the unwritten thruths of mercy

1

Before their was a takeover, or when Bradley was important, their was seven agents, all joined by Harold Seifel. Harold was very old, in his nineties, but he still fought like his fellows, with his special powers. He reached into his P.A. system and called to the whole building, “All Agents, report to the meeting room, bring your minions if you want, all Agents come.”

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The third agent, Josephine Halibeli was the third agent back then. Her minion, Jessica Conta was at the ready. Josephine got up and walked over to her huge aquarium, and fed her fish and aquatic life.

“Should we head over?” Jessica asked, and Josephine closed the top to the aquarium. “Yes.” Josephine calmly stated, and picked up a needle with light blue liquid and plunged it into her pocket. She walked over to the door, and then walked down the hallway, to the elevator.

“Coming?” she asked Jessica.

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The fourth agent was named Silvia. She turned towards her minions. Joyce Garner and Hachi Child. The two looked at Silvia, and she smiled, and picked up a needle filled with pink liquid.

“Are you using it?” Joyce asked.

“The…injection?” Hachi gasped.

“It’s for the evaluation. We must all use it.” Silvia said, and she turned, hips swinging. Her room was in a corner, down the hallway. The top three agents got suites. The fourth and fifth had ground floor rooms, the sixth and seventh had basement rooms. Silvia smiled, and walked down the hall. Morgan and Josephine were coming down the elevators, respectably. Bradley must have made it to the room first. Silvia smiled. She hoped she would get a better position. Maybe she’d get a suite.

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The fifth agent, Norman was directly across the hall. Unlike any of the Agents, he had no minions, and was meditating at the moment. He then got up and looked at his necklaces. The one with the emerald changed, and formed into a needle. Norman looked at his clothes, and changed the t-shirt and boxer shorts into a polo and pants. He smiled and got up.

His powers were allusions, and used them all the time, to hide things, or to not be lazy to change clothes. He was wearing the same clothes for a week, but to other people, he looked like he changed every day. His dark green emerald crystal was actually his power, his power was needed.

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The sixth agent, Chico was a very young guy, just out of college, who happened to be very eccentric. He was bright, and everywhere he went smiled and looked happy. His three minions were Samson Higgins, Samuel Corsogen and Stanley Norsan. They followed behind with designer outfits made by Chico. Chico also had the eye for fashion. On the way out the door, he grabbed a periwinkle color-needle and headed upstairs.

“What is that for?” Samson asked.

“Silly. My powers, of-” Chico said, until Samuel said, “What is this meeting for?”

“Silly number two!” Chico exclaimed. “Hmmhmm! An evaluation.”

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Rebecca snapped her hands, and appearing was her lime green needle. Frieda Goodwill and Ruby Cube appeared out of their rooms, and came towards Rebecca and smiled. She smiled back.

“Ready ladies?” Rebecca asked, and Frieda and Ruby nodded.

“Are you going full out?” Frieda asked.

“And, will you be fine?” Ruby wanted to know.

“Yes, and yes.” Rebecca said, and continued, “Watch me.”

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“Hello everyone, thanks for coming. It is now time to start the examination.” Harold boomed, and the six other agents stood up, and walked to the middle of the room. Suddenly, a wall opened up, and a sort of gym appeared. Everyone looked inside, except the agents to find a training facility.

“Highest goes first. This decides what you will be. Improve me. I want all your powers. The strongest powers and the weakest powers. If you win, you’ll stay or move higher. Sometimes, luckily just a bit lower. Sometimes, smaller. But, you can be dropped completely. Try to show me, and succeed. Let’s begin.”

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“It is simple. One by one, you will perform your power. You need to punch as many bags in five seconds, and then work with some other obstacles, including, wood chopping and various exercises. Lastly, you need to fight ten people. You’ll be timed, but there are other things that qualify you.”

Harold’s six minions came out of the shadows. Mike, Sean, Chris, Tim, Everett and Russell. They guarded Harold and Harold smiled. Harold thought more minions was better because you never got a chance to know them. He hated relationships. The other agents disappeared to the corners of the room as Morgan stepped to the tasks.

“Gem Blast.” Morgan shouted, and smoke engulfed everyone. Morgan had transformed into a person encrusted with jewels and gems. On her shoulder was a barrel gun, but looked as though it could through something more powerful. Morgan smiled and then said, “Let’s begin.”

Harold started the watch and Morgan punched all the bags she could in five seconds, destroyed a dummy and overcame a series of obstacles. When she came to the ten people, Morgan appeared before them and she picked up her gun. “Gem Strike!” She shot gems, which flew at over one hundred miles per hour, striking them down. She flew up and kicked the last person, and swung into the air, all the gems turned white. “Crystal Crossing.” She then shot a bright white beam down upon the people.

