Ok I had some free time finally so here's the next chapter I know EVERYONE has been waiting for. Lol (btw I'm getting some great ideas so get ready for the future chapters)
"I want every file pulled on that agent. I want every picture and every scrap of information gathered. Have I made my self clear?" Black Ghost shouted down at a research scientist from the cat-walk he stood upon. The scientist nodded once and saluted before he scurried off to obey. Immediately another scientist ran up below him.
"Sir I think there is something you should know." He called as he motioned respectfully for his commander to follow. Black Ghost did so none too happily. He glared at the man when he had finally reached his side.
"What is it? You had better hope you aren't wasting my time." The scientist shook his head.
"Believe me sir, you'll definitely find this interesting." The man led Black Ghost over to the time machine which was surrounded by technicians, workers, and many other men of skilled intelligence. He pulled out his clipboard from his wide lab-coat pocket and flipped to a page covered with notes. "Apparently the machine portal has opened by itself, and not just once."
"What?"
"The portal opened on its own sir. We discovered it last night when it, in fact, opened before our very eyes. Nothing emerged, but it is quite possible something could have."
"When was the first time it opened, do you know?" The scientist nodded.
"About a month ago, and what we don't know is if something came through or not." Black Ghost sighed heavily as the research scientist came running up, very winded.
"Sir…sir the only record we had of him was the record of his employment. I located his birth certificate information, and…my god sir."
"SPIT IT OUT!" Black Ghost bellowed.
"It says he was born twenty years before his organization even existed! Sir, he has the same birth date as you!"
"Many people were born on that date."
"Yes sir, but not all of them have lived for more than a century." Black Ghost narrowed his eyes.
"Yes…yes that is indeed true." He turned and left the two men standing there, as he made his way to his head general's office. He kicked the door open, which crashed against the inside wall.
"Find the ghost agent Kyle. Hunt him down. I want him back in this base for questioning."
"So Kyle," 002 sat opposite Kyle in the living room, "where are you from?" Kyle shrugged in reply and didn't say anything. 002 didn't press him and moved on to a different question.
"When did you start working for Black Ghost?" Kyle sighed and lifted his gaze to stare out the open window.
"About a month ago." He answered simply.
"Why?"
"Because I wanted to see what became of me."
"What do you mean?"
"I got there face to face, and I didn't like what I saw."
"You're confusing me Kyle." 002 narrowed his eyes as he tried to make sense of the twisted explanation of Kyle.
"Never mind 002," 003 walked into the room.
"Do you mean that you were face to face with Black Ghost?" Kyle smiled weakly.
"Something like that. Look guys, it's very difficult to explain. You'll understand when all of this is over, one way or another." He closed his eyes and sighed deeply as a soft breeze floated in through the window. "Excuse me but I need to be alone to think for a minute." 003 and 002 watched him as he rose and walked out through the front door to the porch.
"He's a very odd guy." 003 observed.
"Not as odd as 007." 002 joked.
"No I'm serious Jet. He's odd. Not necessarily in a bad way." 002 only rolled his eyes and shrugged.
"I don't know what to tell ya." 009 entered the living room dressed in his Cyborg uniform.
"Get ready you two. We're going to fly near the Black Ghost base so you can look into it 003." 003 frowned as she walked past him, and to her room to change into her own uniform. 002 did the same.
"There's an odd machine with a hatch door or something shaped in a vertical oval" 003 shared with the rest of the team as she gazed out and beyond the ship and the ground which the base was hidden under. Kyle tensed slightly and immediately relaxed. 009 noticed this.
"What's up?" he asked kindly.
"Nothing 009." His looked irritated. "Do you guys never go by your names?"
"Yeah, we do a lot."
"Then why go by your numbers at all?"
"I really don't know. I guess because that's what we called each other before we knew everyone's name. A number practically describes what we are."
"You're human to me. The difference between you and all these other Cyborgs in that organization is that you have feelings and opinions. You have a personality." 009 was quiet for a while and then he finally spoke once again.
"My name's Joe. Joe Shimamura," 009 got up and made his way closer to 003 so he could hear her descriptions of the base better. Kyle half-smiled to himself as he watched 009 walk away.
"That 'odd machine' is a time machine." He called to the others suddenly. Everyone spun around to look at him.
"A what?" 002 demanded in his surprise.
"A time machine. The one they need test subjects for."
"Test subjects meaning us." 004 said. Kyle nodded grimly.
"Right." 009 put his hand on 003's shoulder as her head still faced downward as she looked through the floor of the ship to the base.
"You can stop now Françoise. I think we've found our main target." She straightened her neck and rolled her shoulders back.
"Bending over like that for and hour is not very comfortable. Anyway, what's our target?"
"The time machine." Kyle answered. He sat down in a chair as the ship was turned around to head back to the cave not far from the beach house. 'It will all make sense in time.'
Yay! There will be some action next chapter, I promise.