120 The Revolutionary Part II (2/2)
”Anyways, time is up,” The masked man took out the tablet back, ”Activate the last phase.”
The tablet flew from his hand and hovered in the air with its back camera on him.
”What is he talking about?” Ellen muttered.
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Outside, the police headquarters.
The force field surrounding the parameter was still active but the police officers and droids were fighting with white droids inside the parameter.
”It is over here,” Emily sighed in relief after destroying the last droid, ”But there is still...If only Liam and others were here.”
She glanced at the fourth and fifth floor of the headquarters. It was surrounded by a black barrier preventing anyone from entering it.
Five military helicopters were floating outside the building trying to gather any information from those two floors.
”Just how did so many droids entered here?” Emily knew the electromagnetic field was still active which meant no teleportation should work, ”And more importantly what is going on those two floors?”
Some distance away outside the parameter of the headquarters, news reporters were present with their cameras on the building.
”We are live from the police headquarters,” A female reporter said, ”Twenty minutes ago some hundred droids entered the parameters and launched an attack.”
”We have no words on the objectives of the attacker,” A male reporter from a different media channel reported, ”More help would be arriving soon from the mayor office and government officers.”
Zzzz
The mobiles and video cameras in the entire area started releasing faint buzzing sound.
”What is going on?” A cameraman looked in disbelief as the live feed from the camera was interfered and a new visual arrived.
”Our communication system is hacked!” A female cried in shock.
Chi~ Chi~
A masked man appeared on every tv, computer, and mobile in the area.
”For more than a century the world has been shrouded by darkness,” The masked man on the screen said, ”This darkness has given the world nothing but nightmares.”
”Who is this man?” A reporter wondered.
”What darkness?” Another reporter asked.
”The darkness is the world government,” the masked man on the screen continued, ”They have ruled over us satisfying their greed and hunger for power and money while we suffered hunger and pain.
”The echelons of the government live the life of kings while the masses work their asses to contribute to the king life of our rulers. We struggle to meet our day's ends and pay our taxes while the rulers live without any care.
”But this tyranny and injustice would end. There would be no more darkness in this world.”
Everyone in the surrounding 5 km was seeing the visuals of this masked man on the screen.
”No more darkness?” A woman wondered, ”Is he a terrorist?”
”Seems so,” A man said, ”Only those terrorists use such words when they do something terrible.”
”Yeah,” the woman agreed, ”Those bastards don't honor the sacrifices of our past heroes.”
”Some of you might doubt our intention,” the masked man continued, ”You believe the darkness is the light. Let us clear your misunderstanding.”
The screen was now replaced with various reports on corruption in the city. There were even visuals of the secret images from the wasteland where the golden lightning incident took place and the same went for the meteorite.
”The government lied to you about the incident in the wasteland by calling it as a missile test but in fact, the government has retrieved a treasure which would obliterate us all.
”Don't believe us?”
The screen showed the visuals of few mutants dissipating into nothingness. These images were originally recorded by Sylvan and given to the world council. (Chapter 54)
”The mutants in the visuals are government officials but yet they were killed by the government when they tested their treasure. Many of you might be even acquainted with these mutants.”
The people in the area were shocked by the visuals. Most believed they were fake but some felt there was some truth in it.
”Don't you find it strange the presence of so many government officers in the city recently?”
The screen now showed the pictures of investigators in the city at various locations.
”They are trying to use the treasure on a large scale by conducting the experiment on the city.”
”No way!” The reporters and the others cried in horror. They wanted to think the masked man was lying but seeing the reports so far made them believe there was some truth in it.
”The government will give an excuse like some missile test or gas explosion after the experiment is over,” the masked man continued, ”Believing it or not is up to you.
”We will still fight for you regardless for we are revolutionaries.No matter what you think we are your beacon of hope in this world of darkness.”
The screen now showed the visuals from the fifth floor of police headquarters.
”They are the government officials sent here to conduct experiments on us,” the screen displayed the investigators, ”As revolutionaries, it is our duty to punish them by death.”
”What?!” Davis and others were horrified. They did expect to die but now that the words of judgment were passed they felt terrified.
What truly scared them was how the masked man has made them as the villains who are here to conduct an experiment on the masses.
While it was true they have done morally ambiguous things in their job, they now felt they were wrongly blamed.
Sure they would have gone to any cost to retrieve the treasure they were sent here to seek, but they weren't as evil as the masked man said!
”Bastard!”
”We are not here to kill!”
”Stop lying!”
”We are the good guys!”
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Meanwhile, in an apartment somewhere in the city.
The revolutionaries sent by Count Viper looked at the live feed from the masked man in a holographic projection.
They were far away from the police headquarters but they were looking over the activities of police so they knew about the incident ever since it begun.
In the corner of the room, Rufus was standing with the cylindrical glass pod in his hand. His eyes turned red and the veins on his forehead were on brink of popping out.
”Son of a bitch!” Rufus almost threw the pod with blue liquid, ”Who the hell is he?!”
”Control yourself,” A woman tried to pacify him, ”You know what will happen if the nanites are freed.”
”Fuck,” Rufus placed the glass pod inside the suitcase, ”That masked man is not one of us!”
”I know,” The woman sighed in relief knowing there would be no incident from the blue liquid, ”But we can't do anything.”
”That bastard is screwing us!” Rufus wished to strangle the masked man, ”Now government would try to search for us.”
”Yeah,” the woman agreed, ”That man has impersonated us well.”
”....”
”If I didn't know it better then I would have thought he is a true revolutionary!”
”.....”
Alas, they didn't know the masked man was a true revolutionary. It was just that his idea of revolution was about something else...