshaw's new assistant in Hacker Central, unlike Grimshaw she was really nice and got along with everybody, she was the one who did most of the profiling at the Institute these days. Jonathan and Velvet could hear Carrington saying something to Tina but couldn't hear exactly what.
"Anyway keep me posted on Jo and Sean will you? Carrington out" Carrington said
"Definitely" Jonathan replied as Carrington cut the line
*****
Sean continued up through the building, the 5 guards he encountered in the corridor were the only ones, until he came across two guarding a door. They hadn't seen him, and Sean took full advantage of the scope of the Falcon 2 and nailed both guards. On approaching the door it seemed to have a coded lock.
"Sean to Grimshaw" Sean said, hoping he wouldn't regret having to ask Grimshaw a favour later.
"Yes?" His voice replied, Sean was tempted to hang the line there but decided against it.
"Hack the door for me would you?" Sean asked
"Ooookay" Grimshaw said in a strange way that made Sean take a few steps backwards as if he was freaked out even though Grimshaw wasn't there.
Within 10 seconds the door was open. Sean looked around, it was an office. There had definitely been a fight here. The papers that were probably neatly stacked on the desk a moment ago were on the floor and there was glass on the floor, not to mention the hole in the wall.
"Could it be?" A voice said
Sean went for his Falcon 2. It was Trent.
"So you are back after 8 years" Trent said
"Who are you?" Sean had never met Trent before
"You work for the Institute, I know you, yet you don't know me?" Trent asked
"What's it matter. Where's Joanna" Sean had worked out it was probably Joanna who this guy was fighting. Joanna wouldn't lose to this guy, he looked weak.
"Geez you get right to the point don't you, I will answer one of your questions, I'm Trent Easton and I will be the man who will be killing you now" Trent went for his Magnum and started to fire. Sean ducked behind one of the chairs and continued moving as the Magnum bullets could pass through the chair. So this guy was the much talked about Trent Easton former head of the NSA, he looked a lot weaker than Sean had imagined him. He stood up and fired but they bounced uselessly off Trent's shield. Trent smirked but it was a mistake as he expected Sean to continue firing.
Sean tried a completely different strategy to Joanna before him, he went after Trent while he tried to get a chance to reload knowing Sean couldn't shoot him. Trent was not prepared for this tactic and dropped the gun because he could never reload it fast enough since Sean had thrown a punch. Trent expected it to merely bunch off the shield. It wasn't to be.
"OW! You bastard!" Trent shouted as he took a blow cleanly to the eye, his shield didn't protect against hand to hand blows.
A/N: This will be probably Sean's last hand to hand combat for a major fight scene at least for a while. I use it a lot and it's time I tried something else, but it's needed for this part of the fic. Also since when does a tense battle scene in Bond movies and stuff end where the bad guy is simply shot instead of a cool fighting sequence or something… only one or two from memory. So if you are wondering why I use a lot of fight scenes that is the reason… purely to make it slightly more exciting.
Trent tried to go for this computer console but Sean saw the move and blew it up with the Falcon 2 before Trent could get to it.
"Damn, that was my best chance yet" Trent said. He knew he could never face Sean in hand to hand combat. He tried to look for another opportunity, but Sean had already come to him. Trent went for a low kick but Sean caught it and hit him in the face multiple times before tossing Trent outside onto the balcony that overlooked the city. Although normally it would overlook the city and ocean on a beautiful blue cloudless day, today it was fairly cloudy so it didn't really deliver the look it could have. Still it looked good.
"Nice place you have Easton" Sean said in the tone of someone who was just staying at their place for a social visit.
Trent was too bloodied up and annoyed to reply. He coughed up a bit of blood, before standing once more to face Sean.
"For so young you fight well… but this ends now" Trent said
"For you?" Sean replied
"You wish" Trent had got a bit of energy back as he went for a remote control. Sean tried to stop him but he had already pressed it by the time Sean knocked it out his hands it was too late. However it had seemed nothing had happened. Sean went to punch but Trent blocked and it seemed he had a lot more force, Trent seemed more confident in his abilities too. Trent went for a punch but when Sean blocked it still hurt more then it should have. Somehow Trent must have greatly improved his strength in a second. Trent was soon standing in front of him and went for a kick, he seemed faster too, Sean dodged and moved into a fighting pose ready to take Trent seriously.
