Chapter 14

I raised my eyes and I could see the spaniard and the two americans, they looked confused. Who am I hugging?.

I took off from that person and wiped my face with my hand to look at him.

- Uncle? - I asked in amazement and he nodded. - How did you escape?

- Those who kidnapped me weren't very clever, the villagers are very weird. - He commented.

- How did you get here?

- I followed a path that a hooded stranger recommended me, I bought this submachine gun and on the way I found some files. - He explained and removed some papers from his jacket and handed them to me.

I took them and read them:

The real power of the United States lies in three areas. The Justice Department, the Administrative bodies, and the Military. In order to take control of these areas, we must influence the minds of the people who advise the President.

After this is done, the rest of the departments will quickly fall under our sway.

If by chance the United States were to figure out our plan, the damage caused should be minimal.

We will still be able to conquer the country as planned using our backup plan. Once we control the country, we will use their international influence to our advantage.

The rest of the world will fall swiftly.

As already stated, if our first plan doesn't go as smoothly as expected, we'll proceed with our secondary plan. By sending in our "special" forces we will infiltrate the country from within. Fear and chaos will spread through the nation like a virus.

It'll only be a matter of time before the country loses its stability. At that time, when they're most vulnerable, we will strike.

Rejoice my brethren; the world shall soon be cleansed.

- Do you know what that means? - Questioned my uncle.

- Film's villains. - I muttered and continued reading another document.

There seems to be a female intruder among us. We believe she's connected with Sera.

We also believe that she was the one who removed the egg injected into Sera before it hatched. She may have had him retrieve the "sample" before the American agent's arrival.

It's obvious that her objective is the "sample". We must get to her before she is able to re-establish contact with Sera.

There's also reason to believe that she's working for somebody. We need her alive for interrogation.

The female should be able to answer all our questions. After we have captured her, Sera will no longer be of any concern.

As long as we retrieve the "sample", you may dispose of him as you see fit.

When I finished reading that file, I looked in Luis's direction.

- What did I miss of? - My uncle asked again.

- Many things. - I answered.

- Who are they? And your parents?

- It's a long story, my parents are gone. - I said downcast and he hugged me.

- Those damn bastards. - He muttered.

When we stopped hugging I approached the others and I watched them while they watched me sorrowful.

- I'm so sorry, Laura. - Ashley said and I just half smiled.

- Now, this is their plan. - I turned my gaze to the blonde man and sighed and then delivered him a file. - This looks like a yankee movie... - Then I went to spanish. - This is for you, the whole town has you under the gaze as well as the woman in the red dress.

Luis and Leon read the files while my uncle approached.

- Are you going to introduce me to your friends? - He questioned.

- Eh, of course, but the two blondes are americans, the other is spanish and they are not my friends. - I replied. - The blond man is called Leon and he is a special agent of the United States, he works with the president and he practically saved my life, the blonde girl is the president's daughter, called Ashley and she is very squeaky, so I recommend that you cover your ears, and the spanish is Luis, we found him out there and he turned out to be an investigator who worked for los iluminados, but ended up betraying them.

My uncle looked at each one and nodded.

- Guys, he's my uncle, his name is Carlos. - I commented.

- What are you doing with them? - My uncle asked.

- Well, trying to survive, after all they'll send a chopper to get us out of here.

- Nice to see you alive, sir. - Kennedy interrupted and shook hands with my uncle, he accepted it.

After a brief moment, between telling him what had happened to me and what we have been involved in, my uncle almost went crazy, but he was happy that I was alive.

So we have continued the journey with Leon, Luis and Ashley, I still couldn't believe everything that was happening, if I get out of this alive I will need a therapy.

We didn't take long to reach the extraction point, but we didn't see anything or anyone, the site was desolate or it seemed.

- There is no one, it seems that no insect has crossed here. - Carlos commented.

- What are we going to do now? - Luis asked.

