Junior seemed a little more satisfied for the moment with the answer Velvet had given him, Sean had returned with Carrington.
"Listen, Junior. Just to confirm you are Trent's son, I need to run a quick test" Carrington said
"Will it hurt?" Junior asked
"Of course not" Carrington gave a chuckle "I'll be right back"
Carrington walked out of the cafeteria once more.
"So that is your boss?" Junior asked
"Yeah, that's him" Sean replied
"He seems nice" Junior said
"At times, but he can be very hard. Especially on his good agents, Joanna is so overworked at the moment, Daniel's not going to like that Jo's got to take at least a week off" Velvet said
"Is it that serious?" Jonathan asked
"I'm not sure; Sarah seemed to think she needed at least a week to completely heal. Although this could be because Sarah wants Jo to rest, because Carrington has worked her so hard" Velvet replied
Carrington had returned into the cafeteria with a small plastic device.
"Now just let me place this on your arm" Carrington said approaching Junior
"Okay" Junior replied
Carrington put the device on Junior's arm; some data came up on the screen.
"Yes indeed. You are definitely Trent's son" Carrington said
"Oh…" Junior replied seemingly disappointed. The truth was confirmed.
"Hey, don't worry, Trent had good skills he just put them in the wrong places" Jonathan said putting his hand on Junior's shoulder.
"Anyway, we better be off… got a few things to do" Sean said "Okay with you Junior?" Sean asked
"I guess so" Junior said
"I'm going to check on Jo again, if Sarah doesn't force me out" Velvet stood up and walked out
"Alright, I'll see you later then" Jonathan waved to her.
Velvet left the room.
"Excellent, I've wanted a word alone with you too" Carrington said after Velvet had left the room
"Why didn't you ask then?" Jonathan asked a bit caught off guard
"Because I don't want the others to know what I'm going to ask you to do, nor did I want them guessing what I had spoken to you about" Carrington said. "I want you to go back to Trent's hideout, search it since according to Sean, there is nobody there, you will be able to search a bit more freely. I don't need to tell you what to search for" Carrington instructed
"Why not use Velvet or Sean?" Jonathan asked
"Sean is busy with Junior, Velvet is worried sick about Joanna, and I think this is more of your area anyway. You may not know this but I assign tasks to certain people based on a few stats I take" Carrington said
"Of course I know this. I am undercover most of the time now" Jonathan said
"Yes, but I didn't pair you off with Joanna back in Area 51 for nothing" Carrington continued "I'm talking more about how you function, how you cover each others weaknesses"
"You knew though Jo and I didn't exactly get on" Jonathan replied
"Of course I knew, but from what I understand it you two worked it out. Did the mission succeed? Of course it did" Carrington said
"I still don't understand, Joanna is supposedly perfect, she has no weakness" Jonathan said
"Just because she got perfect doesn't mean she hasn't got any weaknesses. Everybody has weaknesses, its part of being human or even a Maian or a Skedar. In reality nobody can score perfect because while Joanna is aggressive you are more passive, you both scored full marks on certain parts of the test but you were both marked differently. That's just one example, I take other examples as well" Carrington said
Jonathan was very interested by what Carrington had told him, he thought everybody who went through the training was marked exactly the same way. Carrington was a very smart man; Jonathan knew he'd never really understand everything about how the Institute functioned.
"So do you accept?" Carrington asked
"Yes" Jonathan replied
"Excellent, you shall leave around 8pm" Carrington said
Jonathan nodded as he left.
Jonathan decided to see Velvet and Joanna. He wasn't really worried about Joanna, but aside her slight bit of arrogance at first she was mostly a nice person. The Area 51 mission was the first mission they had worked together, things didn't start as well as they could have, but as Carrington had said they did work things out and after Jonathan was wounded slightly on the leg Joanna decided to let Jonathan use the Maian single seater to get out with Elvis and she got out of the base on her own. Ever since then Jonathan gave a lot more respect to Joanna, but he never told her and he never showed any, but she was no longer the over aggressive girl who just got lucky on the test.
