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Chapter 13
Interrogation, Plans and A Hint of Flirting
Raven
“ Whitenoise! Let go of me! I promise I won’t break him
much,” I struggled against her grasp. Tahlia had just ran from the room to go
and get Knight and Apollo, probably to try and hold be back a bit better. I am going to rip that pretty boy face to
shreds, pull his teeth out on by one, my violent thoughts were completely
valid.
“ What’s the matter pretty bird, didn’t want to know how I
would starve Chelsea and beat her till she was blue?”
“ Argh!” breaking free I grab his head and smash it into the
table, grab his arm and twist it up behind his back until I hear a satisfying Snap!
“ Arghhhhhhh! What the hell!? You can’t have let her do
that, your heroes!”
“ Raven, Whitenoise outside now!” Omegas voice came from the
doorway. He was glaring at me, he was going to be so mad with me.
“ Ha, now your going to get it!” David cries out as he
cradles his arm. I shoot him a look, one that says ‘ say anything more and I
will rip you eyes out of their sockets and cut off your tongue’. He wisely shut
up after that.
“ Now Raven,” and there it was, the voice you never want to
hear come from Omega. It was the calmest, most unreadable voice he could use.
It was sometimes so terrifying that it made people pee their pants. I’m not
kidding, he once made Geckon wet himself. Understandable he is a child at
heart, but he was also a grown man.
Leaving the room, I saw Apollo and Knight twisting David’s
arm so it was in the right place for a cast to be put on. They already knew I was going to break something of his, but I bet Scar
knew it would be his arm. I rolled
my eyes before closing the door and following Omega down the hall to a
conference down the hall slightly.
Entering the room I close the door and slowly turn around, not knowing
what I would get when I saw my new father.
“ Well, you certainly lasted longer than I thought you
would,” and with that, Omega’s voice was changing to a joking sort of tone. The
one only Scar and myself got to hear when he was in his Omega mode. Oh thank you whoever is out there! Why you
want to help me now I don’t know but thank you! I thought as I sat down
next to him. I smiled genuinely and tried to look like I had a clue what he was
talking about.
“ I would have thought you have ripped him to shreds within
the first three minutes. But you only broke his arm by around six minutes. You
should be proud of yourself,” Omega was almost at the point of laughter, you
could see the humour and joy he found in the situation in his eyes.
“ Well, I tried. And White was holding me back for a good
two minutes before I broke loose. So I guess I would’ve broken him within the
first two if I had had the chance,”
“ I’m just glad you decided to break his arm and not his
collar bone or one of his legs, they take longer to heal, and can be seen as
more violent injuries,”
“ Yes well, he was sitting with his lower half under the
table, and I much rather breaking arms then collar bones, “ Now the two of us
had broken out into laughter. But we heard a small knock on the door, so of
course we had to calm ourselves and make it look like I was in trouble.
Scars little head emerged through the gap in the doorway, he
was giving a small smirk when he saw the looks on our faces. Mine was solemn
and sorry looking, and Omega’s was rough and almost unforgiving.
“ You know, I could hear you both laughing down the hall
right?” and with that we all broke off into a fit of laughter. “ I-I came here
to let you both know that David gave us the information about he was working
with people, he’s the fall guy, not the real mastermind behind Chelsea and his
death,”
“ What do you mean?!” and suddenly all the anger and pain I
felt was flooding back into my body. I wanted to punch through the walls and
tear down buildings.
“ What I mean is that, this whole time we thought David was
the one who was doing this to get revenge on you. But it turns out, someone
wanted us to think he was dead. He was hired from the start to play the part.
Well, shortly after you two started dating anyway,” Scar came over, looking
slightly scared of me again.
“I am going to go and calm down I think,” I left the room
and headed out to the training areas, where I went straight to the treadmill. I
set it pretty high, just to push myself.
I was running faster and faster, like I was trying to just
get away from here and out of my own skin. I didn’t even bother with the music
system, I just ran. I didn’t even realise until I felt the drops land on my
hand, but I had been crying. I was at the point where I could barely breathe,
but still I wouldn’t stop. I was starting to let the calm wash over me, feel
how nice it was, being able to just let go of everything and run.
