Chapter 3

The son of William and Susie had been kidnapped by a mysterious military group. He got knocked out by a huge man and thrown into the back of a paddy wagon. The huge man made sure that the boy had hit the hard metal floor of the vehicle. The hard fall causes the boy to wake up as he hears two men close the back door to the paddy wagon. The doors were locked by two men who get in the driver and passenger seats. The two men drive off in a fury and they do not check for incoming traffic. They drive unto a highway and go as fast as they could. The men pay no heed to the speed limit.

They have military license plates so they will not be stopped by the police.

The military of Urano were not be fooled with. The culture of the Urano faction was very results heavy. They ran rough shot over the people of Urano. The military often took advantage of its people every chance that the leadership could make of them. The common people of the faction lived in fear of what the military and other government officials might do to them. Most people just did as they were told and did not openly question what the leadership had told them.

Somehow, Ibor, the enemy faction had been crippled by a secret weapon. All the satellites and major government/military complexes were destroyed by some unknown means. The Urano faction wanted to finish off Ibor for good and set up a one world government. The leadership was not satisfied with only around half of planet Rindat, since they desired to have all of it. It was simply greed in the worst and most despicable way possible.

The boy stirs to his feet and begins to look around his surroundings. He is in the back of some van or some other kind of transport. He checks the doors in the back but they can not be opened. He checks under the two long seats on each side of the paddy wagon. Over the next few minutes the boy has the back of the paddy wagon completely checked out. The boy keep moving around to keep himself

from focusing on his pain from being hit by the huge thug.

The boy remembers his mother and father being attacked by two soldiers but why? He wished

that he could just go back home and this was just a bad nightmare. But he knew that was for real, since the pain was all too real. He got knocked out by someone from behind and thrown into this paddy wagon.

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The boy wonders as he awakens,”Who had attacked us? I hope mom and dad are okay! They are not fighters and the Maker is their only protection! I have got to get out of here and get back home! I know that I have captured but what for? Why would the military want to do with me, some boy? I am only twelve years old! There has to be better people that they could have taken. But why did they single me out?”

The boy begins to check the back of the paddy wagon again from corner to corner.

He hears a voice coming from several hidden speakers in the back of the vehicle where the boy is at.

“Look all you want but you will never find the way out! The paddy wagon is completely sealed from the inside! Give it up and submit to what you are being told! It will be a lot easier for you if you do!”

Another voice speaks,”We can see every move you make! You are standing next to the left back door!”

The boy starts to grin from ear to ear.

The first voice demands,” What is so funny, boy?”

The first voice was sitting in the front passenger seat and was watching a dashboard with eight TV screens. One screen goes fuzzy after another until they are all blank. The passenger begins to get angry about not being able to see what the boy is doing. The driver glances over to see the passenger hitting the dashboard out of frustration. The two men are being to lose their patience and the driver presses the button on the dashboard for speech to the back of the paddy wagon.

He demands,”Stop messing with things back there or we will kill your parents ourselves! They are not as hardy as you are and they are so easy to torture!”

The boy knows that they mean business and sits down on one of the long seats in the back. He knows that he has be patient and wait until an opportunity presents itself. He remains still until he can get out of this situation.

The men try to get in the boy's head and try to get him upset.

One of the men speaks,” Kid you are nothing to us and you will soon be beaten into submission!”

The other man tags in and starts insulting the boy even more but it does not work. They can not get a rise of the young boy. The boy was taught by his parents to not let others make him mad and lower himself down to their level.

The men can’t get a rise out of the boy no matter what they do. They are starting to get raving mad and they begin to curse rapidly like mad men. They even insult the boy's mother and the boy has to bite his lip to keep from saying something. He would not give these evil men the satisfaction of getting. After some time the men give up the insults since it is not going anywhere. The men turn off the speakers and give themselves a break.

The driver spoke,” I can not believe that the kid is so hard to break! I seen grown men that break quicker and give into rage!”

The passenger spoke,” I agree with you! That boy is something else! That is why the bosses must want him for!”

The two men drive for hours without stopping and the boy falls asleep in the back on one of the seats.

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The two men that are taking the boy to who knows where, begin to start to talk among

themselves.

The driver speaks,” Where are we going to eat after we drop off this brat?”

The passenger speaks,” What about pizza?”

The driver says,” We had that just two days ago! I feeling like eating tacos today!”

The passenger says,” That will work but it is your turn to buy!”

The driver says,” Was it my turn last time?”

The passenger spoke,”No, do you not remember gorging yourself since you were not the one paying!”

The driver spoke,”Oh! You are right!”

The passenger spoke,” I overheard that this brat had killed two of our fellow soldiers by himself!”

The driver shakes his head out of disbelief what he had just heard.

The passenger spoke,”They never saw him coming! He completely ambushed them!”

The driver gasped,” You mean two trained soldiers could not lay hands on this kid!”

The passenger confirms,” That is what the man in a trench coat told me! We are to be on the highest guard with this kid or else!”

A look of fear falls on the two men since they seen too often what the man in a trench coat can and will do to those that fail him and Urano.

The passenger speaks,” How can a kid be so skillful a fighter? When I was his age all I cared about was watching porn and getting laid!”

The driver said,”Same here! This brat must be some sort of prodigy that the government had screened him out of millions or even billions!

The passenger speaks,” The military has been searching high and low for people who can be trained to be soldiers that help defeat the forces of Ibor!”

The driver nods and the conversions goes on and on.

The boy in the back decides to lie down in his seat and fall asleep since it has to be getting late.

