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~TWO~
Time Machine? Switch-o-Matic?
Dan couldn't believe his eyes.
How could Isabel be out of jail?
He blinked a few times to make sure that the evilly-grinning, perfume-scented, and parent-murdering, woman standing in front of him wasn't Isabel. Of course, he failed at that.
Isabel seemed to notice that Dan was trying so hard not to believe it, because her grin got wider.
"Wondering why I'm out of jail?" she asked.
Dan was trying to act strong and brave, but failed at that too.
He heard someone panting behind him, and then the panting stopped short. He heard a few more breaths do the same. Dan turned around to see Amy, the Kabras, Jonah, Alistair, the Holts, Fiske, and Nellie.
Isabel looked up and smiled at them all. Her eyes did this trick that made everyone in range of her sight; made time stop and everyone freeze. Her eyes swallowed everyone whole.
"Mother," Ian said, shocked and angry, "What are you doing here? How did you escape?" He glared at her. Dan saw Natalie shrink beside Ian.
Dan looked at her sympathetically. So did everyone else. No one can ever forget that moment in the gauntlet where Isabel shot Natalie in the foot.
Natalie looked back at Dan. Her eyes went wide and she shrank back even more.
Dan turned around and met Isabel's eyes, which got even closer to him. He backed away and hid behind Amy and Nellie, who went in front of him protectively.
Isabel smiled evilly.
"Oh I was just around the area," she said.
Hamilton barked a laugh.
"What kind of person happens to be around this area?"
Dan looked at Hamilton. He was trying to act tough, but there was a hint of fear in his eyes. Dan looked at the rest of his family. This was probably the longest time that the Holts were quiet. This was probably the only time they were quiet.
Isabel gave Hamilton a death stare.
"Being a smart aleck, huh?" she said. "Well on my list, the punishment for that is burning at the stake, so I suggest you shut your mouth."
Hamilton put his head down.
"Nobody talks to my son that way!" Eisenhower said. His face turned red because of anger. He charged forward.
Isabel's grin resurfaced on her perfect face and she stared calmly at him. She didn't care that she was about to get tackled; she merely raised a hand in front of his face.
Eisenhower stopped short.
"I wouldn't dare," Isabel said. She snapped her fingers together.
Dan waited. So did everyone else.
Sinead chuckled. "Okay, what was that supposed to do? Bring us to our doom?"
Isabel's smile got even wider.
"My, you're quite a bright young child," she said. "I'm surprised you didn't figure it out yet Fiske."
Fiske's eyes went wide.
"Everyone close together!" he ordered. "She's a Vesper!"
Isabel laughed evilly. Then all Tomas backup entered the cave. They were poised to shoot at Isabel.
"Think you can stop me with," she looked disgustedly at the Tomas, "those barbaric idiots?" she laughed again. Then there was a rumble.
"D-d-d-id you hear that?" Amy whispered to Dan.
"It's coming from the walls," he whispered back.
BOOOOOOOM!
People in dark clothing charged out of the walls. The entire metal interior Dan once touched disappeared.
"Meet the Vespers!" Isabel yelled.
The Tomas charged after the Vespers, but they were all wiped out in thirty seconds. They closed up the cave leaving all the Cahills in shock and fear.
Isabel pressed some buttons and the room started to rise.
"What's going on?" Nellie asked. She was squished between two Vespers. She looked at
"We're going for a little trip down memory lane," Isabel said. "Is everyone familiar with sabotage?" All of the Cahills in the room looked at each other in fear. "Good," Isabel said. "Because that's exactly what I have in store for you today."
The Vespers all took out dart guns.
Where did that come from? Dan thought.
"Dan!" Amy yelled. The Vesper that was holding her shot her and the dart buried itself into her skin. The same thing happened to the rest of Cahills.
Dan was hit with the dart soon enough. His vision went blurry and he felt weakness wash over him.
"Nighty night," Isabel whispered softly.
Nellie opened her eyes in a daze. She hasn't felt this tired since the grueling training she had to do to defeat the Vespers.
Vespers Nellie thought.
She forced her eyes open and scanned her location. Beakers and cylinders. Bunsen Burners and complicated machinery. The Ekaterina Laboratory.
Nellie moved her hands to stand up, but she felt ropes wrapped around her hands and her legs.
"I see you're awake," a familiar voice said.
Isabel.
Nellie looked up into the cold and grey eyes that Amy and Dan's parents probably once looked into. They were the eyes of a murderer and one heck of a heartless person.
"What do you want?" Nellie said more fearful than brave. Nellie noted Dan, Amy and everyone else tied with ropes beside her in a long line. Except Jonah who was tied firmly into his wheelchair. They were all awake, but they looked like they were struggling to keep their eyes open.
