Hardcore Henry: The Recharged Cut

A Hardcore Henry Fanfiction Story

Part 2:

After Henry recharges himself...

He gets on to the helicopter.

His vision is back to normal.

Henry kind of cautiously walks toward the co-pilot seat.

From the pilot seat? Estelle briefly smiles knowingly his direction.

She starts to take the helicopter up.

She asks, "you want to sit back there, Henry? Or, do you want to be next to me? Hard sniffle. No easy answer. I know."

She nervously offers a seat to Henry with a outstretched hand.

After a bit... Henry nervously gets into the co-pilot seat.

He straps in.

Estelle steers the helicopter into the night...heading back toward the airship.

Two hours later...

The two of them have landed the helicopter at the edge of the forest.

The airship from earlier and some helicopters are there too.

Henry lets Estelle stitch up the big wound in his chest.

Soon... Estelle is leading Henry back through the airship's glass corridors.

No one else seems to be here.

Estelle leads him back to a certain computer room.

Soon... Henry sits back down in a white plastic chair with white sensor pads below it.

Estelle turns on the computer anchored to the side of it. She presses some keys on the computer.

The full face green visor lowers over Henry's face.

Estelle concludes, "I know Henry. Hard sniffle. You want your own voice back. Hard sniffle. Here it is."

There's several small white lights trailing over Henry's mouth.

Then... Just as quickly... They're gone.

The visor rises.

Estelle wonders, "are you...? Hard sniffle. How are you now, Henry? Please. Hard sniffle. I'm sorry if that was too obvious. Hard sniffle. Please Henry. Just tell me something."

With a voice now... Henry says, "it... Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle! Akan is such a bastard. I... Hard sniffle! Two painful memories for different things. Hard sniffle! It's all I really have outside of...this! !"

He briefly puts his arms and clenched fists out in front of him.

Dried up dark red liquid trails are down his arms and hands.

Estelle sniffles hard. Some sobs escape from her lips.

Somberly... Estelle murmurs, "I...I know. Hard sniffle. I know Henry."

She tries hard not to cry. She sniffles hard.

Estelle highlights, "I can't give you more memories of the past. Hard sniffle. I haven't had much of a life away from Akan Inc. or Akan for years."

She finds it hard to look up. She sniffles hard.

Tears fall from Estelle's face. Some tears fall from Henry's face.

They both sniffle hard.

Estelle reveals, "Akan believed everyone was just animals. Sniffle. I don't. But... Very faint laugh. I... I thought Akan was the only hero in all of Russia. Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. I never thought I'd fall in love with a soldier: Until we were e-mailing each other. Until I really met you. Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. But, we can only walk on Henry. Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. He may have been a bastard: Akan. But... Hard sniffle. Try to not think about the violence. Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. I know you can. Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. What do you want now, Henry? What do you want now?"

There's a chilling silence.

Henry glances back to a side of his dark red liquid soaked clothes.

He sees hints of the hilt of his pistol sticking out of his pockets.

Then... He looks right at Estelle.

Henry gets up.

He says, "move from the computer. I...I have to be sure it's not happening again."

Estelle just nods.

She gulps nervously.

She steps back with her arms up.

Henry checks the computer. He experiments with some touch buttons.

But... No security alerts are coming up.

Henry sighs in very mixed relief.

He looks at Estelle again.

After a bit... Estelle brings up, "I...I know this may be too fast to consider. But... Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. I have to know now, Henry. And, I think you do too. Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. Please Henry. Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. Do you love me? Or...do you want to kill me for a part of me that still loves Akan and his work?"

She shakily stands in a open doorway to the cybernetics lab.

Tears fall from both of their faces. They sniffle hard.

There's a chilling silence.

Then... Henry kind of slowly pulls out his pistol.

Estelle gulps really nervously.

She bends down.

More tears fall from her face. Some sobs escape from her lips.

Some more tears fall from Henry's face. He tries hard not to cry.

Then... Henry tells her, "Estelle... I'm really sorry. Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. We don't have much lives to go back to. I know that much. But..."

He sniffles hard.

Some more tears fall from both of their faces.

And... Henry mutters under his breath, "but, I can't let Akan's work go on. Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. Fuck Akan and you!"

He shoots at Estelle.

But... By the time he does?

Estelle has already dived for cover in the lab.

Henry fast walks into the lab.

Suddenly... He hears a burst of very loud static.