I made the treadmill go even faster and put the incline on
the max, making it even harder. But even so, I wasn’t going to slow down, or
trip up. I was only going to push myself harder until I felt the anger get
ripped out from my body.
The need for air was gone, I could no longer breath, I
started becoming faint but I still wouldn’t stop. I heard the voice of the
computer warning me my heart rate was raising to a extreme rate and that there
was a lack of oxygen in my body. That I needed to stop. But I didn’t want to
stop. I wanted to run so fast and far.
I don’t know what happened next but I remember the blackness
coming and I felt myself slipping. I heard someone yell out, but I couldn’t
respond. It was too late, I was already under.
* * *
I woke up an hour later in the med bay, Scar holding my hand
on one side, and on the other was Apollo. Becca was curled up in a ball in a
chair in the corner.
I heard the machines beeping, and I could smell the IV drip
before I felt it in my arm. I turned my head, wanting to take it out. But everyone
was asleep and I didn’t want to wake them.
“ Cassie?” a quiet voice asked. I turned my head again to
see that there in the opposite corner was Tahlia curled up reading a book.
“Yeah,” My voice sounded weak but it didn’t matter, because
the poor girl rushed over and gave me the biggest hug.
“ Oh thank god your okay!” I laughed a little. What does she mean? It’s only been an hour,
hasn’t it? The voice speaking in my
head was loud and what I usually spoke like.
“ What do you mean?” I pushed her back a little and looked
into her eyes, if she was going to lie this was where I was going to catch her
out on it.
“ I mean, you’ve been out of it all day, I went to come and
get you from the training room, because I heard the computer announce that you
were out of oxygen, the others were right behind me. I got there just in time
to see you collapse,” She sat on the edge of the bed, carefully avoiding where
Scar’s head rest at my side. “ Knight carried you in here while Becca went to
go and get Omega. No one understood what happened, until Scar checked the
settings on the equipment. You had it on the setting just under the super
speeds levels, anyone who doesn’t have the stamina and body like Scar’s should
have been able to run like that, at least not for that long. You were running
for a good half an hour before you collapsed,”
I was barely processing what I was hearing. I felt Scar
shift his head and Apollo tighten the grip he had on my hand. I hadn’t been
running for that long, I would have known. I had never been so careless before.
Omega and Frostfire had warned me about the setting on the equipment, they knew
what I was like when I was angry or upset. And yet, when it came to it, I was
still so reckless and hot headed.
“ I didn’t even realise what was going on. All I could think
of was my anger and how I was feeling,” I ripped my hand from Scar’s and got
the IV out of my arm. “uh, I can’t believe I was so reckless again! I haven’t
been like this since he died and when Chelsea was taken. I should have known this
would happen!” I started to get worked
up again and felt myself starting to cry. My hand hit against the bed, waking
up everyone else in the room.
“Cassie!” Apollo grabbed me in a hug, and I just broke down
into tears. I didn’t want to be so weak, but my mother used to tell me ‘ tears
aren’t a weakness, they are just floods of courage trying to take form’. I
never believed her when she said that but it was better than anything else I
had heard.
“ It’s okay, your okay,” Apollo kept whispering in my ear in
a calm voice. I felt everyone else joining in on the hug and felt them all try
to squeeze onto the bed.
“ Is everything okay in here?” Phoenix spoke from the door.
She must have been called to make sure I was okay, I mean she is a doctor.
“ Yeah, we’re all fine. When are we going on that mission? “ My voice
was back to normal and I was feeling better after I dried my tears.
“ You may all go to the meeting room now. Omega sent me in
to get you lot anyway. He didn’t think you would be able to go but you look
fine to me,”
“ You heard the women, let’s go!” Knight commanded and got
everyone moving off the bed. I stayed for a second while everyone left. I am
finally going to get those sickos who tried to ruin my life, they’re finally
going to get what they deserve. I stood and left the room, following
everyone down the hall and into the meeting room.
I see Omega speaking to Frostfire and Lumos by the glass
screens. They turn their heads to look at us as we enter.
