Savior
"Agent Leh? Agent Leh are you in position?" My boss waits for a reply from me.
"Yes Sir" I finally answer.
"Good, now we wait and at the chance, go for the kill. Agent Mac has you covered!" I nod and then realise he can't see me.
"Yes Sir!" I repeat, I look through my scope on my Sniper rifle and position myself so that I'm locked on my target.
Hello Kurrt Phokus, founder of K.P. Robots.
He is standing on the platform in the road in front of crowds of people. His brown hair is flicked back with gel and he is wearing a navy blue suit.
"Steady Agent Leh." My boss warns as I hold my finger just over the trigger.
Kurrt's voice booms around me and my head clears.
What am I doing? I push myself away from the gun. I can't do it.
"Agent Leh? Agent Leh!" I ignore the voice and narrow my eyes.
The I run, knowing what kind of people they are I know I don't have much time.
I jump off the side on the building and land on the side walk easily. I push through the crowds of thousands until I reach the platform. Huge bodyguards stand around.
It's now or never.
"I told you we couldn't trust her! We should have got rid of her when we had the chance!" My partners voices seem so distant.
"Agent Mac, you fill in for Agent Leh. Agent Nuro will cover you. The rest of you, take care of Leh and anyone else."
I slip past the two body guards in front of my and I jump in front of Kurrt just as I hear a gun shot. The crowd screams.
"Dammit Leh!" Mac's voice interrupts over the crowd.
"Are you okay?" I look down at Kurrt, he just stares at me. My brain tells me that he is in shock.
"Don't stop!" I hear my boss growl. Another gun shot goes off, I look around. The bodyguards had us circled and were shooting up.
"Don't let them get away!" My boss just keeps shouting. The bodyguards have no idea what they were up against.
"Mr.Phokus! You need to listen to me. You need to get up with me. And when I say run, we are going to run to that building okay?" I point to a specific building, his eyes flick in the direction and he nods. "Good" I look around. "Let's go" I jump to my feet swiftly, Kurrt doesn't get up. I grab his arms and haul him up.
"Excuse me, we can take--" a bodyguard shouts, I turn to see the men slowly being shot down. One by one.
"RUN!" I shout and Kurrt bolts.
"You letting them get away!" Nuro shouts this time. Several bullets pelt into my back and I fall to the floor.
"Don't stop!" My boss says.
"Ah!" I stay down, using my training I look around. There's no weapons near by and nothing to take cover behind. Suddenly I get pulled off my feet and because I was trained to and it's become a reflex, I grab the arm that has grabbed me and I haul the body over my shoulder.
"What is she doing?" Confused whispers come over the earpiece.
When Kurrt lands on the ground by my feet I gasp.
I switch off my mic. I thought he took cover!
"Leh has disconnected. We've lost her!" Someone who worked with me says over the earpiece.
Quickly I cover Kurrt and push him towards the building. Just as I'm about to enter I get shot in the leg and I hit the floor.
"Shit! Mac and Nuro, get down there!" My boss hits something.
"Yes Sir!" They chorus.
"Ah!" I cry out.
"Surround the building" my boss orders. "I'll find a way for you to get it."
Quickly I am pulled in and the doors and closed.
"Sir, Agent Leh will find a way out..." Mac says. Mac knows me too well.
"Shit! Are you okay?" Kurrt hovers above me. I push him away from me and stand up.
"What is wrong with you?" I demand, fury sets in. Confusion sweeps his handsome face.
"What? You got shot. I saw you get shot, how come you're fine?" I can't stop the smile that fails my frown.
"Oh my..." I shake my head. "That doesn't matter. What does matter is that we keep you alive." I look around, we are standing in a bank foyer.
"Nuro, cover the front. Mac I'll lead you around the back!"
People are crouched behind desks and covering their heads.
"Mr.Phokus, you are a target" I say loudly. "The people out there are dangerous. You don't know what you are up against. Your men don't stand a chance." At that, Kurrt goes and looks out the window.
I know exactly what he sees. A deserted street and his dead bodyguard's bodies. Kurrt starts to shake his head.
"Who are they? What do they want with me?"
I sigh loudly, rolling my pants up and pulling out the bullet from the back of my calf. Kurrt cringes and I roll my eyes.
"Kurrt, Mr.Phokus, you are the richest man since Bill Gates. Your robot print out has hit wild fire. They want that. They want to create what you invented. They want to make an evil army. They want you dead." I say casually as if I were speaking about ice cream flavours.
"Are you in Mac?" My boss says.
"Yes sir! Where am I headed?" He replies.
"We need to go!" I grab Kurrt's arm but he pulls away.
"South, continue South Agent Mac!"
My body freezes.
"Why should I go with you? How do I know this isn't a trap?" Kurrt stands his ground.
"Agent Nuro, on my count you break down the door."
"Sweetie... If I wanted you dead. You'd be dead already." I say and walk away.
Nuro gives our boss a reply.
"We running out of time!" I shout over my shoulder. Kurrt hurries after me.
"Okay, so you have a point. Where are we going?" He asks, trying to keep up with me. I shrug.
