Summers' P.O.V
I stood, examining myself if the mirror, I wore a long red sleeved top with matching short shorts, my shoes were black trainers with red patterns, my hair was down, without the wig, so it was my natural brown colour, my brown eyes shone back at me, sometimes I wonder why I ever let Team Darkness know that Oris wasn't my real name.
A knock came at my door, I muttered a 'come in', it was faint and quiet but the person heard it. I looked in the mirror to see who it was; my face fell into confusion when I didn't recognise the person at all.
"Hey Summer," she said, she wore a blue short sleeved top with blue trousers, her trainers were black with blue patterns, I turned to her, my face still full of confusion.
"Who are you?" I asked, she smiled at me, brown eyes shone into my own, her hair was short but curly, it was a dark blue colour.
"My name's Ania, but you might know me as Abila," she said, my eyes went wide as I examined her.
"No way, how the hell?" I asked, she smiled at me.
"It's amazing what you can do with a wig, contacts, make up and a new wardrobe," she said, I studied her, then nodded my head.
"I'll say, what's your last name then?" I asked her, she smiled cheekily at me.
"I was wondering if I could use your last name," she said, I thought for a moment, Ania Cress, it had a ring to it, plus people would think we were sisters, I smiled widely at her.
"Welcome to the family sis," I said as I high fived her, Abila, or rather Ania, smiled widely.
"Well, let's go get our soldiers back," she said, I nodded as we left my room, I locked the door behind me before following her down the hall, we ended up outside Blazes' office, Ania sucked in her breath, I frowned as we entered.
"You two know your roles?" he asked, we nodded, he glared at us, "Then get to it, why did you come here if you knew?" he asked, I only glared at him.
"Well considering you're our boss, we figured it would be best to tell you, then you won't freak out," I answered, he glared at me; I shrugged as we walked out the door.
"What a dick," Ania said, I nodded in agreement with her, Blaze was a total bastard.
"meh, let's just get this over with," I said as we walked to the entrance of our hideout, because of the Rangers' little show, the scientists had made a cloaking barrier, so it was completely invisible to the human eye, unless you were in the team.
"I don't know how much longer I can put up with Blaze," Ania said as we got into the boat just outside the hide out, I walked forwards as she began steering the boat, hey I'm good at a lot of things, but when it comes to steering on land or water, well either way, you'll end up hurt.
"Tell me about it," I answered, Ania sighed.
"We have five Puzzle Pieces left to find," she stated, "Maybe we should just tell the Rangers where they are," she added, I sighed.
"I've thought of doing that, but unfortunately we can't," I answered; she gave me a quizzical look.
"How come?" she asked, her voice full of confusion, I had to resist rolling my eyes.
"Hello, we have no idea where they are," I said like it was obvious, well it pretty much was obvious, then again with Ania, you never know what goes on in her head. She laughed sheepishly as she scratched the back of her head, before sweat dropping.
"Oh yeah," she answered, this time I didn't resist anything, I face palmed, and to make it worse I was stood at the front of the boat, in other words, I just knocked myself off the boat. I heard laughing as I popped my head above the surface, I growled a little.
"You think this is funny?" I asked, Ania just looked at me over the boat.
"I'm not the one laughing, he is," she pointed to the shore, I followed her finger to see Ben stood there, with Kate and Keith, both the boys were laughing while Kate was looking at me confusedly.
"Oh man, I need a camcorder," Keith said as he tried to calm down, Kate hit him over the head before walking towards the water.
"Need a hand?" she asked, I took it as she pulled me out of the water, I sneezed once before wrapping my arms around myself, it wasn't a very warm day, plus I didn't have a jacket.
Ania ran to me as she placed her hand on my shoulder, her eyes held worry and fright that I had done something like that, honestly, even I was shocked. I felt something warm being wrapped around me; I looked at the Rangers to see Ben had placed a large blanket around me.
"Come on, we'll get you dried at the Union," he said, Ania and I nodded before we began walking towards the steps, Keith stopped for a second to study me.
"Aren't you the girl who came to see what a Ranger does, what was your name again?" he asked as he began muttering random words, "Susie? Sue? Sam? Something with an 'S'," he said, Ben almost face palmed.
"Summer," he stated, "Her name is Summer," he finished, Keith snapped his fingers.
"That's it," he said, Kate rolled her eyes, "Then who's this?" he asked looking at Ania.
"Ania Cress, she's my sister," I pointed out, Ben looked at us both.
"The only resemblance I see are your eyes," he said, Ania shrugged a little.
"I take after dad, she takes after mom," she said, I nodded as we entered the Union, I sneezed again, Ben looked at me, I think I saw worry in his eyes.
