The Diamond Spy

Ch.19 Force of Depravity

Force of Depravity

"You don't understand, get her to talk," the whined, gruff snort of objection echoes down towards my location around an old and rusted storage container, "Hold that child securely and bring her in here; now."

After walking down through the shit and fish smelling port, I came across the lit up, rackety looking Quarter Gate Factory Line. Just around this container was the orange, lit up five-story warehouse. The Five Reds were indeed here while a fire truck just rolled away after putting out the last flames of an abandoned warehouse just opposite here.

The fire doesn't bother the Five Reds or the man that is ordering them around outside a side door of the warehouse.

"Hey, can you hear me?" I hear Coal speaking to a girl they had dragged out from inside the building. I had watched from my hiding spot, as they were preoccupied with the girl's identity, "Where. Is. Your. Name. Card?"

When I have a look again I see Kyle the Child restraining the teenage girl who has stringy, oily unwashed hair. Her clothes are tight black lycra, however... so she looks like some sort of ninja.

And apparently she can't speak.

"Hey, pretty girl, tell us your name," Captain James the Brains towers over the poor girl next. She stands with her back straight as she is confronted with the group of city heroes.

"I think she can't hear us," Coal murmurs, "Look at her eyes, she isn't comprehending anything. Let's just bring her in, we can't keep Lumen waiting on us."

Just as they start to drag her in, Dash comes popping out of the building in a burst of air.

"All clear inside, no more ninja girls," Dash salutes the Captain of the Five Reds and disappears into the side door where the man giving orders slipped into.

"She isn't a ninja," Coal rolls her eyes and their voices become more distant as they all now choose to enter through the side door of the warehouse.

I look over my shoulder and I see two familiar shiny black pointy shoes. I glance up and Serge is watching me from the shadows near the corner of another shipping container. He is giving me a tilted look and raised eyebrows, probably thinking what the hell was I waiting for.

I don't care if he is impatient, I'm just glad I have back up just in-case.

But I still had to be the distraction, I couldn't wait much longer. When I glance back at him though, as I take a few steps forward into the open, simply to see his reaction at my first proper move, I notice that he doesn't approach any closer.

"What are you looking at?" he snarls, quietly, just loud enough for me to hear, "Get busy."

I furrow my eye-brows, noting a tone of fear in his voice. His eyes focus next on the armoured vehicle just parked outside the warehouse, ten or so meters from us. It was nothing special, simply said 'Lumen Corp', whatever the hell that was. The important thing was that it was empty.

I stand up and decide to just walk right into the little meeting.

My presence would be enough to distract them, at least at the start. The rest I would improvise.

As I get closer, my heart beat picks up a notch, but I maintain my steady breathing. I put up my hands in surrender just as I turn into the open-door way and plant my feet firmly to the ground, hoping my posture is generally unthreatening.

"It's just me – uh... g-guys," I get the words out as I see the Five Reds standing close together and the ninja girl in the middle, eyes down cast. A grey-haired man with three body guards behind him stand opposite the 'heroes'. The room itself was small and narrow. An office for the warehouse. File cabinets and a single desk.