Note: Welcome to another chapter of Xyaqom's New Life. The plot of this story is going to really pick up starting from this chapter, and get a lot darker. So stay tuned for that. Also, I am proud to say that next week, Drogons will be making its return after a two-month hiatus, so stay tuned for that. Anyways, on to the chapter!
Chapter Four:
A Dame, A Nerd, And An Alcoholic:
April 22nd, 2008:
The next morning, we made it back to the mayor's office to break the bad news to Mr. Noham.
Vince: There you three are. How did it go? Where's Torrie?
Sierra: We're terribly sorry, Mr. Noham. We were unable to get Torrie back.
Vince: What do you mean you weren't able to get Torrie back?!
Xyaqom: The Shadduck crime family attacked us.
Vince: The Shadduck crime family?! What were they doing there?!
Sierra: I think they somehow found out about the exchange and wanted the money for themselves.
Vince: What about the money? Were you able to give the Oiram Crime Family the money?
Xyaqom: I'm afraid not. They attacked us before we could give it to them.
Shane: We need to strike back!
Vince: No, we won't bother.
Stephanie: But father, we just lost ten million dollars!
Vince: Don't worry. The money that was in the briefcase was fake.
Everyone: (Shocked) FAKE?!
Vince: Of course. Did you really think I was really going to give real money to a criminal organization?
Xyaqom: So are they going to strike us back?
Vince: I would like to see them try? But Shane is right on one thing. We need to fight back. We can't let these guys walk all over us. We need to fight back and get Torrie back. And then after we get Torrie back, we're going to move out of Christale city. (This shocks Shane and his siblings) It seems that nothing good can come out of living in Christale City.
Stephanie: Father, please. I understand that you're stressed about all this. But I promise you, things will get better. We'll think of a plan to get Torrie back. But until then, I have a meeting that I must attend. But I promise you, we will think of a plan to get Torrie back as soon as I get back. (Looks at Sierra) Sierra, with me! You too, Vinny.
Vinny: Wait, why do I have to come?
Shane: So that you don't drink all of the liquor here.
Stephanie, Vinny, and Sierra all walked to the roof to the helicopter pad, leaving only me and Vince alone at his office. Vince then lets out a sigh gets up from his desk and starts walking around.
Vince: You know, Xyaqom, I've had big plans for this city.
Xyaqom: Didn't we all.
Vince: I was born in great fortune. Sometimes it feels I did nothing, apart from being a rich man. The people I talk to only see money in me. And my wife... (Chuckles) Well, she doesn't love me for my body, that's for sure.
Xyaqom: Well, despite your good fortune, you're still a decent man.
Shane: That's right, dad.
Vince: (Chuckles) Am I? I don't know. I try to be. Sometimes I feel that I'm another rich fool. Just like my "Friends." (Just then, there was a knock on the door) Come in.
Vince's sectary came into the office.
Sectary: Excuse me, Mr. Noham, but chief Livings would like to see you.
Vince: (Sighs) Tell him I'm not available right now. (The sectary nods and leaves the office) Another cop wanting a pension contribution. Do you think a pile of shit is popular because it's surrounded by flies? (Sighs) Look at me. I'm a mess. (Just then, an alarm is sound off near his camera TVs) What the... (He walks over to the TV's and sees that the Shadduck crime family have broken into the building and killing everybody in their way). Shit! It's the Shadduck crime family. Shit! (Goes to his desk to try to lock down the office)
Xyaqom: I think they found out that your money was fake.
Shane: Damn it, dad, I knew that sending that fake money was a bad idea.
Just then, a man stepped into the office. The man was 6'0 feet tall and weighed 160 pounds. He had orange hair and blue eyes. He also had fair skin and was wearing glasses. He was also wearing a white button shirt and tan dress pants.
Vince & Shane: Ken!
Ken: Mr. Noham, we got a problem. We have intruders.
Vince: I can see that! We got people entering the building, and the office won't lockdown.
Ken: It's not just the office, it's the whole building. The building itself won't lockdown! (Ken then runs to Vince's desk to try to lock down the office. But nothing he tried worked, but he did manage to find what the problem was) It's just what I feared. They managed to hack into the security system. We can't go into lockdown from here.
Vince: You've got to be kidding me.
Shane: Nothing seems to be working.
Ken: But there is hope. There is a way to reboot the system. If I can get to the server room, I should able to get everything back online.
