Infinity and Beyond
-Chapter 14-
All The Way, Part One
Vision
Alex was with Amanda, trying on dresses. She was wearing a dark yellow dress, she stopped walking when she was in front of Amanda.
"Too much, let's try the next one." Amanda said.
Alex changed to a very dark blue dress. Amanda didn't look happy, so Alex changed to a more flowery dress, and she kept changing as Amanda kept on shaking her head.
Alex was now in a red dress. "This one?" She asked.
"Maybe." Amanda tilted her head before she looked over at Michael who was now standing by the door. "What do you think, Michael?" Amanda's really pretty when she smiles…
Yay! I get to see Michael!
Alex looked surprised as she turned around to face Michael. "It's beautiful." He said. "Although, I think I prefer the Sapphire. It's better for concealing a weapon."
'Sapphire: in this case, he's referring to a shade of blue.'
Alex turned around as she looked at Amanda with widened eyes. "We haven't talked about the mission yet." Amanda told him. "Pocket in the seam, you may be right."
End Vision
Mommy: This is ahead of schedule.
Alex: Way ahead. I'm going out on a surveillance scout tomorrow.
Mommy: It's okay, Alex. We handle this like any other mission. You set him up, I knock him down.
Alex: But if I fail to kill, the penalty is death, unless…
Mommy: Unless what?
Alex: Unless I can get Infinity back in Division.
Mommy: Not if I'm your reason for failure, otherwise half of Division would be dead by now. Don't worry, you won't have to kill anyone.
After mommy's done with Alex, she turns to me. "Alright, honey, I'm gonna take you over to Henry's, and you're gonna stay there for a little while, okay?"
"Where's mommy going?" I tilt my head.
"Mommy's gonna go help Alex, okay?" She crouches down before moving my curly dark brown hair out of my face.
"And then, mommy's gonna come and get me?" I smile a little.
"That's right." She smiles back and nods.
I grab Lily, who's lying on the floor before I go to hold mommy's hand. "Okay, mommy."
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I'm watching Pochacco at Henry's home. Henry walks into the room with a plate full of cookies and a glass of milk. "You want a snack?"
"Umm… okay." I nod as I stand up and walk to the table he put the milk and cookies on. I sit on a chair before I start to eat.
"I'll be right back, okay?" He puts a hand on my shoulder.
"Uh-huh." I say as I'm chewing. He leaves the room. I can hear his footsteps, and then a noise that sounds like he's pulling out a chair, after that, nothing.
But, when I finish eating, he still hasn't come back. I can't hear anything except Pochacco playing on TV, but for some reason, I'm starting to get scared.
I stand up and hug Lily tightly. "Henry?" I call out. There's no answer.
"Henry, where are you?" I call out again as I start walking toward the door, but there's still no answer. My eyes are starting to feel hot; I'm going to start crying soon. "Henry, I'm scared."
Just then, a strong arm pulls me back as I feel a stinky white cloth cover my mouth and nose. The smell of the cloth is very strong, and it burns my nose.
The smell makes me dizzy and it makes my body feel like it's getting heavier until I can no longer stand as my eyes close and I can't feel anything anymore.
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I wake up in a bed in an empty room. I sit up quickly. Where's Henry? Where am I? Is mommy here?
"Mommy? Henry?" I call out as I'm a little scared. I hop off the bed. "Where are you?"
Just then, I hear footsteps from behind me, the type of clicking sound that only grown up women make when they're wearing pretty shoes. I turn around hopefully, maybe mommy's here.
"Mommy?" I bite my bottom lip as the dark blue door starts opening, but it's Amanda who opens the door. I feel a big, heavy ball drop into my stomach.
"Hello, Infinity." Amanda smiles at me as she stands by the door. "How are you feeling?"
I stand where I am and don't move. "Where's mommy?"
"I don't know." She says. "I'm still trying to find her."
Something about the way she's speaking makes goosebumps pop up my olive skin. "I want mommy." I whimper tearfully. "I miss her." I'm going to start crying soon.
Amanda walks over to me and puts out a hand for me to hold. "Well, maybe if you can tell me a few things, I can help you find her." She smiles at me softly.
