Cross My Mind

REUNION

****(SECRET FACILITY 100KM OFF THE COAST OF Louisiana USA)****

The next time Garba opened his eyes, he was in a room with the door lock. In the room, there was a bunk bed and a porcelain toilet seat with a sink next to it. He booted his Neuraface and tried using the map for Location but could not find where he is. The Neuraface keeps giving him a location that does not make sense at all. The position indicates somewhere in the middle of the ocean and he cannot detect any ship navigation system so he knows they are in a stationary place and there doesn’t seem to be any of the movements you would notice on ships that is caused by wave movements and currents.

At this very Moment, a status window appeared with a massage in his field of vision with a code combination that evokes immediate remembrance in his brain that the code is actually Mila’s Neuraface User Identity module number. And it was requesting a pair up. He accepted the pairing and opened a thought to speech massage application.

“Mila, is that really you? Are you alright?” he quickly asked.

“I am alright Garba, I remember everything that happened to us, they made us forget about the last experiment by blocking off our memories, I am sorry I put your body in danger while you were busy trying to take care of me, they were trying to catch me and I had to fight back, thanks to my lack of awareness you almost drown. I am really sorry about that”. She said.

“there is nothing to apologize for, I am doing alright. I also remember everything that happened during the experiment by playing through your memories after we switched. The VR massage that Akihiro made you watch must be some kind of trigger that unblocks the memories they blocked. After watching the video through your memories, I ended up unblocking my own memories”. He responded and just at this moment, Garba heard the doors to his room being opened.

Two large men armed with guns came into the room and asked him to sit back on the bed before a man in white dressing came in. it took Garba one look to recognize the man. He walked inside and sat on a chair that one of the men had brought in and kept for him at the center of the room.

“Garba Danladi, how long I have waited for our reunion, you and that computer have cost me and my sponsor quite the money and trouble. But I have learned that you pulled off quite the trick this time around. You will soon show me how you managed to make a phone explode and almost kill two elite assassins. Anyway, you are welcome to island zero, we have gathered another set of players and have a series of very interesting games for you to entertain us with this time around.” Akihiro said.

Garba stood up and charged at the old man but was met with a kick from one of the guards that Akihiro came with, sending him flying back and crashing into the bed.

“I trusted you, I was very happy to be a part of your research because I believed you were a scientist who is trying to help humanity reach even deeper into technological development. But I was wrong, you were just another money mongering i***t who take the lives of human beings for granted. You are just like the rest of the millionaires out there who just want more money” Garba said

“you act like you know things but you really don’t have an idea of what is going on here right. Let me tell you something kid, I don’t really care about the money, I don’t get paid for what I do here and I do not have the freedom to quit. Don’t go on yapping that mouth”. Akihiro objected.

“as if I can actually believe a word you say. Hundreds of people are dead because of you, even if you don’t care about the money, you must be a crazy bastard to have done what you did to us. Do you remember Lucy? She was just here to make some money, you killed her along with the rest of the people”. Garba started shouting, standing up; consumed by emotions and about to charge at Akihiro once again. A massage from Mila just arrived.

“don’t fight Garba, we don’t know what they will do to us but you can get injured if you don’t calm down. Sorry I plugged into your auditory sense without permission but based on what he just said, they are planning on having us participate on some kind of game, if we can get in contact with MEDULLA, if it is still out there then we may have a chance at escaping from whatever the hell this place is that I cannot get a Location tag on it”. The massage said

“I know, I just couldn’t help it when a bastard like him is standing right in front of me and spouting nonsense. But I get your point”. Garba responded.

“As you are you are standing there zoning out, I will give you a tip since you made completing the part of Project Ragnarok I was tasked with possible, having been brought back yet again to test the efficiency of my creation, I will advice you to have plenty of rest today and be ready. You will need all the stamina you can conserve tomorrow morning” Akihiro said and left the room after, followed by the two armed men who locked the door after him.

Garba sat back on he bedside and let out a heavy sigh.

“you heard all that right?” he asked

“I did. I will rest as much as I can as well, if they are having us take part in another one of their bloody games then so be it, we will survive again and again. No matter how many times it is, we wont give them what they want. We wont die. We also have a surprise for them this time around” Mila said.

“we should rest, conserve as much energy and recover our stamina before tomorrow. The sinister look in Akihiro’s eyes tell me that we may be hunted around like animals if we are not s lucky. I have a feeling that more than just Jefferson Lockwood is involved in this and that sick old bastard made mention of something about project Ragnarok, do you know anything about that?” he asked.