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Hours have went by and the driver is going down a lone gravel road. A few minutes goes by and

the road ends at the base of a mountain. The passenger presses a series of buttons and an opening

in the base of the mountain appears. They drive into the opening and the passage closes back after them. The tunnel is dark but suddenly lights turn on with the sides of the tunnel. The paddy wagon is sun tinted, so that you can not see who is ridding up front. The tunnel leads into a large underground parking lot that goes down several floors. The two men driver down to bottom floor and park near the front entrance.

The two men exit the front of the vehicle and shut the door behind themselves. They knew the procedure for dropping off subjects for the military so they begin to open the doors to the back of the paddy wagon. There is one problem since the boy is nowhere to be found.! They begin to curse out loud and wonder where on Rindat this brat could have gone. They are at their wit's end with this troublesome boy.

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They ripped apart the back of the wagon apart and find no boy or even source of exit. Before the men could find the boy, a red convertible pulls up, and parks across three different parking spots.

It is the man in a trench coat!

He has a cherry slush in his left hand and he takes a drink.

The man in a trench coat yells,” Did I not tell you two to be careful and not lose the boy? How stupid can you two be?”

He throws the slush at the passenger's head and is covering the passenger. The two men search all around for the boy and can not find him!

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The man in a trench coat's face is red as his cherry slush once was. He has had enough of these two buffoons and decides to take things into his own hands. He put his right hand into his open coat and pulls out a grenade and throws it underneath the paddy wagon. The two men jump for cover along with the boy. The paddy wagon is mere rumble and a smoke is coming off the rumble of once was a vehicle. The man in a trench coat pulls out a taser and fires it into the smoke.

A scream can be heard as the taser spews out massive electricity.

The smoke clears and it is the boy laying comatose on the hard concrete face first with the taser prongs still in his back. The two men are laying on the ground face to the Rindat. They was sweat on their faces as they return to their feet. The two men dust themselves off and act like nothing had occurred. The two men do not want to anger the officer any more than they already have.

The man in a trench coat turns off the taser gun and the wire disconnects from the gun. He walks over to the boy and rips the prongs out of the boy's back. The boy is flipped unto his back and his pulse is checked at his wrist.

The boy is alive and the pulse is normal!

The man in a trench coat returns to a full vertical position when several guards come rushing out the nearby metallic double doors. The guards all salute the man in a trench coat and the salute is returned. The boy is grabbed up by the guards and is about to be taken inside.

The man in a trench coat says,” Take him to the best hospital unit and see that he is taken care of. He is a special subject of our motherland Urano!”

Everyone salutes and the guards exit into the building.

The man in the trench coat says,” It is sad when formerly trusted men have to liquidated! You two have failed the great Urano and it's people!”

The two men begin to beg for mercy while on their knees bowing.

The man in a trench coat is not effected in the least and begins to walk slowly towards the two

men.

The two men begin to run for their lives as fast as they can. They do not even think there is no way out for them.

The man in a trench coat pulls out two Uzis from inside his trench coat and begins to fire upon

the two men.

The men begin to be riddle with bullet holes and shake violently. The men hit the parking lot

face first and their bodies begin to dissolve into nothing. Even the clothes of the dead men are melted

and there is no trace of the two men left behind. Unless you had been there, you would never know that two men had died there.

The man in the trench coat puts away his Uzis back under his coat and he goes to his car. He sits

in the driver's seat and grabs a huge cheeseburger out of a brown paper bag. He uses his free hand and grabs a grape slush out of the cup holder. He gets out of his car and shuts the door with the side of his body. Then he finally enters the entrance to the military base.

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The boy woke up in a strange room and he was out still of it mentally. He had to been drugged with various medications. The boy was tested while he was asleep and he an IV in his right arm. Various wires are covering the boy all over his head and chest. He is tripping out due to his body being over medicated. Whoever had done this to him must had wanted him to stay put for a while until they had decided what they were going to do with him.

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A nurse comes into the room and checks on the boy. She has an electric clipboard that seems to have some sort of check list and is going through all the list. She checks all the machines that are bedside.

The boy speaks,” Where am I?”

The nurse pays the boy no heed and keeps going through the list.

He speaks,” Who are you?”

The nurse still does not answer the boy and walks out the room.

He speaks to himself,” She acted like I was not even there! This place is something horrible! Where could I be?”

The boy regains his senses and decides to remove all the junk off him. He loathes being treated like some inconsequential lab rat. The wires that are connected to the boy's head by electrodes, struggle to come out of his boy's hair left untouched. One wire after another comes off until the boy's head is free of all of wires and electrodes. Some sort of goo was used to keep the electrodes on the kidnapped boy's head. The boy rips off the wires that are pasted to his chest. The boy is glad that he is still young and does not have a lot of chest hair due to only being twelve. He does not take much solace in such a fact and continues performing the task of freeing himself from the strange machines.

The boy has been putting off taking the IV out of his arm but he starts to frown due to

task he is about to do. The IV hurts as it is taken out and the boy has to bite his lip to keep himself from

yelling. The boy is so mad about the pain from the IV that he stabs the needle into the bed.

The boy finally realizes that he is just wearing his boxers.

The boy thinks,” I need to find my clothes so I can get out of here and travel freely out in the open.”

He starts to search the room for his clothes.

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He looks into the trash cans of the hospital room that he was in and finds his clothes thrown in one of trash cans. He pulls the clothes out and sees that junk has not been thrown out on top of his outfit. He puts his noes to the clothes and they do not have smell on them. He was wearing a tee shirt and track paints. He had hurriedly put on a pair of closed backed sandals. He puts all his clothes on and readies himself for some attempt to escape.