"We were just waiting for you to wake up," Isabel said. "We were just about to perform our very important mission, but we wanted everyone to witness our success. Be thankful."
Isabel walked across the room to a large machine that had buttons, levers, and many wires. Some of the wires were connected to a large gun. There was a larger machine that had a curved metal ring-like thing connected to a computer. It stood next to a large lever a couple of sizes down from the machine.
"Behold," Isabel said and pointed to the large gun, "The Switch-o-Matic. And this," Isabel walked to the large metal ring, "This is a new Vesper improved device called a time machine."
Sinead, Ned, Ted, and Alistair all gasped in surprise.
"You're bluffing," Sinead said. "There's no way that you built a time machine. The Ekats haven't even been able to build one!"
"You're not the only geniuses around!" Isabel boasted. "If the Vespers built a time machine before you Ekats did, then that just proves how much smarter we are."
Isabel walked over to the time machine.
"Activate it," she told one of the Vespers.
One of them walked over to the machine it was attached to and pulled a giant lever. A sudden gust of wind whirled around everyone's heads. Amy had to close her eyes.
"Mum, what's going on?" yelled Ian over the noise of the wind.
"My plan is going into action!" Isabel yelled. "Push them in!"
The Vespers took one Cahill each and led them in front of the time machine. Amy indicated a portal with weird shapes and confusing objects floating around. The Vespers made a line with Jonah first. The Vesper holding him was about to push him in when Fiske kicked the Vesper holding him in the shin.
"Take that!" Fiske yelled. The other Vespers ran over letting go of their Cahill prisoner. The rest was pandemonium.
Natalie took off one of her heels and used it to sword fight with one of the Vespers, the Holts all battled recklessly in professional combat, Dan and Amy used their new self-defense skills against the Vespers, and the Starlings and Alistair helped protect Jonah by throwing beakers and graduated cylinders at the enemy.
Hamilton was thrown into the far wall where the Starlings and Alistair stood guard in front of Jonah. He knocked down the Switch-o-Matic off its stand. The gun fell off and discharged its beams, pointed and aimed directly at Amy.
Ian, who had seen it happen first, dived in to rescue her.
"Amy no!" Ian yelled. Amy turned around in awareness, but Ian was too late. The second he got a hold on Amy's arm, the beam from the Switch-o-Matic hit both her and Ian together. They both hit the ground head first and unconscious.
"Push them into the portal!" Isabel yelled. Two of the Vespers carried them off to the portal and pushed them in.
"Amy!" Dan yelled and raced after his sister. But apparently, the Switch-o-Matic wasn't done shooting its beams, for as Dan went after Amy, he slammed into Natalie just as the beam hit him, affecting them both. They fell to the ground and Isabel ordered for them to be pushed inside the portal as well.
"My, my," Isabel said. "And I thought I had trained my children better than this." Isabel clicked her tongue as Natalie and Dan were pushed inside the portal.
Sinead ran out of things to throw at the enemies, so the Vespers grabbed her and Jonah easily. The beam hit both of them next as Sinead held onto Jonah's shoulder for support. They fell unconscious and were thrown into the portal.
Time to take action, Nellie thought as Eisenhower and Broderick were hit with the gun next and thrown into the portal. Mary-Todd was so desperate to save her husband's life that she jumped into the portal after him.
Nellie fought with all the remaining Vespers. She watched from the corner of her eyes Reagan and Ted get hit with the gun, then Madison and Ned. Alistair and Hamilton got lucky and was able to dodge the beam of the Switch-o-Matic, but was still thrown inside the portal, with Ned, Ted, Reagan, and Madison.
Fiske and I are the only ones left Nellie reflected.
Beside her, Fiske was busy taking down the Vespers with her. Isabel took out a gun and shot him. He fell to the ground with a scream of pain.
"Sir!" Nellie yelled out. She abandoned the Vespers and ran to Fiske. He was more important.
"Forget about me. Finish them!" He cried.
Isabel walked over and overshadowed them. She held out the gun in front of Nellie and pulled the trigger. Nellie cried out in pain.
"Handle the rest of it," Isabel ordered, not caring at all that two people were in agonizing pain. She walked out into the elevator. She blew a kiss to Nellie and Fiske before the elevator doors closed.
Two Vespers dragged Nellie and Fiske towards the portal.
Must get up, Nellie told herself. Must fight.
But Nellie was bleeding too much to do anything about the situation.
The Vespers threw them inside the portal. The last thing Nellie saw before she blacked out were the same cold grey eyes of the Vespers, much like Isabel Kabra's.
There you go! Expect the next chapter sooner than this one was posted. R&R!
~Blue
