Spiderbear: Yup, Carrington lost it. Don't worry Jo will be back soon.
Cristalina: Of course it's uncommon for either one of them to be angry, and of course he's out of character because he never showed much anger, and everybody should show anger, it's unnatural otherwise as you said. We'll definitely see some dark side stuff here, especially from Sean obviously. What I said about the Mayans is true they are a civilization. It's actually Maians that has bad spelling (or is this what you were saying, I wasn't quite sure). Obviously deliberate, although the Mayans we know don't really have any connection or similarity to the Maians that I can think of. I thought that about Sarah as well, she's the one that nobody would suspect of doing anything like that.
A/N: This chapter is a Sean chapter a quite a long one at that even for me. The next one will be a Jonathan/Velvet chapter, it's much easier (and consistent) to do it this way rather than switch between two characters all the time. The stories will eventually meet paths and then it will merge into one again, but I had considered creating another story based on Sean, but as he's an original character and Sean's parts will be filled with other original characters but of course it is still based off the characters we know and love. Very few of the original characters will be in the plot for a long amount of time. Also Jonathan's and Velvet's and soon to be Joanna's parts have a fair few OC's too and I only give them names so they don't remain nameless for the time they are in the fic (Wulf, Vanessa, Jessica). Not all of them are original characters though. A perfect example of this is Wendy, she's not an original character she's the woman in the device lab but I wanted her to have a name.
*****
By the time the next morning came Sean was feeling a good deal better but still it seemed cold but wasn't sneezing and the pain from his scar on his eye hurt a lot, his other injuries weren't as bad, but they did a really good job on his face. He was back at in his hotel after Andy had driven him back. Looking in the mirror and having a good look this time Sean looked at the deep scar across the right side of his face, his eyes also looked really bad. Yellow all inside them instead of where the white usually was, it was like a really bright yellow. Now Sean remembered, that was part of the long term planet change sickness it didn't matter as much around Maians but around Humans it would matter a lot more.
"Time will heal that" Andy was already present, he surprised Sean.
"Yeah I know" Sean replied
"It's going to take a while, but how are you feeling, for whatever you've got?" Andy asked
"Good deal better, no sneezing as you are noticing. It's an unusual thing that happens to me when I am exposed to a different environment" Sean told Andy
"Different environment? Where have you been?" Andy asked
"Err…" Sean couldn't think straight, what could he say…
"Another planet perhaps, 8 years? That Maian one?" Andy said as if he knew
"How'd you know that?" Sean asked
"Jonathan told me, he called to find out about you" Andy said "I kinda knew already, we had sketchy information that the Institute had sent an agent into space for a long time but no proof"
"I see… so don't you have an office to take care of?" Sean asked
"I am, but I want to help you find Junior, surely you aren't going to get far alone, and the Institute surely isn't going to help. If anything they may hinder you" Andy told him
"What do you mean by that?" Sean asked surprised
"Again, Jonathan told me. Carrington had assigned him to track you down, and stop you but of course not kill you, but Jonathan immediately refused the assignment and so did another girl I haven't heard of, V something" Andy thought about the name
"Velvet?" Sean asked
"That's her, anyway Carrington respected their choice as you are friends of both of them, but expect interference from all sides if you are going ahead with this" Andy said
"So be it, so how can you help me?" Sean went over to get something to eat. He knew he wouldn't get far without help from either the Carrington Institute or Andy's side of dataDyne, and at the moment only the latter would be helping him.
"Easy, as if by coincidence our spy has come across Trent Easton. However not face to face. Apparently Trent is using another name that he uses to own things, he's known as Peter Macolyan. At this very moment we find that Trent owns a private motorboat. It's rather large, it's called the Kalakent MTO and is currently based in Miami" Andy said
"Well, I'm going to go there now. Thanks a bunch" Sean said as he ate
"What now?" Andy asked
"Yup, well almost" Sean as he ate
"Well if you say so, I'll get somebody to drive you there, so be ready in an hour" Andy sighed as he left
Sean knew that if was recognized by any of Trent's people that would raise the alarm even before his mission had started, so a new look was required at least the best he could do in 45 minutes. Going for a bit of quick shopping. Changing his hair colour to blonde as opposed to his dark black hair as well as getting it cut to be shorter and without that small fringe at the front, not that he didn't like his original hair colour but it had to be done, especially because it was so easy to change thanks to new technology that wasn't around 8 years ago. Also he now had a black coat with the standard black pants and black sneakers and yup you guessed it a black t-shirt. He wasn't the type to be really wearing dark all over like in those gangs Jonathan talked about, but that was the point, now he needed something to cover those awful eyes of his. Ah, those shades. Sean smiled to himself, only on real close detection would anybody recognise him. A knock at the door and Sean answered.
"What? Who are you?" Andy asked
"I guess it works then" Sean replied
"Huh what works? Oh right Sean. Err no offence, but that look is not really you is it" Andy said
"Nop, that's the damned point" Sean replied "And these eyes look freaky, glow in the dark kind of things"
"Ahhhh, nice plan…" Andy nodded in acknowledgement "Your driver is ready for you. Wait a tick, I have something you may want if you don't want people to recognise you" Andy went through a briefcase and handed Sean a small device
"It changes the level of your voice, to how you want" Andy explained
"That's great. Thanks a bunch, I should go now" Sean turned around and walked
"Okay, just be careful" Andy said as Sean walked down to the bottom of the hotel, checked out and then got into the car.
*****
Carrington institute
Carrington had gone around and tried to assign some agents onto the mission of stopping Sean and bringing him back so he could talk to him but nobody would touch it, he suspected Jonathan had spread word of Sean's ability even making up some if it, but he couldn't prove it. Then a thought just crossed his mind, in the device lab they were working on a robot who could be an agent, nothing would replace the real thing but still it may be his only option if he wants to stop Sean. Carrington headed over to the device lab, nobody was giving him eye contact. He wasn't certain if Jonathan had spread the rumour about Sean, but knew Suzan like always spread the gossip on Sean and Carrington having it out after she found out from Foster who found out from Grimshaw, who found out from Wendy, who found out from Sarah, who Carrington thought found out from Jonathan.
"Good morning sir" Wendy said trying to be polite as Carrington walked into the device lab.
"With that robot, is it ready or what's its progress?" Carrington asked calmly and politely
"It is ready, just starting the second model now Why sir?" Wendy asked
"I need it do an assignment" Carrington said
"Are you sure you want to depend on it like that? I mean I'm honoured you trust me but…" Wendy started
"Well I won't deny it but I am only using this robot to do an assignment that nobody else will touch, and for good reason" Carrington said
"Dangerous?" Wendy asked
"No, just difficult" Carrington not wanting to get into detail
"Well, just program the assignment in like you requested and it shall try complete it" Wendy said
"Thanks a lot Wen" Carrington gave a smile
"My pleasure" Wendy replied, relieved that Carrington was back to normal for now.
Carrington begun to switch the machine on after taking it to his office, he knew how it worked as he requested a certain design. It was a red robot that looked like a human as in two legs, arms, ears, face etc. but it was metal and it was obvious that it had weapons concealed.
