116 Rat’s Invasion
"What the hell is happening? Where are all those rats coming from!"
A bald man was in the middle of the chaos together with a guy in an elegant suit, he had scars on his hands and face, and probably there were a lot more hidden under the suit. A holster with a handgun could be seen under the jacket as he moved to kick away a rat from time to time when they got too close.
There was one servant with them, at the beginning there were two more, but those were sent to get Kevin Ramsey and Brody Chambers. In the meantime, the six goons that were awakened earlier were fighting and blocking the places from where the rats were coming but as soon as they killed a rat two more appeared and were they managed to block an entrance another one opened with a new wave of rats.
Pollard was trying his best to stop the rats and control them but without any results.
"Whenever I manage to control one another escapes my control right away, something is taking them back from me as soon as I put my attention in another one." The bald guy told to the veteran.
Pollard was confused since it was the first time that he was blocked from controlling an animal like this. Myles Yaxley was looking attentive to how the rats were moving before making his move. There was something weird all these rats ran incredibly fast as if they were chosen to do this.
Kevin Ramsey arrived at the place and was surprised when he saw hundreds of rats moving around eating stuff and getting into the houses around that for some reason had all the doors opened.
"What are you two waiting?! Benjamin stop these rats." He turned to the now four servants that were present.
"Look for the other servants and bring those stupid puppets too. We need to get rid of those rats".
The servants left right away, and just the three leaders stood there.
"I can't stop them, Kevin! Something is blocking me out I can't control them."
At that moment Brody Chamber appeared with an angry face looking directly at them, he was so focused and enraged that he didn't notice the rats around them.
"Who the f**k is using MY sniper!"
The other three were taken aback by his words.
"We have more important problems right now Brody."
"I don't care about your problems, I want to know why you gave my sniper the orders to go in a mission today."
The three looked at each other.
"None of us have done anything Brody." Ramsey was the one that.
"Yeah, then my best sniper decided by himself to go out to take a walk? I saw it, next time at least ask me if you need him for a mission." He said while looking at Pollard.
"I have no idea what you're talking about…"
"I saw one of YOUR servants go to his house earlier, and the next moment when I'm exploring around the city he is leaving this place at full speed?"
At that moment Yaxley understood everything.
"We are under attack, the rats are just a distraction. We need to find John and Cecily Right away, ignore the rats and try to find servants and puppets. Someone rewrite the orders and is controlling the Rats."
"What!! Someone can even do that?"
Pollard got scared the number of rats and people that were under this person control was too high, how powerful someone has to be to pull this off?
Ramsey, on the other hand, got a little worried for Cecily, Hamilton can manage if he gets ambushed but Cecily wasn't that strong in the case she was attacked, and she was an essential asset for the NDR. Chamber noticed that something was off after hearing Yaxley, and found most of the servants and puppets that should be here were leaving this place.
"Crap, they are running away, our puppets and servant are running away!"
"Can you see John or Cecily?"
"John is at the side of the blood pool, it seems that he was attacked by a couple of rats, but he doesn't seem worried or bothered about it, no signs of Cecily."
Most of the things that they managed to get were lost in that morning.
"I left her on the basement with the prisoners we need to go check it." just like that 3 groups were created, the goons couldn't be left alone, so they joined the leaders right away, about the rats, there was no use on fighting them if they were just a distraction.
Pollard went to find Hamilton to tell him about the situation. In the meantime, Yaxley and Pollard went with a group of fast goons and tried to get back the most of their people back as possible. Ramsey went back to the basement, but as he suspected it was already empty. On the way, they managed to find two of the servants Ramsey sent earlier, but there was no trace of the other two
Meanwhile, in the roof of a house near the blood pool, a Siamese cat was exploring the mind of John Hamilton.
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Have you ever tried to play games using multiple VR sets at the same time while you read a book? Yeah, that was easy to do compared to what I had to do.
'Dante?'
Bad timing…
'Sorry~, I'm busy~. Talk to you later~…'
I hate to do this with him, I'm glad he is better but what I'm doing right now is difficult enough. Oh! I forgot to tell him about what happened… well, stan should be there already…
I was moving and implanting orders on the servant's minds, they had to open every door, sewer cap or whatever they found so the rats can get into the central area of Ramsey's houses complex.
That wasn't difficult, most of the servants had some "preestablish" orders, like a routine that they should follow. I changed that routine without anyone noticing it.
The second change was the groups that were awakened, beside the 6 goons no one else had to wake up. There was no mind on them, and for some reason when I tried to implant the orders on their minds it didn't work, so I had to give them orders through the servants.
All the servants as soon as they were out of the reach of their masters had their mind modified to leave in different directions. Thanks to the partially broken minds it was easy to put an order on their minds, they don't bother too much with it and follow it right away.
After some time they would leave my reach, and at that point, they would be on their own for a while, the orders were made, so most of them were going to converge to Green Shelter, more mouth to feed wasn't a good thing, but I don't know what else to do. I ransacked with the help of some servants their supplies, but since I need them to leave fast, I took only what they could carry with them, and it wasn't that much.
Not all the servant were planned to go to Green Shelter, the weaker ones were made to stay nearer each other, and in the complete opposite direction, so they will recover just their weakest members.
All this happened while I carefully watched Hamilton on the pool he killed 4 rats that tried to attack him, in all the time I have been here, he barely moved and had his feet sunk in the pool.
They noticed the distraction too late, Pinky already made his part and took back the four prisoners with him…
…
Weren't they just three?
This idiot kidnaped one of them… I hope this doesn't become a problem.
Ramsey is worried about Cecily (who was with Pinky…), Yaxley and Chambers left the area and already recovered a servant that was escaping with some goons, of course, these were the ones that I wanted them to get back.
Time to finish this mission, I should do this fast.
I stopped worrying about what was happening around and looked at Hamilton's direction. I went into his mind … and he knew it. Someone invaded his memories, besides noticing it there was nothing he could do to defend himself, I already had what I needed.
Hamilton was looking at me, so I went with the best I could think off I smelled the air like if I found a trace of something and jumped off the roof, I followed a trail to a dead rat and started licking lick my paws. I knew that he was on the right track, but as I planned, I got the time I needed to leave.
"John we are under attack." Hamilton turned his gaze to Pollard.
"What?! How this happened where are the others?"
"Brody and Myles went to get back our people, and Kevin went to look for Cecily."
"Get back our people?"
"We think that a powerful telepath rewrote our orders and make them escape…"
"A powerful telepath?"
Hamilton once again turned back his eyes to the place I was before, but I wasn't there anymore.
"Did you see a cat over there?"
"No, but it wouldn't be rare for one to be around, the reason we didn't notice what happened is that we were invaded by rats…"
Hamilton looked around and saw the dead rats there.
Kevin Ramsey arrived the next second, alone and enraged.
"Harting's people did this… the prisoners escaped, and they have Cecily with them."
