CHAPTER 33

[Close to Kansas, 10:45 PM]

A tablet was in front of Andrew as he saw the schematics of the colony. Natasha who was watching the colony through the cameras, she recorded the areas where the bombs were placed when it was happening. She recorded it and Andrew was now going through it again.

Many families of the CIA lived there and Yellow decided to destroy all of them just to get to Andrew and this made Andrew's rage increase many folds.

He saw the feeds of the cameras as many agents were placing the bombs, he saw the uncertainty in their eyes. They did not know why they were doing this, secretly placing bombs everywhere. They could not question and can only obey the orders of their superiors.

Trich in the back was lost in her thoughts. She wanted to somehow convince Andrew to save her son but she did not know what to say. She was also silently watching the tablet and marking the locations in her mind.

'I will save my son. I will do anything for that,' she said to her heart.

Natasha on the other hand was navigating the jet to the location. They were close to the location and she knew Andrew will not allow her to help him, so she decided to be silent to let Andrew concentrate but she did keep an eye on Trich who was on the back seat tied up. She wanted to help Andrew but stayed silent as she felt he will ask her this time.

"We are here," said Natasha bringing both Andrew and Trich to look at the area around them.

"That is the colony. I will land the jet there and the rest is on you," said Natasha.

"I need your help. The cameras are already hacked and even though I remember some of the locations of the bombs I might miss some of them. I don't want that to happen. I need you to be my eyes and ears, make me go through every location of where the bombs are and finally, I will go to the house they asked Trich to take me. Can you make some sort of loop that can be viewed by their monitoring team?" Andrew asked Natasha.

"Well, it seems I did have something ready like that. I thought you will be using the camera disrupter like the previous time and you will ask us to not help you in any way," she said.

"Using the camera disrupter is not going to work this time," uttered Andrew.

"He will use the trigger and destroy everything," Natasha finished.

"Yes, I don't want their lives to be destroyed because of a greedy bastard who thinks he can play God," Andrew said coldly.

Natasha landed the jet in the location she said. With the Retro-Reflective Panels and the night sky, the jet was completely hidden from the Naked eyes.

"Alright, give me a minute. I will have to be precise for the loop to start in the cameras if not they will know," said Natasha. She then used the tablet and said, "Suit Up."

Andrew got up and went back passing Trich. He took his outfit from the suitcase. He did not keep it in the inventory as he did not want anyone to know about that.

He has stored a lot of arrows, sleep darts, smoke grenades, and guns and bullets in his inventory. Every day he makes them and stores many of those in his inventory and leave some in the suitcase.

Trich turned to see Andrew suiting up.

He placed the crossbow on his back, his sword near his left waist tied, took the hidden blade and set it up in his left hand and he adjusted it to fit it correctly. He then took the arrows and sleep darts and placed a few in his chest, some in his legs, and some in his hands. He took 5 smoke grenades and placed them inside his chest where he created a small pocket hole to store them.

Trich saw everything and now understood that the ones who are helping him are way above the CIA. Her doubts got cleared as she saw the equipment and the quality of it. She turned to Natasha and asked, "Who are you? Who do you work for?"

Natasha did not expect this question and said, "You will know that is if you live."

"Open Natasha, I will get there. Tell me the moment the loop is fixed, I will make a move," A voice, a mechanical voice was heard which made Trich turn and see Andrew but what she saw shook her to the core.

What was standing in front of her made her feel fear and dread it was emanating. The mask was terrifying to her eyes and now she knew she was not going to live. Through this feeling, she mustered up her courage to speak to him, "Please, Save my son."

The skeleton mask looked down and closed the distance between them.

Trich started to shake. The dread that Andrew showed to his enemies of his countries now she was facing that. She was facing it face to face for the first time and the mask amplified it for her. But she did not let it take her over. Right now, at this moment only her son mattered and that gave her the courage to stand up to this fear and she said again, "I beg you, please."

Andrew saw the fear, and despair in her eyes but that changed to determination as she asked to save her son. He knew what a great actor she was but right now at this moment, she was a mother and all she wanted was for her son to be safe.

The Quinjet opened in the back as a cool breeze came in.

He did not utter a word and walked out.

Trich sat still with her hands tied and all she could do now was to hold on to hope.

Natasha saw what happened and a small smile grew on her face.

"Can you hear me?" asked Natasha.

"Yes," Andrew said as he was 20 meters away from the jet going to the colony.

"Don't get too close, it will take another 5 minutes," said Natasha.

"Okay, let me know when it's done," said Andrew.

Andrew was able to see the colony soon and kept a considerable distance from it waiting for Natasha to give the signal.

He took the HEART out to listen in on any information and check for Runes.

As the HEART manifested in front of him the heartbeat was increasing indicating Runes being present.

