Authors note thingymawhatsit: Hey awesome-people-who-have-reviewed and not-as-awesome-but-still-pretty-awesome-people who haven't. What have you all being up to lately? I have been dragged around a shopping centre to buy clothes I'll never wear...and avoiding doing school work. But good news is tomorrow is our last day of school! For two weeks then we go back again for another 10 weeks, isn't our life amazing? Then when we leave school we get to go to another school and then go to work. How exciting is that?
"Mr Malpense," Nero said, "I am finding this hard to believe. You say you had a dream and somehow was transported to this base place?"
Otto moved his feet, "Guys, remember when I almost died," Everyone nodded and Laura winced, "And I said it felt like I was being stored in the back of someones mind? Well, I think I was in Julia's mind and somehow we have a psychic connection." Before anyone could interrupt him Otto continued, "There was something I didn't tell you though, wherever I was, it had a computer. The most powerful computer I've ever seen." Otto's face looked like he had found heaven.
"Wait," Nero said, "you think there is others who have computers in their heads?"
Otto nodded eagerly, "I've felt it before, just walking past someone on the street and feeling like we had this connection or something. Only this time it was stronger and I felt again, when I had the dream."
Laura was about to say something when a guard burst into the office. He was breathing heavily and looked as if he had run a marathon.
"There's a...There's a," He sputtered, "there's an unidentified shroud coming straight for us at a, well a very fast speed."
Nero paused, he looked as if he couldn't decide what to do. He looked at Otto.
"She knows we didn't do it," Otto said hurriedly, "if she did she wouldn't have told me she was coming here, right Raven?" He turned to the asassin, looking for confirmation.
Raven nodded slowly, "I believe Malpense is correct. I do not think Julia would have told him if she thought we were responsible."
Nero nodded, "I hope the two of you are right," He looked at the guard, "Let it land and please escort her here."
The guard nodded and hurried off.
10 Minutes Later:
Julia looked like she usually did, emotionless, by the time she had entered the office, minus the guard. Automatically she took in her surroundings, identified everyone in the room and rated their risk factor to her if something happened. She also found three possible ways of escape.
The guard came running into the office, he glanced nervously at Nero.
"Sorry sir, I did try to follow her." He said quickly, "But she umm, dissapeared?"
Nero sighed and waved for the guard to leave. He stared at Julia, a questioning look on his face.
Julia shrugged, "I memorised the blueprints for H.I.V.E years ago. I doubt even you know all of the passageways around here."
Nero looked shocked, they must have used 40 different companys to build H.I.V.E, how could she have found them all? She nodded in greeting at the other people in the room, Nero's office, she guessed correctly.
"You must be Nero," Julia extended a hand to him. Nero shook it a little tentatively. "Otto, Wing, Laura, Shelby, Raven."
There was an awkward silence for a few minutes. It was broken by the door opening. Dimitri walked through and pointed at Otto.
"Will you plese tell H.I.V.E mind that I am not planning on leaving and giving up H.I.V.E's location to anybody? I only just persauded him to let me out of ou, my room" he corrected himself. Ever since the council had vited to let them all go he had been living at H.I.V.E and had become the self-defence teacher for most of the school. Noticing Julia he turned to her with a slighty shocked expression, "And you, what are you doing here?"
"Toby's gone," Julia replied, her voice sounded like it was about to crack.
"So, I wasn't dreaming then?" Otto asked.
Julia shook her head and sighed, "I told him it was a bad idea."
"What was?" Laura butted in.
She sighed, "Storing Otto so his body could heal at an advanced rate, what else?"
Everyone looked confused and Julia rolled her eyes.
"When I stored Otto in my head it created a link between us," she explained.
Everybody just looked even more confused.
"What's a link?" Nero asked.
Julia muttered something under her breath in russian and both Raven and Dimitri had to cover smiles. Then she bagan to explain what a link was.