And so we are finally here. TriVex. Where my son is held captive. The son I have never seen. More than a son. A clone. Really, another myself.
“Are you ready, Santa?” asks Kristogar, handling me his electro-magnetic gun.
“Yes, little helper” it’s my answer, taking the huge device.
We are standing in front of a metallic door, facing directly the water. A security exit, said Kristogar.
“Remember, Cicciotto. Whatever you see, don’t act and open the door” says Kristogar Velo.
“Yeah, I remember. Be ready, everybody”.
I phase trough the door.
I’m in a large room, well lit, with many metallic cages. And inside one of the cage…
…my parents!
They are screaming, tortured by metallicspiky tentacles.
How can they be here?
They see me. “Edulcore, Edulcore, save us, we I beg you” cry my mother.
I run at them, crying. How much time has passed since the incident!
“Press that button, son!” shouts my father. “It’s the opening command for the cage”.
My finger goes to the button. The incident. The car crash. My father and my mother all covered by their own blood. How horrible it was. I was away, for the trials, when they died.
I turn my finger ghost just before hitting the button.
My parents died years ago. This is a trap!
I turn back, and blast the door with the gun. The door opens, and my friends run inside. Kristogar goes to a console, press a lot of buttons in a complex sequence, and the cages disappears.
“An hallucinogenic vibration make persons see their worst nightmares, Edulcore! Different for each one”.
“OK,, it’s gone” I whisper, still shaken by the scene.
I watches everyone, all dressed in elves costume, and Naecken in a reindeer suit.
“Ready?”
“Ready!” says Nowhereman.
“Ok, let’s follow Kristogar, he knows the place. I will phase trough the whole tower, to find the location of my son, then I will call you!” I says.
“Follow me!” says Kristogar, running toward a corridor.
I turn invisible, and levitate trough the ceiling, up and up.
Thirteen floors up, there is turmoil. Guards running everywhere, from the orders shout by the officers, it seems a prisoner has escaped.
But to attract my attention are two men in lab coat, one lying on the floor, one kneeling over the other. Two face I have seen before.
Two of the men that attacked me in the Zoo, at Chicago.
I, still invisible, go near them.
“I told you coming here it was a bad idea, Walker” says the larger one.
“Shut up, Tweed. I am tired of you acting as the boss. I am giving orders, you follow them. Without questioning him, ok?”
The fat metahuman nods his head, whispering something I don’t understand.
The other, Walker, that sports many scars on his face, helps the other to stands up.
“Tweed, Turner has destroyed half of our lab at Chicago. The only other place where I could have performed the tests was my old lab. Here at TriVex, in Thunder. Luckily I have still friends here, and we have been able to come here without Knell knowing. But now it’s better to go.”
Walker whispers something inside a communicator, and soon a strange portal, like the vortex from which they arrived at the Zoo, forms in the middle of the room. The two step in, and they disappear.
So, they are not really part of TriVex, from what I heard. And they, too, had to do with Turner, I think just about the same time he attacked us on the highway, judging from how the scars have healed on Walker’s face.
Anyway, there will be time to discover about them. Now, it’s time to find my son. And Knell.
[ 12-30-2001: Message edited by: The Eurostar ]
