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Chapter 32: Sample
Skyler was freaking out a little, “What the FUCK!?”
“Just drive”
“But what the FUCK!?”
“DRIVE!”
Skyler didn’t think today would have ended up this way. How could he? It was odd enough when a one-legged FED had shown up at his college, it got a bit more so when said FED had taken him to spy on a cute co-ed who was in the process of having an animated conversation with empty space, and now he was serving as getaway driver for what had actually looked like a premeditated assault committed by law enforcement against a ghost. Right now he could barely focus on keeping the car between the lines as he drove away from the scene.
“Head downtown, turn on sixth” The surprisingly calm woman next to him said. A glance over showed that his companion had a somewhat disturbing manic expression on her face. She was staring at something that was clutched in her hand.
‘This is actually nuts’ Skyler thought to himself. ‘I need to stop helping her. I need to… get out’
but he just kept driving. Maybe it was the fact that he was pretty sure he hadn’t hallucinated that signs he’d seen of an invisible presence walking around before, maybe it was the fact that the woman next to him, despite being down a leg, did have a gun, but he just kept driving.
“Officer?”
“Just a little farther, turn into that parking lot”
“What the heck are we doing.”
“Just shut it and go”
Sklyer hit the breaks stopping near the entrance to the building she indicated, “NO. You … You need to tell me what the heck you’re doing!” He shouted breathing hard, “Angel, ghost, or whatever that you just committed a crime, you… you ASSAULTED some… thing. What the hell am I even supposed to think?”
“Dammit” Nix leaned her head against the chair and stared at the ceiling, “Alright. We’re going to the lab. One of the ones that the police use but it does other work too. I got some feathers.”
“Feathers?”
“Yes look” She held up her clenched fist for him. At first he didn’t’ see anything, in the empty space of her hands, but then, if he stared just right there was the slightest flicker of a reflection.
“Its…. really there?” He said half to himself.
“Invisible or not they are there, and that means we can have them analyzed.”
That… made a good deal of sense. Skyler took a breath and started to pull into the garage, “Wish you didn’t like... attack, uh, it though. Isn’t he or she supposed to be on our side? you know... the ‘good’ side”
“I have no idea how this ‘good’/’evil’ stuff works, but I know that more is coming so I need people to believe it’s real before it’s too late”
The inside of the building looked about like what one would expect. small lobby area, basically unoccupied as this wasn’t a normal medical lab, boring white corridors that could show grime easily and metal doors that seemed to get sucked closed whenever one entered.
Skyler hung to the back while Nyx hopped on one leg and one crutch talking to an older scientist looking fellow she seemed familiar with, along with the other techs.
The lab techs did indeed think that things sounded a little nuts. At least that was until the were holding invisible feathers with their own hands. After that both Skyler and Cybele were bombarded with a veritable barrage of questions and assurances that they would figure out what the feathers were. It was pretty obvious that the scientists were less than willing to fully believe in demons, but the feathers were solid enough to get them moving, and that just left agent Nyx and Skyler with little to do but sit and wait.
“Sooo…?” Skyler said pacing around the reception area.
“So?” Nyx echoed from her place. She had picked a spot in the corner where it was hard to see her to handle some of her own business while they waited.
“So, what now? do you intend to just wait?” Skyler said from across the room. It was totally empty save them so talking was no problem.
“YeeeeP” She said with an elongated tone for emphasis
“It’s not like the shows though. This really can take quite awhile to even have preliminary results” Skyler complained.
“Well yes. But I’m going to be the first to hear anything they have to say as soon as they say it.” Nyx asserted.
Skyler paced for a minute before talking again, “Can I have the car?”
Nyx raised an eyebrow, “You want My car? My official agency issued car” she said with some indignation.
“That you used to commit an assault and then had me drive as a getaway vehicle.” Skyler snapped.
“It was necessary to…”
“It was nuts!”
“pfft” Nyx frowned, “Crazy times…”
Skyler paused for a moment and paced before replying again “Well necessary or not, I don’t have another way home, it’s getting late, and you’re the one that dragged me into this”
Nyx sighed, “Fine. but don’t scratch it. I’ll call for a ride, keys are in my bag there”
Skyler trotted over to her, before blushing and doing an abrupt about face, “Ah … sorry”
“Relax I’m covered, just get the keys”
“but you’re... what are you... huh?”
