I rocked slowly back and forth, hugging my knees to my chest, just sitting on the tall, flat rock; thinking. After all, I had dubbed this place My Thinking Spot, the place I always retreat to when I needed to collect my thoughts, or generally be on my own for a while. I appreciated Ky and Boomer's concern for me, but their incessant nearness could become almost suffocating at times and that was when I would escape to my own private space. Collecting my silver heart pendent in the palm of my hand, I gently stroked the smooth silver metal, which, in all honesty, did absolutely nothing to help.

Thinking. What good was it doing? I had lost someone that meant so much to me and I'm determined to get them back. But what's thinking really going to do to help me? All it does is bring horrible thoughts to surface. He's probably somewhere far away by now. Unreachable. Is he scared? Hurting? I don't even know. I'm not even sure I want to know in fear of my heart exploding in guilt. I haven't seen him in over a week. One whole week and then some. I closed my eyes. Mediating doesn't work, it just brings back the memory and I don't want to see it, I just want bury it, keep it hidden, hidden forever in a place no-one will find it.

Try to stay whelmed. That's becoming much more difficult by the day. At first I was inconsolable, completely unreachable by anyone other than the pleading, begging voice of my baby sister. Though I've been released from my comatose state- which, in all truth, was actually terrifying for both myself and my friends- the pain I was feeling seems to have increased ten-fold, and continually builds with every passing day.

Trying to message him via my phone, X-Com and X-Reader doesn't work. I'm quickly losing hope. I no longer wait next to my phone, actually clutching it in my sweaty palm and staring down at it, hanging on the small, almost impossible chance that it would ring. He lied. He said it would was always work, anywhere in the world. He made it, he hacked in to our X-Readers, and added it on just like apps on your phones, you can text by typing or voice. Or otherwise displays your position, something handy in case we, meaning, the team, ever get separated. But because of me, he'd only put it on our X-Readers. Ky and Boomer's, Ekayon's and Team Tiro's, they have to wait for however long it take to find him, because we will find him. I will make sure we do. I won't give up on him. I'll never do that because I know if it were me, he wouldn't give up either.

"We can't you just tell me where you are?" I thought aloud. Why? Why did he have to go anyway? It's my problem, not his. If I went, Lokar would leave the team alone, he wouldn't hurt them. Now he has Josh, who knows what he'll do. I don't want anybody getting hurt over me. But obviously, that's inevitable. Somebody's always going to get hurt and it's always going to be my fault.

I shook my head, cursing myself, cursing how much danger I put everyone in. Nobody can ever understand how much it sucks. What's more I know all of my friends would do exactly what Josh did to protect me. Why can't they understand? It would break me more to loose them. I mean, seriously why the hell would he risk himself for me. I wouldn't want anyone to and by now, he should know that.

My X-Reader beeped. I ignored it. Kairu isn't important any more. What was important was Josh. My comrade. One of my best friends. The very same person who's present fate was unknown. I had a horrible, nagging sensation that I was forgetting something important, something really important. I can assure you that it is one of the most irritating feelings in existence... My brain flew into overdrive as I attempted to piece together my memory. One in particular sparked. Wait? Hang on a second... I'm the only one on the team that has GPS, only me and... JOSH! I yelped loudly, scratching my arm across the rough surface of the rock in my haste.

I fumbled with my belt, trying to unclip my X-Reader and nearly dropping it in the process. I looked down at it; my X-Reader was giving me Josh's GPS signal, exactly like I hoped. "Yes!" I exclaimed, looking up at the sky and silently thanking someone, anyone who could hear me. I even thanked the sun and the moon and the stars in the night sky. I thanked everything just for the sake of it. "Josh, you're bloody amazing! Trust your hacker skills! If you dare turn your X-Reader off I swear when we find you, I'm going to kick your ass."

I jumped up from my previous position on the rock, lightly landing on the ground, stared up at the clear blue sky and whispered thank you for the hundredth time before I started to sprint out of the clearing. "Ky, Boomer! Guy's!" I yelled happily, even though I knew they wouldn't be able to hear me at this point in time. They weren't going to believe this! I couldn't even believe it myself. Out of sheer undiluted joy, I performed a small flip, bouncing over as easily as one might find walking.

"Hello there, Maya. You seem very happy toady."

I paused mid-step and quickly spun around, my leg sweeping in a big arc, striking out at Vexus, who expertly dodged. I was facing three incredibly creepy triplets. They who should not be named. I did a double-take. "The Hiverax." I silently cursed, managing to inconspicuously retreat a couple of steps. The more space we have between us, the better. Just my luck to get these guys. "What do you want?" You're wasting my time. I don't need to deal with you.

They gave me a creepy grin. I definitely had better things to do then stand here and listen to their usual monologue. "You're… coming… with us." It was unusually quick as the brothers finished each other's sentences, as usual. God that's irritating. Wait a minute... how do know they know where we live, and how did they even know where I am?

