CHAPTER THREE
“A City had reported a confirmed sighting of her just before I called you,” Clinton started. “And yet she was here as well. Reports from C, F, and L City came as well while I was on the car,”
Clinton played a CCTV clip from the train station which showed the mysterious girl waiting to board the train. Like the first video they were shown, the camera couldn’t capture her properly.
“According to the passengers that have seen the monster, this girl had been left in the last train car because she was asleep during the commotion. But—we certainly did not see her body; dead or alive,” Alec reported.
Clinton nodded as he pulled the next clip. It showed the different places with monsters dying in the same way. “5 monsters turned to dust last night at the same time. Despite the reports, there are no camera evidences that she was at the scene. So, we cannot eliminate the possibility that she is not alone with a power like that,”
Clinton threw a folder towards the center table in front of Jet which the younger man quickly took and opened in complete curiosity. Alec leaned down on the back of the sofa to read over Jet’s shoulder. It contained pictures. The first one was taken three years ago; at the start of the Freakquency.
The buildings in the first photo were almost destroyed and the only evidence that there were monsters was the burned shape of them on the ground. Jet turned to the next photo. It was almost the same. As they progressed over the photos, the damage that was made were slowly getting smaller as if the one who did it was finally able to control it.
“The higher ups suspected that this is made by the same person,” Clinton stated.
Alec sighed. “If it is, her losing control of her mind would mean disaster. With a power like that, it won’t be impossible for her to destroy everything,”
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“Hello? Hello? Can anyone hear me? Please! The Hotel de Royale—go there tonight. Be there!”
A voice startled Jet awake from his slumber. He groggily stood up from his naked bed and looked around his small apartment. But he was alone. There was no one else with him and even his TV was off. Thinking he was only dreaming, he stood up from his bed and walked towards his bathroom to get grudgingly ready for work.
As he was leaving, he realized that he forgot his house key inside. With a groan, he left his door unlock as he was too lazy to go back inside to look for it. It wasn’t like there was anything to steal from him. He quickly hailed a taxi before he remembered that he had no money. He got into the taxi and texted Alec to wait for him outside.
As the taxi stopped by the sidewalk in front of Alec, he quickly realized why his troublemaker of a partner asked him to wait there. He pulled his wallet out of his pocket as Jet exited the vehicle. He knocked on the driver’s window and gave him a few bills.
“You know, if you don’t have money don’t ride the taxi,” Alec scolded as he and Jet walked inside the building.
Jet answered with a laugh. “But then I’d be late. You also wouldn’t want that,”
Alec pulled Jet down and locked his neck between his arm and waist. He then repeatedly dug his fist in the middle of Jet’s head. “I suggest you start waking up early, kid!”
“Oww! Ooowww! Alec! Stop! I’m not a kid!” Jet groaned repeatedly as he was dragged towards the elevator by Alec.
But the older man hadn’t stopped. He clicked the elevator button without letting go of Jet. But when they were inside, Jet managed to get free and when Alec made another move towards him he raised his hands in defense. Alec stopped in mid-movement. He stared at Jet’s hand before he raised his eyes towards Jet’s. And the younger man saw that he had made a mistake.
Alec lunged towards him again and just in time for the elevator doors to open, he finished Jet with a one arm shoulder throw. The people waiting for the elevator jumped to the side as Jet landed to the tiled floor with a loud thud that disturbed the silence of the office. All eyes landed on his writhing figure on the floor as Alec stepped out of the elevator nonchalantly dusting his hands.
“Next time,” he started, stopping in front of Jet. “Don’t raise your hands against me, kid,”
“I’ll make sure to remember that,” Jet answered with a groan as he stood up from the floor holding his hips. “I think you broke my hips,”
“Be thankful that’s all I broke,” Alec said before he started to drag Jet towards the training room. “You’ve been neglecting your trainings,”
Jet turned to him, his eyes yelling betrayal. “How’d you know that?”
Alec then threw Jet towards the mat in the middle of the room. “Jessa told me. So, before I break any other parts of you, I suggest you start warming up,”
Jet begrudgingly went to warm up. And the two of them spent the time with Alec training him with all those he had missed. He knew his partner was trying to make him regret not attending his daily trainings but he also knew he’ll just be quick to ditch it as soon as he got the chance.
“Busy day today, Alec?” Eliza asked as she entered the training room with her partner, Ronnie.
Alec nodded. “Someone is neglecting his training,”
Ronnie laughed out loud. “Damn Jet. You just never learn, do you man?”
Jet only gritted his teeth in answer as the two left them alone to get their own trainings down.
His madman training only stopped for lunch with an hour-long break as Alec finished typing a report for their job at the intersection the night before. Then, after Alec gave Clinton his report, he called Jet again for the continuation of his training.
By nightfall, Jet was ready to sleep in his hard bed. He’ll welcome the old bed with open arms if it meant Alec would stop throwing him around. After another failed attempt to sweep Alec off his feet, Jet hadn’t stood up from the floor. He stared at the ceiling, cursing his partner silently in his head.
“I hate to interrupt you pulverizing Jet but I need you two outside,” Clinton interrupted just as Alec was ordering Jet to stand up again.
“Hey!” Jet contradicted. “He was not pulverizing me!”
Clinton nodded just to humor him. “Yeah, we’ll debate about it later. Right now, you need to go to Hotel de Royale,”
“Hotel de Royale?” Jet asked as he sat up in shock; remembering the words he heard that morning.
“Yes,” Clinton answered. “It seemed like a busboy with an outdated earphone transformed there. And I want you to take care of it,”
Alec quickly took a pill and ate it before he ordered Jet to do the same. Once they had consumed the pill that would stop the symptoms of the Freakquency to hurt them, the two of them removed their earphones that were modified with electromagnetic shielding to deflect the said static wave.
“Hold on, Jet. There’s no time to take a taxi,” Alec said and Jet quickly grabbed hold of his shirt.
With another nod and a reminder to be careful, Clinton watched the two men in front of him vanish.
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