They were all gathered around their bunk, the four of them. Henry tapped his foot on the floor and stared into space, calculating his options and the next step to take. Zoe was quietly chewing on a gum that she picked from the snacks tray the robots provided. Henry imagined that they would have to travel o earth to get it. Which begs the question of where they were?“Where are we?” he suddenly asked. “We’re in a realm, right? But what realm?”“We’re in earth,” Zoe said to him. “Isn’t that sort of obvious?”“It feels like its earth, but then it isn’t.” Leroy said.“Did we all come to the same location?” Henry asked. “I was told that this place is called the Academy of Netherlands. Is that what you were told?”Zhixi was shaking her head. “I was told to go to Connecticut, and that is where I would find the system. I went to Connecticut and saw this big door which opened for me.”“Me too,” Zoe inputted. “It wasn’t Connecticut or Netherlands for me, but I had to go to the Atlantic Ocean.”
Zhixi watched Henry turn back and forth in his bed. He could not sleep. She bet he was still thinking about the plan, evaluating it in his head and finding the best possible outcome. He was an over thinker, she realized. Always finding all possible answers to a question.She slowly swung herself down from the bed—most times she and Zoe usually interchanged, and this time around she was up while Zoe was down.Zhixi did not like the girl. Mainly because she had sacrificed something for her and now she feels indebted to a stranger. It was a weird thing felling indebted to Henry, now she must fell it too for the new girl whom she changed bed with.She swung the other foot and climbed down from the bed. Henry had stopped moving; he was staring at her.“Hello, handsome,” she said, and then cleared her throat. “Uhm, hello?”“Aren’t you supposed to be sleeping?” he asked.“I just want to do a little stretch. I can’t sleep.”She tied her hair back into a messy bun and began to stretch. Henry w
Ralph as finally back to work. No one received this news kindly. They all expected that he would still be having his glitches and not come there for a month at least.Not Henry. Henry was prepared. He so desperately wanted to see Ralph, to know if the robot would remember the questions they had asked that day. Surprisingly, when the robot came to the compartment that morning, it acted as though it as just resuming work. There were no characteristic traits to his behavior, something that Henry had gotten used to and was actually expecting. Instead it felt like the robot had been totally reformed and was just resuming work from where he started. Like a brand new Ralph. None of the others noticed, of course. How would they, when their interest was mainly on winning tasks and surviving enough for the next day.“Something’s up with that guy,” Henry murmured to Leroy.“Oh yeah? Is it the electrical cracking of his face?” Leroy said.Henry was surprised; he hadn’t even noticed that Ralph ha
Henry and Leroy raised their swords simultaneously, successfully cutting off the head of the beast side by side. It fell to the ground in a loud ‘garr,’ carrying with it dust that nearly blinded everyone. Leroy was laughing and showing off the blood he’d gotten on his skin, while Henry was watching the gut of the beast spill to the ground. It was a nasty mixture of green, yellow and muddy brown. He wondered where these robots got the monsters from, whether they were simple beasts that were modified by them and turned into horrifying creatures. With the kind of scientific experimentation they saw the robot doing last time, Henry wouldn’t put it past them.“Help!” someone yelled.He looked up to see the beast chewing the leg of the person who screamed, while still alive. Leroy was about of go and show off his heroic strength when a group of people stringed the beast to death. The beast died trying to get the meat of the person into his mouth.“Help,” the person begged no one in particul
Henry and Leroy quietly sneaked out of the compartment, easily bypassing the numerous bunks and the people in it. Henry could hear Leroy’s muffled grunts from behind; he knew the other man was not too happy to be patrolling the grounds. Henry wanted to hush him so bad, but he feared his reaction would garner the exact thing he was avoiding—people seeing them. Leroy continued to follow him until the successfully left the compartment. Once they were out, Henry straightened his back and exhaled. He turned back to finally shout at Leroy but then he paused. There was a movement in his hindsight. He turned back, looking into the darkness, eager and worried at the same tie. He wanted to see what it was, but at the same time scared to do so.“I don’t even know why we’re doing this,” Leroy mumbled. “We should all just go together and get this done with.”“Shhh,” Henry said to him.“Don’t tell me to shush. You’re protecting the ladies, aren’t you? That’s why you want us to go and put ourselves
Henry watched in astonishment as Ralph froze in mid motion, like a knot in him had been undid. The guy behind him shifted just enough for Henry to see that he had removed a battery from the robot, automatically rendering it useless and in better terms, dead.“Robots may not be killed but the can be handled.”The words rang again in Henry’s head as he looked at the young man that uttered the words. It would seem like that have got themselves some technician and computer scientist. There were so many questions Henry wanted to ask that needed answers to. What are the guy doing out there? He was instantly suspicious of him. The young man should be about eighteen, and Henry had never seen him there before. How good was he to have become invincible to others?“Why did you do that?” Leroy asked, since Henry was short of words.The boy cocked his head in amusement. “Would you rather I let the robot kill you?”“No, not that…” Leroy looked to Henry, waiting for him to talk.The young boy cocked