She returned to the middle and looked up breathing heavily. Harold nodded, and she returned to her regular self. She looked over at Zak and Lisa, who had their mouths open in shock.

“I thought she was really lazy.” Zak muttered to Lisa.

“Not anymore.” Lisa whispered.

Once Morgan had left, everyone watched as Josephine stepped to the middle of the floor. She raised the aqua-filled liquid needle and plunged it into her skin. She whispered, “Shark Fang.” Josephine turned into nothing but had an outfit or shark bone and skin. She had a huge weapon, which looked like a shark fang.

Josephine moved quickly and she disappeared into the light. She then punched the bas swiftly, and ran over to the other obstacles, easily beating them. From her view, Jessica smiled and looked as her master went through the obstacles. When Josephine got to the ten people, she raised her shark fang weapon and called out, "Waterfall!" A torrent of water rushed through the people, some were getting nervous, for Josephine had disappeared. She was in the middle of the ten people. As everyone lunged towards her, she muttered, “Breath of Cold.” And freezing water came in waves towards the entire group.

Josephine looked up. She had defeated the ten people. She then returned to normal and left to a corner.

Silvia stood up. She went to the middle of the floor. “Numbera!”

Silvia transformed into wearing a dress with numbers on it. She also was carrying a large bracelet with spikes. Silvia punched, and kicked through the obstacle course. She came upon the ten people and shouted, “Holder: Number 3.” A barrier appeared, and the ten people were surrounded by yellow walls.

“Passage: Number 2.” At the top of the barrier box, a hole opened up. The ten people were shivering. Silvia smiled.

“Deathbringer Numbers: Number 1.” She whispered, and a big gust of air rushed into the box. Silvia dropped the bracelet. The bracelet swung around inside as it cut everything up.

Silvia came back to the middle of the floor and smiled. She then left to sit down. Joyce and Hachi were secretly applauding.

Norman came to the middle of the room and looked at everyone and smiled, he then raised his hand, where the needle was. “Allusions.” He quietly said. Going through the course, he did fairly well, not as good as the top three. He appeared to disappear when he reached the ten people. “Control.” He whispered, and all the minds of the ten people were in his position. “Finis.” The ten fell, as Norman left the area. He vanished and appeared thirty feet away.

Chico smiled and stood up. He waltzed to the center of the room and held his periwinkle-liquid filled needle and plunged it. “Sparkle!” he shouted, and Chico turned into a sort-of butterfly, but the wings weren’t made to fly. The wings were purple, and looked less solid, more like liquid. Chico grinned and his mouth turned purple. His clothes changed as well, to something like a swimming trunks. He was not muscular at all.

Chico moved a bit quickly, but was not as great as everyone else. He did okay, but when he reached the ten people, he did an amazing job. “Paralyze.” Chico yelled, and out of his mouth and wings emitted an orange powder, which engulfed the ten people. Each one fell over with their faces looking very scared.

“Our boss is really scary.” Samson said, as Stanley and Samuel nodded.

“He’s a good guy.” Stanley said.

“Except for making us wearing this cheesy outfits.” Samuel frowned.

Rebecca stood up as Ruby and Frieda locked eyes onto her. Rebecca smiled and she stood in the middle of the floor. She screamed, as she plunged the lime-green liquid into her bloodstream. “Forest Clone!” and she turned into an outfit of leaves and grass. She had a huge knife on her back. She maneuvered through the course, and when coming to the ten people, yelled, “Leaf Knives!” leafs, sharp as swords flew out of her knife, and captured the people to the floor. “Energy Give!” Rebecca screamed, and she then followed with some clones which surrounded the ten people. Energy flowed into her, and she was smiling very happily. She had finished her goals.

Down in Agent 7’s rooms, Frieda and Ruby sat at a table, while Rebecca changed clothes.

“You did a good job, Rebecca!” Frieda squealed, as Ruby nodded. Rebecca looked happy but frowned.

“I really don’t know what’s going to happen.” she muttered.

“Rebecca, please.” Ruby told Rebecca, “You were way better than Chico. You could probably beat him!”

“Well maybe, but he didn’t quite show all his powers.”

“What do you mean?” Frieda asked.

“He has more up his sleeve.” Rebecca muttered, and motioned to Frieda, “Can you make some sandwiches?”

Frieda nodded and asked, “Can we train after?”

Ruby grinned. “Let’s train! Maybe I will be an agent one day, so I’ll need the practice.”

Frieda laughed, “I’ll try to surpass you first.” she shouted.

Ruby grunted. “I’ve won the last ten matches.”

Frieda slammed a slice of pastrami on to a slice of white bread hardly and snapped, “We’ve only had nine fights.”

