Day 6 – Darren – Base Breakdown

Over the course of our absence Connor and Cameron have escaped and were hauled up under Bradley Barton Primary School within our base there. That was until the robots finally tracked them using Bobby's connections with the base. When the robots attack, Connor escaped, and he travelled to where they had tracked us to. Cameron stayed behind with Erin to defend the base but was eventually forced to get away when the robots overwhelmed them. Erin was captured while Cameron made it out with a gash in the side of his right leg from a piece of shrapnel.

To the south of the hospital we'd detected a Cydonian Supply Ship and so Vicky is heading down with Fred to try and take that out. Meanwhile Tom, Jack, Emily, Cameron and Connor are going to try and retake the base that they lost yesterday. I am joining them on this quest.

Bradley Barton Base, Tom's first outward base. Hidden from sight under his old school. Used for a quick escape from normal lessons, or for a quick defensive strategy. We waited until it was dark so that we could be sure that no one was left in the school. Even to this day, no one but the team knows that it even exists.

Tom got all of us to hide in plain sight in a classroom sat at the back. He disappeared for about three hours overnight, trying to piece together what the enemy has at this base. He never returned.

"Guys, we've got to go down and find him," I ordered, but everyone else just looked at me like I was a complete idiot. All of them but Cameron who understood what I needed. He headed straight for the door, I followed on slowly behind. The others stayed and didn't move. I turned around to look at the others to see if they were willing to come. They stared back. They didn't move. Stupid order-following kids.

I followed Cameron to the man hole that was in the middle of the Playground. Why we didn't hid it better is beyond me. I climbed down the ladder after Cameron who when I'd gotten to the bottom had already found Tom and was talking to him about why he was taking so long. I ran over and noticed the copying process was in motion. "Tom, we can't," I started. "The school."

"We don't have a choice," he replied looking rather distraught.

"What can't we do?" Cameron asked.

I just stared at Tom, both of us knew the consequences of his plan, but he didn't seem to care. "Why?"

"One person won't stay with us forever," he replied. "And the basement has a tunnel leading here."

"When will someone tell me what is going on?" snapped Cameron.

"But the base is under the entire school," I was practically shouting now, and we were still blanking Cameron.

"If we don't do this then we will have every one of our enemies swarming in through the basement," he explained.

"But only one of our enemies know of this place," I retorted getting annoyed at the prospect he was proposing.

Bobby's avatar appeared on the screen and informed that the data transfer was complete. "The bio-reading pads are over by the man-hole cover to allow for a quick and easy get away."

"Cameron is like a sheep, so I know that he will do what I want him to do. All I need is you," Tom stated with authority.

"To do what," questioned Cameron angrily, really wanting a reply now.

"Why not go and get Jack," I snapped, I was right in his face now. "At least he a faithful little dog."

"You wonder why I trapped you in the house," he retaliated.

"Trapped me, I chose to stay there because I was far more useful there than down at school," I shouted.

"So you chose to stay out of our fight with Leanne?" he said 'our' like we had brought a dog and I left him to do everything.

"When you came home with a closer lock on Leanne, or you knew Naomi was okay," I started. "That was almost always me."

"I could squash you like a bug," he threatened, his face red like a tomato.

"And I could launch you into space jerk," I retaliated.

"Both of you shut the hell up or I'll throw you both into Universe Twenty One," Cameron cut in.

"You take your time," Tom laughed, we both stared at him like he was a complete psycho.

"And you call me rash and immature," Cameron replied as robots suddenly began to crawl in through Tom's hidden tunnel.

"Bobby," I started.

"Start the process," Tom finished as the computer system shut down. Cameron didn't move, he just launched Ice-Shards at the invading robots. Tom and I turned and ran. I changed the Gravity under the robots but had to cut off my power due to it redounding off of them and into me. Tom reached the pads and about five robots jumped through the man hole and onto him.

I concentrated on the robots and lifted them off of Tom before throwing them at their friends on the other side of the room. Tom looked at me in shock. Cameron came flying past me, however the most dominant sense wasn't the sight, or feeling of him rushing past my head, but the unbearably vile scent of burnt flesh.

Tom called me over to the pads and told me to put my hand on one. Every cell in my body was screaming at me to argue with him, but my brain knew that it was more important to complete the task that we had started. Using my free hand and my psychic abilities I picked up Cameron and moved his hand on to the second pad. Then we waited for Tom to press down on the pad.

He didn't.

The Robots got closer and closer. And when it looked like we were about to be killed Jack poked his head through the hole in the roof. Tom looked him before turning back around to combat the robots. He'd taken down at least half of the first group before the second arrived. Jack landed in-between Cameron and I, and I realised that Tom, Emily and Dean had a mutual agreement to leave the self-destruct sequences in a random combination of us. This base just happened to involve us waiting for Jack who had the middle part of the code.

A light in the middle of the room distracted the robots. At first I thought it was Jack, but then I noticed the countdown on it. Jack was already gone by the time I reacted and pulled Cameron out of the base. Jack then helped Tom out before flying into the school to get the others out of the school. Tom told me to take Cameron and run. I picked Cameron up and hung him over my shoulder before flying towards Berry Woods.

I don't know what happened to the others but the two playgrounds and field erupted in flames, and the wave of hot air knocked me off my intended path and Cameron and I ended up going face first into the woods.