HENRY was stunned that the group had no objections to Justin’s claim. He took Zhixi aside and tried to reason with her.“Are you guys seriously considering this? That guy is a clown. He’s going to fuck things up.”“Not if we fuck him up first,” Zhixi replied. “I still don’t think we can trust him. He knows how to handle this stuff yet he still needs us?”“Sometimes you need to work with a crew if you’re not bold enough to do it on your own.”“Are you listening to yourself? He clearly expects one of us to die just so he can get the system.”Zhixi grinned conspiratorially. “Not if he dies first.”Their minds were made up, Henry realized. There was nothing he would tell them that would make them change their mind. When they got back to the rest of the crew, Justin was boasting to Zoe and Leroy about how good he was with handling robots and how he’d been planning for it for so long.“So are we all retiring to bed or what?” Zoe asked as she came closer. “Maybe we can re-strategize and sta
Ralph, now called Justin Jr. turned to the side of a particular rock and raised his arm. The raised arm reminded Henry of the way he had raised it to him just a few moment ago, with the intent of killing him before he had the chance to escape.Now, that arm raised and shoots something out of its finger. A bright, colorful portal opened in the rock. It was so bright, so beautiful, and would certainly attract other things. Henry peeked, and he saw some robots going about their lives, unaware that a portal had been breached. When one of them looked, Henry suddenly drew back, out of sight, so that it would only be the robot that was looking in.“Is it really the city of robots?” Zhixi asked, the excitement creeping into her tone.“Yes.” Henry answered dryly.“Great! Let’s get going then.”“Not yet,” Justin rose up a hand. “I want a vote that none of you will harm my hunny bunny.”“Your what?”He blushed. “My Justin Jr.”“Bro, that’s your task instructor,” Leroy pointed out.“Doesn’t matte
Evelyn noticed her sister isn't at home yet. She tried calling her number but it's isn't going.She tried the same for Henry's numbers but it wasn't going also. She decided to call Louis and it was the same thing."Fuck shott."She cursed"Why are they not picking where could they be?" She asked herself pacing around the room. She couldn't think straight. She didn't know what to do.She called their number, but it wasn't going.Evelyn slept that night and told herself she was going to go to their house first thing in the morning.*The Next Day.*Evelyn woke up feeling sad, she didn't know what was wrong with her, but she was just sad. She felt something was going wrong somewhere.She stood up and left the house without even bathing. She first went to the company hoping to find her sister there, but she did not.She heard the shareholders will be holding a meeting there, she couldn't find her sister. She then decided to go to Dexter's office. She couldn't find him also.She couldn't eve
"Sean are you ready to take your revenge?" Erica questioned him."Yes, I am so ready to take my revenge, where is the gun? Knife anything? I am fucking prepared every fuckin time." Sean replied Erica.Erica went to meet Sean and ask him if he is ready to take his revenge. Sean wanted to kill him by every means."I need Mike, the only person who can lure Henry is Mike." Sean told her."Consider it done." She assured him.Dexter was prepared for the operation, he wanted to take them down as fast as he can. He got a call from Erica that he should kidnap Sean first."Come and meet me at the warehouse immediately you are done." He said to her.Dexter was already with his guys in a dark and secluded warehouse, a group of people huddled around a table, planning their next move.This was not a typical meeting, but one with a sinister purpose. They were planning a kidnapping, and every detail had to be just right.Dexter showed them the target picture so they will not end up going for the wron
*Later That Day.*Erica was at Dexter's company, she went there immediately she was done with stuffs at her company. She also went there since he refused to answer her calls."We need to act fast, we don't know what the guy is planning. I loosed the video, and there isn't anything we can use against him anymore." Erica told Dexter he thoughts drinking the juice that was placed on the table."We will kill him if he has any other intentions, we are not going to let him bring us down." Dexter said to her."Since you said that guy is available, I guess he is will be the one to take the revenge. That way we will be free for the rest of our lives." Dexter said to Erica."Do you not feel we should kidnap him, that easy it would more easy for him to get killed." She said to him."Yes, I agree with you." Dexter told her."Don't you have some met out there that could help us with it. We can't do it on our own." She told him."That's true, I will find some useful guys that can assist us in kidna