Henry reactively doubles over some. He fights the urge to cover his ears.

A burst of glitches and black spots run across Henry's vision.

Flashes go by in his sight: Of Estelle hurriedly pressing some keys on the main computer unit for the lab.

Estelle very nervously calls out, "arms! !"

Henry is about to shoot Estelle.

But... In that second?

All five robot arms from the ceiling lift up Henry.

He violently groans.

Four of them are pulling at him in all directions to restrain him in the air.

The fifth is tearing down his chest compartment open.

Henry struggles to break free.

But... He can't seem to.

Some tears fall from both of their faces.

Estelle bends down to pick up the fallen pistol.

Estelle shakily aims it at Henry.

Henry demands, "why?! Hard sniffle. You said before..."

Some sobs escape from Estelle's lips.

She swears loudly in Russian some.

Estelle rants, "Christ! Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. That...that was before I knew. Before I knew you'd... Hard sniffle. Hard sniffle. Before I knew you'd burn all the research and soldiers down. Mine and Akan's great accomplishments! Hard sniffle! Hard sniffle! And... Hard sniffle! If I can't have you or Akan in my life? Hard sniffle. Now I have nothing to live for with you still breathing! ! Nothing! ! Nothing...you bastard! !"

And... She shoots several shots at Henry:

Toward the same open spot on his chest where the cyber charger is kept.

But... By the time she does?

Henry finally breaks his cybernetic arm loose.

He reactively blocks her shots with his cybernetic hand.

And... One of them hits Estelle right in the head.

She falls dead instantly. Brief flashes of dark red liquid splatter.

Henry quickly uses his cybernetic arm to pry loose his other arm.

He rips off the fifth robot arm with both arms.

It crashes to the floor. Plenty of sparks in the air.

It's not long before Henry pries both of his legs loose.

He lands a little shakily on the floor.

But... He gets back up.

With his finger? He writes a message in some of the dark red liquid by Estelle's dead body.

It says:

E-Z-ier now.

Henry spits in the direction of Estelle's dead body.

He takes her cell phone.

Flashes go by in his sight: Of checking her e-mails, her bank account, a suspicious picture of Akan's office with Akan telekinetically parting the ceiling to jam a picture frame into it...and a blueprint of the airship.

Henry finds his lifetime supply of cyber chargers in the second to lowest level of the airship.

It's a lot like a parking garage, oddly enough.

Henry finds plenty of explosive charges in the airship armory. More glass displays of rifles.

Henry uses a certain computer in the computer room to temporarily turn off all security alerts.

Henry then makes a few trips to the cryogenic storage section.

Each time? He's carrying a lot of explosive charges in his arms.

It's not long before Henry has placed explosive charges on all of the original ninety nine cryogenically preserved cyber soldiers. Aside from himself, of course: Who is awake and walking.

Henry closes the door on the cryogenic storage section.

And... With a pound on the door?

There's a big explosion.

In seconds... The door automatically opens.

A ton of smoke comes out of the door.

Behind the door? The flames are slowly but surely going out against the built up cryogenic cold.

Henry very faintly laughs knowingly to himself.

With nothing left for Akan Inc. to keep going as a company and no executives left alive? Akan Inc. will be no more tomorrow.

Henry fights some yawns.

He goes down some glass corridors.

He gets to the large cockpit of the airship.

It's styled like a old fashioned fighter jet cockpit. There's a silvery computer screen between the two halves of the large cockpit window.

Henry presses some touch buttons to activate autopilot mode.

In Akan's voice... A computer asks, "welcome to Akan's airship. What is your destination?"

Henry uncomfortably says, "Akan Inc."

The computer voice says, "destination verified. Piloting there now."

Henry concludes, "good. Now how do I change that goddamn voice?!"

The computer voice responds, "the only voices in file are Akan Inc. executives."

Irritated... Henry mutters, "goddamn! Heavy sigh. What if I would like to add my voice?"

The computer voice responds, "here is how: Go to the voice modulator, select manual voice control for computer voice under settings, give a voice sample, and save it."

Henry figures, "fine, fine!"

He heavily sighs to himself.

He goes and uses the voice modulator visor from earlier to manually change the airship's computer voice to his voice.

After a hour or so...

The new computer voice reports, "you are at your destination. Wreckage has prevented the airship from landing directly behind the building. Walking the rest of the way is recommended."

Henry concludes, "thank you."

