SPEED 2 - Off Home Planet

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" Hmm! We've been on you, Mr SPEED, we saw what you did in Void-G" On hearing that, I leaned forward, prepping for what I'm about to hear, I have no idea, but something tells I want to jump on him the instant I hear him say it. " We have a few cyclic mills here too."
I wasn't surprised, I knew it all the way, what else could he want other than energy.
"Oops. I'm sorry, we ran out of fuel. We could actually set up a deal with Total Energies and they'd send some fuel up here. How about that, SPEED?!" Kabir said in sarcasm, as he leaned forward too. The look on Mbaku's face was now one of contempt. I bet no one has ever poked fun at him. What do you expect? Everyone around here regards him as Imperial General. Imperial General, my foot!
"I guess one of your brothers has to meet my wrath before you-" I didn't allow him complete the sentence as I rushed at him in great speed, held him by his collar, he was shaken, he hid it behind a sleek smile of something like admiration.
And here comes what Kabir has been hoping would happen. "Guards, kill them!"
Upon the hall came this silence, the epochal type, the roar came as the guards were ignited into action. The seconds passed by like it took hours, a quick glance through the room estimated about sixty heads to drop down.
I leapt up, also did Kabir and Quaygraine. Kabir went into celestial mode, his eyes became lit with the yellow lights of Infinity, it was then I knew we don't SPEED. I backed down. What happened next, bodies flying all around the room and landing on the floor and the ceiling. Mbaku, who was cowering in the corner of the hall tried making a run for it, his efforts were laid to waste as Quaygraine wrapped herself around his leg and hung him heads down above the floor littered with bodies.
" I'm..so sorry." Mbaku cried out.
" Zip it, where are they?" Kabir demanded
" Bro, that wasn't the plan." I said to Kabir.
" I know, sorry. I just wanna get off this freaking planet."
" Yes, Mr Imperial General, it's high time you gave us our friends." I urged Mbaku who was whimpering. This man isn't as he looks, he's just brawny. No brains, at all. "Section 18, open." Mbaku ordered into his hand, as a section of the wall opened, here they were, Kadir and Fatah, we all took each other into our arms, but Kabir, he isn't a hugger. Quaygraine dropped Mbaku from the air, he landed with a thud, head first, he let out a grunt, he deserved that.
" My man! I knew you'd come for us!" Kadir said as we embraced each other. " You bet."
Out of the jolly and revelling came what would escalate the lighthearted smiles into utter chaos of laughter:
" What about the cyclic mills?" Mbaku asked. " I actually didn't kidnap them, the Ravagers did. I only bought them."
" Wow. Thanks for your kindness." I said, he got the message.
" That's very nice of an Imperial General, I'd like to pay your kindness. Guess what." Kabir said. " What?!" Mbaku asked, his eyes wide open, it could be, at last, he thought.
"We are taking Mr Scooter with us...that's what you get for wasting my time on an ugly planet." Kabir smiled, but Mbaku's case was different, he was horror stricken. It felt like his world was over. He sat there, beside the litter of bodies, devastated.
"Goodbye, Imperial General!" Kadir and Fatah nodded.
At the door, we could hear Mbaku cry and whimper. He really got into the wrong business, Kabir had shown him who the better General was.

EARTH
W.O.N.D.E.R LAB
" I could actually use some help here, Rahman." Scooter requested, I helped him replace the fluorescent bulb on the white ceiling.
" Have you got a family here on Earth?" I asked, but was met by a long silence then a shook head. His past must really be painful. You could see it in his eyes.
"You know, your parents were great friends of mine." What did he just say? "Mr No Cheek took them away, I heard. I'm sorry for your loss."
" It's alright. How did you know them?" I asked further.
" We partnered in a global outreach research on space travel in Germany. He, your father, was a very brilliant man. You're a chip off the old block."
" Who else knows this...Horag?" I asked again, taking it step by step, avoiding sounding too inquisitive.
" He choses whomever he wants to know him." He replied.
" What?!"
" He is that powerful, but not as powerful as What's Within."
"What's Within? Is that like an entity on its own? I've heard that before, what's it about?" It was then I lost it, the questions were flooding in until he made this throat drying statement:
"YOU ARE WHAT'S WITHIN."
Silence hung in the air as he looked at me. I froze, lost for words, the questions I had wanted answered disappeared. It seems I was lost in a trance, all wasn't right. All wasn't over yet when he made another statement that decapitated me, pitch black, I fainted:
"I KNOW WHERE HORAG IS!"

The End.
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