《Agent 13 (Book 1)》11. I had quite a few grenades
Advertisement
"This isn't going to work." I hiss at her and she just rolls her eyes.
"I can see that."
"Maybe we can just go around?" Devin suggests. I give him a deadpan look.
"Go around the freaking sixty guards!" I whisper-yell at him.
"Please, there's only like forty." Thirteen retorts.
"That's thirty-nine too many. You never told us it would be this hard to get into one warehouse."
"How was I supposed to know that this one has double the guards as the one we did yesterday." She snaps back.
"We could try going in through the roof," Jason interjects. She gives him the most bored look I've ever seen.
"Yes that's a fantastic idea, find a wall to climb, start climbing, and get shot, since you know there's no place to hide on freaking wall." She bites back sarcastically and he glares back at her.
"Well let's hear some of your bright ideas then Sunshine." He retorts.
"Someone could cause a distraction and everyone else runs in."
"There are forty guards. How in the hell is someone supposed to distract all forty?" I question and she shrugs.
"Find a way." She mutters.
"Why don't you find a way."
"We could try to play it off like we're part of their group." Chase pipes up.
"I'm not sure that'll work."
"Uh, Cody?"
"Well we can try to see if there's a window we can get in through."
"It's a warehouse... there are no freaking windows."
"Chase?"
"Well this one could have windows."
"Not likely."
"Any more bright ideas?"
"Um, Jason?"
"No I got nothing."
"Same here."
"Hey! One of you idiots." I clap a hand over Devin's mouth.
"Shut up, you're going to give us away." I hiss. "Now what do you want?" Instead of answering he lifts his arm and points. We all turn to look at where he's pointing.
"Oh hell." Jason murmurs and Chase facepalms.
"You know this is technically your fault." Devin whisperers to me. "I mean you kind of dared her."
"Oh shut up." My eyes are trained on Thirteen who is walking right up to a few of the guards. Does she have a death wish?
"Hey what's she holding?" Jason questions quietly.
I glance at her hands which she holds behind her back, an object nestled safely in them.
"I don't think I like where this is going," Devin mutters.
"Cody hand me a set of binoculars will ya?" I pass Chase one of the three sets we brought along with us.
"It's a grenade." He finally says after a moment of silence."
Advertisement
"Oh yeah man! Shit's about to get real!"
"Shut up!" we all whisper yell at Devin in unison. My eyes travel back to Thirteen who seems to be talking to the guard.
"She's on comms right?" I ask.
Chase gives me a deadpan look "It's Thirteen, how the hell am I supposed to know."
"Right now I'm beginning to believe she's on crack," Jason interjects.
I snatch an earpiece from the bag resting next to us and place it in my ear. Her voice rings through my head.
"I'm so sorry. Hold on a minute could you possibly hold this for me?" she says to the guard in front of her as she hands him the grenade. As soon as it leaves her hands she bolts, and seconds later an explosion sounds.
Immediately all the other guards run towards the sound and she stands ready, a knife in each hand.
"Hey shit squad, want to take advantage of the distraction or are you thinking of just sitting there all day." I glare in her direction even though she can't see me.
"I know you're glaring Cody." How the hell would she know that?
"Let's go," I say to everyone else and we quietly make our way to one of the side doors, guns drawn. Chase quietly opens the door and we proceed single file into the warehouse.
"This place smells so bad," Devin whispers rather loudly.
"It's the dead silence that concerns me," I reply.
"That's cause we are most definitely walking right into a trap." We all whirl around to face Thirteen. "Spin any faster and you're going to give yourselves whiplash."
"How did you get in here?"
"Through the door." I give her a deadpan look.
"And the guards?..." I trail off.
"Dead, or unconscious. But mostly dead." She shrugs.
"You took on that many guards and won." Devin's eyes are wide as saucers as he speaks.
"I had quite a few grenades."
"Of course you did," Jason mutters as we begin creeping forwards again. "Why don't you have a gun?"
I glance at Thirteen, who as Jason has pointed out, lacks a gun.
"I have one it's just not in my hand." She retorts icily.
"Just drop it both of you." hisses Chase, just as he finishes his sentence, something comes flying through the air and lands next to us before exploding into fire and gas.
"Get down!" Thirteen yells as black dots begin to invade my vision. I begin to cough as the gas fills my lungs. The last thing I see before I lose consciousness is everyone else dropping to the floor as well.
