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Chapter 5
The Desert
Cire grabbed the wheel. "Cire, where are we going?" asked the co-pilot.
"Red's first mission; Desert." he responded without looking.
He snickered, "What? In Agrabah?" then was silently laughing.
"Yeah, sure. Just take the wheel, I have to insert something on Red."
"Okay." Cire left to his office and closed the door. He grabbed a chip and insert in into her neck. This would shock her if she did anything wrong.
A few hours passed by when they finally landed. Cire stepped outside of the door and saw a man with an impatient face. "About time you got here. Is that my partner?"
"Yes, she might not be the best listener, but if you threatened to hurt her brother, I'm sure she'll listen."
"Whatever, just give me the stupid girl already!" Cire threw the girl, "Here's the remote, shock her if she gets out of hand." then handed him the remote before heading inside.
The man had very dark blue hair with red eyes, he was wearing a ripped shirt with sweat pants. He wasn't very buff, but he wasn't skinny. He looked at her, "Wake up, stupid girl!" he stabbed the button and she was in shocks for mild seconds. That woke her up with a shriek.
"Wha? Who are you?" she asked.
"I'm Al. And you are going to do what I say or else." he glared.
She glared back, "Or else what?"
"What attitude! Watch your mouth, or else I'll hurt your brother!"
That seemed to make her eyes widened, "No! Don't hurt him! I'll listen!" She was begging.
"You're damn right you'll listen to me! Or else! Now, you are my fake daughter when we are around people, got it?"
She nodded, but with the man being so cruel he zapped her. "Ahhh!" Red shrieked as she was shocked. "Why did you do that?" but with her responding he shocked her again.
"Listen good! You will do as I say. You are not allowed to talk, laugh, or do anything else, but breathe, unless I say so, got it?"
She didn't dare nod fearing the shock would happen again. Red only shuddered at the sight of the remote.
"Good. now let's get going." Al started walking with Red though the hot desert. They reached a town. Al lead Red to an apartment and told her to stay there and left, but not before shocking her. When he came back he handed her some new clothes, "Here, you'll look more like the people here. From now on, this is our room."
The outfit was a big red shirt that stopped above her knees with a pair of boots. "Uhh...Isn't this a little too short?" she asked forgetting about the no-talking rule he told her.
"This is what the girls wear and no talking!" he zapped her again, "Ugh! How long are you going to stay unconscious? Stupid girl!" she snapped out of it and stood back up. "Now let's get going!" he grabbed her hand and walked out the door. They stopped in front of a camel and Al threw her on it then jumped on it, "Alright, here's what's gonna happen; you and I go to the Sacred Ruins and you try to find the sacred treasure. The Jade diamond, now if we fail, then we start over the next day. Got that?" Red nodded, "Good."
The ruins looked very beaten up and old. Is this what missions are going to be like? Aww… Her train of thought was broken when Al shocked her. "Hey! No daydreaming on the job, move!" he pushed her towards the door and she walked in.
As Red walked around the ruins she noticed many things that caught her eye, like a mirror. She looked at it raising an eyebrow, thinking; Is that what I look like? Hmm… There's something missing, like a look on my face. Isn't it a smile? What does a smile look like again? In fact, what is a smile?
She continued to walk down only to find a door in her way. Knowing the door was stuck, she kicked it hard with her knee. Sadly, she cracked it a little. "Owwww! That hurts!" she rubbed it helplessly, eyes watering with tears. After a few minutes of sniffing, she burst into tears from the pain. "Owwwww! I better break this door open." gently setting her leg down, she transformed her arm into a cannon and launched through the door. Red walked in and saw a beautiful diamond sitting on a tile of rock. "The Jade Diamond!"
Stepping back, she used the gravity puller with her arm and held the diamond. She ran back to the exit and went to Al. "Good work, child. You aren't as bad as I thought you were. Let's get going, it's late." she jumped on the camel and sat there the ride home, which was a bit bumpy with monsters. When they reached the apartment Al shocked her, "You could've done faster." then jumped on the bed, "Get some sleep!"
