The Mech-man

Chapter 4

“Max, can you hear me?” A voice as light as the wind called as soft as a breeze, “Max, are you okay?”

“Max…!”

Max struggled to open his eyes, he felt tired and powerless. His arms and legs felt as if they would fall of his eyelids where as heavy as lead.

“Max!” Lucas’ voice called, “It’s me, Lucas!”

Max forced open his eyelids, the house was gone, replaced by the too familiar orphanage. Lucas and a few orphans crowded around him with worried looks on their faces.

“Max, you’re awake!” Lucas shouted as soon as Max opened his eyes, “I was so worried!”

“What happened?” Max asked, not thinking straight.

“What happened? You dare ask that question?! You tried to murder me!” A stern and furious voice of Mr Beckon brought back Max’s memories. Hearing Mr Beckon, Max used all his energy and sat up straight, he stares horrified at the wound that he had made.

“It wasn’t me! It can’t be!” Max muttered silently to no one in particular. How did he hurt Mr Beckon so badly, Max wondered. Sure, he had felt a gust of energy that shouldn’t belong to him, but a blood wound… It was impossible! Max looked at Mr beckon who stare murderously at him but scared to come close.

“Wondering how you managed to murder me, right?” Mr Beckon said slowly, staring in Max’s eyes.

“Max, when you charged into the room, had a blade coming out of you hand!” Lucas interrupted Mr Beckon.

“Max, I think you’re have potential to become a Protector!” Davis continued excited.

“You’re so lucky!” Michael congratulated.

“I don’t care if he’s a Protector or not, he must be arrested for trying to murder me!” Mr beckon yelled enraged.

“Calm down, Sir.” Lucas said, “I’m sure Max didn’t do it on purpose.”

“Ha, I don’t care about your opinions, Lucas.” Mr Beckon sneered, “Let the police decide.”

“You’re calling the police?!” Max asked petrified, he knew that he wouldn’t get away from doing this, this wasn’t a prank or a joke. He silently cursed himself for not being calm and he deeply regretted charging into the living room.

Knock, knock. The sound made Max’s heart jump; the police had arrived. His stomach seemed to be filled with butterflies, flapping around uncontrollably.

“Mr Beckon, what was the murder about?” A police man dressed in dark blue emerged from the door asked politely carefully scanning his surroundings, “Who was the victim?”

“Me, it was me!” Mr Beckon declared then pointing straight at Max he clenched his fists and announced, “I’m the victim! This brat tried to murder me!”

“I couldn’t control myself!” Max confessed to the police, “I felt an unusual power forcing me to do it and —”

A cold stare from the police man stopped Max from finishing his sentence.

“What did he use to hurt you, Mr Beckon?” The police man continued to ask.

“I saw it, it was a blade that seemed to come out of his hand, it was dark blue and light green!” Mr Beckon immediately responded clutching his injured arm.

Then the police turned to Max, “Do you have any more comment, or do you agree with what Mr Beckon said?”

“I—” Max stammered with a troubled expression on his face.

“I agree.” Max confessed at last.

“Where is the blade you used?” The police asked politely, giving the message that Max must show the lethal weapon.

“I don’t know, it disappeared!” Max admitted honestly, “Its gone!”

“Sir.” Lucas spoke, “I think that what Max meant was that he couldn’t activate his blade again. He’s a Mech-man.”

“A Mech-man you say so?” The police asked curiously, not believing a single word.

“I will call the squad to test your theory.” The police looked straight in Lucas’ eye and slowly said when he though Lucas might not be lying.

“We will deal with you after we know more information about you.” The police said after thinking for a while, “Now you can tell us about why you would try to hurt Mr beckon.”

Max told him everything, how he had made friends with Lucas and other orphans how had Mr beckon force them into s*****y…

“I didn’t want to hurt him, Sir, I only wanted to stop him.” Max finally summarized to the police man. The police turned to Mr Beckon and announced, “Don’t think you’re not I trouble, Mr Beckon, s*****y is a big thing.”

“You two, come with me to the station after the squad arrives.” The police declared not hearing any opinions.