Mary and Sean got off the plane with Trent behind them. It was raining when he landed, Mary and Trent went quickly inside and Sean went in after him. Sean was wearing the high ranking dataDyne uniform unlike before when he was talking to Velvet.
"Welcome to dataDyne Hong Kong I guess" Trent told him
"Thanks, where's the Institute girl?" Sean asked
"She'll be along soon. Anyway could you go check on production downstairs, there should be 50 of the new shoes. I'll send the girl down and when you check it for me you can try again to get info out of her. Fiona show him down would you dear?" Trent asked
"Certainly" Mary replied as she walked down the hall way and towards a lift.
Sean and Mary went into the lift, and headed to production as Mary led him there.
"Ah you must be Mark, and as always it's nice to see you Fiona" A man in his late 30's greeted them, Sean saw right through it, he was not happy to see either of them.
"How many of these shoes have you got" Sean asked, he wondered why Trent was making such a big deal about shoes
"50 exactly with the specified shoes, and we fired the twins as requested by Trent" The man smiled
"Alright, seems all good" Sean said
"Good work" Mary told him
"Thank you both" The man walked away and went back to his computer, Sean peered back into the room and caught him playing a game of some kind on the computer, Sean just ignored it.
Mary and Sean kept walking down a hallway and down some stairs.
"I can't believe they sacked the twins, I wonder why they did that for?" Mary wondered aloud.
"Why is it a big deal?" Sean said
"The twins are what have their suicide secret, unless they were stupid enough to tell somebody what it was, but that's unlikely, they wouldn't tell anybody" Mary said
"Suicide secret?" Sean asked
"Well yeah, it's a type of needle poison that no matter where it is injected it kills instantly, extremely lethal. Trent had it put into shoes so that his men couldn't be forced to talk instead they could just commit suicide on capture" Mary told him
"Nice, although how would he get his men to be so loyal?" Sean asked
"Fear, fear and a big pay cheque" Mary replied "If Trent got his hands on somebody that gave information they would suffer a far worse death then instant poison" Mary said as she opened the staircase door to the cell level. Outside the cell she was instructed to go to there were 2 guards outside. They stood aside and Sean walked in with Mary, he scanned with the device Mary gave him and found nothing. It was a large white room with no windows just some kind of ventilation system but there was no way anything could get through. Mary left the room and left Sean to speak to Velvet
"Carrington should have sent Jon or somebody out here by now, you'll be out soon" Sean told her
"Okay" Velvet replied with a bit of sadness in her voice
"You okay?" Sean asked Velvet
"Aside being in this cell I'm fine, but what are you going to do?" Velvet asked
"I'm not sure, it depends on what happens" Sean replied
However the door opened and a guard walked in.
"Sir, Mr. Easton wants to see you" The guard said
"What now?" Sean asked annoyed
"Yes sir" He replied
"Very well. Ill be back again later, and next time I won't be so kind to you" Sean said as he walked away from Velvet and exited closing the door behind him.
Sean headed back upstairs with the guard who lead him into Trent's office.
"So, anything?" Trent asked
"I couldn't really try, I'm not getting anywhere" Sean replied
"Well, as I said it didn't really matter" Trent replied
Sean was annoyed, even if he was really working for him there was no way he could get anything out of Velvet, then it had hit him. Trent didn't want him to see Velvet at all it was just a diversion so Trent could get Junior in without him knowing where he was.
"It's all so exciting" Trent said
"What is?" Sean asked playing along
"My project, it's all coming together, first the death of the only two who know anything and then only 4 hours to go" Trent smiled
"Oh" Sean replied. If his project meant Junior it meant he only had 4 hours to find him, but that would be impossible if he had to be by Trent's side.
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Jonathan continued to look at the device. If he could get Wendy and Grimshaw to look at it together surely they could work out what it did.
"Hey guys, I have some people back in America who could work out what that thing does" Jonathan told them
"Oh no, things tend to disappear like that, I'm not giving this up" Kel said
"It's useless to you, surely you won't make much for it" Jonathan replied
"You'd be surprised at some of the crap my brother can convince people to buy" Mel said "Although it's only a matter of time before you dig a hole too deep for us to get out of, maybe if I go with him it won't go walk about" Mel finished
"No way, who cares what the thing does" Kel said
"I do honestly, what if we are throwing away heaps, I've just got a feeling on this" Mel replied
"So you want to travel across an ocean to another country all based on a feeling…" Kel put sarcastic emphasis on feeling
"Stupid brat! You'd never understand! Unlike you I don't want to be here going nowhere for the rest of my life" Mel said
"Why you!" Kel went to tackle Mel. Joanna suddenly heard an all too familiar sound.
