Agent in the Dark

Grimly, I watched one stoop and pick up my sword. Holding it in his taloned grasp he abruptly broke it in half. I got the point. My play time was up. No sword, no gun within reach and no strength left. I had failed and Asia was going to die and with her the rest of the world's best chance for freedom.

The soldiers knelt beside me and grasped me painfully by the upper arms. They sliced off my flak vest and with it my shirt. It was obvious what they were intending on doing to me. They were going to slice me open and pull out my organs as I watched.

As their free hands descended toward my stomach to accomplish their bloody play I shook my head, "God this isn't how I wanted it to turn out at all." What did it matter anymore, the cares of this world were going to be history soon enough for me.

The soldiers abruptly jerked hard, as electric sparks shot out from their heads along with splatters of blood. Their grip on me released and they both fell over stone cold, dead, as I watched the female I had incapacitated earlier pull her taloned hands out of the back of the two men's skulls. The talons reassembled into fingers and she abruptly picked me up and sat me on a table.

I was dizzy from loss of blood and possibly my senses as well. I blinked trying to clear my head, as she tore a tablecloth up and wrapped it tightly around my sliced up arms to stop the bleeding. Was this really happening? She tied the bandages off tightly and painfully I had to admit this must be reality, because pain was a very real emotion right now.

"The good Lord sure does work in mysterious ways!" I breathed out in expressive wonder, at the form that my salvation had taken.

The soldier glanced at me mysteriously then and I saw real emotion in her eyes. And then my mind abruptly cleared, Asia! I jumped off the table and stumbled for the door that Lori had taken her through. I landed up against it inelegantly to find it locked. I pushed, but I had nothing left in me to bust through the door.

"Curse this weakness!" I raged against the door and at myself. Even now Asia might be in the process of being dissected like I was to have been! On a sudden thought I stepped back from the door to regard my robotic companion.

"I don't suppose you could break this…." The soldier's fist shot out slamming into the door with such force that the door blew black off its hinges.