by BRANDON WOO
15
The Attack
Jacob:
I took quite a few days while trying to find leads to getting this scarlet murderer. It occurred to me a few days later that’s its the same as the incident from the highway. Like the one from the red murderer.
Same slashes, but different colors.
Its possible that it was Sean Johann at the highway but this scarlet murderer could be another one.
I got back out to the streets and began investigating.
Henry gave me a GPS about an incident that happened recently.
I turned on the GPS and followed the way.
My leads were this so far, they are both the same Convict but different people. I felt like a real detective.
The clues were obvious, what seemed to be a good is this. Is hits The Lab. Bad news, its murder. A line I’ll never cross.
But these people are murderers.
They could come after anyone from the people from The Lab to everyday people. I hovered through a few blocks on my sand cloud out at night. The neon signs illuminated the skies as I passed by the buildings. The sun was up and the wind was cool.
Its nice up here. Patrolling while having the best seat in the house. Then there is helicopter. They soar around. Causing air traffic. Its buzzing sound is like a great big bumblebee. Days like this is where your powers give you the freedom to do anything. Then I got a call from Henry. Yup. Even with this freedom he is still controlling me. But this is not just a robbery. Its much much worst.
Okay picture this, you walk to an ATM then a simple looking man is lining up right behind you. This man keeps pushing you, you tell him to stop then he gives you a big push then grabs you and carves a logo on you while you’re still alive.
Just that burning sensation of the huge red laser alone will give you the chills on your back.
That was the scene of the crime.
Identical with the scarlet murderer.
Same red slashes on and around the victim.
“ is this murderer on steroids?” I asked.
“can it Jacob!” he demanded.
“he looks like one though.” I continued.
The body was taken a few weeks ago. The police didn’t show given that Seattle has so many crimes committed. The body was still here.
“ugh. It stinks here.” I said. “hey! Respect the body.” he ordered.
“pay attention, this might help you find your murderer.”
“look for clues?” I said.
“you little-” before he could finish.
“nah-ah-aha. Words!” I said. But he was right. His job is easy.
Go to a crime scene, find clues, connect the dots and...
I was lost in thought for a moment.
I noticed something stabbed on the person’s chest.
Blood was spilling all over this smartly dressed dude and it nice looking white shirt. With a knife stabbed at the heart of the body with a red ribbon tied at the end. Saying:
“CONVICT FREEDOM NOW!” Interesting. Not like the previous murderer. Now it leaves a clue.
“Henry, you might want to see this.” I called.
Henry told me deliver the picture of the body.
I took the picture of the body and sent it to the him.
A while later, Henry called.
“same color.” he said. “same target too.” he added.
“this guy is also a man who worked for The Lab. One of the doctors.”
“Henry,” I asked. “give me a few days to look Dazzle girl. She might help us.” Henry’s voice tone changed. “no.”
“come on Henry,” I demanded.
“what happened to ‘many parts but the one body’ thing? The least we need right now is more forces to get this killer and go find The Johanns. This is big. Like crazy big, I need help, I need Dazzle Girl, We can you know work together and we’ll you know, find this scarlet murderer.”
Henry kept silent. I was hoping for an answer.
For once, I was trying to take charge.
“okay, fine.” he finally said.
“but you’re on your own.” he added.
I continued my scout and went to around the city looking for one Dazzle Girl but it might be like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Turns out I might be right.
“CONVICT FREEDOM NOW!”
That’s what the message said.
Convicts do want freedom.
Our world is like The X-men. Mutants persecuted by humans.
The Lab are the Sentinels. Killing machines.
Made to hunt us down. I need help. I need to go look for Dazzle Girl.
Then I remembered that Dazzle Girl is a teenager.
Chances are, the other 50,000 teenagers in Seattle.
Then it occurred to me. Dazzle Girl’s got purple hair.
For another day I searched around the city but realized she was nowhere to be found. I’m starting to realize searching for Dazzle girl might be a bad idea. Another day wasted. Night came.
Every second we waste two things will happen.
Aunt May will lose a day and Wednesday will still be lose.
Then something caught my eye.
They had a new checkpoint. It wasn’t here last time but now its new and it has cages. The base was kept at the edge of a group of buildings. Bigger and twice the security I couldn’t make out the people inside the cages but I could tell they are just human. Bigger and nastier. This has to stop! These are people, not Convicts. She’s stepped up her game! Its time to even the odds. I got closer towards the base and hid behind a nearby rooftop of a building. I pulled my phone out and began calling.