Advertisement
***
My eyes flutter open and are immediately blinded by the large overhead lights. I turned to look to my right only to see Devin strapped down in a chair beside me.
"Oh, you're finally awake." He says.
"What happened?"
"Not entirely sure. All I know is Jason and Chase were taken out of this room about an hour ago and Thirteen has yet to make an appearance."
"So how long exactly have we been out?"
"I was just as unconscious as you...how the hell am I supposed to know?"
The thudding of footsteps coming down the hall silence both of us as seven men come through the doors.
"Grab 'em and let's go boss wants to talk to them." One of them speaks. We're untied from the chairs and restrained as we make our way down the hall into what appears to be a large office, with Jason and Chase restrained by metal chains on one side of the room. Their heads snap up when they hear us enter. We're shoved against the opposite wall and chained as well before the men leave.
"You guys alright," Chase asks.
"Yeah, where the hell are we?" I question.
"Beats me," Jason responds. "Where's Thirteen?"
"Don't know, she wasn't with us," Devin replies.
"We haven't seen her either, and I'm beginning to worry."
"It's Thirteen what could possibly happen to her?"
"I'm going to quote those words back to you if we find her dead Devin." Chase retorts.
"Any idea how to get out of here?" I ask.
"None," Chase replies, "There's a series of hallways and rooms, honestly I think we're under the warehouse."
"Great." I rest my head back against the wall. The door creaks open and several people enter. One of which I recognize from the photo I'd seen before. Tony Martin.
"Hello boys." He says. The rest of the people in the room line up next to him and behind him, each wearing bulletproof vests. All of them in their twenties.
"Now," he starts, "I'm sure you're all familiar with the process of interrogation. So I'll ask the questions and you'll answer honestly, and this will be as painless as possible. Ok?"
We all stay silent and just glare at him, none of making a sound or moving.
He lets out a dramatic sigh. "Well guess you need some motivation then."
"Nothing you say or do to us will ever get us to tell you anything." Chase growls and a sadistic smile spreads over Tony's face.
"Oh I'm not going to do anything to you. After all I know how agents think, you'd all die before you said anything. You'd never try to save yourselves or even each other. But..." he trails off as he walks up to Chase. "You would talk to save the life of a family member, or an innocent.
My blood runs cold at his words while Chase visibly pales. Devin's eyes widen, and Jason just stares at him blankly, but with slight worry in his eyes.
He smirks at us before motioning to a few of the men at his side. They leave the room, and enter again a few minutes later, with someone in their arms. The guards throw him face first into the floor.
He looks to be about fourteen or fifteen, with reddish-brown hair. His clothes consist of a bloody and torn t-shirt and jeans. A blindfold covers his eyes, duck tape across his mouth, and ropes bind his hands. But otherwise, he is unrecognizable to me and judging by the looks on everyone else's face they don't know who he is either.
"Now I'm already aware that if one of you know this boy....you aren't going to let it show, but you'll still want to answer my questions." He claps his hands together. "So first question, how did you find us here?"
None of us make a sound, in all honesty, I don't know how we got here, that part was all Thirteen.
He pulls a gun from his jacket pocket. "Every time you don't answer the question right, or don't say anything at all I'm going to put a bullet n this boy. Got it? So I'll ask you again, how did you find us?"
"Thirteen got us here, I don't know how," Jason mutters.
"Aw yes, Thirteen. Your legendary agent." He smirks. "How well do you know her?"
"Well enough." Chase retorts.
"Really...so I guess she's told you what happened to her old team then right? Oh wait of course she hasn't. Why would she? Why would she tell that she was responsible, that it was her fault they're all dead."
"You're lying." I hiss. No way that was true, he was making it up, he had to be.
"Am I?" he asks "Do you know that for sure?"
Do I?
I glance at Chase and Jason, who both look like they're pondering over that.
"So what?" Devin speaks up. "So what if it was her fault, she's done nothing but help us...and I refuse to believe that unless it comes out of her mouth."
I stare at Devin in shock that is probably the smartest thing I've ever heard him say.
My eyes began traveling over all the guards' faces while Devin continues arguing with Tony. I feel my body freeze up after my eyes land on a familiar face...Thirteen.
I guess I really don't know her as well as I thought...