"Hello, I am the CI001 Alpha Robot. Please program the assignment" The CI001 Alpha told Carrington
Carrington did so as he typed it on a keyboard "Find Sean Lomberson, bring him here, do not injure badly or kill, expect resistance, start immediately" Carrington typed in
"Processing" CI001 Alpha's motionless reply was
"Received and understood" CI001 Alpha replied "dataDyne is evil!" CI001 Alpha said
Carrington gave a smile, he personally got it to say that when finished programming an assignment. The robot left the room on its two wheels underneath both of its feet, when in combat it would use its actual legs but it could move faster using the wheels, also it had jets to fly around for fast but little controlled movement. Carrington wasn't quite sure what the robot was capable of, so wasn't expecting to see Sean anytime soon.
*****
Miami. Time 12.30pm
Sean thanked the guy who drove him and he drove off again.
"So this is Miami huh" Sean looked around the city. He knew where he could definitely get a location of where the ship was…
"I'm looking to speak to Juan Retolya" Sean told the person on the other end, he just hoped that the person he knew still worked at the bar/people that looked over the waters and hired boats out.
"Yeah you're speaking to him" Juan replied, uncaringly
"Juan? You've changed, it's Sean Lomberson" Sean said, Juan was a reasonable height, slightly shorter than Sean, white skin but it was rather tanned and dark, black hair slightly messed up and very casual. When Sean knew him at school he never relaxed and was constantly worrying about something. He was one of the very few people at school who even wanted anything to do with Sean.
"What? It couldn't be, you look nothing like him" Juan looked at him in surprise
"Who still owes me 120 dollars and 50 cents?" Sean asked jokingly
"Shit! Sean, it is you! What did you do to yourself! Why this dark look now" Juan asked being a lot more friendly
"Heh, trying to avoid people who know me. Just like you I imagine" Sean smiled
"Well not anymore, but what can I do for you?" Juan asked
"I'm looking for a ship; can you give me an exact location?" Sean asked
"In a sec bro" Juan replied "what's the name?" Juan asked
"Kalakent MTO, you seem to have changed a lot" Sean said
"Me? Yeah, I decided to stay here after all it's a lot easier here too. Those scars and bruises though, how'd you get them thought you could fight?" Juan asked
"It's a long story, but let's say that encouraged the look" Sean said
"Ah, anyway, your ship is located right here" Juan said pointing to an electronic map
"That thing constantly updates?" Sean asked
"Yup, that's exactly where it is" Juan told him
"Great, thanks. Can I ask you a favour?" Sean asked
"Go for it, I still owe you 120 bucks" Juan laughed
"Yeah, okay. I need to get on the ship, get me close enough so I can get on without them noticing, can you do this?" Sean asked
"Definitely, I only saw these guys on that ship once, completely wrecked the place here when they were drunk. Took 6 of us to get them outta here" Juan sighed "So I'll be glad to do that for ya" Juan said
"Great" Sean replied
"By the way, what do you do with your life now? Like what do you do for a living?" Juan asked
Sean thought for a moment.
"Mercenary is the best term, but it could also be classed as a spy, but neither is quite accurate, " Sean said "Kinda in the middle" Sean said telling half of the truth
"Well whatever, be back here in 15" Juan left the bar to get ready
*****
About 30 minutes later
Juan had gotten Sean and himself out near the Karakent MTO. Juan's ship was a small motorboat that cloaked itself to the human eye sight and radar, but the cloak would only last 2 minutes, but that was more than enough to get the small ship into range of the large luxury yacht. They were underneath the ship and turned off the device and talked quietly.
"Where'd you get this kind of ship?" Sean asked
"Well this group of punks that came in a few weeks back left this cloaking like device after a fight, I tweaked with the device a bit and got it to work on this small ship" Juan replied
"Since when were you good mechanically?" Sean asked him
"Since I spent 6 years studying" Juan said
"Alright I'll keep in touch through the radio, if I need you can you be here?" Sean asked
"No prob, good luck" Juan said
Sean got out a rope and swung it around the railing of the ship, using the pull device on the ordinary looking rope it immediately placed Sean at the railing where he could look and see if there was anybody around. Nobody. Sean sneaked onto the ship and heard footsteps, as they got closer Sean looked for his Falcon 2, finding it he attached the silencer as the person walked past he knocked them out. Looking further on he decided to go into the ship, opening the glass doors he looked around the room. Two candles, champagne, two silver plates. Lunch on a boat with a nice view of the water, how romantic, Sean thought. Exploring the ship further taking out another guard he started looking inside the rooms, although there was nobody inside, but there was one that had a door guard holding a CMP150. He didn't want to kill unless it was absolutely necessary so a distraction was required. So he went back to the last guard he knocked out and threw him into a bathroom and took his weapon and fired it before running around the direct passage the guard he wanted to divert would take. Running out of the bathroom he crossed another room and exited and went back to the door he wanted to get into, the guard was gone, his plan had worked. He opened it, it was unlocked.
"What who are you!?" A woman in a white dressing gown was sitting on the bed, she had long black hair.
"Shhh!" Sean put his hand to his lip and got closer to her
"Don't touch me or I'll scream" She warned
"I won't touch you, just tell me… who owns this ship?" Sean asked
"My boyfriend Peter" She replied
"Peter who?" Sean rolled his eyes
"Peter Macolyan" She said
"Is he on board now?" Sean asked
"No" She said
Just then there were 3 knocks at the door.
"Answer it" Sean ordered her
"What?" She replied surprised
"I told you, answer it!" Sean pointed the Falcon at her
She did as she was told as Sean stood behind the door as she opened it enough for her to see who it was but also so Sean could stand behind it and still see her.
"Fiona, you okay?" the voice was a man
"I'm fine, just go away" She replied
"Well I'm just telling you there is an intruder on the ship, and I'll be back for some dessert shall we say later darling" He said, there was a slapping sound, followed by a slight groan from the man.
"Look just piss off" Fiona said firmly
"Okay, just lock your door alright?" He said
"Whatever" Fiona said coldly closing the door and locking the door as she closed it
Sean heard the footsteps die down.
"Where is your boyfriend?" Sean asked
"Why?" She asked
"None of your business, where is he?" Sean asked more firmly this time
"He's at the Lierarcle hotel and casino, he owns that too" She said
Sean nodded walking quietly out of the room
Pulling out his radio he quietly got into contact with Juan.
"Juan, be a bit quieter, come back where you left me okay?" Sean whispered careful not to attract any attention.
"Sure" Juan replied
Sean quietly went through the ship again trying to avoid being detected as the guards were running around trying to find him, and in 10 minutes Juan and Sean were at the agreed spot as Sean jumped in to the bottom from above.
"Hey nice move, I saw a few of them running around. You must be a professional or something, but what exactly did you do?" Juan asked
"Got some info, nothing more" Sean replied
"Well alright, I guess it's none of my business anyway" Juan turned the ship around again
As Sean and Juan landed on the beach they saw a strange red robot.
"Target acquired, battle mode engaged" The robot said
"What?" Juan said
"Just stay clear" Sean advised
Juan did as he was told, the robot came charging at Sean with a high attack, but Sean was able to trip it up with a low sweeping movement causing it to crash into the sand. He followed up by jumping on top of it.
"CI001 Alpha does not like pain, there is no escape Lomberson" The robot said
"WHAT!? CI001 Alpha, that could only be from…" Sean stopped his attack but the robot surrounded it's with an electrical field knocking Sean off it.
"Right, now you've pissed me off Danny" Sean stood up and charged at the robot and kicked it hard in the head with a flying kick sending it into the water.