“I have never heard about it, we should rest and pray that we hear from MEDULLA soon, don’t forget that we can switch minds now so we have our own surprise for them because they seem to have no idea of how much of the potential of the Neuraface we can use”. Mila responded and the two ate the dinner they were served, going to sleep in preparation of the next day’s events.

After Akihiro left the detention chamber where he just finished talking to Garba, he proceeded to his newly designated office that is located at the center of the facility. Inside the office a tablet computer was ringing a soft melody as he walks in. he picked it up and saw an incoming video conference from Jefferson Lockwood, he answered the call, revealing Lockwood in what looks like a Luxury yacht surrounded by a group of middle aged men and women with classic music playing in the background.

“what do I owe this call to Lockwood, you look like you are enjoying yourself well for a man that is on a business trip to invite prospective business partners for the new industry that is about to make it’s debut in the world.” Akihiro asked

“I have convinced all of them to come and witness the might of what we have succeeded in creating, this wont be just any testing experiment like I already told you, rich people don’t really care about the boring stiff. They just want to be entertained by what we have to show them so whatever you do, make sure they are entertained by the event and do not worry about what we were talking about the other day. If this experiment works, you are a free man and to top that up, you will walk away with your freedom, zero charges against you as long as you don’t go to Japan in which case we’ll disconnect revoke our involvement with you. You will also get to walk away with hundreds of millions of dollars. Hahahahahaha….” Lockwood responded, laughing at the end and walking away without ending the video conference.

“It is hard to take you seriously when you are drunk Lockwood, but I will do my best to keep the experiment entertaining to our guests, I will help you milk those bastards as many millions of dollars as they can produce for us, then we will mass produce the Neuraface for the US armed forces, creating even more disparity between them and the rest of the world. I will be at the center of all of it” Akihiro said while laughing like a mad man.

****(San Diego California)****

MEDULLA has just arrived at the gated community where Shadrach’s house is, Shadrach has already given the guards details that he will sending someone to pick a motorcycle from his basement so MEDULLA had no trouble getting into the community. The apartment however was not guarded as it used to be when Shadrach was working there and since the NASA properties that were sensitive research have all bee moved to the Houston Texas facility.

MEDULLA opened the door and went straight to the basement of the house. Once he stepped Inside of the basement he realised is so large that he fund it ridiculous that Shadrach was still calling this large underground research hall a basement. It was as large and wide open as the living room above it and is illuminated from every angle.

Inside the basement was empty except for the table at the center that has many tool boxes on it, a large box of spare parts laid by the side of the table and something that looks just about the size of a motorcycle covered with a large piece of thick fabric that has collected dust over time.

MEDULLA walked to it and pulled off the thick fabric, unveiling a hybrid hand built Kawasaki Ninja HR-2 motorcycle. It took him one look to know that although it looks like a normal Speed motorcycle, its engine has been completely swapped out for an electric motor and a large battery that has been strapped side by side of the electric motor.

“I see what you mean Shadrach, I appreciate it this, but I have just a few additions to make for this motorbike to be perfect” MEDULLA Said and begin to open the tool boxes and arranging the working tools after which he carried the motorcycle and arranged it on the table, disassembling it completely. He pulled all the spare parts closer and started reassembling it bit by bit until it was complete.

He sat down and downloaded the images and videos that captured the face of the man who they saw leaving the NASA facility in Houston, after carefully examining the video, he figured the man mist have been the one that killed Reece Mallory. After carefully reviewing the data and running the man’s face with several databases, he could not find any match.

He crossed reference the mans face with other faces captured by CCTV cameras in the San Diego home neighborhood and found one that has seventy percent match. After many hours of data analysis and digging, he found the man’s profile to be a former Navy seal and retired CIA field Agent.

MEDULLA Found out later that there’s a secret organisation that the man is connected to, the organisation takes skilled individuals and give them Assassination jobs and other high risk jobs for very high amount of money as compensation. The organisation only uses People’s Aliases and the man sent to get Reece was called Agent Stone., to find the man, he first must retrace his steps and find out where the man who has been using the alias “Agent Stone”.

He started his just completed electric motorcycle and ride out of the compound, heading straight to the outskirts of California where Agent Stone’s location has been located the last time he checked.