Do Or Die

I need to keep him alive to catch the larger evil before it escapes.

"You are too selfish." Dr. Eli managed weakly heaving out each word on failed puffs of breath. Saliva leaked over his gums and lips. "She is too valuable-you only want to keep her for yourself."

Oh, so that is what this is about…

Viktor stilled. He thought fiercely as he felt Xin's eyes on him. Studying him quietly, wondering what the old man meant by that last statement: his very last statement.

"You're an evil whose existence cannot be tolerated out of necessity," Viktor raged. He reeled Dr. Eli to him like a fish caught on a hook. Hell's Embrace hummed, waiting; sensing his master's need for him in fight.

Dr. Eli lay before him. Viktor raised his glowing club with purpose, his anger no longer hidden, his face contorted with share hatred of the professor. "When I am through with you, they will have to scrape you off the walls."

"Not before your wife." Dr. Eli lifted his hand to reveal a small object that resembled a silver pen,with a red, blinking light for a head.

Then Viktor knew- he was too late. He heard the beeping coming from beneath the gurney where his wife lay and witnessed a flashing of dull red light behind the white sheet.

"Noooo!" Viktor's guttural outcry was drowned out by the blast from the bomb hidden beneath the gurney.