Blood, Sweat, and Tears

Chapter 20

"Hey." Someone is tapping my leg. "Wake up we're here."

I wake up and I feel pain in my whole body. I see the city of California and for a few minutes we have arrived at a very, very fancy place.

It was decorated with different types of plants and it looked very colorful from far away. There are also different flags of different countries at the front.

"What is this place?" I ask Javièr as we enter the building.

"This is Cody's house. Well, one of his houses." Javièr answers my question as we sit down on a couch.

"Ahh. This is the life."

My body just gave up and sat down. It is really comfortable and totally sleep-worthy.

"Reports have been coming in as the assault that has happened at a factory. Police have arrived at the scene as there are several gunshots heard and multiple cars flooding into the scene."

"Oh no."

"There had been multiple casualties and the factory had a bomb inside it. All people near the area are advised to not go in there as to not cause pandemonium and chaos in the streets."

"Looks like Lars used his exoskeleton." Javièr points at someone in the screen and a familiar person came out, looks like Lars.

"We have aerial surveillance and be advised not to go near or intervene as to not cause pandemonium and chaos."

Shit. I did not see this coming, I didn't think that Lars will use his experiment to fight against the police.

"Now to Colonel Rowan for some information."

"It seems that there are multiple people inside the factory and they are equipped with exoskeletons that could modify their actions such as jumping and punching." Colonel Rowan is in the scene with some soldiers behind him. "The police are calling in the army for backup, this is a potential threat to America."

"Well." Javièr turns off the TV. "They screwed up."

"Why?"

"The people will not feel safe and it will basically cause pandemonium for the people. And they didn't want it to happen so they screwed up."

I feel guilty if someone dies because of this incident. There's part of my body that says that I didn't do anything to cause this but the other side of my body says the complete opposite, I feel guilty for bringing this problem to many innocent people in America. Not only for America, but also the other countries outside of America.

"Guys." Tyler points at Cody.

"Hey." Cody does this handshake with Javièr. "Good job. We have them where we want them."

"Wait." I look at Cody. He has a totally different hairstyle from his usual, he also wears long sleeves now. He always wears short sleeves, if he does wear long sleeves he always fold them to become short sleeves. It's hard to explain but it looks like a totally different Cody from the usual Cody. "You're also a secret agent?"

"Well yeah." Cody answers simply and his tone is surprised. "You didn't know? Javièr, me, and Kyle are all undercover. We were watching you and the others just in case Lars or Jason kidnaps you. We are basically going to get information for the CIA."

Part of me gets angry and a part of me is saying this is awesome. I'm angry because they all kept these secrets from me. I'm saying this is awesome because I have like bodyguards if I get kidnapped.

"Where's Vanessa?" Tyler stands up and asks Cody.

"She's upstairs sleeping. When you go up, go to the room with the number 173. Maybe you should also go with him Ray. The three of us have to do something."

Tyler and I go to the room and it's really fancy. Nice furniture, clean rooms, fancy bathrooms, and extra fancy bed. We see Vanessa sleeping on the bed.

"I'll take a bath first." Tyler goes inside the bathroom and locks it.

After a few minutes Vanessa wakes up.

"Oh. Ray!" Vanessa hugs me.

"You're awake. Tyler is taking a bath."

"I have something to tell you."

"What is it?"

"A few hours ago, I heard Cody's conversation with another CIA Agent. They said they were going to investigate three people. The first one is Cathy, second one is I think her name is Lily, and the last one had no name but they said 'Ray's father'."

"Why are they going to interrogate Lily and Cathy?"

"Are you excited you're going to see your father?"

"I don't know." I haven't really thought about that because of all of these life and death situations I have been making in the past. I was nearly killed and I have been tortured once already.

"What are you guys talking about?" Tyler goes out of the bathroom.

"We were talking about-"

"What is happening at the factory." Vanessa interrupts my sentence.

I eye her suspiciously for a while and I understand that she doesn't want Tyler to know what we are talking about.

"I'll just take a bath." I enter the bathroom and thank God again for blessing me. The warm water of the shower is rejuvenating.

I exit the bathroom door and dress up with clothes I found in a cabinet in the room. It was actually a fitting size for me, the pants and shirt fits me. That makes me kind of scared.

"Hey Ray."

"Yeah?"

"You may wanna see this." Tyler changes the channel to news.

"Shit! Watch out!" A soldier says as the factory explodes again.

"Oh my God." The news reporter holds her hands at her face.

It changes point of view to another soldier.

"Watch out!"

A soldier wearing an exoskeleton grabs the soldier and rips his stomach. His internal organs fall down.

"Help! Hel-" The soldier screams. The soldier wearing the exoskeleton punched him full power straight to the face. It wasn't pretty.

The news stopped broadcasting and it says there, 'Technical Difficulties'. Obviously they don't want to let the people see what happened so that it won't make the people panic.

"Now this is a serious fucking problem."

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A/N

I know this chapter is short :(
But it's to prepare what is going to happen next  ʘ ʘ

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