"It is no good. You may have the power naturally but you should know, that alone can't win" Trent gave a smile
Again Sean didn't react to Trent's taunting. Trent went in and charge his punch, Sean knew blocking wouldn't be much better then taking the hit directly so evaded and tried to counter with a quick standing sweep but Trent jump backwards to avoid it. Sean continued his defensive pose waiting for an opportunity, his father may have been long dead and may have betrayed him but there was one lesson he taught that he never forgot…
"When it all seems overwhelming, watch your opponent, a mistake is certain to appear out of overconfidence" Adrian echoed through his head. As much as Sean disliked his father now, he knew that memory couldn't be more accurate.
Trent continued to attack trying to corner Sean but he was too quick, rolling underneath Trent's attack or jumping over it when in the corner to get more space. Trent was getting frustrated, and Sean moved in for an attack, but it was a feint and Trent fell right into it. Trent swing his fist high but he missed as Sean retreated and then Sean let out a kick to Trent's stomach. The same one he had used on Adrian to kill him, it was designed to be forceful and push the opponent backwards, and this is exactly what it did to Trent as he staggered backwards and crashed through the wooden barrier around the balcony and fell off. But Trent's left hand fingers grabbed the edge. He tried to get up, but Sean stood in the way and stood on his left hand with his foot.
Trent winced as the pain went through him. Trent said nothing. Neither did Sean. Both just stared at each other. Eventually Sean decided to finish this and stomped heavily on Trent's hand, the pain was too great for Trent as he let go and fell to his doom, screaming the entire way down.
"SEAN!!!" Somebody's voice yelled out for him, it was somebody over the balcony…
He looked down, on another balcony somebody was waving trying to get his attention. It was Joanna!
"Joanna!?" Sean asked puzzled
"Don't just stand there! Call the jumpship in. Don't bother with the door it's locked…" Joanna shouted, she seemed like she was in pain.
"Lomberson to Carrington" Sean put in through the radio
"Carrington here" Carrington replied
"Joanna is hurt, she needs a jumpship on the…" Sean thought for a moment "East side of the building" Sean told Carrington
"Will she be okay?" Carrington asked concerned. Despite his mission is the top priority attitude he did begin to relate well and became caring over his better known agents, and staff.
"I'm not sure, I can't see her too well… she about 5 floors up" Sean guessed by looking from the top to the bottom. She must have been blown out the window and fell 3 stories, how on Earth did she survive that? Sean thought.
Sean decided to meet up with Jonathan and Velvet back outside. He walked back into Trent's office but there was somebody there, it was a kid, he couldn't be older than 9, he had clothes that looked too small for him, and looked well worn out. What was a kid doing here of all places?
"Who are you?" Sean asked in a calm way. How on Earth did he get in?
The kid stayed silent, he seemed upset about something.
"I… I am looking for someone" He said finally said.
"Who?" Sean asked
"It's not important… I'm leaving" The kid said
"There is no one here but me now, come on let me take you outside" Sean tried to be on his guard, this kid could very well be a new kind of trick Trent had planned for him, however there was some kind of instinct that told Sean this kid wasn't playing games, so it was hard to be ready to draw his Falcon at a moments notice.
They passed through the many dead guards however the kid didn't seem to be bothered by it. He seemed to be thinking about something else.
"What's your name?" Sean asked trying to make conversation
The kid was silent again.
"Jack" The kid replied
Sean suspected the kid made the name up, but continued to play along.
"I still don't know how you got in… I mean this is fairly high security" Sean said
"Meh" The kid shrugged
They were soon outside the building. The kid seemed to walk in the direction of the park, it was empty though, Sean needed to get information out of him, there was no way he could have got through the front door, and the fence was electrified so how did he get in?
The kid continued to walk around in circles around the park, Sean tried to think up something to say.
"Where are you going?" Sean asked
"Why do you care" The kid suddenly changed his tone from a very quiet one to highly aggressive one.
"You killed my father you bastard!!!" The kid shouted and punched Sean in the stomach and tried to follow up by stepping on Sean's toes but Sean stopped him, and pushed him away in an attempt to stop him but he pushed a little harder then he wanted to and the kid fell to the ground. He sat up and suddenly burst into tears…
A/N: This may be a little unusual for my writing, but again there is a point for it.
"I… I am sorry" The kid apologized through the tears "I am ... so lost and confused" he continued "I don't know what I am going to do"
Sean sat down beside him, his father? Was it one of the guards? Or could it be Trent himself. Unlikely this kid looked really poor.
"I only killed your father because it was my job. It was either him or me… I'm sorry too" Sean said
"Don't apologize. I am grateful for you killing him… I think…" The kid continued… now Sean was very confused. The kid goes and attacks him for killing his father, now he is grateful for it.
"What's your name… you're actual name" Sean asked
"… Junior… is what everybody I know calls me, but I was actually named Trent as I found out today" Junior told him, he was still very upset.