"Hi Jo, good to see you are alright" Jonathan said
"Yes, thanks again for coming after me" Joanna replied
"Returning the favour Jo" Jonathan smiled
"Ha, that's true" Joanna replied "What's the matter no jokes?" Joanna frowned
"It's your thick skull that saved you, all those times I told you to be quieter and you never listened, at least this time your thick skull is rewarding you instead of getting you into trouble" Jonathan said
"That's better. I was about to ask where's Jonathan and what have you done with him?" Joanna replied
"Seriously though Jo, are you okay?" Jonathan replied
"I will be, just need a bit of time off" Joanna said
"That's okay Jo, you've earned a lot more than a week off" Velvet said
"Well get better soon, bye" Jonathan waved as he left the room. He really only want to just wanted to see if Jo was okay, he couldn't discuss his mission with them. He decided to get some quick practice in at the firing range, chances were he wouldn't need it but it was something to do to get his mind off the mission not that it should be dangerous.
6 hours later…
Time 9pm
Location: Trent's former hideout
Jonathan was at the same place as was 9 hours ago; he used the door decoder on the door as he knew what kind of door it was so it was much easier to get the right kind of decoder. The code was cracked in less than half a second as the door opened. Jonathan went in and drew out his Magnum and put on his night vision and looked around, nobody in sight. He crept up to the main door and opened it as everything except the front door was probably unlocked. Looking inside the dark room again there was nothing, only the dead guards on the floor. Jonathan continued and came to a door that lead him outside, he walked around. His feet came up to some on the ground, he examined it closer, it was a parachute. There was a bit of blood on it though.
"Jonathan to Carrington" Jonathan said through a radio
"Find anything?" Carrington asked
"A parachute, with a bit of blood" Jonathan repeated what he saw
"Got that new device that I showed you with Junior?" Carrington asked
"Yeah, but what's it do?" Jonathan said
"It simply searches for any kind of sample that can be used to identify somebody. It will then search our database for a match. Its technology that's been around for years, but it's still effective" Carrington said
"Right" Jonathan replied as he put the device near the blood sample. Again within half a second it came up with a response, the name Easton, Trent was displayed.
"According to this it says Trent Easton" Jonathan said
"Damn it. It probably means he is still alive" Carrington replied frustrated
"I'll continue searching" Jonathan said as he continued into the building again
Jonathan entered the darkened building; he got this funny feeling he was being watched. All dark and quiet with nobody else around. Using the IR scanner he looked around him, but nobody was around, not even with a cloaking device.
"Head to the labs Jonathan. Joanna told me there were some computers down there with information, provided they haven't been erased" Carrington instructed
"Understood" Jonathan simply replied
Following the more then obvious signs he worked his way down to the labs. Finding the light switch and turning it on in the labs made things a little easier as he turned off his night vision. He turned on the computer and it asked for a password.
"Password computer here" Jonathan said
"Use the data Uplink like always" Carrington replied
"Yeah but wont that let Grimshaw know what's going on?" Jonathan asked
"No, I can do his job, not as well but if worse comes to worse I'll pass it onto to him" Carrington said
Why did Carrington want to be so secretive about this mission, even between his own staff? Jonathan thought as he used the data uplink and used it on the computer, Carrington got to work inside the systems and within 20 seconds the computer accepted the password. Carrington continued to search through the files and suddenly he stopped.
"This is interesting. It appears there is somebody else running officially dataDyne now, they are divided into two sections, the first section is run by Andy Elcallaran, son of the Cassandra's predecessor Luke, who was killed by Terrence 8 years ago. The second half is kept secret from mostly everybody according to these records, only deals with certain groups are done and that according to this was run by Trent Easton" Carrington said
"Wait…" Jonathan said as he heard movement, he looked around pointing his Magnum in various directions.
"YA!" A voice shouted. Jonathan also heard somebody land behind him as they fired a gun shot but missed, the gun shot sounded really strange.
Jonathan turned around and moved away and return the fire and nailed the target in the arm blowing them back with a bit of force, they were wearing black all over with a mask over their face. They dropped the weapon and Jonathan tackled to them to the ground. He removed the mask and it was a woman. She tried to push Jonathan off but Jonathan was too strong.
"Let me go you bastard!" The woman shouted struggling pointlessly
"Who are you!?" Jonathan demanded point his Magnum at the woman's head
"I'm not going to say anything, you'll have to kill me" The woman replied
"Is that so?" Jonathan replied almost amused as he pulled out another device, the woman looked at it.
