Inspirational quote: Success is moving from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.

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Esperanza was fed up by now, completely.

She had tried getting Kieran to talk to her but that had kind of backfired by far, and she was becoming really annoyed as Kieran was walking around the room with his hands in his ears pretending that he couldn't hear Esperanza.

"For goodness sake, Kieran!" Esperanza screeched. "How many times must I say that we need to talk?!"

Talking to Kieran with his hands in his ears was getting Esperanza nowhere. She soon became really infuriated but had ever so slightly calmed down when she had heard a knock on the door.

"Who is it!" Esperanza shouted, not bothered enough to find out who it was by just checking the CCTV camera in front of Dr Kozak's laboratory door.

"Ezekiel!" Ezekiel hollered back, banging on the door continuously.

"Oh hey. Come inside," Esperanza ushered.

And hearing that, Agent Ezekiel entered the laboratory, leaning back on the door before closing it.

Esperanza: Did you talk to Dr Kozak?

Ezekiel: *walking more inside the room and sits on a pink high chair* Yeah. Well... Kind of.

Esperanza: *confused* "Kind of"? The hell do you mean by that?

Ezekiel: Yeah. His sister Elizabeth came halfway and wanted to talk to her brother alone.

Esperanza didn't reply.

Ezekiel: Anyway have you tried talking to Kieran? It's been like ten minutes now.

Esperanza didn't say anything again. In fact she was rather angry that Ezekiel had asked her that question.

Esperanza: *looks at Kieran intently* Well, what do you think?

Ezekiel and Esperanza then watched Kieran walk around the room with his hands in his ears pretending that nothing and no one existed.

Kieran: *is talking quite fast* There's no one here, there's nothing here, I can't hear anything.... *constantly repeats these phrases in that order as he continuously walks around in circles*

Ezekiel: You've got to be kidding me.

Esperanza: Can you try and at least get Kieran to talk to us?

Ezekiel: *gets up from the high chair and then turns to face Esperanza* Stay here, Esperanza. I've got an idea.

Esperanza: What is it?

Ezekiel: Just stay here.

Esperanza then silently watched Ezekiel stand up from where he was, not saying anything all the way.

As Kieran was walking, that was when Ezekiel decided that it would have been a good idea to trip Kieran up, and that was pretty much what had happened next.

Kieran: *has fallen over Ezekiel's left foot, Ezekiel is smiling* Hey! What was that for? You just tripped me up!

Ezekiel: Maybe you deserved to have me trip you up, Kieran.

Kieran didn't reply. Just got up quite angrily, not really saying anything else.

Kieran: *annoyed* Why are you here?

Ezekiel: Because we need to talk to you. You, me and Esperanza together.

Kieran: *shakes his head steadily before saying anything else* Are you out of your mind or something? Of course not.

But Ezekiel wasn't really taking the word no for an answer. He carried Kieran, and placed him on the pink high chair he was sitting on before, strapping Kieran together via sellotape.

Kieran: What have you done to me?!

Ezekiel low key just slapped him.

Esperanza: Kieran. We need to talk.

Kieran: *is downright infuriated* About what?

Ezekiel: What was up with you? Like, what have you got against Dr Kozak?

Kieran didn't reply. Just scowled at both of them.

Kieran: I don't have anything against Dr Kozak.

Esperanza: If you don't then why were you so rude to him?

Ezekiel: And why did you kill Christabelle?

Kieran: *pretty much shouting now, he's that annoyed* Stop asking me questions that I don't know the answer to!

Ezekiel: Kieran you need to sort this out with Dr Kozak.

Kieran: But that idiot is giving me the silent treatment.

Ezekiel: Hey, if anyone's the idiot here, it's you. You shouldn't have killed Dr Kozak's niece just because you were annoyed with him for no reason.

Kieran: I'm not talking to that jerk!

Esperanza: He didn't even do anything! You were the one that started the second argument in the first place, Kieran.

Kieran: But he started the first one.

Ezekiel: Yeah but you've taken this way too far! When you were mad at Dr Kozak he didn't go killing someone you loved, did he? And he didn't start insulting you to the point where you just feel so low key bad about yourself that you want to leave KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS. Did he?

