The Rise of Jacob Keller

[Leo]

The storm outside was intensifying. The winds alone were causing the house to pop and crackle, shudders outside slammed into the house, and the howl of the wind alone was enough to significantly mask my movement through out the house even if I had been walking normally. I wasn't taking any chances, however. I continued to move quietly through the house.

As I reached the archway into the hallway from the kitchen, I noticed a guard standing down the hall, next to the staircase leading upwards to the second floor. The stairs were down the hall and an immediate 180 degrees to the right of the wall I was staring at now. Two more guards were standing opposite to him, keeping watch down the hall. This presented a problem. I would be unable to take out the single guard standing watch at the staircase without alerting the other two. If I was unable to take out all three at the same time, the other guards assorted out amongst the house would be alerted to my presence, and I would be captured, compromising my tech and equipment...but the only way up stairs was by that one single staircase, and there were three targets.

I quietly pulled out my personal blaster and equipped the silencer to the end of the barrel. I leaned around the corner, got a quick sight of where they were standing and leaned back. I took one breath and came around the corner quickly taking three well aimed shots to their heads. All three dropped to the ground dead...however I made an error...after all, I'm only human. A guard to the right was missed and sounded the alarm. The front door splintered open as the two out front came running back in. I magnetized my gloves and unsheathed the two assault rifles from my back harness. I was firing an assortment of fire at the targets, but before I knew it, I was out of ammo. As I turned to make a retreat, I was met with a stun baton, and the world went black...but only for a second...the world came rushing back as the resistance in the suit brought me back from the stun, I headbutted the guard sending him staggering back into the closet at the end of the hall. I brought up my handgun and shot him twice in the head. He fell to the ground in a seated position.

"Stop!" someone said. "I'll come down, Jacob. No more innocent blood needs to be shed this day."

"Who said they're innocent..." I replied through the helmets integrated headset.

The two guards running at me stopped their approach with weapons drawn. I smiled at them from beneath the helmet and turned my head sideways. With my own handgun drawn.

"How much you want to bet I can kill you both before either of you get a shot off?"

The guards shifted, clearly unsettled.

"I will tell you what you want to know, Jacob." said the older man approaching me. The Counselor had his hands up as he approached me slowly. "But I know it won't save my life, will it?"

"It depends on if you're innocent...we'll see what you have to say old man...tell me what I want to know...and I may yet let you live."

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You fear oblivion. Yet you forget. The universe remembers every atom of your being. Even dust hums your name in the dark.

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