Ruby smiled. “I’m counting today’s as well.” Frieda hurled tomato and lettuce to the squished pastrami on white. She started on her own and Rebecca’s. Rebecca liked salmon, Frieda liked ham.

“Don’t count your eggs before there hatched.” Frieda whispered.

“Another southern saying?” Ruby laughed.

Frieda threw the pastrami sandwich at Ruby, who almost got smacked in the head with it. Frieda carefully placed Rebecca’s and her own sandwich smoothly on the table. Ruby looked at her sandwich and frowned.

“I hate pastrami.” she whispered.

“That was the only meat left.” Frieda growled, as she chomped on her ham sandwich.

“It has mayo and mustard on it. I don’t like those sauces.” Ruby scathingly said.

“Suck it up, you fussy.” Frieda snapped.

“And most importantly,” Ruby yelled, “This sandwich ISN’T IN A CUBIST SHAPE!”

“And for some unknown reason, we all survived.” Frieda contemplated.

Ruby stood up, and she screamed, “Time to fight! You and me!” Ruby then went into the food to the left, which was the gym. Rebecca looked anxious, but followed with her salmon on artichoke hearts sandwich. Frieda stood up and grabbed her martini glass. Rebecca looked worried, but said nothing and sat on the bench.

Ruby stood to the right, while Frieda was on the left. Ruby growled her voice, while Frieda smashed her teeth.

“Begin.” Rebecca called.

Ruby dashed towards Frieda and threw some kunai and shrunken. Frieda ducked the colorful and plastic weapons and sprung into a flip. She called out to Ruby, “You can’t win like that!” Frieda then ran towards Ruby and tried to hit her with her martini glass. Ruby ducked, but Frieda stepped back.

Frieda then pulled out a clear dagger. The dagger was made of glass, but could still hurt Ruby. Ruby pulled out three rings. One was a square, another a triangle, and the third was a circle.

“Let’s start with Easy!” Ruby yelled and she threw the orange square towards Frieda. The square grew sharp and came fast towards Frieda. Frieda pulled the knife down and it easily cut the square in two.

“Medium!” Ruby smiled, and threw the triangle, who’s points were very sharp. Ruby flung it, and Frieda tried to cut it in half, but the dagger only cut half-way through.

“Sorry Frieda! Half-way won’t cut it!”

Frieda pushed the triangle, but it swooped around and then came towards Frieda. Frieda put all her force into the swing, but it only went three-fourths. Frieda dodged the ring, and she knew what to do. She waited for the triangle to come back, and she cut through so hard that the dagger forced it’s way down to the ground. The triangle ring broke in two.

“Hard!” Ruby called, and Frieda watched as the spear turned into a large shrunken and was thrown towards Frieda. It was made of metal, and could not be broken easily. Frieda dodged the circle, but it rebounded. Frieda vanished.

Ruby gasped, but tried to find her. She appeared behind Ruby, and raised the dagger. Suddenly, Rebecca was between the two.

“You two did good, but we don’t want a troublesome fight, do we?” she said, and the two friends smiled and laughed.

Rebecca watched the two laughing girls, and looked to the floor, almost ready to cry.

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“WOOHOO!” Chico called, as he entered the gym. Samson, Samuel and Stanley were working out on the machines and on the track.

“WOOHOO! Guys!” Chico called, and the three turned towards Chico, who smiled, and said, “I just came with a scientific breakthrough!” Chico yelled, and the three guys tried to look amused, but since there was a scientific breakthrough every other day or so, it was rather hard.

“You know when everyone gets sweaty and clammy when they workout?” Chico asked, “I solved the problem! It’s calllllledd….” and Chico pulled out a huge jar. “The Clogonator! It will clog your pores, so the sweat won’t get all over your clothes and stuff! Here, everyone dig in!”

Samson, Samuel and Stanley pulled out a huge glob of the white paste, and covered their pores. Did they trust Chico? Yes. Did they trust his inventions? No.

“Oh! It’s working! Maybe I’ll use it when I work out!” Chico exclaimed and the three minions laughed.

“What? What’s so funny?” Chico asked.

“Your not muscular at all! You couldn’t survive a workout like us!” Samson boomed.

“So?” Chico muttered.

“You wouldn’t last two days in my book.” Samuel yelled.

“I certainly think that you’re being misjudging.” Chico called.

They certainly were not. Samson, Samuel and Stanley don’t take steroids, and still look like they have. Since they were younger the three trained out every day, and since then have had huge muscles and as Chico said, “Steroid taker looks.”

Chico on the other hand, was lighter than a brick and could be pushed over easily by anyone. He had no pecks, biceps, packs or anything. He was a skinny prawn.

“Chico, you couldn’t do a workout like we do.” Stanley admitted.