“ Good, Raven, I am glad your okay. You are going to be
leading this mission. You will be going to an underground camp, for training
young assassins. This is where they trained David, apparently, his mentor told
him what to do. We will be able to find him there and take him in as well as
cutting off the camp and stopping the flow of new assassins for people like
Ganali Dantra.” Omega brought up maps and satellite images to show us where we
would be hitting.
“ You will be flying to the south part of Kynudie,” Turning
to me Omega chucked the keys to the jet. “ Don’t crash her, I just had the
engines upgraded,”
“ No worries. When should we leave?”
“ Now, grab the rest of your gear and go. You should make it
there by nightfall, so you will be able to do this covertly,”
“ You heard him, go and grab you things and meet at the
hangar by the jet,” I turned to everyone and made sure they were leaving. About to follow I felt a hand grab my wrist.
“ What were you thinking?!” Frostfire ripped her mask back
and showed her face. Her dark grey irises looked furious with me. “ You KNEW
what would happen if you set it that high! What could have possibly made you
think you could actually run that fast and long without losing all your
oxygen?”
“ I wasn’t thinking! I was so angry I just wanted to run! I
didn’t even know what was going on around me!” I raised my voice slightly to
match Frostfire’s. I also matched her glare.
“ Why didn’t you just call me?” Frost’s voice softened and
her eyes looked sad. ”You know I would have come to calm you down,”
“I don’t know,”
“ Ladies, I’m sorry but you really need to get going Cassie.
We will talk when you get home tonight,”
“Sure,” I gave Frostfire a quick hug and left.
* * *
Entering the bases hangar, I see the two jets. The S-s-190
(Super sonic), designed by Dean’s company and the 16-08 jet, from Samurai’s
company. Samurai, being Knight’s father,
had given us the jet without question. His company was working on jets and
space crafts, which meant it was always ahead of the times.
Anyway, infront of the S-s-190 was just about everyone,
waiting with their gear. Becca was the only one missing, but she would know
where to find us.
“ Get in guys, its going to be a long ride,” Unlocking the
jet I lead everyone in. The inside of the jet was much like a first class
plane, except more open and it wasn’t quite as relaxing. There were seats
around the edge of the room, placed next to the seats was a table that wrapped
around the edges of the room. A control panel was upfront with two chairs, so
two people could pilot at once. But I was going to be the only one flying the
plane today.
“ Get into a seat, we’ll leave as soon as Becca gets on
board,”
“I’m here, sorry, I had to pee,” Becca appeared wearing her
uniform and carrying a whip.
“ Because we all had to know that,” Knight replied to her
sarcastically. “ What are you doing with a whip? Isn’t it a little difficult to
use?”
“ Only to those who have no brain,” Knowing she had won,
Becca gave a defiant smirk and laughed when Knight scoffed and turned away.
“ While that was entertaining, can you please leave that
behind when we’re on the mission. I don’t want to be the one explaining to
Omega why we screwed up, especially when it’s because you two were busy
arguing,”
“It’s all good Scar, let the lovers have their fights. But
he is right, you two can’t act like that when we go on missions,”
“ Fine,” Becca turned and sat in the second pilots chair. “
And we aren't lovers!” You say that now,
just wait a few more months, I laughed to myself slightly as I saw Knight
saying the same thing.
“ Whatever, just strap in. We’re going to take off now,” I
replied and began to start up the engines. “ Open hangar doors,” when the doors
were open I took off and set the coordinates into the system.
“You can unbuckle now if you want, we’re clear in the air.
Let’s go through the plan for the mission,” Everyone turned to look at the
centre of the room. I let autopilot take over and began to bring up a hologram
in the centre of the room.
“ We need to split up into smaller groups. Scar, Knight
Clockwire, you three will be dropped round the north side of the camp, drop
zone A. Becca and Apollo, you two will be left in the south, drop zone B. I’ll go in from the east drop zone C. From
there, the two teams will go in towards the centre of the camp. I will go into
the camps main building and take down David’s handler. From there, we will cut
off their server and shut down the camp,” I marked the points on the map where
the drops would be and show which direction each group will go.
