Judge, Jury, & Executioner

Chapter 21

Reaves saw the young man with white hair drop the cigarette on the floor. He didn't think of it, until he saw the same man elbow the agent in the gut. He grabbed the agents gun and smacked the other agent with it. Knocking both of them to the ground.

Then he grabbed Reaves, and held the gun to his head. Reaves wasn't sure if he should panic, scream, or struggle. He froze as he felt he cold steel against his temple.

"I'm sorry," The man whispered.

"Hey, don't be. You wanna know why, because your trying to protect someone right?" Reaves asked.

"Yes."

"Who?"

"My sister. And her son."

Reaves sighed, "I have a sister too. Several actually. And I'd do anything for them. I understand. But you can't do this."

"He said he'd kill her."

Reaves looked around and saw the agents getting back on their feet. Neither of which trying to draw their weapon with this kid holding a gun to Reaves' temple.

"You kill me, you go to jail. This guy gets away free. You cannot, Kill me. Your sister and her son would never get to see you again," Reaves told him.

"If I don't, they'll be dead. At least this way they'll get to live out the rest of their lives-"

"Thinking your a murderer!"

The kid lowered the gun just enough Reaves thought about it. Then he saw Maddox run out of the elevator gun drawn. Reaves took a deep breath and then jumped backwards. He landed on top of the kid and knocked the wind out of him. Reaves grabbed the gun and tossed it at the FBI agent.

Then he rolled off of the kid and sprawled out on the floor. The other FBI agent cuffed the kid.

"How'd he contact you?" Maddox asked him.

"Through the TV."

Reaves got to his feet and they opened the door. Inside the TV was playing a movie. Nothing else.

"Was Noah with you?" Reaves asked.

"Yeah, he's wrenching his guts out right now," Maddox replied.

"Let me guess, you drove?"

Maddox smacked his arm and he smirked.

"I told you not to do anything stupid," Maddox told him.

"Technically you said I'd be somewhere I can't do anything stupid. And technically that was all started by quicksilver in there," Reaves said.

Maddox looked at him with his comic book reference. They exited the hotel room and saw Noah slowly making his way towards them. He looked like he could throw up at any moment.

He saw the young man being cuffed and taken downstairs. Reaves watched as Emily came out of the elevator that the Feds went inside of.

"Exactly how tech savvy was the Executioner? Because he just hacked a TV," Maddox said to Noah.

"Uh, wow. Weird. He never admitted to being able to do anything with technology. Maybe he has another hacker. If I can plug my laptop into the TV I can see if I know who this hacker is."

Maddox waved him and Reaves and her followed. Noah plugged his laptop into the TV and began typing on it. Reaves went to sit down on the bed and Maddox shook her head no. He stopped and stood back up.

The TV screen flashed and then a bunch of Ones and Zeroes flashed. It all looked gibberish. Then a bunch of what Reaves assumed would be computer code flashed up on it.