[Anteca: Prime Group]
"What are you still doing?!" Penny shouted as she slammed her hands on the desk, an earpiece in her ear. "My husband, my brothers, and my dad are all in there! Find a way to regain communication with them!"
"Mark! Mark!" she kept shouting, knowing her chief bodyguard was with her father. "God damn it! I’m going to kill all of you! There’s not much time! They need to get out of there! NOW!"
There was only a minute left before the bomb would detonate, and with how powerful it was, the group needed to be far away. The blast would take not just the entire buildings, but the entire holy grounds. That was why many of them were already moving toward safer points.
However, she hadn’t seen a shadow of her husband, her brothers, her father, or even those who went with them.
"Are they all crazy!?" she roared, almost breathing fire in distress. "Are they all planning to leave the women in this family widows?! Is forming a widow club their agenda tonight?!"
Yugi, who was trying to focus on the team, paused and glanced at Penny. The latter was starting to morph into a real dragon, crying curses that weren’t helpful at this point.
Earlier, Penny was still calm. But now that the timer had hit the last-minute mark and there were still no signs of the Bennet men and her husband, she began to spiral. Then again, if Penny had been there herself, she would’ve been the first to run to where Atlas was.
It was just that since she already had children, she had to stay back and provide support. Now, it was clear she regretted not going and was losing her mind.
"Sir Yugi," the man seated next to him said worriedly, "I think you should stop Miss Penny. She’s going to start breathing fire and bomb us all here."
Yugi knocked on the table. "Just focus on that. Haven’t you heard from the analyst we contacted about the bomb?"
"We did. They said there’s no point."
Yugi breathed out heavily, glancing at the countless monitors before them, which were behind Penny. From one of them, he finally spotted his sister, Yuri, running away from one of the buildings with an entire team.
Yet, Yugi didn’t feel any relief. He didn’t feel like he deserved to when Penny was beginning to lose her mind.
"Keep working with the other team, everyone!" he shouted. "Make sure everyone gets out of the danger zone! Find a way to contact them! Hack anything in that place to form any kind of communication!"
His voice echoed — not as loud as Penny’s, but enough for everyone to focus on him instead. After all, if they spent even a second listening to Penny, the pressure would overwhelm them.
"We’ve found one!" Suddenly, one man shouted, his hands flying over two keyboards. Both he and the others beside him worked at high speed.
"Sending the data to Pika!"
"Pika receiving it!" someone from across the room shouted. "Come on, guys!"
"Keep working!"
"Buy them time!"
With this breakthrough, everyone became fired up, working ten times faster than before. None of them had taken a break. Some even forgot to take a leak as lives were on the line.
Not to mention — their big boss’s family was on the line.
If they died...
Penny would kill them all.
She was the ticking time bomb they got in this place.
Penny stopped when she heard the shouting. She marched toward the nearest desk, checking the monitors to understand the situation. But before she could process anything with her overstimulated mind, something flashed in the corner of her vision.
Her breath hitched, her eyes dilated as she turned toward the front monitors and saw one building explode.
Then another.
Then the one beside it.
Finally, the explosion erupted at the very place she had been watching closely — where all her loved ones were.
"No," she breathed out, staggering back before falling onto the floor with a thud.
Everyone else also stopped working, collectively looking up at the large flames captured by the aerial cameras.
Penny’s mouth quivered as her eyes trembled.
"...no."
*****
[Holy Grounds: Lola]
"HAHAHA!"
Melissa’s maniacal laughter echoed through the air along with gunfire as she kept pulling the trigger without hesitation. Meanwhile, Lola stayed hidden behind the wall and checked the time.
Clack.
Clack.
BANG!
BANG!
BANG!
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