THE UNION novel Chapter 28

"I can explain, don't hurt me." Papa pleads.

"At least let's hear him out." Richard says, he runs toward Ayo and pushes the blaster.

"I have a wife........." Tolu interrupts Papa.

"Is that it? We know." Tolu says and fakes a smile.

"Let him finish." Gboyega says tired of everything that is going on.

"She means the world to me and I'll do anything to protect her but now that Chong is dead, she's in danger and I fear Essence will get to her." Papa voice shakens and tears filled his eyes, the team have never seen him like this before, Ngozi and Richard immediately start to feel pity for him. "She's in danger and I can't save her alone.... I can't, I'm begging all of you I need help, if that's the last thing you'll ever do for me." Papa pleads, he uses his hand to clean his tear filled eyes. Tolu laughs sarcastically and slowly walks up to Papa.

"Fuck you!" Tolu yells and walks out.

"I'll get Linda." Gboyega says disappointed and walks out too. Ayo looks into Papa eyes deeply, he felt anguish and pain.

"I trusted you." Ayo says and walks out, Ngozi and Richard remain standing looking at Papa.

"We need to stop the others, we can't just let him stay like this." Ngozi says swiftly, her and Richard quickly run to the hallway to catch up with the others. "Stop!" Tolu yells.

"We have to help Papa." Richard says, they all stare at him and Ngozi.

"Papa? Why would we want to help Papa?" Tolu says in disgust.

"Cause this isn't about Papa, it's about this lady who needs help." Richard says.

"She can't suffer for Papa's crime guys." Ngozi says, the three stare at each other and Tolu sighs.

"Fine, let's just get this over with." Tolu says and walks to the sitting room.

"Well, I know I don't have a say in this so........." Gboyega walks inside, Ngozi joins them while Richard tries to convince Ayo to join them.

"I know it's hard for you." Richard says, he moves closer to Ayo.

"You know I won't come." Ayo says.

"I know but do this for me, use it to make up for all the bull shit you've done to me in the past." Richard says swiftly hoping he can bring a powerhouse to join them.

"Whatever." Ayo says and walks in, Richard dances around the hallway happy that they are doing this.

After meeting up with Papa, he gives them a briefing of what is about to go down.

"Mashee'a lives far from this place, very far so we're going to have to take my bus, it has some special inputs in it so we'll get there really fast." Papa says swiftly.

"Why don't I just take us there or use the teleporter?" Richard asked.

"Cause there's a magic field around the place, if you try to sneak there then your body explodes. My friend Oloogun helped me with that." Papa says boldly

"I don't think that holds up anymore, we kind of damaged that friendship." Gboyega says and chuckles a bit remembering how the beast caused havoc in the shrine.

"We don't want to take any risk, let's take my bus." Papa says firmly, Ayo was pissed the way he was taking control of the whole mission and acting like he didn't do anything

Minutes later, they were all in a black bus driving to meet up with Mashee'a, Ayo took the wheels and while driving he suddenly has a vision.

"Where I'm I?" Ayo says and wonders, a group of robots that look like him suddenly walk up to him and bow down.

"Our new King." They all chant praising him.

Ayo suddenly awakens back to the real world thinking about what just happened, he hears Slip voice in his head again.

"That was my people and I need to get back to them." Slip says.

"The world will be better off without someone like you." Ayo says.

"I'm not giving you a choice, I'm coming for my body and you're not going to stop me, just need sometime to get ready." Slip says proudly.

"Slip shut down." Ayo says the password he used to shut Slip down years ago but this time it doesn't work.