Then all the lights went out and, for a moment, there was only darkness. Red emergency lights went on in the infirmary and hallway.
She heard knocks on the door and ran over there with a gun in his hand when she heard a familiar voice.
“Eve? Are you there?” Asked Aiden on the other side of the door. “I can't open it!”
Aiden was screaming from the hallway. The girl tried to move the door which, after the power outage, was stuck.
The two went to the glass that divided the infirmary from the corridor. Evelin could see that the boy was scared. He carried his guns and she imagined that they missed each other in their ways.
“Eve, what's going on?”
“It's the Chaos Agents! They broke into the base, help me open the door.”
Any effort of theirs was in vain. In the hallway, Aiden began to hear footsteps and then pointed his machine gun. Upon seeing this movement, the girl looked at where he was aiming and saw the man with a dreadlock ponytail.
He walked slowly towards Aiden with his sword sheathed in hand. His red clothes looked old and worn and his dreadlocks swayed with her footsteps. Evelin despaired and continued to force the door, without getting any results.
“Stop!” Cried Aiden trying to sound intimidating. “Or I'll shoot!”
The man took the handle of the sword, but instead of removing the blade, he pressed a button and the technological cable separated from the rest, turning into a pistol.
“You're Aiden MacCoy, aren't you? The chosen one?” Spoke the agent of chaos in a softer voice than Evelin expected.
The man pressed a button on the sheath and a barrier was project in a circle in front of him. The girl knew when the barrier became visible and did not occupy the entire body of the individual it was more resistant, exchanging area for force.
Aiden began firing with his machine gun, but before burning the shield, the man fired a singleshot of his laser pistol at Aiden's gun, throwing it away. Trying not to despair, Aiden took his own pistol and fired again. The chaos agent attached the pistol to the sword and became the handle of the weapon again, pulling the metal blade and running toward Aiden.
The boy unloaded all his ammunition, however the shield held everything, and the man was fast approaching.
It was all too fast in the boy's mind. In an instant the man was in front of him and the next on his back. He heard a noise of metal falling to the ground and a lot of blood in front of him followed by Evelin's muffled scream inside the infirmary.
The scream caused Aiden to regain his focus. He saw a severed hand with his pistol lying on the ground in a blood can, then, as he looked at his own hand, he noticed blood gushing from the stump on his arm.
The boy felt he had to scream, but nothing came out of his mouth, he couldn't act. He saw the necklace hanging from his neck that was supposed to give determination, something that became an empty symbol for him.
“But I am the chosen one...”
He heard several shots being fired and looked out the window where Evelin was trying to destroy the glass with her gun. The armored glass was sturdy and was taking longer than he would hope.
“Then you really are the chosen one.” He heard the voice of man coming from your back. “Listen, kid, it's nothing personal, but I need to do this.”
Evelin saw the man aiming Aiden at his back with the sword handle again in the shape of a pistol when the glass finally broke. She figured Aiden would get a prosthesis like Pardalis', that she could finally kill this agent of chaos and that everything would be fine.
But before jumping through the opening he created, the man shot with his laser gun at Aiden. Once in the head, four more against the body. He did not know how much Aiden's barrier had held, yet he was now lying with his blood spreading across the floor.
Evelin finally jumped and the chaos agent had disappeared down the dark corridor. She arrived at his colleague's body, placing him in her lap. He was still alive, which greatly relieved the girl; however, he did not seem well. Blood flowed from his mouth and he was extremely pale. Evelin was bloodied while trying to help his colleague.
“Eve...” said the boy without strength “I'm going to save the world, right?”
“Of course!” She said trying to take the boy to the infirmary. “You will come back much stronger and end these Chaos Agents.”
The boy smiled imagining this future. But his smile disappears, and all Evelin saws was a cold, emotionless expression.
“Hang in there, Aiden. You're going to get better.” She started sobbing with tears running down her face. “You're going to be fine, Aiden. Aiden! Talk to me!”
She just didn't want to accept it. She couldn't accept that he was dead. Evelin put him in one of the beds and collapsed on his chest, hoping he would get up even though she knew it was impossible.
Aiden was dead and there was nothing she could do about it.
She rose holding his tears with a huge determination. She took her gun and went back into the hallway trying to focus all his thoughts on a single mission.
The man was already gone, had completely ignored her actions and left. Evelin knew the direction he should have gone and started running as fast as she could.
She got up the stairs where there was a trail of blood footprints up. She continued to follow his target's trail until she reached the top floor. In the hallway leading to the bridge, she saw two dead guards and no Chaos Agents around.
Despite the power outage, the bridge door still worked and opened when the girl passed. Inside the room she saw the marshal and the man in the ponytail face to face. Despite the lack of electricity,