Esperanza: *gasps* Dr Kozak left the headquarters?

Ezekiel: No but he feels like it. He just texted me right now saying that he kinda wants to.

Kieran: What? So you guys are all on Dr Kozak's side?

Ezekiel and Esperanza: Pretty much. Yeah.

Kieran: Dr Kozak isn't even that great anyway!

Esperanza: That's because you're jealous of him!

Silence.

It was true. Esperanza was right.

Ezekiel: Yeah. You are jealous of him. He told me that he read your mind.

Kieran didn't reply.

Esperanza: And now Dr Kozak is hella ticked off at you and he's disappeared to some unknown place and goodness knows if he's coming back here again.

Ezekiel: *to Esperanza* He's still in KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS you know. *to Kieran, turns to face him* Honestly. Just never get Dr Kozak mad or upset. He's really sensitive. Please.

Esperanza: Do you know what he's been through lately, Kieran?

Kieran: *shouts at her* Do you know what I've been through lately, Esperanza?!

Ezekiel: *is angry, shouting at Kieran back* Not everything is about you though, Kieran! Is it?

Kieran just rolled his eyes.

Esperanza: What have you been through lately, Kieran? I can guarantee you that Dr Kozak has gone through worse things recently.

Kieran sighed.

Kieran: I've lost all my siblings. I've lost all my family members. No one trusts me anymore. Honestly. People are just keeping secrets away from me. I don't like it. I was supposed to be born a girl-

Esperanza: Do you know how cruddy Dr Kozak's life has been lately?

Kieran: No. *is frowning* How cruddy has it been?

Esperanza didn't reply.

Esperanza: Ezekiel will tell you. He knows more than I do.

Kieran just stared at Ezekiel.

Kieran: Say it then...

Ezekiel: Say what?

Kieran: How cruddy Dr Kozak's life has been lately.

Ezekiel: *sighs* Okay. Where to start?

Kieran: Start anywhere. I don't care about the guy anyway.

Ezekiel: Kieran. You don't know what it's like. His long lost daughter has killed his son. He's had to kill his long lost daughter, and since he kept that his long lost daughter killed his son to himself, he's been getting into a lot of trouble lately by a lot of people.

Kieran: *shouts annoyingly* It's not my fault he kept that to himself, is it?

Ezekiel: *slightly exasperated* I haven't even gotten to the point yet, Kieran! And he's a very introvert person. Don't judge.

Kieran just rolled his eyes again.

Ezekiel: Dr Kozak's sister, Valentina, also worked with his long lost daughter to kill his son.

Esperanza: Why don't you just call his long lost daughter Lauriel?

Ezekiel: Because I forgot her name. Although thanks for reminding me.

Kieran: Just get to the point you two!

Ezekiel: So that's one of Dr Kozak's family members lost. His son, Tyrese. When you guys were at DIE ANNA INCORPORATED, another tragedy had happened to his second son. Apparently his godfather called Professor Florentine told his cousin Agent Sylvester to kill Marcel, Dr Kozak's other son.

Esperanza: Why on Earth would his godfather do that?

Ezekiel: Goodness knows. He was a crazy man.

No one said anything.

Ezekiel: Professor Florentine is also the boss of KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS.

He couldn't say was as that would most likely bring up the fact that he had died, and if Kieran or Esperanza realised he had said was instead of is, they would have most likely asked what had happened to Professor Florentine, and Ezekiel made a sworn oath to Kozak that he wouldn't tell anyone Kozak had killed Florentine, not even to Kieran and Esperanza.

Esperanza: Dr Kozak is not the boss of KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS? But he invented this place!

Ezekiel: Yeah I know. But still. And no. He's not the boss. Don't ask me why because I don't know.

Ezekiel couldn't mention that Dr Kozak killed Professor Florentine because he had made a sworn oath to Dr Kozak not to tell anyone, Kieran and Esperanza included. Like mentioned before.

Kieran: I don't care guys!