"I'm trying to think" I pull maps up in my mind and locate the fastest exit. Mac would be there. I head towards the next.
"Let's go, this way" I walk into a small passage with Kurrt on my heel. I hear screams and I know Nuro is in the building.
"Sir, they're not here." Nuro reports.
"Shit!" My boss curses loudly that I flinch.
I grab Kurrt's arm and pull him along as I walk faster down the corridor until I find a door and quickly turn into it. Now in a back room I search, boxes line the walls.
"Sit there and keep quiet." I order.
"But they'll find us." Kurrt quivers.
"Just be quiet and they won't!" I order more sternly. Kurrt shuts his mouth.
"Mac. Are you in the corridor? Straight ahead is the main room. You and Nuro must search the whole place"
I creep towards the door. No key!
I stick my index finger in the key hole and it molds and I lock the door. Kurrt stares at me.
We hear someone run down the corridor outside. I motion for Kurrt to move to the back of the room. He does and crouches behind some boxes. The footsteps stop and I hear Mac and Nuro talk through the earpiece as well as in person.
"Hey, go check the rooms that side of the foyer, I'll check here." Mac was speaking. Footsteps run off. I relax a little. But then the door handle moves and I jump. Calming myself I turn towards the door. Readying myself, I pull out one of my hand guns and hold it right, aimed at the door. The handle moves a few more times then it swings open. I fire and it hits the person right in the chest. He lunges forwards and we fall to the floor. We roll around and I struggle to get leverage. He is much stronger the me. I push him off me and I spin in the air before landing on my other foot easily. I kick up and my foot hits him in the jaw.
"Leh... Leh stop. Stop! Leh, It's Me!" I stand, arms up, about to swing a punch.
When I focus I realise that it's Mac.
"Mac!" I fall into his arms.
Mac and I have been friends since we woke up. We were deactivated and reactivated together and we were made partners.
We hug for awhile and then I push away and turn to the very scared Kurrt who is shaking behind the boxes, staring at us.
"What are you?" He asks softly, barely above a whisper. I crouch down in front of him.
"Well that is a stupid question" I smile back at Mac. "Since you created us" Kurrt blinks a few times.
"Monica?" He slowly rises. I smile and hold my arms up. "Wow! You look great. Uhm... How've you been?" He slowly touches me and makes me twirl. "This is brilliant. It's been so long. I thought you failed, where've you been?"
I think back to when I was human. Kurrt and I were lovers, and he got so involved in his robot making that when I fell ill he tried harder on the robots so that we could get money to pay for the medicine. Then the next thing I remember is waking up on an operation table. And it was a funny feeling, I didn't remember anything.
Kurrt was so happy and then everything went black again and I woke up in a completely different place. They called me Leh, They upgraded me and trained me to kill Kurrt Phokus.
But then I started gaining my memory and I didn't want to hurt Kurrt anymore. Mac doesn't really remember his past but because we were made partners and are the same we became friends.
"Yeah, upgraded a lot since..." I smile again.
"And you've changed!" He touches my cheekbones which are more enhanced.
"They had to, after awhile my face began to deform, so I get regular water injections to keep it inflated a little"
Kurrt nods and moves to stroke my hair.
"Permanent wig, my hair doesn't grow. I chose this myself. Like it?" He nods and motions to Mac.
"I remember you..." Kurrt moves past me. "Malcolm Jones, when I thought Monica had fled from me I created you. You were our neighbour, a good kid. You grew up well but then you... You committed suicide. I thought I'd give you a second chance." Mac nods and I gasp. I remember the guy that lived next door. He is only a year younger than me.
We are interrupted by the sound of Nuro coming back.
"We have to go!" I say and step towards the door. Kurrt and Mac... Malcolm follow.
"Have you thrown your ear piece away?" Mac asks, I shake me head, confused.
"They can track it." In one movement I rip it off my and crush it against the wall.
"Let's go" I pull my hand gun out of its holster and so does Mac. We creep towards the foyer, one of us on either side of Kurrt.
"Follow me" Mac says and we move passed the foyer and up stairs. Up twenty floors of stairs to the roof. Mac runs and jumps off the side of the roof.
"Malcolm!" Kurrt screams. But I stop him.
"You need to follow him... I'll be right behind you. I promise" he doesn't move.
We are running out of time. I pick him up and cradle him in my arms then I run and jump off the roof. We start falling and Kurrt screams.
Half way down the building I activate my jets and we get stopped then we move upwards. I hold Kurrt tightly and fly across the sky and when I spot Mac he flies up to me and covers Kurrt as well. Gun shots fire but we continue to fly away until we reach the subway. We fly down and land easily on our feet. We let Kurrt go and step away.
"This is where we say goodbye, will you be okay from here?" I ask Kurrt, I am letting him know that I am choosing to live my life and not be used as a lab rat.
He nods and touches my hand.
"Are you sure, if you want, you can come back, we could go back to how things used to be. Just you and me" he steps closer but I move away and step closer to Mac.
"I'm sorry Kurrt, I'm starting over. But thank you for giving me a second chance at life!" I take Mac's hand.
Kurrt understands and watches as Mac and I walk away together.
End
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