[ Listen to the music for the full experience & if needed loop the video]

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A brightly lit room, that is all it was--the android was laying down on a flat surface--restraints held him in place as he could not move. Traces of thirium were on his face from his encounter with Conan. He ran a diagnosis and found that the biocomponent that composed his neck was damaged by a blade. The android gave a struggle but was soon stopped by the sound of footsteps approaching. He looked up to see his attacker in the eyes.

"My, my, look who fell for my trap", Conan circled the operating table as he spoke to Connor in a menacing voice," tinman, that's who"

The maniacal man was no longer wearing the dark streetwear he had on when Connor lost consciousness instead he wore an all-white uniform. Beside him was another individual that Connor could not see clearly, but it appeared to be female from the different clothing style that contrasted the mad man's.

She made her way to Connor with a medical mask obstructing her face so the android could not perform an identity scan on the woman. Conan soon came by with some instruments of science. The woman grabbed a scanner that was connected to a ceiling arm and pulled it down to her level; it was an x-ray device that allowed her to operate on androids. Connor proceeded to analyze the area of anything that could give him information. He looked up at the scanner and squinted his eyes to get a better image. In small lettering beside a series of numbers was a logo that he was not expecting or maybe he was.

"Eversen,,

Connor connected the data he just received with the ones in his memory bank and concluded that it was Eversen behind the humanoids rising out of the shadows.

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From a floor above Erika and Hank continued searching, but only found a few clues but none that made any sense. They almost gave up hope until Erika felt a familiar pain, she took in deep breaths and scanned the area with her eyes.

Her breath quickened as she felt an unbearable pain surface after the initial shock. Hank rushed to her side and brought the young woman to her feet--his face was washed in worry as this was something he thought was resolved, but with this occurrence, he was in the wrong.

"Erika, we need to get you home, Connor will just meet u-", Hank calmed her down, but Erika shook her head violently.

"I-I feel that pain when he-", the young woman took a moment as she mustered up the strength to say a five lettered name.

"Conan", she said with ease, no pain resulted right after the name left her lips. Frantically she turned to Hank who was confused at the moment, for he knew she could not say his name, but did.

"If I can say his name...", Erika scanned the hallway once again then pulled Hank to a secluded corner, with the worst thought in her mind,"...then he's here, Conan is here"

A security camera zoomed in at the father and daughter figures and the live footage was displayed on serval screens in the room below. Conan laughed once more and paced the room. The masked woman grabbed samples of Connor's blood and smeared them onto various test mediums.

"You seem bored, why don't we grant you with some entertainment", Conan smirked and pulled down a screen that was connected to another ceiling arm. The man presented Connor with the live footage of Erika and Hank searching the building more intently. Connor stayed silent to not draw any attention to himself or to bring harm to the two.

"Let's make things more interesting", Conan zoomed into the footage and showed two guards dressed in similar white uniforms like the man, proceed to stalk the two. Connor watched in horror, as this stayed consistent to every room the pair entered and left.

Conan watched the detective android for some time and attacked him with a rhetorical question.

"You know why you're here?", he asked calmly at first but snapped at the second portion of his sentence," don't answer that!"

"Heh, ohh tinman, such a great body you have", Conan commented in a lustful manner," such handsome looks you have"

Connor just looked at the man with a stern eye as his eyebrows were furrowed making it a death glare. What was this maniac getting to?

"And my little Erika thinks so too", the man smiled at this.

Connor kept his glare fixated on the man as he wanted to know more, but did not want to speak for he was analyzing the situation to come up with the most ideal solution.

"Survival rate 87%,,

Connor gave himself a nod as this was his best bet and kept the preconstructed actions in his memory bank. He gave Conan a small smirk to throw the man off his monologue.

"Get to the point Conan", Connor spoke impatiently to set off the man more, he needed to appear hostile.

"Oh I will, but we need an audience", Conan directed Connor's attention to the screen and smirked," Gentlemen please deliver the two to me"

With that one order, the two guards approached Erika and Hank. Suprised by their presence Hank looked at them suspiciously and questioned them. They simply replied with that their superior has requested them to leave. Erika retaliated to this request, but did not have the courage to speak up, what was wrong with her? Hank responded by shaking his head in refusal and the guards asked again. After the second time of being denied the two guards attacked and restrained them in their arms before placing similar masks on them. On the screen, Connor saw their bodies become limp and the two guards dragged them away, then the screen became dark.

"Now while we wait, let's", Conan approached his knife once again and twirled it.

"Just", He grabbed the knife now by the handle and made his way back to Connor.

"Talk"

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Suspense! I'm now doing this on purpose to get you all on the edge, mwuahahaha! Okay, enough of that--I want your opinion on the addition of the background music. Did it add to the story? Was it effective in making you feel the suspense? Let me know in the comments please, so I can know if I'll add them to more chapters! Much love to you all! 😻❤️