Vince: Strange. You pay a couple of million dollars, and you expect to push a button to make all of your problems go away! All I got in return is a bunch of useless junk and false confidence.
Shane: No doubt about that.
Vince: (Sighs) I am so dead!
Xyaqom: Sir and Shane, let us take care of this. Stay in your office, lock yourselves in. Do not answer the door unless you know for sure it's me. (I look at Ken) Let's go.
We exit the office where we see the sectary sitting at her desk.
Ken: I should be able to reboot the system if I can get into the Server room.
Sectary: What's going on?
Xyaqom: Nothing to worry about, everything is fine. Get down behind the desk, both of you.
Ken runs to hide behind the desk with the sectary, and I run to the next room, where I see a small army of men from the Shadduck crime family making their way to Vince's office.
Grunt #1: KILL HIM! KILL THEM ALL!
I quickly turned my arms into a shield to block their gunfire. Vince sits down and pushes the button to lock down the office where he was, but nothing was working. I then kicked the nearby desk to make them fall to the ground. I then took this chance to turn my arms into blades and stabbed all the men from the Shadduck crime family.
Xyaqom: That was a little easy.
I quickly looked around to see if there were any more men. I noticed one of them was still alive and starts walking towards him and stabbed him in the heart to finish him off. I then looked behind me to the door where I walked out from.
Xyaqom: Okay, the coast is clear. (Ken then peeks his head out of the desk) Come on, Ken, we need to get you to the server room.
Ken: Yes, sir.
Ken walked over into the room where I was and saw the many dead bodies lying before us, both the workers and the members of the Shadduck crime family.
Ken: What the hell happened here?
Xyaqom: The Shadduck crime family came killed the workers, and I killed the members of the Shadduck crime family.
Ken: May our co-workers find peace.
Xyaqom: We'll grieve for them later. Right now, we need to get to the server room.
Ken: You're right... Let's go then.
We made our way to the next room, where we found a set of doors that required a code to get in.
Ken: Okay, with this code, we'll get into the board room.
Xyaqom: Glad to see the security system is keeping the right people out.
Ken types in the code and the doors open, allowing us to enter the board room, revealing to have a round table, several chairs, and another set of doors at the other end.
Ken: Okay, we're in. Through those doors at the other end lays the server room.
However, as soon as Ken said then, the set of doors at the other side of the board room blew open, unleashing more members of the Shadduck crime family, armed with weapons.
Ken: OH SHIT!
I quickly push Ken out of the way to prevent him from getting killed, turned my arms into blades, and ran towards the gang members. I used my speed to quickly dispatch them so that they don't try to get to Ken since we needed him alive. In just a few minutes, the members of the Shadduck crime family laid dead at my feet. When the shooting and screaming stopped, Ken peeked his head out from a small table.
Ken: Is the coast clear?
Xyaqom: Yeah, the coast is clear. Come on.
Ken gets up from the floor and follows to where I was going. We walk through the other set of doors and Ken, and I see more members of the Shadduck crime family, where they are killing more workers in the mayor's building.
Ken: (In a whispering tone) So what do you plan to do, Xyaqom?
Xyaqom: (In a whispering tone) Well, the server room is past these guys, right?
Ken: (In a whispering tone) That's correct.
Xyaqom: (In a whispering tone) Well, we need to get passed them. Go hide somewhere while I deal with this.
Ken: Yes, sir. (Goes and hides behind a desk)
Once I saw Ken hide behind the desk, I turn my hands into blades and run towards the members of the Shadduck crime family. Hearing stabbing and guns shooting from under the desk was a little scary for Ken, but he kept quiet so that the members wouldn't know that he was here with me. After a few seconds, I took care of the members.
Xyaqom: Okay, the coast is clear.
Ken gets up from his position and looks at me with a simple nod.
Ken: The server room is just behind those doors.
I push the door open and sees the many computers around the room.
Xyaqom: Which computer is it?
Ken: This is the one.
Ken ran to one of the computers and started typing in some codes on it.
Xyaqom: Are you going to be able to fix this or what?
Ken: Give me a few minutes. I should be able to reboot the system and get all the components back online.
Xyaqom: What about Vince's office? That's all I care about.
Ken: It should be able to lock us down if this works.