"Noo, malfunction in water" The Robot said kicking and flailing around "Must destroy dataDyne, must destroy…" The robot's voice was beginning to weaken and eventually it collapsed
Sean walked over to the robot and Juan looked at it.
"You must be really good if people are sending robots after you and you are kicking them down" Juan said in admiration
"Yeah thanks… hey you said you were a bit technical right, can you reprogram this thing?" Sean asked
"Sure, what do you want it to do, make it spin around on its head? Sing stupid songs? Tell jokes? All of the above?" Juan laughed
"How about…" Sean gave a smile
Carrington institute
A few hours later CI001 Alpha had arrived back at the Institute. It headed directly into Carrington's office. Suzan was there handing him some paper work
"Ah Alpha, how did you go on your mission of finding Sean?" Carrington asked
"Put your right foot in…" CI001 Alpha started singing
"What!?" Carrington said in surprise. Suzan tried not to laugh
"Put your right foot out…" CI001 continued
"What are you saying" Carrington looked at it sing, Suzan started giggling
"Put your right foot in and then shake it all about. You do the hokey-pokey and you turn around and that's what's all about" CI001Alpha finished its song and dance and Suzan was uncontrollably laughing
Alpha continued the dance and Carrington banged his desk in frustration.
"Come on it's not that funny Suzan" Carrington said as she was still laughing
"Oh I'm sorry sir" Suzan said trying to regain her composure
"You put your left foot in…" Alpha continued and Suzan went back to her laughing again as she left the office
"Sean must have reprogrammed the thing! Damn it!" Carrington said
"You put your left foot out…" Alpha kept singing
"Oh SHUT UP!" Carrington shouted walking up slamming the secret off switch on the robot. He then walked out of the office taking the switched off robot back to the device lab.
"Ah successful in its mission?" Wendy asked
"Well no…" Carrington said. He then begun to realise the funny side, in all of this as he switched it back on. It started dancing again but instead of the hokey-pokey it started to play hopscotch while singing this song.
"Sean kicked my ass, so he sent me back to you just so I could do the hokey-pokey for you, now that I'm back here you can't reprogram me back so I think it's time I just crashed that stack" Alpha made a stupid rap that didn't even really sound that great but it went and ran into the second robots parts before blowing itself up into pieces.
"What!? You sent this thing to get Sean back? It had no chance, I could have told you that" Wendy said "Now it's gone and scattered my work on its successor too" Wendy groaned
"Well, nobody else would take the assignment understandably" Carrington said
"You are just going to have to leave him to his own, I can try, but to get one with enough intelligence and strength to defeat him will not be easy, not easy at all" Wendy told him
"Can you make two to attack at the same time?" Carrington asked
"Yup. Be ready in about a day since I know what I'm doing now, although I wouldn't expect this to work. It's going to take time for me to be able to give them enough intelligence but enough strength to start even defeating the lower agents we have" Wendy said
"Although they are fairly good at what they do. Maybe we should test against them first" Carrington suggested
"Might be an idea, although they are simply not in the same class as Joanna, Jonathan, Velvet and of course your target Sean" Wendy said
"Alright, I'll have to think this over for a while…thanks for your help" Carrington said as he left the device lab
*****
Miami, Juan's bar, the Amélan shadow. 4pm.
Inside the back of the bar Juan and Sean were talking about what happened. One of the lower staff was taking care of the bar.
"So what info did you find or is it top secret or something?" Juan asked
"Actually I could do with your help. The Lierarcle hotel where is it?" Sean asked
"Oh them, they are right there" Juan pointed out into the city, where a big flashing Lierarcle sign was.
"How could I have missed that!?" Sean hit his head with his hand
"Don't worry about it, you have no idea how many people come in here and ask me that question" Juan replied
"Well, obviously that's next. Apparently the guy I'm looking for is there, although I don't know how reliable all my sources are" Sean said
"Alright, want me to be around or not?" Juan asked
"May help, you know the area?" Sean asked
"Yeah of course" Juan said
"Well let's pretend we have a lot of money…we'll get further that way" Sean said
"One problem, we don't have the money, you overestimate how much I make here" Juan said
"You may not have the money, but I do" Sean replied
"Rich? Strong? Agile? What more could you want out of life?" Juan asked giving another laugh
"How about life its self, about 15 years of it" Sean replied
"What's that?" Juan asked puzzled
"Never mind, anyway we'll go in there at about 7. Make sure you dress the part" Sean said throwing Juan about 10,000.
"Heh, not my thing, but obviously you are right, and since you are giving me money to burn, I'll do it" Juan said
At about 7, both Sean and Juan were in the typical black tuxedos that you always see in those casino like scenes and of course Sean had those shades on to cover those strange looking eyes, wondering how long it would take for them to go back to the way they were, he was getting stares from a few people and attention isn't something he wanted, but it was better then having glow in the dark like eyes which would result in stares anyway.
"Heh, I look something from a movie" Juan gave a smile. He had neatened up his hair a lot so it was straight rather than all over the place like before.
"Let's have a look around" Sean suggested
"Well whatever, but why do you wear those sunnies all the time?" Juan asked
"I'll show you another time, now isn't the place to show you" Sean said as he went around, trying to remind himself than Juan was not another Carrington Institute agent so naturally wasn't as disciplined as one and had to remind himself of this. Approaching the Nebaenaska table he sat in front of the dealer and despite a strange look he began dealing cards. It was a newer game so Sean wasn't quite sure on how to play it, but this didn't matter.
A/N: Nebaenaska is a totally meaningless word that was thought up at 3am, I just didn't want to use Black jack or that other card game that's commonly used like almost every other scene like this does.
It became quickly known that Sean had a lot of money. Juan wonder what Sean was doing while Sean was losing on purpose.
"You know how to play this?" Juan asked Sean
"Does it matter?" Sean replied
"Hey Peter, check out table number 18, the guy plays like an idiot" One of the people said watching Sean from a camera
"Hmm… What's with him?" Trent asked. He insisted everybody call him Peter just in case his actual name was mentioned in front of somebody it shouldn't have been
About 5 minutes later, Sean decided to start playing seriously getting a bit of help from Juan, and it quickly turned in his favour, even the dealer looked slightly concerned.
"Fiona, deal with him would you darling?" Trent asked
"Certainly Peter" Fiona gave Trent a smile
The dealer suddenly moved aside and Fiona was at the table, Sean didn't even look up but then suddenly he began to realise that he was losing money again. He then looked up and saw Fiona. She recognised him.
"What are you doing here, you are only asking for trouble. You'll only get yourself killed" Fiona continued dealing. She had her long hair out and wore a blue dress.
"Yeah you look different when you aren't in a bathrobe, where's your friend?" Sean asked
"Yeah very funny, he's upstairs" Fiona replied. She seemed a lot more confident but she was still spilling out information to Sean far too easily.
"Take me to him, I want to meet him" Sean said
"…Okay" Fiona paused for a moment before agreeing
Juan got up to walk with Sean but Sean stopped him.
"Best stay here, if I don't come back in an hour go back to the bar" Sean said
Juan nodded as Sean and Fiona used the elevator to go up to the top of the large hotel/casino.
Fiona walked out of the lift as Sean continued to follow her, he wondered if Junior was being held here as Sean was taken into the office, immediately he recognised Trent in his typical red suit. He was sitting in front of a desk with the city behind him in a glass window. It seemed Trent liked the views he could get.
