72 Hours: A Ticking Time Bomb

{-CHAPTER TWELVE, SECTON 3 STARTS-}

{-THE FINAL FIGHT-}

"Wait.... It can't be...." Netta trembled. No one here expected Kobi Marimi to be the one behind the operation... And they certainly didn't expect him to have anything against Duncan!

"Oh, but it is, Netta." He chuckled evily. Everyone looked at Kobi with fear in their eyes.

"What do you want from Duncan?" John cried out.

"He took everything from me!" Kobi smirked. "So I'm returning the favor."

"Oh really? And what exactly did he take from you?" Michael asked rhetorically.

"I wouldn't push my luck if I were you, Rice." Kobi cackled. Michael took a step back.

"Don't call me that...." Michael trembled.

Kobi sighed.

"None of you understand!" Kobi raised his voice. He was getting into speech mode. "My entire life, I was looked down upon! I've been made fun of for my entire life! I thought Eurovision was going to be a change. Everyone would love me! I wouldn't be bullied anymore! But boy was I wrong. The only reason I qualified in 2019 was because Netta won last year... And Israel was the host. Nobody wanted me. My entire life, I was hated!"

"And you don't think I don't feel that way sometimes?" Michael said. "I did worse than you in 2019. I've been called generic! I've been picked on at school for wanting to grow up to be a singer. So yeah. I do know what it feels like."

Michael sighed again.

"But I don't go around kidnaping people and holding them hostage because of it. Duncan did nothing to you."

"It's not like you can do anything to stop me from my plan! You don't know me!" Kobi retorted.

"I don't need to know you that well to know that you can't be doing this!" Michael kept on fighting it. Kobi gave Michael a smirk.

"Uh huh. Just like the United Kingdom can't just blame all their problems on Brexit." He chuckled.

Michael took a swing at Kobi as he said that. Kobi fell to the ground, not quite unconscious, but he was going to be down for awhile.

"Run, guys!" Michael cried, everyone ran off separate directions.

"Michael! How the hell did you do that???" John asked.

"I don't really know..." Michael chuckled to himself as they kept on running.

Everyone separated from each other so that they'd be harder to catch. Kobi had gotten up by this time, and there was only one thing he wanted... One person he wanted...

Michael ran as fast as he could to outrun Kobi, but he seemed to be catching up. That's when Michael realized he had run into a dead end. He was cornered.

"You're defenseless, Michael!" Kobi chuckled.

"I just wanted to save Duncan..." Michael sighed.

"I'm afraid that you won't be able to do that... You see... Before you arrived, we've already done it.... He's been terminated just a few hours ago when I caught his fiance sneaking in here." Kobi chuckled.

Michael was ready to drop dead. They had come here on a mission, a mission they had thought they completed, but now it was over. They had failed.

"No! You're lying! He has to be alive!" Michael began to tear up.

"You're too late..." Kobi chuckled. 

Michael sighed. He began to start crying as he knew that what Kobi said was probably true.... They had worked so hard to save Duncan but failed....