Chapter 18

"Are you creeping on the blonde girl again?" The blue mutant said, her eyes not leaving the screen in front of her.

"No, I'm not. I'm looking at the wiki page of Latveria." I replied honestly.

I tried to spy her with SEVEN previous gadgets but I gave up that line of thought when I remembered who else was in that building. Because there's no way Reed Richard didn't set up any kind of defensive measure against spying bugs or others things alike.

I was getting anxious about it and afraid that I will lose all that relationship point that I luckily got but Vanessa told me to chill out. I didn't what she meant by that and since she is my main girl I decided to trust her. It doesn't mean it isn't stressing me out. I even asked SEVEN to help me figure it out, but it was for naught, the AI couldn't see her lips and the phone wasn't close enough to pick up anything.

The only thing that might ease was Vanessa telling me that she'll make the first move, I don't know how she can be so sure but whatever.

Stopping stressing over the Susan problem, I watched the monitor of the mutant and saw her destroying people on the battleground.

"So… are you done with your stupid research and ready to stomp some people on the arena with me?" Vanessa asked as she flamed her team mate on the chat.

"Fuck, I'm the only one doing anything here, these guys sucks." With that said she still received the defeat screen.

I better join her before she starts to go crazy.

After logging in to my account and activating the cheat SEVEN made for me, we went ham. I asked SEVEN to make and undetectable cheat for me, the thing increase my damage by ten per cent. High enough to help and low enough so people don't suspect.

I know that cheating is bad and lame but when you're not that good, you need an edge.

As we were playing in the arena, SEVEN warned us of an intruder.

"Master, an intruder is coming from the roof." The voice came from the speakers connected to my computers.

"How the hell did he get on the roof?" I asked in surprise, after all this is a forty floor building.

"The intruder took a parachute and came down with it."

What kind of guy would go as far as dropping of a plane with a parachute in the middle of the night for me?

"Who is he and what does he want?" I asked SEVEN.

"Sergei Gurkov, an assassin for hire with fifteen confirmed kill. From my analysis, he came to you master." SEVEN reported.

"Get TR-1 here and wait for him to make the first move, maybe he'll talk when he get too confident." I ordered SEVEN.

The robot moved and stood in corner near the entrance where the intruder probably will come. Vanessa and I still continued to play on our respective PC. I wasn't worried for my or Vanessa safety one bit, we both have the energy shield amulet and it was the second version. Now the amulet can detect the direction of the projectile or strike and only launch the necessary energy to block it.

It didn't take long for the assassin to arrive, he was clad in all black and held a handgun with a silencer on it. He pointed the weapon in our direction ready to shoot. He didn't say anything and just shot at us.

I turned around to look at his surprised face and the bullets floating in the air. His aim was good and the bullet flew in direction of our head but it blocked by the amulet energy shield.

SEVEN controlled the TR-1 to crush the gun with its steel hand before throwing it away and bear hugged him with his metallic arms, the assassin couldn't do anything but try to dangling his feet in the air and look like an idiot.

"Tch. I one V'ed two that shit." Vanessa said with full of arrogance as she finished the two other players from the arena while my character lay dead because I didn't move.

"Nobody told me they had robot!" The hired assassin said with clenched teeth as he tried desperately to get out of SEVEN hold on him. His head was red with vein bulging from trying too hard.

"So… who sent you?" I asked the struggling man.

"Fuck you!" he replied back thrashing around without stop, clearly not abandoning hope in escaping the robot hug.

"Does he have a phone?" I asked SEVEN, not wanting to interrogate the man any further. If he has, we should be able to get all the information we need.

"Yes." SEVEN confirmed after inspecting him with the TR-1 eyes.

SEVEN release him of the bear hug only to grab him by the face and lift him up high into the air. The TR-1 used his other hand to get the phone out of Sergei pockets. A cable came off of the robot hand and connected to the hand phone. All SEVEN needed was a few second before she get all the information inside the phone.

"A man named Michael Doran hired him. Michael Doran is currently at the warehouse near the docks."

"Call Robert and tell him to assemble the man. Let's pay him a visit and ask him why the hell he wants to kill me." I turned toward Vanessa to ask her if she wanted to come with us.

"Nah, I'm going to stay here and watch it from the monitor." Vanessa replied back before looking at the assassin that SEVEN was holding. "SEVEN get rid of him please, nobody come here to try to kill my babe without consequence."

"Please! No!" Sergei yelled out in panic desperately trying to free himself from the TR-1, but it was for naught, the robot broke his neck easily.

"How are we going to get rid of the body?" I asked.

"Master, I have an incinerator downstairs."

"Of course you do." I shouldn't be surprised, SEVEN has plenty of equipment downstairs, and even if he didn't have the incinerator she probably would have another thing that could do just as well.

While the TR-1 took the dead body downstairs to be incinerated I went into my room to get a pant and coat before going out.