"Okay." I sniffle and nod as I slide my hand into hers. "Where are we going?"
"To my office, where we can talk." She tells me.
Vision
Mommy was standing in front of a window, looking nervous as her hands touched her tummy. "I've to tell him today." She looked down at her tummy and smiled softly. "Don't worry, I'll protect you with or without him. I love you…"
Just then, there was a knock outside the door. "It's me, Michael." Michael said loudly.
"Coming!" She called out as she walked over to open the door.
Michael walked into the room. "So, what's the emergency?"
"Does Percy or Amanda know that you're here?" Mommy asked nervously.
"No." He frowned. "What's wrong?"
"I need your help, Michael." Mommy's hands quickly moved to her tummy again.
Michael was still frowning before his eyes widened, he looked as if he had already guessed what was going on but was hoping that he was wrong. "Nikita…"
Mommy takes a deep breath. "I'm pregnant…"
End Vision
"Have a seat, Infinity." Amanda says. "Would you like some cookies?" She points a finger at the plate full of chocolate chip cookies on the table in front of us.
"Okay." I smile and nod before I take one. My leg swing as I eat the cookie in silence, but I start to feel nervous again when I see Amanda stare at me with a smile on her face.
I quickly look back down as I swallow the bite of the cookie in my mouth. "It's alright." Amanda laughs softly as she raises a hand to lift my head up to face her. "There's no need to be afraid. We're just going to talk, but if you be a really good girl, maybe we'll play a few games."
"But I want to find mommy." I bite my bottom lip as something in my stomach feels like it's curling up into a ball. "I miss her." I feel like I might cry soon.
"We'll find her." Amanda's still smiling, but it looks as if she's trying a little harder than before. There's a few seconds of silence before she speaks up again. "So, does your mom play any games with you?"
"Uh-huh." I nod happily. "She does lots of things with me, like puzzles, hide-and-seek, she reads stories to me, and count blocks with me, and colors pictures with me…"
Amanda continues to listen as I keep listing all the things mommy does with me. She does a lot of things with me, I love mommy!
"Do you love your mom?" Amanda asks when I'm done listing things.
"Uh-huh." I grin. "I love mommy a lot."
"You know, your mom borrowed something from here." Amanda tells me.
I tilt my head and frown. "She did?"
"Yes, something she still hasn't given back." Amanda says. "You see, if she doesn't give it back soon, she's going to be in a lot of trouble."
"Does that mean she'll get hurt?" I'm starting to get scared.
"That is a possibility." Amanda nods.
I quickly stand up and rush over to Amanda. I grab her hand. "You'll help her, right?" I look at her hopefully as I'm starting to cry.
Amanda looks surprised as she looks at me before looking down at my hands, which are holding onto her's. I don't let go of her hand. "I don't want mommy to get hurt." I whimper tearfully. "Please help her."
There's a long moment of silence before Amanda finally clears her throat. "I'll see what I can do." She looks as if she doesn't feel comfy.
I let go of her hand as she uses it to brush some of my curly dark brown hair out of my face. She smiles again. "If I get what she borrowed back, then she won't get hurt, okay?"
"What did mommy borrow?" I ask.
"Come, I'll show you." She leads me out of her office and into a hallway.
We walk through the hallway for a short while until we reach a dark blue door. She opens it and leads me inside where Percy's sitting by a computer.
He looks up when we walk in. He looks happy to see me, but not the nice kind of happy, it's the scary kind.
I grab onto Amanda's hand tightly. She turns to look at me, she looks a little surprised again, but then, she smiles. "It's alright." Then, she turns to Percy. "Show her what the black box looks like."
I frown as Percy opens up a drawer. Black box? Isn't that the thing that Owen had? Didn't it belong to Owen? Didn't mommy break that? I'm starting to feel nervous again.
"Infinity, this is what it looks like." Percy holds up a thing that looks the same as the black box that Owen had. Does mommy have another one?
If mommy has another one, then I don't know where it is. I'm starting to get scared as my stomach is starting to feel like the time when I ate yogurt that's bad. I start to cry, I don't want to get sick and I don't want mommy to get hurt.
