Reborn Heart of Steel

That’s when Zoe had Blackwood pinned to the ground holding his arm to his back. ‘Give us the override code,’ she demanded with a frown on her face. “Now!” He just laughed. For the latter, even though this man was telling her she was too late, she understood that his vision would be achieved irrespective of either of them. The clocks on the screens narrowed their numbers in an unloading calendar. Two minutes left. I stepped up to stand beside Chase at the console trying to find some kind of chink in their armor, any way to stop the purge. But it was hopeless. The system was an enclosed one that was as secure as a fortress with a number of layers of security measures. One minute. “Wait,” Chase said suddenly. This is perhaps the single most important question that we should be asking, that, in fact, maybe we don’t need to stop it at all, or at the very least, why do we need to save it? He indicated the server racks which were located on one side of the office space. ‘If we can isolate the ones physically from the network, then they might withstand this scourge. We will then at least have someone to deal with. ” It was a possibility of a long shot, but it was all we could make out of the situation at hand. We rushed towards the servers, pulling out cables as well as the power cords as if we were in some video game. Thirty seconds. “Brianna, Chase, get clear!” yelled Zoe. Yet she had the fire extinguisher now, and she was pointing it towards the servers. Screaming out of the way, we ducked as Zoe sprayed a shower of foam over the servers, creating a shield out of it. Ten seconds. We stood there as one unit, waiting and eyeing the time counting down to its last minutes. Three. Two. One. The screens went dark. The sound of electronics faded slowly, and the air turned cold as if the very life had been sucked out of the building. And for a moment no one made a sound, none of us even dared to look around warily. Had it worked? We asked ourselves if we had been able to save something. Gradually and with a lot of precaution, we got near the servers all covered in foam. Chase extended it; he washed some of the foam off and one could see the chassis of the vehicle.

A little green light on an LED flickered on in a continuous way. This caught the attention of the team to find that the server was still alive. That brought such relief which made my knees feel weak at the knees. We did it. We were able to save something out of this destruction. The Raven snarled, laughter escaping him, “You really think that is going to impress anyone?” ‘You still underestimate me, mate. I have already released the compound onto the market. My agents are all over, and you have lost!’ Zoe’s arms were around him; she held him even more firmly. “You think so,” she replied darkly. “Well, right now you’re under arrest. ” It was just at the right moment when the doors of the command center swung open. A line of closely armed police officersl stormed in and at the head of them stood a man I never wanted to see again Detective Morris. ‘Well, we somehow managed to miss one hell of a party,’ he smiled to himself while assessing what was going on around him. After the Raven was handcuffed and other officers were making movements to search the hall, Reeves walked to us. “You three okay?” he questioned me, the roughness of his voice masking but for the concern I could hear. We looked at each other, the fatigue of the preceding couple of hours closing in all of a sudden. “Sir,” one of the officers yelled out. “You need to see this. ” There was only one screen functioning and on that screen a map of the city was shown. Red blinking dots were in almost every corner of an unimaginable neighborhood. “What are we looking at?” Morris asked. “Distribution points,” I said out loud to myself as the feeling of sinking in my stomach grew. “For the compound. ” Reeves’ face hardened. “I get it, listen up! I want teams at every one of those locations now-hazmat suits mandatory, folks until we know which of these things requires our contact. ” Just as the command center became a beehive, my phone vibrated inside my pocket. I had nearly forgotten that it was in me. The number was unknown to me but I still picked it up. “Hello?” “Hello Madam, is this Brianne?” a woman asked. Yes, this is her. ” The caller introduces herself as a Nurse from The General Hospital and is calling to discuss Alessandro . To elaborate, the heaviness of the blessings felt within my chest momentarily caused me to hold my breath. “Is he okay?” We both fell silent for a while and, for what seemed a fleeting second, I thought it was over. Then: “Well, Ms. Brianne, it’s my great pleasure to tell you that Mr. Alessandro has just regained consciousness, and he’s asking for you. ” It appeared as if the whole world had shifted off its axis. After all the stressing and paining, after all that we have undergone in order to find that some positive has occurred, then suddenly it hits like a hurricane. Alessandro was awake. He was alive. Putting down the phone, I see myself reflected on a dark TV screen. Finally, even for the Gods, I must have resembled more than just a vagrant who has been through hell: I was grimy, puffy, to say the very least, my eyes looked demented, bloodshot, and swollen, as if I had not slept for days. But for the first time in these what seemed to be endless times, I smiled. We still had a long journey lying in front of us. This incredible city had descended into pandemonium, The Raven’s agents were still wandering around, and people were still dying. But Alessandro was awake. And surprisingly, deep down in my heart, I was fully aware that together we would be able to do something to rectify the situation. “Chase,” I started to Chase, looking at Chase and Zoe. “Let’s go to the hospital, there is somebody we need to go and see. ”

Zoe asked “Who’s that?”

Chase smiled and said “Alessandro”Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.