Scared, Red climbed on the bed and and laid down. Late in the night, she noticed Al was getting up, squinting her eyes to make it look as if she was asleep. Al walked out of the room and closing the door. Red quietly got up from her bed and tip-toed on the floor, opening the door. Then slowly walked outside and stayed behind a wall looking to see Al on a phone. "Huh?" she said quietly.
"Yes yes, she is doing very good right now, but she is breaking some of my rules. Yes, I understand. She bought back the diamond and now she needs the idol. I'll make sure she get's it before next week. Bye." as Al hung up, Red quickly ran to the room and jumped on the bed, pulling the covers over her head. Then the door opened, the first thing Al did was look at Red for a while, then shouted, "Stupid girl! You were supposed to be asleep!" he shocked her three times until she was crying but not too loud. "Ah, shut up! And go to sleep!" Al jumped on the bed. Red cried herself to sleep and her knee felt a million times better but still in slight pain.
"Mom! My knee hurts!" Anna yelled while crying.
Amber looked at the child's knee and tied an ice pack on it. "There there, Anna. It's alright. Doesn't it feel better now?" she softly cooed to the girl. Anna nodded and laid down on the bed sniffing from the pain. "Get some sleep, for your knee."
"Okay, mom." then drifted off to sleep.
As Red remembered the memory she thought to herself, was she really this girl named Anna? Her train of thought was stopped as she fell asleep again. She was really tired and her knee didn't hurt anymore but she made sure that it was fine.
Al woke up early and walked out the door. He sat outside and called Cire, "Yes, Al?"
"Sorry to disturb you this early, but I'm wondering if Red will remember her real self. Can she? Will Anna come back to take her body from Red?"
"Anna and Red are the same people, but with different lives. I made sure she wouldn't remember anything from her past. She is a robot, isn't she?"
"Shes reconstructed, not a robot. Red is still part human and can still have emotions."
"Yes, that is true. I made sure that she will not remember after that eye injection."
"Yes I do."
"Oh, one more thing for Red to do after she picks up the idol, I need her to deliver some presents to the townspeople of Family Village."
"What is it, Cire?"
"They are TV's that hypnotize the people and making that village my empire!"
"What's in it for me?" Al was sounding greedy.
"How much money do you want to be paid. sir?"
AL smiled evily, "A lot of money, Cire."
"Done! Now, wake her up to get the idol."
"Alright Cire." Red has secretly been listening to the conversation, but as Al stood up she quickly and quietly ran to the room and jumped on the bed, pulling the covers on her. Al came in and shocked her. "Wake up, stupid girl! Today you're getting the Sacred Idol of Death, get going!" he grabbed her arm and dragged her on the camel. They stopped by a restaurant. They sat down and Al leaned over to Red, "Like I said yesterday, you are my fake daughter, got it?"
"Uhh, yes dad?" she really hated him, and did not want to call him dad. But she did it anyway, fearing for herself but Seiji more. The cruel man would hurt Seiji if she did not do as told.
"Do a better job on acting. You have any money on you?"
Red took out a sack of money she kept in her boots. She found it in the Sacred Ruins the other day and thought it would be okay to take it. "Here."
Al took it and wrote down an order for their meal. The maid came back with breakfast. Red turned her hand into a fork and ate. After the meal, she changed her hand back to normal. The waitress came back with the check book and looked at Red, "What a cute girl you have there. "
"Yes she is. Here is the money, come on little Red." he grabbed her hand and left the restaurant. "Good job not screwing up. Let's go." they jumped on the camel and rode on the trail. It was a long way there and it was even longer with giant lizards, moving cacti and other monsters in the way. When they got closer to the temple, holding The Sacred Idol of Death, a monster appeared at the door. It looked like a sand wolf blocking the way, growling at their uninvited appearance. "Ugh! A sand wolf. Red, go kill it." Al dragged her of the camel and threw her on the sand.
