"Mum, watch out!"A blinding white light followed by the sound of glass breaking were the last things Megan recalled before her eyes jerked open and she shot up in bed, panting and heaving. A nightmare, Megan, she told herself. It was only a nightmare.Ten...Nine...Eight... She counted down the seconds till her heart calmed down and she looked at the digital clock on her bedside table. 4am, it read; right on cue as always.Thing is, nightmares- the particular one she just woke up from, in fact- had been an eventful part of Megan's night for a very long time now. The scream, the light, the sound; they were as familiar to her as the bed she slept on; as familiar as the very incident which changed her life and brought them on to

The elevator came to a stop after what seemed like an eternity but was actually only thirty minutes of flight- Megan checked to be sure- and she stepped out of it.She looked up and all her breath ceased in her throat once again. God, how did they even think to create something like that? she wondered at the sight of the most incredible space she had ever seen.As it turned out, Astrodomo's giant dome was a six-floor glass mansion on the inside, but it was unlike any type Megan had knowledge of before.Thing is, while the building did have six floors, they actually only extended from the wall to a quarter across the almost stadium size length of the space in a semicircle that held what looked like three sitting rooms, three receiving rooms, bedrooms too nume

Ricardo put out his hands and Megan took it, letting him lead her down the stairs to the party.To her utmost surprise, the room went silent as they came, all eyes on her to ignore Ricardo as if he was nothing more than a fly on the wall then.What in the world was happening? Megan wondered at the sight of the attention. Why were the people ignoring Ricardo to focus on her? He was the big shot after all.Out of nowhere, it suddenly dawned on her that being the big shot was exactly why they were ignoring him.Thing is, virtually everyone at the party already knew Ricardo. They knew his face and his personality. They had already seen where he lived and probably visited it more than once before that night.

Just as Megan thought that she and Ricardo were home free, one of the assailants suddenly turned and spotted them. "Target acquired!" he shouted to his comrades and they turned, their guns immediately on the ready.They pulled the trigger but a glass panel slid up in front of the platform just in time to deflect the bullets away before they found home in Megan and Ricardo's bodies."Down," Ricardo commanded and a tube extended down from the astrodome towards the ground, the platform descending speedily through it.Megan caught a glimpse of Adolf flying up to one of the assailants to give him an uppercut before the party disappeared from sight and she forced herself to relax. He would be okay, she assured herself. She, on the other hand, still had some things to attend to.

Dennis glared at Ricardo and he glared right back, no word passing between the two of them for what felt like almost thirty minutes; although Megan was fairly certain it was five. They glared at one another like they were in some mental debate only they were privy to.But that tactic wasn't going to get anyone anywhere, Megan thought, groaning inside at what was becoming a visual torture for her. From what she could observe, whatever Dennis was trying to do to Ricardo, which she herself wasn't quite sure of as of yet, wasn't working. The latter looked just as unmoved as he was at the beginning of the encounter. Perhaps even more so now, she judged from the defiant aura that had started to surround him like a shield.It was going to take more than a stare down to break Ricardo DiSanto, she concluded and ma