Chico looked angry but snapped. “Are any of you the Sixth Agent? Or even an agent? You’re MY minions.” Chico stormed out of the room like a teapot and left the three minions almost angry.

“Who the heck does he think he is?” Stanley yelled, but Chico was right. He was more powerful. But muscle wise, he sucked.

“Don’t get on his bad side.” Samson told the other two. “Remember his powers at the examination? The paralyzing act?”

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Norman went inside his meditation room and sat down. He closed his eyes, and thought. He thought of the past, present and future.

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Silvia walked with Joyce and Hachi towards the room. Silvia was thinking about the choices by Harold. Joyce and Hachi were practicing moves with each other, and did a fake fight. Joyce worked with four swords. Hachi however, used cannons from his cannon that he carried around his neck like a necklace. When he wanted, the cannon would grow a bit bigger, like a gun and fired cannons.

Silvia watched the two and thought of the whole examination. It was tough to compete with Josephine and Morgan, but still…

Hachi and Joyce left the field and came to the bench and sat down.

“Are you worried?” Joyce asked, and Hachi looked anxious.

“No.” Silvia said, and she tried to laugh, but it came out like a dying cat.

“Silvia, don’t be worried. You won’t go down.” Hachi told her, but Silvia still looked at the ground.

“Don’t fret.” Joyce said, and Silvia got up. “Who wants to practice?” she asked.

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Josephine and Jessica were fighting each other. Jessica threw seeds towards Josephine, but she raised her sword, and ice flew to freeze the seeds. Jessica was wearing her fighting outfit which looked like nature vs. girl power.

Jessica jumped in mid-air and called, “Branch!” and a branch flung towards Josephine. She ducked to avoid it, and the whole branch snapped and crackled under the metal floor’s pressure. Josephine vanished and behind Jessica whispered, “Waterfall.” Jessica saw the blast of sea water and shouted, “Barrier!” and trees blocked the saltwater which fizzed away. Josephine suddenly ran towards the barrier, and cut through it with her sword. Jessica turned and Josephine whispered.

“Breath of Cold.” and a huge ice beam came towards Jessica. She dodged it and then shouted, “Flower Bloom!” Huge flowers bloomed and hid Jessica from Josephine. Josephine smiled and said, “Breath of Cold.” When the icy air touched the flowers, they died and fell and shattered to the ground. Jessica was wide open and Josephine pinned her to the wall.

“Good try.” Josephine said to Jessica and walked out of the gym and sat down on a chair in the kitchen.

“Good job, Josephine. You didn’t even go full force.” Jessica said.

“I didn’t want to kill a friend and a companion, did I?” Josephine asked and took a sip of water. Jessica smiled and said,

“Thank you.”

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“YAWN!” Morgan gasped and she yawned deeply. Lisa and Zak were sitting at chairs next to the couch, where Morgan was extravagantly laid out, looking like a drunken sorority girl.

“Um…Morgan?” Zak asked.

“Yes?” Morgan replied.

“We wanted to fight and train with you.” Lisa asked.

“Okay.” Morgan said and she stood up and stretched.

“Let’s go to our gym.” Morgan and company went to their gym and Morgan said, “Two on one or tag team?”

“Two on one.” Lisa and Zak agreed.

“Fine.” Morgan said and she disappeared. Liz and Zak gasped. She appeared between the two.

“Match over.” she said.

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A older man walked outside the agents office and looked at the building.

“I found it.” the man laughed. A woman saw him and said, “Do you have a place to go? It’s late!”

“Yes, I do.” the man smiled.

“Food and water?” the woman asked.

“All of it.” the man continued.

“What is your name?” she asked.

“Bradley. Bradley Jacobson.”

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Frieda, Ruby and Rebecca were down in the kitchens. While Frieda and Ruby ate, Rebecca didn’t even move.

“Eat up Rebecca!” Ruby shouted, but Rebecca looked at her plate in a sadistic way.

“Rebecca, you’ll do fine!” Frieda exclaimed and ate half of her baked potato.

“I don’t know.” Rebecca muttered. Ruby and Frieda glanced at each other.

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Norman ate in silence.

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Silvia, Joyce and Hachi were gossiping about Bradley in their dining room.

“This Bradley person. Do you think he’ll beat Rebecca?” Hachi asked.

“Undoubtedly.” Joyce replied.

“What about Chico?” Hachi asked.

“The only thing about him is that paralyze technique.” Joyce laughed.

“Actually, no. He has more. He just doesn’t show it.” Silvia interjected.

“What do you mean?” Joyce asked.

“He’s more powerful than you think. He can surpass Norman, and maybe even me.”

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Jessica and Josephine were doing almost the exact opposite of Silvia, Joyce and Hachi. Jessica was eating a Corbin Blue sub while Josephine had halibut, rice and asparagus. Jessica decided to start the conversation.

