No Man's Land

Replacement

Theo approached Tim in the kitchen, "I need to go for a bit, I'll be back soon" he said, leaving the kitchen and walking out through the front door.

He got inside of his car, driving away from the restaurant and out of Hollyoaks, arriving at the building site of his house.

It was his first visit since he had killed Mick, so he wasn't surprised to see there had been some progress.

"Good work everybody so far, keep it up. I'll only be here occasionally" shouted Theo over the noise of tools and machinery to the builders.

A builder walked up to him, "hello sir, I wanted to ask you a question."

"Yes, go ahead, what is it?" Asked Theo.

"The tunnel that's built into the house on the blueprints, do you want us to go ahead with it?" Asked the builder.

"Of course I do, otherwise it wouldn't be there at all would it?" Asked Theo.

"Yes sir, I'll tell the others that we've been given the green light" replied the builder.

"Not much has happened then, surprised, I thought more threats would've taken an opportunity to pop up while we were away" said Diane, the team having caught up on recent events on the computer through camera history.

All of a sudden, the screens on the computer turned to static.

"What is this?" Asked Diane.

"I don't know, I'm trying to breach it, it looks like we're being hacked" said Alfie.

All of the screens suddenly changed from static to the same thing, a figure sitting down on a seat with noises in the background, it seemed as if they were in a helicopter.

"Who the hell are you?" Asked Liam, with a confused expression.

The figure began to chuckle, "that doesn't matter. You all have other things to worry about."

"Like what? You?" Asked Diane.

"Yes, because I was trained to hurt people, trained to be ruthless, trained to purge EVERY trace of inferiority from myself until I was nothing but the best. So don't drop your guard, or I'll purge you the same way" they replied, before the computer screens turned back into cameras.

"When will it end? There's always another lunatic waiting to step up and take the places of the previous people we defeated" sighed Diane.

"Erm guys" said Alfie.

"You should look at this," said Romeo to the others, who began to refocus on the computer screens.

"We're looking at camera perspectives, so what?" Asked Liam.

"Yeah what are you trying to show us?" Asked Kurt.

"I rewinded them, but look at this," said Alfie.

One camera showed a figure in a suit, holding a flamethrower while having a jetpack on their back under the archway about to enter the village, before flying off.

Another camera showed a figure in a suit of armour in the hospital area, walking away calmly from the hospital while holding a bo staff.

A third camera showed a woman going through the alleyway in the village, with black hair and a yellow raincoat, however it only showed her from behind.

A fourth camera displays a man strolling through the village, who everyone knew was Theo.

A final camera showed a black and red helicopter landing in the pub car park, soldiers in almost all red uniform apart from black overalls and shoes jumping out of the helicopter along with a man in a black outfit.