Suddenly a huge flying insect appeared carrying Ashley, who shouted for help, everything happened so fast that we couldn't rescue her.

- Damn it! - Leon shouted.

Suddenly we heard sounds similar to bee buzzing.

- Great. More of them. - The agent whispered.

We looked around, we were surrounded by huge flying insects and we became on alert.

We shot against them, they were too many. One of those insects attacked Carlos, but Leon acted quickly and kicked it, setting my uncle free. In that other insect stretched my leg and tried to take me but my uncle shot it and I fell to the ground and when I tried to get up, another attacked me but Luis shot it killing it.

- Thank you. - I sighed agitated and Sera winked at me and then continue shooting.

I just smiled, ignoring his gesture and stood up, helping my companions shoot the insects.

Minutes after having finished with everyone, we started thinking about what to do. In my point of view I would rather shoot myself and die, or else I would suffer hell trying to find a girl who is probably dead and on which depends the fact that I can leave this place.

- She must be alive. - Leon spoke hopefully.

- What if she is not? - I questioned. - Leon, look, I know that she is your mission but this is out of our hands. How can we locate her?

- Nothing is impossible, we just have to think.

- Leon is right. - Interrupted Sera. - Ashley must be alive, what I mean is that, Saddler needs her and those creatures have been sent by him to take her back.

- So, if Ashley is alive. Where could she be? - I asked.

Suddenly we were interrupted by the phone of the gringo agent and he answered.

- I wonder if you can see me, Mr. Kennedy. - I heard the voice of Ramón Salazar.

- If you touch her a hair, I'll crush you bones. - Leon said.

- First let's see if you can get here. - The dwarf challenged.

- Salazar, you're a son of a bitch. I'll kill you. - I interrupted furiously and he just smiled malevolently.

- In that case, I'll be waiting. - He said to finalize the video call.

- Shit. - I muttered angrily.

- Now that we know who has her, we don't have to waste time. - Our spanish companion commented.

So we got going while I was talking to my uncle about how things were going. We had entered another section of the castle where Luis guided us and we saw the squeaky that was held by two iluminados with their sharp spears, they had her in knees pointed at her neck.

- Ashley! - Kennedy called.

- Leon. - Ashley said with tears in her eyes.

- What? Didn't you end with one of his bodyguards? - I asked the agent and he looked at me confused.

- Maybe we're wrong. - He whispered.

We entered further and saw the spanish dwarf sitting in a very peculiar chair, his throne.

- Mr. Kennedy. Don't you know when it's time to throw in the towel? - Asked that idiot laughing and pressed a button.

The agent was a little surprised and we felt the ground open, it was a trap.

Carlos didn't manage to fall into it because he was further away so he quickly threw himself on the ground to hold me by the hand.

Luis grabbed hold of the shoreline and Leon fell but was held by a special rope that he brought with him. My uncle managed to put me on the surface and we both came up to give Sera a hand to put him safely.

- No! - The dwarf got angry and I looked at him. - No more games, kill them. - He ordered in spanish.

One of los iluminados ones approached us with his spear and attacked us, my uncle and Luis went to shoot him, it was difficult to finish him.

I went to the edge and helped Kennedy get on. Soon I noticed that below was not a void, but had sharp spears that, when falling, would have pierced the body.

- Quick! We have to prepare for the ritual. - I heard the dwarf say while retreating with another iluminado and Ashley as a prisoner.

I saw Leon got up and ran in the direction of Salazar but his bodyguard one threw his spear at him and I jumped on the agent to save him while our enemies managed to flee taking the president's daughter with them.

- Oh, what's your fucking problem, man? - I questioned a little angry. - Control your impulses.

We stood up and by then Luis and Carlos finished with the other one.

- And the girl? - My uncle questioned.

- They took her, they'll do a ritual or something. - I reported.

- Great.

- This asshole wanted to die. - I pointed to Kennedy.

- We have to move or it will be late. - Interrupted Sera. - I think I know where they could go.