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“No way! Aren’t you guys from TV!” Ethan shouted like he just met The Rock Johnson. Distant rumbling had been reborn with disgusting noises. Ethan was quickly shut up by Norman, and they were let into the ‘safe zone” that the three had set up. This time, Chloe remembers and sealed the door tight with that plank. They shared their information about these zombie-like creatures. Little or large, every relevant information was shared between them.
“So you are saying that these toy gun blasters were effective against them?” Jules confirmed with them as Ethan showed them off.
“And a lightsaber?” Norman confusedly stated. The red lightsaber was now half broken with scratches all over it and the light zapping on and off simultaneously.
“What about the slipper?” Chloe continues the mass confusion. The three stared at the teenagers in disbelief, before a zombie revealed itself from the ‘toy’ section of the store. In an instant, Noah pulled out his lightsaber and sliced the zombie in two. While it was putting itself back together, a newly designed unworn slipper thrown by Elijah further damaged it. Norman looked at the kids in confusion, while Chloe quickly grabbed some rope she scavenged and tied the zombie to the leg of a couch that was on display. And just for fun, Ethan just adds a 99% off discount sign for fun.
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“Wow!” Ethan exclaimed shockingly. Rows and rows of new cool-looking nerf blasters were displayed on the shelf. From fast-firing automatic rifles to scoped, ranged snipers. He scanned the products quickly before grabbing a few semi-automatic battery magazine-powered rifles and attachments such as scopes, bullets, and extra mags before placing them into a shopping cart nearby. Steven was with him. As Ethan waved him to follow back to the main circle, Steven hesitated and turned back to look at the items. Colorful and large quantities of blasters were now spread across disorganized unlike before. He can’t get his eyes off a cool-looking shotgun, he had seen this gun before. He snatched it along with a few extra shotgun shells and ran back towards Ethan, who was opening the boxes and handing out the weapons.
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“I had no idea which weapons you guys prefer, so here I got similar weapons for all.” Ethan stood proudly while giving out bullets.
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“Thanks.” Liam thanked.
“You should have gotten a sniper for us. It is better in terms of range.” Xander complained.
“Plus we can learn how to quickscope!” Ejilah adds on.
“We need speed, not just range.” Ethan clarified as Elijah and Noah returned with new weapons.
“This looks like the M16, I like it!” Norman exclaimed while reloading the toy rifle.
“Yeah. But it was slightly different from the actual one. Semi-automatic, 20 rounds extended magazine, scoped, elite 2.0 darts, and is AA battery powered. It is very good in terms of DPS for a toy gun.” Ethan continued proudly, before getting interrupted by Xander.
“We don’t care, okay! Anyways, I think we need to quickly load up to get to the location the commander told us about.” Xander complained while looking in the direction of where Chloe is.
“I don’t need a gun, I have my slippers!” Elijah showed off the new slippers that he got from the clothing section. “Also you all sound like a bunch of nerf nerds here”. He chucked one to the ground in front. To everyone's surprise, it bounced back up with its rubber design and boomeranged it back toward him. Like Thor in the Marvel movies, he catches it single-handedly and placed it on his new survival backpack. “Damn, those 2 years of training really paid off”. Noah swang his lightsaber around, admiring the new cyan look from the old red one. After handing out the guns, Steven decided to head towards the electrical power station that was set up by Jules to hopefully get some batteries from the weapons. He hovered around and asked Jules, to which she replied with a yes without hesitation and pointed towards the small box beside the power station. Before getting the batteries, he plugged his phone which now contains a small crack to the side from the crashing and the dashing in the escape to a nearby charging line. Click. He got up and turned towards the batteries. After just a single step, he stopped still and stared at Jules’s computer screen in observation. There, an image of a map with points headed from the middle east toward the rest of the world was displayed along with images of a large hole in the ground and a zombie image. Surprisingly, the arrows that stretched from the middle-east to the rest of the world were reflected off the North-American continent.
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“Are we going to that hole where all the zombies are coming from?” Steven asked, and Jules instantly slammed her laptop screen shut.
“No, we will be sending you kids to America if they let us in, it’s safe there.” She replied, after scooching him off to grab the batteries. He returned to the main spot, which they complained to him for being slow.
“What took you so long?” Ethan asked as he attached the batteries to the guns.