Advertisement
- In Serial47 Chapters
The Helena Chronicles
Espers are really no different than humans; they look like any normal human and in general behave like any normal human. However, there are a few key differences. The max life expectancy of espers ranges from forty-five to fifty. They naturally have a knack for mathematics and are extremely intelligent in general, this is because their abilities rely on the subconscious and conscious calculations. They also have a mysterious energy source they call Focus that is generated naturally by all espers. The continent of Elestveeve is populated by three major factions, each a governing force. On the west of the continent, there is the Noble Houses that subscribe to the Deity Faith. The Houses ruling with the Deity Faith as council since the religion's founding four-hundred years previous. Controlling most of the northeast is WITCH, an organization ruled by powerful espers; claiming the mysterious Genesis as their capital, they are a whispered myth among much of the continent's less technically advanced residents. In the southeast you have Tech City, a towering monolith of a capital with four sky layers and metropolis' leveled deep underground; it is a city brimming with technical advancement and cyber integration. Each faction contends with one another for their evolutionary ideology, by devout religious worship to receive miraculous gifts, unique genetic lineage to obtain ESP, and technological integration to become something more than human. Helena, a young genius and esper, awakes in a dark room with only fuzzy memories and the company of seven other children. She must determine how she got there and how to get back to where she came from. Warning: Due to time constraints, I don't have the time to keep up on my three stories; therefore, Helena will need to go in a stasis chamber until I can find more time to write between work and life. I love my first girl so much! however, it seems she is the least popular among the fans (the poor girl T_T). This world is much bigger than my other two novels and I'm not giving up on it, but simply having to put her on ice.
8 172 - In Serial19 Chapters
Monochrome Bleed
There’s a world surrounded by a black and white cage. A reality with cracks in it. A world that’s always on the brink of ending yet keeps on spinning. This is the Earth of the Monochrome Bleed. And this is the tale of a certain man and a certain woman, who both might or might not be entirely human. Who lead their live's making end’s meet, by venturing into places that most don’t dare go, looking for treasure, and other rare goodies. Occassionally saving a few lives along the way.
8 121 - In Serial25 Chapters
Strongest NPC Returns as a Player ( A NPC Evolution LITRPG)
'Apocalypse' A deep dive VRMMORPG game renowned for its high-class graphics and player-friendly quests became a hell as one day an unknown NPC appeared, wreaking havoc and annihilating everything that came into his path. 90 million players allied under the banner of the Top Rankers, the strongest players to ever exist but were annihilated by the powers of the NPC. Left with no choice, the leader of the alliance, the Spear Master faced the unknown NPC alone and somehow came victorious. But little did he and the whole world know that the NPC who became a nightmare for them returned as a 'Player'. "Wait for me as I annihilate you and your world." Follow the story of the NPC-turned-Player as he discovers the cruel truth behind the game and his own existence and become the Strongest of the 'Apocalypse'.
8 192 - In Serial26 Chapters
The Demon Eye Gem
Life for a swamp goblin is usually pretty straightforward. Avoid the giant snakes, gators, wild boars, and the other creatures of the wetlands. Steal whatever supplies you need from the nearby farms, and go on raids against the nearest towns for the sheer thrill of causing chaos. Dizzy was just a goblin. A swamp goblin. The kind of guy that adventurers kill without a thought while on their way to their real adventure. Mischievous but kind, silly and not an actual threat to anyone. At least that was the case before the pirates came. Orcs with sharpened steel arrived on the shores of the goblin swamp. His friends and families were taken. Everything and everybody lost. Now Dizzy has to be more than he ever thought he could be. Now Dizzy must become an adventurer and fight to free his people. But when a murderous minotaur pirate and his crew of orc swashbucklers arrive in the swamp, intent on turning the coastal region into his own pocket kingdom, Dizzy must find a way to escape and rescue his tribe before they are used as expendable sword fodder. With fellow goblins Kitty and YDB at his side, what could possibly go wrong?
8 158 - In Serial52 Chapters
The Bet || G. Gustin
{every day updates} @jackchanlor I bet you $100 that @laniegrey can land a role on The Flash@roxygean deal.A story in which a teenage fangirl makes a bet to see if she can get a role on the Flash.
8 123 - In Serial6 Chapters
A guide to university, first year!
Tips and tricks on how to survive your first year of university or college.Disclaimer: All pictures used in this book is from google. Rankings:
8 149