Nyx sighed, “How young are you? The girls don’t stop producing just because my kid is at home with my husband, got to pump from time to time.”
“You’re a mom?” Skyler said surprised while fumbling for the keys.
“That so surprising kiddo?” Nyx smirked.
“Hey I’m not .. that young… you just..” he paused , “Seemed very… er, job focused”
“We all have more than one side of us.” Nyx said more relaxed, “For instance you come across like a nerdy inexperienced kid…”
“Gee thanks…” He rolled his eyes.
“BUT you can also say you’re a military bomb tech. That’s pretty impressive.”
“You really think so?”
“I actually do. I’m sure you could find someone to relax with, given your resume. If you catch my drift.”
“Your.. catch what” Skyler asked.
“Oh good lord” Nyx shook her head, “You’re a military tech who gets to dress like a space marine and diffuse bombs. I’m sure you could leverage that at any bar to get a girl on each arm in no time.”
“You’re giving me DATING advice?” Skyler looked over at Nyx again.
“Look, I’m grateful you helped me with this, I don’t really have another way of thanking you, and you looked like you were about to have a panic attack earlier. You still do to be honest, so just take my advice and blow off some steam”
“uh.. ok.. I... I’ll try that I guess.” Skyler said pocketing the keys.
“That said, if you drive drunk in my car…”
“I would never... I… wait ‘space marine’? Do you play Warhammer?”
“OUT!” Nyx pointed to the door and Skyler scooted.
The watcher lay on her back staring at the sky. Luckily her little jolt didn’t seem to have actually blown the power in the area, apparently her body didn’t conduct enough electricity to do that, but it was more than enough to put her on the ground in a daze.
“Damn” she whispered to the air. That had clearly not been an accident. Someone bumping her was one thing, she was invisible, but there was no one around till she got body tackled. A look at her wing showed the small handful of missing feathers where they had been yanked out. They’d grow back so no biggie, except that whoever took them clearly knew about her and attacked intentionally.
The watcher dragged herself up and leaned against the breaker box. There was little she could do about it for now though. She didn’t see anything and didn’t know how she’d track her attacker, or even have any sort of lead onto who the attacker was. For that matter she had no idea how her attacker had known she was there, they couldn’t see her, and she flew most of the time except…
She let out a sigh. Except Atasi was on her bike on the ground. The watcher may have followed in the air but Atasi would be much easier to follow. That would complicate things for the girl too.
Atasi came out of the gun club not too long later luckily. She had apparently gotten herself a new shoulder holster and was looking a bit less nervous that when she walked in.
“How’d it go?” Kate asked
Atasi’s tail immediately poofed up and she froze ridged for a second before letting out her breath and relaxing, “It went ok I think” She shook her head, “I wish I could just SEE you, you know?”
“Sorry. Didn’t mean to startle you.”
“Its fine” Atasi waved it off and then smiled, “At least it seems I’m half decent at hitting a target so there’s that.”
“That is good news” Kate said, “Unfortunately I have some bad news. Someone else knows about me, and I think they were following you.”
A short explanation and a walk to a café later and Atasi was face down on the table moaning. “Why why why” She groaned, “Why can’t my life just be normal for a damn day?”
“I don’t know” The watcher admitted, “I was following you because your drone saw me, I don’t know why someone else would ALSO be following you, at least not with specificity.”
Atasi looked up, “Specificity?”
“Well you were that ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ lady’s protégé right?”
Atasi groaned and scarfed a scone in leu of responding.
“She’s not responsible for the possessions and the attack, but she did make the tech that made these zombie things”
“God does someone think I can replicate it?” Atasi’s eyes widened.
Kate shook her head, “I wish I knew. I really do. Right now, the city isn’t putting out obvious enough signals to tell me where they are. A few things I COULD check out, but likely nothing, and you...”
Atasi looked up with pleading eyes.
“I do need to investigate even if its nothing. I can’t just guard you, hence the gun”
Atasi looked down, “I know…”
“Let’s go before they notice you talking to yourself. I’ll walk you home at least, ok?”
Atasi nodded, and the pair slowly got up to go.
