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The door opens slowly and John creeps in, his hands shaking and his palms sweating. He knew gun handling when he'd bought a registered gun. His then girlfriend in the force had thought him, put him through so many rigorous tests, just so that he could protect himself. No sooner were the lessons over before he ditched the gun into a river, because of fear. Now he's glad for learning at all. He knew Schemer is waiting and he wants to make sure even his heartbeats can't be heard. He holds the pistol tighter, with his trigger finger càressing it's trigger. He watch as the door closes as silently as it'd opened. He tiptoes silently, peeping, eavesdropping.

He turns a corner and sees Schemer waiting at the end of the corridor. Both releases shots at each other before taking shield behind the walls.

"I've been expecting you coward" Schemer taunts.

John peeps first, before taking his next step, Schemer being the smart dude he is, might have had everything planned out.

"Thought your dad would've come to face me himself" Schemer continues. There are two walls separating both of them. The cubicle is empty and divided into 3 by thick walls, none posses any door. It's such that a long corridor connects them. Schemer is behind the last wall. "Cat got your tongue?" The taunting continues.

John kept silent, his ears open to the slightest bit of sound aside Schemer's taunting voice.

"Come on boy! Say something" Schemer says, before letting a little groan from his throat.

"I see you're hurt" John finally speaks up "Surrender and I'll make sure you walk out of here alive"

"Oh save it!" Schemer says laughing "Isn't that John? The same one I know? The same one his dad......"

John makes a quick attempt to run into the corridor thereby interrupting Schemer and goes back just in time as a bullet from Schemer's gun hits the wall opposite him.

"You're a good learner. Why take so long to learn?" Schemer continues.

"Because I'm not a killer" John retorts.

"You think I'm a killer? Well, I was a mere cultist in school, your father made me a killer"

"You always had the potentials. Guess your pathetic parents are happy they died before you had the chance of killing them"

"You know nothing John. You've been confused since birth"

"Alright, I agree" John stares upward. He looks at his magazine and notices he's empty, but Schemer doesn't know that. He hopes the game swings in his favour though he doubts it. He closes his eyes as if thinking of what to say before saying "I was never used and dump like dog. Bîtch"

He hates his foolishness for not checking the gun before walking into the cubicle. Now he's going to die? No! He stands firmly, sweat pumps out of it's pores in his body in torrents. His hands start to shake.

"You know nothing John" Schemer say before sending two shots towards John's direction. He is not planning on hitting John with that, because he, John, is well concealed but he hopes he catches him off guard.

John, on the other hand, has heard Schemer's running footsteps and is geared up in anticipation. He got ready to dive. He must make Schemer pay for his dad. Schemer stops short by the other side of the wall he was standing by. Fûck! He exclaims under his breath.

"What?" Schemer asks. "Can't wait to kill me?"

"Keep hiding. I'm happy waiting for the police" John says, and when Schemer isn't sounding like he is going to reply, he continues "Angela must be on her way to the hospital and the police, here. Don't tell me you have plans in place to handle a handful of policemen" His plan is to woo Schemer into making a wrong decision. "Stop being a little bîtch and come out and end this".

"Is it that you're getting scared or just want to die quicker?"

"I fear no foe"

"Yet you fear me. I still can't forget the guy weeping after he'd woken up in a locked room. Small boy"

Then as if propelled by the force of a rocket he dashes forward, turns to face Schemer and throws his gun at Schemer. Schemer knew John's tiny temper but didn't know he'd hit a nerve. The gun hits him squarely and he turns his face away and didn't see John's left leg hitting his arm. The pain was so much he'd dropped the gun before falling backwards.


TBC

edogho:
Jiggy, nice one. buh na u drive all d followers o

I no Boss
I'm even ashamed of mentioning them

"Fück!" Schemer grumbles loudly "Fück! The son of a bïtch shot me!". One of Balogun's bullets had hit him right below the abdomen. His mind kept yelling safety first so he'd dragged the Inspector into the last cubicle. He knew with Mr Samuel alive, they would soon storm in.

"You caused it! I warned you! I said no cops! If only you'd listened, we wouldn't be shedding so much blood!" Schemer yells down and spat on the face of Edogho.

"You use to love blood, why the sudden change?" Edogho retorts. He's badly bruised and has crept up to one corner of the cubicle, with his back on the wall. He tries to stand up, but couldn't, maybe he's paralyzed or maybe he's too weak, only time would tell.

"If you don't keep shut I'll kill you!"

"Do it! Coward! You find fun in killing helpless people!"

"Helpless people?"

"Yes! You're a coward!" Edogho's plan is to make him angry, so Schemer will either get too angry and lose focus so Balogun can crawl up on him or so Schemer can just free him from the pains he's going through. He hopes for the former to happen though.

"So you're now helpless?" Schemer asks, looking expectingly into Edogho's eyes.

"Give me a gun, and I won't be"

"Wise man! I know your plans, and I've always been ahead of you. I mistimed Balogun, only error I ever made"

"And it's going to kill you" Edogho then laughs hysterically "feels bad ain't it?"

"You made use of the word kill, you know it's the only way to stop me, dont you?"

"No lies, yes"

"But you'll die first" He cöcks his gun and shoots Edogho carelessly, without even looking at him. The shot hit Edogho in the chest and his head dangles from his body. Slowly, he falls down, leaving blood stains on the wall.




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The doctor had hidden in a corner when he could, he isn't too good when it comes to using guns and the moment Balogun's appearance promised to be a shooting practice, he had perched at a corner. Now, he knows to save himself, he needs to exit the building for home else he'd be exiting it only to be an inmate of the dreaded Ogwashi-uku prison. He holds firmly to the gun and peeps.