*The Next Day.*Henry woke up the next morning feeling so refreshed, he slept peacefully like a baby in the night. He couldn't get to see Evelyn the other day because he was tired already.He decided he was going to see her today. He put on his dress. Seeing his ex is just terrible for him. He remembered how broke he was when he caught her.He remembered how he loosed all hope after she confessed everything to him. After she told him he doesn't love her."Why do I have to dress up?" He asked himself when he noticed how nicely he was dressing."Whatever." He muttered under his breath. Henry already told Evelyn about the meeting. He walked out of the bedroom, and saw Louis waiting for him."Don't tell me you are this well dresses because of her." Louis winked at him."Me? This is just a casual well, and I am well dressed because I want to dress nicely." He said to Louis"Woah, are you going to meet up with a girl? Is he going on a blind date?" Mike was surprised by his outfit immediatel
Henry ended the call immediately after listening to what the nurse told him."What happened?" Louis inquired ok seeing how devastated he was."Someone released Sean from the hospital claiming they are related, how does that makes sense?" Henry was beginning to get so angry."It was Erica." Louis told Henry."You knew it was her and you couldn't stop her? How did you find out that it was her?" Henry queried him"I planted a tracker in her car, I saw that she went to a place and that is not the office, neither Dexter's company. She must have been the one." Louis explained to him."I knew she is up to something, we must find a way to find out what she is up to. She might want to use him or something." Mike added."She didn't know I am out the prison yet right?" Henry wanted to confirm his thoughts."Yes, she didn't know you are out of the prison yet, we need to wait for a while. That was she will be unguarded." Louis answered.They got to their house in no time and did the necessary thin
Erica laid on the bed, she realized how tired she was. She didn't know when she slept off.Evelyn tiptoed into her room, her sister was sleeping so deep that she didn't even notice when someone entered the room.Evelyn searched for the other phone her sister barely use. She finally found it in her wardrobe. She tried unlocking it but she couldn't.She then went to where he sister was using, and decided to use her finger print to open it. It opened once.The first thing she did was to set a screen timeout. She left the bedroom, and went ahead to meet Louis where he was waiting for her.She walked up to where he parked his car and entered it."How was it? Did you not get it? I thought you said you were going to text me." Louis asked her."I got the phone." She answered and have him the phone she got from her sister.Louis first went to her iMessage, hoping he could find something there but he couldn't. He then whet to her storage.Luckily for him, he saw the videos there. He didn't know
Erica was happy with the scene that was going on. She was happy seeing how speechless Henry became."Wait, why me? I am not interested. Why should I become the ceo, laugh out loud." Erica acted surprised.She knew what she was doing, she didn't want to look. Suspicious to Louis."We have noticed that you are good for this job, and we would love to pick you." They informed her."Woah, looks as if I got no choice." She stoped up."If you know you would not want her to he the CEO, please can you raise your hands up." Someone announced but none of the shareholders could raise up their hands."Today, we declare ma'am Erica as the CEO of this company." The person who was in charge of the voting said."You are fired from this company, together with Mike. We find out you two might be a threat to the new CEO as you are not happy with her becoming the CEO." The shareholder passed across the information."What does Mike have to do with this? You can fire me instead and leave the poor guy alone."
"What do you want to see me for?" Erica asked Louis immediately she got to his office."I wanted to ask you few questions, is it possible for you to go to the house we just came back from. Can you get the security footage of everything that happened during our stay there?I think there is a spy there that got it release everything we did, and sent to our rival company." Louis asked Erica for a favor.He knew what he was doing. Even though he will have to loose an evidence that is as strong as that. His main aim was to confirm if Erica was the spy, and if she has someone she is working for."Sure, I will do that." Erica assured him with a smirk on her face."You are telling your greatest enemy to do the job for you." She said to herself."Consider it done." She assured him"Thank you very much." Louis appreciated."What about Henry? I haven't seen him! Hope he is okay?" She asked him."Sure, he will not be showing his face for the meantime. He will surely get back to you once he is bac
"The police are here for what?" Henry asked with his eyes wide opened."They insisted on staying at the entrance, and they are on their way here." The girl told him and she will not stop panicking.The police entered his office without knocking, with his secretary at their back."Mr. Henry you are under arrest. We will refrain you from talking, any word can be used against you in the court of law. You are allowed to also have an attorney." One of the police said to him."Find me a lawyer." Henry said to louis and followed the police men without asking them any questions.Henry followed them willingly without asking them any questions.Louis was still shocked with what happened. He knew what happened, he knew the reason he was arrested.Louis never imagined if there is a way they can get him saved. He decided to call Henry's best lawyer.He didn't want to go and Henry immediately to avoid any suspicions. A lot of people haven't figured out that he got arrested yet."I need you here imm