“Do you know what asparagus does to the endocrine system?” Jessica asked.

“Yes.” Josephine replied and gulped down some halibut.

“You know what is such a coincidence?” Jessica stated. “How your last name is Halibeli and your having Halibut!”

Jessica laughed, but Josephine continued to eat. Jessica sighed.

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Morgan, Zak and Lisa were enjoying their lunches and were talking just a bit about the matches.

“I’ve never seen Harold invite someone like Bradley to fight for a position.” Morgan told Lisa and Zak.

“Will Bradley become an agent?” Lisa inquired.

“He’ll be the next in line, no doubt.” Morgan seethed.

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Up on the top floor, Harold, Sean, Russell, Tim, Mark, Chris and Everett sat at a huge table with their guest, Bradley. As everyone else ate, Bradley said, “For a minute I thought that the agents were you and your minions. How silly of me! Yet, they behave so well! I saw the other agents and minions, and it looked like a free-for-all!”

Harold blushed and told Bradley, “I believe in discipline and fierceness!”

The two were man-giggling and talking the six minions shot looks at each other. Disapproving looks. After several minutes of chit-chat, Harold said, “Let me tell you about Rebecca.”

Bradley smiled.

Russell, Tim, Mark, Sean, Chris and Everett now knew why he got along with Harold.

Bradley wanted information.

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The three elevators shook open, as the top three agents and their minions appeared. Bradley came down with Harold, but one member Chris had to go down with Josephine and Jessica. Silvia, Hachi, Joyce and Norman were walking down the hall. Two elevators on the other side of the hall shook open, as Chico and his three sidekicks appeared in the first, while Rebecca, Ruby and Frieda the second.

The meeting hall was shaped like a huge rectangle, with the table like a half-circle. An outer half-circle table was behind it, where the minions sat. The wall that opened up yesterday was in front, and everyone faced it. The training gym was shown as Rebecca stood to the right of the gym, Bradley to the left.

“Time to start the match! Agent 7 Rebecca versus Bradley, ex-agent 2 of Alaska!”

Shocks of gasps attacked Harold, as agents and minions looked astounded. Some however, kept their atonement inside, then showing it for the public view.

“He’s more powerful than anyone!” Lisa screamed to Morgan.

“Not necessarily.” Morgan told her. “ The National Assassin Group [NAG] picks how many Agents are needed for each state. Anywhere from three to eight agents might be needed. California, Florida, New York and Texas have Eight Agents. Places like Hawaii, Alaska, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Montana and Maine all have three. Bradley might be the 2nd agent, but still he could be weaker than all of us or some of us.”

“But why did the other agents looked so surprised?” Lisa questioned.

“We all thought he was a normal citizen.” Morgan replied and looked at Bradley.

Bradley looked at Harold who winked back. Josephine noticed this and whispered, “What did they plan?” Harold yelled, “BEGIN!”

Rebecca grabbed a knife and threw it towards Bradley. He dodged it, and picked the knife up and threw it at Rebecca. Rebecca stood there looking vicious. Bradley threw the knife at Rebecca, which plunged through her. But, Rebecca turned into smoke. Bradley raised his hand behind him and blocked Rebecca’s second knife. Bradley kicked her straight in the chest, and she went flying backwards.

“I know all about your clone powers. Sadly, they didn’t match my expectations.” Bradley exclaimed. Ruby and Frieda gasped.

“How did you know about my powers of cloning?” Rebecca asked.

“Why do you care?” Bradley smiled.

“How was Alaska? Why did you come here?” Rebecca mocked.

“Tsk. Tsk.” Bradley muttered. Bradley swiftly pulled out a brown-liquid needle.

“Because I exceeded where my fellows did not!” Bradley plunged the needle. “GUNSLINGER!”

Rebecca did the same, and entered the needle. “FOREST CLONE!”

Bradley’s missile and guns came into view. Rebecca’s forest outfit appeared. Josephine was wondering. Rebecca shot seeds out of her gun, steel bullets, came from Bradley’s gun. Seeds and bullets collided. Rebecca shouted, “Energy Give!” Rebecca screamed, and the energy began to suck in. “Vine Cage!” and vines entangled Bradley into a sphere vine cage.

“She’s won!” Ruby screamed.

“Missile.” Bradley whispered.

Bradley’s missile shot out of the vine cage, and bolted towards Rebecca. She couldn’t dodge it, so she yelled, “Touch of Mother Nature!” and the missile broke and fell. Bradley got out of the vine cage and punched Rebecca in the jaw.

Harold stood up. “I’ve seen enough. Everyone go on a break. In three hours we will all met for dinner in the main hall. Then, Chico and Bradley will fight.”

Harold turned and everyone followed him to the doors.

