Chapter 16: Hospital

Recap

BOOM! Booom!

The shock wave knocks us all down. Barely conscious, I pull host into my chest, shielding him from the falling debris.

I black out.

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"Hmm..." It takes me a second to open my eyes. I look up to see a white ceiling. If I didn't know any better I'd think I was at Blake's mansion.

I'm on a hospital bed, in a hospital. I don't like hospitals. I sigh as I sit up.

Ouch. My shoulder stings... I lift my arm to try and figure out what's wrong with this body. However, my movements are limited due to the handcuffs. Yes, handcuffs. Not the kinky play I'd love to try with host, but the kind where 'you're under arrest'.

The hospital bed next me had the middle aged man knocked out on it. Useless old man. What kind of protagonist stays knocked out this long?

' Host, you awake?' I mentally ask Alexander.

' Hmm, yeah. Just woke up, the crazy blonde is up too.'

' Are you hurt?'

' ...No.'

' Okay, good.' I sigh in relief. I look at the old man who seems to be dead asleep. ' Host, accept your memories right now, I'll do the same. We have at least 30 minutes before our other teammate in my room wakes up.'

' Okay, I'll pretend to go to sleep. Let me know when that guy wakes up. I think he's the leader.'

' He is, he's also the protagonist.'

' Oh, then I guess he'll be the one to decide our teams next move.'

' Hm-mm' I agree with him. It seems we will get to ride the protagonist ship in this world.

Cutting off our connection, I close my eyes to accept the memories of Oliver Black.

Oliver Black, ex-military, currently a mercenary. He did jobs for a lot of people, mostly those in the gray area of the law. He worked abroad, and just came back to America for this job. Usually, he's a lone wolf but because the pay this time was higher than usual he teamed up with the others. He also thought it would be an easy job. They all thought that.

The one who hired them is a lying backstabber. He painted himself as a good and hardworking citizen who got their life's work stolen by a rival company. Their mission wasn't to steal back something.

It was plainly just to steal.

And to cover his tracks and save money, he chose to kill the team that he brought together.

By the time I finished gathering information and upgrading this body, the protagonist, Nick, who looked like he was in his 'mid life crisis stage' decided to wake up from his nap.

" Morning." I wave at him with my free hand.

" Oliver? What happened?" He sits up staring at his own hand cuffed to the railing of the bed.

" Local cops responded to the explosion. They found us sprawled across the cement floor, and dragged us to the hospital." Common sense, dumbass. Why is he even asking me?

He notices the black ink on his fingers. " They took our prints?" Frustrated, he looks at me to confirm his guess. None of had IDs on us, so this is the only method they can ID us with.

" 20 minutes ago." They came in when I was pretending to sleep while accepting Oliver's memories.

" That means we have ten more minutes at max before their system finds our information." It was 2008 on this earth, so their technology was on the slow side.

He looks around, " What about Alexander and Riley?"

" Here boss man!" We hear Riley chirp through the vents connecting our room to the one next to us.

" So what do we do now, boss man?" I ask Nick, copying what Riley said.

" Alright." He sighs swinging his legs off the bed trying to get closer to the vent that's in between our beds. " Riley, I need you to get me a phone quickly."

" Then?" She sounds perplexed. Probably wondering how on earth a phone would be useful right now. In her mind the best escape method would be to pick the cuffs and then jump out the window like how she usually does as a thief.

" Give it to Alexander. Alexander, I need you to create a fake FBI identity for yourself. Send it to this floors printer fax. Can you do that?"

" Sure can, boss man." Alex calls Nick boss man like Riley and I did. Guess it's gonna stick from on.

Nick let's out a small smile before becoming serious again. He turns to me, " Oliver, you're gonna act as the Chief of Police of this county. I'll be the federal agent who you cooperated with to help out my undercover FBI agent, Alexander."

" Got it." Such a hassle to have go through a plan like this. I'd rather just knock out the cops, take one of their uniforms and walk out hassle free.

But Nick is a good guy, always been a white knight. That's why this team of bad guys worked together in the first place. His way of doing things required more effort so that it was less violent and didn't involve ordinary citizens.

" This is gonna suck." We hear Riley grumble through the vent. She starts gagging.

" Oh my god-" '- this is disgusting. Ugh! I feel nauseous now.' Alex exclaims out loud the first part of his sentence, the finishes it weakly complaining to me mentally.

Ah, so she's throwing up.