Point of view: - The Huntress
I stared at his eyes directly as he screamed in agony. He was trying to avoid my questions. I had to find the target. The one I cannot see. All the other targets were visible right before my eyes. How they are trying to hide. I can deal with them anytime I wish but this one is missing. She was the most important. The worse thing was that I did not have any way to access any records of her. Her files were deleted. The only clue I possessed was the name “Wendy”.
Most of the important files were deleted from the database when they escaped from the facility. Fifteen had slipped through their fingers and now I had to find each and everyone. My objective was to catch them and hand them over back to my masters. Right now I was squeezing the neck of Terrance, the one who they called as “The chameleon” to get any clue of Wendy. The guards mentioned that Wendy was together with him and three more at the moment they escaped. When my commands were initiated, I found out that they had split up. Four were visible out of five in the surveillance cameras and the other ten were in different locations far from them. They insisted that Wendy had something they belonged. They did not mention what it was but it was inside her. Above other escapees returning Wendy alive had become the ultimate priority. When the satellites were used to track them down the whole network went offline for twenty minutes. No one could diagnose how it happened. It was done manually. Still there was no sign of the traitor.
“Answer my question and I will not take any heavy measures to hurt you” I almost growled. Terrance had persistence. He was gritting his teeth as I tightened my grip. He thought his powers are more than enough to hide from me. But I had the “eyes” which could not escape anything around, except Wendy. Damn her.
The chameleon struggled further and finally gave up. He realized that with me he never stands a chance. Once the struggling ended I loosened my grip making him kneel before my feet.
“Last chance, where is Wendy?” there was enough rage built inside me to tear him into pieces.
“I don’t know, how many times do I have to repeat myself?” Chameleon was a young kid. He was short with a bald head, fair skin with a few bruises that came while fighting with me. He had said the same thing since I caught him. But right now he was telling the truth. I could sense it clearly. But I did not show it to him.
“I know her secret. You will never find her” The Chameleon chuckled. I kicked him on his face and watched how he lied on the ground. His lower lip burst and blood was oozing out. I wanted to thrash him more, but my orders were deliver him in one piece. I lowered and pulled him towards me by his shirt collar, looked eye to eye without blinking.
“I will find her one way or another, trust me” he laughed again sarcastically to make me madder. But I forced a smile and knocked his head against the cement ground that belonged to the abandoned building he was hiding. He was unconscious in an instant. I looked around thinking about the so many places that he could hide but the Chameleon was a fool to underestimate me. He was called as the chameleon because of his ability to change his skin color. Just like the reptile. Despite his ability he was not mature enough to come up with clever strategies, observing the opponent and act, Unlucky for him of course. Now it was time to inform my masters.
I sensed a few clicks behind my right eye and then a green holographic screen displayed in front of me. I made sure the green square catches the chameleons face. The unconscious bleeding face has been taken as an image and then it scaled to the size of half of the green screen. A series of white dots placed all over the face. It was done to recognize his face, to verify whether my prey is exactly the person. In a moment a message appeared with the image.
PROJECT ALKYONA
OPERATION: - TAKEDOWN
SUBJECT NUMBER: - 19
NAME: - TERRANCE
CODENAME: - THE CHAMELEON
IDENTITY CONFIRMED
Status: - CAPTURED
Remaining targets: - 12
PROCEED???
“Proceed” I said the magic word loud and clearly. Once the message was sent I noticed that they have found out another two already. The codenames were “Matthew” and “Peter”. Both of them are not in the group I was seeking therefore I ignored both of them. As the Chameleon’s body laid unconscious on the floor I went out to seek the next target. Wendy’s other friend. I have seen them playing chess together at the place. I watched them playing but I couldn’t join them because I wasn’t allowed to have friends. They said too many attachments weakens me. But because I loved chess they let me play it as a video game. I won most of the time against the computer of course. The count was 976 – 4. I am a genius aren’t I?
Suddenly the green transparent screen displayed the satellite footage regarding the whereabouts of the next target. The video zoomed closer to show a clear face. It was “Jessica”. She was a little girl at the age of ten. I checked her profile and found out her abilities. They were not good news for me. But I knew that I am better than them. Also I had to come up with a clever strategy to catch her. I’ll find a way to catch her and get information about Wendy. Deep down inside I felt that she might be with Wendy. They were together, but she was small enough to deal her own matters all by herself. Anyway right now she was at a bus. She was heading towards somewhere. Let’s see where our little friend is going.
I touched the holographic screen, searching for further details of the destination.
PROJECT ALKYONA
OPERATION: - TAKEDOWN
SUBJECT NUMBER: - 26
NAME: - JESSICA
CODENAM………
“Search current location only” I said in a commanding voice. Otherwise they will take forever to display the whole record of her. I already knew that. So what’s the point in viewing that again? The profile viewing halted and faded away. Then it popped in another screen.
PROJECT ALKYONA
OPERATION: - TAKEDOWN
SUBJECT NUMBER: - 26
NAME: - JESSICA
Searching current location…..
“Come on, come on. I haven’t got all day” I was losing more than enough patience. The satellite footage had answered my prayer. Only the location has been filtered and displayed. I locked the target immediately and viewed where it was. Fortunately it was close by, less time to travel.
PROJECT ALKYONA
OPERATION: - TAKEDOWN
SUBJECT NUMBER: - 26
NAME: - JESSICA
CURRENT LOCATION: - ANGEL AVENUE, SCARLET CREEK
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The Selected
AdventureBrent is a guy who minds his own business. Lives an ordinary life of a teenager. What he knows is that he can become someone special, What he didn't knew was the he is already one of them. Until he met Wendy, who has been stalking him for some time...
