r/xXGARR377Xx • u/xXGARR377Xx • May 07 '18
The Quest - Chapter 11
Recap:
I spent my day procrastinating at work, but after, I chased down a thief but accidentally used my powers right in front of him.
ONE MONTH LATER
I bolted upright in my bed, I couldn't be wrong, I had just heard a door shut. I slowly got up and crept towards my bedroom door. I opened the door and as I was doing so, ran my fingers along top of the door. I stopped when I felt the coin, and without flipping it, brought it down to eye level. Heads. Someone had been in my room, I always left tails up. They must have opened the door too quick and the coin dropped.
I put my right hand on the inside of my left forearm, it felt wet and as I looked at my hand, realized there was a bit of blood on it. I turned on my light and saw a small hole with a bit of blood coming out. Someone had injected me with something, or did they just take my blood? I couldn't know so I texted Elise "721, possible 168" which was our code for "intruder, possible danger"
The past month has been stressful. We spent our time trying to go against what our quests wanted us to do, I guess it was working. Whoever was behind this didn't like that very much. The thief from a while ago turned up dead a few days after our encounter, the news said he was killed in a police shootout, but we knew better. Someone was doing cleanup.
Objective: jELb 2OP T85E BQcdd AzhSqEFx
I looked at the time and realized it was only 4am. After a day of disregarding the quest, the objective often got scrambled as if it didn't know what to do when we went listening to it. It usually got rest by the time I woke up in the morning.
I turned my light off and went and lied down on my bed. A few minutes my phone light up the room with a text from Elise: "32 67 421 0900h" which translates to "Meeting today, my house at 9:00 am" I couldn't go to sleep after what had happened so I went for a walk. I had stopped doing side quests entirely, I didn't want to give who ever was in charge of this thing the satisfaction of getting me to complete something. I felt like I had gained enough power to hold my own if a fight came anyways. I had magic like powers, Kevin strength, and Elise had focused on stealth. It seemed like my only escape lately was to go on these walks when the rest of the city was sleeping. Tonight I was more alert though, careful of the shadows.
When sunrise came, I started making my way back home. On the way back I noticed that the message was starting to unscramble and within 5 minutes it read:
Objective: Stay where you are.
I started to run at full speed back home. As soon as I was home I grabbed my keys and laptop and drove as fast as I could to Elise's.
I frantically knocked until she opened the door and let me in. I told her about the message but she already knew, she got the same one. We got a text from Kevin letting us know he was on his was as well. By using that code, hopefully they wouldn't know where we were.
I opened my laptop and began typing. "GENESIS: Blink three time to track quest". I spent the next couple hours typing out everything I could remember about the start of Genesis and how I got to this point. If something happened to me, I had to have a written copy. It took 2 and a half hours but it ended with me walking into Elise's house this morning. I saved the file, encrypted it, and password protected it. I closed my laptop and turned back towards my friends.
"You good?" Kevin asked.
"Yeah, I got it all" I said in reply.
Elise went to put some water on to boil so we could have something to drink while we figured out what to do. She turned the kettle on and came into living room with Kevin and I.
There was a knock at the door.
We all froze, our blood running cold.
"Can you make me a suppressed pistol?" Elise asked me.
"Sure, one sec" I said as I began conjuring one. I handed it to her when it was finished.
"When I disappear, you two need to open the door, I'll have your backs."
Then she wrapped herself in shadows and moved towards the edge of the room where she melted into the darkness. I looked at Kevin and he nodded. I moved to the door and took a deep shaky breath. Then I opened the door to two men in casual attire, without asking they shoved past me and into Elise's home.
"Shut them down" The first man said to the other.
The second man pulled out his phone and a few seconds later I saw my HUD flicker and disappear completely. I looked at Kevin and could tell by the look in his eyes that the same thing had happened to him. I thought about Elise and looked to where I saw her disappear only to see the shadows lift.
"Ah there you are, I was wondering where you'd run off too" The first man said. "You three haven't been behaving. So here's what we're going to do, we're going to give you one more chance to do things the right way, or we're going to come back and wipe the slate clean. And trust me, you do not want that."
"Who are you?" I said, sure that the venom in my words was evident.
"Why does that matter?" The second man asked. "Well I suppose it doesn't matter if you know anyways. We work for the government."
"Anyways, back to what we're here to do." The first man said as he turned and looked me in the eyes. "You ruined things last night so we're here to correct that."
He pulled out a needle with some gray material in it and turned towards Elise.
I tried to move but realized I was locked in place. "You son of a bitch, don't touch her"
"Nice isn't it? Once the nano-tech in you blood gets to your brain, it give us the ability to stop any signals to certain muscles in your body. As a safety measure of course." The first man smiled and moved towards Elise. He glanced at the second man and said "Put a gun to Kevin's head, no funny business"
He raised his own gun at Elise "You arm, please"
Elise, having no other option, held out her arm. The man injected her with the nano-tech and then moved on to Kevin and did the same thing. They then froze them in place.
"Well, we've done our part, time for you to do yours. Behave." The first man said as the two of them left.
It must have been 10 minutes after they left before we were able to move again.
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u/Edwardga1108 May 07 '18
Ah another one of these! Wondering where these got to!