You can't save everyone. Sometimes the best way to save them is to let them be.
The sound of the chopper blades whirring relentlessly rent the morning calm. Blessing heaved out, resting her head against the headrest of the chopper in which she was in.. Her life was pretty moving so fast, she had to admit it. But little could be done about it. She had to do this, beside, she knew that this was something that she would not come to regret eventually. After all, it was dealing with helping some people gain some powers, right? The type of abilities Leslie had. Then it was fine. If Leslie did not lie, then she would get one of those powers like that. The process of acquiring it might be painful, she was aware. But if Leslie could live to survive it, then she could. So by all means, she was very eager about the whole thing. It was just that it was happening so fast. If she had not been with Lekan, then she would not have seen the card. And while she bothered to think that. About how very lucky she was in that situation; she noted how soon it happened. It W
“W-what?” Lekan gasped to breath as his body slammed down hard on the granite floor. He groaned, looking up with a weak hand stretched forward, his eyes red. While blood flowed from a several cuts over his skin. “You don’t have to do this. Please. You don’t have to do this.” He pleaded, trying to reason with whoever it was. The person however did not agree. Blessing squinted, trying to understand the scene before her. Just then, the figure dashed up, running to meet Lekan on the ground. On closer contact with him, the face of the figure was revealed. It was Leslie. And she had the visage of a monster. Not literally. Her face fumed, angry, enraged as she carried Lekan by the side. And then slammed her fist through his stomach, sending him sprawling helplessly against the ground. “You bright this upon yourself.” She roared out to his face: “you brought this. You should have just come with me. Follows me to the Shstem Bureau but instead, you had to say no.” She thundered. Lekan
The white light dimmed out and Leslie gasped. She was no longer out there in the street. But this time, she was back in a place that seemed familiar to her. She squinted, coming to her senses just about now. It did not seem familiar. It was familiar because this was home. She was back at home. “Oh!” She exhaled, “that Astella girl must have done me a number. She teleported us back home.” She said. The Latino boy looked about in fascination, a half smile on his face. He turned around, hands to the side as people walked past th, ignoring whatever it was that kept them there. Right in the center of the pedestrian walk. “Where is this? Home?” The boy asked after making a 360 turn more than twice. He looked at Leslie who simply shrugged at him. “This is the System Bureau. The one I was telling that douche to come with me to. But he thought he knew better that I was only after his life. Or whatever insecurities were bothering him.” She ranted. “Sounds like you are pissed over it.” Th
“U-uh?” Frank stared from Leslie to Prof Bumju with his eyes narrowed and a throaty groan. “You are calling the system a curse? What?” Leslie croaked out. “Unbelievable. This boy has some guts to come in here and call our priceless work a curse. The heck!” Prof Bumju yelled out, slamming both hands to the table. “I don’t want it.” Frank whimpered out with a weak shrug. “It cost me the life of mmpphhh…” Frank’s eyes widened in surprise as Leslie’s hand cupped over his mouth. He looked askance at her when he saw Bumju facepalm and elan backwards. “Trust Me, you don’t want to confess your sins to Prof Bumju. He will use it against you, trust me.” Leslie said to him with worry in her eyes. Frank nodded. He did not get the gist here but right nwC the Olly person whom he knew in this room as in e other tha. Leslie. He had fought with her. And in some way, he had trusted her to watch his back during the fight. Compared to the man across the table, Leslie as his bet at understanding w
“Arriving in a couple of hours. Kindly strap in. We are approaching the public landscape.” The solo pilot of the stealth helicopter, the RAH-66 Comanche muttered over the head phone as he went on clicking some overhead buttons. The chopper was a two seater one. It had one seat in front for the pilot who was currently taking charge o fa the flights and the other seat which was behind, the sole occupant of it being Blessing. Blessing who kept on tossing about with a smile on her face. Occasionally, her body would jerk, some inaudible words uttering form her mouth. One did not need a soothsayer to know she was having a dream. And from the looks of it, it appeared to be a rather good one. However, a dream as it was, it was not be the true reality of things. The true reality of what was happening made the pilot in the cockpit squint his eyes. The usual music of the almost silent chppper blades were music to his ears. This would not be the first operation he would be carrying out.
THUD! THUD!! The Nigerian with the black headset over his neck and his blue vest with orange shorts huffed as his feet rammed heavily down the ground. The skies rumbled in response to the dark ache eating deep within his chest. It turned grey and soon the clouds blanketed the entire sky.In no time, the light dimmed out. Barely enough to be what could be the start of a morning. And in a shorter minute later, it started to drizzle.Lekan frowned this time. He did not like the looks of things.With his heart heavy, his fists grappled to his sides as he kept on raging. His stomach rumbled just then, a reminder that he was hungry.Even if he was pissed, sad, angry and not happy over the recent things. He was still hungry. And his stomach demanded to be fed.Lekan tried to overlook this. Tried to ignore the sensations within his stomach as he focused on his pain.He had just lost his Uncle. The last standing member of his family. The last person whom he knew bore the family name. And now,
Black trouser, white tanktop and a black crop jacket on, Astella smiled as Lekan received his order. She stood behind him, watching as the lady simply snorted in their direction until she dished out the food in a plate for Lekan, Lekan received it, with a smile on. But at this time, the woman was no more smiling. But he could understand why this was. At this time, the woman was expecting the payment for her food, which he was about to fix. He picked his phone and held it up, slipping out his debit card from it. “Uh.. I want to pay with my card.” He said to her, “Do i look like i run a bank in this place?” the woman glared. “Everyone is paying in cash and you think you want to show off that you are the son of what?” She hollered at him, making Lekan take a step backwards. But as he did that, he bumped into the figure behind him. Into Astella, “Uh.. Actually, I have his order hew.” Astella smiled. She dipped her hands in the pocket of her trousers and he pulled out a one th
RATATATATATA… BRAKATATATATA… POW! POW!!! Several rounds of gunfire exploded into the air, all of them directed to the hovering chopper. The serene atmosphere was shattered immediately as explosion lights lit here and there. All attack systems of the F-86 Sabre jets fired simultaneously. “Shit! He’s got shields.” The lead pilot cursed out as his fingers jammed into some buttons just on the roof over his head. Ahead of them, as the planes hovered, slightly adjusting their trajectories in a cyclic motion of arms bombardment. The chopper glowed in a slightly tinted blue light as bullets ricocheted off the surface. “That is it! They have shipped so we have the permission to unleash all the gunfire that we have.” The lead operation man for the Pinch Hit Operation chanted out once more. “Don’t worry guys, give them hell fire.” He roared as he focused on the shooting. The planes dived forward, switching positions so fast before the retaliation weapon system of the chopper could go off.