house Humba

The news spread like wildfire of how Mellisa, a member of the digital witches had been unmasked and apprehended by the UAEC. Also the sudden disappearance of another hunter was stirring in the airwaves of the black market hunters. Mr Reed was in his warehouse reading about how the UAEC had raided a flat and caught one member of the digital witches and this was used by others to link it to the sudden disappearance of Panashe. And on the local paper the kidnapping of an astrophysicist by Nhamo and his associate was getting all the attention and the questions were being directed towards the police force. Mr Reed left his little office and headed for Ruva's diner.

There he found Munashe, Ruvarashe and Tapiwa listening in on the news. There was an interview by a local reporter and the police superintendent.

"Sir, the questions from the public are all focusing on how you intend to stop this menace?"

"Like I said before we are working with the UAEC and last night they apprehended an associate of Nhamo and are willing to share their information with the public. Nhamo and his thugs aren't the only threat to the city as you all know that we have more cases of cyber bullying and robbing rising that we can't even breathe at the station."

"What about the several airships that crushed last week, what is your explanation on that ?"

"That was Nhamo and his thugs and we managed to arrest some of them with the UAEC but the interrogations proved useless."

"Since we know who the criminals, why can't you just arrest them?"

"We know them but we don't know where they are hiding."

"Well folks there you have it. Let's hope this latest arrest will provide answers for those who had their loved ones taken away."

Munashe switched off the screen and greeted Mr Reed.

"Well we can't save the foundation at this rate. " Munashe said.

"Don't worry about that. We should be worried about the witch that was captured. If she exposes the black market then we are all in danger from becoming the prey. We will have to wait for the councils decision about this."

"Any news on Nhamo?"

"Oh yes the degenerate who is causing us all this strife. They ran diversions after their little abduction last night and my man lost sight of them but we got a picture." Mr Reed projected a picture from his phone of Nhamo standing with a humanoid anomaly who had several cuts on his face.

"Wait that's Mr Fear. The anomaly who was capable of manipulating people with his mind. We caught him six years ago when we found him manipulating rats and dogs into stealing weapons from the army base in Manyame."

"Yes. It seems like Humba managed to cause more damage than what we could for."

"Well whatever he is building it will not be good for us at all."

Tapiwa was done listening to the two men discussing their problems and asked, "So what do we do?"

"I need you to get Xolani and Chipo after school then Ruvarashe will pick up Zviko. Mr Reed and I will appeal to the whole hunter society to aid us in solving this before the UAEC gets all their answers from that little witch."

Within the digital desert where the hunter anomaly had been caught two men walked around the collapsed bank. One of them had a rasta and was about the same age as Munashe. His body well built but the leather coat he wore hid his body.

"So what do you think Humba. Are those two brats worth your time?" the rasta asked.

Humba was a well built man wearing a black work suit. His hair well kept and short and so was his facial hair. His expression was empty to the point one could never know whether he was sad or serious or happy.

"The male one disappeared into thin air. The digital witches said that Munashe had mind jacked him for talking with them and the female is a prisoner of the UAEC." the rasta said.

"Anesu, do you think it's necessary to save any of them?"

"The male is selfish and seeks only what he wants. He has only accomplished three missions and isn't emotionally stable. I think he is better off out of the business. The female is a high achiever and talented in hacking. She can find anyone if the pay is worthy it and her fighting skill isn't so bad. She was a capable leader but the witches kept to the code when she made by the UAEC. She is worth saving."

"Thank you Anesu. Now I want you to get Munashe to give you the stones he used to get the males memories. The brat wasn't selfish but he wanted to find answers. He has beaten Ron once and is very capable of being useful. Munashe doesn't have the equipment to make that boy a formidable opponent but we do. Get his memories back."

Anesu just clapped and went to the hover bike he had and went to Mbare. He was very interested about the decisions his associate had made. He arrived at the diner and walked in only to find Tapiwa and Ruvarashe in the diner. There were no customers in the diner and it made Anesu grin.

"Welcome." Ruvarashe said as she looked up. Her face turned grim as her eyes met Anesu's.

"Hey long time no see."

"What do you want ?"

"Why the hostilities?"

"Please leave this diner."

"Don't worry I am not here for trouble. I just want to talk to Munashe."

Tapiwa approached Anesu and tapped his shoulder. "Listen here pal. The lady doesn't want to talk to you and as you can see, Munashe ain't here."

Anesu looked at Tapiwa and smiled. "Then call him."

Ruvarashe knew that this won't end well and came from behind the counter. "Well I tried being reasonable. We have nothing for you and Humba."

At the mention of Humba, Tapiwa moved back. Anesu felt the change in atmosphere and Ruvarashe told him to leave again. Ruvarashe wanted to slap him but Anesu avoided the slap and sent a fist towards Ruvarashe who managed to block the punch and spun around guiding her elbow towards Anesu. The attack was blocked by a grinning Anesu who swept Ruvarashe off her feet and guided her down to the floor. Anesu looked at Tapiwa who got ready to fight.

"Seriously Anesu, this won't end well." Ruvarashe pointed out as she stood. Tapiwa propelled himself forward and launched a barrage of punches towards Anesu who managed to block all of them and behind him Ruvarashe also started attacking. Anesu managed to keep the two attackers from landing a hit on him.

He had stayed on the defensive for long enough and used his foot to push Tapiwa away and turned to Ruvarashe and punished her with three punches concentrated in her abdominal area. As Ruvarashe swayed backwards Anesu approached Tapiwa who was trying to regain his balance and did the same barrage of attacks before finishing him off with a kick to the face that sent him flying. Anesu used a table to elevate himself and finished off Ruvarashe.

"I have always wanted to be the one that defeats you."

He took Ruvarashe's phone and called Munashe.

"Hey Munashe it's Anesu. I want you to bring me the memory stones you used last week."

He didn't give Munashe the chance to talk back and dropped the call. All he had to was wait for his former workmate. Anesu waited for thirty minutes before Munashe arrived with Mr Reed. Ruvarashe and Tapiwa were having mahewu and Anesu was holding a deck of cards.

"Ah wonderful even Mr Reed is here. I always knew you weren't very loyal to us. Even though you reported everything to us your heart has always been with the Dzimba Dzemabwe foundation."

"You fiend. How dare you?" Mr Reed wanted to attack but was stopped by Munashe.

"Yes the new leader of the foundation. How does it feel to lead nothing Munashe? You should've joined house Humba when you had the chance."

"I am very pleased with my decision Anesu. How does it feel like working for a selfish murder?"

"You have your ideals blinded hound. The council is the enemy Munashe and so is that man standing by you. He is the councils personal messenger."

"Vilification of the council won't right your wrongs Anesu. You have no right to harass other humans. I thought the anomalies were our only enemies."

"It won't matter soon enough. When we expose the council you will all see who is the evil one. Now the stones please."

"I refuse." Munashe got ready to fight but Anesu smiled.

"I knew you would refuse but check on your girlfriend will you. She is sitting on an explosive right now and if I pull the trigger it won't end well for these two."

Ruvarashe and Tapiwa nodded to Munashe confirming what Anesu had said. Munashe handed over the necklace to Anesu who left the diner with a smile and threw the detonator in the bin and drove away.