prosthetic, he wasn’t as quick on his feet as he liked. But when he was piloting the Maiden he was the fastest thing out there.
“How long till you’re ready?” Williams asked as he looked over the various tools used for the Maiden's maintenance.
“Give me twenty minutes and I’ll be ready. Just turn me loose.”
“Not yet Marcus, we're still watching the kid. You’ll be on surveillance for a little bit first, to see if this kid even is an Aesir.”
“Roger that, boss, and when the time does comes?” Marcus asked, leaving the question hanging like an excited child.
“I’ll turn loose the scariest thing anyone has ever seen.” Giving Marcus a wink as he walked away.
Williams needed sleep, since they left California he had only slept two hours, the rest of the time was spent looking over the burnt car Intel and gathering evidence. Flipping the lights off as he walked into his sleeping quarters, he collapsed on his bed, falling right to sleep.
NINE
Gabriel woke up late, having given his alarm clock the summer off. For the first time in what seemed like forever, he slept until ten. He had spent most of the night trying to find anything he could on SI9 or Agent Williams. Gabriel couldn't find any actual information, but a website kept coming up as the most related search. When he clicked on it, it took him to a white screen and a question. "Why are you special?" Below that was the answer text box and a submit button. Gabriel wasn't shocked he couldn't find any info about a government agency. One of the first things the NGC did was censor the Internet of any and all information about government groups, activities, and employees. It was said this was done to keep those people and buildings safer, but there were conspiracy nuts who labeled this as a sign of big brother.
Giving up on his search for now, Gabriel decided to finally getting dressed and head down stairs. His dad was already gone, having already completed two hours of work before Gabriel even woke up. A new note was left on the fridge, laying out the chores that were expected of him that day. His mom had added to the bottom, letting him know she was running errands, and wouldn’t be back ‘til dinner. He had the house to himself, and was not going to waste this golden opportunity doing chores.
Feeling hungry, he decided he was in the magic brunch hour, and made himself a sandwich, which he ate between rounds of online multiplayer on his Xbox. Sitting in his computer chair he was in the middle of a match, which he was winning by a huge amount, when there was a pop from the system, and it immediately powered off.
"Oh, what the fuck?" Gabriel turned the system back on, where he was met with an error message and the traditionally green power light was now red. "Come on you piece of shit, work!" he pleaded as he unplugged the entire system, waited several seconds, re-plugged everything, finally powering it back on. The lights came up red again, showing the error message on his screen, shattering his hopes for an easy fix. "Fuck-ing work!" He bellowed in a deep voice, somehow hoping the console understood him and would fix the error of its ways. When his next attempt to turn it on gave him the same outcome, Gabriel stood up, banging on the system, turning it off then back on, now locked in a battle of wills with the broken system. Each time the lights went red, displaying the same error message.
Gabriel could feel his anger rising, finally spilling out, unable to control himself. "God damn it!" he yelled as he threw the controller against the wall. It shattered when it hit, sending pieces of plastic everywhere.
His anger was peaking now, not only did his system not work, but now his controller was broken too. Gabriel could feel himself
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