"GUYS! GET OUT BOMB!" Joanna shouted out loud as she and Jonathan ran out, Mel and Kel didn't make contact so were able to run out after them and it was a good thing because just after Mel and Kel got out the bottom floor exploded.
Mel got up from the ground after diving out. Joanna and Jonathan looked at the hovercopter in the sky, it was definitely a dataDyne one.
"We aren't out of this yet" Jonathan started running and Joanna followed. Mel and Kel stared at their house until Joanna took their hands and they all started running away from the explosion. Soon the twins worked out why, the house began to crumble from the bottom and the entire structure fell into a hole created in the ground and another explosion occurred just over where they were standing.
"Our home, our things, everything!" Kel shouted
"At least we got out ourselves" Mel replied
"And yet you fail to notice we HAVE nothing!" Kel shouted back
"Hovercopter variant Skedar bomb?" Jonathan asked Joanna
"Yeah, seems about right" Joanna replied
"Whatar bomb?" Mel asked
"Never mind" Jonathan said
"How did you know that was going to happen?" Mel asked
"Heard it drop from the hovercopter" Joanna replied
"dataDyne, hovercopter! Let's go right now, I don't take anything lying down" Kel said "You coming Mel?" Kel asked running off
"Definitely, let's go" Mel ran after him
Jonathan and Joanna didn't quite know what to do. They had to go there anyway but it was probably wiser to plan the attack. However they needed to know of its location so decided to follow them.
About 4 blocks down they came to some glass doors. The dataDyne logo on them and on top of the building.
"Seems unbreakable doesn't it?" Kel smiled almost glad when he punched the glass and it shattered easily
"Haha, not so unbreakable now" Mel replied
"He's that strong?" Joanna asked
"He can dream that he is, but he just uses a gold ring on his knuckle to shatter any glass on contact" Mel said as Jonathan took out his Magnum and shot one of the guards coming while Kel overwhelmed the other by disarming him and using his own weapon against him. Both of the guards were armed with CMP150's. After the twins took their ammo they started peering around the building looking for enemies shooting on finding them.
"Well, we are in now" Joanna smiled
"You should get along fine with these two, you have one obvious trait in common shoot first ask questions later. Oh and be as noisy as possible" Jonathan laughed
"Oh knock it off" Joanna followed the twins and Jonathan walked behind her.
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An alarm sounded
"What could it possibly be now!" Trent shouted from his desk
"Sir intruders from the front door!" A guard said showing Trent the pictures.
"Shit! How did the Institute find me already!" Trent shouted looking at Jonathan and Joanna "And those twins I thought you took care of them!" Trent pointed at the person who had dropped the bomb from the hovercopter
"But sir, their house blew up! I destroyed it!" He replied
"Don't give me that shit, you didn't check to see if they escaped, and now somehow they formed an alliance with the Institute" Trent picked up his DY357 Magnum and fired at the pilot who died immediately.
"Mark, get the prisoner from downstairs now!" Trent demanded "Activate the proxy mine doors" He continued to order people around
"Yes sir" A guard replied
The twins then came to a door. They were about to open it when…
"STOP!" Joanna shouted
The twins turned back immediately
"Step back!" She ordered
The twins did as they were told, stepping a good distance away.
Joanna then threw a timed mine but getting near the door it exploded
"What?" Mel said surprised
"Proximity mines, they would blow up if you tried to open the door" Joanna said
"Then how'd you know?" Kel asked
"Threat detector on this mine" Joanna replied showing another timed mine giving her an easy sight range of where any explosive or autogun device was.
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"Come on, let's go…" Sean said
"What? Where?" Velvet asked
"I'm not sure" Sean replied
"Not sure? What's going on?" Velvet asked
Another thought had crossed Sean's mind what if he allowed Velvet to find Joanna and let her know he was inside, there were too many options, all leading to different possibilities.
"Trent's office, Joanna is here with Jonathan to rescue you. I have a plan" Sean said
"Why can't I go to her?" Velvet asked
Sean thought for a moment "If you do, Trent will see it and run and my cover will be likely blown" Sean replied as they went up the stairs, Velvet could hear the gunfire.
