The Life Of Normal-Taro

Chapter 19: Neuralyzer

Lonappan gave a slight sneak peek of the device inside his pocket. Thankappan couldn't believe what he just saw. "Wait, isn't that?" He quickly suppressed his amazement.

Before anyone else could make an assessment of it, Lonappan quickly placed it back in his pocket, and tossed a pair of sunglasses towards Thankappan. "Catch, you'll need it."

"Wait, what about the other three?" Thankappan asked, as he knew the effects one could have due to the device.

"They're aliens. I haven't seen them get affected by this." Lonappan assured.

"Lonappan, is there any way to get everyone out of here?" Thankappan asked.

Lonappan scratched his head. "Now, why would I do that? If it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have even tried to let the three beside you out." He replied.

"Well, look at them. They look like they deeply regret their decision." He pointed at Vineeth and multiple others wailing in regret.

"Deeply regretting something afterward is bullshit. They should've thought of it earlier." Lonappan shrugged.

"But they got kids!" He pulled out the trump card.

"Even serial killers and terrorists have wife and kids. Does that make them immune to law?" Lonappan asked, as coldly as he could.

Thankappan knew that his argument was stale, so he tried to salvage it. "Look, I know it sounds like I'm trying to defend criminals-"

"You are." Lonappan retorted.

Thankappan nodded. "Yea. However, if you are to tweak some facts accordingly, they might never do that again." He suggested.

"Why are you so adamant about doing this to begin with, huh?" Lonappan asked.

"Consider this as my one and only request made towards you." Thankappan looked serious as well.

Lonappan scoffed. "As if! Getting emotional and saying that it's your only request doesn't work on me."

"I see." He looked disappointed that his advances didn't work.

Lonappan sighed. "Look, even if we try to get them out, at least one should be accountable for something. If not, we'd be eradicating an entire chapter out of people's lives. That has major implications. We have tried doing that and you know what happened, right?" He asked. It was one of the major things headlined in the MIB's official handbook.

"Yea, so there's no way of letting them all out, huh?" Once again, Thankappan looked down in disappointment.

"Yup, there has to be a sacrifice." Lonappan explained.

"Sacrifice..." The four of them turned their heads towards one person who sat there picking his nose the entire time. "There's one person perfect for this then." Thankappan pointed Tyagi out.

"Great, let's begin." Lonappan got up, wearing his own sunglasses.

Upon seeing Thankappan wearing one as well, the inspector was at frenzy. "Mr. Lonappan, did you hand something to them? That's against the rules!" He cried as he advanced towards Thankappan.

"As if we were playing by the rules to begin with." Lonappan said as he stopped the inspector by his tracks before he took out the device that was pseudo forbidden to use- the neuralyzer. "Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention, please? You too, Gopan. Screw it, I'm just gonna skip all the formalities this one time. Wait, let me take these papers. And in three." He turned on the device and a flash came out.

"Wha!" Before anyone could react, the flash already infected them and they got into a trance.

Lonappan took a deep breath, as if he was preparing for the events to unfold. "Okay, what the hell is this?" He shouted at the inspector.

"What do you mean?" The inspector looked at him with a confused look on his face.

"Why have you imprisoned this amount of people in here when the culprit's that one?" He asked as he pointed towards Tyagi.

"What? I did nothing." Tyagi desperately tried to fight back something he had no idea about.

"Wait, what did he do?" The inspector asked, scratching his head in utter confusion.

Lonappan gave out a shocked expression."Oh, my goodness. I did not expect this from the police! You caught the guy literally smoking marijuana and you don't remember that now?" He asked.

"Really?" Yet again, the SI did not understand what was happening.

"Yea, look at your table. See that marijuana?" He pointed at the bag of pot.

However, the sub-inspector didn't get one thing. "Wait, why are the others here then?" He asked.

"How would I know? That's for you to answer now, isn't it?" Lonappan shrugged.

"Huh. Constable, let them out. I guess we made a huge mistake. We have to rectify it before the media gets involved." He instructed the constable who opened the prison cells to everyone except Tyagi.

"Great judgement, Mr. Inspector." Lonappan extended his arm.

"Thank you, Mr?" The inspector had already forgotten the past hour or so and hence wasn't aware of Lonappan's identity.

"Lonappan, we've met already." He smiled.

"I can't necessarily remember that. I apologize for my actions tonight." The inspector bowed deeply.

"It's not me you gotta apologize to." He said as he pointed out to the previously imprisoned people.

The inspector turned towards them and bowed deeply. "I apologize on the behalf of the entire police station."