He goes to the hospital room closet and gets all the extra pillows that he find. He rigs the bed so that it will look like he is sleeping under the covers while laying on his side. The boy ponders to what way that he is going to get. He sees that the room has windows with the binds closed. He is excited to escape when he the binds open up to a brick wall. The windows were just for show. The boy wonders to how he is to escape. He can’t just walk out the room since he will stick out like a sore thumb. The boy shakes his head and looks up at the ceiling.

The boy's face turns from a frown to a huge grin.

The boy is 5'2” and about one hundred and twenty pounds. He is no huge athlete.

The ceiling has several tiles and has to have a gap between the tile and the real top of the ceiling.

The boy hears somebody coming.

“It is your turn to take vitals of the brat!”

Arguing goes back and forward and the boy knows that he has to get away before he is caught.

“Fine I will go!”

A nurse storms in and looks at the machines next to the bed. Error messages were all over the screens but the nurse checks off on the clipboard. She runs out the room in a hurry.

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The boy is gingerly crawling through a shaft of wires and cables. The boy is in the small crawl space. The boy only puts his weight on the metal that holds up the ceiling tiles. The boy hears some machine sounds that happens to be a door to an elevator. The boy gently lifts a tile and sees that the

noise had been a door to an elevator.

The boy hears some voice that he has heard somewhere before but he can not pin it down exactly.

He thinks,”Who could be down here that I know? I do not know anybody that has ties with

the military. It must be one who had taken some involvement with my abduction! I got to have to get to the elevator and escape!”

The boy begins to grow curious and turns himself around in the crawl space above the ceiling to go see who is the source of the voice is. He can’t pin down the voice and he has to know who it is.

He mumbles to himself, “I just hope that curiosity does not kill this cat. I need to get out of here!”

The voice speaks,” Sugarplum, how has the boy been doing?”

The boy figures out who the source of the voice is but does not want to believe it.

He thinks,” I know it can not be him! It just can not be him! I will peek and it will be somebody else! I just know it!”

He is near the voice and he opens of the ceiling tiles. The boy looks down and sees a man in a fedora tilted to the side of his head. The boy looks down at the body and it is a large oversized trench coat.

He screams from within his mind,” It is the man in a Trench coat! I was right and this is one time I wished I was wrong!”

The boy bites the front of his shirt at the collar to keep from yelling.

The thug is speaking to the nurses about some booty call that he was wanting to have.

The man in a trench coat speaks,” I hate to break up this lovely conversation but it is time for me to talk about business.”

The charge nurse speaks,” The boy is still in his room sleeping!”

The thug speaks,” That is not good enough! I have to do a visual check! You know that as well as I!”

One of the nurses yell, “I just checked the brat! It is not needed!”

The man in a trench coat speaks,” I have my orders! Four men have lost their lives over this boy!”

The nurses were speechless about the statement.

The man in a trench coat speaks,” What room is he is in? The check will take only a second babes and we can have our fun!”

All the nurses point at the boy's room in unison.

The man in a trench coat walks in the hospital room. He hears all sorts of beeping from the machines that supposed to monitoring the boys. He knows that something is wrong, but he does not know anything about the medical field. This man knows how to tear down a person and not building them up. He pulls down the cover and breaks out into a rage.

The man in a trench coat runs out of the hospital room and busts through the door open on the way out.

He speaks,” Who was the last person to check this room?”

The nurses are all afraid for their lives and will do all that they can do to stay alive.

One nurse raises her hand and says,” I was the last to check...”

The man in a trench coat pulls out a metal baseball bat and swings as hard as he can at the jaw of the nurse.

The nurse's head goes flying against the far wall away from the nurses' station.

The stump of the headless nurse gushes blood and pours upon all the rest of the nurses. The man in a trench coat jumps back to not get his fancy clothes dirty. The rest of the nurses are sitting on the floor shaking out of fear, some of the nurses were holding each other screaming.

The man in a trench coat speaks,” You all better find the boy! Five people have already dead due to this boy this last last twenty-four hours. This boy has killed two trained soldiers himself, so beware! Go find the boy or I will kill you all! I will not accept any more failure!”

The nurses each go around room to room checking for the boy. The nurses rip the rooms apart

and leave no stone left unturned. The nurses were running like chickens with their heads cut off. They were yelling as they did it and they were double or even triple checking the rooms. They were yelling indescribable dialog among the women.

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Every patient room has been checked and there is no boy.

The man in a trench coat speaks,” You &^%$#&@ can not find the boy? You act like he has vanished? Hurry up or will have to introduce you all to my two friends.

The man in a trench coat pulls two Uzis out of his trench coat.

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The nurses check out every closet, store room, or any other room.

Still no boy!

The man in a trench coat yells,” You horrible wenches, you have all failed me and Urano!”

The nurses come running trying to appease the man.

The man in a trench coat speaks,” What are you trying to do? You want to whore yourselves, so that I do not kill you! This place is among the most secure places on all of Rindat! You are telling me that this boy has just vanished! No one has ever escape this place, yet alone break into this place!”

The man in a trench coat pulls out his trusty Uzis and begins to fire upon the nurses. The nurses are lost in their horror that they can’t escape. Most people in the complex can only enter the unit at timed intervals. The nurses could not leave until their shift ended. But that fact was lost due to the sheer fear of the nurses.

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All the nurses are shot in oblivion one after another, until they are all dead. Their bodies are eroded by the bullets of the man in a trench coat and there is no trace of the former nurses. There was

bullets in walls and various other objects.

Everyone but the man in a trench coat and the boy were now dead. The boy is still nowhere to be found. The thug loses it and fired upon all the walls and objects in the unit. The walls of the hospital unit has been completely destroyed along with the nurses' station. The hospital unit has look like a destruction crew had came in and destroyed the unit. The man in a trench coat is huffing and puffing. He is still enraged by not being able to do his job and failing Urano.

