Agamon said:
Valkyrie's eyes widen and she continues to lead Bishop to the base camp. "Vague, much? What's Cardinal going to do and how do we stop her?" Before he can answer, she turns on her comm once more. "Bishop confirms that this was Pantheon's doing, and that they're not done yet. Watch your backs, people."
Bishop replies, “That is actually incorrect as she finishes, you don’t have to worry about Pantheon anymore, just what Cardinal decides to do. She is creating her own personal army of elites, if you don’t follow her you die. I suppose she had decided to call her children to service. As she puts it, I suppose I had to make a choice if I would be a wolf among the lambs, or a shepherd. I chose the latter, it may not erase any imagined sins you may think I have committed, but I at least have decided to save lives instead of take them.”
Bishop pauses, “This man won’t make it back to the sight alive, his breathing is shallow, and he feels quite cold…”
Karen and Cassie
The communicator buzzes again, “Sector 7, no response, send a team to check it out. He better not be sleeping again!”
Aris scowls, “This can’t be good.”
As Karen peaks around the corner, she sees the elevator, a clear circular tube, at the end of the hall.
Kelly
Tommy nods, “I won’t miss it Kelly, I promise. I am sorry everything happened, but I will make it all better. I… uhh… yeah, I love you too..” he says with a curious look.
“I have to go,” the line goes dead.
The Hive
Tommy breathes a sigh of relief.
Erika speaks just from his right, “How quaint, it seems your little trick failed to kill her. Now she knows way too much about our organization, dear brother.”
“Correction, your lack of vision of the future is somewhat disturbing, dear sister. Infallibility in your predictions makes your abilities less then reliable at this point in time. But you are right, I will have to handle this another way,” Tommy replies.
Mr. Smith nods, “What shall we do now, sir?”
Erika laughs, “Oh Tommy relax, it won’t happen again. Telling the future is not a perfect science. It is an art form, sometimes mistakes are made. But I did like that touch about you killing me, leaves less loose ends that way yes?”
“Yeah about that,” Tommy gestures and several hunter-killer STAR units leveled their weapons and fired on Erika in unison. The young girl screams, but it was cut brutally short as the last of them fires on her smoking corpse.
Tommy looks down to Erika, “Like you said, I don’t like loose ends. Your lack of reliability was a liability dear sister, rest in peace. Mr. Smith clean this up, I have to clean up some more loose ends and meet my girlfriend for her birthday.”
“So you are not going to kill her too then?” the thin man replies.
“No, not anymore, I think I really do love her or something. She may be useful, and if not she isn’t smart enough to be dangerous. Have my aerodyne prepped, I am heading to HQ and then from there to the United States. I trust you can handle things?”
“Of course sir,” Mr. Smith replies
