Initialization

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“What is wrong with this thing? Why didn’t the bombs go off?”

as one of the guys from the bank threw the remote control to the outside of the car. As soon as the remote hit the ground, screeching sounds of car tires filled the air and the car which carries the guys from the bank is now surrounded by SWAT lead by Hawk and Robert.

“Don’t even think about it!” Robert said to one guy who was about to pick his gun up, as he pointed out a semi-automatic machine gun and a high-powered pistol to the guy’s face.

Amy took a hop from the side of the car she was hiding from and dashed right inside the bank.

“Kurt! Kurt!”

She rushed to him and quick as a lightning bolt she untied him and removed his blindfold. Slowly, his vision comes from faded to much focus, and bit by bit he can see a beautiful smile of relief painted on the girl’s pretty face.

He took her hand to thank her and said,

“Thank you, but who are you?”

The question pierced a deep hole in her emotions and tears fell from her eyes without her intention. The tears rolled down and Kurt felt more of a pain than of guilt about what just had happened.

A scene from his vague memory played his thoughts, a vision of tears rolling down from the same pair of eyes he now is facing. He was snatched from his painful flashback by a smirk the girl just released.

“It’s me, Amy.”

“Amy?”  Kurt started to think of the girl Amy from HQ, then with a moment of comparing the two he said,

“Amy Baker? But how could… Who is… How did this… What is happening?” he cannot even finish a single sentence properly in his surprise and disbelief.

The Amy he knew was a shy, emo girl with a gloomy face that was lost in her own world, or so he thinks, but the Amy who had just saved his butt has the face of the calm sea, the confidence of a general, the hair of a princess, the eyes of the sky, lips of an angel and her beauty is divine.

The girl smiled as she motioned to wipe her eyes and said,

“they don’t call me plover for nothing. I’m the queen of distraction, thus the queen of disguise.”

“Then what do you look like normally? How is the real you? Please tell me this is who you really are.”

Kurt asked with confusion still drawn to his eyes.

“I had no time to dress well for I had to fly her to save your sorry ass again! Just stay on your nest for pete’s sake. And as for who I really am, you of all people would know.”

She said almost whispering the last part as she stood and untied the others. Kurt fell motionless to what the girl just said but something unexplainable from inside him stopped him from asking why. Somehow his inner self understood what she said even though his mind hasn’t got a clue about it.

“The car’s right outside, wait for me there I’ll clean the mess here first. Meet up with Hawk and Robert outside.”  Commanded  Amy.   

Briskly yet mildly, he made his way to the open door, through the obstacles made by groupings of people. Kurt reached the outside of the bank while walking, his chin sunk in his chest.

“Hey kid! Come over here.” Robert called to Kurt. Kurt looked up and kept his head high while he walked towards him to heed his call.

“Good job sir.” Hawk said as he bowed to get back in their car. Robert stared at Kurt with a blank face but with glad eyes. He tapped Kurt’s shoulder and walked past him and entered the car from the other side. Kurt felt good with those tiny gestures of appreciation but wondered why do these things feel familiar, it felt like that it was an everyday thing for him but in reality that was the very first time he went through a circumstance of the sort.

Series    : Claws of the Phoenix
Episode   : 005
Title     : Initialization
Published : 09-Sep-2021
Author :  © RB