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“Get some hot tea!” Ruby told Frieda. Ruby helped clean Rebecca, and the three were sitting in chairs. Rebecca hadn’t lost, but she hadn’t won either. Bradley will be an agent.

“How did he know about my cloning powers?” Rebecca whispered.

“Maybe he snooped?” Frieda inquired.

“Maybe he knows everything!” Ruby gasped.

“No.” a voice called and Josephine and Jessica appeared.

“That’s not it.” Josephine told them. “Harold and Bradley have made a deal.”

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Morgan, Lisa and Zak went to Silvia Joyce and Hachi to tell them about the deal between Bradley and Harold. Josephine and Jessica had told them all the info that they needed to know. The wink was apparent. And Chris had told Josephine in the elevator.

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Chico pulled out two needle of periwinkle liquid and shoved them in his pocket. He breathed heavily and felt a jitter. Chico felt the jitter and smiled He was going to take a nap. First though, he went to the workout room, and told the three minions to wake him in two hours.

“Who’s turn is it?” Chico asked. Samson started to walk over and said, “Mine.”

“Yes, time to get ready for this.” Chico stated, and he and Samson left the room.

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“What do you mean a deal?” Frieda yelled.

“Chris informed me in the elevator that Harold slipped information about you, Rebecca.” Josephine said.

“That’s cheating!” Ruby screamed.

“Why did Harold do that?” Rebecca asked.

“Intoxication.” Josephine muttered.

“He was drunk?” Frieda spluttered.

“Maybe. But, more like pampered by Bradley.” Josephine said.

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“Chico, I don’t think this will work.” Samson whispered.

“Yes it will.” Chico grunted.

“But- agh.” Samson angrily said.

“Shut it! This will help me against Bradley!” Chico growled.

“How?” Samson asked.

“I need to be stronger so I need to use my top three moves. It will take a while for it to charge, and I need your help.”

“You mean, your thinking of-”

“Yes. To go to my full extant.

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The dinner was served at 6. Nobody talked at all. Everyone looked at their food. After the after coffee, everyone went into the main meeting room. Bradley stood on the left side of the arena. Chico stood on the right, wearing the most exuberant costume. It looked like a robe that had a shirt and pants. There was a cape, and some purple dye that was formed in three dots on Chico’s face.

“BEGIN!” Harold called.

Chico pulled out a needle and screamed, “Let’s finish this quickly!” and plunged the needle into his skin. “SPARKLE!”

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Chico transformed into his form. The dripping wings were present. The tentacles were laid out on the floor. Chico raised his hands. “Welcome to wear you will lose.” The he shouted, “Paralyze!” He opened his wings and his mouth as the orange powder came fast towards Bradley. Bradley vanished and Chico laughed. Bradley appeared behind Chico and slashed, but Chico grabbed the sword, and pulled it out of his hands. Chico then wrapped his tentacles around Bradley. Chico laughed “This is the end for you!” But Bradley pulled out a dagger and cut through the tentacle.

Chico screamed and shouted, “You bastard! Paralyze!” Orange powder flew like the wind, and tried to engulf Bradley who ducked and spun the dagger like a fan. The powder dispersed. Chico grew angry and yelled, “Time to up the ante a bit!”

Chico opened his mouth very wide, and then yelled, “Curata!” A sliver light appeared, and Chico shouted, “One drop of this can burn a hole through your skin!” Chico directed the Curata towards Bradley, who ducked.

The Curata dropped below and a drop fell. It burned a small nub into Bradley’s flesh. Bradley cringed, but shot a blast of water at the Curata. Chico gasped and moved the Curata out of the water’s way. Bradley smiled, “It looks like I know the Curata’s weakness.” he told Chico. Chico looked pissed and shot the Curata full blast towards Bradley, who the drenched the Curata.

“WHAT THE-” Chico gasped as the Curata melted.

“Why is the Curata effected by water?” Bradley asked, looking at Chico square in the eye.

“Curata takes a while to make and is a difficult process. It starts as I as a solid and without liquid becomes a liquid. If Curata touches liquid, it melts into water due to it’s system. It takes two ingredients which are-”

“I didn’t ask what you needed to make it or anything.” Bradley told Chico. “Is that all you have up your sleeves?”

“Certainly not.” Chico roared and laughed. Chico spread out the wings which turned black and purple.

“I’m going to show you true pain.” Chico shouted. “My second most powerful move, Sierrá Lione!”

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Stanley looked at Samson and asked, “Did you help Chico with the Curata?”

Samson nodded.

Chico pulled out a gold ball and opened his mouth. He ate the golden ball and closed his eyes. Suddenly the wings grew length, still maintaining width and the thin-slime shape. Bradley laughed.

