Chapter 10: Ep. 3 — The Rusty Knight, II

“So you are awake.” He said in a genuinely surprised voice.

Excuse me?? He tricked me!

“YMM JERMK!!” My mouth was still taped so I could only mumble, but I felt a rush of fear that I’d never felt before and instantly regretted doing that as he started walking over. I squinted my eyes tightly closed, even though he already knew I was awake.

He crouched a bit, then I could feel the chair tipping back up, but most importantly, the painful pressure off of my face was finally gone. He then took the tape off of my mouth, which he surprisingly did as carefully as he could… but it was probably duct tape so it was still painful. He then wiped some of the blood off of my face from my nose. After that, I could hear him walk away to one of the corners of the closet and move some items around.

After a minute, I was still too scared to open my eyes, but I could hear him dragging something over. I then heard a quiet chair like squeak. I slowly but cautiously opening my eyes, and saw him sitting on a chair in front of me… The lights were still off, but now I could see as quite a bit of light was coming from the exit behind him. I couldn’t really care what was on the two shelves beside me as I had more important problems in front of me… quite literally in front of me, hehe… sorry.

“Why are you giggling…?” His gaze sharply met mine.

“Umm… sorry-” Why am I apologizing…?

“WAIT SCREW YOU!!”

“YOU’RE NO KNIGHT IN SHINING ARMOUR, YOU’RE A KNIGHT IN RUSTY ARMOUR!!”

“WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM ME!”

“Rusty… armour?”

He looked at me and I realized I had said that all out loud. My face started turning red and without thinking I shoved my feet on the ground and tipped my chair backwards.

SLAM

“Ouch!” I don’t think that was worth hiding my embarrassment…

It took him a minute but he got up and picked the chair back up, but as his hands went near my head grabbing the top of the chair, I noticed they were shaking… I looked him dead in the eyes, and started feeling bad. I could see that he was visually distraught… I shouldn’t feel bad for him, he kidnapped me and who knows what’s going to happen to me now… but I couldn’t help myself.

“Sorry…”

“No, you shouldn’t be.” He softly replied as he sat back down.

“Why did you kidnap me…”

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“What?” He looked at me confused.

“Huh?? You don’t know why- YOU-” before I could finish he cut me off.

“You’re Lydia, right? You said you work for Lunar Labs…” His head tilted.

I don’t know anything about Lunar Labs, but my card says I work there, and I can’t feel my wallet meaning he probably looked through it… I can’t be suspicious.

“Yeah? So?”

“Lydia… you worked in the Rusland lab… right?” His demeanour quickly changed from being shooken to serious and his eye whites quickly darkened.

I wasn’t sure what happened in that lab, but I could tell it wasn’t anything good. I have no clew if I was there, I doubt it, but to be safe I’ll just say I wasn’t.

“What… no?” I wasn’t very good at lying, but he didn’t seem to catch on.

His face quickly changed to a more worried look as it took him a minute to grasp my lie as truth… He then stood up and started pacing back and forth.

“O, net, o, net, o, net-” he started saying something in another language so I couldn’t understand him, but I could tell that he was distraught.

I could hear him mumbling something under his breath before he shouted as he grabbed his head.

“SHUT UP!”

I wasn’t sure what was happening, but I started getting more and more worried… It seems he probably got the wrong person, but where does that leave me? He probably won’t let me go anymore… I need to think of something before he decides what to do with me… wait a second. Lunar Labs…

Before thinking it through, I blurted out “I can help you!”

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In that moment, I’d never felt anything like it before. My heart stopped, every hair on my body stood, and I got goosebumps everywhere as he turned his head and stared at me. The look in his eyes, it didn’t even look like the Yuri I had spoken to earlier. Though it was to late to back out now…

“Y-you know… I work there, so I could get you information that you need…” Please let this work…

I saw his eyes slowly brighten again as his head slowly went down… he was contemplating. Please please please, I really don’t want to die again…

“How?” He asked without looking at me.

I wasn’t really sure how I could help him… but I did remember something I saw on the card.

“I have level A access to the facility, meaning I could get almost any information that you want!” I was sounding a little desperate, after all, him asking ‘how’ showcased that there was a small chance to get out of this.

He mumble again, this time I could hear a tiny bit of it… something like ‘you think?’ or maybe it was ‘what about it?’ or was it ‘you can’t?’ Honestly, I have no clew what he said, but it seemed like he was talking to someone, maybe with an ear piece?

He finally turned to me and made a proposition, that I didn’t really have a say in.

“Fine. I’ll let you go under four conditions.” He paused, possibly waiting for instructions on what to say.

“Firstly, you will not ask any questions.” He stopped talking.

A couple of seconds went by before I realized he was waiting for a response…

“Okay…”

“Secondly, you will do what you’re told.”

“Huh?”

He stood there waiting for my response… it was either yes or no, no in between. It didn’t really matter to me though, as I was just lying… I’ll just run away and never come back. What do I have to lose?

“Fine… yeah.”

“Thirdly, you will not look at any of the files asked from you. Understood?” This request seemed to be the most important based on his tone.

What was this? Some type of movie? I could care less what’s in the files I just want to get out of here.

“Okay yeah… I can do all that.” I responded with a serious tone. If I wanted to be believable, I’d have to play the part.

“What’s the last request?”

“The last one? Oh yeah… I said four didn’t I?” He lifted his hand up near his face.

“Ohhhh yeah I remember now… she’ll be with you… just to make sure you don’t try anything.” As he said that, the hand he lifted started transforming.

He slowly started walking toward me, shivers went down my spine… there was nothing I could do, I was still stuck in the chair.

I couldn’t tell what his hand was transforming into, but with it, he grasped my mouth and after a sharp pain, I fainted.