“hey Henry.” I called. “just found a new checkpoint.”
“so?” Henry asked. “I think they are catching normal people.” I said.
“really?” Henry asked. “Don’t engage. Calvary is on the way.”
“no its okay.”I said. “I can handle this.” “Brown,” He said “behind you.” I turned around, slowly keeping my phone in my pocket and walked to the side. Shocked at the sight of a dark brown bear sized wolf, growling. It was Henry, in his long gone wolf form. On the side of its left back leg is a red mark of an arrow. The wolf growled harder and began to howl. “guess you’re back huh?” I asked.
The dark brown wolf stared at me. Its yellow eyes reflected my face perfectly.
Those eyes are the eyes of an Alpha.
A leader. A warrior. The wolf turned and stared at the cages.
The wolf began to breath heavily. Its teeth showed out for a bit.
Henry said in thought speak.
I jumped into the base firing sand blasts, which is what I’m calling it now, straight at the observation tower.
PEZZZZZ~
The blast hit directly at the tower and destroyed it. “guess they won’t need it anymore.” I said.
PK-AAH-ASH-AHA! KAH-SHA!
I disappeared in mid air and appeared again landing at the base and began firing more sand blasts.
The wolf followed me leaping into the base.
It leaped off and began the attack.
Henry began to attack the guards, dodging the shots fired against him.
“move out!” I shouted. I sprinted towards one of the guards and threw a sanded up fist at one of the guards.
The guard flew to the back, and landed up on his feet.
What the-? How did he do that?
Henry moved to the nearest guard and began moved in for the attack. .
“wait, these are Convict guards!” I said.
I was confused.
These are Convicts that I’ve never seen before. They look like normal people but they spit acid from their mouths!
PK-AAH-ASH-AHA! KAH-SHA!
I grabbed a few of the guards, took them out and ran towards the cages.
I took a shot sand blast at the lock.
PEZZZZZZ~ PAK!
&nbs
p; The lock was destroyed.
I pulled the cage open and lat the people trapped inside to get out.
“Come on! Come on! Get out! Get out!” I cried.
The people ran and screamed at the sight of big brown wolf attacking the guards. Guess bear sized wolves still scare people here.
Henry leaped and slammed its paws over two guards and sunk its teeth to another guard running towards him.
I ran over to Henry and rammed at him.
“no killing!” I yelled. One of the guards on his paws moved and burped out acid from his mouth.
“Alpha! Heads up!” I shouted.
I blasted a sand blast at the guard closing in on him.
The blast smacked the guard on the face and fell unconscious.
Henry then turned and grabbed one guard by the leg and ran around with it. Toasting it against a group of guards coming out from the base.
“STRIKE!” I said out loud.
Henry shouted. Showing his power by jumping on top of three trucks and slammed hard on all three of them, putting it out.
“show off!” I muttered.
Its total chaos in here, Henry begins to head butted its hard head at the other guards. I ran pass some of the guards and gave a big blast against one of the incoming trucks.
Henry called as he helped wreck another truck.
I ran to the next cage and did the same.
I looked up to the sky, expecting someone to show up.
Helicopters buzzed its way to the base and fired missiles at the base.
Their spotlights on and facing us.
People are still here! Henry shouted.
I quickly formed a huge sand cloud and rose it to the sky, blocking incoming missiles. I turned to the last cage and released another batch, the people thanked and ran off. Okay, that did it.
“that’s it!” I shouted. “retreat!”
Henry called. “hang on!” I said.
Convict Lab hunters began to wrestle him down.
This is not how Lab Hunters fight.
I leaped it mid air and aimed at another helicopter and fired a sand blast at them. PEZZZZZZZ~POOF!
The helicopter exploded, losing control.
I grabbed the helicopter with my sand cloud and sent it to the base, landing it to the ground. I threw a few sand blasts against the Lab Hunters. Alpha grabbed some of them by the shoulders and threw them off. The wolf ran to the streets, escaping the chaos.
Henry called.
I ran towards a nearby vent and sanded myself through it, even though i don’t have eyes I could feel that the vent is clogged in large amounts of dust and other stuff that I don’t even want to know what it was. I surfaced to roof top and ran. Looking below, I could still see the wolves running.
Henry commanded.
More helicopters showed up. Hovering in the air waiting for the perfect target. Henry ran off ahead leaving me behind. Now its just me.
