I dove behind the nearest car, breathing hard. Why does this ALWAYS happen to me? I swear I'm going to hurt something! I thought to myself, peaking my head around the side of the car to see if the robot was still there. My plasma gun still in my hand ready to fire if it was still there, though after my day I really don't care if it was there.

I was wearing my black and blue combat jacket with the upper right pocket full with Energy Disrupting Bombs, or EDB for short. My shoulder pocket had my com-device that was attuned to a frequency that only the remaining humans could hear. My hair was pulled back into a semi-neat ponytail; the sun glistened off my almost teal eyes onto my tan skin. Sitting at five feet five inches, it wasn't exactly easy to hide behind objects. My blue eyes were probably glistening in the sunlight. I sighed and peaked around the car again to see if my pursuer was still after me.

How are you doing Aqualin? A familiar thought brushed mine, ever since the accident both Kaitlyn and me were linked mentally. It was very useful at times but other times it was annoying. The accident was something that I wish that I were able to forget. This happened a few months before the Assimilation even began to happen.

Dr. Cardi just finished his new diabolical machine. It was designed to take the thoughts of one and put those thoughts into another. Kaitlyn and myself were there first because Kelly had issues considering an issue at school so she was late. Kaitlyn and me have worked together for almost two years, so because of that we could fight almost in sync. We took the guards out quite easily. But just as we reached the machine something must have hit us, because everything went black after that.

I was the first to wake up. I nudged Kaitlyn who was in the seat behind me. She then came around, quickly surveying my surroundings I found to my dismay that we were strapped in. I couldn't reach any of my equipment nor could Kaitlyn. Out of the shadows came Dr. Cardi, nice of you two to drop in. Like the seats?"

Rolling my eyes I replied snappily," yeah they are nice but I could do without the restraints." I tried to wiggle my body around but that didn't work quiet well. Though by accident I elbowed Kaitlyn who yelped.

Dr. Cardi just sat back and laughed at our frustration," well you'll only be there for another few minutes. You're currently strapped to my thought transfer device. I know the title is mundane but I'll get a better one… later. I'm sure that Valael never told you what this does."

Kaitlyn rolled her eyes," let me guess. You're going to use it to get all the top researchers into every field. Then use your combined intelligences, that for the record you STOLE. To figure out how to kidnap the president's daughter and hold for ransom for millions or billions of dollars?" She asked sarcastically.

Dr. Cardi was stunned," fine you guessed my plan, but what you didn't know that I can use the machine to not only take thoughts/ thought patterns from people. But it can also implant patterns." He played with his finger that was sooooo old school villain. "With that power, I'm going to turn you two girls evil and then after that we can destroy PHD and steal their technology!"

I yawned after his big speech," you done yet? I've got homework to do." Yup, that was going to tick him off.

Dr. Cardi was steaming mad and switched the machine on. I got pulled back into my seat and started shaking. My eyes started to close, but I tried to hang on for both me and then before I thought I was going to cross over into the realm of unconsciousness I heard a loud explosion. I turned my head weakly and saw the outline of Kelly. I muttered quietly," just on time like usual."

I watched he as she charged Dr. Cardi on her hoverboard. She jumped off at the last moment and the board slammed into him. He got back on his feet and charged Kelly; she easily sidestepped his attack and elbowed him. Which caused him to face-plant, "heh… that's going to hurt." I said weakly. Then PHD agents swarmed in surrounding the complex and arrested Dr. Cardi.

I looked up and saw Kelly running over to us her eyes must have been filled with worry. Since she was shaking when she finally untied me. I stood up shaking and collapsed into her outstretched arms. The last thing I heard was," hurry up! We need to get them both to PHD headquarters! They aren't too well!" Before I moved onto the realm of unconsciousness.

I woke up in a startle; I looked around and then relaxed when I found myself in PHD's medical care unit. Everything was a little bit foggy for me. What happened after that explosion? I thought to myself looking down at my hands.

A faint, yet familiar feeling came across me. I've got no idea, but since when could we talk to each other in our thoughts?

I panicked and looked around to see if anyone else was in the room. All I saw was Kaitlyn and she was lying down on her back. Kait… Kaitlyn? Is that you? Being unsure of how to do get it across I just projected around myself.

Yeah it's me, but I'd like to know how this happened. She replied while adding the emotion of confused. She got up a few minutes after that last message and sat up legs bent back, leaning on one side. Her brown hair was in a lower ponytail versus my brownish black hair that was half way down at my back and all messed up.

