3|Cold Realisation

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"Hey Ruby, up for a bit of code- breaking?" said Blacker upon Ruby's arrival.

She rolled her eyes, "when were you born?"and then smirked.

"Anyway grab a donut as you are coming."he shrugged. "You are gonna need a lot after what I am gonna tell you, I mean a lot!"he emphasised.

"Whats that extreme..."Ruby pondered. She recalled the words 'dangling you over a bubbling volcano'- the only person that phrase fitted with was not comforting. The Count. A man so dreaded that few ever came out alive after he got his hands on you. In fact there were only two, the wonder agent Bradley Baker and Ruby herself.

"Oh, you don't mean..."she trailed off, cold realisation coming to her. Here was one example of 'knowing the truth is not always the best'.

Blacker knew that she had understood, "yup, not a comforting thought is it?"

"How... I saw with my own two eyes, him falling, like 300 ft. How did he survive?" she recalled the scene of him being pushed from the rooftop by Casey Morgan (formerly Buzz).

"Well I am not surprised, he always has tricks up his sleeves, I guess this was one of them."

"Yeah..." Ruby felt almost dazed. She had escaped of this so-called 'man' more than a few times and the fact that he was back again- she probably had used up all her luck- meaning to finish her off, was a troubling thought. "How do you know anyway?" she asked Blacker.

"There was a confirmed sighting of him yesterday, in Twinford - near the beach, there have been many more, all around Twinford."

"So then he's back... that's about it?"

"Yup, that't it."

"Then let's get started."

"On what?" asked Blacker.

"On getting rid of this monster once and for all." Ruby smiled determinedly. In return Blacker nodded, he agreed with Ruby.

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