♢ The Intellects ♢

27

It must have been an hour or so before he said something interesting, and by interesting, I mean calling someone else to speak.

I looked around me. Caleb looked the same I did, bored. Alice in the other hand, seemed excited. Everyone in the audience was either sleeping or whispering to their friends.

"...Please give a warm welcome to our new COO, Caleb Larson." Caleb stood up as the person called his name. It took about half a minute before anyone applauded.

"Hello." Caleb said, placing note cards on the podium in front of him. "And welcome. It is a pleasure for me to take on the role of Chief Operating Officer of this fine establishment." By the way he spoke the sentence, it might have been the professional side of him talking.

"I am glad to see everyone of you, especially the soon-to-be Intellects." He looks back towards me. "As the new COO, I will make sure that everything was what my father wanted. I will continue with the experiments, except I wouldn't take anyone new in." There was an awkward pause before he spoke again.

"Those who will l...Those who will turn 16 soon will be soon arranged with their new families until they leave home. Thank you for your time and hope to see everyone of you soon." He walks back towards us. Alice hugs him and whispers something that I couldn't hear.

"No hugs from Lexi? Or are you still ignoring me?" I stand up and hold my hand out. He looks down at my hand and slowly shakes it. 

"You did good." I say.

"Well, Alice wrote this for me, so..." As he says that, we hear a huge explosion. We see about 10 men dressed in black, with guns and masks, rushing towards us. "Wasn't expecting this for a congrats!" Caleb said, positively.

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The men surrounded everyone. One of them held this capsule, of course I was mostly focusing on trying to figure out what it is more than this could kill me. The "Men in Black" all looked at each other and nodded. This is when I finally went back to reality and knew they were coming for something, or someone.

The man holding this "thing" threw it towards us. We all backed up as far as we could, but there wasn't enough space between us and the men. We all heard a big popping sound. At first, we thought that it was a dud, but then people started collapsing. Soon enough, everyone blacked out, except the men.

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A/N: Plot twist? Was it what you were expecting for it to go? Or did I kinda surprise you?

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