At Luther's Apartment
"You know Gary, you remind me of Eric….."
"I do?", Gary expressed with a slight smile, while both Gillian and him were standing up.
"Yes. You do. So tell me, Gary, don't you want to make sure that no one gets the same fate as your father? Don't you want to help this fellow friend here do justice for the people she has lost?", Gillian asked quietly.
Gary was staring at her eyes, probably trying to make a decision based on what she asked.
But suddenly Gillian's eyes shrunk and she turned around with flashing speed, "Gary, somebody's coming here, you can hear the footsteps!"
Gary heard them a bit later and quickly held Gillian's hand, "Hey, let's escape from here, these guys aren't safe, they are gonna kill me instantly as I am most probably of no use anymore. And you are gonna be at danger too-", Gary was about to speak more, but Gillian interrupted and said, "Wait. I didn't come here to run away. I have some work to do here, that's the first step."
Gary was confused again, but he trusted her words completely and stopped the panic.
A man came running, with a gun in his hand. It was Luther.
He was about to ask who it was, but as soon as he looked at Gillian, a shock appeared on his face. As he was pointing the gun towards both of them, he spoke, " Yo-You? Why are you here rescuing him? You know him?"
"Yes I do. He is my boyfriend. I have something to talk to you, first put your gun down.", Giliian's voice suddenly started ordering.
As soon as Gary heard her words, he turned his head towards her and kept looking, trying to understand why she said so. "It is something related to her plan of us escaping, right.", he concluded in his mind.
"Huh? Who do you think you are? Ordering me to put the gun down?", Luther pointed the gun fully towards her this time.
"Sorry if that was what it seemed like, but I am not ordering, I am here asking for help. A business deal if you want.", Gillian answered, this time spreading her hands further, indicating she isn't preparing any traps.
"What kind of deal? Is that why you bought a room here in the first place?", Luther came closer.
"Yes you're right. Now listen, I'm 'V'", Gillian's words hit Luther right on his head, and he let his guards down by putting his gun down.
Now, the words wouldn't be enough for him to be convinced. Coming up, he couldn't access any of the cameras in the officeroom. Only an expert hacker would be able to control those cameras from outside, and 'V' was the perfect example.
Not only that, in his last project with Elias, where they had to protect both themselves and 'The Ghost' from TGC, Luther made a deal with 'V', and ordered 'him' to steal the safe and hack the cameras and shut them down. Luther gave 'him' related addresses.
All of these clicked and completed the puzzle of uncertainty in Luther's mind after hearing her words.
"I see. So you understand. Do you know about O3 too? Elias told you everything, right?", Gillian got closer as well.
"Yes, he has. But how do you know him?", Luther asked, standing still, having his gun in his right hand. A few guards had gathered behind Luther, but his hand signs made them be passive.
"I have something to take care of from O3 you see, just like Elias. I assume he told you about his intentions, yes, mine are similar to his. Here, I invented these glasses that can detect the 'O3 Device', usually placed on their workers' necks.", Gillian brought out an eyewear from her pocket and showed it to Luther, "I made this in order to detect O3 workers in public, and execute them in private, to slowly erase O3. And then one day I saw Elias Blackwood having that device on him.", Luther got curious.
"To execute them?", Gary thought, but kept silent.
She continued, "At first I thought I found another worker, but he was guarded all the time, so I started stalking him, to get more information. And then I got an order from you, which gave me more information regarding what's happening with my brother.."
"Your brother?", Luther interrupted her then and there.
"Yes. You might know him as Ralph. But don't worry. I know he is dead, and I don't hold any anger towards you or Elias for whatever happened to my brother."
"B-But", Luther was shocked.
"That is not the important part right now.", she paused for a bit, "After knowing that Elias was just another victim of O3 and not a worker, I came here as an ordinary person to buy a room. And then, finally today, is the perfect time for me to tell you this as they have taken away Elias. Is that enough information for you to trust and help me?"
Luther was completely silent, trying to understand the situation he was standing in.
After thinking for a full minute, he finally breaks the silence with, "I understand. V, I will help you. Afterall, I don't want Elias to die either."
"Thank you, I'll be in debt. Now, I request you to drive us three to O3, me, Gary and you."
"B-But only us three? Shouldn't I also take my guards with us? We'll have more firepower in our hands then!"
"The thing is, we can't compete with O3 in terms of physical power, and we have to be sneakier than powerful. Do you understand? Having more people means getting caught easily."
"And…..Wait. Everything Elias did was to know where exactly this O3 headquarters is, and you're asking me to drive us there? Isn't the location the secret after all? How am I supposed to know where that is?"
"Yes of course. You see, I actually know the location of O3, the last time I went there…", Gillian all of a sudden paused, her voice breaking a little, but she continued, "I hid there a tracker. Seems like it is still there. After many years, I have finally found a situation where I can go back there, but for a greater purpose, not just revenge….."
Near the O3 headquarters,
The device hanging on the wall of the car's insides now displayed '1 minute left'.
"Take that way, the left one.", two masked men were sitting in the pilot of the car, the one beside the driver instructed the driver.
The driver silently turned the car towards the left road. A glass breaking sound suddenly hit their ears, "What was that?"
The masked men started to panic and stopped the car immediately. As the second one started coming down from the pilot, he heard a voice from the back saying, "Hey don't leave me here!"
Then the driver prepared to came out too. The second man ran and opened the back door to see what happened.
He saw that Lucian Cole was half-standing inside with a terrified expression on his face.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me!", he started screaming in fear, "He ran away through the window!"
The masked man was so confused that he couldn't understand what happened. How could he run away from such a small window? And now it is broken. And the door was locked as well.
As soon as he stepped inside the car, a person all of a sudden appeared in front of him and grabbed his neck, throwing him out of the car.
The driver reached the behind of the car and immediately got grabbed by Lucian.
"Elias! Be aware, he can blow up any second, and you'll be dead too!", Lucian shouted as he was holding the driver.
"I won't give him any chance to!", Elias immediately stabbed the man with a piece of big glass in the stomach. The man screamed in pain as an immense amount of blood came out of his stomach.
Just then and there, Elias threw him away from himself, and the half-alive body of the man became fully dead as it blew up, in front of them.
The masked driver was now in Lucian's hand, clearly trembling and shaking. Elias screamed from a distance, "Lucian! Kill him too! You'll die otherwise!"
Lucian quickly picked up the piece of glass Elias threw at him.
"Please don-", the trembling body of the driver stopped shaking as Lucian stabbed him in the stomach too, and he threw him away from him as quickly as he could. But Lucian's curiosity couldn't stop him from unmasking him before he could throw him away.
The last thing he could see was tears coming out of the driver's bare eyes, before the body blew up into pieces.
Both Elias and Lucian were sweating, with adrenaline flowing through their bodies.
"Lucian! Come up quickly!", Elias was already entering the pilot, and Lucian was still behind the car.
"Yes I am!", Lucian quickly came up and sat beside Elias, who was about to drive the car.
But something was going through Lucian's mind as the car accelerated towards O3…
I'm sorry, Dorian Vanholt, brother of Elias Blackwood. I wouldn't have killed you if the situation was even a little different…..