Xyaqom: Alright, whatever you're doing, do it quick. I'm going to do a quick sweep of the building and get back to Vince and Shane. (I then leave)
Ken gives me a thumbs up as I was rushing towards Vince's office. No later after I was rushing to Vince's office, the security system was back online as I saw the window shields coming down. Perhaps now our party guests will have a tougher time getting in here. It seemed that breaching the perimeter has been more difficult than strolling through the main gates. But hey, who needs a Trojan horse when the alarm is down when your standing army is a dame, a nerd, and an alcoholic? Vince's office overlooked the atrium. I could check-in, and make sure he hasn't checked out. I arrived at the atrium where I saw Vince entering the balcony from his office, looking like he was shaken from all of this.
Vince: Xyaqom!
Xyaqom: Ken is working on the system now, sir.
Vince: It just came on.
Shane: (Joins his dad on the balcony) Great work Xyaqom, all systems are back online!
Xyaqom: Okay, good. Lock yourselves down and stay put. Let us take care of these guys down here. Once they realize that they can't get to you, they should back off.
Vince: Okay, but Xyaqom. Try not to completely destroy the place. Okay?
Shane: Yes, please. We have stuff that is worth more than your salary.
Xyaqom: Let's just concentrate on staying alive, sir.
Vince and Shane nods and goes back into the office to lock themselves down. There it went, they were tucked in safe. Now all I needed to do was to make it to the main lobby and make my sweep around the building. For what that was worth. I turn towards the left and notices the blast doors were active. Which I went to the right as my mind was telling me to keep on moving. I ran to the right and made it to the main lobby. The main lobby had only a desk and a few elevators. The desk had a secretary sitting at it, who was shot clean in the head by some hero fighting the rich, one lonely secretary at a time. I shake my head and start walking towards the next room to check where I need to see if anyone else has survived this, sadly, no one down here did. The members of the Shadduck crime family killed everybody. The only people that I know of that are still alive from all of this was Vince, Ken and myself. It looked like we'd seen the worst of it. The elevator would take me up to Vince's office where we could wait out the rest of this mess. I went to the elevator where some shitty elevator music was currently playing. I had no idea what to expect up there, but I sensed it wasn't going to be a stripper bursting out of a cake.
The elevator came to the floor where Vince's office was at, where I saw one of Vince's secretaries trying to get a hold of Vince.
Secretary: Mr. Noham. Mr. Noham. (She sees me) I can't get through to him. Ever since the security doors triggered, he hasn't made a sound.
Xyaqom: Mr. Noham, Shane, its Xyaqom, open up. Can you hear me? (No response)
Secretary: See what I mean.
Xyaqom: (I knock on the door) Mr. Noham, Shane, open up! (No response, I then turn to the secretary) I'm going to try to get in through the roof. Grab your things and get the hell out this place.
Secretary: Yes, Xyaqom... Please find him.
I knew there was another way in, upstairs in the helipad. The little luxury run around that kept the rich people looking down on the poor, both literally, and metaphorically. The Secretary grabbed her things and ran out of the building while I took the elevator to go to the helipad. I arrived at the helipad and pressed in the code combination to get into Vince's office. After I punched in the code, the doors opened, and I went inside, I would see something surprising.
Xyaqom: Vince! Shane! (No response) Vince! Shane! (I arrived down the stairs and to my surprise, I found both Vince dead at his desk and Shane dead in front of his dead, lying in a puddle of their own blood.) (Under my breath) Goddamit!
Of course, they were dead. Clean, one shot. A professional job. I began to look for clues. I reached out to Vince's desk to pull up the window shield from the balcony from the back of his office. I couldn't get playback on one of the cameras, and it looked like one of the disks were missing. Someone was trying to keep this low job key. But then why would everyone else come driving in through the damn wall? That's when it hit me, this whole attack was a fucking distraction. A distraction to keep me busy while the real assassin could close in for the kill on Vince and Shane. But what I didn't understand was how did the assassin know the combination from the helipad at the back end? The only people that I knew who knew the combination were Vinny, Shane, Stephanie, Sierra, and myself, nobody else. Did Vinny tell one of his friends during his drunken parties? I hope not. As dumb as Vinny is, I doubt he would be dumb enough to let loose that kind of sensitive information. Of course, I have been proven wrong before. I then looked at their corpsed and saw that their blood was... green?! Not just that, but glowing green. What the hell?! I thought Earthling had red blood, not green. Maybe they were a rare type of Earthlings that had green blood instead of red blood. Earthlings are sure wired.