The sand wolf took a charge at her and she dodged, then turned her arm into a cannon. The animal kept charging at her and missing as she dodged. Getting fed up with it, she shot it, not caring if she got hurt and it exploded sending sand flying everywhere. But that wasn't it, it reformed back into a sand wolf again. Red though of the idea to shoot water at it. The animal hardens and she shot it with her arm cannon. It exploded everywhere. The sand blocks landed on Al's face.. "Ow! Stupid girl!" he shocked her, "That was too long. Now go get the Idol, it's shaped like a hand with a knife. Go!"
On the spot, she left to the door and walked in. The temple had a lot of treasure and she saw a mirror. A mirror again? She smirked and walked to the mirror, she made her eye spin around and spoke, "Hi look at me! I'm Al. I'm too lazy to do any work! Because I'm stupid!" she smiled. Then looked at the mirror again. "Ha! Just look at my curved mouth, it looks so weird."
"Yeah, it kind of does look weird, huh?" said a voice.
Red jumped, "Who are you?"
"I'm Anna, I got trapped in your head and can't get out. I'm so glad you can hear me, Red."
She didn't question how she knew her name was Red since she was in her head, "Okay, as soon as I finish this mission I will get you out. Okay?"
The voice laughed, "Okay! Thank you, Red. Um, do you want to be my friend?"
"Of course! Don't worry, I'm not going to break my promise. Now I have to go, bye, okay?"
"Bye. Good luck."
Red walked away from the mirror and saw the idol sitting on the floor. She stepped back until it was barely in sight, she pulled out her gravity power and pulled the idol. The ceiling started to fall to the ground and she just barely grabbed it before a rock would've smashed it.
Red quickly ran out to the exit before it fell apart. Al knew this would happen so he shocked her once. "Stupid girl! That could've been faster! Let's go." They went back to the room and Al told her to stay there, of course she didn't listen. As soon as Al left, she followed and eyed dropped on their phone call.
"Yes, she is doing fine. We have the idol." Al said proudly as if he was getting the award.
"Good, now burn it."
Al's eyes went wide, "What!"
"Yes, burn it. That is very dangerous. Anyone who touched the idol dies instantly, that is why Red's arm is fake."
Red was using secret hearing to hear Cire's voice, she gasped. Now she knew why Logan had reconstructed her, to protect her. She felt bad for yelling at him, but what's done is done. She looked sad and was about to walk away when she heard something that caught her attention.
"Then why couldn't you reconstruct my arm?"
Who want to be reconstructed? That was a stupid Idea, and a good chance of killing part of your body. But having an arm cannon and a led rocket was worth nearly killing yourself, then I don't know what to say about people.
"No, Al, that is risky for your life."
Called it.
"I-I don't know what to say." he said. His eyes filled with displease. "Fine, I'll let her burn it." Red quickly tried to run but felt a giant hand grab her shoulder.
She laughed nervously, "Hi, Al." Red was caught, and was close to tears as she feared she would be shocked ten times.
"Excuse me, stupid girl. Why aren't you in the room?" he sounded determined to kill her. His free hand gently tapped the remote button. When she didn't reply he shocked her two times, "I'm looking for an answer! Well?!" She stayed silent. "That's it!" he shocked her eight times. "You disobeyed me by leaving the room, then you ezed dropped and then you won't answer me! What is wrong with you!?" Red was crying loudly from pain of the shock.
Al had no right to electrocute her, for Red was only six years old. Al was abusing her with shocking her and threatening to hurt or kill Seiji. Red was kidnapped, abused and threatened in the matter of only a week. Red did understand right from wrong, but kidnapping and abuse is no exception. This was child abuse to her, Al could be in serious trouble and could go to jail.
"Shut up and burn it!" she held the idol and and blew it up. He grabbed her arm, "We blew it up, bye." hung up the phone. They walked into the bedroom and he kicked her in. She got up and laid down on the bed pulling the covers over her. "Shut up and get some sleep!" he jumped on the bed muting the child's cries. She soon cried herself to sleep, but as Red was asleep she wondered why she cared about Seiji's safety.
Al is an asshole isn't he? Poor baby Red... Well, I loved to write when I was a kid, the only reason I was a 3.99 student...