Chapter 212: Predicament

"Oh, shoot!" Thankappan fumbled the sunglasses off his pockets and wore it as soon as he saw his senior pop out the neuralyzer. Thankfully, he wasn't that late at doing that.

However, the same thing couldn't be said about John who had the neuralyzer right up his face. He didn't have his sunglasses near him, since he didn't expect someone to barge in and shove a neuralyzer. But that's exactly what had happened and he was struck in a predicament.

John's sunglasses were on his bed, which was just a full stretch jump away from where he stood. Although, in normal case it would have been easy for him to get the hell away from there and make that jump to his sunglasses, but this wasn't just a normal case.

Before him were two highly trained professionals. At least, if it was just a singular person, he could've fought him off, but two people decreases his probability of success right into the depths of hell.

The only thing he could bet on was the inexperience of the second person. However, that was a difficult thing to bet on as well since the second agent was the graduate of the MIB dungeon.

Anyhow, for the time being, John decided to leave the plan of getting the sunglasses. Rather than that, he decided to have a talk with the one holding the neuralyzer before him.

Then again, he was hit with a roadblock. He had no idea as to why Lonappan was trying to do so. He hadn't done anything to antagonize him. And even if he did, there wasn't much of a reason to flash him. So, rather than using deception and escaping the heck out, he was curious as to what the two of them had against him.

Thus John decided to act on it. "So, what's happening here?" He asked.

"Can't you see?" Lonappan asked bluntly.

"All I see is a neuralyzer before me. I don't get the reason. Why are you doing this?" John asked again.

"You need a reason?" Lonappan asked back.

"Well, I'm gonna forget about it anyway, so why not?" John shrugged.

"Nah, man. Forget it. I can't trust you for some reason." Lonappan replied.

"Bruh, that's unfair. I deserve to know why I'm getting flashed." John spoke.

"Nope. Let's not do this. I know what you're trying to extend this stupid conversation of ours. What do you hope of doing, huh? Maybe I'll lose my focus in the midst and you might be able to take the neuralyzer off me. How does that sound? Or maybe, you'll get a knock on the guy on my left and I might get confused by it and then you might get the device off me then. Who knows?" Lonappan shrugged this time around.

"Ha, there's no use trying to rile you up, huh?" John sighed.

"You're right about that. I don't easily crack under pressure." Lonappan replied.

"Over-hyping, are we now?" John smiled.

"Nope. Just stated the truth." Lonappan replied.

"Okay. Then I'm gonna state a fact of mine as well." John spoke.

"Go on. I'm gonna let you tell that at least." Lonappan signaled him to speak.

"Hmm, is that a good idea though?" Thankappan, who was silent for the most time listening to what the other two had to say, interfered.

"And why would you say that, hmm?" Lonappan turned towards his junior and asked.

"Well, think about it. Whenever you let your opponent have the last word, they end up doing some crazy shit and escape their predicament." Thankappan spoke.

"Ah, you've been watching too many movies, my dude." Lonappan replied.

"Ah, true. Too much movies." John looked at Thankappan and winked, which brought in a chill in Thankappan's spine.

"Anyhow, I don't have to explain the rulebook now, do I?" Lonappan looked at John and asked.

"True, true. Get on with it then." John nodded his head.

Lonappan took in a deep breath. "Okay, let's go."

"Let's." John smiled and in the very next second twisted his body and jumped towards his bed.

However, it didn't go as John planned. In between John and the bed stood Thankappan to intercept his jump.

"Haha, didn't expect me, did ya?" Thankappan laughed.

"Nah, I kinda did." John smiled as he sniped the sunglasses off Thankappan.

"Shit!" Thankappan screamed.

"Ha, you grew complacent, my man…" Lonappan sighed as he saw his junior's defeat.

"Now, what are you gonna do?" John asked as he wore the sunglasses.

"You know, I would've escaped the place by this time. I wouldn't have gone for this stupid backtracking." Lonappan replied.