“ You sure you want to go in by yourself? Should I go in
with you so while you take down the guy, I hack the servers?” Scar asked me
with an arched eyebrow.
“ I thought that through, if both of us go in, there is a
higher chance that they will ring the alarm and bring in the guards, or they
call the main group, the people who are funding the training of the teens,”
“ Yes, but we don’t know how strong this guy is or if he
will have other people with him. Besides you just got out of the infirmary,
again. I think that I should come with you,” Scar had now gotten the backing of
Apollo and Whitenoise.
“ Fine. Knight, Clockwire, are you two okay to go in by
yourself?”
“ I’m sure we’ll be fine, won’t we cutie?”
“I think you mean Clockwire,” Becca shot a quick glare at
Knight after he tried to hit on Clockwire again.
“Just cause your jealous, doesn’t mean you need to be mean,”
Knight shot back a glare just as strong as her’s. But it also was daring her to
deny she was jealous.
“I’m not jealous of Clockwire, she is a cute one. But who
would want to get hit on by someone like you? I mean some girls may be into the
big ape types,” I smirked a little, remembering a time when Becca and I had
been out one night and she had used the same line on some other guy.
“Alright children, time to act your age and get back to this
mission briefing,” Scar stood from his seat and walked towards the hologram.
“ We will arrive at the first drop zone in roughly an hour,
so you two should get ready anyway, go over any plans you may need. Remember,
be stealthy and stick to the shadows, we don’t want them to know we’re
there. In fact everyone, go to your
partner and work out any plans, better we all get prepared now rather then
later,” I said, after which I turned back to the controls and looked at the
different times until each of the different drop zones. Seeing that it was
going to be at least an hour and a half, I decided to go over some of the files
the HHC had on the camp.
“Why did you want to go in on this by yourself?”
“ Because Scar, I thought it was the best move. And anyway,
Omega put me in charge of this mission,”
“Doesn’t mean you need to go in on the big boss guy solo.
Doesn’t work in video games, so it won’t work here,”
“ Not everything in life has to do with video games you
know,” I turned around to look at him. He was sitting in the seat next to me,
and was doing the same thing I was trying to do. Look through the info we had.
“ Yes, but it doesn’t mean something’s, like fighting bad
guys, don’t come across into real life,”
“ Let me guess, your
about to say you can’t hit the reset button half way through a fight,” I roll
my eyes at the younger boy before me, “ Scar we have had the same conversation
after I thought David was dead and when Chelsea was taken. I know how this is
going to end,”
“ I hope you do because I don’t want to have to come in and
save your butt again like the last time this happened,” Scar looked up at me
and I could see the tears in his eyes, about to pool over. “ We just became
family again, I don’t want to lose you,”
“ You won’t,” I wrapped my arms around his small frame and
gave him a squeeze, “ Now come on, start acting like Scar, the boy hero who
doesn’t feel anything but the excitement of the battle and happiness of the
win,” And with that we were both laughing for the rest of the flight there.
Apollo
We were in the jet and on the way to this camp. David had
blurted about it before we fixed his arm. He didn’t really give us much to go on, only
small details. But honestly, who would want to give him information when he was
just going to get captured anyway?
* * *
“ Aren’t you going to
put a cast or something on my arm? She broke it!” David was screaming out as he
clutched his arm to his chest.
“ Tell us what we want
to know and we will!” Scar was pulling his head back to look at him. I moved to
go and grab his arm to at least put it back in the right position, but Knight
had grabbed my shoulder to stop me.
“ Fine! I wasn’t in
charge! I was just the fall boy, a scape goat! They kidnapped me after Riddler
attacked me, they trained me there and told me what I was going to do. All
about how they wanted to hurt Cassie, break her spirit. There were other kids
at the camp and they were being trained too. I had met one before, he was the
one who told me Cassie was actually Raven, though they don’t know she’s Cassie.
They think her name is Brooke Bell,” David was visibly shaking from the pain in
his arm now. His eyes were barely holding onto the tears in them.
“ Please fix my arm!”
