Chaos

"What?" Rexford expressed in irritation.

"Chief Fred Wesler asked for your presence at SFD as soon as possible, Sir!" Yna repeated.

"For what?" Rexford groaned.

"He said that it's urgent and your presence is highly needed, Sir!"

"He really knows how to annoy me!" Rexford complained. "Ms. Yna, put him in the line. I wanna tell him personally how fucking busy I am!"

Yna called up Chief Wesler and redirect the call towards Rexford's office phone.

"You have 1 minute to convince me why I shouldn't fire you!" Rexford stressed.

"I apologize for disturbing you, Mr. Symmachus. But I cannot convey the details over the phone," Chief Wesler replied.

"What insolence! Why not?" Rexford expressed angrily.

"The boy said something worth coming for, Sir. I prefer to explain the details over here, Sir."

"Whatever that is, it can wait. I'll head there tomorrow morning. This meeting I have today cannot be rescheduled," Rexford notified.

"Copy, Sir!"

Rexford then calls Yna again, "Ms. Yna, reschedule all of my appointments tomorrow and move it a later day."

•••

Meanwhile, at the SFD confinement facility where Cypher we're confined, he was still processing the thing that had happened earlier.

The sun has already set and the twilight falls.

For many hours, the room he was in was dead quiet. Even the hallways are covered with silence not until the boy was escorted towards his confinement room. Cypher stood up and hurriedly went near the window and pressed the button in the access control to speak to them. The confinement room was soundproof, the access control panel was the only means of communication.

"Izac, how did you know that?"

The boy muttered something towards the escorts. It seems they didn't allow it. With that, they continue to head towards his room and locked him there. Cypher didn't give up and continued to talk.

"Hey! Let him talk! Hey—"

"Agent Greffin, you don't have any authority to talk with the person of interest. I advise you to stay down!"

Cypher didn't bother to continue since it will be no use. The boy is already inside his cell and there is no other way to communicate.

It highly stressed Cypher knowing that the answers he is looking for are right next door. He couldn't contain himself and kept pacing back and forth. Because of it, he tried to escape. He banged the door with the chair which rose commotion and an alarm from his cell resounded. A guard responded to check which Cypher begged to let him talk with the boy.

"Officer, I'm begging you! Please let me talk with the boy!"

The guard yawned because he was in the middle of his sleep when the alarm resounded.

"I'm so sorry, Agent Greffin, but I am not allowed to do that. Please contain yourself or else we'll have to do some measures to force you to be calm."

Cypher had a plan. He'll use that information the guard told him and continue causing a mess inside the room. They will have to open the door and tie him down. He'll use that opportunity to pin them down and ask the boy about everything.

"Agent Greffin, it's no use. Just sleep already and let today's problem a problem for tomorrow's you."

Cypher ignored his advice and grab another chair. He was about to thrash the window again when something gruesome happened.

"Agent Greffin, I already told you. It's no—"

BANG!

The guard was shot on the head and an alarm followed.

A masked man in a black coat and with black gloves walks past the dead body of the guard. He glances at Cypher over the window and then walks ahead.

"Hey, you! STOP!"

Cypher doesn't know what he'll do. His intuition is telling him that the masked man wants the boy. He continued thrashing the window to escape before he lost the boy but it was no use.

It didn't take long when the masked man returned. But this time, he is carrying the boy, blindfolded, all tied up and with a tape covering his mouth.

"STOP!"

The masked man stops in front of the window and looks at Cypher. He then grabs something from his coat and handed Cypher a thing that looks like a bomb of some kind. The masked man handed him the bomb through the small opening where meals are handed in.

As he finished the deed, the masked man flees away.

Cypher took the bomb immediately and studied it. It is a door-breaching bomb. He hurriedly sticks it to the door and used the table for cover. An explosion was created which destroyed the door completely. He immediately runs out and tried to find the masked man and the boy but he didn't. As he stepped out of the confinement facility, dead bodies met him. Some were injured, some passed out, and some were dead. Cypher checked the injured and asked.

"Hey, what happened?"

The officer was having trouble speaking yet he still gave a reply, "We do not know. It was all sudden. That man he's not alone. We do not know what is their objectives but I think they wanted the boy."

The officer lost consciousness right after that. Cypher run out and tried looking for the culprits. It didn't take long for him to catch up. However, the man was already in his car and drove away. Cypher went to his car. His stuff was confiscated including his car keys but it was a good thing he hid a spare key in the glove compartment. He drove away and followed the car.

There was a wild car chase that night.

As he concentrated on the road, he focused his attention on the car up ahead and tried to stop it.

Cypher tried hitting the backside of the man's car which made the car lose control and crash into a tree. Cypher hurriedly get out of his car and run towards the crashed car. He checked the driver that seems to have lost consciousness. He gazes at the backseat of the car yet he didn't see the boy. He then heard a thud at the compartment. He quickly opened it and found the boy.

He untied the boy and uncover his eyes and mouth.

"Izac, are you alright?"

The boy was shivering in fear.

"Who are you? What do you want from me?"

"It's me! Cypher!"

The boy opened his eyes and stared at him.

"Officer Greffin?"

"Yeah!" Cypher replied. "For now, let's leave and seek shelter. We are no longer safe in this place."

Cypher helps the boy get out of the compartment. As the boy stepped onto the ground, a gunshot resounded.

"Officer Greffin!"

Cypher was shot by the masked man.

"Izac, run!"

Cypher saw the horror on the boy's face.

"Izac! Don't mind me! Run!"

The boy followed what he just said and run away. Cypher was bleeding after getting shot on his shoulder.

"If only I could kill you! I would have done that earlier!" the masked man growled.

The masked man grab Cypher by the collar and punched him. Cypher spat blood as he grunted in pain. Despite being injured, Cypher put up a good fight. The masked man was truly strong and well-skilled when it comes to hand-to-hand combat yet Cypher was able to pin him down to the ground. The masked man lost consciousness where he was then tied down by Cypher and left for the authorities to capture. He then left and looked for the boy.

"Izac? Where are you?" he called?

He wanders for a while looking for the boy until he reached the NTC building.

Cypher suddenly lost balance and fell on his knees. He was seriously injured and he's losing a lot of blood.

Cypher is slowly losing consciousness.

"I'm sorry Alexa. I'm sorry for failing you. I'm sorry for not getting the justice you deserve."

Cypher felt nothing and was about to faint when he saw the boy hiding from the cars in the NTC parking lot. The boy saw him and went running towards him.

"Iza…c, run—"