"Come on, this way," he said as he lead us up to the stairs to the rooms where they sleep, then up to where the Operators were, I saw the two soldiers that had been taken.
"Dears, we would be most delighted if you told us everything you knew about your hideout," Erma said, why was she being nice to them?
"Who are they?" Ania asked, knowing the answer already.
"They're two soldiers from Team Darkness, we took them as hostages, there's no way they'll get out of here until we let them go," Keith answered, I looked at Ania, she was thinking the same thing I was.
We walked with Keith, Kate and Ben to Hastings and Erma, we walked closer to the soldiers than any of the other three did, we flashed them a pocket knife from our pockets, we knew they already knew us, they got the message.
As we walked, I felt a hand grab my wrist.
'Show time,' I thought, Ania nodded as the two soldiers took our pocket knives, they spun us so our backs were to their chests, before holding the knives to our throats, we jolted a second before we let out a startled scream, everyone turned to look at us, their faces full of horror.
"No one move, or the two girls get it," the one that held Ania said, the other smirked as he dug the knife a little deeper into my skin, piercing the first layer, I winced a little bit.
"We're not joking," the one holding me said, I didn't move, my eyes held fake panic as we looked at the Rangers, Operators and Hastings and Erma, each one looking calm.
"Put the knife down," Ben ordered, our soldiers just laughed at him.
"Why would we listen to you?" they asked in sync, Erma frowned.
"Let them go," she said, I looked at her, who was she talking to? Them or the Rangers?
"Who're you talking to grandma?" the soldier holding Ania asked, Erma frowned.
"The Rangers, you two let the two girls go and you can leave, we won't go after you of follow you," she said, the two looked at each other before nodding, they pushed us forwards, I ended up being caught by someone, as they ran off. I looked up to see it was Ben that had caught me; I smiled faintly as I sneezed again.
"Ugh I hate this," I muttered as Ben set me down on the ground, I moved my hand to my neck, blood, very little blood, but still, blood, oh was that soldier gonna get it.
"You ok?" Ben asked at the same time Ania asked, I looked at them, Ania gasped as she saw the blood while Ben picked me up, I blushed.
"I can walk," I protested, but it fell on deaf ears as he took me to the infirmary, Ania, Kate, Keith, Erma and Hastings on our tail, I muttered curses as he set me down on a bed.
"Lift you head up," he ordered, I sighed but did as told, he frowned as he looked at the, probably, invisible cut on my neck, "It's not noticeable," he said, I nodded as I looked at Ania, she knew what I was thinking, and it wasn't 'cause of our powers. That reminds me, we need to visit the scientists when we get back, as I watched Hastings and Erma walk over to me, I felt something vibrate in my pocket, I gulped as I saw the caller was Blaze.
"Excuse me a minute," I said as I pressed the green phone, "Hello?" I asked, I heard a growl from the other line.
"Where are you? The other soldiers are back, why aren't you?" he asked, I almost groaned.
"Well, excuse me for being in the infirmary," I growled, there was silence; Ania must have known who I was talking to.
"I don't care if you're almost dying, we have a mission to complete and we will get it done, so get back over here now," he ordered, I growled again.
"Take a pair of tweezers an take the fucking stick out your ass, we'll come back when we want to," with that, I pressed the end call button, there was a brief silence until I heard clapping, I looked at Ania.
"I can't believe you just said that," she said, her face held shock and impressment, I smiled slightly before I looked at Hastings and Erma, "Excuse my language," I said as I looked at them, they only smiled at me.
"Don't mention it dear, now are you alright?" Erma asked, I looked at her.
"I'm perfectly fine, but Ania and I should head home now, we have a lot of things to discuss with our father," I said as Ania rolled her eyes, she began muttering curses under her breath.
"When can I hire a hit man?" she asked out of the blue, I looked at her in shock before I narrowed my eyes.
"Dya think if we could hire a hit man that I might have done it already?" I answered her with a question, she shrugged.
"I don't know, you are pretty forgetful," she stated, then smiled, "Like you forgot we had to go to the la-," I slapped my hand over her mouth.
"Yes I know we have to go to the library to brush up on our chemistry then we have to go to the chemistry lab to complete our project, we don't want anyone to know what we're doing remember?" I asked her, my eyes held the info she needed to know, it was something along the lines of 'shut-the-fuck-up-if-you-wanna-live-till-tomorrow'.
"Oh yeah, sorry, we we're off," she said, at that we walked out the door before running out the Union, I sighed as I looked at her, not to mention our boat was gone.
"Now what?" she asked, I shrugged.
"Hey, why you leaving so soon?" Ben asked as he appeared with a curious looking Kate next to him.