“ More info. Where’s
the camp? How did they contact you? If you knew Cassie was Raven, why didn’t
you tell us what these people wanted you to do? Who are these people?” Knight
spoke from behind me, his hand still holding onto my shoulder.
“ I don’t know who
they are for sure, but the camp trains young people, so then they can go and
work for people like Ganali Dantra. My mentor, he was the one who contacted who
was in charge. I don’t know who that is except that they are close to the top
of the system,”
“ Scar, I think you
should go and tell Omega what we just found out. Apollo, how about grabbing the
medical stuff for his arm?”
* * *
“ So, partner. How are we going to do this?” Becca took an
empty seat beside me. I was sitting near the back of the jet’s main area.
“Don’t know. But looking at the map there should be a
abandoned mining tunnel around the area we will be dropped that will lead
straight through to the centre of the camp.
I think that's going to be our best bet,”
“I was thinking the same thing,”
“ Well, I just have to ask, why do you have a whip?” I
laughed a little as I said it because it was very weird.
“ Because, I know how to use it. Besides, have you ever been
hit with a whip? It can really hurt,”
“ Okay, I just thought with your powers you wouldn’t really
need a weapon,”
“ True, but its always better to have one than not. You
never know what can happen. You could have your powers taken off you or
something might not le you use them,”
“Well, I guess that is a good reason,”
“ Now, I want to know. When are you two lovelies planning on
going on that double date of yours?” When Becca said ‘lovelies’ she moved her
finger between pointing at me and then Cassie.
“ Don’t know, we haven’t really talked about it. Why, you
wanting to come and spy on us when we do go out?”
“ Something like that. Her friend your going on the double
date with can be a bit full on is all. Just a bit worried that your first date
is going to be with them.”
“ So do you think we should go on a different date before we
go with her friend?” I was very confused, sure we hadn’t talked about the date
but from the sound of it, it was just going to be something simple like a movie
or going to a beach.
“Yeah, that actually makes a lot of sense. You should
surprise her by leaving her a note telling her where to meet you and what
time,”
“ Ok,” I was starting to get a picture in my head about what
I could do.
“ You could lay out an outfit for her, shoes, dress and
accessories. And you could take her on a little picnic on the beach,”
“ Sounds really nice. But I don’t know much about clothes,
so maybe I could ask you to handle that part?”
“ Yeah, I could do that,” Becca was writing things down on a
piece of paper. Where she got it from I had no idea, but I wasn’t about to ask.
“ Thanks, we should plan all this after this mission is
over,”
“Good idea. I’ll get you my phone number and email and we
can plan it all out tonight and tomorrow,” Becca tore out a piece of paper and
handed it to me, seeing her number and email I tucked it away in my pocket,”
So, which school do you go to?”
“ Me and Raven go to Crystost High. Her first day was today,
as I’m sure you heard. I must say it was very cute watching her blush a little
every time she checked her phone this morning,” Whitenoise laughed a little
when she saw me start to blush too.
“ Speaking of, I should probably go and speak to Cassie, we
haven’t actually talked much today,” Getting out of my seat I started to move
across the room to where Cassie was sitting with Scar, both reading through
files and talking to each other, sometimes pointing towards a spot on a map.
“ Apollo, can you go over these maps and papers with Raven
for a while, I have to deal with some things before we land. Thanks,” Scar
stood from his seat, not even turning to see the shocked look on Apollo’s face.
Scar gave off a quick little smirk as he passed me, a clear sign that he was up
to no good again.
“ Hey stranger,” Raven smiled at me as I moved to sit next
to her. Her hair was pulled back into a loose ponytail and she had her moon
clip in. Her eyes and the upper part of her face was covered with the domino
mask she was wearing.
I wish I could see
your eyes right now, I thought to myself as I went pick up one of the files
that scar had put down.
“Hey, so what do we know on this camp so far?”
“ Really? No, how was your first day going before Omega ever
so rudely pulled you out? No, I missed you today?” She poked my side as she
teased me a little, and quite honestly, I didn’t mind it at all.
“ Well, if that's what you want to talk about right now. How
was your day? I missed you so much,” I turned my voice to favour that of a posh
man and used hand gestures.
