"You speak like you are some invincible superhero. They exist only in comics. Life isn't a video or an anime Aaron, I love you and I don't want to lose you." She said this like she sensed some bigger danger.
[Meanwhile]
AT THE APOLLO EXCEL CARE HOSPITAL
Next moment I got a call that MR Talwinder was going to be released and wanted to see me for something important.
"Hello sir." I greeted, "How are you holding up."
"Fit enough to walk, I guess after this I need some major cardio and weight training under your guidance of course. Haha!" He was being sarcastic and complementary at the same time.
"Sure sir, let's get you home." I offered to help.
"Oh…." He slips.
"Let me, easy sir." I helped.
And just like that his might was untorn and unshaken, a lawyer with a lion heart, MR Jitesh Talwinder.
Outside the hospital, Rajat and Dhiren were waiting for to greet Jitesh.
"Paaji, how are you now?" Rajat asked.
"Fit enough, look, I need a favor, that boy and his friends are innocent, so, I want you to do a press release saying that EMBER SCARS are indeed innocent." Jitesh made a heavy request.
"I shall see what I can do." Rajat complied.
That went well and wasn't so hard. But the danger was still lurking in the shadows, Vikram was planning something big and I knew it, in fact we all knew it.
But what exactly was he planning? For fuck's sake I was blank.
"what's going in you head man?" Zayne asked.
"I need to dig more; I need to meet Inspector Abhiraj once." I, with a concerned and determined tone.
"I'd like to join as well." Zayne lend a helping hand.
"Let me do this alone." I insisted.
[Elsewhere]
"Karma was weak, but you my boy, must not fail me." A cult member to a hitman.
"I never miss, the lawyer will squirm before he breaths his last, Kenshi promises." Kenshi while loading his gun.
[at the police station]
I went to meet Abhiraj and told that I needed his help.
"I'll see what I can do. But no promises." Abhiraj, as stoic as always.
MOMENTS LATER.
"Project Viper, to be initiated by Christmas, this year? Holy shit!" Abhiraj squirmed.
"We don't have much time." I, with a concerned tone.
"Wait, there's more, looks like it's base is some kind of festival…. A type you guys do, full of loud music and chaos. Perfect setup for a cover up. No one will expect the "attack"….. But it doesn't say whether he is planning a blast of a mass shootout." Abhiraj looked more concerned than ever.
SUDDENLY.
"What the? Someone else is here." Abhiraj sensed something.
[RING AROUND A ROSES, POCKET FULL OF POSES, ASHES, ASHES, WE ALL FALL DOWN. MMMHEHEHEHEHE.]
SFX: -KACHHHHH [KNIFE BLADE TOUCHING THROUGH THE WALL.]
"Stay back, I'll handle the psycho." I intended to protect Abhiraj.
"Oh, look like we got a Superman here." The killer was mocking me.
And like a mini boss fight in a hack and slash game, he made it difficult to beat him. He moved like a fucking rattle snake within a mad trance of his own as if he enjoys the chaos and lives for the violence.
"Look out." Abhiraj squirmed.
SFX:-BANG…. TING….. CLANK. [Abhiraj shooting bullets to give me cover.]
Was it me or was it he who was going to put both me and himself in danger?
"What are you doing stupid?" I yelled.
"Saving you I suppose?" Abhi being cynical.
"Aim and shoot." I yelled again.
Finally, Abhi was able to subdue Kenshi. The bullet hit his chest.
"Good riddance." I sighed.
[BABA BABA BLACK SHEEP HAVE YOU ANY WOOL….. MMMMHEHEHEHE….. CLICK.]
He triggered a fucking suicide bomb.
"Oh shit…. Abhi…." He screamed.
"On it.... Go!" he ran along with me outside the station.
SFX: -BADOOOOM [LOUD BLAST.]
That was a damage of like a lakh or so. The psycho did know a thing or two about bombs it seemed.
"My entire career, my senior officer's not gonna like this, not at all….. I am fucked, so fucked" Abhi was self-loathing.
"Well, at least we both are safe." Abhi with a tone of sigh and relief.
[ELSEWHERE]
"Another failure." A cult member.
"Looks like I will have to come out of the shadows. Oh, it shall be fun." Vikram, looking eviler and dangerous.