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Chapter 32: Sample
Skyler was freaking out a little, “What the FUCK!?”
“Just drive”
“But what the FUCK!?”
“DRIVE!”
Skyler didn’t think today would have ended up this way. How could he? It was odd enough when a one-legged FED had shown up at his college, it got a bit more so when said FED had taken him to spy on a cute co-ed who was in the process of having an animated conversation with empty space, and now he was serving as getaway driver for what had actually looked like a premeditated assault committed by law enforcement against a ghost. Right now he could barely focus on keeping the car between the lines as he drove away from the scene.
“Head downtown, turn on sixth” The surprisingly calm woman next to him said. A glance over showed that his companion had a somewhat disturbing manic expression on her face. She was staring at something that was clutched in her hand.
‘This is actually nuts’ Skyler thought to himself. ‘I need to stop helping her. I need to… get out’
but he just kept driving. Maybe it was the fact that he was pretty sure he hadn’t hallucinated that signs he’d seen of an invisible presence walking around before, maybe it was the fact that the woman next to him, despite being down a leg, did have a gun, but he just kept driving.
“Officer?”
“Just a little farther, turn into that parking lot”
“What the heck are we doing.”
“Just shut it and go”
Sklyer hit the breaks stopping near the entrance to the building she indicated, “NO. You … You need to tell me what the heck you’re doing!” He shouted breathing hard, “Angel, ghost, or whatever that you just committed a crime, you… you ASSAULTED some… thing. What the hell am I even supposed to think?”
“Dammit” Nix leaned her head against the chair and stared at the ceiling, “Alright. We’re going to the lab. One of the ones that the police use but it does other work too. I got some feathers.”
“Feathers?”
“Yes look” She held up her clenched fist for him. At first he didn’t’ see anything, in the empty space of her hands, but then, if he stared just right there was the slightest flicker of a reflection.
“Its…. really there?” He said half to himself.
“Invisible or not they are there, and that means we can have them analyzed.”
That… made a good deal of sense. Skyler took a breath and started to pull into the garage, “Wish you didn’t like... attack, uh, it though. Isn’t he or she supposed to be on our side? you know... the ‘good’ side”
“I have no idea how this ‘good’/’evil’ stuff works, but I know that more is coming so I need people to believe it’s real before it’s too late”
The inside of the building looked about like what one would expect. small lobby area, basically unoccupied as this wasn’t a normal medical lab, boring white corridors that could show grime easily and metal doors that seemed to get sucked closed whenever one entered.
Skyler hung to the back while Nyx hopped on one leg and one crutch talking to an older scientist looking fellow she seemed familiar with, along with the other techs.
The lab techs did indeed think that things sounded a little nuts. At least that was until the were holding invisible feathers with their own hands. After that both Skyler and Cybele were bombarded with a veritable barrage of questions and assurances that they would figure out what the feathers were. It was pretty obvious that the scientists were less than willing to fully believe in demons, but the feathers were solid enough to get them moving, and that just left agent Nyx and Skyler with little to do but sit and wait.
“Sooo…?” Skyler said pacing around the reception area.
“So?” Nyx echoed from her place. She had picked a spot in the corner where it was hard to see her to handle some of her own business while they waited.
“So, what now? do you intend to just wait?” Skyler said from across the room. It was totally empty save them so talking was no problem.
“YeeeeP” She said with an elongated tone for emphasis
“It’s not like the shows though. This really can take quite awhile to even have preliminary results” Skyler complained.
“Well yes. But I’m going to be the first to hear anything they have to say as soon as they say it.” Nyx asserted.
Skyler paced for a minute before talking again, “Can I have the car?”
Nyx raised an eyebrow, “You want My car? My official agency issued car” she said with some indignation.
“That you used to commit an assault and then had me drive as a getaway vehicle.” Skyler snapped.
“It was necessary to…”
“It was nuts!”
“pfft” Nyx frowned, “Crazy times…”
Skyler paused for a moment and paced before replying again “Well necessary or not, I don’t have another way home, it’s getting late, and you’re the one that dragged me into this”
Nyx sighed, “Fine. but don’t scratch it. I’ll call for a ride, keys are in my bag there”
Skyler trotted over to her, before blushing and doing an abrupt about face, “Ah … sorry”
“Relax I’m covered, just get the keys”
“but you’re... what are you... huh?”