"This will make you tell the truth, I don't want to use it but…" Jonathan started but the woman began to choke, suddenly she titled her head tilted back and closed her eyes, Jonathan looked for a pulse, there wasn't one. She was dead.
"What happened" Carrington asked
"I got attacked by a woman, just as I was about to hit with the truth needle she died, poison of some sort although she didn't put anything like a suicide pill in her mouth as I kept her pinned down, but somehow she died" Jonathan said
Suddenly a message was heard
"This base will selfdestruct in 5 minutes, have a nice day" It said calmly as if there was nothing unusual about the base selfdestructing.
"Jon just get out of there" Carrington said
Jonathan didn't respond as picked up the weapon the woman was holding, he ran out of the room and closed the doors as he ran out side the building went though the base and outside the door. He kept running as about 30 seconds later the base completely blew up. In the middle of the city there was a big explosion and loads of people gathered around to see what was going on, Jonathan hid his Magnum and this other strange orange and black looking pistol like weapon as he escaped from the crowds as soon as possible. Then he noticed two familiar faces, Sean and Junior who were looking at the crowds look at the sight of the explosion. Junior looked a good deal healthier his clothes actually fit and it was as if he had eaten recently.
"Jonathan?" Sean had seen him
"Err… hi Sean" Jonathan replied. Sean wasn't stupid, he'd put two and two together.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow" Sean replied as if nothing had happened. He and Junior continued walking.
Jonathan was glad Sean didn't discuss it or make a joke about it, then again Sean was above this and it would be very risky as there was no way of knowing who was listening. He got in his car and started it and flew above the buildings. There wasn't much traffic around as where Jonathan was driving was highly deserted, as the Institute had to be far away from everything else. He got into contact with Carrington as there wasn't anything else to do except drive the car, which could be put on auto pilot anyway.
"Jonathan to Carrington" Jonathan said. He avoided using his Dark last name for fear of confusion with Joanna, despite having the same last name they were in no way related.
"I read you, so nothing else happened aside this woman mysteriously dying?" Carrington asked
"No…" Jonathan thought "Wait a minute, there is this weapon she used. I don't know what it is" Jonathan replied. He put in on the scanning device in the car to send data to Carrington Institute.
Carrington studied the weapon on his end.
"There is no record of such a weapon in our records. However it matches the information that you retrieved in which it mentions dataDyne are currently testing a new side arm pistol. According to this data, Trent Easton himself thought buying weapons through some of the marketing departments I have was stupid. To be honest I agree, effectively for about the past 6 years dataDyne have effectively given us money because they continue to buy the Falcon 2 as a sidearm. They can't use the DY357 magnum, as it's far too expensive and while powerful, it doesn't quite fit the role of a sidearm. Foster said there were rumours dataDyne was building a new pistol to outdo the Falcon 2 but we all know that they have been trying to outdo the Falcon 2 for years" Carrington finished explaining
"Understood, ill be there in 20 minutes" Jonathan said
"Fine, but Foster had to leave so no real progress will be made" Carrington said
Jonathan turned the connection off and continued flying to the Institute. About 15 minutes later he arrived and headed to Carrington's office. Carrington was present, but it seemed as if nobody else was, even at 11pm this was very unusual.
"Ah, the weapon?" Carrington asked
Jonathan handed it over
"Yes, very unusual design" Carrington examined the weapon "Unfortunately Foster isn't here, he had something important to do" Carrington said
Meanwhile… in a town bar.
"Uh!? Griiimshaw… why is the sky spinning?" Foster said drunk
"Gosh! I dunno, maybe because the people are spinnin' too?" Grimshaw replied equally drunk
Back at the Institute…
"So there is nothing we can really do, well accurately anyway" Carrington said "You are free to go, just keep it a secret from everybody else" Carrington said
"Err… well Sean already knows, he saw the explosion" Jonathan said
"Damn explosion. If the US Government even remotely put together what happened they'll be chasing Trent again. When I sent one of my agents to Victoria Island she was mistaken for an enemy, she was nearly killed" Carrington grumbled "Anyway, nothing we can do about, we may discuss it some more tomorrow" Carrington said
Jonathan left the Institute.
Sean and Junior had entered a rather large city after Junior wanted to stay well away from the place he had lived, so after travelling for 30 minutes by car they arrived in a city known as Miraville. When Sean visited here 16 years ago it was a small town that was in the progress of getting built, now however it was an extremely large city and it was far more populated. Even though it was a bit after 11pm the city was still crowded and had lots of lights and activity.
