Garnet Flight
Chapter Nine
AN: Sorry this took so long. All of my excuses are total crap, so I'll just move on to the story. This chapters really not my best, I'll have to work on it some more later, I just wanted to get it up. : )
Disclaimer: God has yet to answer that paticular prayer.
Adrian's POV
We were going to save Nia's little sister, Artemis. I didn't like the idea of it being just Nia and I against the whole School, so I had convinced her to drop her pride long enough to ask the Flock for some help. And I told her that this time she had to do it without screaming at Max. In the end we got Max and Fang to help us. Still no where near as many as we needed, but that improved our odds by a whole, like, two percent. We were now nearly to the School, and everyone was getting progressively jumpier. It was actually getting annoying.
Now, the plan was simple. Nia and Max were going to sneak in from the air. Me and Fang were to get in via the ground. Hopefully one set would act as a distraction for the other. So, if they blocked Max and Nia, Fang and I could still get in, and visa versa. Not that I was comfortable with this plan. That meant either the girls or us were almost certain to get caught.
Nia's idea was that if they got captured we could save them. With my luck, it would be the other way around, and I would have to get my butt saved. Again. As much as I loved Nia, I would like to be the hero sometimes.
I didn't know if I was really mad at needing saving so often, or if I was just depressed at the upcoming mission. This plan was not going to work, I already knew it. Something was going to go wrong, because something always did. We were freaks, so apparently we didn't deserve happy endings. I looked down and saw that we were flying over what appeared to be a desert. Wonderful. That was going to be the best place we found to sleep tonight.
I can say for certainty that this was the one time that I was happy to be proven wrong. It turns out that we weren't far from Lake Mead, which was very close to the School. And it also turns out that Max and Fang knew of a cave over the north edge of the lake where we could all sleep with a little cover to hide us. Just because we had some cover, that didn't mean that we didn't need to keep watches. It took us around twenty seconds to split the night between us, and I got first shift. Without even having some food, or talking and acting like we had food to eat, the others went straight to bed.
My shift was nearly half over when I heard someone crying quietly. It was Nia, and that was really, really, scared me. In the two years that I had known her, I had never seen her cry, no matter how bad things got. I walked over to her quietly, almost stepping on Fang in the process. "Nia, are you ok?" I made my voice as quiet as I could.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"Alright." Even so, I went to talk to her, kicking Max awake as I passed her. "Cover for me? I need to talk to Nia."
"Depends, why to you need to talk, I'm not getting up so you can make out." Wow, who knew that someone could be that much of a spitfire when they were half asleep?
"The plan for tomorrow." A little white lie never hurt anyone, plus I wasn't going to say that Nia was crying. That was not my place.
"Sure, but you owe me."
"Cool, I'll cover you so that you can make out with Fang sometime." I ran away before she could try to kill me barehanded.
"Nia, something's wrong. Spit it out, please." She wouldn't, she never did.
"It's nothing, just a bad dream."
"Liar, Liar pants on fire. The truth, what's up?"
"I'm alright, ok. I can handle any problems that may or may not exist myself."
"Again, you're lying." I went and pulled her into my lap. Are you sure that you don't want to discuss it. I'll find out as soon as you go to sleep anyways." Anything that hurt her this much would certainly show in her dreams somehow.
"If you must know, it's just a healthy dose of self hatred. Nothing major. I'll get over it." Oh, great. I knew that she wouldn't be that confident that this would work, but now it looked like she didn't think it would work at all.
"You'll be fine, and now you need to go to sleep, and I need to take my watch back from Max, she's glaring at me."
"Good night Adrian. See you when it's time for my watch. And I'll take Max's too if it will keep her quiet."
"Don't, it's not like she ever sleeps through the night anyways." Nia laughed, that was nice to hear, because it was not often that she had anything to laugh about. I didn't often joke around, not without being rude or cruel, even though she is not a very kind person either.
The rest of my watch passed quietly, and I went to sleep beside Nia on the ground. We were going to break into the School the next day, and I didn't sleep at all. Even though we were sleeping in a relatively comfortable place, I was kept up by my thoughts. This wasn't going to work, there was no way on earth that this would work. I was only going through with this stupid plan because it was the only thing we had. Oh, well.
After we got all set up, it only took about two hours to get to the School. At least we wouldn't be tired when we were captured. There was no doubt in my mind that we would be captured. Three or four miles from the School, Fang and I landed. We needed to steal a car, and that was going to take some doing, seeing as how we were in the middle of nowhere. If I had a choice, I would have chosen some jerk's perfect Ferrari, but all I got was a piece of junk metal. It was horrible, there wasn't any paint on it and a snail could easily out run it. But it moved, so that's what we got. The look on Fang's face when I told him not only that this was our ride but also that I got to drive it was priceless. Being subjected to torture by the real mad scientists was almost worth seeing him. The emotionless Fang looking dumbfounded. Emphases on dumb.
The girls left to see if they could get into that hell hole. The thought of Nia trying to get in there sent shivers down my spine. Fang looked worried, for him. We watched them take off, then got in the car.
Sure enough, it was the slowest thing on Earth, but it was still faster then running. Marginally. Not by much, or anything at all. But we wouldn't get tired driving, and that was something. It took almost an hour to get there. That was a combination of not being able to find roads to get where we wanted and the speed—or lack thereof—of the car. By the time Fang and I got there, we were both frustrated and worried, not a good combination, even if you were as reserved with your emotions as we both were.
We had to find a way into the School, something that was proving impossible. I knew this wouldn't end well, here came the complication. Erasers, around fifty of them. Shoot, I thought, even though what came out of my mouth was nowhere near as nice. Fang's choice of words was as bad as mine.
"Hey dogs, what do you think we're doing over here? Three guesses! See if you can get it!" They had already seen us, so they didn't hesitate to attack.
We fought back, throwing punches almost faster then sight. We tried to stay close, so that we could help each other. It took a whole of two seconds for that to fall through. The Erasers caught us, and even got the joy of stuffing us into cages. Joy unbound, I was having the time of my freaking life. On the upside, I had been held at the Institute, so I got new scenery through the bars of the dog crate. I wondered how the girls were doing, and if they would get to come rescue us.
There was no way I could get out of the current situation; I would have to wait for something to change. I hoped whatever it was would change soon, before the whitecoats got to start their experiments. I looked over to Fang. He looked alright all things considered. He had a cut over his shoulder, but when he saw me looking at it, he shrugged. That meant that he could move the arm, at least. I hoped it wasn't too bad, or else Max would kill me. The duo might refuse to say that they were in love, but they were awfully protective of each other.
I sat in a cage, praying for a rescue that I knew was unlikely at best. I finally came out of my stupor enough to look around me. I could only hope for rescue, neither Fang nor I could reach the latch of our dog crates. We were stuck. So I changed my prayers. I prayed for Nia and Max to get out safe. They weren't brought into Fang and I's prison chamber, so I clung to the miniature amount of hope, that they were safe. I have to say that I didn't even think to hope that they had managed to save Artemis. That was far from something that I would care about at the moment.
AN: Can anyone tell me how to write the action bits. I don't think mine are very good, but I don't really know how to improve them. Please review and tell me. I need the help if I'm writing any more action in the story.