"Search him but be gentle" Trent ordered
2 men searched him and found Sean's Falcon 2
"Why do you carry your weapon around in a town like this? Maybe not like where you come from" Trent said
Sean said nothing, he thought Trent might be onto him, he should have got Juan to hold his weapon, Fiona watched quietly.
"Those scars I mean, rough neighbourhood? Well whatever. You don't need this here" Trent said handing the Falcon 2 back to Sean "Fiona tells me you wanted to meet me, why may I ask?" Trent asked
Sean wondered if Andy did come through with that device, he hoped for a slightly deeper voice enough for Trent not to suspect anything but not too much for Fiona to suspect anything either.
"I wanted to make a deposit… you do have a bank here Mr. Easton?" Sean let the real name slip, on purpose
"Hmm? You know my real name… interesting…how though?" Trent asked
Suddenly the glass broke. 5 men jumped in through the window. Sean took a quick scan and noticed all of them were holding Dragons, in a quick analysis he knew this meant US Military.
"You are all under…" One of the men started but he was interrupted by gun fire, Trent's men fired their K7 Avengers to fight back while Sean and Trent instinctively ducked underneath the desk. Sean took out a combat boost he had and used it.
"Hey could you help me, I'll pay you good" Trent said to Sean very slowly.
Sean was far from interested in helping Trent but he knew if he stayed where he was, he and Trent would be arrested, he had no choice he had to help as Trent's men were hiding and firing. It all seemed to move in slow motion, just like it was supposed to. Trent's men had dealt with 2 of them but there were still 3 that were approaching his position and a lot of Trent's men were falling. Sean stood up and fired his Falcon at one of them wounding him trying not to kill but stun instead and because everything was so much slower it was made a lot easier to dodge the bullets as he shot the another in the arm causing him along with his friend to drop their weapons while Trent's men dealt with the final one. The rest of Trent's men picked up their weapons and some more of Trent's guards grabbed the two soldiers. There was only 1 of Trent's men left out of the 5 guarding the room.
"Screw you bastard!" The soldier shouted struggling with Trent's men
"Put them in the cell. I'll get somebody to interrogate them later" Trent said, angered.
"Yes Mr. Macolyan" one of Trent's men said while they were struggling holding the men down
"Just forget the fake name, it doesn't seem to matter what I do I'll never end up losing everybody" Trent said as his men left. Fiona and Sean remained in the room. Fiona didn't seem too bothered by what had happened in front of her.
Trent, Sean and Fiona moved into another room, this one had no windows.
"It seems I owe you one, not only did you protect me you also captured them for me. Unfortunately whatever you came to see me about can't happen, I have to leave right now. First the Institute got me and now the US Military, that's it I'm fleeing the country" Trent said
"Oh where are you going?" Sean asked. He didn't like the fact he helped the guy he wanted dead but it could turn out to help him a lot more if he could get Trent to trust him, however he would need to play his cards very carefully.
"Wait that gives me an idea. How would you like to be my personal bodyguard, I don't even know your name though" Trent said "But hey, you did some great stuff there, regardless of where you come from or whatever it doesn't matter I need somebody to protect me better than these incompetent fools" Trent said
"Name's Mark Kane, I need to think about it first" Sean said. Trent had said the exact words he wanted him to say, he had no doubts in his mind that he would accept Trent's deal. The saying keep your friends closer, keep your enemies closer crossed his mind.
"Nice to meet you Mr. Kane, but how did you know me before?" Trent asked
"Friend at dataDyne, told me to see you, said I'd find you here" Sean replied
"Hmm, well whatever. It pays very well, but if you are going to make a decision it's either now or never. Sorry to rush this, but I have no choice" Trent said
"Alright, I'll do it, when do we leave?" Sean asked
"Tomorrow, and that's when you start. Come back outside there will be a limo waiting for you. Can I ask though, why do you wear those glasses all the time for" Trent said
"Well… if you must know" Sean said as he took of his glasses for a split second and Trent saw into those yellowish coloured eyes as he stepped back, Sean immediately put the glasses back on.
"That's different, those things must almost glow in the dark. I'll stop asking probing questions" Trent said
"Thanks" Sean replied
"Anyway Fiona show him downstairs" Trent said
"Very well Trent" Fiona said as she gave him a kiss
Sean and Fiona went downstairs and Juan saw him and started walking outside.
"Who's that?" Fiona asked
"Just somebody I know" Sean replied
"You're a secretive guy aren't you" Fiona said "Come this way" Fiona walked Sean into a small room
She then took out some kind of device, Sean thought she would attack but she didn't instead she seem move the device around the walls.
"Right, it's safe" Fiona said
"Huh? What's safe?" Sean asked
"This room, no bugs, cameras or anything" Fiona replied
"What do you mean?" Sean wondered where this was leading to
"Firstly, I am an undercover agent for the NSA, not Trent's boyfriend. I couldn't care less about the slime ball. I also know you are a Carrington Institute agent, your weapon, the combat boost and also your accuracy it all leads to you being an Institute agent. I am on direct orders from the President to spy on him but wait until his orders come to do anything to him. I'll be definitely questioning who gave orders for that attack because I know he didn't give them and he insisted that nothing be done against Trent without his approval. I'm Mary Bluetorra, what's your real name?" Mary asked
"Firstly prove it to me you work for the NSA" Sean said
"Fair enough" Mary replied showing her ID
Sean scanned it carefully, it passed his approval.
"Okay, I'm Sean Lomberson" Sean replied
"What so you are the one who has been on the Maian planet for the past 8 years?" Mary asked
"Yes. Although why does the President want nothing to happen to Trent?" Sean asked
"Because he wants to capture not kill, the military have other ideas. Anyway we better leave, but why are you here from why does Daniel Carrington want Trent for" Mary asked
"Technically I'm not really an institute agent well not at the moment, but I was one, Daniel doesn't want him, but I do. I resigned because of it, I am after Trent's kid. I want to get him back before anything happens to him" Sean said
"Are you sure that's all?" Mary asked with a smile
"Well I want Trent too, another of my allies is affected by him too" Sean replied with a slight smile
"Well good. Anyway I'll talk later, I'm glad I have somebody else to depend on, it will be funny that the two people that Trent probably trust most are going to turn on him" Mary gave a laugh before opening the door.
Sean met up with Juan outside…they headed to the bar again as Juan flicked on the lights they walked in
"How'd you go?" Juan asked
"Fantastic, but I'll have to leave tomorrow" Sean said
"Ah well, good meeting you again" Juan said
"Yeah, great meeting you too" Sean replied
"Why do you wear those glasses?" Juan asked with a smile
"Oh not again… you are persistent. Fine" Sean took them off again revealing his bright yellow eyes
Juan stepped back in surprise as Sean put them back on again.
"Well I've got to find somewhere to sleep" Sean said
"Just stay here, don't worry about it" Juan stretched a bit and yawned
"Thanks again Juan, you've been great. If I can come back here I'll make sure I'll see you" Sean said
"Okay, I'll just be in here, you can sleep in the other room. Nobody has ever used it before" Juan walked into a room and Sean walked into the room Juan pointed to. He changed and then turned out the light, landed on the bed, thankfully his eyes didn't really glow in the dark but it was annoying getting all these questions about them, but what could he do.