"I hope you know what you are doing" Velvet said
"So do I" Sean smiled nervously
Sean returned to Trent's office with Velvet who pretended to struggle.
"Well, at least you got her here. The project is going right on schedule, they'll be just in time to face it" Trent smiled as they all waited for the inevitable. Eventually Joanna and friends would come through those doors leading to the office and that's when the move would be made. However at that very moment a hole blew up in the side of the wall. After the smoke cleared Sean saw Jonathan, Joanna and the twins. Mary drew out a black pistol and pointed it to Trent's head, Sean followed with his Falcon 2.
"Don't shoot, they are on our side" Velvet waved her arms as she ran to Joanna as Sean had let her go when he pulled out his gun on Trent.
"You bastards! How could you betray me!?" Trent shouted
"Trent Easton, you are under arrest for the kidnapping and attempted murder of the President of the United States" Mary said "Whew, I've always wanted to say that" Mary smiled at Sean and he returned it
"Who the hell are you both!? Cops!? You must be kidding" Trent said
"Nice job Mary. Oh and I can't believe you didn't see right through this" Sean pocketed the shades, without the yellowness in his eyes, despite his hair and the marks on this face Trent could tell.
"You! It can't be! They told me you were dead" Trent shouted
"They also told you, that they were dead Trent" Mary said pointing to the twins
"Mary? You are Mary Bluetorra? … I should have known, I trained you once… I guess you have me beat" Trent sighed
"And now for payback" Mel said as he and Kel pulled up CMP150's they had picked up early, both aimed at his head.
However as Mary was holding Trent he disappeared.
"Cloaking damn it" Joanna shot randomly at the position at where Trent was
"Either of you get a lock?" Jonathan asked Mel and Kel
"I see a red square if that's what you mean" Mel replied "It's moving around"
"Fire!" Jonathan ordered "At the red square"
Mel did so but Trent's shield protected him from the fire but it weakened to a dark green state. He then closed the door.
"Now he got away…" Mary said slamming her weapon on the desk
"Not yet…" Kel ran towards the door
"Kel NO!" Mel and Joanna yelled out
It was too late he opened the door and Kel coped an explosion right to his face sending him backwards into the bookcase as it crashed on top of him. Mel rushed to it and tried to lift it off but the bookcase was on fire as Kel's body crashed into it, but he pushed on a part that hadn't caught fire and pushed it aside, Jonathan went to help him.
Joanna, Sean and Mary moved onto dealing with Trent as they went through the door after the explosion had faded as they ran outside where Trent had run away to. They were outside on the roof level, he was about to get into his plane when Mary fired her weapon twice and the plane door caught fire. She reloaded and Trent looked behind him.
"Ah you've done well to fool me for this long but this is the last time" Trent smiled and he suddenly drew a Super Dragon and used the grenade function as all three dived away.
"Come on darling, bring it on!" Trent laughed as he fired another shot at Mary, Mary dived well out of the range turned around and fired back this time using standard bullets but they seemed to do nothing to Trent. Sean fired his Falcon 2 but that didn't seem to do anything either.
"I see you like my new armour. You are going to have to try harder!" Trent smiled
"Cheap little arsehole, you aren't getting the better of me this time" Joanna shouted angrily as she ran at Trent who fired at her but she narrowly dodged the grenade.
"Cover me, I have an idea" Mary said as she ran towards a ladder
Sean fired at Trent to get his attention but he was too busy trying to deal with Joanna who was at close range and tried to kick the super dragon out of his hands but Trent saw her coming and simply punched her as she tried to disarm him. Joanna staggered backwards and then went in for another attack while Trent fired a grenade at Sean but again he dived out of the explosion range. He then noticed Mary climbing a ladder to further up on the building and just as he was about to fire with the weapon Joanna knocked it out of his hands and then tried to knock him down with a punch to his face…
CLANG! Joanna's fist made contact with Trent's face but she shouted in pain when she did and Trent barely reacted, she was shaking her fist and tried to get away but Trent pushed her down and went for his weapon again.
