
Chapter 15 |☆》Who?
》NEAR THE INFIRMARY.
The Shadow Soldier walked past the infirmary, Grim merely took a left turn from the hallway near the infirmary and found Scale talking to a young woman which he assumed to be the intergalactic investigator who Scale was gushing about earlier.
"It seems that he's the only suspect found so far." Stella insinuated given to how Scale described how the Shadow Soldiers behaved and how the attack their targets. Not to mention the estranged relationship Grim had with his own species according to what Blade told him.
"So you must be the alien cop I've been hearing so much about." Grim commented as he leaned his robed elbow on the wall, feigning curiosity.
"Grim." Scale groaned, then exhaled in annoyance.
"Oh, so you're Grim." Stella turned to look at the aforementioned prime suspect. Dark cloak, shrouded face, tipped oceanic blue wings which could've been mistaken as part of his cloak given how transparent they were.
"Who? Me?" Grim feigned ignorance as he put his hand on his chest.
"Is there another Grim Bootleg around here?" Stella humored the Shadow Soldier, trying to withhold the sarcasm while Scale shot a don't-you-dare-ruin-this for me glare at Grim.
"Guilty as charged." Grim replied cynically before batting his eyelashes at Scale, the aggravated expression on Reptilian's face was priceless. "I can't help being tall, dark and gruesome."
Stella was thrown off by Grim's approach. Either his reply was a deliberate pun intended or he was flatly admitting that he was the mastermind behind the Shadow Soldier Revolution, and by extension, the assassination of Scale's allies in that realm.
She was about to interrogate him before her phone rang, Stella fished out her phone from her pocket before she saw that it was Micah who called her over the phone.
"What is it? I'm in the middle of something?" Stella said, then casted a conspicuous glance at Grim while the Shadow Soldier posed like a model only to make Scale squirm from second hand embarrassment.
"I found compelling evidence of an usurper supplanting its next victim." Micah replied.
"For real?" Stella asked.
"I wouldn't be calling you, wouldn't I?" Stella rolled her eyes at Micah's sarcastic remark. "Here is the footage of the impostor using my image and likeness to commit a crime. I should consider suing that fraud."
Stella received the link of the video, just when she played it. The footage showed the usurper streaking before the victim appeared, the imposter feigned embarrassment and asked for help. The victim was a brunette with fair skin, brown eyes, wore an ultramarine blazer and knee length skirt, a white buttoned up blouse, short heels and a wedding ring. The victim removed her blazer to help cover the usurper's small body before the victim brought the imposter elsewhere.
"If you're gonna snitch on the space cop about the contract we signed, you'll also get arrested. Think about it." Grim whispered at the Reptilian while the intergalactic investigator was distracted watching the footage.
"I rather get locked up in order to save everyone from the Revolution than to let you enslave them." Scale whispered back.
"So you're gonna let that grey-skinned alien wear you like a purse than let me get my own realm." Grim deadpanned.
"That's right."
The following video showed the two entering the storage room before the door closed. The usurper came out of the storage room four minutes later, at first glance, it seemed that the receptionist came out casually to resume her job, but the difference was subtle yet palpable. The victim had a lovely updo, the usurper's updo was lowered and rushed with some strands jutting out, and there was no wedding ring in sight.
"Have you found the usurper yet?" Stella asked.
"Not yet, idiot. I'm searching as we speak. Find the victim while you're at it." Micah stated before hanging up. Stella went out to search for the victim without knowing that she was nearby.
"Does our rivalry mean anything to you?" He pointedly accused him, a boney finger merely inches away from Scale's scaly face.
"I signed up to prevent you from taking their realm. You want to rob them of what little peace they have left!" Scale slapped Grim's hand away, "Do you think I want to live like this!? You just want to have dominion over everyone around you because you don't have control over your own life!"
Grim just stared at him in disbelief while Scale's nostrils flared. "That's low, even for you Scale."
"Like you're one to talk." Scale scoffed. "You've actually killed one of your closest allies in one of your crusades."
"When I smell a rat, I kill it." The Shadow Soldier commented sardonically.
"You've tried to kill Melon multiple times."
"She's not a harmless dove, she's more cunning than she looks." He wasn't fond of the goddess that bewitched his twin brother with her good looks and charm.
"You were close from ruining Blade and Melon's wedding." Scale recalled, Grim went through great lengths to separate them, false witnesses, extorsion, he went through all the trouble to get Melon's estranged ex to get back together with her in vain. When Grim realized that Melon genuinely loved Blade and how happy she made him, much to his chagrin, he accepted his nemesis-in-law.
"I stopped for Blade's sake and you know it."
"And what about Mathdias?" Scale asked before he felt a hand clasp around his neck as he felt the oxygen slipping away.
"Don't ask if you know what's good for you." Grim released the Reptilian before he teleported out in a puff of smoke. It was bad enough that the pressure of saving an entire realm was thrusted upon his shoulders, now he had to worry about what Grim might do to Stella. Scale coughed, then had to regain his breath, his infrared vision snagged of what appeared to be a body laying on the ground.
As he reached in to get closer, he hit himself against the wall before he used his natural eyesight and saw the wall in front of him. Scale looked around for the door, if his foresight wasn't playing mind tricks on him, the body was not around the infirmary, yet it remained close by. He turned around and found a door that was partly closed.
Scale opened the door of the storage room, as he entered, he used his infrared vision to find the body. The Reptilian went further and he could identify some areas, medical supplies, kits and other paraphernalia. Behind him there was a poorly folded, disproportionate bedsheet laying next to a gondola. As he turned around, there was the same body he spotted earlier. When he unraveled it, he found the body of a woman.