"Meh, if you had to face the man before me, then you would've done the same." John spoke.

"Ha, high praises for me. I like it." Lonappan smiled.

"You're welcome." John smiled back as he swung a fist towards Lonappan. However, it didn't even scratch him. Lonappan could easily dodge the fist because he was calm while John was frantic.

"You should calm down, bud. You can't beat me at this point." Lonappan spoke.

"You're right at that." John nodded as he took a deep breath. He lunged towards Lonappan and tried head-butting. However, yet again, Lonappan was able to get the better of him.

But, John didn't stop his attacks. And with each attack, his precision seemingly got better and got narrow misses at Lonappan. In the end, John went on an attack fest while Lonappan went completely immersed in defense.

"What do you think about me now, huh?" John asked as he seriously panted.

"Well, I hoped a bit more from you since you are from the MIB HQ. However, seems like you're not a big deal after all." Lonappan scoffed.

"Ha, underestimating now, are we?" John asked again.

"Nah, it's a fair judgment based on what I just saw." Lonappan replied.

"Hmm, well… Let's see if you think the same after a few minutes now." John gave out a smug smile.

However, even after a few minutes, the result was still the same. Lonappan was up top dominating while John struggled to get a strike.

"Now, now. It seems like you were underestimating me quite a bit as well." Lonappan spoke.

"I guess, I was. I really didn't expect you to be that good. A guy like you could do well in the HQ as well." John pandered to Lonappan.

"Nah, fam. That will not happen." Lonappan shook his head.

"Why, though?" John asked.

"I'm facing you right now for my survival. I wouldn't fare that well in the HQ since I wouldn't be fighting for my home, my family… my life. So, no. I won't do well in the HQ." Lonappan replied.

"I see. What are you gonna now? I'm not gonna let the sunglasses off my face and you won't be able to use the neuralyzer on me." John spoke.

"Still underestimating us. Hell, it's simply not an underestimation. It's a criminal underestimation." Lonappan sighed.

"What do you mean?" John looked confused.

"I'll let you in on a little secret. You deserve to know this at least before you get flashed. I'm not the best fighter in our base. Hell, I'm not even the best brawler in this very room, you know that?" Lonappan asked.

"What do you-" Before John got a chance to complete his question, he was kicked right in his face.

"Blink and you'll miss!" Thankappan screamed as he kicked the glasses right off John's face.

After the kick, Thankappan took the glasses off the ground and wore it. After that, John never got the upper hand. While Lonappan was completely immersed in dodging, John was able to pull in a bit of offense. However, with an actual brawler against him, John, the guy from the MIB HQ seemingly stood no chance.

"Okay. What now?" Thankappan looked towards Lonappan as he stood over John, who was coughing blood.

"Now, we're gonna flash the neuralyzer on him and that's gonna answer the question that you asked previously." Lonappan replied.

"Cool. The floor is yours then." Thankappan got away from John and let Lonappan do his job.

"Hmm, you still up, John? Can you see me?" Lonappan snapped his fingers a few times and saw John blinking his eyes. "Ah, you're awake! Okay, here we go!" Once he saw the eyes open, he spared no time to flash the neuralyzer.

"What now?" The curious Thankappan asked.

"Zip it, will ya? And let me do my job!" Lonappan scolded to which Thankappan silently nodded his head. "Okay, let's see. The Holy Land residents. There's you, Thankappan, Gibli, M'Baku, Scarlet, Kunjan, Taro and Park. That's it. Park and Scarlet are the residents of this place as well. And you being here in this state is because you tripped on the oil in the floor that someone in this place accidentally spilled. And…. John! John! What the hell happened, dude?" He asked with a concerned look on his face.

"….I slipped. Someone spilled oil into the floor." John said with great difficulty.

"Who in the world would do such a thing? You poor thing!" Lonappan continued on with the concerned look, but in the off chance that John took his eyes off him, he managed to get a smirk across to Thankappan.

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