Beast Soul

"It should be right around here…" Richard was on high alert as he looked around. He was searching for something. He occasionally tapped his finger on his tablet, and after a few minutes of searching…

"There it is!" His eyes widened as he pressed the brakes, causing the car to stop. He then turned the engine off and got out of the vehicle, heading towards what appeared to be a large crate which had been covered in shrubs, grass and dirt. He walked up to the front of the crate and tapped on the upper right side, which revealed a small screen. 

Edgerton pressed his thumb onto the small screen, and the door of the crate opened with a small 'puff' noise.

Whoosh!

The crate began to open with a soft purring noise as white smoke began to escape out from within the crate. 

Tap! Tap! Tap!

Agent Edgerton stepped inside the large crate, which was completely covered in darkness. He then stepped to the right and stretched out his hand onto the wall. He moved his hand around until he felt a switchboard under his palms and he immediately turned it on, causing the inside of the large crate to be filled with white fluorescent light. 

"I didn't think I'd need this, but I guess I was wrong…" Agent Edgerton mumbled under his breath, talking to himself as he walked forward, heading towards the middle of the crate, where a group of large black boxes were gathered on top of one another.

Agent Edgerton grabbed onto one of the black boxes, pulled it up and placed it on top of the rest of the boxes, and then pressed his finger on a small screen that was on its side. 

Click!

The box opened with a small 'click', and Agent Edgerton's gaze turned to the inside of the black box, which had a large futuristic sniper rifle, with long cylindrical objects placed right next to the weapon, and a smile appeared on his face.

"I guess I have to thank Johnson for preparing my crate now…" He murmured under his breath as he took out the sniper rifle and then began aiming with it, trying to get a feel of the weapon.

He then grabbed one of the attachable scopes that were also present within the box and placed it on top of the sniper rifle, before he brought his eyes close to it.

"Hm, this is pretty good," He whispered softly before pulling his head back and fixing the sniper rifle onto his back, where it attached itself automatically.

"Perfect!" Agent Edgerton said with a smile. He then stretched his hand up and tapped on his watch, which showed him a shortened version of the map that was on the tablet. The map showed the red dot rapidly moving towards the Harker mountain, and Edgerton narrowed his eyes.

He then looked at his body, which had been covered in multiple wounds, and he let out an unsatisfied sigh. 

Swoosh!

He immediately turned towards the other boxes, grabbing a few of them right before heading out of the crate. 

Click!

As he was walking away from the crate, Agent Edgerton tapped on his watch a few times, which made the doors of the large crate close slowly on its own, and right after it was completely closed, the crate turned invisible, making it seem as though there was nothing in that spot except for trees, shrubs and grass.

Click!

Agent Edgerton opened the backdoor of his car and then threw the boxes that he had brought with him from the crate onto the backseat. He then entered the car through the driver's seat, and immediately turned the engine on, after which he stepped on the gas pedal and sped away from the forested area, entering the highway and heading for Harker mountain.

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Meanwhile, Noah was moving through the jungle at lightning speed, jumping from one tree to another and heading towards the mountainous ranges, where he hoped his enemy would have a hard time trying to locate him.

"Damn it! Why on earth am I still feeling someone's gaze on me?" The transformed Noah was frustrated. He had been moving through the jungle for quite a while now, leaping all around the place and with such a high speed that it would make it almost impossible to catch up to him unless you were a monster. 

And yet, for some reason, the presence that he had felt on him had still not gone away, which just made him confused.

What the hell was after him? Noah didn't know what or who was monitoring him, but he knew that whoever or whatever they are, they're definitely not normal.

"Urgh.." All of a sudden, the brain freeze made Noah grit his teeth and grab his head once again, except this time, he was able to make a successful landing on one of the tree branches instead of crashing onto the tree and falling down like last time.

"What now? What the hell is wrong with you?" Noah said with an expression of pain on his face. He was already angry and frustrated by the fact that he wasn't able to shake off whatever that was monitoring him, and now, he had to deal with the subconscious (Real) Noah as well.

"Urgh!" As though responding to his words, another brain freeze affected Noah's head, and he screamed loudly and held his head once again.

"Alright, I got it, I got it!" Noah yelled out while gritting his teeth, and the sharp pain in his head disappeared all of a sudden, leaving an exhausted Noah to catch his breath.

"Hah, a surveillance drone or satellite, you say?" Noah murmured under his breath as he thought to himself. Certainly, it would make sense if it really was a machine that was keeping an eye on him rather than a living being. It would explain how they were so easily keeping up with his rapid movement. 

"I guess I really should be taking human technology into account, huh.." Noah mumbled to himself as he took a deep breath. The transformed Noah, a complicated amalgamation of human and alien, was still too much of a greenhorn when it came to the intelligence part of the brain. 

It wasn't as though he was dumb. No, in fact, he was probably much faster when it came to the processing of information and making choices than most people. But the problem was that he was still too unfamiliar with the various parts of the mind, and as a result, was still unsure of what to think about in various situations. 

Of course, he was still infinitely more quick to learn than any human being, so this wouldn't be an issue after a while.

"But I don't seem to know much about the range of satellites nor drones…" Noah scratched his head, his eyes narrow and sweat dripping from his forehead. 

The transformed nor the real Noah seemed to have any idea about surveillance drones or satellites and how they work, which made it all the more difficult to figure out a way to escape it's eyes. 

"Anyways, we're not even sure that it's really a drone or not.." Noah scratched his head, unsure of what to do now. In the end, he simply decided to move forward and continue on the same path he was heading on. 'Perhaps the mountains would give us some blockage…' Noah thought to himself, although he wasn't too sure if that would really work.

Back on the highway, Agent Edgerton's car was racing through the road at its top speed, swirling through the traffic and evading the vehicles that were coming towards him from the opposite direction with ease. 

"You can run, my dear monster.. but you can't hide…" Agent Edgerton said with a smile on his face as he looked at the tablet and the red dot within the map.

He had already made the A.I. within the tablet to map out the movement of the creature and predetermine the pathway it'll most likely choose based on its motion, so that he can utilize that information to catch up to the monster and launch a surprise attack on it. And so far, it seemed to be working, as he was already on track to block the monster's pathway in less than fifteen minutes.

Right then…

The red dot on the tablet began to blink rapidly, which made Agent Edgerton click his tongue and slam his hand on top of the steering wheel in response. "What? No, no, no… not now!" 

But even though he was frustrated, Edgerton couldn't do anything to stop what was happening as the red dot continued to blink for a few more seconds before disappearing completely from the screen, which made Agent Edgerton slam his brakes hard and pull over.

"F*ck this sh*t!" Agent Edgerton was pissed that he lost the monster, and he pulled the tablet close to his face and tapped on it a few times. 

"Recalibrate the route from before," He said as he held the tablet up to his face. The map began to recalibrate the route that was shown to him before, and Agent Edgerton stepped on the gas once again.

He was planning on going in blind....