Cristalina: Of course it's uncommon for either one of them to be angry, and of course he's out of character because he never showed much anger, and everybody should show anger, it's unnatural otherwise as you said. We'll definitely see some dark side stuff here, especially from Sean obviously. What I said about the Mayans is true they are a civilization. It's actually Maians that has bad spelling (or is this what you were saying, I wasn't quite sure). Obviously deliberate, although the Mayans we know don't really have any connection or similarity to the Maians that I can think of. I thought that about Sarah as well, she's the one that nobody would suspect of doing anything like that.
A/N: This chapter is a Sean chapter a quite a long one at that even for me. The next one will be a Jonathan/Velvet chapter, it's much easier (and consistent) to do it this way rather than switch between two characters all the time. The stories will eventually meet paths and then it will merge into one again, but I had considered creating another story based on Sean, but as he's an original character and Sean's parts will be filled with other original characters but of course it is still based off the characters we know and love. Very few of the original characters will be in the plot for a long amount of time. Also Jonathan's and Velvet's and soon to be Joanna's parts have a fair few OC's too and I only give them names so they don't remain nameless for the time they are in the fic (Wulf, Vanessa, Jessica). Not all of them are original characters though. A perfect example of this is Wendy, she's not an original character she's the woman in the device lab but I wanted her to have a name.
*****
By the time the next morning came Sean was feeling a good deal better but still it seemed cold but wasn't sneezing and the pain from his scar on his eye hurt a lot, his other injuries weren't as bad, but they did a really good job on his face. He was back at in his hotel after Andy had driven him back. Looking in the mirror and having a good look this time Sean looked at the deep scar across the right side of his face, his eyes also looked really bad. Yellow all inside them instead of where the white usually was, it was like a really bright yellow. Now Sean remembered, that was part of the long term planet change sickness it didn't matter as much around Maians but around Humans it would matter a lot more.
"Time will heal that" Andy was already present, he surprised Sean.
"Yeah I know" Sean replied
"It's going to take a while, but how are you feeling, for whatever you've got?" Andy asked
"Good deal better, no sneezing as you are noticing. It's an unusual thing that happens to me when I am exposed to a different environment" Sean told Andy
"Different environment? Where have you been?" Andy asked
"Err…" Sean couldn't think straight, what could he say…
"Another planet perhaps, 8 years? That Maian one?" Andy said as if he knew
"How'd you know that?" Sean asked
"Jonathan told me, he called to find out about you" Andy said "I kinda knew already, we had sketchy information that the Institute had sent an agent into space for a long time but no proof"
"I see… so don't you have an office to take care of?" Sean asked
"I am, but I want to help you find Junior, surely you aren't going to get far alone, and the Institute surely isn't going to help. If anything they may hinder you" Andy told him
"What do you mean by that?" Sean asked surprised
"Again, Jonathan told me. Carrington had assigned him to track you down, and stop you but of course not kill you, but Jonathan immediately refused the assignment and so did another girl I haven't heard of, V something" Andy thought about the name
"Velvet?" Sean asked
"That's her, anyway Carrington respected their choice as you are friends of both of them, but expect interference from all sides if you are going ahead with this" Andy said
"So be it, so how can you help me?" Sean went over to get something to eat. He knew he wouldn't get far without help from either the Carrington Institute or Andy's side of dataDyne, and at the moment only the latter would be helping him.
"Easy, as if by coincidence our spy has come across Trent Easton. However not face to face. Apparently Trent is using another name that he uses to own things, he's known as Peter Macolyan. At this very moment we find that Trent owns a private motorboat. It's rather large, it's called the Kalakent MTO and is currently based in Miami" Andy said
"Well, I'm going to go there now. Thanks a bunch" Sean said as he ate
"What now?" Andy asked
"Yup, well almost" Sean as he ate
"Well if you say so, I'll get somebody to drive you there, so be ready in an hour" Andy sighed as he left
Sean knew that if was recognized by any of Trent's people that would raise the alarm even before his mission had started, so a new look was required at least the best he could do in 45 minutes. Going for a bit of quick shopping. Changing his hair colour to blonde as opposed to his dark black hair as well as getting it cut to be shorter and without that small fringe at the front, not that he didn't like his original hair colour but it had to be done, especially because it was so easy to change thanks to new technology that wasn't around 8 years ago. Also he now had a black coat with the standard black pants and black sneakers and yup you guessed it a black t-shirt. He wasn't the type to be really wearing dark all over like in those gangs Jonathan talked about, but that was the point, now he needed something to cover those awful eyes of his. Ah, those shades. Sean smiled to himself, only on real close detection would anybody recognise him. A knock at the door and Sean answered.
"What? Who are you?" Andy asked
"I guess it works then" Sean replied
"Huh what works? Oh right Sean. Err no offence, but that look is not really you is it" Andy said
"Nop, that's the damned point" Sean replied "And these eyes look freaky, glow in the dark kind of things"
"Ahhhh, nice plan…" Andy nodded in acknowledgement "Your driver is ready for you. Wait a tick, I have something you may want if you don't want people to recognise you" Andy went through a briefcase and handed Sean a small device
"It changes the level of your voice, to how you want" Andy explained
"That's great. Thanks a bunch, I should go now" Sean turned around and walked
"Okay, just be careful" Andy said as Sean walked down to the bottom of the hotel, checked out and then got into the car.
*****
Carrington institute
Carrington had gone around and tried to assign some agents onto the mission of stopping Sean and bringing him back so he could talk to him but nobody would touch it, he suspected Jonathan had spread word of Sean's ability even making up some if it, but he couldn't prove it. Then a thought just crossed his mind, in the device lab they were working on a robot who could be an agent, nothing would replace the real thing but still it may be his only option if he wants to stop Sean. Carrington headed over to the device lab, nobody was giving him eye contact. He wasn't certain if Jonathan had spread the rumour about Sean, but knew Suzan like always spread the gossip on Sean and Carrington having it out after she found out from Foster who found out from Grimshaw, who found out from Wendy, who found out from Sarah, who Carrington thought found out from Jonathan.
"Good morning sir" Wendy said trying to be polite as Carrington walked into the device lab.
"With that robot, is it ready or what's its progress?" Carrington asked calmly and politely
"It is ready, just starting the second model now Why sir?" Wendy asked
"I need it do an assignment" Carrington said
"Are you sure you want to depend on it like that? I mean I'm honoured you trust me but…" Wendy started
"Well I won't deny it but I am only using this robot to do an assignment that nobody else will touch, and for good reason" Carrington said
"Dangerous?" Wendy asked
"No, just difficult" Carrington not wanting to get into detail
"Well, just program the assignment in like you requested and it shall try complete it" Wendy said
"Thanks a lot Wen" Carrington gave a smile
"My pleasure" Wendy replied, relieved that Carrington was back to normal for now.
Carrington begun to switch the machine on after taking it to his office, he knew how it worked as he requested a certain design. It was a red robot that looked like a human as in two legs, arms, ears, face etc. but it was metal and it was obvious that it had weapons concealed.