"We have an experiment to complete," I answered, he looked at the river.
"Looks like your boat's gone, we'll give you a ride if you want," he said as he and Kate caught two Staraptors, it was then that I noticed the Pichu sat on his shoulder, Ania cast a worried glance at me, I only looked at Ben and Kate.
"You're joking right? Ride on that?" I asked, Ben gave me a confused looked, while Kate frowned.
"You wanted to be a Pokemon Ranger right?" Ben asked, I gulped a little.
"Of course I did, I'm just….." I trailed off looking for something to say, "Scared of heights," I rushed; Ben gave me a confused look, but smiled at me.
"Don't worry, I'll be here, you won't fall," he assured me, I gulped, I wasn't scared of heights, but my heart was racing a thousand beats a minute, what the hell is wrong with me?
'Scared of heights my ass, I wonder if Summer really is Oris, she acts a lot like her,' I heard Kate think, I gulped slightly as I took Bens' hand, both from nervous of being found out and nervous about being on the back of a flying pokemon. Ania walked to Kate as she sat on the back of Kate, once Ben took off into the sky, I wrapped my arms around his waist before burying my head into his back, flying on a Hoverboard was way different, for one, YOU WERE SKATEBOARDING NOT SITTING DOWN!
'Kate's getting close to finding out who you are,' I heard Ania in my head; I almost sighed but stopped myself.
'Tell me about it, what am I meant to do?' I asked, I risked a glance at Ania, who was smirking.
'Not sure, stop coming to the Union as Summer for a while, by the way, you look very comfy there,' she answered, I turned my head to her, a full on death glare on my face, she flinched, 'Jheeze, stop being scary,' she said, I growled a little, the Pichu looked between us as we flew, I tried not to think that we were riding on a pokemon.
"Where'd you say you lived again?" Ben asked over the roaring wind, I looked at the back of his head.
"Shiver Camp," I answered, he nodded before motioning for his Staraptor to fly there, Kate followed with Ania behind us.
Once we were hovering above the snow in Shiver Camp I jumped off the pokemon.
"Sweet, sweet ground," I said as I placed my hand on the snow, "SWEET, SWEET COLD GROUND!" I yelped as I shot up from the snow, which I had previously hugged, I jumped into Anias' arms, the girl rolled her eyes before dropping me, I jumped off the snow into Bens' arms. I looked up to see a fully red faced Ben, a snickering Kate, and a smirking Ania, I growled, my face a full on red as well.
"You can, put me down now," I muttered, realising I was in Bens' arm bridal style, not to mention people from Shiver Camp were giving us weird looks.
'Ok, maybe I was wrong, she is most definitely not Oris,' I heard Kate think, YES! Ben plopped my feet onto the ground as Ben set me down, both our faces still red.
"You two would make such a cute couple," Ania and Kate said in sync, the two smiled as they high fived each other.
"KATE!" Ben yelled, his face going more red, I glared at Ania.
"You have five seconds to live," I said, I didn't even finish my sentence before she was running away.
"I'LL SEE YOU BOTH LATER, IT WAS NICE MEETING YOU!" she yelled as she took off running, I turned to ben and Kate.
"It was nice to see you, thank you for the ride, sorry I can't stick around, I have a sister to kill, bye," I said as I took off running after her, I turned my head to see Kate and Keith looked at each other in confusion, Kate then said something to Ben, he yelled, she laughed, while both of them then flew off on Staraptor.
I growled as I re-entered the base, most people were smiling at me, while others were clearly confused as to why I was in my 'Summer Disguise', as they called it.
"Where's Abila?" I asked referring to her as the general and not her other self, the soldier pointed to my room; I opened the door to see her sat on my bed.
"I'm sorry, don't kill me," she said as she looked at me, I rolled my eyes at her.
"I aint gonna kill you," I said, she sighed, "Yet anyway," I added, she looked at me, I small smile on her face.
"Well, we have to go get another shot, then face our dick of a boss," she said, I nodded as we changed into Oris and Abila again.
"Well, let's head out," I said as we walked towards the lab, again we high fived many, many people, I think Team Darkness was getting bigger by the day, or I was too busy thinking and that's why it seemed like there were more.
"Stop thinking about Ben," Abila ordered, I looked at her, before blushing a little.
"I-I'm not," I answered.
"Oh is the great Oris stuttering?" Kardars' voice came, I tried to resist groaning, I couldn't the two brothers were the devils of this place.
"Hm, she must like someone," Zion said as he looked at us, I rolled my eyes, "Perhaps one of us," he said, I laughed a little.