“ Oh good sir,” She put on a posh voice too and giggled at
my actions, “ My day was quite adventurous, meeting a rather large group of
people of whom seem quite rich,”
“Hmmm, you must be fitting in marvellously then, now you
have been taken in by one of the richest men around?”
“ Oh of course I fit in!” Our posh accents continue to flow
with each word we said and made hand gestures for every different thing we
spoke about. “I, would fit in anywhere, rich or poor, Mr Theos,” She smiled in
an evil way at me.
“So one might assume, but I won’t doubt that what you say is
true,” Time to get serious, I looked
at the clock showing how much time we would have until we were going to get
there, we had another forty minutes, but in that time we had another ten or so
files to go through as well as sharing that information with the rest of the
team. “ Well, I think that we need to read these files,”
“ I suppose your right, I just needed to talk and muck
around a bit before the mission. You know, to get all the nonsense out, get my
head in the game,” Raven shook her head a little and then looked back at the files
that rested on her lap.
“ yeah I get what your saying. So what do we know so far?”
“ Well, we know whose running this training camp, got a
rough idea of the person who is in charge there, but we don’t know for sure who
is actually there leading the camp,”
“ Right, so if we only knew about this camp because David
just told us, why do we have so many files?” I turned my head an looked
quizzically at the girl next to me.
“ Well, Ganali Dantra is well known for having programs like
this running for runaway teens and criminals around the world. The cores taken
out quite a few in the past, and these are the files of the information they
had on said camps. And each and everyone of them says the same thing, they were
all being used to give Ganali Dantra assassins and spies for his criminal
organisation,”
“ So roughly how many of these camps have been taken out?”
“ This year, four. Over the whole time the core has been
around, over twenty,”
I couldn’t help but choke on the air I was breathing in when
she said that. Over twenty of these camps and the Cores has only been around
for 3-4 years now. That's roughly five camps a year.
“ Your kidding? There is no way there could have been that
many!”
“ I heard that there’s more out there that we haven’t been
able to get to because they’re so well hidden. People like Dantra are always
going to have some sort of facility that allows them to make an army of
assassins, it's the way things work,”
“ I suppose that's true, I mean, in my family it has been
tradition that everyone must go into the family business, I didn’t but that
doesn’t mean I didn’t pay the price for it,”
“ Well that was oddly depressing,” We turned around to see
that Becca and Scar are standing there with a video camera and popcorn.
“ What the hell guys?!” Raven jumped up and snatched the
camera from Scar’s hand while Whitenoise continued to eat from the large bucket
of popcorn she was hugging to her body.
“ This thing isn’t even on!” Raven shoved the camera back
into Scar’s hand as he and Whitenoise laughed together.
“ Oh you were right, that was fun!” White turned to Scar and
offered him some of the popcorn once she acknowledged the plan he must of told
her.
“ How long were you two standing there? I didn’t hear either
of you come up behind us,” I stood up and grabbed a handful of popcorn, “ and
where did you even get this?!” I exclaimed when the popcorn hit my tastebuds.
“ The popcorn, I put a bag in the microwave a minute ago,
hence it being popped. As for standing here, about a minute. Only thing we heard
was you two talking about the mission,” Becca tilted the bucket towards Cassie
who scowled but grabbed some of the buttery goodness all the same.
“ I’m still angry at you two. You have a bad habit of
trolling and sneaking around all the time,”
“ Aww, you love us!” Scar wrapped her in a hug, Cassie
merely patting his head to acknowledge he was there.
“ Let’s get back to these reports, we have next to no idea
what we will be up against here,” And with that final command from Whitenoise,
we all grabbed a file and began to read again.
Clockwire
I don’t care whether
people call me beautiful or not because I know I’m not. So when he says it so
casually, like you might name a dog, I pay it no attention. I know he’s only
fooling around, trying to gain someone else’s attention, my bets on Joelle’s.
But that's not the point, the point is, I don’t even mind right now when he’s
sitting here next to me dropping a pick up line every couple of sentences. I think of the lines from a book I was reading
a few months ago. The title is long gone but those words seem to have stuck
with me. It seemed like the sort of thing Knight was doing towards me, and
trying to gain the attention of someone else. Becca perhaps?
