LOADING.......

Even though Vince wasn't exactly a super strong buff kid, his gaze was something fierce, he was intimidating and not to mention this anonymous "system" he had might actually be threatening.

But this doofus known as Peter is simply unbothered, what would I ever do with him?

"Yo, Narrator you seem to be pretty quiet, what's the matter" said Peter, holding a mocking smirk towards the sky.

Nothing dude, I am simply narrating in my mind now, without speaking.

"Hell yeah, no more incessant chattering"

I feel hurt.

Well anyways, where is Vince?

"I don't know man, he said we need more plan than just me and left saying he will be back in a few hours or so!"

"This room is comfy though, couch, television and a neat study, it's better than where I lived, haha"

I know, I knew it better than anyone, the atrocities that you lived and smiled through, if only I was the author, you wouldn't have to go through any of that. But I won't say it to him, he might cringe.

Hey, Peter why you were so confident about defeating the mercenary fleet? We don't even know the kind of abilities they might have.

"I know, I was just figuring out Vince's temperament"

What?

"I wanted to see, if he can stay calm, think rationally, but one remark from me and he went all angry and anxious"

What is the use of figuring that out?

"In case if I ever have to go up against people I know, I always figure out the state of their minds, you know, to use it against them in a dangerous or stressful situation"

That makes me wonder, if you trust me?

"Oh, hell yeah man, I do. I am the only character from my book who survived, so if you ever betrayed me and I died, you will cease to exist too, I mean what would a narrator do without a plot or a novel?"

So you don't really trust me, you just trust the fact that for my survival, I will never betray you?

"Yeah bro, sorry, force of habit"

Eventually after a few hours of silence, it seemed like Peter was contemplating something for the most of it, there was a knock on the door, at the end of the hallway.

"Yo, it's open" said Peter, while picking up a pen from the pen stand on table.

An unidentified man entered the room, he was wearing all black, combat outfit, vest, helmet, combat boots and a gun in his hand.

But I don't think Peter noticed any of that, because as soon as the guy entered, Peter lunged right at his knees, tackling.

Peter, as soon as he tackled the intruder's knees, he rotated his body 360 degrees while lying on his back and entangled both of his legs on the intruder's waist. He pushed his feet downwards, and within 10 seconds of his arrival, the intruder, dropped on the ground, face-first.

Peter turned the intruder on his back, got on top of him, removed his helmet quickly with one hand and jammed a pen in his left eye with another.

I have seen Peter fight brutally many times and I should get used to it as well. But the screams of the people still sound haunting.

The intruder screamed in pain and agony and tried to use both of his arms to disarm Peter.

While the intruder, screamed and grabbed Peter's arm with both his hands, Peter hit the intruder's temple with his left elbow, it made a gnarly sound and the pain, made intruder loosen his grip, using this opening, Peter hit intruder's Adam's apple with a strong left jab.

The intruder choked and Peter checked him for any belongings, he found a communication device.

"Yo, Narrator could you not tell me that there was an intruder outside?"

I am sorry, I was too focused on our conversation.

"Alright, how many more men like him, do you see outside?"

Well there are about 20 men aligned left and right, throughout the hallway.

"So why did he enter alone?"

My guess is that they are there to block your escape, while he was here to kill you. Because there are 15 more men outside the building, 3 each at all the 5 escape routes through windows.

You should use the attic to escape through the roof, there's an opening in the attic.

"No, they are not here for me, no one knows about my existence or presence here, they were here for that kid"

Still doesn't change the fact that you need to escape.

"Nah, this guy saw my face, his body cam has revealed my face hence they all will have to die"

Peter grabbed the intruder's gun and shot him in the head.

He corrected his red tie, which once used to be white, brushed his suit, held the gun in his left arm and walked right towards the hallway.

A few steps away, at the left, there are 20 men and all of them are armed. Peter, there's still time walk away.