I snapped my attention back to reality, my thoughts on the how's and why's will have to wait. "Seriously? That doesn't get annoying, not even a teensy bit?" I asked, holding my thumb and forefinger millimetres apart, stalling them, buying as much time as I possibly could, slowly edging away.

"No…not…at all." They said, advancing a couple of steps, taking away some of the distance I had so precariously placed between us.

I groaned, resisting the over-whelming urge to face-palm. "You should know already that there's no way in hell I'll ever go with you." I replied, beginning to walk backwards, keeping my eyes on them. I needed to get out of there and fast. If they initiate a Kairu Challenge, they wouldn't be nice enough to wait for me to accept, similarly, they could just plainly attack me, either situation was not ideal, with only myself against them I could expect a very thorough beating. And I definitely couldn't have anything stand in my way. Not now. Not when we're so close to bringing Josh back.

"Come on! They have to ruin everything!" A voice shrieked. I twirled around again, behind me were the Radikor. For gods sake! There goes my escape route...

"Aww, man!" I groaned, kicking the ground in frustration. "The Hiverax and The Radikor, just what I need." I commented under her breath. "Wait, again with the knowing exactly were I am thing, they must be stalking me because this is just getting creepy and extremely unrealistic, next thing I know Diara is going to be inviting me to a sleepover." I shook my head at that thought. Now that, that was near impossible to even imagine.

I was surrounded by the two E-teen teams. Now what's Plan B? ... I haven't got one. Plan C? Nada. D? Stop freaking questioning, if I haven't got a plan B I don't have a freaking plan D! Just play it out I guess and as always, run. Run like there's no tomorrow, because, in all honesty, there probably won't be a tomorrow for me if I'm captured. Not to be the the little ray of sunshine on this rather stormy situation. Or alternatively... I gave a quick, unnoticed scan of the trees. There wasn't a single branch hanging low enough for me to grab. Or I could not climb a tree. That's fine. Perfectly fine. It's not like my life depends on it or anything. "Lokar sent us to get her, not you freaks!" Zane yelled. I was standing right in the middle, watching them argue over me. I wondered whether I should be flattered, it certainly sounded like I should be, but I had to prioritise on escaping.

I tried to discretely back away into the forest but Techris happened to glance over at that point so I stopped and tried my best to look innocent, sheepishly rubbing the back on my neck as I would always to draw attention away from myself. It didn't work. Then, just to put salt on the already extremely bad and bloody wound, my X-Com came to life and I heard Ky's voice. "Maya, we've got another Kairu deposit, get back to the X-Scaper, quickly!"

And we are witnessing another moment of Ky Stax's legendary bad timing, something which he has become quite famous for, other than his complete dare-devilish stupidity, of course. I raised my arm to my mouth, pressed the small button on the X-Com and began to talk back. "Ky, I'm kinda in a situation here, you need to get me outta it like n… Kyah! Let me go!" Zane had snatched my wrist and was trying to drag me to his team. I pulled against him, but he had a few factors that were helping. One being the fact that he was an alien, two being that he was a boy and slightly stronger than me, I hate to admit. Although I'd defiantly kick his ass in a fist-fight.

"You're coming with us, to Lokar's lair; he has big plans for you, Maya." He sneered. Zane hadn't realised he'd been pressing down on the button and Ky could hear absolutely everything he said. Although Ky wasn't letting on, he didn't want Zane to know he was coming. Oh, he'd have hell to pay when Ky shows up. He's gunna kick some alien ass.

"Bite me, dickhead." I retorted launching an explosive kick at his gut. Zane screamed out in pain clutching his stomach and releasing my arm. I examined my wrist, there was a light red mark from where he had been holding on so tightly. I could hear Ky's muffled laughter, he had probably clamped his hand over his mouth to stop any noise escaping. I could hear thuds and had a feeling he was running somewhere.

"Zane!" Zair cried. "You're going to pay for that!"

I wasn't going to give her the chance to make me pay, I pivoted on my heels and sprinted away. I had a feeling I'd just made the situation ten times worse. Kudos to me. "GET BACK HERE, YOU LITTLE BITCH!" Techris shouted after me, already springing into pursuit.

"No chance!" I replied disappearing into the trees with the E–teen's hot on my heels. I glanced over my shoulder, the distance between us was lengthening, I was doing it, I was getting away. Unfortunately, as it just so happened, I wasn't looking in the direction that mattered most and slid over on the muddy grass. I landed ungracefully on my back, winded. "Ow." I moaned, before springing back up, attempting to regain ground. I knew they were close, much closer than before.

Great, just great. I had to go and Jinx myself. Well done Maya, ten out of freaking ten.

I could hear something else, on the other side of the line, Ky was shouting something, it was muffled though, completely unintelligible to me. Whatever it was I could hear someone else screaming back. Help was coming. I just needed to hold back the E-Teens until it arrived.

Thank you for reading this I hope you enjoyed it! Please feel free to review it would help a lot! I do not own Redakai, but I do own the plot and my OC's Josh and Aliya. Again thanks for reading!