"Infinity, what's wrong?" Amanda crouches down in front of me as she frowns. "Why are you crying?"
"I don't want mommy to get hurt!" I cry louder.
"Infinity, just tell us if you know anything." Amanda says as she hands me a box of tissues.
"But I don't!" I continue to cry as I take the tissue and wipe at my eyes and face.
Amanda doesn't say anything and just looks over to Percy. They give each other a quick nod before Amanda takes my hand again. "I understand." She says as she gently walks me out of the room as I'm trying to stop crying.
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Vision
Alex walked out of the elevator to Michael. "Seems like this target has a lot of security."
"You don't have to worry about them." Michael told her. "This is a surgical strike. No one will know what happened until you're gone. I'll personally be on hand to provide support to make sure everything runs smoothly."
As Michael was speaking, mommy was in a forest near them. I smile happily. Yay! She's okay! She stopped beside a tree and took out a black, rectangular thing with round sticks that pointed upwards. She stuck it onto the tree before she started to run again.
She moved to a big, grey rectangular box that had a smaller black one of the same shape. This time, she put a silver thing that looked a little like a small radio in it along with a very small, thing black thing.
"We'll be able to redirect security by using out BT, and I'll be in constant communication with you watching over you at every moment." Michael finished as mommy was now sitting on a roof as she opened up her small black laptop.
End Vision
Amanda takes me to Michael and Alex, who are standing in front of a black statue-like thing that's in the shape of a grown-up man. 'A dummy.'
"… This is your primary." Michael says to Alex just as Amanda leads me into the room.
Michael takes out a very thin needle before continuing to speak. "2CC, epidemic needle that will be filled with potassium chloride. If you get the skin punctured, the job's done."
'Potassium chloride: colorless and toxic.'
"Try it." He tells her before Amanda clears her throat, making him turn toward us. His eyes look at Amanda before he sees me. His eyes widen. "Infinity?"
Alex turns around very quickly to look at me. She looks worried as she continues to stare at me. I look down at me feet as I'm starting to get nervous.
Michael turns back to Alex. "Is something wrong?" Michael frowns.
There's a few seconds of silence before Alex quickly shakes her head. "No, nothing." She sounds nervous. "I'm just wondering why there's a kid here."
"This child is special." Amanda answers with a smile. Alex looks like she's a little scared.
I let go of Amanda's hand before walking over to Alex. I pull on her arm. "Are you okay?"
Alex looks surprised for a few seconds before she crouches down in front of me. "I'm fine." She looks as if she's trying really hard to smile.
"You know what you're doing?" Michael asks her.
Alex stands back up to face him. "I think so." She nods nervously before turning around toward the black dummy again. She pokes the needle hard into the side of the neck before looking back to Michael.
"It's good." Michael tells her before taking her hand that's holding the needle and leading it toward the middle of the neck and poking the needle into it. "But aim for here, the larynx, paralyze the vocal chords with one blow. Now, he's dead."
"Hush." Michael leads Alex to do it again. "Hush."
"Uh, hey Michael." A voice calls out, interrupting them.
Michael looks up to see Birkhoff. "Can I get your eyes? I want to show you something." Birkhoff tells him.
"Alright." Michael murmurs to Alex. "Keep working on this, remember the larynx." After that, he crouches down in front of me. "You want to come with me?" He holds out a hand for me to hold
"Okay." I smile before taking his hand. We follow Birkhoff out of the room.
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"Okay, everybody out." He calls out loudly as he claps his hands. We're now in a room full of computer screens. "Come on, let's go. Out, out, out, out."
I tilt my head. Why does he have to repeat so many outs?
"Where's the fire, Birkhoff?" Michael asks.
"I can't believe it got past me." Birkhoff says loudly. "I can't believe I didn't see it."
"See what?" Michael raises an eyebrow as Percy walks into the room. I hold Michael's hand tighter.
"What's the emergency?" Percy asks Birkhoff.
"We have a breach." Birkhoff says with a deep breath. "Tiny, but huge."