Failure was something that the man in a trench coat had not suffered before. He is at a loss to what to do since he has never been in the no win scenario before. Life had been easy streak for the

officer until this boy had come along!

The door to the elevator opens again and the man in a uniform comes storming through the door. The officer is in such of a hurry that he leaves the key to the elevator controls still in the keyhole.

The keys have to be taken out so the elevator door could close.

The officer is a black uniform with all his medals on the uniform jacket. The hair of the officer is wet and slicked back. He does not seemed to very happy as he storms towards the man in the trench coat. He salutes the officer which he towers over the small commander.

The officer yells,”What on Rindat are you doing? Security had told me that this hospital unit's cameras had been destroyed! What were you thinking?”

The man in the trench coat stops saluting and lowers his head out of shame.

The man in the trench coat speaks,” I had captured a potential subject for our war efforts, but the nurses here had left him get out of his unit!”

The small man looks at the unit and sees that it has been completely devastated.

The officer speaks,”How do you not know if you have killed the brat with your guns? You are such a miserable fool! If you were not so effective in your other tasks before this I would have you executed!”

The officer smacks the fedora off the head of the man in the trench coat. The hired thug was so shocked by his hat being knocked to the ground and he bent over to pick over the hat. While bending over to get his hat, the officer punches at the taller officer. The man in the trench coat raises back up after the punch. The taller man is not even aware that the officer had tried to hit him since he is caring for his hat like it was a child. The hat is placed back on top the head of the tall officer.

The man in the trench coat speaks,” I did not think about that sir! I am sorry that I failed you and Urano!”

The officer speaks,” That is why you are not an officer and just hired muscle! We have tagged the boy and we know that he is still from within this unit. I got an GPS that we can get his exact location.”

The man in the trench coat smiles from ear to ear. The officer pulls out a little machine with

small screen. It zooms in to the hospital unit and they can see that they are within twenty feet from him. Both men look all around them and see that the boy is not where he is showed to be in.

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The entire unit has been checked by the two men and they still can not find him. They have checked for him everywhere to no avail.

The officer says,” The GPS is not specific enough to tell what height he is outside ten feet vertically! If I had known in advance, I would have had ordered that a more sensitive tracking device in his chest.

The boy was shifting from all over the crawl space trying to keep the men guessing and was starting to tire. He remembers that he had a pocket knife with him that he obtained from the time he was a bear scout. The nurses must have thought that he a non-threat since he was so drugged up. He feels his chest and notices a new point on his chest. This point feels tender so it must be the spot where he was tagged at. He starts to raise his shirt.

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The boy manages to rip the device out of his chest without much blood spilling out. The wound was smaller than a quarter. The boy pulled the shirt back down to his waist. The boy saw a mouse running next to him and he grabs it. The mouse screams but can not get out of the boy's grip. The boy uses the side of his fist to press down on the rat while he wraps the sensor around the mouse's tail. The tail is in a knot around the sensor and opens a ceiling tile. The boy lets the mouse down unto the floor.

The officer and the man in the trench coat were running back and forward running through the rumble. They are thinking that they are chasing after the boy not just a simple mouse.

The boy has to bite his lip to keep from busting out into laughter.

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The boy can’t be found by the two men and they are totally outraged by this brat. This boy was nothing but a hindrance to the two men.

The man in the trench coat speaks,” I should have left him in his little shack of a house! But it

is past the point of no return now!”

The officer gasps out of exhaustion since he is used to make his underlings do all the hard work.

The thug speaks,” What are we going to do now boss?”

The officer catches his breath and prepares to speak.

“I know that the boy has not left the unit since the elevator is the only way out of this unit!

The only place is the crawl space above the ceiling tiles! Shoot them completely! I do not care if he dies, since we will just get another subject! This has gone on way too far!”

The boy asks the Maker for help while still in the crawl space.

The man in the trench coat starts firing wildly upon the ceiling of the hospital unit.

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The parents of the boy are in old jail cell. They were both sleeping in old cots when they awake

in unison.

Susie yells,” Our son is in some trouble!

Both parents sit up in the cots.

William spoke,”I know that he is near death! The great shadow is trying rob us of the promise that He has given us! The great shadow is trying to take them of our son!”

The two of them cried and being to pray to their God out loud for help. The boy is about to die if something is not done!

They cry for what seems like forever.

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The entire ceiling of the hospital unit had been shot out and it reveled the hard stone ceiling. The entire base was built inside of a huge mountain that was carved out from the inside.

The man in the trench coat speaks,” We must have killed him boss since there is no trace of him to be found!”

The officer speaks,”No, the signal of the tracking device is still actively moving in the rumble!”

The man in the trench coat saw a mouse and he picked it up with a hanky very daintily.

The officer yells, “We have been played by some brat! That is the tracking device wrapped this mouse's tail! We had been had by a young boy! I can’t believe it!”

The man in the trench coat lets out curses about what has occurred. These two men are kicking the rumble out of frustration. They begin to talk about what they are do with this boy if they can get their hands on him. The two men were way passed their limits of their patience. Both men had never been made into such of bunch of fools!

The officer yells,” If the boy is still alive then where could he possibly be hiding? This unit has been totally ripped from head to toe! There is only one way out!”

The man in the trench coat speaks,” I do not know boss! I might have killed already him with

my trusty guns!”

The officer speaks,”You might be right and this nightmare could be over already!”

The elevator starts to prepare to operate. The machine starts to release the locks on the door.

