Not the Only Ones
Jo was taken back and he went along without putting of a struggle. After about an hour of driving they entered a compound and Jo was taken underground, when they entered a room a man was sitting in a chair. Everyone stood as solider with their hands behind their back and legs separate from one another. Marv the leader of squad B stepped forward.
"Mission complete sir"
The man who was sitting then closed his stopwatch and talked while getting to his feet.
"Three hours, thirty-five minutes and 20 seconds and going, I would call this a failed mission instead of completed one, anyways you caught him" a man in glasses said. "Welcome back Jo", he added as he steadily walked over to Jo.
Jo felt shivers ran down his spine as he heard the words 'welcome back', Jo has been quiet the entire time just staring to the floor. He knew that there was no escaping now and so he could only corporate, this was what he as running from but yet everything caught back up to him. The only reason he managed to escape the first time was by the help of some other workers who felt sorry for him, but after he escaped they were killed and disposed somewhere. Jo hoped that they were ok, unbeknownst to his they were dead.
The man then walked over to Jo and looked at him, but Jo only stared at the floor. The room was quiet and then immediately the man said leader C, the man who was the leader of squad C answered louder than expected saying 'yes sir' as his heart pounded in his chest.
"Take him to his cell and I want him to be monitored 24/7"
"Yes, sir"
The leader of squad C named Mitt brought Jo to his cell. The man then walked back to the chair and stared at an enormous container that was in front of him, he stared laughing with hands at his mouth as if he was trying to hold in his laugher, after a few seconds his laughter got quiet and the instantly he turn on his heels and faced the door. When he turned everyone held their breaths as he walked over to them and then passed then. When he left the room they all released their breaths.
"As soon as I make enough here I'm leaving", a man whispered.
"Shhh"
The man in the glasses then continued walking and after three minutes walking he entered a room and saw a man sitting around a desk and going through some papers.
"Dad I found him", he smiled as he said those words.
"Are you talking about the man that escaped from your torture, if so I will not tell you again Felix, end this project of yours", his dad said sternly.
"But I'm getting so close, much closer that before. I even found others like his, not much power but there's more of them, my experiment is right on track"
Before Felix could finish talking he was interrupted with his father slamming his fist onto the desk and raising his voice.
"What you're doing is insane, instead of experimenting on them why don't you think of a way to help them and turn them back"
"That's what I'm doing my project will help everybody, do you think the world will be this calm forever the world is over populated, people are living in boats, one day a war will start or people will rise up to over through us. When that happens these machine will be of good use", Felix said with a bit of anger in his voice.
"Find another way to help, I forbid you to carry on with this inhumane experiment. This is not the way I raised you", his father scouted at him.
"Don't bring family matters into this, if you don't stop this project I will"
"If there's anything I know is that when you say you're going to do something you mean it and I can't have that"
Felix then took out his gun and shot his father in the chest, as his father fell over Felix watched as he bled out and died. He then placed his gun back within his coat and left the room and made his way to the cell area, no one would ever find his father's body since this was his secret room. When he reached he went to cell 1[one] where Jo was placed. Jo was the first of his kind that he found and over the last three days he found over thirteen of them like Jo. Jo was monitored as well as the others, Jo just sat there doing nothing. Felix then looked at Jo who has lost faith and only sat there, Felix then walked along the cells looking at everyone in their cell one after the other. Then out of the blue Felix started giggling and walked from the cell room, he continued walking down the hall way and then a solider ran up to him and delivered information.
"Sir we got information", a man saluted
"What is it?"
"We received news that others were found in different countries"
"I thought so, we couldn't have been the only country with these rare people"
"Do you know any of the countries?"
"Yes sir, Japan, Russia, Netherlands, China and France, that's all that we know of"
Felix then started laughing and walked off, the solider felt uneasy as Felix laughed. Everyone who heard Felix laughed would feel uneasy, fear and even timid. Felix always sounded like a lunatic when he laughed, he would start laughing without it being expected and he would then stop seconds later and he would go to any lengths to achieve his goals.
"Well we couldn't have been the only country, makes sense", Felix said in a low voice talking to his self as he continued walking. "Guess it's time to put everything into action".
The next day Felix went back to the cell and walked to them one by one and then he went in the center of the passage way. He then ordered the soldiers who were keeping guard to let them out. The soldiers then stepped off to follow behind, but then Felix told them to stand their post. The solider who was guarding cell 6 was a bit hesitant since he actually knew what the person in cell 6 was like. The person who was is cell 6 then turned around and smiled at him mockingly. The soldier wanted to protect Felix if an accident was to happen, but since the place was filled with cameras and guns attached to the walls and ceiling, and to add they didn't know the way out, so with that he followed orders.
"Damned brat", the soldier groaned.
"Phew finally, prisoner 8 was so talkative", a soldier heaved in relief.
"They're not prisoners Daniel"
"Whatever man", Michel muttered as he yawned.
Everyone followed Felix until they reached a room with fourteen chairs, they entered and Felix told them to have a seat. They were a bit unsure but they sat anyway and Felix then flipped his coat back and sat after them completing the fourteen chairs. He sat there and looked at the thirteen of them one after the other.
"I have a proposition for you all", Felix said with a straight face and everyone looked at him. The man from cell 5 then spoke.
"I kill you and I get out of here, then sure I'm up for that"
"No, but you might just be killing someone else", replied Felix.
Multiple people started talking before Felix telling them to be quiet demandingly. After they quieted down Felix went on to explain.
