The Chronicles of Hyde

The Assassin

*It may need a few tweaks. Alert me if there are any terrible mistakes. 

[Present Time: August 3rd/ 12:55 am]

Josh glanced up at the Tower while he struggled to complete a plan that didn't involve him getting killed or captured. There was a moment of satisfaction as his ideas clicked together. He would get into the top levels of his base, retrieve the most important possessions he had there, then destroy all evidence of his experiments. Then he would leave, get to Dave using his bike, which was hidden below the Tower under a ragged tarp. He had to expect that Dave was against him. A quick interrogation, maybe grab some supplies, and then he would get out of Dorium as fast as he could. Far enough away that Hyde would have to strain themselves to reach him. He didn't like it, but there was no other way. Once he was confident he was safe, he would come back and finish this war on corruption, but he had to rethink. 

The Tower had once been the first skyscraper in Dorium. It was odd, mostly because it only had one room per floor. Back when the Rust was the main part of the city, it was a center of business. When Dorium evolved and the Rust died, it decayed. The foundations were still strong, but the bottom two stories were unclimbable. The only way to reach the top levels was to jump from an adjacent building that was at least two stories tall. Josh found himself on the only adjacent building. It was a flat rooftop. The building had once been a hotel, and he had previously cleared the roof of debris, to make it easier to use. 

Josh stepped a few yards back, then ran as fast as he could. He leaped off the edge of the building and over the small alleyway between the Tower and the old hotel and landed in a practiced roll inside the Tower's walls. 

Josh glanced around at the first level of his base. It was pitch black, but he engaged his night vision  There were four or five filing cabinets of Hyde papers and evidence he had acquired, but if Hyde knew he had them, they were probably worthless. At the far side of the room, there was an aluminum ladder attached to the wall. He climbed it to the room above, which led to another room, full of Josh's odd experiments that he had deemed useless. But he continued climbing. 

There was a creak from underneath him, down the ladder. He stopped and listened. 

A few moments of wait, then he continued as if nothing happened.

After climbing the remaining five levels he stopped at the top, a locked metal trapdoor covered his head, complete with five different kinds of locks securing it. He unlocked them all quickly, and opened the door above him, then climbed up into his final room. Everything in here was the pride of his vigilanteism. His computer, electrical and physical archives, and worthy prototypes were stored there safely, all under several lock and keys, just in case, and fourteen passwords on the computer. Not that it mattered anymore, now that Hyde knew everything anyway. 

And that made him angry. 

The room was made up of what he deemed most important. His computer was made up of four screens, each displaying a different objective he had planned on working on. He had made most of the device himself, so previously he had trusted it, but now he had to treat everything as if it was compromised. Every objective he had begun to work on must have been set up by Hyde. 

Next to the computer there was a filing cabinet, full of his most important papers and flash drives. He assumed the oldest drives were safe, but now he wasn't so sure. 

A chest and closet on the other side of the small room held his prototypes, devices or tools he had invented to aid him. Some of them he was really proud of. 

And he was going to destroy everything. There was no way Hyde was getting his tech, if they didn't have it already. A month or so ago he had stolen some small explosives from a local illegal weapons dealer (after destroying all his merchandise of course). Instead of using it in the field, he attached one to each level of the Tower in the case of a security breach. He could trigger them remotely, and each bomb wouldn't destroy the entire skyscraper, just destroy its contents.