Sorry for the hold up guys! Ever since school started and the tennis team, I haven't had time to even get on the computer and I wanted to make sure this was a good comeback. So thanks for waiting, and I'll try to update sooner!

Operation: DESTINY

Chapter 15: Gate to the End is opening

Everything was a blur, she couldn't even focus. Light and color evaded her sight; the only color she saw was a thick cloud of pitch black darkness. She tried to focus more with her straining eyes, but just wasted energy. She was helpless.

Abby barely remembered anything. All she really remembered was Nigel, an explosion, a wave of pain, and then nothingness. That's when she remembered the bullet and her confrontation with Nigel. She cringed at the memory of Nigel with a gun, it was her worst nightmare and she never wanted it to happen again. But she knew that life was too good to be true.

Abby struggled to stand up, she was sitting in what seemed to be a hard and cold metal chair, but she couldn't even get her hands loose. She felt the heat from the friction between her wrists and the feeling of a tight rope; along with her ankles. Her eyes were blindfolded, she could tell by her staring out into a sheet of blackness. Obviously, she has been captured and she knew by whom. Nigel Uno.

"So, you're finally awake?"

Abby shivered as she heard the cold, painful voice that rang inside her head. She knew it was Nigel, he was somewhere out there in the unknown. Suddenly, she felt the cold and numb hands touch the blindfold and whip it away. The light strained her eyes as she tried to focus onto her new surroundings. The first thing she saw was the hazel and odious eyes of Nigel and his sly grin etched into his face.

"Hah, I never thought I would see you like this, Abigail." Nigel coldly said as he threw the blindfold onto the desk that sat in front of him and her. She looked around to see a single source of light dangling from the ceiling and black walls trapping her in. Nigel was sitting casually in a chair across from her, only being protected by a glass desk. She noticed two figures lurking in the background, probably two guards making sure no commotion happens. She was a caged bird basically, and Abby knew it.

"Like what?" Abigail hissed to her traitor friend.

"Helpless, you are always so determined…so courageous. I would never think you would be caught like you were back at your own home. It was too easy, but of course I know you all too well." Nigel said placing his feet up on the desk and putting his hands behind his head as if nothing was happening. It annoyed Abby to see him acting so casual.

"You don't know anyone anymore. I couldn't believe I actually trusted you." Abby seethed with anger and hatred. Nigel could see the pain in her eyes as she tried to get a single hand onto him, but the ropes were too tight. She was a loose cannon ready to fire a shot directly at Nigel.

Nigel sighed and continued, "That's true, you're too open to people that you don't even comprehend. It's all too simple really. Gaining your trust and loyalty is like…I don't know…capturing you." Nigel smiled at his remark. In his thoughts, capturing Abby was like taking candy from a baby. He anticipated every single move and got it all right, and Abby grew even angrier knowing it. She knew that Nigel had out thought her, but she didn't want to accept it. She didn't want to accept losing to him.

"Shut up you bastard!" Abby yelled enraged. She tried at escaping from the tied ropes but it wasn't working. Even with letting out all of her rage and anger the ropes still held.

"We don't need to use that language now don't we? What does it bring anyways? But that's not the reason why you are here." Nigel said suddenly getting serious. He let his feet fall to the ground and placed his two hands on his legs while leaning forward to get closer to Abby. "I need you to help me with a little errand." Nigel said lowering his voice as if there was someone outside the door. Abby looked over to the door to see a shadow outside. Now she understood why Nigel suddenly got serious, someone important must be on the other side.

"No way! You'll have to kill me if you ever want me working for you!" Abby said leaning back to get away from Nigel's evilness. It was as if it was leaking out of him trying to take over Abby, and Nigel realized that she wasn't only enraged at him but also terrified. He looked inside her eyes to see an enraged fear grow from within. He had finally caught onto Abby's worst fear; himself.

"Well, I could just do that but I won't." Nigel said leaning back into his chair and smirked, "I want you and only you to help me finish this mission."

"And what if I don't?!" Abby said with a lethal tone of voice.

"Then," Nigel said and then looking up at Abby with those eyes. Abby started to sweat from his eyes. They were so deep with a great sense of evil, and they were like a bullet piercing her heart, "I will finish off Wally."

Abby's eyes widened with the great sense of terror and horrific thoughts for her friend. Wally was still in the hospital in a coma, after being shot by one of Nigel's assassins. She couldn't just get rid of her friend, and she wouldn't. Abby knew that he was dead serious; he sat there with his legs spread out and his right arm lying on the desk waiting for her answer with those eyes looking right through her.