"That's fine." Someone commented.

"Man, I really thought I did something bad. I can't imagine that scenario. My wife and kids would've had to live a hard life then." Vineeth chuckled in relief.

"Bruh, don't think that far ahead." Some guy shouted out.

"Anyway, let's go!" Another guy insisted as they exited the station. Well, everyone except Tyagi. They would imprison him for a long time.

Meanwhile, a confused Gopan headed towards Lonappan. "Hey, Lonappan! Why exactly were we here? It seems like I forgot something important." He spoke.

Lonappan suddenly gave out a perplexed expression, as if he wasn't the perpetrator. "Damn, what happened to everyone here? We were here to release these unfairly imprisoned people, don't you remember?" He asked.

"I guess?" Gopan trusted the words of his friend.

"Well, whatever. Take us back to Holy Land, Gopan." He requested.

"Ah, sure." Gopan and the guys headed towards the auto.

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Inside the auto; the guys were relatively silent the whole time, except for the occasional; burps and excessive breathing. However, Kunjan broke this silence. "We shouldn't have done that." He spoke.

Lonappan nodded. "I agree. But that's what Thankappan wanted."

"We can't do something huge as this on the whim of one person. That was stupid. Every single one in there deserved every bit of the punishment." Kunjan replied.

"Again, I wholeheartedly agree. But, just like me, Thankappan is a MIB agent too. I'm sure he'll bear the responsibility when the grave consequences hit back at him in the long run." Lonappan explained.

"Ah, sure. Pin the blame on me." Thankappan sighed.

"You are to blame though." Lonappan told.

"I know. Can't you just give me a moment to play victim?" He cried.

"We're here." Gopan announced and everyone got out.

"Thank you, Gopan. Here you go!" Lonappan gave him the fare.

"Again, call me anytime! I'll come to help." Gopan said and went back to the auto stand.

In the Holy Land, there was one creature waiting for them. "Hey, idiots! I heard you got caught." M'Baku laughed.

"Can't you keep it down? Are you gonna announce it to the whole town?" Taro finally opened his mouth.

"Maybe, if it pleases me." M'Baku laughed yet again.

"You crazy dog!" Taro chased him. The others followed suit.

"Hehe. Catch me if you can!" M'Baku screamed as he ran.

Meanwhile, Thankappan and Lonappan stayed back. "Hey, don't you think they've gotten a bit close recently? That's good." Lonappan spoke.

"Yea, that's great!" Thankappan chuckled nervously. "Good thing you don't know what they've planned in the background." He thought.

"Thankappan?"

"Yes?"

"I hope I wouldn't have to bring up this thing ever again. I don't like using it. At least, not in such a way that it could jeopardize people's precious memories." Lonappan ordered.

"Yes, sir. I assure you such a blunder would never happen again." Thankappan replied.

Lonappan scoffed. "Hehe, as if! You'll continue making mistakes. That's what being a human means. I hope you eventually learn from those mistakes and develop. That'll give you the experience that you seriously lack." He said as he patted Thankappan's back.

"Duly noted, sir."

"Okay, go away then." He dispersed him off.

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Later that night, Thankappan suddenly got up to piss. And in the dark, he saw a shadow. "What the!" He freaked out and moved a few steps back.

"Hello, Thankappan." It was Lonappan.

"Geez, you scared me! What are you doing here in the middle of the night?" He asked.

Meanwhile, everyone woke up from the commotion. "What happened?" Taro asked.

"Damn, why are you here, Lonappan?" Gibli sighed.

"Hello, everyone. Remember how I talked about the consequences of dragging me into the police station?" He asked.

"Ah, is it that time already? I didn't expect that!" Thankappan tried to prepare himself for the forthcoming events.

"Nope, I just came here to remind you of that." Lonappan said nonchalantly.

"What?" Everyone got confused for a second.

"I don't easily forget stuff. Therefore, you better believe me when I say this, it will come and it will come in the time you least expected." Lonappan spoke.

"Well, we didn't expect it right now!" Thankappan shrugged.

What followed was a long, awkward silence. "Yea, I should've planned it a bit more. I didn't expect you to be this surprised about this." Lonappan replied, breaking the silence.

"Anyone would be surprised if they saw a person menacingly seated in a chair in the middle of the night!" Thankappan explained.

"Hmm, interesting. I'll take a note of that. You guys can go to sleep. I'll be going." Lonappan quietly exited the room.

"Seriously?" Gibli cried as he went back to sleep.

"Damn, Lonappan is weird!" Thankappan thought of the obvious as he went back to sleep.

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