17 - Junkyard

The next day while walking down the halls of school with Remy, I didn't even have to use my super hearing to hear people commenting on two superheroes who had shown up in New York.

"Really! Yesterday when I was coming back from the market I saw one of them. He had a big "S" on his chest. When I went to ask the woman who had her son saved, she said his name was Superboy and he looked 15 to 16." A little girl said excitedly to her friend.

"Really? I heard some people say he was very handsome, is that true?" The girl's friend asked.

"I didn't see it right, but in order for him to do that, I'm sure he was very handsome." The girl commented to her friend while she had a slight laugh.

I had already taken off my sunglasses and my jacket and kept it in my backpack if I kept walking around with my glasses and jacket it was only a matter of time before people recognized me.

"Hey guys, did you hear about the new heroes that showed up? My father said the police are happy with the heroes since they saved the lives of 2 boys and helped 4 people in robberies, but they can't let it show to the population not to encourage vigilantism". Emilia said as she arrived at our side with her two friends.

"I only heard about them today with everyone commenting, since it's kind of hard for the news to get to my parents' farm." I said it while I gave a little smile.

"Same to me." Remy said taking advantage of the excuse that he also lived in a remote location.

"Well, it seems these heroes only perform in New York since the two times they showed up they were here in town. In fact, I like the new look, John." She said as she looked at my apparent muscles in my black T-shirt that it defined my muscles.

"Too bad, it would be nice to have a security for the farms, but I think it would be inefficient for them if they wanted to act in the rural area, the chance of something dangerous happening is very low." I did.

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After class, instead of changing in the school locker room, Remy and I climbed into another random tall building and changed into the same clothes we wore yesterday, putting our current clothes in our backpack.

Yesterday's men had told us that the Scientists Guild goes to their hiding place today to get the kidnapped boys. So we quickly went to the address they gave Remy in interrogation and hid on top of a building near the shed waiting for something suspicious.

I thought about capturing these men and interrogating them to find out where Scientists Guild headquarters was, but Remy said their goons are brainwashed, no matter how hard you try to extract information from them, they'll never tell you anything.

So we held our position for two hours. Fortunately, neither of us got tired easily and we kept our attention in the lobby waiting for something suspicious.

Suddenly, I heard a strange conversation.

-- If you prepare, I want a clean service, hand over the money to the idiots and pick up the guinea pig as soon as possible. I don't want to hear a word from you with anyone. - A man's voice said it attracting my attention.

Seeing me get serious for a moment, Remy understood that I heard something and was also prepared to hide on top of the building.

A few seconds later a cleaning van stopped in front of the shed and 4 men in suits got out of the car without saying a word. After knocking on the door of the shed, they broke in and went in to see if they could find anything.

-- There's no one here, these idiots must have been arrested, let's get out of here fast before some cop shows up. - The same man I heard that hour said that time as he was leaving the shed with the other men and getting into the van quickly.

Seeing the van speeding from there Remy and I ran over the building keeping a long-distance thanks to my super hearing, which allowed us to track them even though they were so far away avoiding being detected.

As we followed them, we noticed that they were making paths in circles, turning in meaningless streets and then following a path again, probably trying to lose the pursuers, but to their misfortune, they were trying to run away from someone who could hear too far away.

After an hour of chasing, the men stopped in a junkyard all together from the van entering the shed apparently used to store the most valuable pieces, leaving only one man in the parking lot where the van was parked.

We both stopped at the nearest building and I concentrated to try to hear what they were saying, but unfortunately, they seemed to have sat somewhere and said nothing.

We waited another 30 minutes and a van of organic material entered the junkyard and four more men went inside, repeating the same process of just sitting without saying anything to anyone.

Seeing that something strange was happening, we decided to wait. Every 30 minutes a new van would arrive and enter completely in silence until night fell and more than 6 vans were parked outside.

Finally, a voice spoke. -- The sedatives will begin to wear off in 45 minutes. The bosses said they would send someone powerful enough to accompany us to headquarters in 5 minutes, we'll have 40 minutes in total to take the guinea pigs, understood? --

-- Yes, sir. -- The men said in unison.

Hearing this, I was enraged to learn that they probably had five doped children in those vans. When I told Remy what they had said I heard the leather in his gloves squirming with the anger he was feeling. But we still chose to wait to see who that person would be.

After exactly 5 minutes, a black BMW 325i appeared and entered the junkyard parking just behind the vans and a tall man came out of there wearing a military uniform with a strange symbol for John since even in the history books he had seen a skull symbol with 6 tentacles.

When the man showed up, we were ready to interfere, but the idea was to wait for them to take us to their base.

-- Hail Hydra, bring the five most ideal guinea pigs and separate the sixth guinea pig, the weakest, for me. - The man said.

-- Hail Hydra, sir, the sixth guinea pig hasn't been found, those responsible are missing, on the way here I've already sent a message to the technical area for them to find out what happened to those disposable men. - The only man I'd ever heard said anything answered the man who just arrived.

-- So we only have five guinea pigs? I hate odd numbers, separate the fifth guinea pig now, let's kill it in front of the other four guinea pigs to get the discipline. - The man said.

When I heard what he said, I felt my eyes warming up when Remy suddenly put his hand on my shoulder. "What's up, man? Your eyes are red again."

I noticed that my face was actually a little warmer, but when I calmed down the feeling disappeared in a second. "Gambit, we need to intervene quickly, they're going after the victims in the vans and they'll choose one to sacrifice now if we let them take one of them they'll have a hostage." I said Gambit since we had agreed not to say our names out loud when masked.

Hearing what I said, Remy wasted no time and jumped out of the building to run towards the junkyard. I didn't stay behind and used all my strength to jump on the one man who had been watching the vans before the men who were leaving got there.