"Wow, doesn't 16 years change a lot" Sean said looking around
"16 years?" Junior replied puzzled
"Yeah, I was 10 then…" Sean replied
"Oh" Junior said "Can we just stop for a while. I'm really tired" Junior said
"Sure… that's why we are here, so we can check into a hotel until we work out what we are going to do" Sean replied
"They must be really expensive, I don't want to cost you a lot of money" Junior said starting to wish he had just settled to stay in his old city just for one night.
"Relax, its okay" Sean replied as they entered a hotel. He walked up to the desk but had to get the attention of the secretary.
"Excuse me; do you have any available rooms?" Sean asked politely
"I think so, what kind of room are you after?" She replied not really taking them seriously because of his and Junior's look, as this was a very pricy and expensive hotel. Her attitude quickly changed when Sean paid up for the most expensive hotel room there was.
"Oh right this way sir" She smiled as she clicked her fingers and a hotel employee led Sean and Junior up.
They went up to their room and found two rather large beds. Not to mention the large TV with over 200 channels according to the man who was very polite, a great view of the river, loads of candy, chocolate, anything, the stuff in the room went on and on. After Sean paid the man a more than generous tip he left and smiled to himself.
"I've never even seen anything like this" Junior was overwhelmed
"Yeah me neither" Sean replied. Finally his life of working at the Institute, being chased by Skedar and living on another planet without human contact for 8 years was finally paying off in a big way.
"I'm really tired though, there will be time to get this in tomorrow won't there?" Junior asked
"I should be able to. If Carrington wants me to come in we are going to have to work something out but until we get settled he shouldn't ask anything of me" Sean said, but he knew in reality Carrington was very unpredictable. While he could retire from the Institute he knew he would be bored, especially if Junior ended up at school.
At that very moment his communicator was going off.
"Junior why do you pick a room okay? I'll see you in a minute" Sean said
Junior nodded and left. Sean went for the communicator.
"Lomberson here" Sean said as he picked it up
"Sean. Jonathan told me you had a run in and saw that explosion" Carrington said
"Yeah, he didn't say anything, and I didn't ask" Sean replied
"Well, I obviously sent him there, I wanted him to find out anything more on dataDyne's future plans and to see if Trent was alive, because the jumpship Jo escaped with detected an executive hovercopter. Only the highest officials are allowed to use it, and after Jonathan found a parachute with Trent's blood we are certain that he is alive, just don't say it out loud to Junior, I think he's taken enough. Also while Jonathan was there it wasn't him who blew up the place it was a self destruct system."
"Right, so that's all you wanted to tell me?" Sean asked
"Well… yes" Carrington said
"Okay" Sean replied as Carrington turned his end off.
Sean got the feeling Carrington was hiding something aside from Trent being alive. It wasn't a big deal him sending Jonathan back to find information but Sean suspected Carrington knew more then what he was telling Sean. Although there was nothing unusual about Carrington keeping a secret, however he wished Carrington wasn't so secretive on certain issues. Adrian his father was one of these issues, for 9 years Sean believed that his father had been killed by the Skedar, but in reality it was only a clone that was destroyed which he found out when he met his father face to face in Cassandra's office.
Ignoring these thoughts he went into see Junior who was sitting on the bed. He was looking outside the window, it was obvious he was thinking about something. Sean watched for a moment but then decided to leave but in doing so Junior noticed him.
"Oh I didn't notice you" Junior said
"Ready for me to turn out the light?" Sean asked figured if Junior wanted to talk about something he would, Sean knew from experience it would take a good amount of time to recover, but it depended on Junior himself.
"I guess so" Junior got into the bed
"You let me know if you have anything to tell me you should tell me. I know from experience that this isn't an easy thing to deal with so don't act brave because it doesn't work" Sean said
"Okay, thanks" Junior said.
Sean went to turn out the light, fortunately the side of the hotel they were on didn't have any of the cities lights so it was pretty dark in the room, Sean went to close the door.
"Sean, don't. I rather have it open" Junior said
Sean only nodded, he too was tired and headed to the bedroom and took off his shoes and jacket, turned off the light went straight into bed and fell asleep.
******
Sorry that took so long to give you the update, and also this story is taking a long time to develop but there is a plan it shouldn't take too long.
