Ben Mendoza

Mind Control

It was the loud banging sound at the door that woke Bridget Clark out of her sweaty monstrous dream. She looked at the door trying to figure out if what she was seeing was even real. Her dream felt like it was actually happening and it caused her to be in a state of confusion.
    Bridget heard the knock at the door again and leaped from her bed to see who it was at the door. Bridget peeped through the hole in the door and saw no one on the other side. Bridget didn't want to open the door so she called out, "Who is it?"
    A voice on the other side said, "It's Moses!"
    Bridget cursed at herself as she opened the door and looked down at Moses. Moses asked, "Are you with someone right now??"
    Bridget said, "No, it's too late in the night to be having someone in my room."
    Moses said, "Okay then, I'll be the judge of that."
    Moses pushed his way through the door and into the room checking under every sheet on the bed and in the closet.
    Bridget asked, "What are you doing??"
    Moses said, "I heard you making noise in here, there has to be someone in here causing you to make that noise."
    Bridget said, "That is ridiculous! How on Earth would someone be causing me to make loud noises in the middle of the night??"
    Moses turned to her and said, "I know you thought that sentence over in your head. You know how someone could be making you make noise."
    Suddenly, a random girl with messy hair peeked her head through the door of the room asking Moses to come back to the room. Moses stared at her oddly and embarrassed of himself. He then made eye contact with Bridget, who was already staring him down.
    She asked, "Why don't you get back to the person causing you to make noise."
    Moses exited the room and turned back to Bridget one last time. He said, "If you're sure no one is the cause of your screaming, then you must've been having a bad nightmare. And if that's the case, then I'm sorry. You don't need to be carrying something like that on your shoulders."
    Bridget just stared at him with a sorrow look in her eyes. He turned away from her and left the room, leaving her alone to reflect on her dream.

    The daylight hit the sky of Havana. Bridget and Moses had left their rooms and took off for the location of an artifact that could read the minds of any individual anywhere in the vast amount of universes in the galaxy. This artifact was called Zeel.
    The two got into a car Moses had rented and he drove the car to what seemed to be an abandoned and crumbling building.
    Moses parked the car beside the building and stared at it from outside. Bridget said, "This is the place."
    Moses nodded and said, "It gives me a bad feeling. As if a lot of people died here."
    Bridget said, "This must've been the result of the war."
    Moses didn't have much to say after as the two stepped out of the car and began to approach the building.
    They looked around the whole place searching for any case or wrapping that the Zeel could have been inside. They eventually came up short.
    Moses noticed how old the building looked and said, "This place seems like it may have been like this well before the war."
    Bridget began to notice the same until Moses called her name.
    Bridget rushed to his side and looked down at what he was staring at. It was a glass case that had been broken into. Words at the bottom requesting that the item not be touched with bare hands.
    Bridget said, "Oh no, this has to have been where it was. Now I've gotta get in touch with Karla."
    Moses said, "You should forget about that idea. I don't trust that lady one bit. I'm pretty sure she's been watching us this entire time."
    Bridget said, "Don't you think that the lady that helped us find this should be notified that it's missing?"
    Moses turned off to give it some thought. He couldn't tell why he couldn't trust Karla, but he knew somewhere deep down that she was bad news. Moses said, "What I think we should do is give one of my friends a call. Oh, that would be a great idea!"
    Bridget said, "My idea is way better! I've already got her number ready for me to call."
    Moses said, "And you think I don't? He's one of my best friends, of course I've got him on speed dial."
    Bridget came back with, "You're just afraid that a woman may know more than you and your manly friend! It's not such a bad thing, you know? Have you ever thought about that?"
    Moses said, "It's crossed my mind once or twice."   
    Bridget said, "Perhaps we should make a deal."
    Moses said, "Of all the things, a deal is something you want to make?"
    Bridget said, "To whoever's resource can come up with a better location for us to search."
    Moses said, "Naturally my resource has all the best skills.
    Bridget said, "You obviously are nuts if you think that Karla, the lady that gave us this information, won't come up with a plan first!"
    Moses said, "That's exactly what I'm thinking, she can't give us information that fast!"
    Bridget and Moses both shook on it and Moses's phone then buzzed. He said, "Hold on, my amigo just got back to me."
    Bridget watched Moses walk off with the phone pressed up to his ear. She took this time to take her cell phone out and call Karla.
    Eventually, Karla answered the phone and asked, "Did you find it?"
    Bridget said, "No, it's gone. But there's a bigger problem. Moses has a friend that is searching for the Zeel."
    Karla said, "Then we'll have to find that friend before they catch on."
    Bridget said, "I agree, but we'll have to make sure Moses doesn't notice."
    Karla said, "Leave it up to me. In the meantime, you have a flight to take to Cairo."
    Bridget agreed and said, "Thank you, Karla."
    Karla replied with, "Don't thank me, thank yourself for realizing what's best for this planet."
    The call ended and Bridget now turned to face Moses who had just ended his call. He said, "Awesome news! My source tells me that the Zeel was taken to Cairo."
    Bridget said, "Talk about fast, how did they manage to get that information?"
    Moses said, "With the amount of power that thing possesses, my friend created a device good enough to track any type of otherworldly signatures. The Zeel currently is the most radiant thing on Earth. After that, it turned into fine work."
    Bridget said, "Then we better get to Cairo and we better get their fast!"
    Moses agreed and the two walked out of the abandoned destroyed room to make their next trip to Cairo!