CHAPTER 8

I went off the bed and put my baggage downstairs, and then took a bath.

"Mom, I'll be going now," I said. She stared at me blankly, again.

"Don't do anything shameful." She said.

" Yes, mom."

"Bye baby girl!!" Brother Jyms.

"Bye, bro!" I said and hugged him.

"Bye baby girl!" Sister Krystyn said and hugged me and I hugged her back.

"Bye, sis!" I said and went to the bus where my classmates are waiting for me to go to the so-called field trip already. I can't bring my car this week because our excuse is a field trip, the driver will just drop as in the campus.

When I arrived, they are already at the campus, so we head back to Atom immediately. We transferred our clothes to the closet. This is our first case that involves a syndicate. I'm a bit nervous but a lot excited. My team is handling an even bigger case for the first time. I'm proud of them.

We gathered in the living room to talk about the plan v.

"Okay, first, we'll find out some personal information about our first subject in mind, he might be a member of it, we will take the place of someone special to him, like his girl or mother, someone close. Then we will put that formula Captain Sota gave us to him and follow him wherever he goes. Or you have better plans?" I said.

"No, we agree to your plan captain," Rize said.

"Okay guys, we can do this. They may be a syndicate, but we are a team of spying detectives." I said.

"Which has a syndicate to catch," Rize added.

***

We went out of the Atom using the Pathea and searched for Mark Rin's relatives, but unfortunately, they are all in the U.S., so all we got left is his girlfriend.

"So, who will pose as his girlfriend?" I asked.

"I will do it." Rize volunteered.

"No." Armin opposed.

"Why not?" She asked. Armin took too long to respond, but he responded anyway.

"Because you're too hard to control in the field. We'll end up teasing each other." Armin said. He has a point.

"Fine." She surrendered.

"Then I'll be his girlfriend," I said.

"No." Hide opposed.

" And why not?" I asked. "Am I hard control in the field too?" I asked him. " Armin?" I asked Armin.

"No," Armin answered.

"Then why not Hide?" I asked, and just like Armin, he took a long to respond too.

"You have no experience in that, you never pose for girlfriend of someone, and your too innocent it that thing." He answered, damn this man is right. Unlike Rize, she had a boyfriend before, and she always poses for the girl in a relationship. Tss, this man knows me well.

"Fine," I said while glaring at him. Rize and Armin chuckled. "So, that leaves the two of you guys," I said while pointing the two men in front of me.

"Hell no." Hide said coldly.

"No freaking way!" Armin exclaimed. Rize and I laughed hard at their response.

"So Rize, it's back to you," I said.

"Got it, captain." She said. I heard Armin sighed. I can't blame him, the two of them are like cats and dogs.

We looked for Mark's girl and we found her in an apartment. We went to her room and I knocked.

"Hi, is there something I can do for you?" She asked when she opens the door.

We showed her our fake I.D.

"We are investigating in a murder case and your boyfriend, Mark Rin, was here for his interview, but I guess he's not here," I said.

" Yes, he's at his work." She said.

"May we wait for him here?" I asked. She nodded and let us in.

" So, you and your babe, how long have you been together?" Hide asked.

" Oh, our endearment is actually 'love', and we're almost 5 years now." She said.

" By the looks of it, you always give him a hug after his work." He said

" Well, I give him a peck on the cheek." She said which maid Rize coughed.

" Are you okay Ma'am?" She asked.

"Yeah, my throat just got itchy," Rize answered. I laughed mentally, at least it's not on the lips. Haha!

" What's your name by the way?" He asked again.

" I'm Michelle." She answered.

"How old are you by the way."

"I'm 28, sir." She said and tilt her head a bit. Maybe she noticed that Hide was always cold in every question. Hahaha!

"You said that your almost 5 years, when will your fifth year exactly?"

" Oh, next month actually, the fifth day of March." She answered.

We invited her to go outside and she agreed, Rize went to the back of Michelle when we reached out the van, while I talk nonsense to her. Then suddenly, she fell asleep. Rize injected the Death Tranquilizer. The boys put her in the back of the van. We entered the van and Rize started to get dressed as Michelle. And, we wait inside the van while Michelle, is in the apartment now, waiting for our target.

After two hours, Mark arrived so we looked at the monitor

"Love!" Michelle greeted Mark gleefully as he entered the apartment. And then she kissed him on his cheek.

Yuck! I saw Armin clenched his fist. I can't blame him, he and Michelle are so close and as a friend, he worries for her.