He sounds annoyed.

Soon... He fast walks back into Akan's office building.

Some tears fall from Henry's face. He sniffles hard some.

He takes the elevator up.

The rest of the way is chillingly silent.

Henry moves a bunch of wreckage out of the way.

He's now on the roof...by the stairs leading to Akan's office.

Henry pulls out Estelle's cell phone.

Some more tears fall from Henry's face. He sniffles hard some.

Henry brings back up that odd picture of Akan on Estelle's cell phone.

He walks down the stairs, halfway into Akan's office.

Henry compares the odd picture of Akan to the current state of Akan's wrecked office.

Henry turns off Estelle's cell phone.

He then tosses Estelle's cell phone down the stairs.

It bounces a few times. It crashes on the bottom of the stairs.

There's a tiny shattering sound.

Henry mutters toward the cell phone, "goodbye."

He sniffles hard.

He gives the middle finger in the direction of the stairs.

Some tears fall from his face.

Henry interestingly walks all the way down the stairs.

He passes through a open door. Little glass shards are around it.

In the next room? He moves some wreckage away.

He finds a flamethrower.

He carries it back up to the roof.

He clears away more wreckage: Over a certain area of the roof over Akan's office.

Henry aims the flamethrower for it.

And... He turns on the flamethrower.

Flames scorch the certain area of the roof.

It's not long before a whole layer of roof is burned down there.

Then... Henry turns off the flamethrower.

The brown lined picture frame is seen in the scorched area of roof.

He rips off a big piece of a dark red liquid soaked jumpsuit from one of the ninety or so dead cyber soldier clones.

He wraps it around his cybernetic hand.

And... He quickly grabs up the picture frame with his cybernetic hand.

Henry quickly tears off the burning cloth with his other hand.

He groans violently quite a bit from all of his injuries. He winces some.

But... That other hand is just a little burnt.

Henry quickly goes back to the elevator.

He takes it back down.

Soon... He goes back to the airship.

He goes back to the cockpit.

He takes a look at the picture frame.

And... He gasps in very mixed feelings.

There's a medical research paper in the picture frame.

It's by Dr. Akanov: Akan's adoptive father as far back as when Akan was a baby.

The medical paper is for perfected hybridized anti-radiation proteins. Scientists could use this research alone to cure cancer, protect soldiers from radiation, and other radiation related medical conditions.

Akan could have given it to scientists around the world. But, he hid it for who knows how long in the ceiling of his office as some kind of cruel joke.

Estelle may have not even known what Akan was hiding. But...one thing is becoming clear.

This medical paper could be the key to a new life for Henry.

First things first though: Laying low.

Henry has the airship take him back to the forest to lay down.

He's laying low for a few days while Russian police and who knows who else searches the Akan Inc. office building from top to bottom.

Henry doesn't need much food or water with a cyber charger. But, even a rebel cyber soldier needs water every other day or so to keep his organs running.

There's plenty of water in the cafeteria of the airship. He can hold out alone for a few days.

A few days later...

Henry has cleaned himself up.

He's now wearing a outfit like Jimmy wore when Henry first saw him: With black pants, a white buttoned shirt, and black ops black harness straps over his shirt.

Henry has figured out what to do with the medical paper.

If he offers to give this medical paper over to the world's top scientists in exchange for three billion dollars? He would never have to work or go on the run ever again.

The good it would do for the world is a strong point in itself.

Henry has already used his cell phone to call the U.N.

They may not be the ones to make the deal with. But, it would at least get the attention of the whole political world behind closed doors: Including top scientists.

Henry has now gotten the world's governments calling him for the medical paper.

He makes the deal:

If three billion dollars sent in cash to his new Russian bank account checks out? He'll fax over the medical paper from his location the next day.

It works. But...Henry doesn't want to take any chances.

He brings two metal suitcases to literally walk out of the bank with all three billion dollars. And, he lets the bank automatically close his account on suspicions of top level fraud.

Russian police and secret service try to go after him. But...Henry is already miles away by then.

He quickly gets back on the airship.

He has the airship take him high into the sky...out of range of Russian spy helicopters.

Henry quickly turns on a red lined black fax machine in the computer room.

And... He faxes the medical paper over to the world's governments: All at the same time.

Henry faintly laughs to himself some.

A criminal charge of fraud for him from Russia is gone now. He's now a rich man.

The sun is brighter out for him.