"Get real," I said as I turned to walk away, Abila copied my motions, two hands grabbed my wrists before spinning me around, I looked at Abila to see Kardar had done the same with her, I looked at Zion, a death glare on my face, a warning in my eyes.
"Zion," I said slowly, "If you want to have kids when you're older, I suggest you get off," I ordered, Abila glared at Kardar.
"Same goes for you, get off, or lose your bollocks," she said, then thought for a moment, "Well, it's not like you have any, but you know what I'm talking about," she added, I stifled a laugh, both brothers glared at us.
"How would you know?" Kardar asked, I glared at them before spinning my arms out of Zions' hold, he hissed as I twisted his arms around almost breaking the bone, actually let's have some fun. He almost screamed as I actually broke his arm, the bone came through the skin, I pushed him to the ground, Abila did the same with Kardar as she got out of his hold, we stood side by side as we glared at the two boys, who ran off. I smirked as I high fived Abila, who was smirking as well.
When we entered the lab, the scientists ushered us to a table, we followed their orders as we relaxed our muscles, our breathing and hopefully our heart rate. I watched as they got a bigger needle, gulp, with clear liquid in it, the door opened, we didn't need to look up to know it was a pissed off Blaze. Once the scientists injected the liquid into us, they left the room, we finally looked at Blaze, bad idea, a backhander was thrown straight at our faces.
"You tow will be doing a test to prove your loyalty to this team," he said, Abila gulped, while I looked at him, my eyes held anger; Ben really had gotten to me.
"Why?" I asked, he glared at me again.
"Zion and Kardar, they both have a broken arm," he pointed out, I glared at him.
"That was self-defence, if we didn't do anything they could have raped us," I pointed out, Blaze glared at me as he hit me again.
"I don't care," he said, I spat a bit of blood out as I looked at the ground, "Yelling at me is another one," he said, I shrugged as I looked at him again, a line of blood running out my mouth.
"You do need to take the stick out your ass," I was always like this, cheeky, but Blaze always shrugged it off, it wasn't until he had spoken to the Societea that he got this aggressive, then he got more aggressive when the Rangers escaped, I felt another hand come down onto my face, only this time, it stung like hell. I placed my hand on my cheek, as I withdrew it all I saw was blood, in Blazes' hand was a bloody pocket knife, he must have hit me with that as well.
"You'll both be doing the challenge, everyone will watch, it will be a fight to the death with one of our experiments, the Societea and the Pokemon Pinchers will also be there, do NOT disappoint me," he said, with that he walked out of the room, I fell to the ground.
"Oris," Abila said as she got to her knees next to me, tears stung in my eyes but I refused to let them fall. There was a knocking at the window, Abila opened it as Ben climbed in, I looked at him in confusion, he was alone, did he want to get caught?
"What are you doing here?" Abila asked, Ben looked at her then went to my side.
"I saw all that," he said, I looked at him, my cheek oozed blood, Ben took a bandage out from his pocket as he put it on my cheek, stopping the bleeding, "Come on, we have to leave," he said, I stood up before backing away from him.
"No," I answered, Ben looked at me in shock.
"Do you have a death wish?" he asked, I glared at him.
"I could ask you the same thing," I shot back, he clenched his fists.
"Oris, this place isn't safe," he said, I glared at him.
"Why?" I asked, he looked at me.
"Blaze for one-,"
"Not that, why choose me out of all the people out there, why try to convert me?" I asked, Ben looked at me in shock, "And don't say it's because I'm better than this, or that a family isn't where you get abused, or I can change," I added, he looked at me, then frowned.
"There's something about you, I just want to help you, why won't you let me do that?" he asked, I clenched my fists.
"Because I don't need any help," I said, Abila sighed.
"Ben just leave, the scientists are coming back in," she said, Ben looked at her.
"But-,"
"GO!" I yelled at him, luckily the walls were sound proof, he frowned, I saw hurt and regret flash in his eyes before he left, I sighed as I sank to the floor.
"Oris-,"
"Don't start Abila, I've already got everything planned out, the fight tomorrow will be no trouble, we need to find out how many Puzzle Pieces there are left to find," I said, Abila looked at me.
"There's still five, Blaze put the whole thing on hold until we got the Soldiers back, tomorrow after our fight we'll be trying to find them again," she said, I nodded my head, I was ready for this fight, Abila would have my back, we won't die.
But I knew Ben was right about this, this place wasn't safe, it wasn't the family I thought it was, it was all fake, a fairy tale, but does that mean if I leave, that I could be living another fairy tale life, or would it be a real life? One that I actually had to work hard for? One that I would actually have people in it that I would die for? One that I could find love in? Or would it just come crashing down on me, like everything else has done already?
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