What if...? Volume 1

What if...? Chapter three - Better Together.

Woods spoke up, as they were walking down the stairs, "I hope Deb knows what to do with it."
Samantha and Matthias both nodded their heads, before they were soon down the stairs. Yet, as they were, a warm breeze ran through the room, it felt good, almost telling them they were doing the right thing. No matter the good feeling, however, the team were forced to ignore it as they knew if they stood around for too long, the good feeling would soon fade away.

The team walked into Matthias's office, as they each felt nervous. What was Deb going to say? How would she react to what the team had done? There were so many questions, pondering through their minds. Most of them had been  their since day 1, when they found the key in the ceiling, others were new and had been their since yesterday. While some of the questions sounded so ridiculous, as if the team knew they wouldn't make any sense but the fear that had overtaken them, had made the impossible seem possible. But by now, they should be used to seeing the things they least expected to see.

"Ok," Matthias said, as he sat down at his desk chair, while Samantha and Woods sat down at the two seats behind his, "We should be able to still get in contact with Deb, let us hope we can solve this."

He then started to type on his computer as he connected to syntec website. That was where he could connect to the emulator and run the live stream with Deb. While he was connecting to the syntec website, Samantha and Woods both seemed nervous about this whole situation. They were already in a stress, as of what happened with the phantom inside the RV. But after everyone calmed down, they all seemed to be one the same page again... At least things did not get heated again.

"What if Deb doesn't help us? What if she just tells us to do what we feel best?" Samantha questioned, as butterfly's fluttered in her stomach.

Woods tapped his fingers on the arm of the chair, "Surely she should have some useful information, I mean... She is the Head scientist at syntec... Or was. She must of had some overview with the serum, even if she did not make it. Especially a counteragent for the serum, why would Nelson make something like that?"

"True," Samantha replied back, as Matthias started to connect to the emulator, "I wonder if Deb tried to stop the projects at some point." Woods shrugged his shoulders, and just as he did, Deborah came through on the other end off the call.

"Hello, is everything Ok? How much serum have you collected?" Deborah questioned, as she seemed to move slightly almost as if she could see the other subjects behind Matthias.
Speaking of Matthias, he gave a deep sigh, as he had a feeling she would question that again.

Matthias shook his head before he started to type, while he said the words out loud for Samantha and Woods to hear, "Everything is Ok. However, we have found something that we might need your assistance with."
Deborah's head tilted to the side, as she wondered what they could of meant by that, before Woods and Samantha both seemed to sit up in their seats, as if to be desperate to hear what she says.

"What? What do you mean? What could you possibly need my assistance with?" Deb questioned, as she knew time was not in their hands and at any seconds Nelson could easily find what she had hidden. And it wasn't the serum.

Matthias looked back at Samantha and Woods who were speechless on what to say, so he turned around and started typing again, allowing the others to see what he was doing, on a larger screen above his desk, "Well, we found a couteragent inside this case of serum that the phantom so happened to off had. The reason why we came to you, was so that we could get some ideas on what to do with it, since we can't make up our minds."

It seemed to take Deb a while to answer, almost like she was confused but soon she replied back.
"What do you mean found a couteragent... How? Wait-- What phantom had it?"

"What does she mean?" Samantha questioned, "She seems so confused, did she not know?"

Woods shrugged his shoulders, as he looked towards the computer screen examining what she was doing, "Maybe not, what if the phantom accidently or purposely stole it? I thought, from the documents we read, that the phantom wanted to be free. Like he needed an antidote. If he knew he had it, wouldn't he use it?"

Matthias was completely oblivious to what they were saying, as he quickly typed his answer to deb, "We found the antidote inside the phantoms RV. It is alot to explain but we got into a pickle and we... Mostly me, wanted to stop him while we had the chance. So, we put a tracker on the car and followed him."

Deb sighed, before she started shaking her head, "I told you too only search for the serum. Why in the world would you need to follow the phantom...? Ugh, you are just lucky to escape. Who knows what might have happened if you got trapped inside."

Samantha and Woods all looked down at the floor, as if they couldn't imagine what might have happened to them. Matthias on the other hand, sighed as he knew he messed up. But, mistakes are made to learn how to do things when the time is needed.

"Now she is worried," Woods sighed, as laid back in his chair, "Why hasn't she been worried before? All she is concerned about is us finding that serum."

Matthias nodded his head in agreement, as things always seemed like that, so he typed back another message, "Listen, if you had the chance to stop him, you would too. Like you did with Nelson. But that doesn't matter, we found information saying that Wesley might be the phantom, is that true?"

Deborah's glitched figure gave a confused look, "Are you crazy? Wesley is not the phantom. Wesley is... Um... Dead."
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The team froze, allowing the silence to fill the room. They were shocked, horrified but also confused. Wesley was dead?! But how was that even possible? They encountered so much evidence that pointed towards him being alive, so how could he be dead?

"Wait what?" Samantha questioned, as both her and Woods sat up in shock. While Matthias remained the way he was, mouth dropped as be glared at the computer screen.

Woods huffed, "How can he be dead? We found so much information that proves he is the phantom... Unless somehow that is fake?"

Matthias wondered for a moment, before Samantha nodded her head, "That might be the case, but then we come to the question, why? Why would someone want to fake being Wesley? And out of all the people, why a phantom who is under Nelsons control?"

"Maybe because they needed something from Deb? Maybe the antidote or... the formula?" Matthias suggested, before looking towards Samantha and Woods, "Should we ask Deb about his death? Or should we just see her best intention is with this couteragent?"

Woods sighed, "We need to know what to do with the couteragent, it is why we contacted her. Wesley's death can wait, after all, there would no stopping it now."

Samantha nodded her head in agreement, "True, and we really don't want get off topic again."

Matthias smiled, before he gazed back at the computer and got ready to type. Yet as he was about to do so, he turned back to the others, "You know, I am glad we did not get mad at each other too much. Things seem better together."

B - Being With Friends, when needed.
E - Everything will go smoothly.
T - Together we have the power.
T - Together we are better together.
E - Everytime your friends are near.
R - Realising the truth, with trust.

T - Together we are better than one.
O - Opening new chances to come.
G - Gathering up our courage and trust.
E - Everything will be fine.
T - Together we can be strong.
H - Helping and gaining trust.
E - Everything will be alright.
R - Remebering who we once were.