From where he sat, he can see directly, Balogun trying to unlock the Cubicle's handle while from the corner of his eyes, he sees Angela and John bent over Mr Samuel, he's probably saying his final wishes, he thought to himself. He shifts back before aiming at Balogun. He releases two quick shots at him.

Balogun turns and shoots back blindly at his shooter. Another bullet hits him and he's down on his knees, he still fires back before he slumps.

The doctor too is down, he got hit twice, one in the shoulder and one in his heart. He silently says his last prayers as tears flow freely from his eyes.

John, silently watching the drama as it unfolds, armed with a gun, gets up. Angela and Mr Samuel looks at him, the former looks on cluelessly why the latter looks on, smiling, expectantly.

John gets close to the doctor and kneels beside him. "I still recall your face doc"

"Everyone is entitled to second chances, don't they?" The doc says.

"You had your chance, you just didn't take it" John takes the gun off safety and presses the nuzzle to the doc's head. "RIP doc. Tell Satan I said hi" he says and squeezes the trigger. Blood splashes on his face. He looks at Angela and then winks.

"How about we go get James?" He asks.

Angela smiles and Mr Samuel groans "I don't see why we should wait"

"I'm going in alone Dad!" John says

"No!" Angela retorts.

"I'm not asking for opinions. Angela take care of Dad" he walks towards her and pecks her. "No matter what happens in there, take Dad to a hospital first. I love you"

Tears flows from Angela's eyes. She runs and hugs him "I love you too". John nods absent mindedly. His mind is is far away and already inside the cubicle.

"John" Mr Samuel calls out "I'm proud of you son!"

John frees himself from Angela's grip but she held his hand. "We should let go" she says. John shakes his head and walks towards the cubicle.

"I'll be waiting for you at the hospital" Angela says. "Be Safe!"

Months Later.......


Mr Samuel is in his house, in his study to be precise, reading a magazine, when a call comes in on the landline. He answers the call and leaves it's loudspeaker on.

"Hello James"

"I saw your text"

"I'm forwarding the layout of the underground to your mail now. Do all you can. I'll also mail you John's location, so you can complete the mission. Be careful, and do the usual"

"Ok Sir"

"James, don't hurt any of them"

"Ok sir" then the line went dead.


--------- Back to the present



"So that is it" Schemer says

All eyes turned to Mr Samuel. "Yes, it's the truth" he says unrepentantly.

"Please give me the pleasure of killing him myself" Angela speaks up.

Schemer looks at her weirdly, a smile playing on his lips. "No love" he says "I'll grant that on a better day"

Edogho had stopped groaning, he advances towards Mr Samuel with a clenched fist and teeth and delivers a blow to his face. John moves a step but quickly checks back when a couple of guns were pointed at him.

"Don't act like you are hurt! You don't know pains!" Edogho shouts down at Mr Samuel. "So this, reeducation, is your best idea for reformation? You'd hurt your only family left, hoping to make them into better people?"

Schemer looks on keenly. The suddenly pulls shoots Edogho in his knees. He then step behind him and grabbed his neck from behind.

"I told you not to involve the policez! You brought your cöck sücking friend of a cop to die with you?" Schemer eyes are now bloodshot and his veins bulges out.

"Haven't you killed enough police men already?" Edogho manages to speak.

"Really? You all caused it!" he makes sure his gun's nuzzle is glued to Edogho's skull and calls out. "Balogun come in now!"

"Balogun don't"

Two of Schemer's men stood still with their guns pointing to John, Angela and Mr Samuel, while the others faced the door, pointing their guns forward.

Balogun hid behind a doorpost, unsure whether to go in, so him and his friend both gets killed or stay hidden and attack later. He knows whatever way, James won't kill Edogho instantly. He decides to take his time, peeping for the slightest of chances to attack.

In a flash, Angela dashes forward with a yell that ear piercing and knocks down one of the guards facing them. The second tries to make move but is knocked down by John. Balogun comes out of hiding and takes two guards out with two quick shots. All these had happened in a flash, but not too quick as Schemer mistakenly shoots down one of him men in a bid to shoot the approaching Balogun. He recovers quickly and plants one bullet in Balogun's shoulders. Balogun saw it too late and ducks quickly as a second grazes past his chin.

Balogun, though on the floor, shoots the last standing guard, who looks like he's out of rounds. Random shootings followed, and in a few seconds, everywhere went dead silent. John and Angela were dragged by Mr Samuel away from the shots and hid at a corner. Schemer quickly drags Edogho away and opens a passage by punching in a certain word, he steps in and let it close behind him.

Balogun comes in, fuming "Where did he go?"

"Shift that cupboard to your right, there's a door there. The combination is Maurice" Mr Samuel says.

"Maurice?" John asks, bewildered.

"How did you know?" Balogun asks, almost the sametime as John.

"Don't hurry Balogun, that place is like a closet, it leads to nowhere" Mr Samuel takes in a deep breathe "your mom knew about this place. But it hasn't been completed then"

"You mean you own this structure?" Balogun asks

"There is a lot you don't know Balogun" He turns to look at John then says "I'm happy you're now changed. Take care of Angela" before slumping on the floor.

"Dad!" Angela and John scream the same time, and carries Mr Samuel up. Then John notices the blood dripping from his back. "He was shot" he says, dejected

Mimikathy:
Dnt tell me dat is d end of d story oooooo. Just wen I was adjusting my belt 4 d finally line, u went off.. Till no update, wats happening because...

it isn't over ma'am
an update is gone hit ya before the end of the day