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Chapter 23
Ricardo drove the Jeep up a hill that overlooked the city before he pulled it to a stop. The moment he did, Sammy got out of the car and stomped round it angrily to face him.
"What the hell just happened back there, Rick?!" he shouted. "No one said anything about getting shot in the chest." He zipped down his jacket for Ricardo to see the dent the bullet had left in his bulletproof vest.
Ricardo sighed exasperatedly. He looked over at Megan who was just getting out of the Jeep alongside Kei. She was fine, he saw to his relief. For a moment before, he had actually been worried that she had been hit in the haze of the bullets raining down on them in the restaurant earlier and was just too excited to notice. From what he could see though, she was fine- a little distracted perhaps by the ordeal they just went through, but fine
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Olympus Chapter 24
"Olympus has been infiltrated," Megan said to Dennis the moment the door slid open to admit her into his office to see him sitting behind his table with his head buried in the tablet in his hand.He looked up from the device, the expression on his face a cross between surprise and confusion. "Please tell me that's a joke, Miss Months," he said."Unfortunately Director, that's something she won't be able to do," Ricardo returned coming in after Megan.Dennis seemed to stop for a few heartbeats at the statement, unable to respond as he watched Megan take the seat opposite his desk and Ricardo make himself comfortable resting against the glass wall."Do you have any evidence to support this wild theory of yours?" he finally asked.
Olympus Chapter 25
Chersky, Russia"Mum, watch out!"Megan's eyes jerked open as she felt a touch on her shoulder and her sensation returned to the sound of tires screeching against the tarmac.The Chariot had landed, she realized.She looked up to see Ricardo standing in front of the pulled back leather armchair she had dozed off in with a worried look on his face. "Are you okay?" he asked. "You were moaning in your sleep.""I'm fine," she replied, shaking away his hand from her shoulder- he was the one that had jerked her awake- alongside the last cobwebs of sleep in her eyes. "I'm just tired, that's all."Ricardo didn't seem to be buying any part of that expla
Olympus Chapter 26
The ride had gone on for about ten minutes before Ricardo suddenly coughed and Megan looked at him. "What is it?" she asked with a look that said that she had been expecting him to say something all along."Well," he looked a bit unsure on how to proceed, "I want to say that I really appreciate you saying that I could be trusted. I know the director would never have allowed me to continue on this mission if you didn't vouch for me.""But I didn't vouch for you, Mr. DiSanto," she returned, her tone cold and impassive. "What I said was that you're a man that will do whatever it takes to stay alive, which is about the only truthful thing about you.""That's not fair, Megan." Ricardo turned to glare at her for longer than she was comfortable with it and for a split second, she feared he wa
Olympus Chapter 27
Megan approached the front of the warehouse with Ricardo and Adolf in tow. Nothing appeared to be out of the ordinary as they went- in fact, nothing appeared to be in the environment at all besides the building- but just to be safe, she signaled that they all keep their eyes peeled and be ready for anything at any moment- bad guys tended to have a knack for springing out of nowhere, she thought with a look around, it was highly unlikely they were going to suddenly stop exercising that bad habit.The trio finally got to the building's frontage after about a minute of cautious walking and Megan waved two fingers back at the SUVs; her signal to Kei and Jay to maintain the two minutes count before they came out after them."Alright," she gestured to Ricardo when she looked to see a computerized keypad on the wall, "looks l
Olympus Chapter 28
"So, there's more than one Item 13 now. Is that what we're going with?" Kei asked when the group finished opening all the shipment crates and discovered that Megan's deduction was correct. All of the crates had containment boxes potential of being the one used to house Item 13.But there couldn't be more than one Item 13, Megan thought to herself. From what she recalled of the story Dennis had told her, the ingenuity that created the weapon had died with Ernest Ruskin; and even if his supposed apprentice who created the updated version had shared it, it was unlikely that he had the time to pass it on to someone else who then went ahead to create more five years later.Plus, if the group had the technology to create another Item 13,why then did they need go through all the trouble of stealing the original one
Olympus Chapter 29
Megan wasn't sure for how long she was passed out but she figured it had to be a long time cos when she regained consciousness, she saw that the sky had become a lot darker than when she and the group had arrived in Chersky.Well, it was good thing she was still alive, she thought to herself, although considering the numerous aches torturing every pore of her body, she sort of wished she wasn't.Megan looked down, surprised to see that she had been put strapped to a metal chair by the hands and legs with steel chains so heavy that she doubted even Adolf would be able to get her out of them if he tried.And speaking of Adolf, she turned to see him hanging from the ceiling of the warehouse- what remained of it after the pulse explosion, that is- by his wings.S
Olympus Chapter 30
Before Martin or any of his men could comprehend what Jay was saying, the chains used to restrain him suddenly grew red-hot- apparently they had been heating up before he spoke up- and exploded, releasing almost the same type of pulse energy in the bombs the men had used against the group earlier. The energy hit and the men fell backwards, a lot of them knocked out cold in the process.Jay rushed out of his seat just as the energy blew and got to Adolf when the men were falling down, putting his hands on his chains to melt them instantly on contact. "Thanks, man," the latter greeted as he got back to his feet, stretching his wings to test their recovery.A shot rang out just then but Adolf stretched his wing in front of Jay to shield him from a bullet that would have found home in his back and it ricocheted away harmlessly. The two of t
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The person with the gun was the boss. That was what Megan used to hear people say, and she believed them too.However, as she stood in the clearing with the pier to her front, looking at Martin grinning unabashedly at her even with the pistol trained on him, she knew that she was anything but the boss in that situation.There was no way he could have known about the incident, she thought to herself. No way at all.But then again, there should have been no way for Arthur to have known about the incident either but he had enough to use it to threaten her. There were times when she even suspected that Dennis and Ricardo knew about it too but were just being too polite to call her out about it.But how could
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