Chapter 18

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"Finally, Mike has completed his... THESIS"

'Did he just do Rock's Opening,' I thought as I saw Mike doing a dramatic play.

"Now that this is done, where are we going for our vacation?" asked Ray who was by my side.

"I am fine with any place," replied Claire.

"Same here," I said.

"Let's go to Dubai, and Andrew sponsor for me, I will pay it back with interest after I begin working for you, how about that?" said Mike with both hands together and praying to me.

I laughed seeing that.

"Fine, What about you guys? Dubai?"

"No problem," both Claire and Ray said.

We were now going to McDonald's to have our lunch.

"There is no need for sponsor and all, I have a personal jet we can use for our trip," I told them.

Mike had his mouth wide open, Ray and Claire started to laugh seeing that.

"Did you forget that he is a billionaire, man?" asked Ray.

"Damn, I keep forgetting you will have all those things with you? How many do you have? Can you give me one?" with sparkling eyes, Mike asked.

"I don't mind giving you one but…" then I moved closer to him and whispered in his ears.

"Ask Claire out, and if she says yes, I will give one of my jets for your date, how about that?" as I moved away and saw his face, he had a dumbstruck expression on him.

I laughed seeing that. My laughter brought the attention of Ray and Claire who were walking in front of us to turn back to see Mike, and they started to laugh as well.

I patted Mike's back with force to bring him to reality and he was embarrassed as he saw Claire laughing at him.

"What the hell did you say to him, bro?" Ray asked as he controlled his laughter.

"That"

"Oh, HAHAHA, as if that's going to happen, HAHAHA" Ray laughed again.

Claire who did not understand, felt left out, "What do you mean by 'that'? Tell me."

I looked at Mike and said, "Should I tell her?"

Mike turned serious which made me have a smile on my face. This guy is always insecure when it comes to this. He felt that he does not have the right to pursue someone of Claire's status. I for one know that Claire also had feelings for Mike, she said to me once, "It should be him who should come forward and tell me. If he feels insecure then he is not worthy of me."

I did not need any more information other than that. She could easily ask out Mike but she did not as she knew Mike had feelings for her and was insecure and that's why she did not go for it. But seeing Mike's seriousness now, I saw him walk towards Claire.

Ray also stopped his laughter and had a smile on his face as he came to me. We both gave them some space.

"Well, finally the idiot is going to ask her out."

"Yes, he's not an idiot, he wants a position in his life before doing what he is doing now."

"Position?"

"Yes, her father is a big shot in government, what will he think when he gets to know his daughter is dating someone beneath her status?"

"Claire does not care about that, Andrew."

"Claire doesn't I know that, but he does," I said as I looked at Mike.

"Did you forget, he's a prideful one"

Then we saw the scene which we did not want to.

We closed our eyes and Ray said, "Birds who turned Love birds, we are here did you forget that?"

Mike and Claire broke their kiss and looked at Ray and they both said, "You don't get to say that."

"HAHAHAHA"

"Your treat today and Mike about the jet, trip to Dubai and done"

We then reached McDonald's as it was close to our college. We had our lunch and saw some lovey-dovey moments of Mike and Claire before deciding to go for our vacation next week.

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Time-skip to a day before the Vacation.

Andrew's Home.

Andrew and Gerald were in the base looking at the screen.

It was showing the details of the Traders Heads.

Traders Head is not one but three.

Their network was only in the US and once I started to disrupt all their happenings all over the US, they left the country and went MIA. Now we got the location of which country they are in. They were UAE and were in Dubai.

This was a coincidence that I did not expect.

I could not find where they exactly had gone to. I had asked Zestia to track them down as fast as possible.

Today as I was completed my Daily Quest and came out of the Time Chamber, Zestia told me She tracked down the location of the Traders Head. Gerald was already there as he was working on my suit.

"Since we are going there, we should end them before they disappear again"

"Where exactly are they now in Dubai?"

"They are right now in Burj-Al-Arab."

She then changed one of the screens to a CCTV Recording. It showed the three heads in a pool.

"We will be leaving tomorrow and have two weeks to end them, that is if they don't decide to leave Dubai."

"Better to do it the day we land and spend the rest of the days with rest, it is rare for us to get time like this and best to use it for what we decided to do, Master Andrew"

"That's right, take the Dark King's suit with us, it's time the underworld knows about me and I know what I said to you that day and I intend to keep my promise on that. But there are times when we have to act when we get the chance and you know this."

Gerald could see being serious and said, "Fine, but after this, we are not doing any other missions."

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The next day they left for the Private Airport as their jet was located and maintained there.

Andrew reached earlier than his friends as they require him to be there for them to be allowed in this space.

Within 30 minutes, they all came as well and entered the jet.

"Damn, this is a house, not a jet," said Mike.

"Thanks, I hope it feels like your home," I chuckled replying to his statement.

"Keep your hands off till we land in Dubai," I looked at the love birds who were not able to keep their hands to themselves.

"So, you both did it, good score Mike," Ray said showing thumbs up.

Claire blushed in embarrassment. Mike scratched his head.

"Fast, too Fast, hope you used a condom, don't want a baby to be sprung out of you in 10 months now do we"

Both Mike and Claire blushed going full red due to the embarrassment.

"This is fun," I laughed.

The whole duration went like this. Till we had to make a stop. I and Ray had a great time while enjoying doing this but Claire made us go mute with her stern face.