"Hello, I am the CI001 Alpha Robot. Please program the assignment" The CI001 Alpha told Carrington
Carrington did so as he typed it on a keyboard "Find Sean Lomberson, bring him here, do not injure badly or kill, expect resistance, start immediately" Carrington typed in
"Processing" CI001 Alpha's motionless reply was
"Received and understood" CI001 Alpha replied "dataDyne is evil!" CI001 Alpha said
Carrington gave a smile, he personally got it to say that when finished programming an assignment. The robot left the room on its two wheels underneath both of its feet, when in combat it would use its actual legs but it could move faster using the wheels, also it had jets to fly around for fast but little controlled movement. Carrington wasn't quite sure what the robot was capable of, so wasn't expecting to see Sean anytime soon.
*****
Miami. Time 12.30pm
Sean thanked the guy who drove him and he drove off again.
"So this is Miami huh" Sean looked around the city. He knew where he could definitely get a location of where the ship was…
"I'm looking to speak to Juan Retolya" Sean told the person on the other end, he just hoped that the person he knew still worked at the bar/people that looked over the waters and hired boats out.
"Yeah you're speaking to him" Juan replied, uncaringly
"Juan? You've changed, it's Sean Lomberson" Sean said, Juan was a reasonable height, slightly shorter than Sean, white skin but it was rather tanned and dark, black hair slightly messed up and very casual. When Sean knew him at school he never relaxed and was constantly worrying about something. He was one of the very few people at school who even wanted anything to do with Sean.
"What? It couldn't be, you look nothing like him" Juan looked at him in surprise
"Who still owes me 120 dollars and 50 cents?" Sean asked jokingly
"Shit! Sean, it is you! What did you do to yourself! Why this dark look now" Juan asked being a lot more friendly
"Heh, trying to avoid people who know me. Just like you I imagine" Sean smiled
"Well not anymore, but what can I do for you?" Juan asked
"I'm looking for a ship; can you give me an exact location?" Sean asked
"In a sec bro" Juan replied "what's the name?" Juan asked
"Kalakent MTO, you seem to have changed a lot" Sean said
"Me? Yeah, I decided to stay here after all it's a lot easier here too. Those scars and bruises though, how'd you get them thought you could fight?" Juan asked
"It's a long story, but let's say that encouraged the look" Sean said
"Ah, anyway, your ship is located right here" Juan said pointing to an electronic map
"That thing constantly updates?" Sean asked
"Yup, that's exactly where it is" Juan told him
"Great, thanks. Can I ask you a favour?" Sean asked
"Go for it, I still owe you 120 bucks" Juan laughed
"Yeah, okay. I need to get on the ship, get me close enough so I can get on without them noticing, can you do this?" Sean asked
"Definitely, I only saw these guys on that ship once, completely wrecked the place here when they were drunk. Took 6 of us to get them outta here" Juan sighed "So I'll be glad to do that for ya" Juan said
"Great" Sean replied
"By the way, what do you do with your life now? Like what do you do for a living?" Juan asked
Sean thought for a moment.
"Mercenary is the best term, but it could also be classed as a spy, but neither is quite accurate, " Sean said "Kinda in the middle" Sean said telling half of the truth
"Well whatever, be back here in 15" Juan left the bar to get ready
*****
About 30 minutes later
Juan had gotten Sean and himself out near the Karakent MTO. Juan's ship was a small motorboat that cloaked itself to the human eye sight and radar, but the cloak would only last 2 minutes, but that was more than enough to get the small ship into range of the large luxury yacht. They were underneath the ship and turned off the device and talked quietly.
"Where'd you get this kind of ship?" Sean asked
"Well this group of punks that came in a few weeks back left this cloaking like device after a fight, I tweaked with the device a bit and got it to work on this small ship" Juan replied
"Since when were you good mechanically?" Sean asked him
"Since I spent 6 years studying" Juan said
"Alright I'll keep in touch through the radio, if I need you can you be here?" Sean asked
"No prob, good luck" Juan said
Sean got out a rope and swung it around the railing of the ship, using the pull device on the ordinary looking rope it immediately placed Sean at the railing where he could look and see if there was anybody around. Nobody. Sean sneaked onto the ship and heard footsteps, as they got closer Sean looked for his Falcon 2, finding it he attached the silencer as the person walked past he knocked them out. Looking further on he decided to go into the ship, opening the glass doors he looked around the room. Two candles, champagne, two silver plates. Lunch on a boat with a nice view of the water, how romantic, Sean thought. Exploring the ship further taking out another guard he started looking inside the rooms, although there was nobody inside, but there was one that had a door guard holding a CMP150. He didn't want to kill unless it was absolutely necessary so a distraction was required. So he went back to the last guard he knocked out and threw him into a bathroom and took his weapon and fired it before running around the direct passage the guard he wanted to divert would take. Running out of the bathroom he crossed another room and exited and went back to the door he wanted to get into, the guard was gone, his plan had worked. He opened it, it was unlocked.
"What who are you!?" A woman in a white dressing gown was sitting on the bed, she had long black hair.
"Shhh!" Sean put his hand to his lip and got closer to her
"Don't touch me or I'll scream" She warned
"I won't touch you, just tell me… who owns this ship?" Sean asked
"My boyfriend Peter" She replied
"Peter who?" Sean rolled his eyes
"Peter Macolyan" She said
"Is he on board now?" Sean asked
"No" She said
Just then there were 3 knocks at the door.
"Answer it" Sean ordered her
"What?" She replied surprised
"I told you, answer it!" Sean pointed the Falcon at her
She did as she was told as Sean stood behind the door as she opened it enough for her to see who it was but also so Sean could stand behind it and still see her.
"Fiona, you okay?" the voice was a man
"I'm fine, just go away" She replied
"Well I'm just telling you there is an intruder on the ship, and I'll be back for some dessert shall we say later darling" He said, there was a slapping sound, followed by a slight groan from the man.
"Look just piss off" Fiona said firmly
"Okay, just lock your door alright?" He said
"Whatever" Fiona said coldly closing the door and locking the door as she closed it
Sean heard the footsteps die down.
"Where is your boyfriend?" Sean asked
"Why?" She asked
"None of your business, where is he?" Sean asked more firmly this time
"He's at the Lierarcle hotel and casino, he owns that too" She said
Sean nodded walking quietly out of the room
Pulling out his radio he quietly got into contact with Juan.
"Juan, be a bit quieter, come back where you left me okay?" Sean whispered careful not to attract any attention.
"Sure" Juan replied
Sean quietly went through the ship again trying to avoid being detected as the guards were running around trying to find him, and in 10 minutes Juan and Sean were at the agreed spot as Sean jumped in to the bottom from above.
"Hey nice move, I saw a few of them running around. You must be a professional or something, but what exactly did you do?" Juan asked
"Got some info, nothing more" Sean replied
"Well alright, I guess it's none of my business anyway" Juan turned the ship around again
As Sean and Juan landed on the beach they saw a strange red robot.
"Target acquired, battle mode engaged" The robot said
"What?" Juan said
"Just stay clear" Sean advised
Juan did as he was told, the robot came charging at Sean with a high attack, but Sean was able to trip it up with a low sweeping movement causing it to crash into the sand. He followed up by jumping on top of it.
"CI001 Alpha does not like pain, there is no escape Lomberson" The robot said
"WHAT!? CI001 Alpha, that could only be from…" Sean stopped his attack but the robot surrounded it's with an electrical field knocking Sean off it.
"Right, now you've pissed me off Danny" Sean stood up and charged at the robot and kicked it hard in the head with a flying kick sending it into the water.