The man in the trench coat is completely oblivious to what is going on. The officer finally gets what is going on. He then gestures over to the man in a trench coat to look at the elevator door.

The officer yells,”The boy has got the key to the elevator and he is trying to leave the unit!”

The man in the trench coat finally gets and sees a dirty linen cart in the elevator. The two men come running to the elevator door, but before they can reach the door the elevator shuts. The two failed to get to the door before they can get inside the doors. The man in the trench coat punches the elevator door out of anger and leaves a little dent in the elevator door.

The man in the trench coat yells,” This boy is more trouble that he is worth! I can not believe what this hell spawn has brought us through today!”

The officer speaks,” I know the code to escape the unit!”

The officer's jaw hits the floor as he has seen a ghost.

The man in the trench coat had shot the elevator controls into oblivion.

The officer yells,” Now we are stuck until the next shift of nurses comes! We can not escape you bumbling idiot! I can not stand this humiliation!”

The man in the trench coat bows and speaks,” I am sorry boss! I just had not been in such a situation before! Today has been such a strange day!”

The officer grabbed the man in the trench coat by his collar and started to shake him uncontrollably. The officer was completely livid at what had occurred and was taking it out the man in a trench coat.

The officer yells,” If you were not so hard to kill, I would have had you executed! You know that I do accept failure!”

The man in the trench coat is bending over while he is being shaken.

The thug speaks,” I am so sorry boss! What do I need to do to appease you?”

The officer lets go of his grip of his underling. The small man regains his senses and straggling his subordinate will do him no good! The two find themselves a spot to get comfortable. They know it will be a few hours until the next shift of nurses come. The two men are both embarrassed to be outsmarted by a twelve year old boy. The day was a lost to both men and they would not make it any worse.

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The boy awoke to him in a some sort linen basket with all sorts of wadded up sheets. The linens were not even dirty but just wadded up in basket along with the preteen. The boy hears machines working and thought it sounded like some sort of elevator. He peeks out from underneath the linen and confirms his guess.

He is on some kind of an elevator.

He quickly lowers himself back down when the door starts to open. He is now on an another floor that was higher up than the floor the hospital unit was on. The door remained opened and a sanitation worker saw the dirty linen basket. The boy went into the elevator and took the basket to predestined location.

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William and Susie were praying in their cell, when they hear the huge metal door to the cell being unlocked. A man in all white comes into the room and stands still in the doorway. The couple stops praying and looks at the man in the door way.

The man in white speaks,” You have been released from jail and here are your things.”

The stranger hands them a box of their things. The couple sees that their car keys is in the box.

The man in white speaks,”The box has your car keys and your car is waiting for you in the

parking lot. All doors will be opened and do not stop or speak until you get home! Your son is fine and out of harm's way! Do not stop to react to what I have told you. Just go as you were told. If you do so then you will be fine!”

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The couple went straight home and locked the front door to house behind him. The house was like it was before the attack had happened.

William speaks,” That man in white had to be angel of our God!”

Both of the two nod in agreement.

Susie speaks,”Our son is okay and safe! What a blessing!”

The couple begin to praise their Maker for hours for his Divine intervention.

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The boy knows that someone has taken the linen cart that he was in but the person has remained

silent at least for now. The person started to throw bags of dirty linen on top on the boy. The first time the boy was not prepared and let out a grunt. The boy thought that he would be caught but the person who was gathering the dirty linen was talking to another person about their jobs.

The purpose spoke,”I got the dirty linen from hospital unit 54.”

The other person was another sanitation worker and he was gathering dirty linen as well.

The other worker spoke,” Really, already?”

The person carrying around the boy spoke,” I did not even have to gather the linen! It was waiting for me in the elevator!”

The worker spoke,” Yeah, I was surprised too! Those nurses are usually so uppity that they do not like to even put it in bags!”

The two workers were blocking the hallway to the hospital unit were the boy had came from.

The other worker spoke,” I wonder what has changed with that group of cackling hens?”

The worker carrying the boy spoke,” I do not know, but it does not hurt my feelings!”

The two workers separated to keep from getting in trouble from people snitching them out for

not working to the higher ups.

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The boy did not know that dirty linens could be so heavy! He felt that he was going to be crushed if whoever was taking him around put one more bag of linen on top of him.

The sanitation worker stops in his tracks and puts it down on the ground a dirty linen bag. It was a higher up of the complex. The officer had lots of medals on him and has two stars on uniform. He is a twelve star general and is immediately saluted by the sanitation worker. The general returns the salute, but the general has a look on his face like something was wrong.

The sanitation work saluted again and asked,” General, is there is something wrong? What can I

do for you?”

The General spoke,” Let me take that linen cart. That is all that you can do for me.”

The boy was getting restless from within the cart and he is getting worried.

The boy thinks,” I going to get caught if this jerk(the general) does not leave! Lord help me please! I do not want to die!”

The worker speaks,” Excuse me sir?”

The General speaks,” Let me take that linen cart! I did not stutter, private!”

The worker speaks,” I can not let you do that since it is my job to do it! It is not proper for a

general, such as your self to do so!”

The General speaks,” So you think that a lowly private can tell a general what to do? Please tell me the answer private if you would be so kind.”

The worker speaks,” No sir! I was out of line, General!”

The officer is given a saluted by the worker and is handed the linen cart.

The boy ponders,”It is over! It is all over! I am going to be found out!”

#

The General slowly takes the boy down several hallways and into an office. He shuts the door

behind him and locks the door.

The boy was extremely nervous, so nervous in fact that he could not even move an inch.

The officer speaks,” I know that you are in there! You do not have to hide anymore!”

