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Lena hated having to wake up early, however, this time, she had to wake up even earlier so that Roman wouldn’t go to her room to take her out of the place on pajamas.
The reason for her sleeplessness was one she never thought she would have: Mr. Nobody…
Two days ago she had received an email from him, thinking that it was some other mission that she would be ready to deny, she was surprised to see a video where the man was seen being attacked, rather, the place where he was, she had not managed understand what he was saying, because the video had interference and was cut in most sections, but knowing that she was not the only one who received it made her feel even more integrated.
That was why Roman, Tej, Ramsey and her decided to pay a visit to Dom, who had started his life, far from the radar, no communication with anyone, not even with her, no cell phones, no computers, no nothing, reason why the one time Lena went on a surprise visit, almost cost her the windshield of her car.
The girl left her house in Dubai, yes, she had decided to return to the desert, even though the stifling climate was not her favorite, she had grown fond of that place, her workshop was still working and was one of the best, everything was going well.
After two years, everything was still the same, calm, and Lena appreciated that.
But she wasn’t going to let that curiosity stop at that, not when she knew that something could have happened to Mr. Nobody, who had been so good to her, sometimes he visited her, he brought her some things, always with that same phrase.
“He wanted to send you a different gift this time” she had no idea what he meant by that, and the times she tried to ask him, he changed the subject quickly, she had even tried to ask to little nobody, it hadn’t worked, It seemed like they had a pact or something like that, no one answered her questions.
Continuing with Nobody, she knew there was something strange about all that, because there was no reason for him to send the same video to everyone on the team.
If so, it was because there was something that related to them, right?
– Lena, if you’re not ready, I’m going to tie the bed to the Jet!
…
– Hey, not to scare you, but a year ago I almost received a bullet in the forehead. – Lena once said as they began to approach Dom’s house.
– What? – Everyone asked in surprise at the same time, looking at her for a second.
– Let’s say Dom got a little paranoid after Brian came into his life and won’t let an unknown car come within ten feet of his house… – Lena said, looking at them as she started to open the window.
– And you couldn’t tell us that before?
– Yes, I know, I forgot. – Lena watched as Letty and Dom got in the way, both pointing a gun at the car, Tej stopped immediately, Lena took the small toy she was carrying for Brian, taking it out the window. – Don’t shoot me again! – She asked, shaking the toy before deciding to get off next to Roman.
They both got off, looking towards the couple while making a heart with their hands and arms. – I’m Roman! Do you remember? Maybe you don’t recognize me because I’ve been tanning all week. – Lena laughed before seeing how they both calmed down and dropped their weapons.
Once everyone was close to the home, they got out of the car, Lena opened her arms once she saw how the boy was running towards her. – Aunt Lena!
– Little Brian, I missed you so much, didn’t you? – The youngest nodded before hugging the older girl again, she smiled before taking out the toy that was in her bag. – Look, I brought you this.
The boy received the small car with a smile, looking at the bright orange color of it, Lena looked at him with a smile before tilting her head.
– It’s like Uncle Han’s. – He said, the boy, despite not having met him, had visited Lena’s house once when Dom and Letty wanted to resume that interrupted honeymoon they had in Spain, so the The girl offered to take care of little Toretto and Dom accepted, after all, there was no one he trusted more with his son’s life than his own family, his sister.
The boy had been like a rehabilitation for the girl, she had toured Dubai with the boy, she had gone shopping, she had taught the boy to use a bicycle that they rented in a park, she had gotten out of that state of inner sadness that she had, a One of those days, Lena left little Brian with her cell phone while she prepared him breakfast, the boy seemed to find her gallery, because when he spoke, he only asked her who the man in the photo was.
It was Han.
Lena told him, showing him the nice car that the boy, by the way, loved, that was why he was interested in knowing about the Asian, for him, Uncle Han had gone to heaven before he was born.
– You don’t like sharing a car… What’s wrong? – Lena saw Dom, she then looked at the other three who had traveled with her, sighing, she left the little one on the ground so that he could go with Letty.
– I think we have some problems.
…
After the quartet, along with the brothers, watched the video that had been sent individually to each of them, they all looked at Dom, expecting something from him, however there was nothing.
– The transmission was sent with a lot of encrypted data that I am still trying to decrypt.
– Has anyone else found out? – Letty asked after Ramsey’s words, the group immediately denied.
– That’s the thing, he send it just to us. – Tej responded immediately.
– And there is a reason, which will seem very familiar to you. – Lena said, sitting on the porch of the house, giving Ramsey a look, she nodded, making the other start typing, leaving the image of that blonde already quite familiar to them in view of everyone.
– Cipher was arrested, but there was an attack mid-flight and she was extracted.
– It seems that their plane crashed… Where? – Lena asked Ramsey, who had spoken before her, not remembering the name of the place they had been talking about on Roman’s Jet.