"Stand away from him!" Mary ordered
Trent picked up his weapon just as Mary fired her gun, as it hit Trent he was covered with an electric field and shouted in pain and dropped the weapon on the ground as he did so Joanna immediately capitalised, the electric field wore off and he went for the weapon again as Sean fired at his head still no effect but it knocked him back slightly giving Joanna the distraction she needed to pick up the Super Dragon.
"I win this round… I'll see you in hell" Joanna smiled as she fired the Super Dragon grenade launcher at Trent who was still stunned from the electric field and it blew up on Trent as it made contact. However it wasn't the usual contents of a human that were going everywhere, it was different… somehow…
"Why did you do that for?! I wasn't authorised to kill him!" Mary shouted
"That isn't the real Trent" Joanna replied
"Very good Miss Dark, now for your next assignment I have somebody I'd like you to meet" Trent's voice echoed over a loudspeaker system.
"Damn it! There is no end to the madman" Sean stomped his foot
A man of at least 6 foot stepped out from behind the plane, he couldn't have been older then early 20's, he was carrying that new pistol dataDyne had and a Rocket launcher. He had straight black hair but anything else was hard to make out. Joanna went to fire but…
"That's…" Sean started
"Yes?" Trent's voice on the speaker said
"What kind of lunatic would do something this low. You really are insane" Sean shouted out
"I'm glad you think so… now let's see how you deal with him" Trent said
"What is it Sean?" Joanna asked
"That thing… it's Junior…" Sean replied
"It is time to for you to die!" Junior said coldly as he drew a Rocket launcher.
All three were ready to move however he turned around and fired the rocket off in another direction. It was heading for Trent's plane
"WHAT!? NOOO!" Trent's voice on the loudspeaker shouted as the plane blew up into a big explosion. However a parachute had been thrown out of the plane with Trent and Joanna didn't hesitate to fire but she didn't need to, parts of the blown up plane starting coming back down and put a big hole in the parachute sending it and Trent right to the ground and to Joanna's feet. She gave him a hard hit across the face with her Falcon 2, he whimpered slightly in pain and defeat, before Joanna hit him again knocking him out.
"It's the real deal" Joanna smiled
"Could be a clone" Mary said
Joanna took out her data Uplink…
"What's that?" Mary asked
"Data Uplink, usually hacks computers but in this case I can ask the hackers at the Institute to see if it's a clone by scanning some kind of thing in his body… I have no idea how it works but it gets updated every month or so now" Joanna replied
"Nahh Jo, no clone ya got there, it's human" Grimshaw's voice came through "That's the reallllll Trent Easton" Grimshaw added
"Good, thanks Grimshaw" Joanna was very pleased with herself, not even Grimshaw would get her out of this good mood. She liked to settle a score. However at looking at Sean and Junior she realised her victory came at a cost.
"What happened!? One minute I was… small… now I am tall… and my voice… I don't understand it, the only thing I remember before this is wanting just to get out of here…" Junior said
"Don't worry, we'll find a way back to your younger self" Sean said.
Jonathan came outside.
"Come on, Velvet's going to the hospital" Jonathan said
"Velvet is here?" Junior asked
"You remember Velvet? What else do you remember?" Sean asked
"I remembered everything that I knew before my father got me… except what happened when I suddenly grew big" Junior said
Sean gave a sigh of relief at least Trent hadn't erased his memory as he thought he may have done.
"Although Velvet seems to be okay they just want to make sure. Unfortunately Kelvin is already dead…" Jonathan said
Joanna again felt sad, despite taking Trent down it had killed one person and drastically changed another, yet all she thought about was 'her' victory and 'her' revenge.
"You guys go down, I'll watch over him" Sean told them
"Then I'll stay here…" Junior said
They went down to the bottom floor and an ambulance was there, Kel's body was in a bed covered by a sheet and Velvet was getting a look over. Only two could go inside with them. It went without saying that Joanna and Mel went in... Jonathan and Mary both watched them leave then went to return to Sean and Junior.
"I'm sorry" Joanna said as the ambulance drove off.
"Huh? For what? This is only Easton's fault, if I had it my way I'd kill him" Mel said
"Believe me I wanted to" Joanna said
"Why didn't you?" Mel asked
"So we can get info out of him" Joanna replied
"Like that's really going to do any good, he won't tell you anything" Mel said
"Ah, but we can make him tell the truth with a device we have, and there are worse things then death" Joanna replied
Mel gave a slight smile
"I hope my brother doesn't give his life for nothing" Mel sighed
"He won't, don't worry" Joanna sat a little closer to Mel "Listen, I know it's not much but I still have this…" Joanna showed the communication device they had earlier
"You guys, keep it… while Kel could sell worthless stuff, I can't, I'm just too honest" Mel said as he put his face into his hands and cried weakly to himself. Joanna didn't know what to do, but despite only knowing him for a few hours she moved aside him and held him. She felt a little guilty despite what had happened wasn't her fault.