The boy still does not dare to move out of sheer fear.

The General speaks,” I am not like the others! I will not try to murder you as the others had done. I give you my word to that!”

The boy could not help but stir when he heard the general's words. He finally exits the linen basket all sweaty from being smothered by all the heavy linen bags.

Immediately the boy tries to bolt away but he can not find no way to escape. There are no windows, ceiling tiles to climb through just an old steel door.

The boy then tries the door but it has been locked from the inside and there is no way to open the door without the key. He may be smart and athletic but he is not strong enough to burst through a solid steal door! That would be impossible for nearly all people.

The boy then pulls out his pocket knife and charges at the general.

The officer dodges one blow after another like it was easy. The officer was not that old and looked fairly young. Yet, the white hair above the General's ears gave his age away.

#

The general had to been a trained warrior in hand to hand combat at an expert level because he dodge the blows of the boy without even moving. His feet never physically moved from the spot he started in but the boy was gasping for air. The general had just wanted the boy to wear himself out so that he would be easier to handle. Today had been a very hard time for the boy even before this attempted battle with the general. He was fighting the urge to fall into unconsciousness and his head is starting to dip. The boy was fighting to keep his head up.

What is the boy going to do? How is he going to escape this trap?

The boy has a knife in his hand pointed at the Urano general and he had tried to attack him. The struggle was in vain and the boy was just wasting his time. The boy begins to look at the general's eyes and he was surprised at what he saw.

The general's eyes were very tender and even showed concern for the current state of affairs that they both were in.

The boy thought,”This man doesn’t have the same kind of tone to his voice as the man in a trench coat and his boss. Could he be a good man? He has the eyes of a good man, but I know that not all those in the military are evil.”

The general just stands there listen to what the boy might say.

The boy speaks,” I can tell that you are not evil like the others! But why do you have friends that are killers. Your buddies had tried to kill me and was heartless in the killing of your own people! What kind of good man associates himself with people like those?”

The officer says,” I am sorry about what the rest of the military does but I will do my best to see that you treated fairly! I am not like that and I do all I can to do right by people!”

The boy still had a look of scorn on his face and shook his head out of disbelief.

The lad speaks,” Why is a good person working with such evil men!?! It does not make sense to me! You are trying to lie to me I just know it!”

The officer says,” You and your family has been wrong, take it all on me! I will be the scape

goat for your anger and do not fear doing me harm! I will take the blame for the entire military of Urano!”

The boy was completely surprised by what he had just been told. He did not know what to do.

The officer puts a gun on the desk and walks right in front the opposing wall of where the boy is at. The is at a loss to what the general is trying to do.

The boy spoke,” Why leave a gun in my reach, are you trying to earn my trust? I do not believe you! You are a liar, I just know it!”

The officer gives the boy his opened back.

The boy spoke,”Are you suicidal? Do you want to die? Is assisted suicide still banned?”

The officer says,”You can shoot me if you want! I will not blame you! Take the gun and kill me if you want! Take out all your aggression on me and I will not be able to defend myself! I promise to not attack you out of retaliation!”

The boy sheaths his blade and puts it in his pants' pocket. The boy walks over to the desk and looks at the handgun. The boy picks up the gun and aims it at the officer.

#

The handgun is shaking in the young lad's hands since he was raised to not cause harm towards others. The boy loved wrestling and fighting but that was mere competition. Yet, this was a life and death situation and not to be taken lightly.

The general spoke,” You have never killed a man before, have you lad?”

The boy remains silent while having the gun in his hands.

The man spoke,” I did not think so! The first kill is usually the hardest! I remember the first time I killed someone in war times. They were the enemy in the battle, yet it did not make it any easier for me! They bled just like me but I still had to kill them. So I did kill them before I was killed by them. It was kill or be killed in war and I had no other choice. I am sure the man I killed in war had a family like I do but I had to take him from his family. I did this by shooting this enemy's face off and the image of the defaced man still stays with me over all these years! I will take that horror from you and face towards the wall. That is all that I can do with you, my young lad! I will not hate you if you take

my life!”

The boy is starting to cry extravagantly and throws the guns behind the desk. The gun was

loaded and it goes off.

The gunshot hits the wall that is on the same side that the general was on. The bullet was

embedded in the wall twenty feet away from the general.

The boy cries out,” I just can not do it! You are a good man and I will not kill you! It is just wrong, since I see the goodness in your eyes! I saw the Maker standing behind you as if he was standing in your place! I could not shoot Him!”

The officer turns around and remains silent. He walks over to the gun and picks it off the ground. He walks over to his desk, puts the gun in a drawer, and locks the desk drawer.

The general speaks,” When I was a little boy I heard about the story of a hen who let herself be burned so that she could protect her chicks. She died but all the chicks who were under her body lived. To answer your question the reason I associate with such evil men is that I can better protect those under my command if I stay. Does that answer your question?”

The boy nods his head in agreement.

The general speaks,”Do not worry I will look after you and try to make this travesty easier on you! I can not take you out of this place but I can protect you the best I can. Become strong so you could make these place better!”

The boy smiles which is returned by the general.

#

William and Susie were a couple of ministers that had been infertile for years but finally had given birth to a son. They were speechless when their son was born,

It was happy times for twelve years then the boy was taken by the Urano military by force.

They were at home praying for their son’s safe return.

This boy was the fulfillment of a promise that God had given William and Susie all so long ago.

He brought so much joy to the couple's life but the military had stolen their boy to meet

whatever means that the Urano faction had sought.

To what means that was unknown to the boy’s parents and only those wanted him knew that answer.