"As you may have noticed you now possess an ability different from being a regular human being, I believe it occurred after the New Year and you're not the only ones. My information says that there are more of you out there and not only from this country. The world will change if more of your kind start to appear, riots and wars will follow, I'm sure you all are aware that the world is overpopulated so there isn't enough space for everyone and not to mention the heat these days. They're even trying to find another planet that's habitable, but none yet. I'm very sure someone like you is out there gathering people to over throw us on day"
"And what does any of this has to do with us, this isn't our problem", cell 5 responded.
"I agree with the man", cell 12 who was a female.
"Well they aren't wrong about that, were just regular folks this isn't our job or responsibility", cell 10 said.
"I just want to go home", Jo finally uttered a sentence.
"Let me finish" Felix said getting their attention. "It's everyone's problem I'm afraid, we don't know when anything will happen we can only prepare and we aren't sure how many of your kind are there either. When the war happens we'll need your help to protect everyone from what's to come especially from people who are like you"
"I still don't care"
"We'll leave this to the police and the higher ups"
"Yeah, I agree"
No one really cared about anything that Felix just said and was against helping. They just wanted just to go back to their lives. Felix then snapped his fingers and a soldier came walking in carrying some files. Felix took the files and open a random one.
"You all have a families I suppose, Markin Louis", upon hearing the name a man looked up and a few others turned their heads to look at him.
"Two sons and one attempt murder", everyone now looked at the man from cell 11 and he was quiet looking to the floor.
"Cell 13 Marie Smith a daughter and slept with three minors", Marie was surprised and only looked away in shame, no one said anything since they knew they would be next and Felix continued.
" Cell 7 Simpson Park a former drug dealer and one child and another on the way", " Cell 2 Sasha Davis you slept with your teacher for good grades", " Cell 8 Simon Miller one child, attempt robbery and drug abuse", " Cell 10 Mellie Woods three children and assault of three police", " Cell 5 Will Anderson you're a college student buried in debt, crime burglary", " Cell 12 Rose Fransie you caused your ex's wife miscarriage twice", " Cell 9 John Johnson a loving wife and a daughter and you're a womanizer", " Cell 4 Emille Campbell a caring son, prostitution", " Cell 3 failing in school and so your parents just gave you to us for a sum of money", " Cell 1 Jo Jackson two loving children and a wife", " and last cell 6 Leo Parkin", Felix said with a pause
"Yes sir", the young man from cell 6 answered. Felix opened his file that was much bigger than the others.
"Crimes: murder, drug dealer, attempt murder, jail break, robbery, scamming, drug trafficking, assault, kidnapping, burglary, and the list continues.
Everyone had their eyes averted from everyone else and looked away, but after they heard Leo's crimes they all took a few seconds looking at him.
"What I'm pretty famous, didn't you see my face on TV some time back", Leo said with his carefree tone.
Felix listed everything about each of them like their relationship, age, jobs, family, address and crime, no one knew about their bad reputation since the court and higher ups wanted to keep everyone calm. The crimes weren't outrageous and was kept on the down low, since the public didn't know about them they kept it that way. They did face their punishments, but their family was never notified, their families were told that they were doing a survey and their opinion would help in the future or something else and their children had a caretaker that looked after them until they finished facing their punishment and they were also given counselling to be a better person.
"All this information would be leaked to the public and it would gravely affect your reputation and not to mention your family. Imagine people coming to seek revenge taking it out on your children, now who would like that?" everyone was silent and cell 6 Leo Parkin just yawned loudly bringing everyone from their deep thoughts. Felix then walked up to him and started talking
"Ava Hansley, Jasmine Parkin Hansley", hearing those name Leo was taken aback but he remained calmed and then asked who were they. "Father of Jasmine Parkin Hansley, Ava Hansley died and whose fault was it hmm, why don't I start the story", Felix went close the Leo's ears as he spoke and Leo remain silent.
"And if any of you refuse, I'll turn your children into beef and feed them to the high class restaurants or maybe make their lives hard and miserable, or spread falses news, Felix walked around taunting and giggling like a mad man "just think about it, strangers just dinning on your children", Felix said as he rested his hand on both of Simpson's shoulders and talked closely to his face. Simpson then jumped to his feet's and held Felix's coat collar.
"How dare you bring our children into this"
"We changed and that's our pass", John from cell 9 said as he stood to his feet.
"Oh have you all?" Felix simply asked and cell 8 and 5 lowered their heads, and Simpson loosen his grip and then tighten it again. As Simpson was about hit Felix guns came from the ceiling and laser filled the entire room pointing at everyone except Felix, Simpson removed his hand and everyone dare not to move. Felix then held his hand up and the ceiling went back to looking normal.
"Good thing I never tried escaping here", cell 6 muttered.
Felix then straightened his collar and walked back to his chair, "your family will be taken care of and any other problem that you have outside, you will be rewarded handsomely and I'll grant you all one favor, if you don't like the proposal you may leave". Everyone thought about what they just heard.
"Tchh, I'm leaving", Simpson scoffed and turned to leave. As Simpson reached close to the door a gun appeared from the ceiling and shot him, his body fell over and blood bleed from his head, as everyone stared and tried to understand what just happen
"And I forgot to say, if you refuse I'll just kill you"
"Still on drugs, guess now we know who haven't changed", cell 6 said with no remorse as he looked at the body.
"Anyone else want to leave?" Felix asked and no one moved they just sat back into their chairs.