I walked over to Vince's desk and picked up the picture frame of Torrie on his desk. Even though the man who hired me was dead, his wife was still out there. Maybe she could still be saved. I went into the bottom shelf of the desk and took out a bottle of rum. While I was trying to open the lid, I accidentally dropped the picture frame, crashing on the floor. While I was picking the photo from the broken fragments, something caught my eye. A bomb, attached to Vince's desk.
Xyaqom: Fuck me.
I dropped the picture and made a run for it. However, as soon as I got five feet away from the desk, the bomb blew up, sending me flying out of the balcony and banging my head on one of the statues below, knocking me out cold.
After what felt like a couple of hours, my eyes were starting to wake up, which my vision was blurry at first as my body felt heavyweight. I turned my head, my question was what the fuck happened? The good news was that the blast wasn't fatal. If I have been out any longer, the smoke would've got me. I looked around, and the place was in flames and falling apart. I felt like I got hit by a truck, every part of my body was in an extreme amount of pain. I picked myself up and began limping my way out of here. As I was making my way out, I saw that the building was slowly coming down. This was perfect if I was immolated, then I was going to get crushed to death. I then saw a set of stairs and started limping my way up.
Just look at how pathetic I am, I've been contracted to protect two people. One person was in a hole somewhere, and the other was laying dead with a bullet in his head along with his son. Not to mention that the company's logo on my paycheck was melting on top of my head. If I manage to survive this, it would be a victory for gross incompetence. As I was limping my way upstairs, I began hearing someone, screaming for help. Did someone manage to survive the bomb? I had to find out who this person was.
Once I arrived at the top of the stairs, I pulled up one of the window shields to get to the next room. Once I arrived at the next room, I turned my head and saw Ken, buried under a bunch of rubble. He was still alive, as he was screaming for help.
Ken: HELP! SOMEBODY! HELP ME!
Xyaqom: Ken, is that you?
Ken: Xyaqom?! You're alive?! Oh, thank God! Please! Get me out of here! This rubble is too heavy for me to lift!
I rushed over and started lifting the rubble off of his body. Normally, this kind of job would be easy for me to do, but because I was critically injured, lifting the pile of rubble proofed to be a challenge. After a couple of minutes, I managed to get the rubble off of Ken. But then there was another problem that I wouldn't see coming.
Xyaqom: Okay, you're free.
Ken: I hate to say this, but I need your help to pick me up. I can't feel my legs.
Normally, when someone says that, they mean that they're paralyzed from the waist down. I picked Ken and carried him, fireman style.
Xyaqom: Hang tight, I'm going to get you out of here.
Ken: Thank you.
I had to make sure that I walked carefully, this place looked like it was about to crumble and fall on us any minute, not to mention that we could fall through the floor.
Ken: So, did you found out anything?
Xyaqom: Well, for one, Vince and Shane are dead.
Ken becomes surprised that his boss was killed and begins wondering who did it. Eventually, we made it out of the falling building. Just then, the place was surrounded by fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances. I ran to one of the medical people and then place Ken down on the stretcher.
Ken: Thank you, Xyaqom. (I nod)
?: Freeze!
I turned my head and saw that I was suddenly surrounded by the cops, but these were no ordinary cops, these were the C.C.P.O.
C.C.P.O Police Officer #1: You are under arrest!
Xyaqom: Wait, you got the wrong guy!
C.C.O Police Officer #2: He's resisting arrest! Tase him!
Xyaqom: No, wait!
Before I could say or do anything, the police officers tased me with their taser guns, paralyzing me in the spot, unable to move.
Ken: What are you guys doing?! He did nothing wrong!
C.C.O P Police Officer #3: SHUT THE FUCK UP!
Three of the officers picked me up and carried me to their car while the others started beating the shit out of Ken. I was unable to help Ken as I was paralyzed due to the teaser guns. What the fuck did we do to deserve this?!
C.C.O.P: These people are under arrest.
Medic: For what?!
C.C.O.P: For blowing up this building.
Medic: But they are employees, why would they want to blow up their own workplace? (He was referring to our work attire)
C.C.O.P: (Pulls out a gun on the medic) Because shut up, that's why!
Medic: I'm sorry about this.