"Noo, malfunction in water" The Robot said kicking and flailing around "Must destroy dataDyne, must destroy…" The robot's voice was beginning to weaken and eventually it collapsed
Sean walked over to the robot and Juan looked at it.
"You must be really good if people are sending robots after you and you are kicking them down" Juan said in admiration
"Yeah thanks… hey you said you were a bit technical right, can you reprogram this thing?" Sean asked
"Sure, what do you want it to do, make it spin around on its head? Sing stupid songs? Tell jokes? All of the above?" Juan laughed
"How about…" Sean gave a smile
Carrington institute
A few hours later CI001 Alpha had arrived back at the Institute. It headed directly into Carrington's office. Suzan was there handing him some paper work
"Ah Alpha, how did you go on your mission of finding Sean?" Carrington asked
"Put your right foot in…" CI001 Alpha started singing
"What!?" Carrington said in surprise. Suzan tried not to laugh
"Put your right foot out…" CI001 continued
"What are you saying" Carrington looked at it sing, Suzan started giggling
"Put your right foot in and then shake it all about. You do the hokey-pokey and you turn around and that's what's all about" CI001Alpha finished its song and dance and Suzan was uncontrollably laughing
Alpha continued the dance and Carrington banged his desk in frustration.
"Come on it's not that funny Suzan" Carrington said as she was still laughing
"Oh I'm sorry sir" Suzan said trying to regain her composure
"You put your left foot in…" Alpha continued and Suzan went back to her laughing again as she left the office
"Sean must have reprogrammed the thing! Damn it!" Carrington said
"You put your left foot out…" Alpha kept singing
"Oh SHUT UP!" Carrington shouted walking up slamming the secret off switch on the robot. He then walked out of the office taking the switched off robot back to the device lab.
"Ah successful in its mission?" Wendy asked
"Well no…" Carrington said. He then begun to realise the funny side, in all of this as he switched it back on. It started dancing again but instead of the hokey-pokey it started to play hopscotch while singing this song.
"Sean kicked my ass, so he sent me back to you just so I could do the hokey-pokey for you, now that I'm back here you can't reprogram me back so I think it's time I just crashed that stack" Alpha made a stupid rap that didn't even really sound that great but it went and ran into the second robots parts before blowing itself up into pieces.
"What!? You sent this thing to get Sean back? It had no chance, I could have told you that" Wendy said "Now it's gone and scattered my work on its successor too" Wendy groaned
"Well, nobody else would take the assignment understandably" Carrington said
"You are just going to have to leave him to his own, I can try, but to get one with enough intelligence and strength to defeat him will not be easy, not easy at all" Wendy told him
"Can you make two to attack at the same time?" Carrington asked
"Yup. Be ready in about a day since I know what I'm doing now, although I wouldn't expect this to work. It's going to take time for me to be able to give them enough intelligence but enough strength to start even defeating the lower agents we have" Wendy said
"Although they are fairly good at what they do. Maybe we should test against them first" Carrington suggested
"Might be an idea, although they are simply not in the same class as Joanna, Jonathan, Velvet and of course your target Sean" Wendy said
"Alright, I'll have to think this over for a while…thanks for your help" Carrington said as he left the device lab
*****
Miami, Juan's bar, the Amélan shadow. 4pm.
Inside the back of the bar Juan and Sean were talking about what happened. One of the lower staff was taking care of the bar.
"So what info did you find or is it top secret or something?" Juan asked
"Actually I could do with your help. The Lierarcle hotel where is it?" Sean asked
"Oh them, they are right there" Juan pointed out into the city, where a big flashing Lierarcle sign was.
"How could I have missed that!?" Sean hit his head with his hand
"Don't worry about it, you have no idea how many people come in here and ask me that question" Juan replied
"Well, obviously that's next. Apparently the guy I'm looking for is there, although I don't know how reliable all my sources are" Sean said
"Alright, want me to be around or not?" Juan asked
"May help, you know the area?" Sean asked
"Yeah of course" Juan said
"Well let's pretend we have a lot of money…we'll get further that way" Sean said
"One problem, we don't have the money, you overestimate how much I make here" Juan said
"You may not have the money, but I do" Sean replied
"Rich? Strong? Agile? What more could you want out of life?" Juan asked giving another laugh
"How about life its self, about 15 years of it" Sean replied
"What's that?" Juan asked puzzled
"Never mind, anyway we'll go in there at about 7. Make sure you dress the part" Sean said throwing Juan about 10,000.
"Heh, not my thing, but obviously you are right, and since you are giving me money to burn, I'll do it" Juan said
At about 7, both Sean and Juan were in the typical black tuxedos that you always see in those casino like scenes and of course Sean had those shades on to cover those strange looking eyes, wondering how long it would take for them to go back to the way they were, he was getting stares from a few people and attention isn't something he wanted, but it was better then having glow in the dark like eyes which would result in stares anyway.
"Heh, I look something from a movie" Juan gave a smile. He had neatened up his hair a lot so it was straight rather than all over the place like before.
"Let's have a look around" Sean suggested
"Well whatever, but why do you wear those sunnies all the time?" Juan asked
"I'll show you another time, now isn't the place to show you" Sean said as he went around, trying to remind himself than Juan was not another Carrington Institute agent so naturally wasn't as disciplined as one and had to remind himself of this. Approaching the Nebaenaska table he sat in front of the dealer and despite a strange look he began dealing cards. It was a newer game so Sean wasn't quite sure on how to play it, but this didn't matter.
A/N: Nebaenaska is a totally meaningless word that was thought up at 3am, I just didn't want to use Black jack or that other card game that's commonly used like almost every other scene like this does.
It became quickly known that Sean had a lot of money. Juan wonder what Sean was doing while Sean was losing on purpose.
"You know how to play this?" Juan asked Sean
"Does it matter?" Sean replied
"Hey Peter, check out table number 18, the guy plays like an idiot" One of the people said watching Sean from a camera
"Hmm… What's with him?" Trent asked. He insisted everybody call him Peter just in case his actual name was mentioned in front of somebody it shouldn't have been
About 5 minutes later, Sean decided to start playing seriously getting a bit of help from Juan, and it quickly turned in his favour, even the dealer looked slightly concerned.
"Fiona, deal with him would you darling?" Trent asked
"Certainly Peter" Fiona gave Trent a smile
The dealer suddenly moved aside and Fiona was at the table, Sean didn't even look up but then suddenly he began to realise that he was losing money again. He then looked up and saw Fiona. She recognised him.
"What are you doing here, you are only asking for trouble. You'll only get yourself killed" Fiona continued dealing. She had her long hair out and wore a blue dress.
"Yeah you look different when you aren't in a bathrobe, where's your friend?" Sean asked
"Yeah very funny, he's upstairs" Fiona replied. She seemed a lot more confident but she was still spilling out information to Sean far too easily.
"Take me to him, I want to meet him" Sean said
"…Okay" Fiona paused for a moment before agreeing
Juan got up to walk with Sean but Sean stopped him.
"Best stay here, if I don't come back in an hour go back to the bar" Sean said
Juan nodded as Sean and Fiona used the elevator to go up to the top of the large hotel/casino.
Fiona walked out of the lift as Sean continued to follow her, he wondered if Junior was being held here as Sean was taken into the office, immediately he recognised Trent in his typical red suit. He was sitting in front of a desk with the city behind him in a glass window. It seemed Trent liked the views he could get.