Ezekiel: Yeah well you should. He's also had to kill his wife Astera because she murdered Dr Kozak's grandfather Agent Mordecai. And his daughter, the only person in his family that was left, turned out to be a criminal and worked for Diana Valentine. So he had to kill her as well for not telling him.

Esperanza: It also turned out that his daughter was a robot and that his real daughter died after a terminal illness.

Ezekiel: So because Dr Kozak was so upset over his real daughter's death, he fully made a robot daughter just to make his wife happy again.

Esperanza: Kieran you honestly don't know what it's like. You need to stop judging Dr Kozak. His family has influenced him really badly, and he couldn't really do anything about it.

Ezekiel: Yeah, his father was a serial killer. Which influenced Demetrius.

Esperanza: And honestly. Have you seen him? It's like he's been beaten to death. He's been hurt like seventy times today, Kieran. Especially when Victor and Alastair threw him across Diana Valentine's room and he lost that small amount of blood.

Ezekiel: You don't know what Dr Kozak is going through, Kieran.

Kieran: *folds his arm and frowns* I know what he's been through lately, Ezekiel. I just don't care what Dr Kozak is going through, Ezekiel.

Esperanza: Okay. That's it, you are literally the most selfish person I've ever met too.

Kieran: Dr Kozak is selfish as well.

Esperanza: No he's not! Kieran, Dr Kozak saved my life!

Kieran: Yeah but he's tried killing me more than once.

Ezekiel: If you're talking about the three tests you have to take before you become a spy.... He did not make the tests up. His godfather forced him too.

Kieran: He also tried killing me when I made his car invisible.

Esperanza: Because he told you not to touch any of the buttons, Kieran, and you disobeyed him!

Kieran: I don't care, Esperanza!

There was silence in the laboratory for a while as Dr Kozak headed inside, not saying anything, everyone just staring at him.

Ezekiel: Hey...

Dr Kozak: *quite sternly, is seriously frowning* Hi.

Esperanza: Are you okay now sir?

A bit ironic, Esperanza?

Dr Kozak had been crying non stop for almost three hours and it was all mainly Kieran's fault for killing Christabelle. Kieran didn't care about this either, only making this twice as worse.

Dr Kozak: No. *stares at Kieran and then scowls at him, Kieran does the same thing* Not really actually.

Kieran then stood up, walking to him, smiling at him.

Kieran: Oh... Dr Kozak feels bad...

Dr Kozak just stared at him non stop, frowning.

Kieran: Is there anything I can do...

Pause.

Kieran: To make you feel...

Pause.

Kieran: Worse?

Dr Kozak didn't reply. Esperanza and Ezekiel just annoyingly did a face palm in the background at the same time.

Esperanza: I fully thought that that stupid idiot learnt his lesson.

Ezekiel: I guess not then.

Kieran made circles around him, Dr Kozak just shooting him a look of death, which Kieran saw and chose to ignore.

Kieran: Oh... Can Dr Kozak not say anything? Has Demetrius gone speechless again?

Esperanza: He's giving you the silent treatment, Kieran. He's that mad at you.

Kieran: Yeah well, I'll make this idiot talk to me, Esperanza.

Kieran then made more circles around Dr Kozak and stared at him in the eyes.

Kieran: Whether you like it or not.

Dr Kozak didn't say anything.

That was when Kieran thought that it would have been a good idea to punch him, as in punch him in the same eye that Valentina and Diana Valentine had punched him in.

Dr Kozak was just not having a good day.

And it didn't take a genius to realise that.

Esperanza and Ezekiel noticed what Kieran did and were extremely mad at him.

Esperanza: Why did you just punch Dr Kozak?!

Kieran: Because he totally deserved it!

Ezekiel: *angry* No he didn't! *stares at Kozak who is fuming* And look what you've done, Kieran. You broke his colour blindness glasses!

Kieran: They're not *air quotes* "colour blindness" *air quotes end* glasses though! They're just rainbow coloured sunglasses.

Dr Kozak: *annoyed* If they're not colour blindness glasses then how comes the ceiling of this laboratory is red?

Esperanza: It's gold.

Dr Kozak: Exactly.