A few days later...

Henry goes into the strip club from earlier with a metal briefcase full of cash.

A shaken usher at the door lets him in without question. But, there's no music.

The dead bodies from the shootout are gone. Puddles of dark red liquid are washed away.

Katya now has long brownish red hair: No blond wig this time.

Olga and Katya are the only others in the strip club: Standing behind the square shaped bar.

They glare suspiciously at Henry.

Henry opens up the briefcase right away. The bundles of money inside are shown.

Teary eyed... Olga swears loudly in Russian quite a bit.

Then... She mutters, "don't you tell us Jimmy wants another job from...!"

With a somber tone... Henry starts to explain, "no. Sniffle. Jimmy's dead."

Teary eyed... Katya swears loudly in Russian some.

She points out, "Henry? We're undercover Russian government agents. Faint laugh! We know he was shot."

Katya and Olga briefly show off Russian secret service badges from under their coat.

Olga faintly laughs.

Henry nervously laughs a little.

He reveals, "it's ten million dollars to make up for the shootout. There is no catch. Faint laugh. Honestly? It's more than enough to hire all the girls you need to keep this club running for your cover."

Katya checks over quite a bit of the ten million dollars by hand.

Olga somewhat cautiously looks around the bar area with her katana out.

But... There's no tricks.

They both sigh in relief.

Olga puts away her katana.

She walks back over to Katya.

Katya closes the suitcase of money.

She holds onto it: With one hand under the bar counter.

Katya says, "thank you Henry. This will be more than enough for our work...and pleasure."

Henry says, "you're welcome. Miss..."

Katya and Olga both faintly laugh some in sudden realization.

Katya and Olga introduce themselves: Their job positions for running the strip club and all.

Katya shakes Henry's hand first. Then, Olga.

Henry says, "it's good to meet the real you, ladies."

Katya and Olga firmly smile.

Olga pinpoints, "we love your early and yet very clean record with top governments all over the world. Faint laugh. We just wanted to be sure you weren't like Jimmy."

Katya adds, "I'm sure you can understand why we do, Henry."

Sounding distant all of a sudden... Henry just says, "of course. Thank you."

Olga asks in concern, "what is wrong, Henry?"

She and Katya get teary eyed. They sniffle hard a little.

Katya turns to Olga.

Katya assumes, "I think I know, Olga."

Olga briefly smiles in a knowing way to her.

Katya turns back to Henry.

She puts a comforting hand on Henry's.

Katya tries to assure, "Henry? You're good with us. Just... Faint laugh. Just promise to not lead a evil organization to our strip club. And, we will be."

Henry bittersweetly laughs some. He tells them, "I promise."

Almost at the same time... Katya and Olga say, "thank you."

They smile wide some.

Olga puts a comforting hand on Henry's other hand.

Olga offers, "we'd also love to please you back in private: If..."

She starts playfully tracing a finger over that other hand of Henry's.

Suddenly... Henry sniffles hard.

Some tears fall from his face.

The smiles fade from Katya's and Olga's faces.

They start to move their hands away. But...Henry says something.

Henry mostly admits, "please don't misunderstand me. Hard sniffle. I'm really tempted. But... Hard sniffle. I'm still mourning for my ex. Estelle. Hard sniffle. It's complicated. Hard sniffle. Olga, Katya... Sniffle. Is it okay if I call you up one day to take you up on your offer?"

What Henry doesn't want to admit to Katya and Olga now is that he's also mourning for Jimmy.

Henry knows better these days that Jimmy and his clones had some...very questionable views of women and social issues.

Being isolated, underground, and paralyzed from the waist down for months with only clones for company could drive anyone crazy. But, Henry may never know what Jimmy was like before that.

Maybe one day Henry could openly talk to Olga and Katya more about Jimmy. But, not today.

Olga and Katya bittersweetly smile.

Olga assures, "it will be all right, Henry. Hard sniffle. We understand."

Olga lightly squeezes that other hand of Henry.

Katya assures, "yes. We understand. Hard sniffle. You take as long as you need."

She leans over to Henry some. She gives him a brief kiss on the cheek.

Henry says, "thank you. Thank you very much."

The tears are slowly but surely stopping in his eyes.

The three of them exchange phone numbers and goodbyes.

Soon... Henry heads out of the strip club.

And... As he goes back to his airship?

The sun continues to shine up ahead of him in the sky.

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