"Listen, Junior. Just to confirm you are Trent's son, I need to run a quick test" Carrington said
"Will it hurt?" Junior asked
"Of course not" Carrington gave a chuckle "I'll be right back"
Carrington walked out of the cafeteria once more.
"So that is your boss?" Junior asked
"Yeah, that's him" Sean replied
"He seems nice" Junior said
"At times, but he can be very hard. Especially on his good agents, Joanna is so overworked at the moment, Daniel's not going to like that Jo's got to take at least a week off" Velvet said
"Is it that serious?" Jonathan asked
"I'm not sure; Sarah seemed to think she needed at least a week to completely heal. Although this could be because Sarah wants Jo to rest, because Carrington has worked her so hard" Velvet replied
Carrington had returned into the cafeteria with a small plastic device.
"Now just let me place this on your arm" Carrington said approaching Junior
"Okay" Junior replied
Carrington put the device on Junior's arm; some data came up on the screen.
"Yes indeed. You are definitely Trent's son" Carrington said
"Oh…" Junior replied seemingly disappointed. The truth was confirmed.
"Hey, don't worry, Trent had good skills he just put them in the wrong places" Jonathan said putting his hand on Junior's shoulder.
"Anyway, we better be off… got a few things to do" Sean said "Okay with you Junior?" Sean asked
"I guess so" Junior said
"I'm going to check on Jo again, if Sarah doesn't force me out" Velvet stood up and walked out
"Alright, I'll see you later then" Jonathan waved to her.
Velvet left the room.
"Excellent, I've wanted a word alone with you too" Carrington said after Velvet had left the room
"Why didn't you ask then?" Jonathan asked a bit caught off guard
"Because I don't want the others to know what I'm going to ask you to do, nor did I want them guessing what I had spoken to you about" Carrington said. "I want you to go back to Trent's hideout, search it since according to Sean, there is nobody there, you will be able to search a bit more freely. I don't need to tell you what to search for" Carrington instructed
"Why not use Velvet or Sean?" Jonathan asked
"Sean is busy with Junior, Velvet is worried sick about Joanna, and I think this is more of your area anyway. You may not know this but I assign tasks to certain people based on a few stats I take" Carrington said
"Of course I know this. I am undercover most of the time now" Jonathan said
"Yes, but I didn't pair you off with Joanna back in Area 51 for nothing" Carrington continued "I'm talking more about how you function, how you cover each others weaknesses"
"You knew though Jo and I didn't exactly get on" Jonathan replied
"Of course I knew, but from what I understand it you two worked it out. Did the mission succeed? Of course it did" Carrington said
"I still don't understand, Joanna is supposedly perfect, she has no weakness" Jonathan said
"Just because she got perfect doesn't mean she hasn't got any weaknesses. Everybody has weaknesses, its part of being human or even a Maian or a Skedar. In reality nobody can score perfect because while Joanna is aggressive you are more passive, you both scored full marks on certain parts of the test but you were both marked differently. That's just one example, I take other examples as well" Carrington said
Jonathan was very interested by what Carrington had told him, he thought everybody who went through the training was marked exactly the same way. Carrington was a very smart man; Jonathan knew he'd never really understand everything about how the Institute functioned.
"So do you accept?" Carrington asked
"Yes" Jonathan replied
"Excellent, you shall leave around 8pm" Carrington said
Jonathan nodded as he left.
Jonathan decided to see Velvet and Joanna. He wasn't really worried about Joanna, but aside her slight bit of arrogance at first she was mostly a nice person. The Area 51 mission was the first mission they had worked together, things didn't start as well as they could have, but as Carrington had said they did work things out and after Jonathan was wounded slightly on the leg Joanna decided to let Jonathan use the Maian single seater to get out with Elvis and she got out of the base on her own. Ever since then Jonathan gave a lot more respect to Joanna, but he never told her and he never showed any, but she was no longer the over aggressive girl who just got lucky on the test.
