Chapter 1: Companion

"Suspect spotted, 250 meters 10 o’clock, grey cloak and black cap, suspect carrying small orange bag”, as the police informing each other, he keeps his pace to make them lost his track, going down to the underground subway.

“Suspect going in 65FA, departure in 40 seconds, immediate pursue is necessary for any unit in range” Some prepared polices blocked his way on second carriage, right before the cockpit. Using the pole on the luggage place to lift himself up as he then break small glasses spot at the top of the train door which fit his shape, and eventually jumps out of the train.

Land his back and roll over on the ground to reduce the impact from falling at high speed, he exit the tunnel through the emergency exit door and goes up to start running through small gap between buildings making him free from the sky vision with choppers all around the place.

And after 20 minutes of trying, he finally got away from the police, cover his track, and got back home with no one in his back.

“Welcome home Ed” his sister welcomes him with a worried smile, a bit of relief is written in her face, hiding all of the uncertainty in her mind for all of the stuff that’s currently going on.

“Haahhhh… stubborn polices” sigh Edward in low tone as he hand the bag to his sister, he then walks to the shower, proceed to get undressed and rinse all the dust he has been dealing with the entire day, “What makes you thing we can eat this?” said Emma as she threw a bottle of unknown chemical to the shower.

“Emma, I always brought back at least one item that I think useful for my experiment” he slides the curtain a little bit aside as he held the bottle in his hand while he talk before then softly throw the thing back to Emma.

“But Ed, look just how many weird junks that you brought here, it’s the 100th time or more I suppose, the big mess is eating the place!”

Emma throw the thing to the pile of other weird things and makes a loud messy noise.

“Hey careful with those!” Edward shouted.

He then comes out a minute after already in short with a piece of towel on his neck as he approach his suspicious creation that’s made from a bunch of junks.

Emma walks to his back and touches the wounds on Edward’s back and waist that seems like a scratch from a sharp thing which hint that the cuts are deep upon Emma touching them.

Edward notices Emma’s touch and flinches a little on the tingling sensation, “what’s happened?” Emma asked, “I’m trying to fit myself in a small glassy hole, but I forgot that I’m carrying a small bag on my chest”.

“Clumsy” Emma teases him by pushing the wound with her hand.

“Aaacckk, watch out!” Edward tries to dodge another touch after the first one.

As he experiments the junks with his hands, Emma’s taking care of his wounds, sews some of wide and deep scratches, “Ouch, gentle please” Edward’s complain.

“Yes yes baby boy~” Emma teases him again by pinching a little bit to the area near the wound.

“Ahhhh jeez, what did I told you!!??” said Edward with an irritated face.

“I’ve ran out of idea… instead of getting better they start to add up their number against me” said Edward.

“Silly them thinking they could catch my rat-like Ed with a bunch of C-tier units” Emma replied with a little laugh from her nostril.

“Yeah but dealing with those imbeciles is tiring, they kept getting better with ambushes, going left and I see one, going right and I see a thousand of ‘em” frustrated looks drawn on Edward’s face as he said that.

“Like… what just happened earlier, I couldn’t even think there’s some of em in the train… I thought it was the best Idea to disappear in a random train” Edward continues.

“Well, imagine with the same number, but they have better head commander and A-tier units, wouldn’t you be caught up easier?” said Emma as she wraps the gauze on Edward chest and back down to his waist.

“Look!” Edward shows Emma part of his junks creation that happen to be a very bright shooting light.

“Staahhppp, eyesight is the only thing I have left, I’m not a rat like you who can just snuck anywhere and run away” Emma pushes the lamp with her hand as she said that.

“Soon it will be something that- that uhh even me don’t know what it will be(?)” said Edward as he tilt his head a bit, “Yet you making it” Emma mocked Edward as she tries to snatch the thing out of Edward hand.

“Rude! You don’t know that it might be the only hope for us to stand back against them” said Edward as he flashes the flash on her couple more times.

“Them? The Gaffers? Your crap is nothing for them” Emma keeps going with her teases and her effort to get the thing.

“yOuR cRaP iS nOtHiNg FoR tHeM” mock Edward and the train of flashing continues.

Emma then pinches Edward’s wound to return the mock.

“Ouch! you have no heart!- I’ll do that to you when you get your own wound” said Edward with mad expression on his face.

“Just keep it in mind that I won’t cook for you again if you ever do that to me” Emma said that while sticking out her tongue to Edward.

“You know, there are other shadowers that actually do the same as what we do, some of ‘em actually created a group on the deep web with their own disguise, sometimes I have the thought that we should team up with them” explain Emma.

“Bad idea, we still don’t know the actual fact, and what we did right now is what I think the good for us” said Edward as he twist left and right adjusting to the newly applied gauze.

“We’ll never know, or... are you trying to keep me for yourself?~” tease Emma.

“No way! Just because you’re good at cooking doesn’t mean you’re a proper assistant to me, I can cook too, easy matter” said Edward with annoying smug looks.

Emma pinches his nose, “Cook what? Sticks and stones? I’m the one who took care of you since you were a cry baby”.

“Well if mom’s here, she will take care of me” said Edward.

“Hmm~… leave her out of the business, you’re just annoying her, let her rest in peace, they’re probably watching from above” said Emma with a sweet smile in her face.

“No they’re not… they’re not watching, I told them not to” Edward facing Emma and began to act childish.

“I’ll find out about the things you were talking about tomorrow, but you need to somehow co-” before Edward could finish his word, Emma spun Edward body to make him facing the opposite direction so she can continue taking care of the wound.