– In the northwest region of Montequinto.
– If Mr. Nobody survived, we have to find him, but they cordoned off the entire area, there is isolation in the hands of the military. – Tej said, reporting how little they knew about that whole event, which they had been investigating just two days ago.
– We are no longer accepting jobs. – Dom said, making the four who had arrived together look at each other with some concern.
They knew it would be very difficult for Dom to accept that job when he had a life and a son to take care of, they knew it would be very difficult for him to decide to leave little Brian without his father’s protection, not after everything they had been through.
Roman was going to get up to go with him, Lena looked at him, denying, letting him leave, the girl saw how Letty looked at them with some insecurity, Lena stood up, sighing. – We take off at eight in the morning, with or without Dom, you know you will be a lot of help, Letty. – She told her, smiling at her before walking towards the car, seeing little Brian running towards her, the woman took him in her arms.
– You’re leaving now?
– Yes, little one, but I will visit you again soon, okay? Next time, I’ll bring you one like mine. – The girl pointed to the car that the boy seemed to not have wanted to let go of. – Take good care of yourself, okay? – The little boy nodded, earning a kiss on his little nose, making him laugh, just like when he was a little baby.
– I’ll take care of Uncle Han. – The boy pointed to the car, moving it as if it were more of an airplane, Lena smiled at that, nodding before putting it down, to let him say goodbye to the others before she walked towards the car where she got in, she had a lot of things to think about at that moment.
Working without Dom would be difficult, but they had done it once, even though he was with them in the end, she knew they could do it again.
They weren’t going to force him to put himself in danger when his family was at stake.
She wouldn’t be sure she wanted to do it either if her life was already taking shape.
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– Do you think there is a Japanese Justin Timberlake or something like that? Yesterday I heard about one that was for Korea, so I guess there has to be one for Japan, right? – Lena heard that, her mind flew to that memory, the day she and Han met Sean, the boy had messed with DK, or Takashi for friends, he had called him exactly that way, it was a memory that made her laugh a little.
The day they had lost their little “Mona”.
– I don’t know, maybe, Roman. – Lena responded as she climbed the ladder that would take them inside the plane in which they would travel.
Letty had arrived, without Dom of course, so there they were, ready to tackle what would lead them to a new madness after years of living in peace.
Roman’s voice was left in his throat when they heard the sound of an engine, everyone turned their gaze in that direction, smiling, with relief, as they saw Dom’s black car approaching, looking at each other, the group nodded before starting to board the plane, leaving Letty to receive Dom.
Let the mission begin.
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Lena was driving a motorcycle, the motorcycle that had beaten little Nobody in a game of rock-paper-scissors, according to her, would be the most agile for the mission.
It was a lie.
But she had gotten what she wanted, so she was fine with that.
– We are approaching to the place, three kilometers, in the militarized zone of Montequinto, I hope you are ready.
– Please, now no one makes fun of me for not making practical decisions, I couldn’t be more prepared.
– Yes, we know, no one thinks that you are trying to compensate for something else. – Lena laughed when she heard Tej’s response to Roman, deciding to go ahead, she approached the car where Letty and Dom were going.
– I’ll go ahead. – Lena reported.
– Careful. – Lena smiled at that, she hadn’t heard those words in a while, accelerating, she took a position in front of Dom, who seriously thought about letting Lena use more motorcycles, it seemed like it was really her thing.
– We have a ten minute advantage between patrols, Mr. Nobody’s signal is close but we have to be very fast, we don’t want to run into the military.
– Hey… – Lena began as she continued accelerating towards the place where they had to get quickly – Not that I’m trying to be negative or anything like that, but don’t you think they would have already found it? If Mr. Nobody was still on that plane, I mean… It seems somewhat illogical to me that he has been there for almost four days and no soldier has found him. – she finished it, she had been thinking about it the entire time she was on the Jet, even after reviewing the plan, there was something that didn’t make sense to her.
– Lena is right. – Roman said, making everyone look at each other with hesitant eyes, that sounded very true, they didn’t understand how the man’s sign was still in that place after so long.
-Or maybe he’s dead and we’re just going to his body.- Roman laughed, before stopping when he saw that no one else was doing so. – The other thing I was thinking is that… Maybe he left something that might interest us. – The woman continued, slowing down once she reached her destination.
Getting off the motorcycle, she took off her helmet, looking at the scene, there were pieces of the plane, some still on fire while others seemed to have recently gone out. Taking her gun, Lena took a position right behind the group, covering Ramsey so she could get to where the signal indicated.
– Don’t go too far away. – Lena said to Roman, before he nodded and walked quickly to the side of the plane. Lena walked into the plane cabin, which was still intact, even though it was only half of it.