Scale found Jane Doe as he awkwardly wrapped up the bedsheet to cover her genitalia, the only thing that she had on was her wedding ring. "What do I do? What do I do? What do I do?" Scale's mind raced as he tried to think of something, do something to help the woman he just found. He ran out the door and looked around to seek help.
The copycat straightened the blazer she stole from her victim and circumvented, avoiding one of the many perpetrators partaking in the dischord. She also spotted one of the talking dinosaurs gallivanting, mostly snuffing out the ghast that supposedly roamed within the halls towards the stairway which lead to the underground floor. The usurper ignored the Spinosaurus and went to seek the Venusian, if she could find him. She could formulate a plan to steal the gem in his possession, that was until she recalled the electromagnetic gem that was embedded in one of the trophies when she approached the broken glass windows and the vandalism of random strangers stealing one of the stadium's accolades.
Two receprionists fought off a hooded man while some of the security guards that were present tasered two or three more delinquents. The faux Jane Doe nonchalantly walked passed them before other two receptionists called out to her, but she ignored them. When the usurper turned to reach the exit nearby the hallway annexed the restricted area, she recognized Stella's silhouette from afar and paused.
"Jane! Jane! Jane!" Carina turned around to find three walk up to her.
"Are you deaf?" A petit, hazel-eyed brunette named Vilma hollered angrily before a Japanese receptionist named Akane caught up to the imposter and hugged her, which caught Carina by surprise.
"You're ok!" Akane rejoiced. The usurper had to act natural if she wanted to get out of this predicament scott free.
"Are you feeling alright? You don't look so good."
Of course not, you idiot. I was this close from getting caught! Carina thought glaring daggers at him.
"I'm fine." Carina lied before Akane broke the embrace. "Despite that I got assaulted."
Carina had to tread carefully now that Stella and Micah were onto her, she may have supplanted the identity of a receptionist but she needed to be cautious around the ones who are familiar with the victim she usurped. If she had blown her cover by making any sarcastic remarks related to aggraveted assault or anything that make her seem out of character, it could raise suspitions.
She couldn't afford getting caught at a time like this, she needed to find an electromagnetic gem immediately before the victim or the I.B.I. agents like Stella and Micah catch her.
Scale ran as fast as he could to find Blade and Melon, he wasn't able to find them though he didn't anticipate to find Saw & Claw just around the corner. Scale's heart palpitated and gave a somersault from the surprise he got upon gracing Claw's imposing face. The Reptilian was on the verge of suffering a panic attack if not for Saw chastising her.
"Claw, stop scaring him."
"I didn't!" Claw glared at Saw.
"Help!" Scale wailed as he desperately needed their help while they bickered.
"See! Now he's crying because you scared him." Saw stated while Claw groaned which sounded more of a roar.
"I need help!" Scale clamoured.
"Scale, remain calm." Saw advised before Claw's crimson eyes darted from Saw to Scale.
"You know this guy?" Claw inquired.
"Yes, and he needs our help." Saw replied.
"Alright, who are we clobbering now?"
"Claw--" Saw glowered at her before Claw rolled her eyes."Nevermind. What is it?"
Scale explained while he brought them to the room where he found Jane Doe. They helped Scale lift her up from the floor while Claw slung Jane over her shoulder as the sheet covered Jane's exposed body and took her to the infirmary.
Jane Doe laid unconscious at the hospital bed as she remembered seeing an alien turn into her before waking up.
After she entered the storage room to find some clothes for the victim to wear, while she rummaged through the aisle to find the right size, the usurper picked up her weapon hidden in one of her boots before jabbing Jane on the left calf to extract blood, enough for the transformation to last for a couple of hours.
"Ow! What was--" Jane turned and saw a light coming from the usurper's weapon as she saw how the stranger morphed to look just like her.
"--that you found out about my little secret." Carina spoke while Jane's eyes widened at seeing herself naked, or rather her impostor. "I'm not gonna let you off that easy." The imposter pointed the weapon against Jane's head, "I'm not going to risk getting caught by the likes of you." Jane Doe made the mistake of making any sudden movements and Carina responded by kneeded her in the stomach and, hitting Jane on the nape with the magazine well of the firearm, knocking her out.
Nour checked on Jane Doe and informed them that she only suffered a mild concussion.
"If you need our help, all you have to do is yell." Claw offered loudly.
"That won't be necessary," Saw interjected before he whispered to Claw's ear, "keep your voice down. Be considerate with the other patients."
"You don't have to give me an earful either." Claw retorted before Jane opened her eyes and took in her surroundings before the twins and the reptilian exited the infirmary.
"Thanks for helping me back there." Scale mentioned.
"No problem. Take care." Saw said before Claw waved at the Reptilian.
"Bye Scale." Claw added as Scale waved back and they headed their separate ways.
Jane Doe laid on the bed, worried about what that imposter might do. What if she was after her family, or her loved ones? Or worse, what if that wannabe wanted to steal her life. Her finances, her husband, her children. I have to do something before she goes after my family. Jane's mind raced as she stood up from the bed before Nour had caught up to her.
"What are you doing? You can't leave the infirmary like this." Nour tried to reason with her.
"I have to! I don't have time for this!" Chris heard the scuffle as he watched Nour and Jane argue.
"You were found unconscious, stark naked. You could've been killed!" Nour reminded her.
"I'm not worried about me, I'm worried about my family." Nour wasn't able to persuade her, much less stop her from leaving the infirmary. She had to tend to the other patients. Jane Doe exited the infirmary wearing patient scrubs as she set out to find the imposter. Chris exited the infirmary and followed her, perhaps he can stop her from doing something brash.
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