A Sleep Through Time

"I'm not sure I follow." I said in confusion.

"Oh don't get clever on me and just say where the shits are." Ramsey said angrily.

"Well if you don't explain what you want then how am I supposed to help you get the 'shits'?" I asked.

"Ugh.... I suppose you are right. The code and the location of where I can find the vault." He then stopped.

"Which vault?" I said after an awkward silence.

"I don't know, they said you know a vault that contains scarce items. Nowadays most things are scarce, that's why I need to get to this vault." He explained.

"You are really dumb. You know that right?" I asked.

"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that." He replied.

"No, do hear that cause my goodness your brain is thick as hell." I said.

"Do you have a death wish?" He asked.

"Kill me and you won't get the info." I shrugged my shoulders.

"You know what I have more than enough, so I don't need that stupid info of yours. GUARD OF HONOR. Step forth and take this puny soul." Ramsey called to a door behind him.

I started freaking out because I didn't think Ramsey would be this angry this quickly.

The door burst open from behind and out came a man dressed very similarly to the one who told me he was going to get me out of here. I took a good look at him as he approached Ramsey. He was wearing a bandanna, a similar black suit to the other guy, and sunglasses.

'We are inside so why in the name of god is he wearing glasses?' I thought to myself.

"Who is it that you want dead sir?" He asked.

"That one." Ramsey said as he pointed at me.

The guard raised a rifle and aimed it at my face. Just before he was going to take a shot, the large double door behind me burst open.

"I dare you." Said the guy who dragged me here.

"Hunter. You stay out of this one." Said Ramsey.

'Is he a hunter or is his name Hunter?' I asked myself.

"I dragged this low-life for two nights only for Tom to kill him?" Hunter said.

'The other is Tom. Are they rivals?'

"You get out of my way." Tom said as I realized him and Hunter locked eyes.

"NOW." They said together.

Hunter took a shot with his hunting rifle. The sound was very loud. I saw he shot Ramsey in the leg.

"You son of a bitch. I knew I couldn't trust you." Ramsey shouted. "SAVAGES. GET THESE THREE." Then he called at the top of his lungs.

Hunter then got a firm grip on my wrist and before I knew it he started dragging me to the door Tom came out of.

We went through as Tom held the door open for us and then followed us right before locking the door.

"Planted?" Asked Tom.

"In position." Hunter answered.

"Detonator in that tree." Tom pointed to a tree through the only window.

We were in a small room with the door we came in from being the only door. I guessed we were going to make a run for the tree through the window.

"Take this. You might need it." Hunter handed me one of his revolvers.

"Thanks Hunter." Is all I could say.

Tom kicked the whole window and its frame down in one attempt. My jaw dropped. Afterwards I saw that we were in the second floor of the building.

'But how?" I asked myself.

"Hunter you go first and intercept Daniel." Tom said.

Almost immediately and without question Hunter leapt out the window.

"Jump he will get you." Tom said to me.

"But I don't like heights." I replied.

"That or die. Make your call." Tom said.

After I hesitated for a couple of seconds I jumped out of the window. I landed on something soft. I stood up after I rolled a couple of times. They had placed a large mattress under the window. The building looked like a fortress and we were in a garden or something.

Tom jumped after us and we started running towards the tree.

My right leg gave out and I fell face first on the grass.

Then I heard some shots coming from the window. Tom and Hunter were already under the tree. They looked at me with wide eyes.

"He will die." Tom said.

As soon as I heard that, an explosion thumped my ears. And afterwards, wood and stone pieces started flying everywhere. I felt a couple of sets of hands wrap around me and pick me up. I was placed under the tree. They were Tom and Hunter.

It took me some time to get back up on my feet after some help from Hunter.

"Right, are you okay?" Asked Hunter.

"No I'm not fucking okay." I said very angrily. "Unless you tell me what the fuck is going on I will shoot your sorry ass." I said as I pulled the revolver on them both.

"Easy there. We had a score that needed to be settled." Tom said.

"And you used me to settle the score?"

"Maybe. But hey we got you out alive too." Hunter said.

"I swear to god if you don't answer me I will SHOOT YOU BOTH."

"How about this, we go someplace other than this wrecked fort and we will answer whatever it is that you want to ask." Tom said.

"No. I want answers. Here and now." I replied. "Let's start off easy. Where in heavens am I?"

"South end sea." Answered Hunter.

"What the fuck brought me here. You know what never mind I would rather not know. Secondly who the hell are you two and who is Ramsey?"

"Who we are we can't answer that, but we can tell you about Ramsey." Hunter said.

"You will tell me exactly who you are and who these people inside are." I said.

"The people inside are... um were, cause they blew up, they were our rivals and we made a deal that they breached so we paid them back." Said Tom.

"And you? Who are you two?" I insisted angrily.

"You won't tell anyone. If you tell anyone we will receive intel and we will assassinate you." Said Hunter.

"Fine." I said.

"I am Hunter Smith, he is Thomas Andrews. We are known as Tom and Hunter as you could tell. We work for The Syndicate. The Syndicate work for the highest bidder and no matter what it is they want, we have it settled." Hunter explained.

"Mercenaries." I said.

"Excuse me?" Tom said.

"So you are mercenaries. Work for the best paying and kill whoever they want out of the picture." I said.

"In a way, yes." Hunter agreed.

"How about this, you two take me home and I will make sure your pockets are filled." I said seriously.

I was shocked at their response as they started laughing and pointing at me.

"Good one. Didn't know you had a sense of humor." Hunter said.

I cocked the revolver and pointed it at his head.

"I'm serious jackass." I said.

"Wait, seriously?" He replied.

"Do I look like I'm kidding?"

"Brother, no one has a home anymore. We are all in the Free Side and only VIPs are in the Capital. So to us Free Side is the only home we have." Hunter said.

I was so confused by what he said that I lowered the revolver.

"Wait, what is Free Side and what is the Capital?" I asked.

"Hunter, he's taking the piss let's just leave his sculpted ass out here and go. We have shit to attend to." Tom said angrily.

"You seriously... Don't .... Know?" Hunter asked slowly.

"Yes I am serious." I replied with a serious look on my face.

"What was the date when you slept?" Asked Tom this time.

"Answer me first." I replied.

"If you don't answer my question we can never answer anything you ask from us. So tell me what was the date when you slept?" Tom replied with a serious expression.

"I think august 2030. Not sure about the day." I said.

"That explains it. We are in 2032. Now let's go Hunter." Tom said as he grabbed Hunter's arm.

I felt like the world around me went out of focus. I saw Hunter and Tom arguing about something but I couldn't hear them. They walked away from me.

'Two years have passed since that day?' I asked myself.

"This fella has been asleep for two years and you are just going to leave him out here with no protection. This isn't what we are about." Hunter said angrily to Tom. "I don't care what you are going to do next but I'm bringing this fella back with me to the base." Hunter said as he approached me. "Let's get going." He said to me.

"Two years." Is all I could say.

"Look, you will have all the time to think things through when we get to the base, but for now we need to go. This place isn't going to be calm forever." Hunter said as he put his hand on my shoulder to comfort me.

"Andrew and Sergei." I said.

"What was that?" Hunter asked.

"I need to find them. I can't go anywhere without finding them."