Hey y'all, it's me, Lady Legend! I know you expected another chapter of Disappearance Without a Trace uploaded but that is Taz's story, and this account is owned by me, Taz, and Rocketship. And this is my story!
I get writer's block sometimes so a warning in advance: if a story doesn't get uploaded soon, it's because I can't think of an idea for it.
Disclaimer: I don't own the song Radioactive by Imagine Dragons or Team StarKid!
Lauren Lopez, Joe Walker, Brian Rosenthal, and Alex Grace Paul were all sitting in Joe's car driving down the highway on their road trip to New York for a small vacation. Twisted was over and they were all excited for the trip.
"And we have finally arrived in Manhattan, New York!" Joe exclaimed as they entered the city, and the somewhat silent air in the car was filled with cheers from two of the passengers.
"Finally!" Alex said and she laughed, setting up yet another game of Speed with her deck of cards. Brian looked at the cards with mild amusement, not sure if he should be happy or sad about the fact that they were playing another game where he was sure to lose, and Lauren just rolled her eyes.
"Guys, I'm trying to write my book here!" She exclaimed, motioning to the tattered journal in her hands, and Joe sighed dramatically.
"Lo, you can do it when we get to the hotel! How many times have I told you that already?" He turned up the radio, which was already blasting loudly, and Alex handed Brian his deck of cards for the game.
"Ready, set, GO!" She shouted at the top of her lungs and they both started pairing up the cards as loudly as they could possibly do while playing a game of cards, and Lauren slammed her journal shut, stuffing it into her messenger bag.
"Fine, I'll try to write it in the hotel instead when we get there. Happy Walker?" She growled at him and Joe flinched visibly, trying to shake it off with a smile.
"Ecstatic." He replied with a cheeky grin while winking at her and she groaned, trying not to swoon from his wink.
"SPEED! I win!" Alex shouted again happily and Brian groaned, throwing the cards onto the game. He had given up a long time ago, but still Alex managed to get him to play the game with her.
"How many times is that Alex?" He pulled out his phone to check his unread messages from Brian Holden and she counted in her head, trying to figure it out. Her eyes lit up and she grinned.
"That ends us at you with one point and me with thirty-seven points!" She clapped and laughed. Brian frowned and put his phone away after replying to a text from Jaime.
"Will you two shut up?" Lauren turned around and glared at them. "I've got a headache from the noise of the radio and you're only making it worse with your shouting!" Brian withered from her gaze while Alex just poked her cheek, trying to get her to smile. When that didn't work, she frowned.
"Oh lighten up Lauren!" Alex said, and Brian nodded in agreement.
"Yeah Lauren, you've been really uptight for a while. What's up?" Brian asked, and the whole car seemed to go completely silent as everyone waited for her answer. Even the radio became quieter and Lauren realised that Joe must've turned it down to hear her answer.
"It's nothing!" She forced a laugh and waved it off, but all four of them knew that her smile was as fake as a Barbie doll. Still, they didn't bother getting into her business and they just went to their own directions.
"Hey Joe?" Brian tapped him on the shoulder lightly after ten minutes of silence and Joe raised an eyebrow in the rearview mirror, not sure what Brian was up to.
"Yeah Brosenthal?" He asked, and Brian seemed to hesitate before continuing with what he was going to say. Brian opened his mouth to speak, but before he could get a single word out, Lauren gasped and pointed at something through the windshield.
"Joe, watch out!" She said loudly, and the other three StarKids looked up to see a huge truck coming their way. Before Joe could do anything to get out of the way, the truck hit the car, and they spun towards the side of the bridge.
"Ah!" Everybody screamed as the car flew off of the bridge and into the water below.
Alex opened her eyes and looked around. She could see the car still submerged in the water completely. She could even see the water around her! But what she couldn't understand was that she was still conscious after being underwater for a long time. And she wasn't very good at holding her breath.
Alex looked to her left to see Brian also looking around, and with a quick glance to the front she could see Joe and Lauren were waking up too. She wanted to take a breath but something told her that it wouldn't be a good idea to do so, so she kept holding it.
Joe managed to push his door open, which baffled Alex, and they all unbuckled their seatbelts to get out. Joe pushed himself out of the car and Lauren swam out after him, then Brian helped Alex out of the car, and they all swam up to the surface.
"Oh my dead god!" Lauren screamed as they surfaced, and she breathed in only to discover it didn't really do anything to help or hurt her. "What just happened to us down there?"
Joe shrugged. "I have absolutely no idea what's going on."
"And I don't care enough to find out!" Alex suddenly became angry and she could feel herself heating up like she normally did with her temper, so she swam towards the shore to get away from everyone. "I'm going to the hotel." Brian followed after her after a split second and the other two had no choice but to swim to shore behind them.
They noticed a lot more than they usually did as they got out of the water, but none of it seemed to surprise them as they looked at themselves over and over again. Alex was completely dry after a minute and she was so angry it looked like steam was coming from her skin. Brian was trying his best to dry himself, but the water stuck on him made him look like a wet dog that could walk on its hind legs. Joe was covered in sand instead of water and he couldn't get it off. Lauren was shivering cold because of the wind that kept blowing around them.
Brian looked at the river and led the group in the general direction towards their hotel, and they kept pointing out other strange things they noticed.
But what they didn't notice was the blue glow coming from the water from the river behind them, or the little traces of radiation in the water that were completely visible to the naked eye.
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~Lady Legend