Operation in progress

Chapter one- Bigger than just us

This was probably the strangest thing I would ever do. But hey…I mean, the world would end without us right? Oh god, we are sent to save to world. I sat down abruptly on the sidewalk outside of the airport in Ontario. I was not going to do this. But I have to!

"Excuse me?" Great, someone noticed my existence, someone else to ask about the end of the world. I looked up and furrowed my brow, this girl…why was she so familiar.

"U-uh…what?" The girl gave me a curious look as she sat down next to me. "Why are you sitting next to me?"

"Because, you are wearing the patch…" She said simply. Stating the obvious. Wait, how did she know about the patch I was wearing?

"How…" I began but she shook her head to indicate I shouldn't ask questions right now. I closed my mouth and sighed, looked at the pavement between my feet.

"I got one too…" Her voice had dropped into a quiet tone, causing me to look back up at her curiously. Why would she be telling me this? Oh yeah…I have one too. Duh.

"You're to save the world too?" I asked lowly, the irritation of the subject apparent in my tone. I watched as her lips twitched into a frown. Okay, maybe I should just stop talking.

"Don't you want to save humanity?" She asked. I could tell the hint of hope in her voice as she asked me the same question that I've been asking myself since I received the stupid chip that came with the patch.

Perhaps I should have thought more about it, but when I think about it, everyone was pretty much lost. Humanity was corrupt, heartless, and worthless, why would I want to have anything to do with it at all? My head slowly descended, my eyes falling towards the taxi that passed by with its light clearly shining brightly. There was probably some high-class businessman rushing to the airport to a terminal where he would board a plan in first class just to get somewhere and make his billions to get some stupid piece of equipment. Yeah, my faith in humanity has been smashed with the reality of the world now a day's.

"I don't know if humanity is worth saving anymore." I mumbled.

"Why! There are so many wonderful things in the world!" Man, this girl had a bit of optimism didn't she?

"Like what, family?" I asked harshly. Perhaps my bitterness was just out ruling my kindness because of my past, or maybe because I've been socially deprived for too long. It's not like I hate everyone in the world, I just hate what the world's become. I let out a long sigh as I felt the silence between the girl and I grasping at my emotions. "I'm sorry. I shouldn't have snapped at you."

"You don't have a family?" She asked slowly, as if she was waiting for her words to trigger a bomb. She watched my headshake and her eyes softened even more. "Don't worry, you'll have someone to call family again one day."

"You are very optimistic." Her lips twitched into a smile. Very, optimistic indeed…

The sidewalk was getting crowded as the day began to drag on slowly. I didn't know why we were sitting there, what we were really waiting for. Perhaps this was a joke…perhaps we were being played.

"What time is it?"

"It's almost time for you to get a watch, stop asking me questions it's getting irritating!"

The girl and I turned our eyes to a pair of girls who were walking slowly towards the area we were sitting. Bickering girls I might add.

"Why are we here again?"

"Oh my…" I watched the girl stop just a few feet from us now, and take a deep breath as if trying not to kill the other girl. "We are here because we are supposed to be here. The letters, the patch, saving the world, ring a bell?"

"I don't understand why we are here though, this shouldn't have to be our job." The second girl said, obviously not phase by the other girl.

"It's not just your job." I watched the girl next to me stand up and retract her hand. "Hi, we are here to save the world too." The girls stared at her hand and then shook it. I couldn't believe this it's like recruitment.

"We?"

"Yes, me and her." She looked down at me and I finally stood up as the three stared at me for a good 30 or so seconds.

"Well, nice to meet you." The girl who was not the pestering question asker nodded towards us. "I'm Bobbie. This is Shay."

"I'm Allie." The girl next to me smiled.

"I'm myself, now that we've covered that." I turned and moved to sit down but instead I only looked ahead towards a boy who looked an awful lot like someone I was once close too. I shook my head and sighed, turning back around to face the girls.

"Anyone know where we are supposed to be going exactly?"

"No only that we're supposed to be at this airport before noon."

"Great." I sighed. That was no help whatsoever. "So no one knows where we are supposed to be going then…"

"Perhaps I can help with that."

The four of us turned towards a boy who was standing near us with the patch. "You all looking to save the world too?" He smirked. Great, Blondie here is going to probably know more about this than anything.

"And you know what we are supposed to be doing?" I asked.

"Oh, saving the world apparently…but we are supposed to be at a plane." He watched out faces. "You didn't catch the hidden message in the letter?"

"Obviously not."

"Am I too late?" We turned once again as a girl came stumbling up to our group.

"Saving the world too?" Asked Bobbie, who chuckled.

"I'm Claire." She said quickly as she smiled at us all.

"Okay, we should be meeting at…um." The boy was gazing at a piece of paper in his hand as we all had our eyebrows raised in anticipation. "The far terminal…the private jet area."

"You got all that information from a letter." I asked curiously.

"Well, in so many words…yeah." He shrugged.

"Well, let's go!" Allie smiled and grabbed my arm yanking me with the rest of the group towards the airport, obviously not seeing the glare across my features she continued to yank me through the airport, until we stopped behind the others, and I yanked my arm away from her grasp.

"In the future…don't do that again." I moved towards the front where the boy was furrowing his brow. "What is the problem?"

"Well, we have to get past security…" the boy stated in a frown. Well that's great, since we don't have luggage let alone tickets we weren't exactly going to be able to get through to the private plane area of the airport.

"We should sneak through security." He said. "I mean it's logical if we go through that room over there…"

"How is that logical?"

"The vents…if we hurry we could make it into that area over there." He pointed to the far distance where there looked to be a closed off, dark portion of the airport. Very near where we wanted to go.

"We could do it." Allie said, as she leaned between us to look at the area and then the door. "Just leave it to me." She grinned and we watched as she slipped past the people and into the garbage can that was near the door just before someone pushed it through the door and it shut behind them.

"Think she's okay?" Asked Bobbie who was now staring ahead at the door in anticipation.

"She better be or we are stuck here forever." Shay sat on the floor, sighing heavily.

"Yeah, I'm surprised she got in that way…" I admitted. But she better be okay, no way I am gunna be responsible for her making a stupid decision. What am I even talking about I barely knew the kid. I sighed along with Shay and we waited for a good hour.

"Psst."

I looked up to see the door a head slightly ajar. "Guys…the doors calling us…" I stood up, shay following and the rest of us moving towards the door as it opened and one by one we slipped inside. Claire was the first one to speak up as the door shut behind us.

"Took you long enough." She said as we began to move past a bunch of items. "Whoa…you smell like newspapers and coffee grounds." Claire held her nose as we moved towards a back room where Allie climbed onto a box and pushed up on a ceiling panel.

"Thanks." She really was to optimistic. "Okay, come on, before someone comes back, they all left for a little while, we need to get in and to the other side without taking up time and making noise."

Okay, optimistic, but to the point. I might get used to this girl yet.

"Okay." Claire piped up. "Smart boy who came up with the plan, your first."

"What?" He turned towards the ceiling and sighed. "Okay, fine." He climbed the boxes and after a slight hesitation, he pulled himself up and disappeared.

"Okay, Bobbie, shay, get in." Allie said, and they complied. Claire was next and then myself. Allie was last, as she set the panel back and we all crawled best we could through the ceiling.