Broken

[Sage]

Sage wasn't used to someone actually contacting him from the app he installed on their wallets or phones. At least not out of the blue like Nox had done. He'd asked for help. Real help. Twice.

And Sage had been more than eager to help. Nox had asked him to do exactly what he loved to do. It was perfect.

Granted the information he found wasn't happy. But Nox had taken it well. His friend was hurt, in the hospital with burns and unconscious. There was no telling what else could be wrong with her at this early of a time. But Nox had asked him to look further. Well he'd given Sage permission to look further on his dime. Not that Sage was going to ask for payment. He could tho. Maybe he should. It's not like his time was free he was supposed to be working.

But Sage had a bad habit of just doing what he wanted. He could work another time. This was more fun.

Sage found very little information in news sources on what had happened at the Kremlin. There were a few things, but not much. The ambulances were the biggest noticed item. But no one knew who was in there. Sage did though.

With enough digging and hiding he did find a hidden report inside of the hospital system. It was a deleted security memo that was timestamped a few minutes before Aria and DuBois had arrived. It stated that a high security patient was enroute via heli and he was in grave condition.

That helped a lot, now Sage had a time to look for new records being created. And he found a man in grave condition. At the time he was currently in surgury for his injuries. The medical examiner had taken pictures of the injuries at his arrival. The man looked like he had gone through hell and back but even with his limited knowledge the man looked like the Ascendancy.

Sage dug into the file. Nikolai Brandon was definitely brought in by helicopter shortly after midnight to Central Clinical Hospital after assassins gained access inside the Kremlin. He was being treated for a gunshot wound to upper right thorax that resulted in hemopneumothorax and was currently in surgery and listed in grave condition.

Sage had hit the jackpot. He continued his search and found that he was also being treated for 3rd degree burns on the scalp and wrist and 2nd degree burns on the thorax, face and shoulders. That was confirmed in the pictures and Sage understood the damage.

The Ascendancy also had a minor concussion and was being kept in a chemically induced coma to minimize complications from recovery.

The last report confirmed that Aria and Marcus had been admitted as well. Though the report had only said two others were also brought to the same hospital, being treated for radiation and burn injuries, concussion and broken bones. But Sage knew their identies.

Sage texted Nox the information. "Ascendancy lives for now. He's in grave condition at the same hospital as Aria. What did you get involved in?"

He didn't wait for a response, Sage knew that Nox was currently busy with his girlfriend, he'd read a few texts before he'd closed down the connection.

Sage checked the news but there was nothing about the injured leader of the CCD. Sage could fix that. He got to work putting together the information before sending it to every outlet he could think of.