Jack's Ironic Figures: A Narrative Fiction

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"You think you're better than me because you managed to get this far?" he squeaked rhetorically, elbowing the flooring and bringing himself upright. "You're nothing without me! Nothing!"
Jack looked horrendously shackled to the floor and fully defeated. His hypnotic gaze had somewhat subsided to a very unnatural hazelnut hue and his face was drawing long breaths of strenuous pulses. Even so, David was sure that he still wanted to see his plan through to the end, regardless of his diminishing condition.
"The world would be better off without your family", Isaac briskly snarled.
"And yours too", he responded. "But still, I can succeed", he staggered, elbowing backward toward the obsidian pyramid.
Isaac tilted his head in amusement and curiosity at what the dying man was implying. "There's nothing you can do now".
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"If I fail plan A...then I move onto plan B", he mumbled as blood gurgled in his throat and he spat horridly over the shiny grounding. "But if plan B fails...I move onto plan C. Always a contingency plan you see. Always", he sucked, slowly ambling further back and almost reaching the sloping base of the pyramid. "But just remember this, I will never and would never allow Atlantis to...to end up in your hands. Not ever!" he sharply retorted, spanning his outstretched arm backward, before firmly touching the shiny surfacing, where angular veins of red power lines pulsated harder as Jack's hand pressed down

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