A MASK

CHAPTER-20

A MASK

At the time of the night when stars and were ruling the sky Zede was scratching his pencil against a paper. "Ah! Please turn off the lights, it is troubling with my sleep" Diego cover his head with his little blanket. "What are you doing?" Zede uncovered himself and jumped on to the table of Zede. "What are these lines? I mean what are you drawing at this hour?" Diego asked to Zede.

"Don't you remember what did you tell me after that Dr. Crow incident?" said Zede. "Hm let me think, I think I told you to… to. What did I tell you?" "About the mask, you told me to use a mask, whenever you equip me with an unmasked suit" said Zede to Diego. "Ya, Ya, Ya I remember, so you took it seriously. I'll just give you a helmet kind of a mask instead, along with the suit" said Diego.

"But it will look cool 'Mask of Blaze a savior'" said Zede. "Hold your horses dear." "But I want it" said Zede. "Ok Ok tomorrow we will show your designs to Ms. Maxine. She will help us and make you a durable Savior Society assured mask" said Diego. "Zede are you still awake" Zede's mother Zenya shouted from the ground floor. She walked up and saw that's lights were off.

(Next Morning)

"Do it, Do it" said Diego. "Are these designs looking good?" asked Zede. "They are perfect, send them." said Diego and clicked on the send button. "oh wait." Zede yelled at Diego.

"Look she replied" Diego said to Zede. "Oh! So you need a mask now. JJ Meet me in afternoon in my cabin at SSHQ." written by Maxine to Zede. "Wait a minute why is she laughing." Diego took a close look of the message and said. "So, She called us this afternoon right. Let's go then. Mom and Dad went to work and today's a school holiday too."

Zede went to the SSHQ "Hey Mister, Is Ms. Maxine here?" Zede asked to a person. "Ms. Maxine is with the special experiment unit" said that person. "oh really" Zede took a long breath. "let's go" said Diego. "Hey you! Mr. Blake" Ms. Maxine called Zede from the back. "Oh! here you are but that person told me that you are with the special experiment unit." said Zede to Maxine.

"That one, he is new at the work. Don't know much about my schedule." said Maxine to Zede. "Do you remember about my mask?" "Zede I am really busy with all the work. I gave all those designs to our defense team they'll give you your mask asap. Excuse me" Then Maxine picked up her phone and went on the other way. "can't be helped" "ya she's really busy" Zede and Diego murmured about Maxine and went back to their home.

When Zede was close at his house he saw a shadow near the side wall of his house, when he was going to enter in his house, he stopped and called for that shadow. "it's me Zede" Dahlia the crush of Zede but the darling of his enemy Adam came out from that street. Zede took a few steps back and Diego equipped him with a suit in a friction of a second.

"Wait wait Zede, You are getting me wrong…. I'm not here to fight. I'm here for a talk" said Dahlia politely. "You are the comrade of the person who works for Mr. Moore, the same Moore who killed my friend Cooper. Sorry Dahlia, but before I disrespect you please leave." said Zede aggressively and then unarmed himself. Just before he was going again to enter his house Dahlia said. "Listen to me Zede 'Don't you love me?'" It was a goose bumping sentence Zede, but even after hearing those words Zede clenched his fists, turned around and said "So what?"

"Aren't you the darling of Mr. Limboss(Adam) who roam around the whole city just to obey the order of a mad scientist. I saw.. I saw the feeling of love inside your eyes, for Adam" said Zede. "Zede, Adam gone mad, he is not listening to me and now he is working for PEN association on the order of Mr. Moore." said Dahlia in a concerned tone. "Zede laughs, So, now you want me to ask Evil Adam to not to join an evil organization. What a joke?" said Zede.

"Zede, Tell me one thing, Do you think I'm evil?" asked Dahlia. Zede replied "Of course" "Zede I was with Adam because I thought he loves me too and he would listen to me at the point of time. But I was wrong. And now you are denying helping me as well. Look into my eyes Zede, look (Dahlia grabbed Zede's shoulders) Is there still something for Adam, Look" Dahlia said loudly.

After that loud noise some of the people on the street stopped and started looking at them, the neighbors were also opening windows. Zede got embarrassed and drew Dahlia inside his house. Zede was panting heavily. And Dahlia was sitting on the floor of Zede's room.

Diego was on the shoulder of Zede and said "I think you should listen to her Zede. No girl push herself this far in explaining something." Zede sat along with Dahlia and grabbed her hands and asked "After listening to you, It is clear to me that you are not with Adam anymore, because he started working with PEN association, right? So tell me, what your problem with PEN association is?"

"You lost your friend right? I also lost something very precious" said Dahlia. "Dahlia, I hardly know anything about you. Other than your name there is nothing I know" said Zede. "Do you know about Mr. Harley?" Dahlia asked. "Aah! Yes" Zede replied. "Do you also know that he is the leader of PEN association?" Dahlia asked. "yes but why are you asking me all this?" Zede asked. "Of it's nothing" said Dahlia.