Suddenly, the color of gold added to the purple and black of the wings. Each hair on Chico’s head had a tinge of gold at the tip. “Sierrá Lione is what some call, a nightmare.” Chico called, and suddenly he shook his wings. Blobs rained down, and formed ten puddles. Ten men rose from the puddles. Each had some hair, pants and three golden dots on their chests.

“This is Sierrá Lione’s power.” Chico shouted.

“Gunslinger!” Bradley shouted, and he changed into his form. The ten men walked slowly towards Bradley. Bradley picked up the two guns and pulled the trigger. Bradley aimed at the men, but none fell. Bradley looked shocked.

“Nice try, but they can’t be killed like that. See?” Chico pointed to the men. The bullet holes were suddenly glued by the wing’s liquid and was all right, not effected by the bullets. Bradley raised the missile and let go. The missile hit six of the wing men. The air whooshed and huge holes were made.

“I’m tired of repeating myself.” Chico yelled. The huge holes formed back.

“I didn’t want to have to use the second stage.” Bradley yelled, “Of the missile, I mean. DE-LOCK!” Bradley screamed, and the missile broke and shot many missiles towards the men. The men fell, And as they tried to recover, Bradley sprinkled water onto the Sierrá Lione.

“NO!” Chico yelled. The ten men were reduced to nothing but puddles of water. Chico was red.

“Final move. My strongest.”

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Harold was impressed by Chico, and the same with Bradley, but he wanted not to interfere until death knocked on the doors.

Chico yelled, “Vä Dorsa!” and the wings dropped of the color of gold. The gold ball returned. Chico said, “Watch!”

Suddenly, the wings grabbed Bradley and gripped him. Chico’s mouth opened and popped out a doll of Bradley. But it floated. “Vä Dorsa isn’t about voodoo dolls. It’s about your energy. It sucks 10% of your energy every minute. You have ten minutes until my wings absorb all your power. Oh, and for your information, don’t struggle. You’ll be squeezed tighter.”

Bradley did struggle. Chico was right, however, and the wings grew tight as Bradley tried to think. Fast.

“8 minutes have passed. Only two more minutes.” Chico called. Bradley decided now or never.

“LOOK! Celebrities are taking autographs in skimpy outfits!”

“So?” Chico sarcastically replied.

“They’re famous actors!”

Chico turned and the wings loosely let go.

“Where! Where!” Chico called, and he got a side-kick to the chest. Chico coiled and shouted, “YOU CHEATED!” Harold called, “I’ve made my decisions. Everyone gather in your seats.”

16

“Before I begin, one of you needs to be chosen to be the 4th Agent of Texas. I give Norman the chance to go to Texas.” Harold told everyone, and people clapped.

“Now,” Harold chuckled, “Seventh Agent: Rebecca Sixth Agent: Bradley Fifth Agent: Silvia Fourth Agent: Chico Third Agent: Josephine Second Agent: Morgan and then me, with my Young Again and my power of youth.”

Bradley turned into a sixteen year old boy, who was muscular and had many weapons. He turned back and said, “And when I use my needle, it’s ten times stronger.”

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Norman cleaned out his room with a couple boxes, while Silvia popped in and out with her items to put in her new room.

“Good job with the move to Texas!” Silvia shouted.

“Thanks.” Norman told Silvia.

“I guess, I wasn’t good enough.”

“No, Chico put on quite a show.”

“Yes. But what about Bradley?”

“That’s different, but remember.”

“What?”

“Don’t trust him.”

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Bradley settled into Chico’s old room with his suitcases. All the furniture and appliances were in the room, so he didn’t have to do much work.

“So, you made it into the Agents?” Rebecca inquired.

“Yes, I did.” Bradley told her.

“What are your plans?”

“To gather minions, and make my mark on the Ohio Agents, as the Sixth Agent.”

“Is that a threat?”

“Take it as you like.”

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Chico entered the Agent 4 room and gasped. It was bigger and better than his old room which was cramped and little, downstairs. He smiled, and walked in.

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“We wish you luck, Norman.” Harold growled.

“Thank you all.” Norman said, and left the building.

17

“So Mercy, the day is coming.” Bradley said.

“I am ready.” Mercy replied.

“Nice.” a voice replied.

“It’s time for your evaluation.” Bradley said.

“Excellent.” Van Dugan growled.

In two months, Bradley had become the 2nd Agent. Morgan went down to Number 5. Rebecca had suddenly dropped, with no recollection at all.

“Why did you fall from grace?” Rebecca asked.

“Bradley.” Morgan grumbled.

Rebecca had moved up to 6. Josephine and Chico stayed the same. Silvia left. For some weird reason, nobody truly believed she left. Her minions were very shocked. She had probably found out something that she shouldn’t have.

“Nobody’s safe.” Morgan told Lisa and Zak.

