Dark Society

Chapter 2: Down the Dark Alley

It was raining heavily, the raindrop heavily impacted the roof of cars down the road that Zack was supposed to meet this 'person', he stopped under a light pole and looked down the road seeing nothing but cars parked in front of their respective driveways. He turned around and saw the same thing, cars parked as far as the eyes can see, he reached into his jacket and pull out his phone with one hand and the other shielding the phone from the heavy rain, looking at the email he just received before coming,

"We are expecting you, Dark Alley, Parliament Street, 3:00 am"

He continued down the road and found the so-called 'Dark Alley' he was supposed to go, he had one more look around before entering, into the darkness he went, deeper and deeper, all he could see was the faint light seeming stretching on further away as he continued when he was about to give up following the light, it shined brightly revealing a man, dressed in all black with sunglasses on, at night.

"Weirdo" Zack thought to himself,

The two men both stared at each other for a good few minutes until the man broke the intense silence,

"Mr. Cologne, I hear that you are rather......experienced in the type of work that we are about to task you with" the man spoke in a French accent,

"I wouldn't brag about it anyway what's the deal?" Zack replied,

"I am afraid we cannot discuss matters relating to the... issue here, not here, not now" The man immediately replied,

"Allow me to introduce myself, I am Marcus La Brun, an agent from the secret service, I have been deeply informed details about you so there is no need for you to say anything" Marcus continued,

"Alright, what's the bounty?" Zack questioned the man,

a moment of silence was upon them once more,

"as much as you wish, Mr. Cologne, this is a serious issue, we would do anything to ensure national security" Marcus finally spoke,

Marcus pointed to an envelope conveniently placed on a half broken table next to Zack, who reflectively snatched it with ease, He hesitated and looked up at Marcus,

"I know you are wondering deep but this is all I am told to do" Marcus said,

Zack opened the envelope and found an access card before he could say anything, Marcus started speaking again,

"We have booked you a flight to Toronto, the plane leaves in 3 hours, enough for you to get there by tomorrow" 

Zack nodded and look inside the envelope again and pulled out a free McDonald meal coupon. He looked up at Marcus with a confused expression,

"What's this for?" Zack asked,

"Well we are not cruel, everyone needs to eat now don't we, Monsieur?" Marcus said laughingly,

"You're not coming with me?" Zack asked the laughing man,

"Non" Marcus said,

"What are you gonna do here anyway?"

"Mr. Cologne, I was never here" Marcus' voice faded lower and lower,

*BZZZZZZZ*

The sound of the hologram disappearing from view, leaving Zack all alone once more, He scanned the area and found the projector, the source of the hologram. He flipped the envelope and read the message written in black,

"Meet me in Toronto"