"Hi Jo, good to see you are alright" Jonathan said
"Yes, thanks again for coming after me" Joanna replied
"Returning the favour Jo" Jonathan smiled
"Ha, that's true" Joanna replied "What's the matter no jokes?" Joanna frowned
"It's your thick skull that saved you, all those times I told you to be quieter and you never listened, at least this time your thick skull is rewarding you instead of getting you into trouble" Jonathan said
"That's better. I was about to ask where's Jonathan and what have you done with him?" Joanna replied
"Seriously though Jo, are you okay?" Jonathan replied
"I will be, just need a bit of time off" Joanna said
"That's okay Jo, you've earned a lot more than a week off" Velvet said
"Well get better soon, bye" Jonathan waved as he left the room. He really only want to just wanted to see if Jo was okay, he couldn't discuss his mission with them. He decided to get some quick practice in at the firing range, chances were he wouldn't need it but it was something to do to get his mind off the mission not that it should be dangerous.
6 hours later…
Time 9pm
Location: Trent's former hideout
Jonathan was at the same place as was 9 hours ago; he used the door decoder on the door as he knew what kind of door it was so it was much easier to get the right kind of decoder. The code was cracked in less than half a second as the door opened. Jonathan went in and drew out his Magnum and put on his night vision and looked around, nobody in sight. He crept up to the main door and opened it as everything except the front door was probably unlocked. Looking inside the dark room again there was nothing, only the dead guards on the floor. Jonathan continued and came to a door that lead him outside, he walked around. His feet came up to some on the ground, he examined it closer, it was a parachute. There was a bit of blood on it though.
"Jonathan to Carrington" Jonathan said through a radio
"Find anything?" Carrington asked
"A parachute, with a bit of blood" Jonathan repeated what he saw
"Got that new device that I showed you with Junior?" Carrington asked
"Yeah, but what's it do?" Jonathan said
"It simply searches for any kind of sample that can be used to identify somebody. It will then search our database for a match. Its technology that's been around for years, but it's still effective" Carrington said
"Right" Jonathan replied as he put the device near the blood sample. Again within half a second it came up with a response, the name Easton, Trent was displayed.
"According to this it says Trent Easton" Jonathan said
"Damn it. It probably means he is still alive" Carrington replied frustrated
"I'll continue searching" Jonathan said as he continued into the building again
Jonathan entered the darkened building; he got this funny feeling he was being watched. All dark and quiet with nobody else around. Using the IR scanner he looked around him, but nobody was around, not even with a cloaking device.
"Head to the labs Jonathan. Joanna told me there were some computers down there with information, provided they haven't been erased" Carrington instructed
"Understood" Jonathan simply replied
Following the more then obvious signs he worked his way down to the labs. Finding the light switch and turning it on in the labs made things a little easier as he turned off his night vision. He turned on the computer and it asked for a password.
"Password computer here" Jonathan said
"Use the data Uplink like always" Carrington replied
"Yeah but wont that let Grimshaw know what's going on?" Jonathan asked
"No, I can do his job, not as well but if worse comes to worse I'll pass it onto to him" Carrington said
Why did Carrington want to be so secretive about this mission, even between his own staff? Jonathan thought as he used the data uplink and used it on the computer, Carrington got to work inside the systems and within 20 seconds the computer accepted the password. Carrington continued to search through the files and suddenly he stopped.
"This is interesting. It appears there is somebody else running officially dataDyne now, they are divided into two sections, the first section is run by Andy Elcallaran, son of the Cassandra's predecessor Luke, who was killed by Terrence 8 years ago. The second half is kept secret from mostly everybody according to these records, only deals with certain groups are done and that according to this was run by Trent Easton" Carrington said
"Wait…" Jonathan said as he heard movement, he looked around pointing his Magnum in various directions.
"YA!" A voice shouted. Jonathan also heard somebody land behind him as they fired a gun shot but missed, the gun shot sounded really strange.
Jonathan turned around and moved away and return the fire and nailed the target in the arm blowing them back with a bit of force, they were wearing black all over with a mask over their face. They dropped the weapon and Jonathan tackled to them to the ground. He removed the mask and it was a woman. She tried to push Jonathan off but Jonathan was too strong.
"Let me go you bastard!" The woman shouted struggling pointlessly
"Who are you!?" Jonathan demanded point his Magnum at the woman's head
"I'm not going to say anything, you'll have to kill me" The woman replied
"Is that so?" Jonathan replied almost amused as he pulled out another device, the woman looked at it.
"This will make you tell the truth, I don't want to use it but…" Jonathan started but the woman began to choke, suddenly she titled her head tilted back and closed her eyes, Jonathan looked for a pulse, there wasn't one. She was dead.