Nigel watched her as she sighed and looked up in defeat, "Fine, when does it start?"

Nigel glanced at her and then smiled with the sheer pride of victory and then said, "Tomorrow."

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

"Where was Abby today?" Hoagie asked while walking down the street with Kuki at his side. Both of them recovered from the incident with Nigel, and tried to put it behind them. But it was much harder than they anticipated. Nigel kept on reoccurring with their dreams and sometimes even sudden thoughts of him during school. He did have a lot of classes with them, and it was hard to forget him with the empty seat beside them.

"I don't know, she's almost never sick." Kuki replied back also uncertain about Abby. The two of them were walking home from their high school and always had, but also with Abby. Nigel and Wally used to walk home together, but now since Nigel had betrayed them and Wally was still in the hospital nothing like that would ever happen again.

"Want to check out her house? I tried calling her but no one picked up, not even her house phone." Hoagie said putting his cell phone back into his pocket. He looked over at Kuki to see her gleefully looking at the sky and the birds. Kuki realized that Hoagie was talking to her and got out of the trance.

"Sure, why not?" Kuki said smiling to Hoagie, who smiled back.

They had no idea about what was in store for them.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Abby was walking down the hallway with her hands still tied behind her back, but this time her ankles were free. The two guards that were in the room earlier were now grasping both of her arms in a tight hold, knowing she was a rebellious type. Nigel was walking ahead of her, and now she could see what he truly had become. He didn't wear his sunglasses anymore, his eyes were dark enough. He had on some loose black pants and a black trench coat that showed his true side. Darkness. Abby was disgusted at him, but also more afraid. He hadn't even seen his abilities yet on the battlefield but knew that he was deadly and lethal. She could tell by the gun holster that was strapped around his leg that he had been training. He had never used a gun before his betrayal, and obviously now he knew how to.

"I can't believe this, Nigel." Abby seethed between her teeth trying to knock him out of his trance yet again. "This won't make you more powerful, it won't make anything better." Abby was speaking the truth, but Nigel didn't want to listen. She wanted the old Nigel back, but he didn't want to return. He wanted to stay unchanged.

"Shut up, you have no idea about what you are talking about." Nigel said without even glancing back.

"Yes I do. I can see the fear in your eyes, your afraid for your own safety. This isn't the real you, and I know it." Abby said trying to get to him. Even though she was enraged at him it wasn't his entire fault. Benedict made him go insane with his parent's murder and the brutal beatings. Then Chronos has been messing with his since the very beginning. If she could just get to him, maybe he would change.

Nigel stopped walking for a split second and suddenly turned around to Abby's surprise. The two guards stepped back in shock as they saw the sudden flash of black. Abby couldn't budge as Nigel held her by the throat and grasped his gun in his right hand. She didn't even see him grab it and when she looked down the holster was open. She cringed as the gun was beneath her neck, aiming to shot right through her head.

Abby saw the look in his eyes and what she saw was complete control and anger. Anger at her, Wally, Hoagie, Kuki, and just the whole world outside of Chronos. Abby started to grow uncertain that Nigel would come back, and that thought was concluded by his own words, "You don't think this is the real me? Look, I'm stronger than I have ever been with hanging out with you weaklings, and I'm only going to get stronger. And if you think that you can changed that, you are dead wrong. This is the real me, and and if you say it isn't the next time there will be a bullet lodged in your skull, I promise you that." Nigel said coldly and serious as he let go of Abby's throat and threw her onto the ground. He looked down at her for a while more, and saw fear in her eyes and then put his gun in his holster and started to walk away leaving a miserable Abby behind as she was dragged with him.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Hoagie and Kuki walked up to the Lincoln's only to see a tattered and wrecked house. The windows were shattered, glass being scattered all over the ground, and the front door was kicked down. The two friends couldn't believe it as they ran to the door to see the inside. No words were exchanged while they ran, only concern for their friend. They didn't care for talking now; they just wanted to see Abby safe and alive.

Hoagie was the first one through the front door, or the remainders of it. He looked around quickly to see tables turned over and everything ripped to pieces. He took all of this in as he sprinted for the stairs, heading straight for Abby's room. Kuki was close behind him as he ran two steps at one time and looked around rapidly at the damage done. The pictures of the family were broken in pieces, lying across the ruined floor along with other broken possessions.

