Chapter 0

"Ms. Samantha Sparrow! Is it true that your son was the boy who the metal men rescued as seen on the video circulating the internet?" a reporter from a news company extended his mic directly in front of the mouth Samantha who's exiting the hospital as her bodyguards tried to push back the crowd of reporters to make a way for her to reach the car and speed away.

Samantha needs to return to the headquarters as she needs to give further instructions to her subordinates on how to handle the matter at hand. This day was too long for her.

Her son almost died, the artificial intelligence her son created killed an approximate of a hundred people. Each individual on the 100 that died has some sort of superpower one way or another.

The battle suits of her son was presented to the world as some sort of a dark class heroes who kills if needed. She doesn't know what to do first, everything feels like they're the same degree.

"Madame Sparrow, are the metal men from your company? Specifically the Sword of Damocles? The netizens theorized that you sent them to rescue your son. If yes, does it mean you also ordered them killing those villains?" another question of a journalist was raised as Samantha was entering her car. The numerous journalists and reporters tried to forcefully have an answer on their questions as they pushed the bodyguards who's guarding the door of the passenger seat.

Luckily, the bodyguards are powerful enough to stand their ground and push the people back.

"Madame Sparrow, where t-" the words of the driver was cut off by Samantha.

"Headquarters, don't ask anymore questions." said Samantha as she poured herself a drink on the onboard liquors and silently drank, trying to calm herself down.

"Yes madame, as you wish."

The car started to speed up away from the hospital as it was rendezvous with a couple more other cars that looked exactly like it with bodyguards riding it.

...

Republic State Building...

The largest conference hall of the building was specifically reserved for only the most important and most groundbreaking announcements. This was only used twice, once where they released the news of the cooperation with more than fifty nations around the world. The second was on the release of the news regarding the original founder's fate as he was jailed for assault and child and women abuse.

Now, it will be used once more to clarify everything the public needs to know and shift their attention from them to a new incident.

Reporters and journalists alike was seen sitting on the chairs prepared as they chatted with their colleagues. They're here for the juicy part, they'll twist the words if needed as long as the headline can get many clicks. Once they did that, they're gonna be promoted and the domino falls in place.

"What do you think will be tackled tonight? I really think we'll only get to have answers that's pretty the same and generic." said a reporter from a random tv news company to her seatmate beside her.

"Same thought as you, they never really answer our questions and only adds unnecessary words on their sentences to look like it has meaning." agreed a journalist who wrote something on his little hand held notebook.

Just then, the lights suddenly adjusted as it focused on the stage with a podium. Everyone too quieted down as they looked at the stage attentively.

The crispy sounds of a stiletto hitting the floor can be heard as a beautiful woman slowly walked up the stage and to the podium prepared.

She stopped by the podium and observed her audience with silence. She has the look of a stressed woman as the shutter sounds of camera can be heard with the flashes seen.

"Before I start my speech, On behalf of the whole Sparrow Group, and my family, I would like to extend my utmost condolences to the families of the fallen students and faculty staff on the cruel villain attack hours ago. As a sign of respect and mourning, let's have a minute of silence for the fallen." Samantha gently bowed her head as silence engulfed the whole conference hall, none dared to speak nor make a sound as they paid their respects to the people who died.

A minute later, the shutter sound resumed and the speech officially started...

...

The figure of Samantha can be seen rushing towards the car parked on a secret place in the Republic State Building as she rushed back to the hospital to take care of her injured son undetected. They slipped out without any convoy as it will be too eye catching and will only break the facade that she will go through the front door as her convoy from earlier was parked there including most of her bodyguards.

But unbeknownst to them, a car was following them stealthily. They didn't saw this as the car was black and blended almost perfectly on the nighttime environment.

"Can't you just be faster? I need to go back to the hospital!" complained Samantha as she looked at the window of the seat with uncertainty.

"Madame Sparrow I can't go faster, if I do, I'll be over speeding and we might get a ticket." said the driver as he expertly traversed over the car filled streets of New York.

As they traversed the roads they're finally been stopped by a traffic on the bridge towards the hospital which Gerald was admitted.

"Madame, a traffic, we'll probably be stucked here for a while." said the driver as he honked the horn furiously.

At this moment, the car that's following them silently stopped just behind their car as the driver, wearing a black hoodie and a cap exited with a magnum pistol on his hand.

The driver saw this and immediately pulled out his emergency gloc pistol but the hooded man has already closed in and fired a shot to the driver.

Bang!

The driver's head exploded like a watermelon as a shouts of alarm and panic engulfed the people as they tried to exit out of their car to find safety.

Samantha who saw this shrieked as she was shocked on the events that happened. She tried to exit the car but the man fired a bullet that pierced her leg and thus eliminating her way of escape.

"Long time no see Samantha, did you missed me?" said the hooded man as he took off his hood and revealed the face of Marcus who looks like has grown a couple of years.

Samantha just chuckled dryly as she gave up any sort of resistant. She knows she'll die today, right now. At least, she can die in peace knowing her son has more than enough wealth for him to live a happy carefree life. But then she saw the pistol of her driver lying down near her position as she thought of a last ditch attempt.

"Hmm you won't resist? That's unfortunate. Now, I'll end your suffering!" said Marcus as he aimed his gun to Samantha who reacted and dived for the pistol on the floor.

Bang!

The bullet from the pistol of Marcus grazed the back of Samantha as he adjusted his aim and fired another shot.

Bang!

Before Marcus can fire another shot Samantha finally reached the pistol and fired at Marcus, hitting his chest fair and square as he stumbled back due to the force and pain.

Bang!

Another shot from Samantha as this time it hit the lower torso of Marcus, finally bringing him down. Marcus can be seen struggling to stand up but the pain was too unbearable as his vision slowly blurred and his grip on his gun slowly weakened and after sometime, he finally breathed his last.

Samantha breathed a sigh of relief as she succeeded on her last ditch effort as she slowly lost her vision but before she did, she heard the sound of a woman saying something about some protocol and the wailing of the ambulance siren.

"Protocol White initiated..."