Dangerous Games Part 13: Eye in the Sky
Part 13 : Eye in the Sky
Part 12: Trust Nobody
Part 11: No Honor Among Men Dangerous Games
Part 10: Light in Darkness
Part 9: Lockdown
Part 8: No Rest for the Wicked Dangerous Games Part 7: A chef, three servers and a bus boy
Part 6: Eye of the Storm
Part 5:Fate worse than Death
Part 4:Blood on the Asphalt
Part 3: Deep Impact
Part 2: Faith in Strangers
Part 1: Into the Heart of Texas
Title: Dangerous Games
Verse: Custom
Genre: Science Fiction, Adventure, Action
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Year: October 1998
Characters: Cassandra, Seth, James Gysborne, Various people
Synopsis: Cassie takes a job and ends up way over her head
Seth grabbed the woman and tried to comfort her but it had no effect. “We can’t just let her die. Come on we have to find a way out of here.”
Wordlessly Cassie ran down the hall until she came to the first door. A quick twist of the knob confirmed it wasn’t locked. Cautiously she opened it up and peered around to find another hallway leading them to multiple doors. “Great,” she whispered. “It’s like a maze down here,” she turned around and motioned for Seth to follow her.
The woman, currently dripping blood due to Gysborne’s well placed cuts, slipped her arm around Seth’s neck and stared at him with a blank expression. The lenses in her eyes provided feedback to Gysborne up in the control room. She understood what her mind was programmed to do, but could not bring out the emotion to successfully make her pain believable. “Do I know you?” She asked Seth.
“No, should you?” Seth said as he carried the woman and followed Cassie.
Cassie found another door, which led towards a service elevator. “This way,” she hissed as she rolled up the cage and waited for them to enter. “She’s bleeding all over the place. Who did this to you?” She whispered as she flicked the switch that would take them to the first floor.
“It was a man, he wants something, he wants me to get something, but I said I wouldn’t,” although she answered Cassie questions, she refused to take her eyes off Seth. “My name is Rose. Do I know you?” She asked once more.
Cassie looked over at Seth as if to say what the fuck as the elevator speed them towards the first floor. The door slid open and she stepped outside only to come face to face with three commandos. “Stop right where you’re at. This doesn’t have to get ugly. All you have to do is hand us the girl.” They said nodding at the woman in Seth’s arms.
“Don’t make me go back,” she said. “Don’t let them hurt me.”
Cassie pulled out the knife from behind her back, flipped it in her hand and threw it at the first commando. It sank deep into his right eye, “Just get her out of here, I’ll be right behind you.” She said as the woman kept mumbling not to let them hurt her.
The commando screamed as the other two opened fired on the three of them.
Seth tried to dodge the bullets but it was hard when you’re carrying a woman who wasn’t right in the head, and cut up herself. All he could do was try to protect her and hope Cassie could get a handle on the situation. He ended up having to tell Rose to go hide while he joined the fight.
"Son of a bitch!" Cassie screamed as the bullet tore through her shoulder. How much more could she take? She felt as if her entire life, no her entire personality took on a complete 180 degrees over the last 48 hours. All she wanted was a little excitement, and to make a little cash stealing some lame microchip and the whole thing turned out to be set up.
Explosions, and commandos became her entire existence and she understood what it was like to kill somebody, how once you cross that line you can never go back. When she was a little girl her father would take her out into the woods and teach her how to shoot soda cans 50 yards away. Over the years she became very good at target practice, she just never knew she'd be using actual men as targets.
Too bad she didn't have a gun at this point. She shifted into water, confusing the commandos and then reformed behind one of them. She placed her hand on the back of his neck and manipulated the blood in his carotid arteries. After he went down she grabbed his gun, dropped down behind him and used him as a human shield as she fired at the commandos going after Seth.
It was useless, she already saw the bullets tear into him but at least he got the girl safely out of harm’s way. She knew when mass amounts of blood spattered across her face, that he was okay as well. Closing her eyes she wiped them out and ran towards Seth as he killed the last of the commandos. "Seth!" She called out to him as she ran towards him. Red lights began to flash over head. "I'm here!" She yelled running towards the door that looked as if it was going to seal itself shut.
She slid underneath it just as it slammed shut and found the woman huddling in the corner staring at Seth as if he was her world. Little did she know that everything she witnesses was being transmitted back to Gysborne.
"Seth look," she pointed towards the numbers on the elevator, "One more level and were above ground. What are we going to do with her?" Cassie asked softly, she didn't have the answers and didn't know what to do.
“I guess we take her with us,” Seth said. “Come on.”
Wordlessly she ran behind Seth and the red headed woman who seemed to carry a slight obsession with him. Seth was extraordinary, a marvel, something she'd never seen before but she worried he might be taking on too much. Not that it was any of her business, but he helped her and now they were helping another woman who just happened to come out of nowhere.
"Nowhere," she whispered as she continued to follow the man who once was her savior but somehow ended up being her partner. "She came out of nowhere, sliced in a fashion she'd seen once before. A pattern she recognized. As she continued to walk she looked down at the palms of her hands and then her shoulders. Although she could not see her skin because it was covered in fabric she knew she once had scars from the exact same cuts in the exact same places.
"Stop," she called out. Yanking the woman by the back of her shirt. She lifted it over her head and saw the incisions in her back. "Don't move okay," she said softly running her finger over the fresh cuts. The woman simpered but Cassie dug her fingernail into the wound and pulled out a tiny piece of metal nearly a fourth of an inch and held it at eye level. "I thought I recognized this kind of work, I've had the same incision done to me, not by him but by somebody else," she handed the implant to Seth, "Gysborne’s been watching us the entire time, through her eyes. Everything she sees is being sent back to him on his computer."