I took a huge leap across to the next block and turned to the edge.
I accelerated myself and jumped off into thin air.
Turning towards the helicopter, I fired sand blasts straight at the window of the incoming helicopter and sanded towards another vent.
I changed into sand and moved towards the vent on the other block.
But something felt wrong with this vent. Its a fenced vent!
I tried to get across but landed with both of my hands on the vent and bounced back to the ground. I armed myself in sand armor and tried manipulating it for me to float. I concentrated and pulled up. I’m doing it! Slowly, I hovered down to the ground and ran.
A guard was still running after me. I faded back to him and hit him down. Time for a message! I pull the guard’s commutator and started taunting. I suspect its the commander.
“listen commander! Tell Wednesday she better leave the people alone. Tell her, I’ll reveal every single secret she’s been keeping from us. Tell her she is NOT in control.”
I threw the commutator and sanded of to our meet up point.
Henry called. Not knowing about my message.
he asked in thought speak. “yeah.” I answered.
he demanded.
Henry’s telepathic powers as a wolf not only works among the others but amazingly works on me. As a child, he and I had a somewhat father and son relationship. I never knew my real parents but somehow, I could hear them too. Imagine having another person’s ear and mouth in your head, they can talk to you and hear you even though they are not there. A theory I had was my dad is also a wolf-man.
And that only his telepathy was given to me but not that whole turn into a wolf thing. I never knew my parents, in fact I never will, but from Aunt May and Henry, I was told they were great people.
Our meet up point was in the forest somewhere near Seattle.
It was a cornered by a bunch of large trees.
In the middle was a large worn out dark brown bear sized wolf.
The Alpha was in the middle, standing on top of a large rock, glaring down at me. I walked towards it, fearless. “coast clear.” I said.
Henry growled.
He began to change, his wolf jaw sink into his face, his tail begins to sink back into his back, the bones began to crack back into Henry’s human arms and legs. his yellow eyes returned to normal and he begins to stand back on two legs. his ears shrink back and his fur begins to shed off rapidly, revealing him shirtless. Henry rose up before my eyes with large arms and his body still in pristine condition.
“guess you’ve been doing it for a while.” I complimented.
“well, at the age of forty something, it gets a bit harder to keep the tummy to get away but I managed. Plus I need to let off some steam.”
he stated. More of Henry’s dark brown fur fell off and surrounded the ground. He dusted a few off and gave me a good look.
“how do I look?” he asked. “like you again.” I answered.
His hair was all messy. His arms covered in dirt.
I was in awe how all that raw nature is kept inside that body of his.
Henry and I climbed down the dark forest and got back into our safe house which was nearby the forest.
He walked quickly inside like he was in a hurry.
Must have been hard for him.
Half man and half wolf, some how brought into a world out of his league. Henry walked towards the fridge and pulled out a carton of milk and drank it from the tip. He pulled out some fruits and began chomping down on them.That’s the effect if he changes. He’ll get extremely hungry and choke on a lot of food. “I’ll go get us some food.” I said.
Henry didn’t bother. He just kept drinking,
I took some of his money and went to the nearest grocery store.
The grocery store was just across the road. I went in and took a basket in. I went to the fruits section and grabbed some fruits and more milk.
I then went to the part where there are biscuits and took them to my basket. I later walked to the counter and handed the basket to the cashier to scan. The cashier was a slightly older woman smiling at me and scanned the items. “heard of today’s event today boy?” she asked trying to create a conversation.
“no.” I answered.
“there’s a huge wolf in town.” she said putting the items into the plastic bag. “better be careful now.” There was a long pause.
I stared at her while she stares back at me. “that will be 50.99.” she finally said. “oh crap I forgot.” I gave her the cash I had and walked back to Henry’s. I reached Henry’s and dropped of the food.
He needs rest.
A thought came to me while I was on my way back, Wednesday is showing weakness. She is being careless. The people could be trying to turn on her but she used fear to control them. Maybe, I am slowly taking her down bit by bit but that also means she is playing dirty. What were those things? They don’t fight like normal Lab Hunters and guards. Those are Convict Guards!
What use is there wh
en you promised that you protect humans with Convicts. That’s like using criminals to protect the innocent.
This was worst than I thought.
Looks like I need to step up my game as well.
I need other Convicts if I am ever going to beat Wednesday.
I need to look for Dazzle Girl.
