X Shadow

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Chapter #2

The room was dark and the windows were opened as the dancing wind made the lighters dance to their rhythm.

I knelt with my right leg kissing the ground and the other one I rested my left arm on it. My right arm was vertically touching the floor and my head faced down as a sign of honouring the ultimate master.

Lady Shiva was standing a few meters away from me as she represented me to him.

"My lord, this is the new assassin whom sensei as been working on. He has been deemed worthy to perform this mission." She said

"He has showed remarkable talent and potential over his last missions. There isn't a single one he hasn't accomplished." Shiva then added as she suddenly went quite waiting for the demon head's remarks.

"Hmmm I see. So tell me your name boy?" Ras al ghul asked as he showed more interest to the lad.

Shadows never had specific names to speak of. They were given some code names but I actually preferred to go with...

"It's Adam sir." I answered with my head still bent down.

Over the years have been taught to serve the demon head's family and do anything in my power to meet their expectations. But still I knew in my heart I had other plans, darker ones and if the shadows found out my head would be bounted.

"Your mission is set in stone. Retrieve a specific experiment from Catmus and bring it to me and liquidate the Doctor responsible for the experiment." The master ordered.

"I shall do as you bid." I answered.

"And remember Adam, for the last two years have heard you have accomplished extraordinary feats. Don't let this be your first disappointment." Ras al ghul's voice become even more deeper with his warning.

I walked after I bowed down to show my respect. I could feel the gazes of hundred shadows fixated on me. The room was well protected to make sure that no cheap tricks would be pulled to threaten Ras.

I walked to my room and armoured myself with my weapons.

A katana blade on my back and my night vision lenses with an outfit filled with daggers to the brim.

A mini-boat was prepared for me as I made my departure to the main land.

I had studied the Catmus map well and revised it well. It was well guarded and the goods to be retrieved were on the deepest part of the sector.

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Passing through the first rays was easy as I found my way to the main lab. I saw a mysterious doctor leave the lab as he walked by Lex discussing a certain experiment they were working on.

I zoomed in the lenses to the documents they were holding and I saw the drawing of some sought of spider.

I couldn't make out the letters well so I took clear picture of the details. I would look into them later.

They left the documents on the top of the shelf with a spider inside an a glass box.

"Bingo, found the target." I thought to myself.

"This mission was gonna be an easy pissy."

They left the room and I memorized the code on the front door leading inside the lab.

Then suddenly I saw Lex remove some kind of a rifle from the side pocket of his tuxedo suit.

"Doctor am quiet impressed by your work, with the documents in my data base I can simply access the information whenever I want to."

The eyes of the Doctor looked unshaken which was very surprising. He seemed to embrace his death, no more of like he knew he would meet his end.

Then lex took the shot and fired three bullets at the Doctor's chest.

He then presumed him dead as the Doctor lay down on his pool of blood.

"Well that's one mission completed for me. I did not need to get my hands dirty this time. I guess lady luck is on my side today."

I made sure Lex left before the cleaning crew was sent to retrieve the Doctor's body.

Then I dialed the code on the door

"866774898..." But it also required an eye access so I took the Doctor's lifeless body and used his eye to get a clear access.

But before I could place him down he caught my arm.

The fuck wasn't dead yet.

"Take this." The Doctor gave me an USB as he breathed out his last words.

After handing me the USB drive he dropped his hands as the light in his eyes went all dim. I looked at him and for the first time I felt pity for someone but I needed to focus on the task ahead.

The door unlocked and I saw alot of spider drawings on the board with a certain process on it.

They were researching on something I couldn't make out properly. I had some knowledge in biology but still there were some erased part on the equations on the board so it was hard to comprehend the writing well. I went ahead and took the translucent glass box with the blue spider with stripes of red markings at it's abdomen, it looked magnificent and beautiful.

Then the alarm suddenly raised, I picked up the spider with a pair of forceps and sealed it in a vail.

Suddenly I felt a strange presence crept towards me, the presence then fired a rifle.

I quickly unsheathed my katana with cat like reflex and splitted the incoming bullet in half.

" I didn't think that the Demon head himself would be interested in my work." The calm and collected voice walked inside the lab, beside him was a woman with a similar kind of suit similar to his holding a rifle on her hands.

"So what do you say shadow? Wanna return back my property or you wanna return to your boss in form of a corpse." Lex suggested with a very righteous demeanor as if giving me an option.

I did not answer him but kept quiet with my sword armed at my palm.

"Well I guess the silence answers it. Make a good example of him."

Mercy stepped forward as her arm morphed itself into some sort of a techno gun.

She started firing it towards me destroying the walls of the lab and everything in it. I ran along the walls to evade the onslaught. She was firing with no hesitation,she was destroying all.the gadgets and everything in it. And after I thought my day was gonna be so smooth.

I took the ninja stars in my pocket and threw three of them at her but she managed to block them by using her metallic arm and then continued firing.

I could evade most bullets but one of them scratched my pants and managed to scratch me as the Vail quickly descended to the floor shattering to small pieces.

"No." I shouted as I ran towards the Vail with the spider inside as I tried to catch it with my hand.

"Oow!" I exclaimed feeling a streak of pain at the backside of my hand.

Fuck! the thing just bit me and then went all lifeless. Was it dead?

I couldn't hesitate so I collected it's dead body and carried it with me.

Mercy was not losing her composure and was still firing turning the whole room into a mess. I had to act fast because I could not keep dodging her attacks forever. I used a smoke bomb to extract an escape.

In the midst of the chaos I aimed my katana to her as the tip of it blocked the nozzle of the gun making it blow up.

I decided to end this quickly as I jumped to exploit the chance and finish her off, but then suddenly my sight started to obscure and my head was all jumbled.

In the moment of hesitation she landed a taekwondo round kick at my torso kicking me as I slammed to the test tube drawer crushing it to bits.

I coughed out a mouthful of blood, it then occured to me that Mercy was an amazonian so it explained alot the kind of force she could exact. She then started walking towards me with my katana blade on her hand.

It wasn't normal of me to loose focus at a moment like this. Something was wrong with me and I felt so weird.

I had to retreat,I threw the few next ninja stars I had and used a flash light bomb. The flash of light obscured her sight giving me an opportunity to escape through a vents.

She looked up at the vent when the light went dim as she narrowed her eyes. She wanted to use the comms to contact the security to prevent my escape but lex stopped her to let me go . She would have a quarrel to pick up with Ras al ghul later.