Chapter 2- Snake eyes
All Tian could think was gray hair? Who has gray hair anymore? He thought that was a trend from like 2 years ago. Tian is not one with the times. But Mr. Tall Gray Haired stepped inside and placed himself in front of the door. He was all muscles and scars, a canonical bad boy and Tian was thinking some bad boy thoughts himself. Bryan's eyes stayed fixed on Tian just waiting.
"Bryan, you've finally joined us. I was just about to tell Tian what we needed him for."
Dr. Bosconovitch explained. So his name was Bryan, kind of a boring name for him. Tian bet that his last name had to be something bad ass. Maybe Macho, Bryan Macho. Or Maddox or something more intimidating and awesome. Bryan Sexyton stepped further into the room where Tian could make out snake print pants? Okay, no one wears those unless they're from a british rock group. Bryan paired the pants with an open army jacket. It was a choice, a choice that Tian would never choose. "Now Tian, Nina is a very skilled assassin. She stole plans that I've been working on. I sent Bryan out to find her and take back what was mine." The doctor went on to explain.
"So ya'll are the good guys and Nina/Ana is the villain? Sounds more like a video game to me." Tian scoffed.
"I assure you it's no video game. The data on the hard drive she stole, if in the wrong hands, can lead to world domination and we are definitely not the good guys but we are also not the wrong- hands-kind-of-guys either. We just need the hard drive back. Nina is long gone by now so we're gonna need your help to find her." Dr. Bosconovitch said, trying to be honest.
"Why me? Everything I know about her was apparently made up just to get a job." Tian was utterly confused yet again and still in pain. The doctor moved forward with pills.
"Don't worry just some pain killers." Dr. Bosconovitch said, yet again reading Tian's mind.
"We need your help because we know of the little side projects you've been doing with your little friends for the past 5 years." Tian was taken aback, there's no way he would've known about that unless his little brother, Gary, snitched on him. He didn't actually think Gary would do that. Gary doesn't even tell their parents anything let alone the world.
"How do you know of these 'side projects'." Tian asked, trying to lift his arms to make finger quotes but gave up when it was too painful.
"We know alot about you. One man's laptop can tell you everything." The doctor stated. Of course his stupid laptop. Tian would've slapped himself if he could. His friend Dac Kien, has been on him about just leaving all that data unprotected.
"That program you and your friends designed to find anyone in the world by hacking into street cams and pictures posted online would be very useful to us. So useful that we may compensate you for all this trouble. Of course you can't sue us for the accident and you can't tell anyone, even your friends, what's going on. We'll need you to take a leave of absence from work, I'll provide a doctor's note to send to them. Training will start tomorrow." Dr. Bosconovitch just leaves as if he already knows Tian's answer. But I guess he does. Tian doesn't have a choice but to help them. Him and his friends could get into big trouble if someone found out about the program they made. He doesn't really care about the money, not that he's going to tell the doctor that, people in tech make a lot of money. Since the program was written by him and his friends he decided to share the earnings with them.
"Training?" Tain says to himself.
"I'm going to train you. I'm not going to have some untrained rookie protecting my six." Bryan said, sounding like a soldier or cop. Startled, Tian jumped, how could he forget Sexy McSexynopolis was still in the room. His voice even though a bit pompus was oozing with sex appeal.
"I...I'm...not...not really fit to be training tomorrow though" Tian stuttered out. Real smooth Tian, real smooth. Now he felt embarrassed and just realized that he probably looked like he just got hit by a motorcycle. He tried fixing his hair, looking for a mirror or anything that would show his reflection.
"Well you just fixed your hair without wincing. That pill you stupidly took from the Doc without asking what it's called, is considered a miracle drug. You'll be ready for training tomorrow at 5." Bryan stated and then turned and left much like the doctor.
"AM or PM" Tian said to himself, then he turned over not feeling anymore pain and fell asleep.