The Destiny of Nexus

Chapter-6

                     Mr. Jackson asked me to wait outside as the patient was acting unpredictably in my presence. The moment I left, he calmed down. All these things were driving me crazy. I have lots and lots of questions but no sensible answers. Why the hell was he afraid of me? I have never seen that man in my life before the accident. I finally gave up thinking and decided to call Nyssa. I called and asked her to come to the mansion and disconnected the call. Nyssa reached the mansion soon.

‘What’s the matter?’

‘You’ll know soon.’

                   Meanwhile, the doctor checked the patient and came outside. How is he, doc? Is everything all right?  It’s just a sprain, he said.  He’ll recover in 5-14 days. What about his mental health? I asked. I’ll perform Hypnotherapy and find out what’s wrong. Luckily, Mr. Jackson is a gold medalist in psychology. He asked me to wait outside till he puts him in a hypnotic state. I and Nyssa remained outside waiting for him to call us. Finally he called us in and he began to ask questions. 

Jackson: Can you tell us your name, mister?

Thomas: My name is Thomas Foley.

Jackson: What do you do for a living, Thomas?

Thomas: I work as a truck driver for Quick transport corporation.

Jackson: Have you recently encountered any disturbing incident?

Thomas: Ye.. Yes.. He stammered.

Jackson: Can you tell us what happened?

Thomas: Two days ago, I was driving my truck as usual and suddenly two people came in front of the truck. I thought I                       killed them. But thank God!! They were unharmed.

Jackson: You saved two people, Thomas. That was very brave. Why do you consider it as a "Disturbing incident”?

Thomas: The fact is, I was so shocked that I never applied breaks and I don’t know how the truck stopped. Things started to get worse from the moment I regained consciousness after the incident. Something haunts me all the time. I don’t know what it is or why is it haunting me, but I surely know that it wants to punish me for trying to kill those people.

Steve: What the heck? He didn’t apply breaks? How is this even possible? 

Thomas: No one believed me when I told this in my statement at the police station.

                             Mr. Jackson asked me to go out and then he pulled Thomas back to a conscious state. He mildly sedated him so he could rest for a while, and then he came outside.

Steve: Doc, Is it possible that he applied the brakes without the knowledge of his conscious mind?

Jackson: It is possible. As he already told us that he had been in a shock and also confirmed your deaths priorly. Maybe he was too traumatized about the consequences after your deaths that he forgot about his current action that is applying breaks.

Steve: What about this haunting then? 

Jackson: His assumptions differ from reality. Maybe you are dead from his perspective but not in reality. He is just punishing himself for the accident he had committed that cost two young lives. It’s difficult to live with that.

Jeffrey: How to cure him then?

Jackson: Just make sure that he stays in a place that is peaceful, far from all the noise and pollution. Soon he’ll start to accept the reality. Then he’ll be alright.

                       Jeffrey took his father home afterwards. Mr. Jackson left too. Nyssa wanted to talk about this stuff, but my brain was already fried with all of the drama. I was in no mood to discuss. So I told her that we’ll discuss this later and then dropped her back home and returned to my mansion. The only best thing about my life these days is sleep, where I can escape from all my thoughts for a short period. I wouldn’t miss that for anything. I haven’t talked to Ronny from a few days so I decided to call him the next day and went to sleep thereafter.

                       I woke up at my usual time. I just hoped that this day would be better. It’s been 3 days since I talked to Ronny so I made a call to him. He answered the call.

‘Good morning buddy. How are you?’

‘If you were really worried about me, you would have called at least once, I suppose. So spare me with your concern and tell about yourself. Are you alright?’

‘I am perfectly fine. In fact I am on cloud nine. I have a super-secret. I wanted to share with you, in fact I wanted to show you, but I was so busy that I couldn’t make a call. Can you come over now? I want to show you something cool. I am sure that it’ll surprise you.’

                     Well, I wanted to see him anyway, so I said yes and cut the call. Then I had my shower, followed by cereal. As I was starting to go to Ronny’s, I thought of inviting David and Nyssa too, but he mentioned it as a top secret and also it’s his choice to share his secret, so I didn’t call anyone. I went to his home and rang the calling bell. He opened the door, and we hugged each other. He appeared so cheerful. It looked like he won a lottery or something. I asked him, where are your parents? They went to some marriage in Sydney and they won’t be back for a week and he started laughing like a mad villain. It was weird though, but crazy. Come, I’ll show you my super-secret. He took me to his bedroom upstairs. His bedroom is so messy and I couldn’t find anything significant. Everything looked normal. A shelf with lots of books he doesn’t read and techy things all over the room. As I was looking at the room, he started to move the shelf.

‘What are you doing, mate?’

‘Just wait to get surprised.’

                       After he moved the shelf, I could see a small button behind it. As soon as he pressed the button, the wall slid to left. It was a door indeed. He opened the door and there was a way inside. A secret door leading to a secret room, I thought. It astounded me.

                     Well, what I am about to show you is in there. Lead the way, he said. There were stairs downwards and while I was walking, I felt like he was taking me to some secret cave to slaughter me or sacrifice me for something. It was hysterical though. We finally reached the room and I have to admit, it was awesome. It contained a Television, laptops, and computers with high internet speed. There were various techy objects around the room. Ronny mentioned about a secret room few times in our discussions but I’ve no idea that he is been using it as some kind of secret base. It puzzled me. I turned towards him to ask a lot of questions. He stopped me by saying, before you ask me any question. Let me tell you how it all happened. Go ahead then, I said. 

‘Few days ago, I don’t know how, but military guys found me. At the beginning, I thought they were terrorists or some kind of sick people trying to scam me. So I ran some background checks. I hacked into National Personnel Records Centre and the person who requested me for help is legit. I think they realized my skills through dark web. I am f*****g trickster and mastermind in dark web. My user name is “Loki316.” After doing my research I was ready to talk to them.

‘The Australian Military wants you to prepare some equipment that they can use in war or something like that. It has to be creative. It will officially be released later, but for now it needs to be a top secret. I know you are a genius, and I’m sure that you will invent something that would daze our enemies. So from this moment on, you are an undercover agent for The Australian Military. Are you in, son?’

‘Of course Sir. It would be my honour.’

‘That’s the spirit. Start right on and when you are done, ping me with “kangaroo is ready.” That’s our code word.’