Agent in the Dark

I saw the second elevator that would take us up the last few floors to the broadcast room. We'd met with no resistance, and I was hopeful that our journey would soon be at an end.

"Well what a surprise this is! Do come in." The voice was feminine and it had Temple walking out into the dark space toward it.

The lights came on to reveal an attractive brunette with three of the robot figures backing her up.

"Lori?" Temple asked disbelievingly, his face as white as if he'd seen a ghost.

The woman smiled coldly, "Well hello dear brother. Long time no see, bye-bye now." She said, as she fired the pistol in her hands twice and Temple with a gasp fell to his knees clutching at his chest.

"No!" I roared rushing to his side.

Temple's eyes left his sister's to move to mine, "You knew! All these years you've been protecting me! Why?"

I eased Temple to the floor, "You were my friend and to noble at heart for your own good. It would have killed you inside to know that she joined the other side."

Temple shook his head, "You're a good friend John, but you should've told me." And with that he was gone.

I continued to stare at my dead friend, even as I spoke up loudly, "This wasn't the deal we made Lori!"

"No Logan it wasn't, but then neither were you to ever come find me so I guess the deals off officially."

I looked up to see Lori standing beside Asia with her gun to Asia's head. I stood up, "You hurt her and I'll kill you in the hardest way I can imagine!"

Lori smiled, feigning a fake eroticism that no longer worked for me, "But Logan you already did kill me don't you remember honey? You're not still having headaches are you?"

I started for her then, but she pressed the gun muzzle against Asia's head suggestively.

"Ah Ah Ah big loverboy. Now, I think it's time that I discovered what your little Code Breaker girlfriend here has been up to, while you have a few nightmarish moments to think over all the things I'm going to do with your precious little lover, when I have what I want from her."

The three robot-like figures had closed in on me from three opposing sides.

Lori spoke up once more, "Don't you love the latest evolution of the perfect soldier darling? You were always far too volatile and lacking in control to be a good soldier. Fun aspects to have in bed I grant you, but not on the battlefield. The element of feeling anything has been completely removed along with a few other upgrades that make you obsolete. Have fun playing with your replacements, while I dissect your girl here. Won't that be fun!" She laughed coldly, at her own words, as she shoved Asia from the room at gunpoint.