“Yeah! Right! You need to cook me some meat!” said Edward.

“Yeah yeah, whatever, like if you can actually make things happen anyway” Emma rolls her eyes with a little bit of chuckles to tease Edward.

The last plaster and Emma finished.

Emma goes to the dining table and prepare the dinner.

She starts eating hers first while reading to a small book that looks like a mini novel while waiting for Edward to come.

After a few last touches to the junks, Edward goes to the small table that happen to be their dining table with towel on his shoulders.

“So where did you go today?” Ask Emma, as she slurps the soup after.

Edward munches the food and completely ignored the question, “Uwhwh… I really wish we’re not related by blood, this heavenly food, I don’t wanna cook if you’re with me”.

“Are you listening???” Emma continues.

“I’m not going somewhere dangerous... just some casual place as always” Edward answered with suspicious looks in his face.

Emma stop eating and lock her eyes with Edward’s.

“What? …” Edward murmurs in his bowl.

“With a bunch of units after you? Answer properly” Asked Emma with serious expression right in front of Edward.

“S-saturn…” again, he answered while in his bowl.

“How strict is the guard, how many units are deployed?”, still with serious expression but this time she leans to the table and closer towards Ed.

“Not really, just… a couple of ‘em as usual” Edward looks away as he tries to hide something from her. Emma threw couple light punches to his shoulder right after she heard that.

“Ouch Ouchhh, stahppp, you spilled the soup” Edward tries to change the topic by lifting up a minor problem with his soup.

Emma snatch the bowl from Edward’s hand “What soup? What soup now huh!?”

“No! Meanie! Give it back! I need energy to run” Edward’s whining, Emma then gives back his soup.

Emma sighed, “why you never listen… what you’re gonna do if you got caught? If they found out our hideout? If they extract everything from us?” Emma furiously spam hit her bowl with the spoon.

Emma’s eyes began to crystal before then she wipes it with her palms.

“Heyyy relax, I’ll be okay, and they won’t find us… I promise” Edward rubs Emma’s cheeks and pinches it with both hand to cheer her up.

“We live on the edge, it’s always dangerous in the first place” Emma’s soft voice is filling the quiet environment with serenity.

“I’m sorry… but it’s the only thing we can lean our life on,” said Edward.

“So don’t put yourself on the line” said Emma after a couple second of pause.

Edward replied with a soft smile looking at Emma for a couple second before she burst to laughing “You’re so silly, what was that look” said Emma laughing.

“Wha- fine what about this” continues Edward as he put some other silly expression.

“Bahaha, that was so dumb” said Emma laughing her stomach out with a little bit of tears on the side of her eyelids. Her laughter is closing the night as it fades to the next morning.

The Next Morning,

09:15

Jumped through a wide gap between buildings and safely landed it, Edward is being chased by a group of police units and local guards. Some of the guards are waiting Edward on the other side of the rooftop with teasers in their hand. “Crap…” run out of idea and has nowhere to run, Edward is cornered with the situation. “Freeze! Hands on the air!” the police commanded, “Do not fight back, please cooperate and stay where you are”.

He cornered from each and every direction, he doesn’t know what to do, “huh, as if I would do” Edward taunted.

“Don’t do anything stupid now, please stay where you are” said one of the unit in place as couple of them slowly approaching Edward.

Then, a simple yet convincing idea flashed through his mind, he threw his bag to a single guard on his right side.

The guard lost his focus and eventually catches the bag.

“Brainless” mumbled Edward mocking them as he lands his kick on the guard’s face just right after the guard caught the bag. *baamm!*

Quickly grabs the bag that thrown to the air for a couple seconds, Edward runs to the point where he made his way out. “Do not open fire! After the suspect!”.

He then does a small hop to the next building to land in the lower floor of a parking spot in the next building, grabbing the cliff with both his palms, he carefully releases his grip and land on the lower floor, turning a 180 degrees and make fall to the back and land on the lower floor. He then starts to run on the other direction making his way down to the ground level through the small gap between buildings.

He continues to run as he sigh in relieve “Lucky me, or maybe they’re just too dumb for me I guess” Edward slows down the pace of his run as he thought that he’s safe and got away from them.

“Just like, what in the world is this place?” Edward’s looking around to inspect the building he’s in.

“Look like an abandoned factory to me” speaking to himself, as he keeps his pace.

Edward goes another floor down, and start walking in a hallway as he checks his phone.

“Forty past ten huh, just right in time” said Edward to himself unaware of the surrounding with his eyes looking at his small self-designed phone.

*Brraagg!* One of the police suddenly came out from one of the room’s door and charge him with a big hit with his shield that’s as tall as a human body.

Edward couldn’t dodge the police because of the quick shock and didn’t make enough time to ever think a way to escape him.

“Crap, I’m fucked” said Edward as he tries to grab anything on the side of the building after he got thrown of the barrier because of the hard hit from the police charging at him. He slowly falls down and hit every single fabric, thin wood, and rusty metal on the way down.

His body gives out a loud bump sounds when he hit the rusty metal floor that happen to not break.

A big knock that enough to make him lost his conscious, although he might survived and yet to be knocked out from the big impact.

A group of police starts going down to approach the spot where Edward’s fell down.

“Fuck, my- conscious… ness” said Edward as he turns his body to be on his stomach to try and crawl away from the light source. He then slowly closes his eyes and collapsed, without knowing what’s happened after.

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