"Junior as in Trent Easton Junior?" Sean asked
"Yes. Trent Easton is… well was my father" Junior explained
"Okay, why don't you tell me your story, everything that has got you here with me. I think you need to tell somebody" Sean said, he wasn't very experienced in this fatherly stuff so tried not to say the wrong thing.
"Do you really want to hear it?" Junior asked
"Of course" Sean replied
"If it isn't obvious enough, my mother and I were very poor. She had some kind of illness that needed to be treated but there was no way we could afford the treatment. I wake up today and she asks me to go find Trent, she tells me he is my father so I go to the office where she told me and tell the guards that I am supposedly his son. I didn't think they'd believe me but they did and they let me in and took me up to Trent. Trent says he doesn't know anything of me or my mother, I beg him to help my mother but he said no before getting me kicked out of the building. I come back home, to find my mother in her last moments…" Junior started to cry again "she… she… died soon after" Junior cried more.
Sean remained silent. He decided it would be wrong to push Junior any further at this time. However he begun to speak again.
"She told me that…" Junior stopped there
"It's alright, you don't have to tell me now" Sean said
"No… I want to do this, I don't know if ill be able to tell anybody else" Junior replied. Sean let Junior continue. "My mother said that she and Trent were married and they split up while she was still pregnant with me. I don't know why, but she thought it was her fault or something and named me Trent but later learned it wasn't her fault but in fact that Trent had betrayed her so then started to call me Junior from then onwards. I hated Trent deeply when she told me that, I wanted to do something… I don't know what I could have done, but it anything was better then nothing. I walked back and there was a gun battle and I took one of pistols on the ground and hid it…here" Junior said handing the Magsec4 to Sean. Sean had questions, but he decided to let Junior tell the full story first.
"I went to the front door, but nobody was there. I got to the door and I remember the guard pressing 4 buttons by putting his hand in a certain spot. I only guessed and didn't expect it to work but it did and the door opened. I went through the base and saw a few dead guards, but when I was taken through the first time there were many more. I went back up to Trent's office and saw you kick him off the edge of the building, after that you shouted to somebody called Joanna, I watched you and just as you were about to turn around I went to hide, but you had already seen me" Junior finished explaining and put his head on Sean's shoulder and cried once more. Sean didn't know what to do, he just did what he instinctively thought and put his arms around Junior and let him cry it out. This kid must have had it pretty rough, living in a neighbourhood that seemed to have violence regularly, by the look of him he looked like he had barely eaten for a while, finding out that his mother was related to Trent Easton and losing both his parents on the same day. It reminded him of himself, he too had lost his parents on the same day, well almost, he did lose his mother and he lost his father as far as him being there for him was concerned, although clearly the younger Trent or Junior as he probably would like to be known as had it a lot tougher then he did. Sean felt slightly guilty for killing Trent, even though Junior seemed to be far more upset with losing his mother, as for his father it was tough to judge Junior's true feelings, by words he wanted him dead, by actions he wanted him alive. Actions speak louder then words, but did Junior attack Sean out of wanting his father alive or out of everything that has happened and wanted somebody to blame for it since Trent was dead.
Junior stopped crying and pulled back.
"Thanks for listening. I guess it's a bit late now, but what's your name and what is your job that requires you to kill?" Junior asked
"My name is Sean Lomberson, I'm an agent for the Carrington Institute, we basically keep the peace and stuff" Sean said. Junior did tell him a lot about himself, so Sean returned the favour but of course he couldn't tell Junior everything.
"What am I going to do now though? I have nothing" Junior sighed deeply
"Hey, listen… I kind of killed your Dad so.. I guess you can stick around with me for a while... if you want… if not…" Sean started
"Would you really?" Junior asked
"Yeah, at least till we can work something out, I don't know what. I lost my parents too when I was around your age" Sean said "A man came and took care of me too"
"Thanks… I guess you understand how I feel a bit" Junior said
"Yeah believe me, I have to go back to the Institute and let my boss know what happened but we can get something to eat or whatever you want there…" Sean said
"Okay… but… I don't know, I'm hungry but I'm not, I'm so lost and confused in everything… I mean I am grateful for you looking after me for a while, but I am going to miss my Mum a lot" Junior looked down
"Know the feeling, you don't have to explain it to me" Sean replied
Junior was still upset inside, but at least he wasn't going to die alone on the streets or get shot or something. He had something to live for…
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I'm sorry I'm not very good at that kind of stuff, but it needed to be done, and now it has… Hopefully I will be able to update a lot sooner then I did last time… Oh and as for Suzan, she in Chapter 4… I couldn't resist… I like her character a lot thanks Cristalina.