Lena watched as Ramsey crouched down towards a strange device that was making loud beeps. – They wanted what was inside, the plane must have crashed before they could open it. – Lena looked at Dom after she said that, narrowing her eyes at that assumption.
If they wanted what was there so much, why didn’t they go back and open it? – Or they knocked it down to stop it. – Lena shook her head at Letty’s assumption, her eyes looked at Roman approaching.
– Hey, there’s not a single soul here. – Lena looked at her brother, she knew that he also suspected something, it was too calm, much so if it was supposed to be patrolled by the military. – No signs of Mr. Nobody.
– I told you, possibly he is already cremated in one of these pieces of plane. – Lena said, crouching down with Ramsey once she saw her open the artifact, they both saw each other when they noticed what was inside, taking the initiative, Lena took the artifact, it looked like a ball, rather, half of it, at despite having a rectangular design, it was completely round, black with dark green. – I keep thinking that every day Mr. Nobody does stranger things, what is this? An Ovni or something?
– No idea, but whatever it was, Mr. Nobody wanted us to find it. – Without being able to finish the whole sentence, Dom, like everyone else, was startled when they saw some bullets colliding with the iron that surrounded them, Lena took the device with her, getting up as she ran after Ramsey, seeing the number of bunkers that approached to the place, the girl put the device in the small space under the seat of the motorcycle before getting on, completely forgetting about the helmet.
Accelerating to get out of where they were, Lena tried to deviate from all the bullets that were following her, taking her submachine gun, the girl moved her arm backwards, looking through the mirror of the motorcycle, she smiled before starting to shoot, achieving eliminate two of the men who were shooting at the large bunkers.
Lena turned aside once she saw the bunkers heading towards them from the front, entering a leafy forest, her eyes caught the red color of a signal, with some trembling in her hands she touched her microphone, turning it on. – Tell me I’m hallucinating that I just saw a sign that says mines a kilometer away.
– What!?
– Tej, at what speed do we have to pass them?
– Tell me you’re not thinking about walking over a minefield. – Tej responded to Dom, Lena’s eyes widened and if it weren’t for the fact that she was on a motorcycle at high speed in a forest full of mosquitoes, her mouth would have done them too.
– At what velocity?
– I don’t know, bro.
– What the hell did the sign say?
– Roman shut your mouth! Ramsey tell me you know how fast to go over the mines without ending up exploding! – Lena asked, seeing how she was getting closer and closer to the minefield.
– One hundred and thirty.
Lena lowered her gaze, sighing to see that she can achieve that speed, turning her gaze to the front, she swallowed before accelerating further, listening and feeling the shake that the ground gave at the moment when the mines she was touching exploded, when the Dom’s car approached, Lena opened her eyes, swerving just in time to avoid the mine exploding next to her, trying not to lose control of the motorcycle, it continued on its way. – Go towards those palm trees and we’ll be fine! – Ramsey’s voice was heard, making Lena accelerate to take the lead, being the first to cross and reach the area of palm trees.
Running in front of Dom, Lena tried not to stop, not hearing any kind of scandal behind them, she got a little worried, it was not normal at all. – Hey, wait, I think I found another way out… Three kilometers away there is some kind of bridge, on the border.
– The sooner we get out of here, the better. – Lena managed to hear before seeing a shadow over her, looking back for a second, her eyes widened before stopping suddenly, taking the shortcut she had seen to her right, she prevented the car, that had jumped on her, to hit her
However, it didn’t seem to want to give up because, throwing some trees to the ground, the car was behind her again, from one second to the next, she felt a weight on her back, which made her unbalance a little, upset because they were scratching her neck, she raised the front tire of the motorcycle, causing the extra body on it to slide and hang, taking the edge of the rear seat with one hand.
Lena took advantage of that position, skidding a little, she managed to get the man to let go due to the sudden movement of the motorcycle, trying to get out of that dead end road, Lena found an inclined rock, perfect to jump on, and so she did, rising above the ground, was about to fall on the sidewalk from where it had deviated, however, the strong blow on the rear tire of the vehicle made her loose, deviating from the path of the motorcycle, her body flew a little with a destination: the ground.
Rolling a little on the ground, a few meters from where the motorcycle had fallen, she shifted somewhat uncomfortably on the flat ground, her eyes saw how Dom’s car stopped next to her, Lena’s head remembered why she had been there, fleeing so terrified a few seconds ago, forgetting her pain, she stood up, ready to run towards the artifact on the ground, which she couldn’t take when she saw a car appear out of nowhere, and she wouldn’t have cared much if it weren’t for her body did not respond, her brain stopped when she saw the person who was driving that car, the same one who took the device in his hands.
With a dry throat and some disbelief, Lena took a step forward almost by inertia, blurting out the name she thought would never leave her lips again. – Jakob…
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