Good vs. Evil

Chapter 19

THIS SONG IS EXPLICIT BECAUSE IT'S BY EMINEM SO IF YOU ARE UNDER THE AGE OF TEN (THATS WHEN I STARTED KNOWING ABOUT CUSS WORDS) THEN PLEASE IGNORE THE LYRICS AND THE VIDEO. THANK YOU.

OKAY, BEFORE YOU PRESS PLAY ON THE SONG ABOVE, NOTE THAT IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE CHAPTER OTHER THAN THE FACT THAT I WAS LISTENING TO IT WHILST I WAS WRITING THE THING.

CHASE:

I HEARD THE BANGING ON THE DOOR and was about to go check it out when something completely and utterly terrible happened. Someone snapped my neck. How on Earth I am still alive is beyond me. I'm not even in a neck brace, which tells me that either my chip is way more protective than I ever thought, or that someone healed me. Let's just say that I know my chip is nowhere near that powerful. So, question is, what healed me?

I question this for a while until I hear the sound of applause coming from near the door of whatever place I am in.

"I must say, Chasey boy, you are an astounding specimen!" he says, looking at me with a certain light in his eyes. "I cannot wait to dissect you. Tell me, what are your abilities?" He pulls out a notepad with yellow paper.

I laugh slightly. "Something tells me that you already know that." I roll my head back, feeling if my neck has any extensive damage to it. "But, even if you didn't know, what makes you think I would tell you? After all, you did kidnap me...not to mention break my neck."

"Yes, I did do that, didn't I?" He looks thoughtful for a moment. "Oh wait, no, I didn't. My men, whom I told they could do anything they wanted with you, did do that. They had a feeling--as they told me--that you would not be very cooperative, so they went to extensive measures."

I don't say anything.

"Hmm, not talking, are we? Maybe you'll talk after I tell you this: your girlfriend-though the thought of you two is repulsive-Bree, doesn't love you. Not anymore. It may be hard for you to believe, but Marcus had an ingenious plan. What if we made Bree fall in love with him? And out of love with you?That would give us leverage over you, your family, Davenport Industries, and we'd have a everything in the world we wanted.

"See, your real father, Douglas, has developed something extraordinary! He has created the a way to actively...compel people to his will. If he could put it on a bionic chip...but, you're a man of science, you already know what'd happen. Bree, Bree is just a test run. If she survives the chip extract and re-entering, we can assume that the same will be present for Marcus. It's quite interesting to have experiments about such things." He looks at my shocked expression.

"You-your-no. You're lying. Bree could never love Marcus. Marcus isn't capable of love, even if she did love him. He's an android, not a human, or a bionic human, at that. He's just an android." I can't fathom the idea of Bree even liking Marcus.

"You can keep telling yourself that, Chasey, but when we show you this little clip from Bree's room, you might just change your mind." He snaps his fingers and a guard dressed in all black and a machine gun in his right hand runs in and give a remote to the man. When the guard leaves, the man presses a button on the remote and a flat screen descends from the ceiling and a picture comes up.

"Do you see those two figures there? Those are people. Can you guess who they are? What they're doing?" he asked, looking at me with fake sympathy. "No? Can't guess? That's okay, I'll just zoom in a bit to make them clearer." He presses another button on the remote and makes the figures clearer. I see Bree's hair escaping Marcus's large body that was being held down on the bed. I close my eyes, not being able to watch anymore. All I feel is pain. Pain, hurt, and betrayal.

"Why are you showing me this?" I ask quietly.

"Hmm?"

"Why are you showing me this?" I ask slightly louder.

"So you can see that you were played. You are worth nothing to Bree. You never were. And now we will allow you to make a decision; stay with us, free Bree, and get her away from Marcus" --he let the first option sink in-- "or, you can leave Bree with Marcus and all the rest of us and the pain you feel right now will never leave you.

"Do keep in mind that Marcus and the rest of us will continue to experiment on her. But also keep in mind that Marcus will continue to seduce her to the point where she'd be begging on her knees for you to be killed," he says.

"I-I don't know," I say, uncertain of what I want more. I want Bree away from Marcus, but I also don't want to be here. "I'll be experimented on if I stay here and Bree could just hate me for the rest of her life because I took her away from the guy she loves. The outcomes of the options don't end well for me either way."

"Then how about a coin toss? No cheating at all. You can even flip the coin." The look he gives me makes me doubt myself for a moment. "I'll untie you and you can reach into your shoe where I know you keep a quarter. All you have to do is say the word."

I nod and he gets up to untie me. Once the rope is gone, I reach into my shoe and get the quarter. I place the quarter on my thumb and flick it. I catch it whilst it's coming down and hold it in my right hand, my left ready for the quarter to be placed upon it.

"Heads: I leave, Bree stay. Tails: I stay, Bree leaves."

I put the quarter down on my hand. It was...

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All right, you guys should be proud of me. I got an update out early. I know, it's a first. but, because of the early update, I just had to do a cliffhanger.

I'm sure some of you already have guessed the ending, but that doesn't matter. Anyway, this is the second to last chapter of this book! The last chapter will hopefully be uploaded in three days--or less. But keep in mind that this chapter was one of the longer ones, so...yeah.

ANYWAY, HOPE YOU ENJOYED THE CHAPTER, SEE IN THREE--OR LESS--DAYS!