"What happened" Carrington asked
"I got attacked by a woman, just as I was about to hit with the truth needle she died, poison of some sort although she didn't put anything like a suicide pill in her mouth as I kept her pinned down, but somehow she died" Jonathan said
Suddenly a message was heard
"This base will selfdestruct in 5 minutes, have a nice day" It said calmly as if there was nothing unusual about the base selfdestructing.
"Jon just get out of there" Carrington said
Jonathan didn't respond as picked up the weapon the woman was holding, he ran out of the room and closed the doors as he ran out side the building went though the base and outside the door. He kept running as about 30 seconds later the base completely blew up. In the middle of the city there was a big explosion and loads of people gathered around to see what was going on, Jonathan hid his Magnum and this other strange orange and black looking pistol like weapon as he escaped from the crowds as soon as possible. Then he noticed two familiar faces, Sean and Junior who were looking at the crowds look at the sight of the explosion. Junior looked a good deal healthier his clothes actually fit and it was as if he had eaten recently.
"Jonathan?" Sean had seen him
"Err… hi Sean" Jonathan replied. Sean wasn't stupid, he'd put two and two together.
"Well, I'll see you tomorrow" Sean replied as if nothing had happened. He and Junior continued walking.
Jonathan was glad Sean didn't discuss it or make a joke about it, then again Sean was above this and it would be very risky as there was no way of knowing who was listening. He got in his car and started it and flew above the buildings. There wasn't much traffic around as where Jonathan was driving was highly deserted, as the Institute had to be far away from everything else. He got into contact with Carrington as there wasn't anything else to do except drive the car, which could be put on auto pilot anyway.
"Jonathan to Carrington" Jonathan said. He avoided using his Dark last name for fear of confusion with Joanna, despite having the same last name they were in no way related.
"I read you, so nothing else happened aside this woman mysteriously dying?" Carrington asked
"No…" Jonathan thought "Wait a minute, there is this weapon she used. I don't know what it is" Jonathan replied. He put in on the scanning device in the car to send data to Carrington Institute.
Carrington studied the weapon on his end.
"There is no record of such a weapon in our records. However it matches the information that you retrieved in which it mentions dataDyne are currently testing a new side arm pistol. According to this data, Trent Easton himself thought buying weapons through some of the marketing departments I have was stupid. To be honest I agree, effectively for about the past 6 years dataDyne have effectively given us money because they continue to buy the Falcon 2 as a sidearm. They can't use the DY357 magnum, as it's far too expensive and while powerful, it doesn't quite fit the role of a sidearm. Foster said there were rumours dataDyne was building a new pistol to outdo the Falcon 2 but we all know that they have been trying to outdo the Falcon 2 for years" Carrington finished explaining
"Understood, ill be there in 20 minutes" Jonathan said
"Fine, but Foster had to leave so no real progress will be made" Carrington said
Jonathan turned the connection off and continued flying to the Institute. About 15 minutes later he arrived and headed to Carrington's office. Carrington was present, but it seemed as if nobody else was, even at 11pm this was very unusual.
"Ah, the weapon?" Carrington asked
Jonathan handed it over
"Yes, very unusual design" Carrington examined the weapon "Unfortunately Foster isn't here, he had something important to do" Carrington said
Meanwhile… in a town bar.
"Uh!? Griiimshaw… why is the sky spinning?" Foster said drunk
"Gosh! I dunno, maybe because the people are spinnin' too?" Grimshaw replied equally drunk
Back at the Institute…
"So there is nothing we can really do, well accurately anyway" Carrington said "You are free to go, just keep it a secret from everybody else" Carrington said
"Err… well Sean already knows, he saw the explosion" Jonathan said
"Damn explosion. If the US Government even remotely put together what happened they'll be chasing Trent again. When I sent one of my agents to Victoria Island she was mistaken for an enemy, she was nearly killed" Carrington grumbled "Anyway, nothing we can do about, we may discuss it some more tomorrow" Carrington said
Jonathan left the Institute.
Sean and Junior had entered a rather large city after Junior wanted to stay well away from the place he had lived, so after travelling for 30 minutes by car they arrived in a city known as Miraville. When Sean visited here 16 years ago it was a small town that was in the progress of getting built, now however it was an extremely large city and it was far more populated. Even though it was a bit after 11pm the city was still crowded and had lots of lights and activity.
