12 December, 2025, 4:50.
Vyuk and Aston remained tied to the chair in that dirty room, they had been there for two days without any food which can be seen in their dull situation.
Their clothes, even the whole body started to stank, eyes red from exhaustion, and the body became weak because of less nutrients present in the body.
Aston had loosen all hopes, just lifeless staring at the concrete floor with his red, tired eyes.
Meanwhile, Vyuk wasn't like Aston, he continued to leer towards the CCTV camera in the corner, a small fire of hope still burning in his heart.
"It's no use. " Aston spoke silently. "We are rotten here, waiting to die. "
"Can you shut up. " Vyuk irritability said. "You wanna take revenge for your brother from those bastards or not? "
"But. " Tears started to form on Aston.
"But what! " Vyuk raised his voice. "Look at you, you found the organization who killed your brother by yourself and now you are gonna give up. "
Vyuk added.
"You are the skull crusher, the one who crushes the skull of his enemy. Everyone in Manhattan is scared of you. "
"This is not Manhattan—"
"So what? " Vyuk cuts off Aston words. "You are the most brilliant person, I know. You team up with a cop knowing you might get arrested. Why? Because inside you there is a beast which will calm down when you crush the person's skull into bits who is responsible for your loss, get it!"
"I know. " Aston started to cry from his one remaining eye. "However the thing is how we are gonna escape this—"
BAAM!!!
All of a sudden, the front door suddenly got opened by a brutal force on the other side. Many military men rushed inside the room, surrounding Vyuk and Aston from all directions.
Soldiers aim straight to both of them.
"Holy fuck. Aston muttered in surprise.
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5:05
Vyuk slowly eats the canned beans provided by the soldiers, he sits in the stairs of an old motel, watching the soldiers dragging out his owner, arresting him.
The whole motel got seized by the military.
Beside him sat Aston, swiftly eating his canned chicken like a hungry hyena, he didn't even notice the motel owner being dragged by the soldiers.
"Calm down man, it's not like someone gonna steal it. Vyuk disgustedly commented on Aston.
Aston just ignores him, continuing his eating.
By seeing Aston's behavior, Vyuk didn't ask any further. He finished his beans then started to think something
"So. " An mysterious voice approached them. "How are you here? Tell me everything. "
Vyuk comes out of his thinking, he sees a muscular commander in front of him asking these questions.
He was the same commander who will see the president's body in the future in the Washington Monument.
Vyuk stands up to show respect to the commander, Aston also draws his attention from the chicken towards the commander after Vuyk stands up.
"Well. " Vyuk respectively talk. "I am gonna tell you everything from the beginning. "
Vyuk paused.
"It's a pretty big story. We should go to the headquarters, then I can tell you everything."
"No. " Commander declined. "You will tell me everything here right here, I don't care how big it is. "
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5:20.
" So. " Commander leaned back to the wall while standing. " Noah, Ron, Emma, You, those terrorist's, the files and this so-called skull crusher whose real name is Aston Omari. "
He looked towards Aston.
"I think I have heard about you. "
The commander squeezed his eyes in curiosity.
"What happened to your left eye? "
"Well. " Aston confidently spoke. "When my brother died, I also got a bullet in my left eye so now in my vengeance I will take revenge for my brother and my eye. "
"So what do you know about those files? " Commander asked Vyuk, disregarding Aston's words.
"Hey! Aren't you listening to me? " Aston yells
"Those files have weird symbols with a White House and a chair blue print photos. I can't decode it due to those words. " Vyuk also didn't give attention to Aston.
"Now then. " Commander ordered. "You will go to the Pentagon, there we have to interrogate you, understand? "
"Yes. " Vyuk nodded
Aston didn't speak, he quietly gulped in fear.
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6:50pm.
"So that's all you got? " The Secret Service agent questions Vyuk.
They both sit in one of the Pentagon rooms, the setting of it looks like an interrogation room. A table in the center, two chairs at both ends with a bunch of donuts resting in the middle of the table on a plate.
Aston reclines in the wall on the Vyuk side, one more Secret service agent stands with the other one.
"Yes. " Vyuk seriously replies.
The two agents looked at each other then left the room without saying anything.
Aston kept tapping his one leg on the floor in nervousness.
"I have to escape, they know everything about me, I don't wanna go to jail. " Aston started to roam around the room.
"C'mon. " Vyuk tried to calm Aston down. "Just stop worrying. It's not like a random miracle could save you or anything, we are in one of the most secure place, so just —"
WAAAAAHH-OOOOH-WAAAAH-OOOOH
Out of nowhere, all the sirens of the Pentagon started to buzz, their high pitched sound made Aston fall, Vyuk instinct made him stand up from his chair.
"Something isn't right here. " Vyuk warned.
"Then. " Aston stands up. "It's the right time to escape. "
"What! "
Before Vyuk could stop him, Aston slams the door, making it open. Without wasting even a second, he darted away.
Vyuk thinks for a second, looking at the camera in the corner.
"I am not escaping, I am just gonna bring him back. " He told the camera.
Vyuk gets out of the door, he sees Aston in the opposite direction of a mysterious smoke coming from another room, then Aston takes a left.
Vyuk ran to Aston.
"What's that smoke? It's probably the reason for the alarm. " He thought.
But his speed was too slow compared to the smoke, and it rapidly engulfed Vyuk.
"Fuck. " Vyuk curses.
Unexpectedly, when he took the left turn, he could barely see Aston running through the stairs.
"Aston, stop!! "
Aston didn't listen, Vyuk tried to reach him, he got close to the stairs, running downward to stop Aston.
The smoke around him finally reached its limit, finally letting Vyuk see.
"Finally. "
While Vyuk thought about it, multiple Secret Service agents ran beside him, totally ignoring him.
Vyuk noticed though he still ran down to catch Aston.
When he finally reached down in the big hallway, he saw the floor being full empty as no one was guarding it.
Vyuk saw two Secret Service agents coming from that door, running. When they cross Vyuk they ignore him.
"What the hell is going on? " Vyuk glanced back at them. "Why all of them is ignoring a person who is being caught. "
Then he ran towards the man door, when he opened it to find Aston, astonished he saw no one there, not even a security in this intense moment.
He stepped forward, then.
THUUD!!!
Someone hits Vyuk from behind with something hard.
His vision started to get blurry, he plummeted in the ground, mind feeling heavy, he rolled around. He saw Aston standing, grabbing a big wooden plank.