"Search him but be gentle" Trent ordered
2 men searched him and found Sean's Falcon 2
"Why do you carry your weapon around in a town like this? Maybe not like where you come from" Trent said
Sean said nothing, he thought Trent might be onto him, he should have got Juan to hold his weapon, Fiona watched quietly.
"Those scars I mean, rough neighbourhood? Well whatever. You don't need this here" Trent said handing the Falcon 2 back to Sean "Fiona tells me you wanted to meet me, why may I ask?" Trent asked
Sean wondered if Andy did come through with that device, he hoped for a slightly deeper voice enough for Trent not to suspect anything but not too much for Fiona to suspect anything either.
"I wanted to make a deposit… you do have a bank here Mr. Easton?" Sean let the real name slip, on purpose
"Hmm? You know my real name… interesting…how though?" Trent asked
Suddenly the glass broke. 5 men jumped in through the window. Sean took a quick scan and noticed all of them were holding Dragons, in a quick analysis he knew this meant US Military.
"You are all under…" One of the men started but he was interrupted by gun fire, Trent's men fired their K7 Avengers to fight back while Sean and Trent instinctively ducked underneath the desk. Sean took out a combat boost he had and used it.
"Hey could you help me, I'll pay you good" Trent said to Sean very slowly.
Sean was far from interested in helping Trent but he knew if he stayed where he was, he and Trent would be arrested, he had no choice he had to help as Trent's men were hiding and firing. It all seemed to move in slow motion, just like it was supposed to. Trent's men had dealt with 2 of them but there were still 3 that were approaching his position and a lot of Trent's men were falling. Sean stood up and fired his Falcon at one of them wounding him trying not to kill but stun instead and because everything was so much slower it was made a lot easier to dodge the bullets as he shot the another in the arm causing him along with his friend to drop their weapons while Trent's men dealt with the final one. The rest of Trent's men picked up their weapons and some more of Trent's guards grabbed the two soldiers. There was only 1 of Trent's men left out of the 5 guarding the room.
"Screw you bastard!" The soldier shouted struggling with Trent's men
"Put them in the cell. I'll get somebody to interrogate them later" Trent said, angered.
"Yes Mr. Macolyan" one of Trent's men said while they were struggling holding the men down
"Just forget the fake name, it doesn't seem to matter what I do I'll never end up losing everybody" Trent said as his men left. Fiona and Sean remained in the room. Fiona didn't seem too bothered by what had happened in front of her.
Trent, Sean and Fiona moved into another room, this one had no windows.
"It seems I owe you one, not only did you protect me you also captured them for me. Unfortunately whatever you came to see me about can't happen, I have to leave right now. First the Institute got me and now the US Military, that's it I'm fleeing the country" Trent said
"Oh where are you going?" Sean asked. He didn't like the fact he helped the guy he wanted dead but it could turn out to help him a lot more if he could get Trent to trust him, however he would need to play his cards very carefully.
"Wait that gives me an idea. How would you like to be my personal bodyguard, I don't even know your name though" Trent said "But hey, you did some great stuff there, regardless of where you come from or whatever it doesn't matter I need somebody to protect me better than these incompetent fools" Trent said
"Name's Mark Kane, I need to think about it first" Sean said. Trent had said the exact words he wanted him to say, he had no doubts in his mind that he would accept Trent's deal. The saying keep your friends closer, keep your enemies closer crossed his mind.
"Nice to meet you Mr. Kane, but how did you know me before?" Trent asked
"Friend at dataDyne, told me to see you, said I'd find you here" Sean replied
"Hmm, well whatever. It pays very well, but if you are going to make a decision it's either now or never. Sorry to rush this, but I have no choice" Trent said
"Alright, I'll do it, when do we leave?" Sean asked
"Tomorrow, and that's when you start. Come back outside there will be a limo waiting for you. Can I ask though, why do you wear those glasses all the time for" Trent said
"Well… if you must know" Sean said as he took of his glasses for a split second and Trent saw into those yellowish coloured eyes as he stepped back, Sean immediately put the glasses back on.
"That's different, those things must almost glow in the dark. I'll stop asking probing questions" Trent said
"Thanks" Sean replied
"Anyway Fiona show him downstairs" Trent said
"Very well Trent" Fiona said as she gave him a kiss
Sean and Fiona went downstairs and Juan saw him and started walking outside.
"Who's that?" Fiona asked
"Just somebody I know" Sean replied
"You're a secretive guy aren't you" Fiona said "Come this way" Fiona walked Sean into a small room
She then took out some kind of device, Sean thought she would attack but she didn't instead she seem move the device around the walls.
"Right, it's safe" Fiona said
"Huh? What's safe?" Sean asked
"This room, no bugs, cameras or anything" Fiona replied
"What do you mean?" Sean wondered where this was leading to
"Firstly, I am an undercover agent for the NSA, not Trent's boyfriend. I couldn't care less about the slime ball. I also know you are a Carrington Institute agent, your weapon, the combat boost and also your accuracy it all leads to you being an Institute agent. I am on direct orders from the President to spy on him but wait until his orders come to do anything to him. I'll be definitely questioning who gave orders for that attack because I know he didn't give them and he insisted that nothing be done against Trent without his approval. I'm Mary Bluetorra, what's your real name?" Mary asked
"Firstly prove it to me you work for the NSA" Sean said
"Fair enough" Mary replied showing her ID
Sean scanned it carefully, it passed his approval.
"Okay, I'm Sean Lomberson" Sean replied
"What so you are the one who has been on the Maian planet for the past 8 years?" Mary asked
"Yes. Although why does the President want nothing to happen to Trent?" Sean asked
"Because he wants to capture not kill, the military have other ideas. Anyway we better leave, but why are you here from why does Daniel Carrington want Trent for" Mary asked
"Technically I'm not really an institute agent well not at the moment, but I was one, Daniel doesn't want him, but I do. I resigned because of it, I am after Trent's kid. I want to get him back before anything happens to him" Sean said
"Are you sure that's all?" Mary asked with a smile
"Well I want Trent too, another of my allies is affected by him too" Sean replied with a slight smile
"Well good. Anyway I'll talk later, I'm glad I have somebody else to depend on, it will be funny that the two people that Trent probably trust most are going to turn on him" Mary gave a laugh before opening the door.
Sean met up with Juan outside…they headed to the bar again as Juan flicked on the lights they walked in
"How'd you go?" Juan asked
"Fantastic, but I'll have to leave tomorrow" Sean said
"Ah well, good meeting you again" Juan said
"Yeah, great meeting you too" Sean replied
"Why do you wear those glasses?" Juan asked with a smile
"Oh not again… you are persistent. Fine" Sean took them off again revealing his bright yellow eyes
Juan stepped back in surprise as Sean put them back on again.
"Well I've got to find somewhere to sleep" Sean said
"Just stay here, don't worry about it" Juan stretched a bit and yawned
"Thanks again Juan, you've been great. If I can come back here I'll make sure I'll see you" Sean said
"Okay, I'll just be in here, you can sleep in the other room. Nobody has ever used it before" Juan walked into a room and Sean walked into the room Juan pointed to. He changed and then turned out the light, landed on the bed, thankfully his eyes didn't really glow in the dark but it was annoying getting all these questions about them, but what could he do.