The position of Agent 7 was open, and Ruby Cube, Rebecca’s minion had already requested the position. Chico however, was not safe. At the last meeting, Bradley told them that a skilled fighter under his and Harold’s approval was coming and would at LEAST be the 4th Agent. Bradley also had grown his minions to three. Mercy, Wake and Experiment 4506. Each walked behind him in a circle formation, to protect him. But in the present, things were different.

“Today,” Harold called. “Ruby will present her abilities to she if she qualifies as the 7th Agent position. Also, Calvin Van Dugan will fight Chico ReDula for the position of Agent 4.”

Chico gulped.

“Ruby Cube!” Harold shouted, “Demonstrate your power!”

Ruby stepped into the training gym and picked up a green-filled liquid needle and plunged it into her bloodstream. “Cubist Serpent!” Ruby yelled. Ruby transformed into a huge purple snake with squares, triangles and circles. She slithered through the course, and when she got to the ten people shouted, “Cubist Beam!” and the ten people fell to her power of Cubism.

“I think Ruby qualifies as the Seven Agent. Now, find to see who will become the 4th position. Chico or Calvin?

18

“START!” Harold yelled, and Chico pulled out his needle and screamed, “SPAR-!” when the needle exploded. Chico looked astounded.

“Can’t use your form and power, if you can’t use the needle, ReDula.” Van Dugan muttered and slashed through Chico. Chico recoiled and was hit again by the sword.

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Doesn’t he carry a second needle?” Samson asked.

“He did.” Samuel replied, “But the pain-”

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Chico tried to pull out a needle, but was unable to. Chico recoiled, but Van Dugan was so fast. Suddenly he got it and injected it. “SPARKLE!” but quickly a huge slash appeared, and Van Dugan appeared, “Fire Claw.” he shouted. Calvin Van Dugan transformed into a bear with embers clinging. Chico fell, and Van Dugan won.

“Does anyone want Chico or his minions for your own minions?” Harold asked. Nobody talked. “Chico, go to our headquarters, and they will direct you somewhere else.” Chico, Samuel, Samson and Stanley walked out the door.

“VAN DUGAN IS THE FOURTH AGENT!”

19 [ Final chapter ]

“Today, an emergency meeting has been issued.” Josephine told Jessica as she ate. It had been three months after Chico’s departure.

“What is the meeting about?” Jessica asked.

“I don’t know. Let’s go.” Josephine muttered.

Josephine and Jessica took the elevator downstairs to find that Bradley and his minions were going into the hall.

“Let’s hurry.” Josephine whispered.

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Ruby Cube walked down the dark hall of the Ohio Agent Headquarters. When she was walking down the hall she bumped into Rebecca, her past master.

“Hi, Rebecca!” Ruby said.

“Hello, Ruby! How do you like the position?” Rebecca asked.

“Good, I like it.” Ruby replied. “Well, how’s the others beneath you?”

“Great. Frieda misses you, but that’s okay.” Rebecca laughed.

“So, today Master Harold called the seven of us to a meeting. What is it about?” Ruby stated.

“No idea. We should get going.”

The two walked further down the hall, and when turning, found that Van Dugan was walking right out his bedroom.

“Hey girls. Woke up late.” Van Dugan growled, and the three hurried on down the hall. Two doors came into sight, and the three passed through it.

“Hello you three. You’re a bit late.” Harold Seifel muttered.

“Yes. But, just sit down.” Bradley Jacobson called. Behind him was his Mercy, his head minion. “Shut it. We must continue.” Josephine Halibeli whispered. She was the third agent.

“Nobody’s perfect.” Morgan Ancritoras yelled. She was the 5th Ohio Agent.

“Gorador. Cube. Van Dugan. Sit.” Harold muttered. “We have things to do. Bradley has an announcement. What is it?”

Bradley stood up and then shouted. “It’s time for a new change. Starting today, I’ll be Agent 1.”

Everyone gasped. Harold’s eyes flung open. Appearing was minions from the Agents. In front of Harold was his six guards. Josephine’s minion, Jessica Conta was in front of Josephine.

Morgan’s two minions: Lisa and Zak leaped from the shadows. Frieda Goodwill appeared in front of Rebecca, martini glass at the ready.

“We will kill you Bradley.” Harold muttered.

“Go for it.” Bradley grinned.

As the ten minions rushed towards Bradley, he then moved, as Mercy hit them all with her sword. Harold’s minions fell like grenades, and Liza, Jessica and Zak fell swiftly. Mercy reached Frieda, who dodged and ran back to Rebecca.

“She’s no match for us!” Frieda screamed and Josephine and Morgan ran towards Mercy, who reached out to hit Morgan, who fell to the ground. Josephine stopped, but got smacked to the head and went flying back and moved no more.

Recap