'Why? Why do the Runes appear in the location of the places where I want to do something? Is there something the Outsider does? Did he know that I was going to go to these places and kill, retrieve or defeat someone?'

He had the HEART in his hands and was moving it in all directions. The heartbeat increased only in the direction of the colony.

'They are in the colony,' thought Andrew.

He then heard Natasha's voice in his earpiece, "Done, you can start,"

"Alright, once I get in navigate me to the places where the bombs are kept," said Andrew.

He then rushed toward the colony.

There were close to 50 houses in the colony and each house spanned from 50 square feet to 200 square feet.

Only 2 houses were 200 square feet and in one of these houses is where Trich's son is living as a hostage or a bait without him knowing.

In the jet, Natasha was checking the camera that will catch Andrew. She has to be fast as well because of Andrew's teleportation ability. With that ability removing and disappearing and reappearing in other houses won't be an issue at all.

'This is new for me. His teleportation abilities will allow him to get the bombs easily. I have made a plan to use that correctly and it should not take more than 15 minutes to get all the bombs. The only issue is how am I going to deactivate them?'

"I can see you, go straight and jump through the compound, and to the left edge of the compound, there will be one bomb," as she said that Andrew jumped and used Blink directly to enter the house.

"Switch on the camera," Natasha said and Andrew pressed a button on his suit.

The bomb came to view as Andrew was holding it in his hands.

"There are only 20 minutes, Natasha," Andrew said. A thought struck his mind.

'I tried adding a living rat in the inventory and it did not work. I tried adding a hot beverage and it entered the inventory. When I took it out after 2 hours it was still hot. Then bombs will also work the same way,' thought Andrew as he willed the bomb to be stored in the inventory and it did. A smile grew on his face which could not be seen by others due to the mask.

Natasha who was watching it through the camera was shocked to see the bomb disappear.

"Where did the bomb go?" she asked shock visible in her voice.

"Don't worry about the bomb. Even if it is triggered there will be no issue, next location…"

Natasha did not say anything for a few seconds and thought, "Is this another power of his? To make things disappear?" she put her thoughts aside as Andrew called out to her again.

She started to give him directions and Andrew acted according to them.

Within 15 minutes as per her plan, all the bombs were secured except the 4 where Trich's son is.

And on these 15 minutes, Andrew infiltrated houses, knocked out officers of the CIA, security guards outside every house, he collected bombs that were placed on the road, trees, sidewalks, and also inside the houses. He was also able to collect 3 Runes on this journey.

Now he was standing on the roof of one of the houses which are directly opposite to the house he needs to get to.

The house Trich's son was in was a Two-story house with 4 balconies, having 6 bedrooms in total, and 23 officers of the CIA monitoring and guarding the house.

Then there was the General and Brent waiting inside for Andrew. But the problem was though they knew he would come they did not know when. When Andrew caught Trich the few CIA agents who were there in the area to keep an eye on her reported the disappearance of Trich.

Yellow and Damon knew Andrew acted and for the next one hour they tried searching for them but the result was negative.

"Alert them and ask them to be ready. He will be going there," said Damon, and Yellow also knew what he said was the only conclusion he could get to. He called them and made sure they were alert.

The monitoring team inside was watching the Cameras that were there in the colony but had no idea that it was already hacked and it was only recording. Yellow and Damon were also watching the same recording from the CIA Headquarters.

"He should be there. Something is wrong," said Damon.

"Even if Trich said the location and the 24 hours time limit, we don't know whether he will act or not. If he did, he needs his team and all equipment and he has to arrange everything for them to get there and start their plan. They should be starting after midnight." Yellow said as he saw the time to be 11:37 PM.

Damon who was watching the screen saw something. A cat could be seen in the corner of the video in Camera 43. It was already on the edge of the camera's radius and it left the screen. After 2 minutes the cat suddenly reappeared.

'Could they have? Maybe?' thought Damon and that thought made him shocked.

"Ask your agent to trigger the bomb," Damon said anxiously.

Yellow who heard him was confused as to why Damon is acting like this.

"What happened?"

"He is already there. They must have hacked into the cameras. Look at 43, the cat," said Damon.

Yellow searched the screen for Camera 43 and selected it and it covered the entire screen. He saw what was going on intently and he saw the cat reappearing again.

Yellow quickly pressed the button and connected to the agent who had the bomb.

"Trigger the bomb, NOW!!!!" HE yelled his order.

One of the Agents on the colony had a remote in his hands. He was having mixed thoughts. He was doing something that was wrong but was also correct on the same hand. They are here to end the life of a criminal but to do that the collateral damage was the family of many CIA agents. His family was also there in one of the colonies similar to this. He was conflicted.

As he was thinking, a raged yelling order came to his ears, "Trigger the bomb, NOW!!!!". He unconsciously pressed the trigger.

Andrew was now standing in the room where Trich's son was sleeping.

*BOOM!!!!*

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