Peter took a cover behind the wall right before the start of the hallway, he shot the emergency fire alarm on the wall across.

Sirens went off and the armed assassins from hallway started running towards, Peter.

He shot 5 leading men the moment they ran towards him, and threw his gun at the 6th behind him, he slid across the floor and grabbed 2 guns from these dead mercenaries and made a few blind shots at these men. As they took cover, he back rolled to stand up and ran towards the opposite end of hallway.

By now the commotion had started and residents of upper floors were rushing downstairs, Peter blended in them and went downstairs.

These men in black rushed towards the stairwell amidst the chaotic commotion but Peter didn't run, he was standing right at the corner of the stairwell amidst the chaos, and the moment he saw the face of the first armed man to run towards stairwell, he shot him in the face. At the sound of gunshots, the residents went into a frenzy and it became even more rushed and chaotic.

This caught all those mercenaries off guard and within first 3 second of this confusion, Peter shot 4 more men trailing behind these fallen enemies.

He quickly picked up 2 more guns and kept them in his belt, while taking cover at the stairwell's first stair. These mercenaries were moving in a trained fashion checking for any danger.

They shot at Peter, he ducked and went ahead the stairwell, to take cover behind the wall in front of the elevator. He peeked and saw the boot of a hiding merc, he shot the boot due to which the soldier fell forward and before the soldier could hit the ground, Peter shot him in the temple.

Peter there are 2 hiding diagonally from your location.

"I know, just tell me if they are hiding before or after the poster on the wall they are taking the cover at?"

Ah, one of them is right in front of it.

Peter shot the wall in front of those 2 hidden soldiers, the bullet got deflected by the steel pipe on the wall where Peter shot at and deflected right opposite to its initial direction, hitting the man hidden in front of the wall poster.

Peter quickly ran towards that wall and shot another guy who was hidden with him and took cover there himself.

10 minutes since this showdown started, 12 men are down and they have no idea, what they are dealing with because of how quick Peter has been since this started.

Given the significant losses, the rest of them started running towards the opposite stairwell.

Peter, observed this and went after them, they could have had a clean shot at him right now, but before they could turn to shoot, Peter shot 6 of them down.

The rest two separated, one went left of the hallway and another went right. The one who turned right, went straight into the stairwell, Peter shot right on the back of his head and turned left to shoot the running guy in his head.

15 minutes in and all 21 intruders were dead.

Peter analyzed the windows' positioning of the room he was in and went down the stairwell.

He saw three men in grey shirt and black pants, the bulge behind the pants, indicated that they were armed.

Peter deduced that these guys were with the ones he just killed, he shot them down immediately, since they weren't expecting him to escape through stairwells, rest 4 windows, were situated a bit far from one another, so one by one, he silently went and eliminated the rest of the men.

30 minutes in and 36 men down, all the while when, Peter didn't even use his ability.

Vince can say whatever he wants to but I have known Peter throughout his life, this was the least of what he is capable of, for only I am aware, that Peter is far superior to any system.

"Narrator, their devices are not connected to wireless networks, which means everyone who saw my face has died."

What's the point?

"Enemy with no face or voice brings greater terror"

Peter went back to the room he was in and wore the helmet of the first guy.

Within just a day, we realized we were characters of a book, escaped the book, met a weird guy with a system and got ambushed by about 36 men, and now Peter is cooking something.

"Load Prime Eyes and Ears"

"Loading" is Peter's ability, simply saying for all the senses and reactions a human can have, there is a superior version of it that can be accessed by Peter's brain. Better to observe than speak, Prime eyes, replay whatever Peter wants to see that happened before its summon in a 1.5 miles radius, Prime ears help Peter listen to whatever happened before its summon in a 2 miles radius. And these are just two of the abilities from his "Loading" persona.

"Narrator, these guys were talking about some "WAKEX MILITIA" possibly their organization"

So, are you going to track them down?

"Yeah"