A little later, I was taken to the interrogation room inside the police station.
Xyaqom: Listen to me. You've got the wrong guy.
C.C.O.P: Shut it!
I knew I had to get out and find out the person who did it. They made me sit down on one of the chairs at the table. Soon, someone came into the interrogation room. I recognized this man. He was at the party a few days ago. He had black hair and brown eyes, and instead of wearing a tuxedo, he was wearing a police uniform that had C.C.O.P across his vest. He was 5'9 and weighed 250 pounds. I was guessing he was the chief.
C.C.O.P. Chief: Well, well, well. Look what we got here.
Xyaqom: And you are?
C.C.O.P Chief: The name Kendril Kcuddahs. The chief of the C.C.O.P.
Xyaqom: Why am I even here?
Kendril: Why do you think? For the murder of Vince Nahom and the mayor's building.
Xyaqom: I told that to your men, I didn't do it.
Kendril: Do you have any proof of that?
Xyaqom: Proof?! I'm wearing the company's attire! Is that enough fucking proof for you?!
Kendril: You're probably wearing them so that you can get inside the building more efficiently.
Xyaqom: You've got to be fucking kidding me, I was Vince's bodyguard! Why the fuck would I want to kill him?!
Kendril: To get his money, of course.
Xyaqom: If I wanted his money, I would hold him hostage until he gave it to me, which I didn't. Face it, you have shit on me! So if I were you, you'd let me go!
Just then, someone else came into the room, he was 6'2 feet tall and weighed 180 pounds, he had black hair with grey spots on the side and was wearing a tan trench coat and wearing black glasses.
?: Kendril, what is the meaning of this?! I just heard that you arrested two innocent people who survived the bombing in the mayor's office!
Kendril: Stay out of this Livings.
I saw this guy on the news, he was officer Johnathon Livings, chief of the Christale City police, the regular police, not the C.C.O.P.
Johnathon: You are ignoring the procedures of what us cop have to go through. You are arresting two men that you have no proof that says that they did it.
C.C.O.P #2: But we saw this man coming out of the building after it was blown up.
Johnathon: You idiot, look at his clothes! He's wearing the attire that the employers are supposed to wear.
The C.C.O.P cops then look at the clothes that I was wearing.
Kendril: This doesn't concern you, Livings, leave right now. (Whispers him in the ear) You don't want anything to happen to your daughters now, do you?
Johnathon: (Grabs Kendril by the collar and lifted him up ten feet above the air) KEEP MY DAUGHTERS OUT OF THIS YOU MOTHERFUCKING PUNK!
Just then, one of Johnathon's men came inside.
Cop: Hey, what's going on here.
Kendril: (Gets Johnathon to let go of him) Nothing. I was just joking to John here, and he doesn't know how to take a joke. (Johnathon gives Kendril the evil eye) Come on, men, let's get out of here.
The C.C.O.P leaves the room, leaving Johnathon and me inside.
Johnathon: Sorry that you had to witness that.
Xyaqom: It's fine, and I'm really sorry for getting you involved in this.
Johnathon: No need to apologize, it's my job as an officer. The name is Johnathon, Johnathon Livings, chief of the Christale City Police.
Xyaqom: Xyaqom.
Johnathon: Yes, I've heard of you. You were one of Vince's bodyguards, weren't you?
Xyaqom: Yes, I was.
Johnathon: In your own words, can you explain to me what happened that made the mayor's building to blow up?
I then explained everything to John, how we were attacked by Shadduck crime family, and how the ambush was only a distraction to get to Vince and kill him. And that there was a bomb to cover up their tracks.
Johnathon: So the Shadduck crime was behind the attack? I should've known. How is Ken Seinaruyami involved in all of this?
Xyaqom: He's just an employee who got caught into this mess against his will, just like the rest of the employees.
Johnathon: The only difference is that he survived and the others didn't.
Xyaqom: Exactly. How is he by the way.
Johnathon: Kendril wanted to send him to prison, but I had him sent to the hospital instead.
Xyaqom: Why did Kendril want us to be arrested so bad?
Johnathon: Because he's a scumbag, that's why.
Xyaqom: I take it that you two don't get along very well.
Johnathon: Is it not obvious? Anyways, thanks for your cooperation. We'll be in touch.
Xyaqom: Alright.
I was let out, free of charge and sent home.
To Be Continued...