"Wow, doesn't 16 years change a lot" Sean said looking around
"16 years?" Junior replied puzzled
"Yeah, I was 10 then…" Sean replied
"Oh" Junior said "Can we just stop for a while. I'm really tired" Junior said
"Sure… that's why we are here, so we can check into a hotel until we work out what we are going to do" Sean replied
"They must be really expensive, I don't want to cost you a lot of money" Junior said starting to wish he had just settled to stay in his old city just for one night.
"Relax, its okay" Sean replied as they entered a hotel. He walked up to the desk but had to get the attention of the secretary.
"Excuse me; do you have any available rooms?" Sean asked politely
"I think so, what kind of room are you after?" She replied not really taking them seriously because of his and Junior's look, as this was a very pricy and expensive hotel. Her attitude quickly changed when Sean paid up for the most expensive hotel room there was.
"Oh right this way sir" She smiled as she clicked her fingers and a hotel employee led Sean and Junior up.
They went up to their room and found two rather large beds. Not to mention the large TV with over 200 channels according to the man who was very polite, a great view of the river, loads of candy, chocolate, anything, the stuff in the room went on and on. After Sean paid the man a more than generous tip he left and smiled to himself.
"I've never even seen anything like this" Junior was overwhelmed
"Yeah me neither" Sean replied. Finally his life of working at the Institute, being chased by Skedar and living on another planet without human contact for 8 years was finally paying off in a big way.
"I'm really tired though, there will be time to get this in tomorrow won't there?" Junior asked
"I should be able to. If Carrington wants me to come in we are going to have to work something out but until we get settled he shouldn't ask anything of me" Sean said, but he knew in reality Carrington was very unpredictable. While he could retire from the Institute he knew he would be bored, especially if Junior ended up at school.
At that very moment his communicator was going off.
"Junior why do you pick a room okay? I'll see you in a minute" Sean said
Junior nodded and left. Sean went for the communicator.
"Lomberson here" Sean said as he picked it up
"Sean. Jonathan told me you had a run in and saw that explosion" Carrington said
"Yeah, he didn't say anything, and I didn't ask" Sean replied
"Well, I obviously sent him there, I wanted him to find out anything more on dataDyne's future plans and to see if Trent was alive, because the jumpship Jo escaped with detected an executive hovercopter. Only the highest officials are allowed to use it, and after Jonathan found a parachute with Trent's blood we are certain that he is alive, just don't say it out loud to Junior, I think he's taken enough. Also while Jonathan was there it wasn't him who blew up the place it was a self destruct system."
"Right, so that's all you wanted to tell me?" Sean asked
"Well… yes" Carrington said
"Okay" Sean replied as Carrington turned his end off.
Sean got the feeling Carrington was hiding something aside from Trent being alive. It wasn't a big deal him sending Jonathan back to find information but Sean suspected Carrington knew more then what he was telling Sean. Although there was nothing unusual about Carrington keeping a secret, however he wished Carrington wasn't so secretive on certain issues. Adrian his father was one of these issues, for 9 years Sean believed that his father had been killed by the Skedar, but in reality it was only a clone that was destroyed which he found out when he met his father face to face in Cassandra's office.
Ignoring these thoughts he went into see Junior who was sitting on the bed. He was looking outside the window, it was obvious he was thinking about something. Sean watched for a moment but then decided to leave but in doing so Junior noticed him.
"Oh I didn't notice you" Junior said
"Ready for me to turn out the light?" Sean asked figured if Junior wanted to talk about something he would, Sean knew from experience it would take a good amount of time to recover, but it depended on Junior himself.
"I guess so" Junior got into the bed
"You let me know if you have anything to tell me you should tell me. I know from experience that this isn't an easy thing to deal with so don't act brave because it doesn't work" Sean said
"Okay, thanks" Junior said.
Sean went to turn out the light, fortunately the side of the hotel they were on didn't have any of the cities lights so it was pretty dark in the room, Sean went to close the door.
"Sean, don't. I rather have it open" Junior said
Sean only nodded, he too was tired and headed to the bedroom and took off his shoes and jacket, turned off the light went straight into bed and fell asleep.
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Sorry that took so long to give you the update, and also this story is taking a long time to develop but there is a plan it shouldn't take too long.