Nyx sighed, “How young are you? The girls don’t stop producing just because my kid is at home with my husband, got to pump from time to time.”
“You’re a mom?” Skyler said surprised while fumbling for the keys.
“That so surprising kiddo?” Nyx smirked.
“Hey I’m not .. that young… you just..” he paused , “Seemed very… er, job focused”
“We all have more than one side of us.” Nyx said more relaxed, “For instance you come across like a nerdy inexperienced kid…”
“Gee thanks…” He rolled his eyes.
“BUT you can also say you’re a military bomb tech. That’s pretty impressive.”
“You really think so?”
“I actually do. I’m sure you could find someone to relax with, given your resume. If you catch my drift.”
“Your.. catch what” Skyler asked.
“Oh good lord” Nyx shook her head, “You’re a military tech who gets to dress like a space marine and diffuse bombs. I’m sure you could leverage that at any bar to get a girl on each arm in no time.”
“You’re giving me DATING advice?” Skyler looked over at Nyx again.
“Look, I’m grateful you helped me with this, I don’t really have another way of thanking you, and you looked like you were about to have a panic attack earlier. You still do to be honest, so just take my advice and blow off some steam”
“uh.. ok.. I... I’ll try that I guess.” Skyler said pocketing the keys.
“That said, if you drive drunk in my car…”
“I would never... I… wait ‘space marine’? Do you play Warhammer?”
“OUT!” Nyx pointed to the door and Skyler scooted.
The watcher lay on her back staring at the sky. Luckily her little jolt didn’t seem to have actually blown the power in the area, apparently her body didn’t conduct enough electricity to do that, but it was more than enough to put her on the ground in a daze.
“Damn” she whispered to the air. That had clearly not been an accident. Someone bumping her was one thing, she was invisible, but there was no one around till she got body tackled. A look at her wing showed the small handful of missing feathers where they had been yanked out. They’d grow back so no biggie, except that whoever took them clearly knew about her and attacked intentionally.
The watcher dragged herself up and leaned against the breaker box. There was little she could do about it for now though. She didn’t see anything and didn’t know how she’d track her attacker, or even have any sort of lead onto who the attacker was. For that matter she had no idea how her attacker had known she was there, they couldn’t see her, and she flew most of the time except…
She let out a sigh. Except Atasi was on her bike on the ground. The watcher may have followed in the air but Atasi would be much easier to follow. That would complicate things for the girl too.
Atasi came out of the gun club not too long later luckily. She had apparently gotten herself a new shoulder holster and was looking a bit less nervous that when she walked in.
“How’d it go?” Kate asked
Atasi’s tail immediately poofed up and she froze ridged for a second before letting out her breath and relaxing, “It went ok I think” She shook her head, “I wish I could just SEE you, you know?”
“Sorry. Didn’t mean to startle you.”
“Its fine” Atasi waved it off and then smiled, “At least it seems I’m half decent at hitting a target so there’s that.”
“That is good news” Kate said, “Unfortunately I have some bad news. Someone else knows about me, and I think they were following you.”
A short explanation and a walk to a café later and Atasi was face down on the table moaning. “Why why why” She groaned, “Why can’t my life just be normal for a damn day?”
“I don’t know” The watcher admitted, “I was following you because your drone saw me, I don’t know why someone else would ALSO be following you, at least not with specificity.”
Atasi looked up, “Specificity?”
“Well you were that ‘Dr. Frankenstein’ lady’s protégé right?”
Atasi groaned and scarfed a scone in leu of responding.
“She’s not responsible for the possessions and the attack, but she did make the tech that made these zombie things”
“God does someone think I can replicate it?” Atasi’s eyes widened.
Kate shook her head, “I wish I knew. I really do. Right now, the city isn’t putting out obvious enough signals to tell me where they are. A few things I COULD check out, but likely nothing, and you...”
Atasi looked up with pleading eyes.
“I do need to investigate even if its nothing. I can’t just guard you, hence the gun”
Atasi looked down, “I know…”
“Let’s go before they notice you talking to yourself. I’ll walk you home at least, ok?”
Atasi nodded, and the pair slowly got up to go.
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