Susie cried out with tears in her eyes as yells,” Why did they want our only son? He is all we have!”

The two were sitting on their front room rug crying their eyes in intercession prayer.

They had no longer had the son that they had cherished for so many years.

William begin to pray out loud,” Lord please help us get our son that you had given us. This is the promise that you given us and I know you will not let the heathens take from us what you have given us!”

The couple was lost in sheer sorrow as an unspeakable joy comes over the couple.

A still small voice speaks,” It is all right! He is in good hands now and he will be protected. Do not fear!”

The couple hold each other on the floor with tears in their eyes and begin their God for his intervention.

Susie speaks,” I know that he is not home but we have faith that it will all work out. Thank you!”

#

Thousands of miles away at undisclosed location there contain the son of William and Susie.

The boy was at a mysterious military base with a loaded gun in his shaky hands, while the gun was being pointed at an unnamed officer.

The officer speaks,” Like I said before, I would not blame you if you shot me to death! Go

ahead if you want!”

Tears was flowing from the eyes and the boy spoke,” I can not do it! I can not kill you even if

you deserve it! It is not right that much I know to be true.”

The boy put the handgun on the desk and returns to standing stationary.

The officers to smile from ear to ear which shakes the twelve year old to his very core.

The boy demands,”What sane man laughs about having death face him right in front of his eyes.

The officers starts to laugh.

The officer speaks,” You are a very rare breed that much I can tell you. I have been waiting for someone like you for many a years! Where have you been after all these years of searching?”

The boy does not what to say and just remains quieter than a church mouse. He thought it was wise not to press the matter and leave well enough alone.

The lad was standing mutely while his heart beats repeatably with the fear of what is going to what is going to happen to him. But, that was not the strangest reaction to being abducted by the Urano military faction.

People are often afraid of the unknown and do not like things that are foreign to themselves. People often crave the same events to happen consistently over time as they often loved the status quo.

The officer speaks,” Well son, are you hungry? I can take you to get some food. I am sure that have not eaten in several hours.”

The boy thought,” I am not your son! You know that they had been left back home! You are the boss to some kidnappers and murderers! Do not try to suck up to me now! It would not do you any good!”

The boy was angry as anyone would be but he paid attention to the teachings from his minster parents. They had tell that there was a time and season for everything. He knew that it was time for him

to remain silent because it would not do any good for him to argue with the officer. He would state his stance on the matter, but he would not argue it anymore.

The boy’s belly begins to rumble so loud that it could be heard throughout the entire office.

The officer breaks out into laughter by the sound of the hungry stomach.

The boy’s face begins to turn bright red out of angry of being made of.

The officer stopped his laughter and looks upon the bright red ears of the boy.

The officer speaks,” I was not poking fun of you since I was laughing because of your complete lack of attention to your rumbling stomach. You were totally no-selling it so hard.”

#

A couple minutes goes by and the boy’s face had begin to lighten up considerably.

The officer spoke,”If you would follow me, I will find you something to eat. I know that you must be hungry as a horse. Also, as you know far too well that it would do you no good to try and run away. I will not be as easy to fool as the others were in the past.

The boy made a loud “Humph!”

The officer smiles and speaks,” I see that see things my way. Let us go now.”

The boy watched the officer simply turn the knob to the door as it had been unlocked all along.

The boy spoke within himself,” It must have some sensor that determines who is to be let in a room and who is not. I saw no computer or keypad around the door so I do not know how it works.”

#

The officer and the boy following after him walked down several long hallways with innumerable amount of doors covering the numerous hallways. The pair went up and down several series of elevators that confused the boy beyond no end. This was down to confuse any outsider than may possibly entered.

#

The pair go down one more elevator and the pair exited it to discover some delicious smells coming from a nearby room. The officer opens one door out of a pair of double doors.

The boy walked in and saw a large cafeteria with hundreds of people siting eating their diner. The noise of the people was deafen until the entire room suddenly looks at the officer and the boy with piercing stares.

The entire room of people stood up and made a salute towards the pair. The boy looks around and sees that everyone was saluting the officer standing next to the boy.

The mysterious officer returns the salute and the whole cafeteria stops the salute and everyone sit back in their chairs. The whole group returned to what they were doing before as if nothing had occurred. This sudden act of alertness to their surroundings.

The officer spoke,”Follow me and I will show you where you can get some grub. You can get all you want, just make sure you eat it all or the cooking stuff will get mad. They do not like it when people waste food.

The pair walk to a large buffet and the boy grabs everything that he could be fit on a food tray. The officer smiles at the sight and gets himself some food as well.

The officer leads the lad to a large circular table with several other officers.

The General speaks, you get sit with us this time so make yourself comfortable. The sits quietly with his head pointed at the table.

The officer picks up a chicken and starts to chomp down when the boy makes a huge scream.

The boy had knocked the chicken leg out the officer’s hand and unto the floor. The whole room

stood out of shock and were prepared to strike down the young lad.

All the officers at the table except for the one that led him to the cafeteria were standing on their feet. They were ready to pounce on the boy for insulting their commander. At the secret base, all those that disobey were to be eliminated with extreme prejudice. The victim’s family was to be left in the

dark to how they family member died or even given the fact that they had died.

The commander was the only one at the table who was still siting in his chair very reserved. He

was not angered in the least by the actions of this young boy.

The officer thinks,” I do not blame the boy for acting out since he was taken from all that he knew to be drafted into the military illegally. I would have acted in the same way.”

The boy yells,” I have trying to tell you that we had not prayed before we eat! We can’t eat before we prayed for the food. It is only common sense that we do so!”

The whole table breaks out in laughter then finally the whole cafeteria broke out into laughter.

