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it is such a pleasure to meet you.” He
spoke as if he would spontaneously combust if he didn’t get all of
the words out in time, his hand shot toward me and for a moment I
thought he was going to rip my heart out, I took his hand and shook
it cautiously, “Th… the pleasure is all mine.” He released my hand,
“I’m going to get a drink, I’ll be right back.” He stood, knocking
over his chair as he did, quickly straightened it and walked to the
counter. “Um, guys, is he always like this?” I looked over at Wolf
whose head was backed up past his chair with a confused expression
on it, he slowly shook his head, “Noooo…” Kate, with an equally
confused expression on her face looked at me, “Maybe he’s just a
little over excited, I’m sure he’ll calm down soon.” He bounded
back with a bottle in his hand and sat, “I have so many things to
show you, you’re going to love them, I heard you’ll be using C4 on
this mission for example, so I’ve made a signal based detonator,
you can set off all the explosives simultaneously with a single
press of a button. The best part is you can assign separate packs
to different channels, say you want two different explosions, you
change the knob on the detonator to alpha, scan a pack with it then
change the knob to bravo and scan another pack, at this point you
can detonate all packs in alpha by setting it to alpha and all of
bravo in the same way and so on. The final setting is sigma which
will detonate all of them at the same time regardless of code, wow
I’m talking a lot.” He drank the entire bottle in one hit. “I… I’m
very excited to see it. May I ask, why you’re so… talky?” he wiped
his mouth, “I’ve had twenty two coffees, keeps my brain active, I
don’t nod off this way, I haven’t slept since shortly after you got
here.” Wolf looked at him with concern, “Mark… He got here a week
ago, and he was in a coma for most of that, you haven’t slept in
six days?” he nodded wildly, “Yes,” he quickly looked at his watch,
“One hundred and forty eight hours and thirty seven minutes, I’ll
sleep soon. I’ve finished most of my work, I’ll sleep tonight, for
now do you require anything else? If not I will just show you what
I have so far.” He was still beaming, it was really quite worrying,
“Not that I can think of, why have you been awake that long? My
plan was only made yesterday, what have you been doing?” He
shrugged, “Recently? Making bits and pieces, helping fix the
defences and such. I’ve been expecting you for quite some time, I
couldn’t sleep until I met you.” I was actually very touched,
“Well, let’s go, I’d like to see what’s available and then you have
to sleep.” Marcus seemed to be thinking this over, “Fair, let’s go.
You guys want to tag along?” Kate shook her head, “I think I’ll try
to get some more sleep, broken sleep always leaves me feeling more
tired than ever.” Wolf shrugged, “I’ll come along, I always like
new toys.”

New
Toys
    Before long we were in an
elevator, “So what else have you got in store for us?” Marcus
adjusted his tie and slipped a lanyard over his neck which had a
small picture of him dangling at the end, “Mostly standard weapons,
but I’ve also managed to scoop up some explosive rounds.” The
elevator doors slid open to reveal a large white room as well as a
few tables with assault rifles, bullets, round devices I couldn’t
identify and a mess of crushed drink cans. There was no one around
which made me wonder why Marcus put on that lanyard. Wolf started
fiddling with a bullet as soon as we stepped in, “Mark, where is
everyone?” Marcus looked around confused occasionally ducking and
checking under the tables, “I honestly have no idea…” I noticed
someone creeping up behind him, “Marcus!” there was a pop as he
spun around, they both screamed and Marcus punched his follower in
the face who recoiled as he grabbed his face. It was at that