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Paradox Force #3: A Deadly Truce

I feel like I want to make Paradox Force Issue 3 today, instead of next week, so Issue 4 will be released next Monday or Tuesday. This pic is reused, so just consider it a variant cover.

 

Nightmares. That's when sometimes I can't sleep at midnight. On occassions, I don't know what happens to me. A really bad dream, a state of trance, I don't know. My powers, till this day, makes me feel guilty sometimes. Marc snores sometimes, or when he doesn't, he's always sleeping good. I see him drooling sometimes when I go to the bathroom when he leaves his door open. He's like my opposite, especially when it comes to sleeping.

 

I try focusing on my mission. I was at the back of the hangar, and getting ready for gear. The distance from our base to P.E.'s takes at least an hour there. Although Marc could teleport us there, it may be a little bit slow. We already have a mini jet ready. It was sitting there, the sound of engines fuming. The jet was crafted and built by Blazefire and some of his friends. Most of the other stuff were also built by him, but we managed our things by ourselves, and its certainly nice for him to give improvements and etc to our gear.

 

I take the jet's main steering control, with Marc behind me on the controls. Trent is fixing the maintenance but it won't affect the flight. Noriko sits next to me as my co pilot. In a few minutes, we get off quick, and luckily where our aircraft goes off, no can see it because of the secret runway and we go invisible sometimes with the tech.

 

*An hour later

 

We arrive in front of a regular looking door. Marc tries knocking the front door.

 

Marc: What the hell does this thing do? I mean, I haven't been here for a while since....

Trent: Yeah I know, ever since you dropped that guy out of mid air and he nearly landed on the roof of P.E's base here.

Marc: We're not gonna go there.

 

A woman's voice comes in through the comms. "You may come in," it says.

Marc: Should I tell her that we're here to see Mr. Grey? You know what I mean? You get it?

Adrian/Trent/Noriko: *head shrugs* *nods* *annoyed look* *Adrian sighs*

Adrian: Can you just stop talking for a while? You've been talking quite a lot since yesterday. I mean, save the words till we meet the boss man.

Marc: Whatever you say, boss.

 

*Door on front opens*

 

We walk through and are being brought into a big, soundproof room The boss man is already sitting there to greet us.

Boss Man: Considered our "offer" yet?

Adrian: You bet.

Boss Man: And the datapad?

Trent: Here.

Boss Man: *datapad is handed to him from one of his agents* Very well. And here's the agent.

Noriko: So, what did you shake him out off this time?

Boss Man: Couldn't get much, but I bet your team did, always a step ahead of us....

Noriko: Well I guess that's us, we're a team, that's what we do.

Adrian: What's the offer?

Boss Man: Simple. I "divided" it into several missions. You'll get a hold of....

 

Suddenly, we were interrupted by the sudden crash of window broken. We run outside to seen what's happening.

 

Marc: *grabs guns and shouts* F***! It's the Exiled Sentinels Squad!

Adrian: Shoot em'!

 

Noriko quickly jumps with her twin sais in and slices a few of the soldiers' throats. These guys also have powers too. I quickly dispatch them using some of my energy fists. Trent throws an taser bomb that shocks a few of the soldiers. More of them come in. Marc is teleporting everywhere and already killing those a-holes.

 

Marc: *teleports* Hey, Grey Cop, your weapons!

Adrian: *catches guns* Go! Take those guys out. Look for the east side! Hurry!

Noriko: I'll check out the rest on the south and the north.

Adrian: Be careful of your surroundings.

Noriko: No problem.

 

As Noriko and Marc have left, me and Trent continue to shoot and use our powers. Trent knocks out two soldiers with his fire, in the form of a tiger. I try shooting the soldiers in the legs, disarming them, giving one nearby a roundhouse kick. Some agents assist us. The Boss Man is not to be seen.

 

*Meanwhile...*

 

Marc: *through headcomms*Boss, they got a lot of them! I've cleared the east, but not the west! I'll go help Noriko!

Adrian: Find her. See if she's doing alright.

Marc: Yeah.

Marc: Boss, she's doing fine. Real savage there.

Noriko: *Doing MMA and ninjutsu combined with her sais* Wanna lend me a hand?

Marc: My pleasure.

 

*Back to Grey Cop and Blazefire*

 

Almost all of the soldiers are taken down since we killed them or knocked out. Marc teleports back with Noriko and shoots the last one trying to run away in the head. All of them are down. Some agents start to clear the facility.

Trent: Impossible. This might have been a set up. When he was trying to tell us something, we got interrupted.

Adrian: And I don't see him around.

Noriko: Weird, same here.

Marc: Must be a p***y. He's probably busy sucking someone's c**k elsewhere.

 

Our breaths heave a little. We wait for a while in another nearby room. Then we hear footsteps. I move out. The Boss Man, with a big coat draped over him...was standing there, with a grin on his face.

 

Adrian: You were hiding. You planned this.

Boss Man: *sly tone* As a matter of fact yes, but indirectly. You'd figure it our yourselves.

Trent: And those agents?

Boss Man: Not everyone here knows about it....

Marc: *swears a lot* What the f***! So you're working with these guys already. You've gotta be f***ing kiddin' me man, you motherf***ker!

Boss Man: Please restrain yourself a little, Teleshift. Yes. The offer, it was a ruse. We had no choice.

Adrian: You trusted them, on behalf of a lame excuse? Did they bribe you? Gave you something better?

Boss Man: As a matter of fact, no. This was a truce between us. But not on purpose. I won't be saying why...

Noriko: And the offer, it's the truce. For the three sides, us, P.E., and the E.S.S.

Boss Man: Absolutely correct, Spectre Blade....

Marc: *pulls gun out and points it at boss man* You know what? I've just had enough of this. You were lying. All the time. A trap we all had mistakenly walked into. I'm quitting. F*** this shit!

 

Some agents pull out guns at us.

 

Boss Man: Please, there is no need for violence now..

Boss Man: Anyways to answer your question, I'm sorry, there is no turning back now. You accepted an offer, to be part of a truce. Now, are you going to agree, on behalf of terms and condtions?.....

Marc: No! Damn you and your f***ing agency! I don't give a s*** about it. And what if we expose your agency and your life, I do know about it, Mr. Boss Man.

Boss Man: Are you trying to threaten me?

Marc: Well, I guess, yeah.

 

I see Marc secretly taking a grenade from his belt and flips the switch. in his hand Trent and Noriko try talking to the Boss Man a little. No one sees it except me. But then, he holds it up.

 

Adrian: NO!

Boss Man: What do you think you are trying to do?

Marc: Boom. That's one for you, you son of a b----

 

 

*room explodes*

 

Marc teleports out of here before the grenade explodes, a split second before all four of us could die. We see the base in flames, and I here citizens screaming and running, lots of noises...

 

Trent: Oh no. This is really gonna be burnt toast....

 

*Story ends from here, cliffhanger...*

 

Stay tuned for #4!

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