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Jonathan was standing with Sean, Mary, and Junior, just waiting for news from Joanna and then he'd contact Carrington and let him know what was going on. However Carrington had contacted him first…
"Jonathan? You there?" Carrington's voice came
"Here sir" Jonathan replied
"Oh good, I tried Joanna but she wasn't responding" Carrington said "So what's the status?" Carrington asked
"Mission complete. We found the place, went to dataDyne, captured Trent and that's it isn't it?" Jonathan asked
"All done in that time? You both never cease to surprise me" Carrington said
"Well we had a bit of help" Jonathan said. He then put his hand over the talking end and spoke to Sean
"You want me to tell him you are here?" Jonathan asked
Sean thought, after the robot attack maybe he should hear what Carrington has to say if he doesn't like it, he doesn't have to listen to it. Sean still shook his head undecided for the moment.
"Well, what kind of help?" Carrington asked
"One in the form of an NSA agent after Trent, another from two twins who used to work for dataDyne, unfortnately one lost their life here tonight by proximity mine" Jonathan said
"You mean Melvin and Kelvin?" Carrington asked
"Yes, how did you know?" Jonathan asked
"We traced the original needle to them so that's how I knew their names but I guess what happened can wait until later" Carrington said "Which one died?" Carrington asked
"Kelvin" Jonathan replied
"That's not good. From what I dug up on them to help you find them they appeared to be struggling financially when their parents died, but seemed to make it back since they started working unofficially as its stated here for dataDyne. Be sure to see to it that he's okay" Carrington said
Sean overheard the last part, maybe some of what he said had got through to him, but maybe this was a little too much… could Carrington know he was there.
"Tell him I'm here" Sean said. He didn't know, maybe Carrington had come to his senses, although after everything that has happened he perhaps slightly regretted what had happened now.
"Oh, and by the way Jonathan did you find Trent's kid?" Carrington asked
Sean again nodded
"Yes… Sean is here too…" Jonathan added
Carrington was silent for a moment. Sean then thought he had made a mistake
"Will he let me speak with him?" Carrington asked
Jonathan looked over at Sean who reluctantly nodded; Jonathan passed the communicator to Sean.
"I just want to say you gave me a strong reminder of what this place is about, this is going to sound silly coming from me but I'm sorry about what happened…" Carrington said
"It doesn't matter, probably if I didn't run off you'd come across him anyway, nothing we can do about it now" Sean said
"Anyway, is Junior alright?" Carrington asked
"Sort of... Junior is a little bigger then he should be. The reason I didn't want to wait was because I feared something like this happening… Trent has used Skedar technology to develop Junior 10 years older but I don't think Trent got time to brainwash him or whatever, I don't know" Sean finished
"Are you coming back to the Institute?" Carrington asked "I may have a way to solve the problem" Carrington said
"Alright, I guess I'll come back, but don't assign me to anything" Sean replied
"Haha, I knew you'd say that" Carrington said giving a laugh.
"Do you want to speak to Jonathan again?" Sean asked
"Yes but I imagine he can hear me anyway" Carrington said
Jonathan nodded
"He can" Sean said
"I have been hiding a secret from you again… now don't go crazy it's not life threatening… yet, but I'll tell you all as soon as you arrive" Carrington then put down the communicator
Jonathan took his communicator back.
"Well, I can't say I'm surprised but I guess it's better he's admitting he's keeping a secret from us" Sean said
"So you made peace?" Jonathan gave a smile
"Oh come on, it's not that funny" Sean replied
"Seeing you two fight is like seeing nuns fighting" Jonathan started laughing
"Oh haha" Sean said rolling his eyes
"Sean?" Junior said
"Yes?" Sean replied
Junior breathed deeply "I'm not sure if I want to be younger again"
Yes, cliff hangerish stuff again and there hasn't been enough of it... I don't like keeping readers waiting on the story but I realise some people say they are annoyed by it but actually like it.