Wings

Chapter 4

Right now I'm dashing the rooftops of the city getting back to HQ as fast as I can. The thought that Michael's been there his whole life just keeps on replaying in my head like a broken cassette. The moment I get back and in the chair of the meeting room it has already started. But I was just in the nick of time. The meeting was on our next mission that was happening tomorrow night. They made another mission for the newbies? Dash then looks at me and stares till he thinks he can burn a hole into my face. So now he hates me!

"The person in charge of this activity will be Stella." says Dash.

"You got to be kidding me I am not doing this." I reply trying to deny his call, but I just can't shake him. He then said that he has a specific reason for this. So great I have to take ten kids into the battlefield this is going to be fun.

"Oh yeah you have to take Janette with you". I agreed with that because I love doing missions with her. As I go into my room I keep on thinking of Michael. It's all I think about now. Michael is the only thing I can imagine in my head at the moment. Now why is that, I wonder why? Although I need to get tools for the job. The job is to take over a company's warehouse. Inside there is money and technology we can use on our side of the game. The company is a technology research lab. Creating new tech for the military. So if we can take this our side might have a winning chance against higher status people. Not everyone can die on missions now. That's nice to hear that nobody can die in our group once in a while.

As I walk around in the city, I try to get information about this warehouse. Our usual informers have clear info on it. Although I sometimes go to people in the city that are close friends of mine, who know places around the city. The thing is, none of them know about this warehouse. Which is weird if you think about it. But maybe this place isn't known to everyone. So I go around to my usual sellers to get equipment. As I start to accumulate my plan for tomorrow night I tell Dash about it allowing him to give me ideas. He gave me the idea of splitting everyone into teams and infiltrating one part which would make it easier to see if everyone gets in and out in one piece. My planning is on a roll. I can't wait till tomorrow night.

It's the big night, and I get everyone together letting them know the plan about the amount of guards and people that will be there. Once we get to the docks I can feel something is up. The reason for this is there is no guards in the specific areas that I have noted down. As a matter of fact there are no guards at all. This makes me really suspicious. As I tell the team, this they give me excuses like "Maybe they took the night off" or even "Maybe they're on their break," that one was Janette's idea. I accepted that there wasn't anyone there and complete the job. Then it just got even weirder, as we walked up to the warehouse there were no cameras in the designated areas, no guards in sight and most of all the warehouse is the same exact one we saw in the pictures with the insignia on it. The newbies on the other hand didn't take this into consideration the way I did. They went straight through it like nothing was wrong. I scream at them to stop,which is when I started to hear the sound of ticking and immediately understood everything.

"Guys it's a trap get out of there! It's going to blow!" I screamed with all my might my sight of vision blinded by the light of the explosion and I scream "Janette!" It defied all logic. How did the tech company know we were coming? I open my earpiece asking for backup from HQ. When the fire finally cools down I run in to see who is still alive. Hoping that none of them died, especially Janette. I find all of them hit. The most impacted one is Janette. I zoomed over to her side with all my might and hold her hand telling her that it's OK.

"Janette it's going to be ok. We will get out of this together. All I want you to do is breathe and look at me." I keep telling her this over and over again.

"Hah I never knew I would die like this. I was really depending on it to be a nice death." This is her starting out.

"Don't waste your energy the others are coming"

"It's ok I'm not going anywhere. I'm going to die, I know this for a fact. I can't feel anything at all." By this time her body starts to get cold and starts to shake. Her voice is draining down to a whisper. As well as tears flowing slowly down her eyes. I can't take this anymore

"Janette, I'm begging you stop talking and look at me. You're going to be ok. Don't you dare shut those eyes on me. You're not going anywhere. You will be OK. Just breathe. Stop talking please" By this time I know she won't make it. My face face starts to drown itself in tears. But I keep my eyes on her. I have to listen to her last words.

"Take my necklace ... cough... and live the way you want to live. It's your life live it to the fullest." She told me with a smile on her face. Right after this her hand stop shaking. The crisp of her skin were cold and the color of her eyes dull out to the shade of gray. While I take the necklace from her five years of my life disappear from my mind. As I shake in fear I let out a burst of tears and cries. I didn't want to keep it in. I hugged her not letting her go even though my colleagues tried to calm me down.

Everything after that goes by in a blur. I don't know what to do anymore. She was my friend, my life.