“Nothing,” he said, before taking a seat on a folding chair and grabbing a can of coke. Steven turned around to take a look at the plants. Unexpectedly, they were not recovering; they look more tired, exhausted, and somehow smaller as every second passed. He quickly suggested the situation to the group in regard to the pea shooters. They went deep into thought for a second before the teenagers said the exact same word at the exact same time.
“Water!” They looked at each other in shock. What in the world.They went to get water as Norman struggled to understand their timing. Steven looks behind and finally realizes the isolated pressenceless Jimmy. He had been sitting there the whole time and yet not a single one of them realized his existence; almost as if he didn't even exist. Jimmy looked at Norman with anger in his eyes; as if he had killed his mother. Elijah realizes and reassures Steven.
“He should be fine. Let’s confront him after we get the water.” Elijah assured before heading back to catch up with the six friends; Oliver, Noah, Xander, Charlotte, Luxury, and Ethan. Steven headed towards Jimmy before Norman stood up and stopped him mid-way.
“Leave him to me, I am the one that he needs to talk to,” Norman said in a serious matter. Steven quickly got the hint, turned back, and jogged to the water. After filling a large 2-liter bottle to the max, they headed back toward the center, where Chloe was waiting for them cautiously.
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“What is going on with these plants?” She asked the group, before realizing the large amount of water that they brought with them.
“Oh.” she continued, as she turned back to have a seat. Charlotte poured some water on the plant’s soil. Just as expected, the plants danced happily as they were showered by their cure.. Xander took a seat beside Elijah, before looking around them to find Jimmy. Jimmy was nowhere to be seen, so he questioned.
“By the way, where is Jimmy?”
“I saw him and Norman head toward the back there,” Chloe pointed to the shelf to the right. With the semi-transparent shelf wall, they could see the two feet. They looked at the barely visible figure for a second, before turning back to sort out the items. I hope that everything is okay.
“Kitkat?” Elijah offers.
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Jimmy was now facing Norman, who was about half a head taller than him. Norman knows what’s going on, and starts with a calm greeting.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡypMYaa6AnK
“How are you going?”
“What do you think, tennis head?” Jimmy replied angrily.
“Look kid, I am terribly sorry about your parents.” He said with both of his hands out apologetically.
"Don't you think that money can ever make me accept your apology, dumbas!"
"I am terribly sorry, but I am sure that I have done everything I could."
"What do you mean you had done everything you could? Giving me money every single month? You can give me a mansion, a Tesla, NordVPN, North Korea, America, Earth, the Milky Way and I would still be pissed as a bull looking at a red carpet. Not even giving the whole world could fill my endless void of anger, nephew of a Murderer" Jimmy took one final angry sigh, before turning back towards the center. But Norman pulled him back quickly as if he wanted to reveal something.
"Ok Jimmy, I admit that I have not done enough to repay you for your parent's death, but I am sure there is something you need to know." Norman assertively talked.
"What do you think I need to know?" He replied sarcastically.
"Your dad did not get murdered by my uncle, he died from drowning. Your mum did not die by suicide, she died of a particle cannon. The government said that she suicided to cover it up. My Uncle took the blame and was framed as a murderer."
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12 years ago…
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The sky is calm. The sun is warm. The ocean is blue. The clouds are huge.
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It was just another day in Andle, and Jimmy’s dad, Lob, was assigned to a rather dangerous mission. Working with the government’s rescue, Lob has to conduct and operate many rescue missions. This specific mission seemed rather dangerous compared to others, so in the thought of his wife and his 3-year-old boy, he turned it down without hesitation. The government managed to find someone else as a replacement, but he was placed on standby.
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It was soon the day of the operation, 7 am, Caro Robert, the person that replaced Lob for this underwater mission, read on his watch. He hopped into his car and turned the key. In a whoosh, the vehicle came alive, and Rescue Agent Caro sped out of his driveway. As he drove past, the phone in his pocket rang in a special synthesizer played ringtone.
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“Hello, Rescue agent Caro Roberts speaking.”
“Hey, brother! I heard you have a mission going on this early in the morning. Ooh, you are all dressed smartly in your uniform, nice!” Kann Robert, Norman’s dad, and Caro Roberts's brother spoke.
“Yeah, I am going right now, this is quite a dangerous mission.” He said without looking at the phone to concentrate on driving.
“I wish you luck,” Kann spoke excitedly.
“Shh, don’t talk too loud, aren’t your 11-year-old kid sleeping?” he questioned.
“Yeah, wanna see your nephew?”
“Sure.” The call turned into a video call format, with the camera hovering and turning until eventually settling in the sight of a young boy sleeping.
