Trix

Say what now?!

CHAPTER 20

"Where is Trix? he hasn't reported here in over seven hours. His tracker's dead, he's not answering the house phone either." Mr. Tolu asked Ogbuefi who was tinkering his stuff.

"Sir, I don't know and he's not a kid anymore. It's quite late, We should give him space." Ogbuefi said still tinkering his gear and not lifting his head up.

"ARE YOU MAD!?" Mr. Tolu barked "The last time we left him for two hours, he was on a vigilante rampage."
Ogbuefi shot out of his chair and started throwing orders about.
"Lock on to the secondary tracker" "check news feeds and social media" "contact all close relatives. Find Trix"

"Secondary trackers place him somewhere between hiddendale and rumuokoro. The convergence precisely sir." Said one of the geeks.

"He went to face the lumerer... Alone" Mr Tolu said gaping and turning mechanically to Ogbuefi who was shook.

"I'll assemble a team right now Sir. I'm so sorry, I didn't know"

"Of course, yeah, that's that stuff everyone always says"

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"What's so funny? I'm a woman yes. What were you expecting? General Zod?" The Lumerer said with her actual voice this time.

"No, yes, prolly. It's funny how you remind me of my favorite female superhero. Crossed arms with 'power' written across it. More precisely Gal Gadot." I answered, smiling sheepishly.
"So, you're gonna kill me or something?"

"Ah! You mean the movie that won best action movie in 2017" she answered, almost blushing. I nodded. "I don't want to kill you, that'll be too easy. You see, your blood separate from the numborium gives access to the throne, like the kingdom goodstuff. I need your blood, all of it. Every single drop."

"You'll never get what you want!" I protested. I leaned forward, materialized blades from my scapulas, lumerer weapons from my hands blades for my sheen and then a mask, wide slits for eyes. I was ready.
She raised her hand in an open palm, waved it right and men popped out with guns clicking. Waved left and the same.

"You're out maxed, out numbered and grossly out gunned. Do you wanna fight your way out of this?"

"I'm not gonna die on my knees" I braced myself

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"How long before we get there?"

"ETA T-36mins sir!"

"Goddamit, go faster for ducks sake!"

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"You know, I was once like you?"

"Confident? Determined?"

"HA! cocky, stupid, irrational. Yeah, one important thing, I never fell in love"

"I don't care"

Just then the wall beside her slid open and smoke came out and a body tied to a stake came through. It was Chisom. She looked roughened up. All my construction sucked back in Slowly as I walked to her. Bump! I hit a forcefield.

"Let her go, I'll give you what you want, please." I groveled. The lumerer looked at me, looked at Chisom.

"Put these on" she threw two bracelets at me.

"Let her go first."

"Fair point." Gesturing, she turned down the Forcefield and Chisom stepped outside. I rushed to hug her. That one moment lasted forever.

"It's gonna be alright" I assured her and she nodded and I was pulled away from her.

"I'll do it"

"You already said that"

I picked up the bracelets and wore it. I felt my blood moving slowly to my wrist. I was weakening.

"Thank you Ursula" the lumerer said to Chisom and Chisom's skin color changed to pale green and her eyes reduced to slits. "Oh, I thought you'd have figured out that she was a clone all along. You actually fell in love with the original but she's in Lagos or Enugu right now."

An irksome feeling came to me and it was at that point that I knew I'd fucked up.

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