'I have batman's memories and I also started to behave like him but I am not him and sometimes I keep forgetting that,' I thought as I looked at my friends and Gerald who had a genuine smile on his face looking at our interactions. It was tough for Gerald who had seen me go through a massive change. Though he accepted, smiled, helped me in my work, and took care of me every day, he knew that I was missing something. He confronted me about this and that's when I realized it and it made me feel afraid that I am going to be alone for the rest of my life and that after one mission there is going to be another and finally death with no life but missions. That day I promised him and to myself that I will not let my life be like this. Threats will always be there and I can't let that stop me from having my own life. I want to have a family, have kids, and watch them grow to be someone.

I came back from my thoughts.

We had to make a stop for refilling and took off again. We had our dinner and each of us went to our rooms to have a good night's sleep.

I already have a project for a plane and entered the schematics for it a few months back. The problem was even after Zestia brought out a version less than the schematics, it will have a huge impact on the world. The world is not ready for that. I and Zestia are trying to remove some of the features of the plane model that Zestia created using the schematics, the progress is around 65%.

A few hours later.

*Good morning, Mr. Andrew, this is the captain speaking. We will be reaching the airport in 10 minutes. Please put on your seatbelts*

We all woke up when we heard the captain announcing we will be landing soon.

"Morning Gerald,", "Good Morning, Master Andrew"

"Morning guys, hope you had a comfortable night," I greeted them as they came out of the rooms.

"I did not get even the chance to close my eyes, these two idiots kept going the whole night," Ray said with a grunt.

"You do know there was a headphone inside,"

Ray gave me, "Why didn't you say that," look. I laughed.

We landed and left for Burj Khalifa in a car with Gerald driving. I own an entire floor. Mike gave the same dumbfounded face, that was a sight to watch as I clicked a photo.

"Do we have a plan on how we are going to spend the time?"

"Shall we not go anywhere today, I need to sleep," said Ray as he shot a look towards the love birds.

"We are sorry," said Mike but he was not.

"I will come up with a plan today, is that fine?" Claire said.

"Fine by me," I replied.

Before we knew it we reached Burj Khalifa.

The Manager came and greeted us, us by meaning me.

"Mr. Andrew it is a pleasure to have you back."

"The pleasure is all mine Mr. Dave" (I have no idea who the manager is so I came up with a name)

After he greeted us, the staff took our luggage to my floor.

We all separated and decided to meet for lunch at the hotel.

I and Gerald entered the room and made ourselves comfortable.

I took the laptop from my bag and opened it and connected it to my base network.

Zestia then brought up the screen in my laptop showing the location of the three heads of the Traders. Right now, they were in different locations. One was in the mall, one in the hotel, and the last one was in Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.

"Zestia, update me and Gerald every hour."

"I will let you know when they are in the same place," Gerald said.

I nodded and headed to the restroom to freshen up.

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Time-skip to Lunch.

All of them were in my room now, we all ordered our lunch and were having our normal talk when Mike asked a question which I did expect.

"What do you all think of this Helios?"

I was not the first to answer, it was Claire.

"One who has the guts to do what's necessary." She said with a thoughtful expression.

"I would go with the same, I did not expect you to say that Claire, I mean your father is in the Government and all," said Ray.

"Though my father has got new problems due to him, I would not say that he is a bad guy due to that," Claire answered.

"What do you mean by problems, answer if you feel free to my question," I said to Claire.

"To put it simply, my father is not unlike other Govt. officers, he has more power than many of the mayors, senators and all, and can even order them to do his bidding, the problem that I can talk about is that he is getting pressured by other nations as well," Claire said.

This was something to be expected. I also know she can't give a definite explanation to her father's position as well. World Council is not something many knows about. It was created purely to handle SHIELD. They give out many orders and rules that SHIELD has to follow.

"An individual who has the ability to fly, send out flames, break walls as if it's nothing with his bare hands, yes, anyone will ask questions and the first will be whether he is an experiment done by our nation," Mike gave his view.

"What's your view about him, Andrew?" questioned Ray.

"He is someone that is required, there will be many more that will come out due to him and his activities, not only that, many of the gangs, clans, and organization are keeping to themselves and not pro-actively doing their activities because of the fear his name gives out to them. The cops, feds can't do that and he is doing it for them and though there is a warrant for his arrest, I don't think they pursue that wholeheartedly." I gave a view about myself.

The doorbell rang.

*Mr. Andrew, we have brought your lunch*

I went and opened the door and let them in.

They soon placed everything on the table and took their leave.

All of us started to eat and then we talked about our plan for the vacation here.

We decided it would be best to spend 3 days here, there are not many places to visit in Dubai, places that have interest for us is in minimal.

We decided to go for the Desert Safari tomorrow, then the next day to go around the mall and Burj-Al-Arab, and finally the last day to Yas Island in Abu Dhabi.

"We decided for 2 weeks and now we are leaving in three days," Mike said visibly disappointed.

"How about we go to Hawaii after this?"

This was accepted by all of them and Mike was ecstatic.

"You light up like a child, behave like someone of your age bro" Ray laughed as he said that.

My phone buzzed and I took a look at my phone, the one in Abu Dhabi has started his journey back to Dubai.

Gerald looked at me as well.

Claire who noticed this asked me, "Any problem?"

"No, just something to take care of today."

"Need help bro?" questioned Mike.

"No, it's a small one, I will do it later at night," I replied and smiled.

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