Chapter 9
Trust
Silver started to consider Niko's words, but brushed it off quickly. He was a dick. Who did he think he was, just coming in and acting as if they had been doing nothing in five months? Repulsive, if you ask her.
Now matter how much Garnet disliked Niko before, he felt like those feelings had passed. Besides, Garnet was a nice person, so he was often forgiving. He tried to find him after the conference, and once he did, he ran up to him.
"Hey," he asked, "how have you been doing?"
"Good, more or less." Niko replied. "I know I haven't acted like a soldier lately and I apologize. Look I know you and Sapphire dated and it didn't work out. It didn't work out for us either. It hurt to know this was more important, but I had to figure my priorities out too and stopping the Director is now my priority."
Picking up a body he discovered it had a flash drive on it. Niko used his new ability to check its contents and what he saw was something worth telling Garnet. He turned to Garnet and smiled.
"This soldier has a map to the Director in his pockets." Niko said holding the flash drive. "I used my Psi-Hack ability to find out what the flash drive had in it and it has the entire schematic to where the Director is being held. We gotta show Sapphire!"
Garnet scratched the back of his head when Niko talked about their broken relationship. Wouldn't that be a surprise later.
He shook his head as Niko found the flash drive. "We've found dozens of those, all claiming to have maps to the Director's coordinates. Guess what they really were? Traps. The Director's tricky. You can't trust much that are on these soldiers.
He gently hit Niko on the shoulder, "Nice try though, especially for someone who just came in."
Niko was downtrodden. If he did show them that he'd be repeating the process he'd been doing 5 months ago. However, he was confident it wasn't a trap. He decided to find the other flash drives and see if they had a connection. After e found them all, he used his Psi-Hack ability and checks all of them. Sure enough Garnet was right each was a trap but he discovered what each had in common; they all had perfect ambush places...using his Psi-Link technique, he created a link to The Director.
"Hello." Niko said. "I noticed a Chessboard on your desk when I came in five months ago. So I figured why not play a game of Chess? You and me? I won't bring any friends and you won't either. Winner lives. Loser dies. How's that?"
Niko felt a nod from the Director and inwardly smiled. Gotcha bitch! Niko thought.
"We'll meet in the Kryptionas Caverns outside the Shimalan Badlands." Niko continued while adding Sapphire to the link. Once Niko got the confirmation nod, he cut his connection and turned to see Sapphire behind him confused. Niko explained his plan and hoped Sapphire would approve.