“He had all grown up now since the last time I saw him!” Caro exclaimed. The call returned to normal and Kann placed the phone back on by his ears.
“Yeah. Gotta wake him up soon for school.”
“Gotta go now, thanks for calling bro!” Caro spoke firmly, before placing the phone back in his pocket. He reached a junction, and the light turned red. He was at the very front of the line, making him think that if he was just a bit earlier, he would have been able to get through this 2-minute-long traffic wait. He sat there and chilled.
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After a long wait, the traffic light was about to turn green. On the other way, a truck that was supposed to slow down as the light turned yellow, sped faster in an attempt to pass through the light. Caro was awakened by a honk from the back.Oopsies, shouldn’t have fallen asleep. Without looking, he stepped on the pedal and accelerated. Suddenly, he realized the truck that was about to crash into him and attempted to brake, but it was too late. The cars at the back were placed at an emergency stop. Unluckily, Caro along with his car was flung to the moon.
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“Agent Lob, something went wrong with agent Caro, we need you to take over.” The phone spoke before getting disconnected. In hesitation, he changed into his rescue outfit and drove to the scene in a flash to catch up for the lost time. The scene was to be underwater, in an attempt to rescue an agent in need. The mission went smoothly to start with. Just as headquarters planned, he managed to get past the guards and arrive in the room next to the location where the agent was supposed to be prisoned. He stealthily walked along the wall, before reaching the door. Twist! Why is this unlocked? He turned and opened the unlocked door in a second. Before he had time to react, alarms blared redly and he was surrounded by sea creatures. He turned again to look at the agent that he was supposed to rescue, but there was no one; he had fallen right into their trap.
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After losing communications with Agent Lob, headquarters quickly tried to find out a solution, while Agent Lob’s wife was notified. Being horrified, she drove to the headquarters after leaving the three-year-old at her neighbor’s house. After entering the building, she realized that they were planning another rescue towards the underwater fort. She quickly begged the commander to let her go along with the rescue.
“If there is anyone that knows where he might be waiting for help, it would be me!”
After getting persuaded, the base general allowed her to go along with the crew in a submarine. Slowly but surely, they submerged and were on the way to rescue the agents.
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After nearly reaching the under-water fort headquarters received an emergency message: ‘Particle cannon hijacked! Particle cannon hijacked!’
“Sh#t!” The general shockingly spoke firmly, trying not to panic the whole room and warn the savers. But it is again too late, before he got connected to the opposite side's speaker, a blue ray of beam struck through the submarine, leaving nothing but dust and dust alone. The screen on the headquarters flashed blue, before leaving a loud distinctive noise and a black screen.
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“Sorry! I am terribly sorry. I shouldn’t have done that. I shouldn't have rushed.” The man in his 50s said. He was the truck driver and was currently being questioned by the police.119Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡGZUsVkTJdF
“Mike Lemons, interesting name. And a 3-year-old son.” The detective spoke calmly.
“Yes, that's me, I will pay for my crimes. But at least let me raise my son first! He will die without me, he has no money to survive and he’s only three!” He plead the detective, but the detective made a come-back with a disturbing statement.
“Do you know that the person you killed had an 11-year-old nephew? What about that since the guy you hit died, he had to forfeit from a rescue mission that killed an agent that has a 3-year-old son along with his mother? At least your kid still has a mum and you will be released soon, but what will you do about the small baby, called Jimmy!” He smacked the table hard, before leaving the room. The driver was left speechless and stopped pleading.
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No one ever tried to interfere with the sea creatures since then, until operation “Under the water.”
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“No no no! Your uncle killed my parents! Your uncle murdered my dad, Your uncle made my mum suicide from the stress of my dad dying! Don’t you think that something like this could make me forgive you. You are lying, right? You are lying!” Jimmy said, before tearing up and running out the gate to The Warehouse’s outdoor plant section. Norman let out a sigh and tried to approach and chase after Jimmy again, but he was stopped by Charlotte, who looked a bit irritated.
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“What have you said to him that made him like that!” She spoke while trying not to sound too angry, before walking out towards the outdoor section. The rest of the group stared at them before slowly getting up. Jules, who was typing maniacally the last second ago stopped and looked over expressionless. Steven looked at the verbal fight in disbelief and blamed himself hard.If only I was as courageous and kind as Charlotte. I could not even talk to a friend in need of support, let alone stand up for him.
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