Jenette

Chapter 10

We jumped down from the train as I looked at Walter.

"You're just going to leave the train on this tracks, another train is on its way?" I said. Walter went to the other side of the train and pushed it down. The train fell off the tracks.

"Now it looks like an accident, happy?" Walter said and walked with me.

"I'm meant to go to Oscar Milo but I just have this feeling you're not going there,"

"Krane strikes in three days, I could face him alone but he is good at throwing distractions so I would be tired when I finally get to him, that's why I need to train you."

"But where would we train, I don't want to go blowing fire holes in gym walls,"

"Glad you asked," he said and stopped over the withered field. He pressed a button on his wrist as the ground lowered through a plastic tubing similar to WJ-I. Going down, we passed a few offices where they were testing different machines. If I thought some of Walter's gadgets were crazy, this was beyond that, this was coo-coo town. An old man had his white tuft hair in a mohawk and was dancing in front of a machine that looked like dinosaur legs with a censor in front. The machine did exactly the same thing and could even predict his next move. Another group of scientists were mixing up colours of potions that could blast them into oblivion.  I caught sight of the cafeteria at the end of the room as a bunch of them were microwaving fire, it was white meaning it was emitting ultra violet light. Why hadn't the microwave exploded already?

"It's like you were shadow cloned," I muttered to Walter as he let out an eerie laugh.  Most of them were so happy to see him. They did this creepy hand sign thing and spoke jibberish to one another. We stepped through an elevator and went down to the basement. 

"Did you build all of this?" I asked as he nodded.

"Most of us are abandoned agents from all over the world," he said and then smiled from nowhere "But they don't know the condemned ones know the most things,"

"Does WJ-I know you have this place?"

"Does WJ-I know you're here?" he asked me.

"Good point," I answered back.  We got to the basement of the building. I was expecting to see another set of crazy inventions but I was just met with a vast room, no equipment and very tiny windows at the top of the room close to the ceiling. We walked further until we reached the end of the middle of the room.

"Right," Walter said and turned to me "Your coat please?" he said extending his hand to me. I removed my coat and dropped it in his hands. I hadn't noticed how heavy it was. My shoulders bobbed up as I looked at Walter for further orders. I also hadn't changed clothes since the museum incident.

"And your wig please," he asked. I was quite reluctant as he added " Come on, it's all for the best," I peeled it off my head as shoulder length ebony hair fell on my shoulders.

"Good," he said and dumped it into a corner "Get ready."

"For what?" I shouted as he skidded across the room and pressed a button on the wall. Immediately the walls opened revealing metal minions. The lights in the room dimmed as they stood in a straight line in front of me. As soon as they assembled, their eyes flashed red and all of them repeated "Target received," and immediately shouted "Destroy!"

They formed a circle around me on every corner and yelled Destroy in my ears. It was extremely distracting. It would have been easier if I had my wig, my reflexes always helped but I had to learn how to harness it fully and that meant ditching the wig. One thre a couple of knives at me as I ducked on the floor and rolled away from another one about to crush my ribcage with 50 pounds of iron. I ran to the other side of the room trying to stall for time.