Chapter 23- The True Plan.
"Are you sure The General is gone Captain?" Eustace's harsh voice rang through the building, and Captain D stood beside him and nodded.
"I am sure my master, the android is dead. We can now advance to the true plan then?"
"If The General has been dealt with then yes, the true plan can begin. How soon can you make the attack?"
"Within the hour, but Neutron will figure out that we have a secondary scheme. Him and his meddling friends will be prepared, we should have a distraction." Eustace considered the cause of action, and then made a decision.
"I will handle Neutron, you make sure that everything goes ahead with our schelude." Captain D bowed.
"Soon master we will rule the universe, soon endgame will come." Eustace laughed triumphantly, Neutron had no idea of what was coming for him...
Jimmy and Cindy looked over the edge of the building, but they couldn't spot Nick's body. The mall had been surrounded by Eustace's machines, and Jimmy was not paticularly anxious to go outside to meet them. The General's body had been left where it lay, the memory banks had been wiped. The cyborg was useless.
Libby and Carl had arrived a while after the end of Nick, and the machines had come soon after. The group was now trapped inside the mall, and now Jimmy and Cindy were converting the shopping centre into a base.
Libby was in a corner crying, first Sheen, now Nick. The teenager couldn't take much more of this, it was like she was destined to be miserable. Why did this happen to her, first of all Sheen was a traitor; and now Nick had been murdered. She felt as if her world had been torn apart, and that it could never be restored. This was all Eustace's fault, and she would make sure he paid for his atrocities.
Sheen woke up to find himself in a chair tied up, and Ed Mercy was stading over him with an evil grin.
"Awake Mr Estevez, I was starting to think that you would remain like that forever." Ed smiled cruelly, he was enjoying Sheen's torment.
"What do you want with me?" Sheen questioned the sinister banker, and Ed simply laughed darkly. And then his voice became lower, more evil.
"All good things come to those who wait Sheen, soon you'll be dead. Just wait a little longer, and then you'll be dead. And you won't be coming back." Ed murmured the words, and Sheen looked afraid. Just the opening the banker needed.
"I'll make you suffer Estevez, make you pay. I have half an hour before my friends arrive, half an hour of playtime. Lets play guns shall we?" Ed pulled out a gun with a silencer attached, and pointed it straight at Sheen.
"Goodbye Sheen Estevez." Sheen braced himself, and felt a hot surge of pain. The bullet had ripped through his arm, and not his head or chest. Mercy didn't want to kill him straight away, he wanted to prolong the agony; to have more fun as he put it.
"Did it hurt Sheen. well it will hurt a lot more. But I won't kill you, this will." Ed placed a minature version of a bomb beside Sheen, and set it for five minutes.
"Have fun dying Sheen." Mercy left the room, and Sheen was all alone as the bomb counted down...
Sheen had to do something, he had four minutes before the end. The key was hanging on a chain behind his head, but both his arms were chained to the chair; and only one foot was free. It had been left free to give Sheen a tiny sliver of hope, so that it could be abruptly taken from him when he died. There had to be a way out, one foot free; and the key was just behind his head. Sheen had a brilliant idea, if he could use his one special talent he could get the key! Slowly with his one foot Sheen put his leg behind his head, and hooked the key off the chain. Now he dropped it into his fingers, and after a minute of fiddling around with it his left hand was free. He now quickly freed himself, and looked at the bomb. He had another minute left, Sheen ran out of the room and got away as fast as possible. He was inside the Retroville bank, and in twenty five minutes something was going to attack it. He had to warn everyone, but first he had to make a phone call.
Sheen stood in the shdows as a banker walked past, he had to time it to perfection. One banker walked past, and ever so gently Sheen took his mobile phone. The boy then returned to the shadows before anyone spotted him, the bomb should have gone off by now, what was going on?
Ed smiled, the bomb was actually controlled remotely. He took the remote out of his pocket, and pressed the button. A signal was automatically sent out, and seconds later an explosion could be heard from a few corridors away. People began to scream, and security headed in the direcion of the disturbance immediately. Ed pocketed the control, and walked back to the main room smiling. Sheen was dead.
Sheen heard the blast, and scowled at how Mercy had tricked him. He had made him believe that he would have been killed in five minutes, the banker was messing with his head. And it was affecting the teenager badly. He dialled one number, and let it ring for a while. He just hoped that the person would pick up in time.
Jimmy heard his mobile ringing, and answered it at once. The genius was surprised to hear Sheen's voice on the other end of the line.
"Jimmy, I need your help. Please you've got to help me."
"Sheen? What are you doing calling me? You're a traitor, and now you're asking me for help. You've got some guts Sheen, I'll give you that." Sheen shook his head, and then began to talk again.
"No, I'm not a traitor. A man named Ed Mercy set me up, he has a folder with evidence that could clear my name. I just need time to get it, then I can prove my innocence." Jimmy hesitated, Sheen could be setting him up. But part of the genius didn't want to believe that his friend was Captain D, part of him wanted to listen to him; to believe him. That part of Jimmy won the inner battle raging within the teenager's mind.
"Where are you at the minute?" Jimmy inquired.
" I'm in Retroville bank, I'm going to get the evidence then leave. I should be ten minutes, where are you now?"
"At the mall, it shouldn't be hard to get in. Take the back entrance, its unguarded. How do I know I can trust you?" Sheen thought about it for a moment.
"You don't know you can trust me, you'll just have to try. And Jimmy don't leave Retroville mall, if I come and you're not there I'll disappear. And Ed Mercy knows a lot about what's being going on recently. You understand?"
"I understand Sheen, I won't move from this spot. You just get the evidence, alright?"
"Yeah." Sheen hung up, and made his way through the corridors trying to find Mercy's office. The explosion had bought him valuable time, time which he could use to do what he needed to do. He found Ed's office after five minutes, it was a tiny cubicle cramped into a room. Ed was treated horribly, he couldn't even have a decent office. Sheen searched through the draws, and found the folder. He made to leave, and headed towards the main room. There was people there, Ed wouldn't dare kill him in front of witnesses.
Sheen entered the main room, and found customers being reassured that everything wad fine. He was about to leave when he heard gunshots.
"Stay where you are Estevez! And everybody else just stay quiet, this won't take long." Ed walked into the centre of the room, and pointed his gun at the manager of the bank.
"You treated me like dirt, well now you're going to pay." The bullet went straight through the elderly man, and left him lying dead on the floor. It was horrible.
Then all of a sudden a group of soldiers burst into the bank, Eustace's soldiers. And they were led by Captain D.
"If you all stay silent, then nobody will be killed." D shouted, and the people in the bank became deadly silent.
"Glad you're on time." Ed told the Captain, and the figure nodded slowly.
"Glad you're dead." He told him, and Ed looked confused.
"But I'm not dead." He stated still perplexed over the Captain's words.
"Oh, sorry my mistake." Captain D raised his gun and fired into Mercy's head.
"You're dead now." The soldiers began to spread about the bank, the Captain was holding everyone hostage.
Eustace stood by the mall, and smiled. He had a small child in his arms, and he intended to use it to his advantage.
"Come out Jimmy! Come out now, or the child will die. Its your choice fight me, or have a three-year-old die. You have a minute to decide."
Jimmy thought about it, Sheen should have been arriving any minute. He had to stay where he was, or Sheen would vanish. But if he stayed then a child would die. He had to decide, Sheen or the child."
"Ten seconds!" Jimmy made his choice, he walked over to the doors and opened them.
"I'm here." He told the evil master, and he left Sheen to his fate...
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