“ So beautiful, what do you think of the plan? “
“ Hmmm?” I turn my head to look at him. I had been so lost
in my thoughts that I didn’t even notice that he was talking about a plan for
the raid we were about to make.
“ Were you daydreaming?” I nod my head slightly, scared what
he might say,
” Well, what about? Me?” He gave a bright confident smile
and gave a wink.
“ Yes actually,” He gives a slightly shocked look for a
second but quickly recovers, “ About you and Becca and what a good thing it
would be if you two were together,” Now Knight was choking on the air he had
just sucked in and was clutching his chest, as though his heart was trying to
break free from his chest.
“Me and HER?! Are you insane?!” He exclaimed as he finished
choking and looked up at me, his eyes watering from the coughing.
“ I don’t think so. Why do you think it would be so bad if it
was you two her were together?” I move to lean forward on the bench clinging to
the edges of the room. It was quite amazing the size of this jet and how well
it’s been set up for us to use.
“ Well, for one thing, she is so stupid and snarky. Two,
have you seen the way she dresses? Not quite what you’d expect for some rich
person. And finally, the way she always tells me off! It ridiculous! I mean,
you don't and you dress so classy and smart and your so bright and polite, why
can’t she be more like you,” He must of realised he was beginning to drag on
because he took a breath and looked back at me, “ but that's beside the point,
right now, we have to work out what we’re going to do when we get to our drop
zone,”
“ Right, tell me your plan again, and this time I’ll try not
to daydream,”
“ If we go in through the forest, there is a creek that runs
through the middle, I say we stay near there that way we can cover our
footsteps by walking through the water. What do you think?”
“ We can’t. There’s not enough coverage. It would be better
if we stuck to the trees, that way if we need to hide we can get up into the
trees and jump from on to the other,”
“ Yeah, guess I didn’t really think that through very well
huh?” Knight looked rather disappointed with himself, so taking pity on him I
gave him a smile and patted his shoulder.
“ You tried, no one can ask more of you than that,”
* * *
I started running the
laps on the track. Five more until I could take a break, but I was so tired I
just wanted to collapse. I had been running for over three hours now and I
could barely breath. The air scraping it’s way down my throat and into my
lungs.
“ Tahlia! Come over
here now! We have to go home,” My father called from the side of the track
holding his usual scowl and holding my bag.
“ I still have to do
five more laps!” I yell back, barely managing to get it out. I didn’t want to
go home and hear mum lecture me about how disappointed she is that I keep
fighting the bad guys at night and no sitting in my room studying to become a
doctor.
“No! We are going home
NOW!” Dad raises his voice and is screaming so loud others who are also running
on the track have stopped to watch the scene unravel. Knowing better then to
let things get heated in public I started to walk over to him and the car that
was waiting behind him.
“ Good girl,” He pats
my shoulder and pushes me forward a little to make me walk faster.
* * *
“ Clockwire, wake up. We’re almost at the drop zone,” I hear
a voice pulling me from my sleep. Feminie and gentle, Becca most likely, I thought as I slowly rubber my eyes through the
cowl that was cover most of my face.
“ Thanks. How long was I sleeping for?”
“ About forty minutes give or take some,” Now fully awake I
see that I was right and it was Whitenoise standing infront of me, her whip
still present on her hip. I also see that the others are all seated and double
checking their equipment. Though Knight kept glancing over and glaring at
Whitenoise and her whip.
“ Okay, well I should probably check that I have everything
that I need,”
“ Yeah I should do the same. Good luck with Knight, and
remember, it’s okay if he comes back slightly maimed,” Whitenoise gave me a
wink and turned to walk back over to where she had been sitting when we took
off early today.
Laughing at what she said I checked that I had everything,
and seeing that I did, I looked towards the map, double checking the route
Knight and I would have to take to get through to the centre of this camp.
“ Drop zone A, its time to go, good luck and stay safe,”
Raven gave us a small smirk as Knight and I jumped from the plane.
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