Mark, in return, kissed her on her forehead and hugged her tight, and that made Armin's knuckles white.

"How's your day?" She asked.

"It's, great, love, we almost got the perfect formula for the cure of this virus." He answered.

" That's great news, love. I hope you'll perfect it already so we could spend more time with each other." She said. I know that Michelle is already puking mentally. Hahaha!

Mark stood up and hugged Michelle from the back, I could see the shocked expression of Michelle but she's too good to flinch. That's my girl!

"What about we spend our time in our room?" Mark said seductively. Oh no!

Armin stood up at about to leave the van, maybe he's going to grab Michelle from there, but Hide stopped him.

"Trust, her, she knows what to do." Hide said. Armin went back to his chair and crossed his arms on his chest.

"Oh, love, let's just get some coffee first. Then you can drive me crazy afterward." Michelle said. Ugh! I salute Michelle for the courage of saying those words.

"I like the sound of that," Mark replied. And I heard he Armin grunt.

They took a coffee and after that, they both went to the room. Mark then ravished Michelle's neck with his kisses but suddenly, he dropped to the floor. Michelle put some sleeping pills on the coffee while making it. She kicked Mark and shouted at him.

"Ugh! Guys! Please tell me I'm not dirty!" She said on her mouthpiece.

" Come here quick!" Armin commanded.

Michelle put Mark to the bed and took off his clothes. Then she went out of the apartment and went to us. Armin immediately greeted her with a hug, which surprised us, well, I don't know for Hide because of his dead face but we are shocked.

"Are you okay?" Armin asked.

"Duh! Do I look like I'm not fine? But the thing that I just did was way too out!" Rize said. "This job is putting my body in danger!" She joked, but we are all serious, we are so scared for her so I can't blame Armin for acting that way.

We decided to move on and get on our job, Hide and Armin carried the sleeping Michelle their apartment, the out her to the bed beside Mark, the boys left and we did our jobs, we took off her clothes and woke her up using the Wake Serum, Rize then flashed the MExploit to her.

"You had sex with your boyfriend after you got coffee, and you both fell asleep because of tiredness, you asked him about his job when he arrived, and now you are asleep," Rize said and we left the apartment, and back to Veevee.

We drove back to the Atom to get some rest, Mark and Michelle will surely wake up tomorrow, and it's already 7 pm now. When we arrived at the Atom, we changed our clothes but didn't remove our makeups. We all gathered in the living room and discussed what to do tomorrow.

"We will tail him tomorrow, but we have to maintain our distance," I said.

" Yeah, we have to think of a backup plan though, in case he or they would find us out." Hide suggested.

" We should equip ourselves with our weapons then," Rize said excitedly. Just the sound of it makes me energetic.

" But we should be careful of dealing with them, we'll not know if their comrades are just around," Armin said. I stopped for a while and looked at Hide who is also looking at me. We nodded at each other after our staring conversation. Hahaha!

"Hide and I have thought of a plan for us to know if we are surrounded," I said. They both snapped the heads at us. "What? You still not used to our secret conversations?" I asked them.

" No, we're just curious how do you do it," Rize answered.

" Oh, dear, you just have to communicate with the eyes," I said. " Anyway, we need your specialty in here Armin, we should set drones in the vicinity where we are in, turn its stilt mode, so it won't be detected and seen," I said.

They both agreed and we all head off to the storage room and weapon room. Armin went straight to the storage room to get the drones, and we waited for him since we can't access the Technology Storage room if we aren't technology specialists. After a while, he went out and we head to the Weapon room.

When we opened the weapon room, lots of weapons were displayed, from long-range weapons to short-range weapons, Rize and I went to the short-range weapons section while the two men went to the long-range weapons section. While we were choosing our weapons, Rize spoke.

"You and Vice-captain have a special connection you know." She said. I just smiled.

" Yeah, we're just like brothers and sisters, I like that part because I have someone to argue with and to back up my thoughts. I don't know how but it just developed." I said while smiling.

" Maybe because you trust each other so much. Thinking of those times that you both save each other's lives back in our first years." She said. I felt nostalgic when she said those, it's like it was just yesterday, it's so wonderful.

"Yeah, maybe" I just said and picked up the Dragon Sword. It's my favorite weapon.

Rize, on the other hand, picked up Ninja Sword. We went out of the weapon room and we say the boys were waiting for us.

We head back to our rooms and took some rest. The nightmare repeat again.