Then Kelly came in, still in her spy-suit," how are you girls doing? You've been out for about eight hours."

"Eight hours? There is no way that I'll be ready for school in time!" I almost shouted and started to get up but then ended back on the bed. Kelly put her hand on my shoulder to make sure I stayed there.

"No, you are staying here. You took quite a beating, besides Valael almost required that both of you stay here until tomorrow. That goes for you also Kaitlyn."

A loud explosion knocked me out of my trace, I peaked my head out and I saw that the conversion robot, a smaller build around four feet tall. It had a bunch of syringes strapped across it's shoulder. Their hand wasn't the usual gun but they closely resemble human hands. The conversion robots were usually either silver or gold and quite quick unfortunately. But the only good news is that their armor is quite weak. But to my luck it brought two restraint robots with him. The restraint robot on the other hand are roughly six feet tall, colored either red or black and has a tranquilizing gun usually strapped against the back. The hands were more robotic, no pun intended in nature. With the two "figures" on top and one on bottom, they fit almost perfectly into an unfortunate human's shoulder. Great! Just what I need, more trouble! I jumped up from my spot and fired three bursts of plasma bullets into the back of the conversion robot.

Then a humanoid figure came at on a hoverboard, I was prepared to shoot when the figure shot at one of the attack robots. Are you really that paranoid that you are going to shoot at anything that comes your way? Kaitlyn sent me with a happy emotion tagged along after it.

No, only when you startle me like that. I sent back a bit snappy and silly at the same time. I jumped out and extended my hand blades. I know they are old fashioned but they get the job done quite nicely. I sent at her quickly after the last one before she could return it with a smart remark. And quickly slashed through the armor of the remaining robot like it was sushi.

Woah, I wasn't going to say anything… Ok maybe I was. Now get on before they come back. She shot back at me grinning. I sighed and gave her the I'll deal with you later look. Then got on, she drove us back to the base, which was unfortunately the school. The only reason that it's safe is because E.O.M.S knows better not to attack with the entire resistance, which consists of 4,000 solders, 1,000 scientist, and another 1,500 civilians from every nation. We arrived and after getting security clearance we entered.

I went to the room that Kaitlyn, Kelly, and myself share. Kaitlyn decided to give me a break and took the nano-bot vials that I picked up earlier to the scientist, then give the update to the head of the resistance. Kelly was already there painting her nails, by the looks of it she did some martial arts training while I had the joy of scouting for any other survivors. "Hey Kelly, what's up?" I asked walking over to my bed after putting my plasma gun up.

"Nothing much, got tested by the nerd herd again. Then did some martial arts training. Now I'm just relaxing before I go out and help with the training of some of the civilians." She replied groaning at the end. None of us like helping training because half of the time the ones that DO show up are complete and utter klutz.

I looked at my watch, I groaned and dragged myself up," I'm supposed to go visit the R&D team now. But after that last mission I'm going to pass. Besides speaking of passing, I'm about ready to pass out, I'm so tired." I got undressed and put my PJ's on. I climbed into my bed and laid on top staring at Kelly.

She looked back at me; I could see that the irregular sleep schedule and the stress of technically being in charge were getting to her. "I wish that we could go back to how life used to be. When we lived in harmony with the A.I's"

I rotated and stared up at the ceiling and sighed," I do too. But we just have to remember that we have to stay strong for everyone. Besides it's not every day that three high school girls run the last resistance for the human race." I laughed. The chain of command is somewhat crazy. To the soldiers and the R&D team, Kaitlyn, Kelly, and myself are the leaders. But to keep the civilians happy we have "George" in charge. But we still report to him so that way he can track the progress. The only reason that is because to be quite honest, is that we are more useful in the front lines. "You're not the only one Kelly. No one would be counting the days till they become one of… them," I replied almost choking on the last word," families wouldn't be separated and the living conditions would be better. But we need to keep fighting so we fix the wrong E.O.M.S has cause us."

Kelly got up, her nail polish dried and stretched. "You get some sleep Aqualin. I'll go take care of the R&D team. You've earned it." She left the room leaving me all alone.

E.O.M.S, the start of this chaos, the creator of this war… Every Organic Must Serve is the extended name. If only we had seen this coming. PHD, Protection of Human Development, the spy organization I work for… if we still had them this war would be a lot different.

Sighing, I got under the blankets and snuggled in after getting comfortable in my bed, I fell asleep. To tired to even think about doing anything else. My dreams took me back to how this living hell started. Though I wish that I could have stopped this before it even started…