"What's tiny and huge?" I pull on Michael's arm.
Michael picks me up before whispering into my ear. "I'll explain it to you later."
"Do tell." Percy says to Birkhoff.
"Well, I was running a system diagnostic rerouting network traffic using a new technique I picked up from uhh…" Birkhoff clears his throat at the last part. "The engineer. Actually, the truth is uh… if I haven't met him I don't know if I would have spotted it."
"Spotted what?" Percy sounds impatient.
"A shell program." Birkhoff answers. "Planted behind the firewall, like a hidden back door that leads from the Division subnet out into the real world."
I lay my head on Michael's shoulder as I'm starting to get sleepy. I still can't understand anything Birkhoff says.
"Wait a minute, somebody hacked into our server." Michael frowns. "I thought that was impossible." I'm getting sleepier.
"It is impossible." Birkhoff says as he types something into the computer in front of him. "Look, it's like a private chat room, okay? It's two ways, none of the chats are logs, there's no way to tell how much it's been used, or what's been said."
Those are the last words I hear before I fall asleep…
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Dream / Vision
A white van stopped at the side of a small road. "This is a good spot, any closer and we'll stoop the guards." Michael said to the man who was driving.
"Alex." He called out into his earphone as Alex was in a grown-up's party. "You have visual on target?"
Alex was looking a big man as she answered Michael. "Cocktail area…" I don't hear the rest of her sentence as Michael's eyes looks to a tree beside the van.
"Copy." He said." Have our wedding planner move the bride."
"Alright." Alex answered before turning to a dark-skinned woman. "Ms. Miracle?"
Ms. Miracle said one last thing to another woman she was talking to before following Alex.
As Alex and Ms. Miracle were talking, Birkhoff was in front of a computer with Percy behind him. "Been up on their cameras, no sign of her yet." Birkhoff said. "Maybe Nikki couldn't wrangle an invitation."
"She's in there." Percy told him. "Somewhere. Have grab team betake position south end." His words scare me, is mommy in trouble?
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"Maria, hi." Ms. Miracle called out as she and Alex walked into a room where a woman who looked as if she was about to get married was standing in front of a mirror in a white dress.
"Phillip is ready for you and your pictures by the fountain." Ms Miracle said as Maria turned around with a happy smile.
"I thought we were doing pictures after the ceremony." Maria asked.
"Ones with the family? Yes." Ms Miracle answered. "But these are just you, the ones your dad requested and the light is absolutely perfect, magical."
"Well, we all have to do our duty, right?" Maria said happily before walking out of the room. Ms Miracle looked at Alex before following Maria out of the room.
"Bride is clear." Alex told Michael through the earphone once she was alone.
"Copy that." Michael said. "Retrieve the weapon."
Alex walked out of the room and to where Thom was standing, he was serving drinks. "Can I have a glass of water, please?"
"Absolutely." Thom said as he quietly slid a napkin across the table with the needle hidden underneath it.
Alex nervously took it in her hands. "Hey, I'll be right here." Thom told her in a tone that sounded as if he was trying to make her less nervous.
Alex took a deep breath before she took out the needle from underneath the napkin and walking away…
End Dream / Vision
I wake up in Amanda's office again. I try to rub the sleepiness out of my eyes before computer mama decides to show me something again.
Vision
"She's there." Percy said. "They just haven't found her yet. We're not gonna wait for her to interfere with the head, flush her out."
Birkhoff typed something into the computer.
A few seconds later, that thing that mommy used to talk to Alex popped up on her laptop as she was still sitting on a roof.
Mommy frowned before turning the thing off. Then she started pressing a few keys on her laptop until she found Alex, who was leading a man up the stairs.
Mommy quickly turned off her laptop before getting off the roof with a gun in hand.
End Vision
I turn my head to see Amanda's sitting on a chair in front of a mirror. She turns her head to look at me. "It appears that your mother has a friend here, Infinity…"
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Author's note: Hey guys, I'm sorry that I haven't updated in so long. I had a bit of a writer's block, and my exam times are approaching. But don't worry, I won't give up on this story. Anyways, please remember to review!