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Chapter 1
Four's POV
"We came in this way! Lets hurry before any more Mogs or humans come!" Eight yells, teleporting to the big entrance Nine blasted open with his yellow ball that he has some control over.
BK comes limping up to us in his beagle form and Marina and I rush to go heal him, I am eager to test out my new legacy. I don't understand how I developed this legacy, I just knew at the sight of Sarah dying in front of me that I had to heal her and all of a sudden I could do it.
"You take one side, and I got the other," I tell Marina. I get down on my knees and put my hands on his hind leg, where a Mogadorian sword ripped through the flesh down to the bone. I feel an iciness creep up through my spine, down my arms and out through my hands. I hear BK whimper softly as the wound goes black, then red, as tendons start knitting themselves back together. In a minute the wound is completely sealed. I quickly heal some other wounds on my side of his body, grab my chest, and run with BK and Marina to join the others at the entrance.
"Alright lets go," Eight says, turning towards the dark hallway we hung Special Agent Walker in, "Marina or John come lead the way."
I turn my lumen on and walk out into the hallway, lighting it up for the others. I look up to light hook and am stunned to silence.
"What the hell! Where is she?" Nine yells, walking around the corner, "I was about to kill that b****!" Special Agent Walker is gone.
"I'm really sorry guys! It looked like you guys needed helped and I didn't think she would be able to get off the light hook." Sarah says, looking nervously at Nine. I step protectively towards her.
"It's ok Sarah," I say comforting her. Marina, Six, and Ella nod supportingly.
All of a sudden I hear a huge blast, followed by a tremor that shakes the whole hallway. We all look around franticly, looking for an attack that isn't coming.
"Lets get out of here now," Eight says. I turn to lead the way.
"Wait!" Six yells, " Sarah said Sam is in this facility as well, we have to rescue him!"
I silently berate myself for not thinking of Sam earlier. "Six is right, we have to rescue Sam, and when we look for him, we can look for our ship as well." I say to the group. I look around and see that everyone agrees, and then I turn to lead us down the hallway.
We run down hallway after hallway, not seeing anyone. It seems as if this whole wing has been as been evacuated. We make our way towards what we think is the other side of the base.
We run down a long hallway that has glass walls, I see a long shooting range directed away from us on either side. Anger sweeps over me. "Looks like the military has been having some fun with their Mog cannons," I shout over my shoulder. Everyone behind me looks at the targets down the range, it is obvious that bullets didn't make all the charred red blast marks.
As we near the end of the hallway, I hear marching troops and I stop abruptly. Marina walks into me, probably still looking down the ranges. "Oh, I'm sorry," Marina says to me shyly. She quickly glances at Eight. I see that her cheeks are bright red and realize she's checking to see if he noticed.
"Guys," I say to get their attention, then whisper, "Human soldiers in front of us. What should we do?" I see Nine tilt his head sideways, probably using his super hearing to figure out exactly what is going on in front of us.
"There are 300 soldiers, Special Agent Walker is ordering 200 to block this entrance into the other wing, 50 soldiers to secure the perimeter of the wing, and 50 soldiers to go capture the Garde who released the prisoner," Nine tells us, everybody but me looks at him confused.
"What are you talking about?" Six demands, "We don't have time for nonsense."
"Easy there sweetheart," Nine says grinning, "It's not a joke, I have super-hearing."
He winks at six, and I feel my heart flutter. I realize I'm jealous at someone else showing interest in Six. I immediately look towards Sarah who is staring at me and feel guilt. She smiles at me, and I try to smile back but it feels forced.
"Wait! That means Number Five must be here too! That must have been the explosion we heard, there was a fight in the other wing!" Ella exclaims excitedly.
"And Sam must have escaped." Six whispers, worry in her eyes, clearing thinking of the 50 soldiers headed away from us. "Lets go kill those soldiers and meet up with Sam and Five!"
As soon as Six says it, a look of horror strikes her face, and that horror is mirrored on every face. Well, except maybe Nines. We all realize it, the only way we can rescue our friends is to kill human soldiers. These humans are just doing their job, protecting and serving their country as they are ordered to.
Nine shakes his head angrily, "Lorien, and our own people are our first priority! The Mogadorians stand between our home and us. The humans sided with the Mogadorians; therefore they also stand between our home and us! They are our enemy." I can't help but notice he slightly falters on his last sentence. Even Nine doesn't want to kill humans.
"No. We are hopelessly outnumbered against the Mogadorians. We need to win over the support of the humans and we will never do that by killing them. We have to show them whatever the Mogadorians have told them about us is not true." I say to the group. Everybody agrees, even Nine, although somewhat grudgingly. "Ok we will need everybody for this, Nine and Eight, you can pull their guns away from them, meanwhile Six, Marina and I will stop the bullets."
"Such a wuss, Fire-Boy." Nine says to me.
I ignore him. BK, do you want to go scout ahead and see where the soldiers are? I communicate to BK, using my animal telepathy that I also developed in a life or death situation. BK runs down the hallway, jumps up in the air, and before falling, he turns into a fly. He disappears around the corner.
We start down the hallway and turn the corner, leaving the ranges behind. Sarah comes up to walk beside me and I whisper, "Sarah please get behind me when we face the soldiers, I couldn't bear…" I trail off, not finishing my sentence but she understands. She stops me, reaches up and kisses me on the mouth. I melt in her arms, I never want this kiss to stop. It is like we never left Paradise. I can't help the thought forming in my head right now, is there someone else I would rather be kissing? I can't help it because I was so worried about Six, and I am so happy that she is ok.
"Lets go lovebirds!" Nine says with a grin. I turn to lead the way again, and feel my cheeks burn, I know Six saw us kiss. We no longer need my lumen because all of the lights are on in this wing and I know from the snigger behind me they can see how red my cheeks are.
Just then BK flies around the corner and turns back into his preferred beagle form. Take the next left; the soldiers are waiting behind the huge double doors. They are the only doors into a massive room that stores helicopters and tanks. Then there is only one set of doors on the other side, which leads farther into the wing. There is no way around them. Oh and they have the tanks aimed at the door. I quickly thank BK and relay the information to the group.
We run down the hallway and take a left where BK indicated. At the end of the hallway we see the double doors. We slow down as we approach them. "What are we going to do about the tanks?" Marina asks nervously?
"Flip them upside down!" Nine says excitedly like he is a little kid about to open his Christmas presents.
I put a hand on each door, ready to swing them open. "Everybody ready?" I ask. Then, all of a sudden, there is a huge blast and the sound of a rocket. Frantically, I turn away from the doors as an explosion sounds behind me.