Ezekiel then went over and knelt down in front of Dr Kozak who was lying down half unconscious on the floor, covering his right eye.

Ezekiel: *whispers to Dr Kozak* You alright, Demetrius?

Dr Kozak: I've gone completely blind on my right eye.

Ezekiel: Yikes.

Kieran must have overheard their conversation or something because the next minute he did something completely evil to Dr Kozak.

Kieran: Hey! Dr Kozak!

Dr Kozak didn't reply. He didn't notice what Kieran was about to do to him next.

Kieran poured ice cubes all over him, and they were freezing cold as well, Ezekiel and Esperanza just watching him and gasping at the same time.

They had both tried stopping Kieran but it was too late. Kieran had already poured the ice cubes all over him before Ezekiel and Esperanza really had a chance to do anything.

Ezekiel: *really agitated* Do you want Dr Kozak to die before his time, Kieran?

Kieran: *smiles* Yes.

Ezekiel frowned.

Ezekiel: Probably shouldn't have asked that then.

Esperanza: Kieran, you honestly need a slap.

No one replied.

Dr Kozak: I'll do it.

Dr Kozak seemed to have redeemed himself or something because the next minute he had slapped Kieran, way more than once.

Soon after Kieran and Dr Kozak were pretty much fighting, that was until Kieran squeezed Dr Kozak's right hand again when Dr Kozak was lying down on the floor.

Dr Kozak: *Kieran is tightly squeezing him* Ow.... Kieran.... You're hurting my right hand.... And my watch...

Kieran didn't reply, just kept on squeezing Dr Kozak's right hand until he was fully screaming in pain.

The squeezing stopped when Dr Kozak stared at Kieran, Kieran doing the same thing back.

Then Kieran noticed something different about Dr Kozak.

As they were staring at each other, Kieran couldn't really help but to notice that Dr Kozak's eyes were glowing purple.

Kieran was confused, especially when what had happened next had happened next.

Dr Kozak had used his right hand to laser beam Kieran, and when his eyes were glowing purple, his right eye suddenly stopped becoming swollen.

Kieran: *as soon as Dr Kozak had laser beamed him in the chest* I didn't know your hands were laser beams!

Dr Kozak: Yeah well. They are. Get used to it.

Kieran: I thought you said that you only had eight superpowers.

Dr Kozak: Yeah well now I've got fourteen!

Dr Kozak stood up to his feet again, Kieran and him fighting.

They stopped after a while but were still pretty much really angry at each other.

Ezekiel: We're all becoming really fed up of you, Kieran.

Kieran: Yeah so? What are you going to do? Punish me, let me not be a spy anymore? Your punishments are so lame and-

Dr Kozak: *interrupts him halfway* You know... That was kind of the last thing that Lauriel said to me before I killed her.

Everyone gasped.

Esperanza: Oh my gosh are you going to kill Kieran?!

Dr Kozak: I might.... I'm considering it.

Kieran: *is near the door* You wouldn't dare kill me.

Dr Kozak didn't reply, just got out his gun, and did something...

Ezekiel: Oh my gosh he's going to kill Kieran!

Dr Kozak: Guys. Calm down. I was just throwing my gun away because it ran out of bullets. Jeez.

Esperanza: *discombobulated* Then buy more bullets.

Dr Kozak: Bullets aren't inexpensive, Esperanza! Yeah I know I'm a millionaire but I've got way more important things to do than buying billets for a stupid gun.

He then came closer to the door, not saying anything. Just stared longingly at Kieran. Kieran just scoffed in return.

Kieran: Pfft... How are you going to kill me without a gun?

Dr Kozak: I'm not going to kill you Kieran... In fact I might do something worse than that...

Kieran was confused.

Kieran: I really regret asking this but what it is? What on Earth could possibly be worse than killing me?

Dr Kozak just laughed evilly in return.

Dr Kozak: Kieran please stop talking. *yawns* I'm getting tired. Although there's one more thing left for me to say...

Kieran: What?

A rather long pause.

Dr Kozak: You're fired.

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Moral of chapter: Dear reader, I give you permission to slap Kieran in the face...