He finally reached the top of the stairs when he went straight for Abby's room. He rested his arm on the frame and saw a past battlefield that was here. Everything was broken or at least thrown, and he couldn't believe it. Kuki was a second behind him as she reached the door out of breath. Both of them stared for awhile before saying anything.

"What happened?" Kuki asked trying to figure out something to say.

"I…I don't know…" Hoagie muttered out underneath his breath. He walked inside to look at the room a little more closely as did Kuki. Both of them picked up the broken picture frames and Kuki saw one of the whole team together. Kuki saw herself to the far left side jumping up onto Wally's shoulders and sticking out her tongue. Wally was on the verge of falling and making a funny face as he tried to hold the weight. She nervously smiled as she saw Hoagie standing reluctantly in the middle with his fists on his hips along with his goofy smile. He was proud of being in the middle, usually someone else was. Then she looked to the far right and the smile disappeared instantly. Standing there was Nigel with Abby's hat on and Abby with Nigel's sunglasses on. Both of them were laughing and seemed to be having a fun time.

Hoagie walked over and sighed as he saw the picture and said, "That's the past now Kuki. We have to forget about it…"

"Yeah, I know, but it's really hard…" Kuki said putting the picture frame down onto the desk when she noticed an envelope.

Hoagie noticed it also and both of them looked at it in disbelief as they saw that on the front was both of their names; Hoagie and Kuki. Kuki looked at Hoagie as he nodded then picked it up carefully. She tore it open and both of them read it silently:

Dear Hoagie and Kuki,

It's been a while, hasn't it? Ever since Benedict turned me into this, I have solely left you, which was on my behalf. I have to say though; I thought you guys would have a tighter security since I know everything about all of you. I know where everyone one of you lives and how all of you think, so I actually thought that getting to Abby would be some sort of a challenge. I was wrong. Capturing her was too easy, easier than upsetting you two. All I had to do was invading her house with a couple of my assassins and then let them lead her right into my hands. I thought you two would help her out, since you two should have known that she was going to hunt me down and try to expose of me. If you guys looked around her room, you could see plans and strategies on how, but I guess you two were too busy crying yourself to sleep to bother with that. Friends don't last anyways, am I right? But back to the point, I just waned to tell you how disappointed I am of you two and how you progressed. I have to say, I looked up to you more than this only to be brought back down. Oh well, that's too bad. It cost Abby a lot of pain…and blood. I promise you though; I'll be seeing you eventually. Try to survive till then.

Yours truly,

Nigel Uno

Kuki was on the verge of tears as she read the letter, and once she finished it she was already there. This was so not like the Nigel she knew, and it was so hard to believe what he had become. That's why Kuki was so upset. She crumpled the paper and threw it onto the ground with anger and sadness and fell into Hoagies arms as he tried to help her calm down. It was all too much for her too handle.

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Abby was now sitting in another metal chair, but this time in a highly advanced headquarters. There were few windows, the only ones behind tens of feet up and impossible to escape to unless you had cat like skills. In front of her was a complicated device, some sort of 3 dimensional computers that looked like a silver table with buttons. On the other side was Nigel with the controls and now five bodyguards behind him, and a very lethal assassin next to him; Damien. Damien knew about Abby and looked at her curiously which crept out Abby immensely.

"So, this is it," Nigel began as he pressed a blue control button and created a screen of documents pop up to Abby's dismay, "what our goal is, is to infiltrate a research development site."

Nigel pressed onto the screen that was being projected by the computer and went through a series of documents and finally retrieved a 3 dimensional figure of a building. "This is obviously the building; the company's name is Salamari Technology Engineering. Which is a big and fancy word for basically a weapons development. This man named Richard Salamari runs it, he's all about money and power and wants to create many lethal and explosive weapons. Apparently, he's very skilled at it. Half of his weapons goes into secret services all around the world, supplying them with weapons that no one besides themselves have ever seen. Of course, sometimes these "secret services" are terrorists and the U.S has no idea of it." Abby couldn't believe it. Nigel knew exactly what he was talking about, and Damien would have interrupted him if he got anything wrong. "But back to the point, their weapons are supremely effective and deadly and that's just the kind of weapons an organization such as Chronos needs." Nigel smiled as he went on with his lecture only to be interrupted.

"So, what do you want me to do?" Abby asked wanting to get this over with. She looked over at Nigel to see him sit down in the chair behind him and grin.

"What I want you to do," He began menacingly, "is assassinate Richard Salamari."

xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Thanks for waiting so long and please review!