Survive

Chapter 11

"Friends? We don't even really know who the hell this guy is." Tej argued.

"Can someone get these shits off of me!" Kaylee growled.

"It doesn't really matter who I am Tej, I'm Nobody, ok?" Mr. Nobody replied.

"Nobody . . . ok, alright, then who the hell is the little bitch who authorized this?" Kaylee asked, glaring at the trainee.

"He's nothing, he's like less than me." Nobody replied.

"Obviously." she said.

"Okay, we're not getting anywhere." I sighed.

"Clearly, we're getting nowhere with Nobody. I've been here for 4 hours, my ribs are sore, I don't know about y'all but I'm out." Roman said.

"I wouldn't recommend that." the trainee said, making all of us look his way.

"What?" Roman asked.

"Excuse me?" Kaylee said.

"Thanks to your botched Berlin job, you all made Interpol's top 10 most wanted list. Well most of you did." Nobody told us, making me rub my temples to self soothe the oncoming headache.

"That's just fucking great! I have kids you bunch of idiots." Kaylee growled.

"Top 10? Uh-huh, that's alright then." Roman smiled.

"I will shoot you." Kaylee said.

"Roman, not you, or Kaylee either." Mr. Nobody clarified.

"What do you mean?" Roman asked and his disappointment was making me smile.

"Kaylee wasn't there so she didn't show up on their radar. You just missed the cut, you're number 11. So . . ."

"I missed it?" he asked in shock.

"Yeah."

"That's impossible. What number did they come in at?" he asked, pointing to us.

"Six, eight, nine, ten and Penelope was number three because of her last name, her relationship to all of you and her fiancé." the younger guy said.

"Husband." Luke sadly clarified.

"She's a three? And she's a ten? That's impossible, there's no way that Penny is a three and she's a ten." Roman argued, pointing to Ramsey and Penny.

"Oh she's definitely a 10 and Penny is in the top 5 for me." Tej said.

"Parker, do not make my mood worse." Kaylee growled.

"Careful there big dog." Roman chuckled.

"Enough said, love you babe." Tej replied, walking over to Kaylee.

"Yeah, yeah, kiss ass." she grumbled.

"Okay, you three, how about we focus on someone who we're not gonna find on anybody's hit list. We are awaiting hard confirmation, but I believe that's the cyber-terrorist known as Cipher." Nobody said, pointing to a picture pulled up on the big screen.

"Wait, no, Cipher's an organization, not a person." Ramsey argued.

"Not according to our sources." new Nobody said.

"What the hell does she want?" Letty and I asked.

"I don't know, nobody knows. Cipher is like a digital active God. They - she - can manipulate world systems under shadows. Anything that can be hacked . . ." Ramsey said.

"And here is the kicker; you'll never find her linked to any other. Her digital identity is scrubbed every few seconds worldwide." Trainee said, interrupting Ramsey.