The only ones not laughing were the boy and the commander. The boy was growing upset that his faith was being laughed and did not take much before he had enough.

The lad was about to yell when the commander stood to his feet and the whole room become silent.

The officer spoke,”Please pray my lad and bless the food.”

The boy was taken back by the statement but obeyed nonetheless.

The lad spoke,”Thank you Lord for your mercy today! Thank you for the meal that you have provided for all us. Please teach all the others about your ways! Amen!”

The officer set back down in his seat and returned back down to his meal. Then the whole dining room soon followed after him.

The boy bent over to pick the chicken leg that he had knocked out of the commander's hand and he begin to eat it down to the bone.

The officer spoke,”What are you doing? Why are you eating chicken that was lying in the floor?”

The boy finished the chicken leg and sat down in his chair.

The boy spoke,” You said to not waste food so I could not do nothing but eat it!”

The commander busted out into laughter at the sheer honest nature this boy had possessed.

The boy stared at the commander with befuddlement about what was so funny to the

commander.

William and Susie had finally had given birth to a child and it was a precious baby boy. He was

something that was a huge blessing to his parents. The boy was talented in a very elite school. He had

then been kidnapped by the Urano military and the parents were arrested just for the act of questioning the abduction. The boy was carted off to a secret military base deep underground.

For what reason he was taken was still unknown at this present time. The boy knew that escape was at this time impossible.

The boy was eating in one of the base’s many cafeterias with one of the base’s many officers and his subordinates. Everyone had finished their meals and everyone stood to their feet. All the tables’ chairs were pushed back under the table.

All the men at the table saluted the officer that was standing next to the boy. One of the men grabbed the boy’s arms and forced him to salute the officer as well as the others were already doing.

The superior officer returned the salute and the other men lowered their arms from giving the salute.

One of the men yell at the boy,“You need to learn to salute your general! We are not as forgiving as he is! You will fall in line here or you will suffer the consequences.”

The boy did not realized that the officer was so high up in the leadership here at this horrid place. He looks at the general and he is wearing twelve stars on his uniform!

They were in three rows of four stars. The boy had only heard of a five star general yet alone a twelve star general.

The boy was so surprised that he did a spit take all over himself.

The General smiled a little bit and spoke,”I am General Hagotti and I am one of the main

officers that run this base. I am a four star general in each of the three main branches of the Urano military.

The Urano military three’s branches were the army, navy, marines, and air force.

The boy nodded his head in acceptance of what he had been told by the general.

Hagotti spoke,”I will be the man who will lead your training to become an elite solider in the

mighty Urano military!

The boy was taken back by the general's bold statement.

The boy had just finished eating his huge dinner and he was then led out of the cafeteria by General Hagotti down into a long series of hallways. He had been allowed by Hagotti to eat until he gotten his fill but he could not waste anything. The kitchen staff would get angry if any food was wasted. But that was not a problem for the boy since he had not eaten in over twenty four hours so he licked his plate clean.

The boy could not help but curious about the nature of the labyrinth like military base. You

could not move through the facility very far without proper knowledge of the complex’s layout. It was probably made that way to prevent information from leaking out into the white world. (The white world is the part of the world where common folk can clearly see).

The general opened a door to a small room, revealing a small bedroom with some clothes on the twin sized bed.

The General spoke,”There is a small door to the left that is a bathroom. It is not a five star hotel but it will do for know. You will soon be tested to see where your abilities truly reach out to.”

The boy then nods his head in agreement then salutes as if somebody is going to hurt him if does not.

He had already by chastised by some of the general's underlings already this day for not saluting the twelve star general and he did not desire to get into more trouble than he already had.

The General made a huge smile and said,”Please, do not try to escape this room due to curiosity or what not. We had already enough exploration for one day.”

The boy could not help but snicker which caused Hagotti to be taken back a little bit.

The lad spoke,”Where am I going to go in this maze of a building? I have never seen so many twists and turns in my twelve years of life!”

Hagotti snickered as well.

The General spoke,”Good, that will do my young initiate. I know that you are here against your will but even as a twelve star general I am powerless to do anything to do anything about it. I have hit the glass ceiling and I can not do anything to seek further advancement. All I can do for you is to make your stay here the best that I can make it. I will promise you that you will not see real combat until you are least seventeen years old!”

The boy could see that the general was downing himself, since he seemed to be torn up inside.

The lad pats the general on his back and says,”Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friend.” You have already proven that you were willing to die for my sake so I know that you are not evil like the others. The man in a trench coat and his boss were nothing but heartless murderers. You are just a good person in a terrible world.”

The old general was totally taken back by the unrelenting compassion this boy had.

This boy had been kidnapped and probably a victim of attempted murder. Yet, he had held no wrath against this place and was just rolling with the punching. It did not make since to the battle harden general.

Hagotti thought,”What kind of upbringing could this boy could have had? His parents had to be saints as people.”

The boy broke the silence and said,”When will I get to eat again?”

Hagotti broke free of his inner thoughts and responded,”You see that slot in the wall next to the

small table and chair.”

The boy spoke,”Yes, I do, then what about it?”

Hagotti spoke,” That slot in the wall will open and food will come out. Once you done eating return the tray back into the slot and close the door.”

Hagotti saluted and had the salute return by the boy. The general then left the room when the boy eventually saw something puzzling.

The door had no door knob or no lock of any kind from the inside.

The boy spoke,”I am not going nowhere this time.”

He took his shoes off and laid on the bed. He got under the covers and was finally relenting to sleep.

The boy spoke,”Lord, what is going to happen to me? Please help me since I can not escape this place.”

He then fell fast asleep.