Author's Note: Hey guys! Happy Tuesday, here is chapter 10. Read, review, review, oh and did I mention review? Just in case I didn't . . . REVIEW! Lol enjoy guys!
-TeddyBear98
Rudy's POV
Wow, I cannot believe that worked! All eight of what I guess my students and Skylar were calling "the Maniacs" that had been chasing were on the ground, unconscious. I was really proud of Jerry and Eddie, they had shown they had real potential to excel in karate if they really applied themselves, and apparently fighting for your life is a great way to do that. Now we were just standing there, waiting for the text from Jack that meant everything was going according to plan and it was as safe as it was going to get to go back to the building and help them out. "Rudy, what time is it?" Eddie asks me. I pull out my phone. "It's 3:00 . . . Jack should have contacted me by now. Something is wrong; I think something might have happened to them," I say worriedly. "Thanks for that positive statement, Rudy," Eddie says flatly, looking a little worried now too. "Alright, we need to go back right now," I tell Eddie and Jerry, walking back in the direction we had just come from as fast as I can. "Yo, Rudy, wait up!" Jerry yells from behind me. I hear him and Eddie running to catch up, and the three of us hurry back to the wooden building. We go around the sides, looking in windows. I see a few people here and there, but I don't see any signs of Kim, Milton, Jack, or Skylar. As two people walk past the window we are looking in, we duck down so we are not seen, and I hear one of them, a woman, briefly talking before they are out of earshot. " . . . Four kids. The Larks girl and the brunette, the ones we needed, are with the father in room 24, waiting to be killed, and the other two are in the small un-numbered connector to it. We don't know what to do with them until we get an answer from . . ." That's all I hear. "I knew it! Oh, this is not good, this is so not good!" I say quietly to myself. "Yo, Rudy, relax, having a freak-out won't help them!" Jerry says. Wow, he can actually be smart sometimes. "Good point, Jerry. Alright, we are going to climb in the window and find them, come on!" I look in, and after I'm sure the hallway is clear, I climb in and wait for Jerry and Eddie to do the same. I inwardly wince as they both crash to the floor, causing a loud "thud." I look from side to side quickly, hoping that I don't see anyone coming to investigate. Luckily, no one comes. "Ok, that lady said where to go, so all we need to do is find room 24," I say. Eddie and Jerry both nod, and we move quickly down the halls, searching for room 24. I hoped that they were all okay. Then I realized something kind of irrelevant to our current situation, but it would bug me if I didn't mention it, so as we rush around, quietly checking room numbers, I ask my students, "Hey, where'd that Jason guy that came with us go?" I see Eddie think for a minute, then he seems to remember and answers, "I don't know exactly, but after Jack asked us if we all knew what to do, and we all ran up to here, I think saw him go around the back, and I haven't seen him since," he concludes. Something about hearing that gave me a bad feeling, like something was up with this "Jason guy," and even though I wanted to figure it out, I knew that the best way to find out was to ask Jack, and to do that, we had to rescue him and the others first. "Rudy, look. Room 24!" Jerry whispers excitedly to me. I look up and realize he is right; room 24 is right in front of us. There is no window that allows us to see into the room, but there is a small hole in the bottom of the door where a chunk of wood got broken off. "Eddie, Jerry, be my lookouts," I tell them as I flatten myself out on my stomach on the floor and look through the hole. I don't like what I see. A man who must be Mr. Larks (he looks a lot like Skylar) is tied up in a corner and gagged, and keeps throwing sympathetic looks at his daughter. Skylar is also tied up and gagged, but she isn't calm like her father, and is trying desperately to escape the ropes that are binding her. The worst thing I see is Jack. He is restrained as well, and he is slumped against the wall next to Skylar, unconscious. He didn't look bad when we left, but now he did; he's paler than normal and looks a little flushed. I can't help but wonder what the heck happened. I notice there is also a door in the room that must lead to the little connector room where Kim and Milton are being kept. I notice one more thing, though: Off to the side a little, there is a man in a black outfit like all of the other maniacs are wearing, smirking as Skylar struggles, and I recognize him immediately: Jason. He betrayed us all. I couldn't believe him. I get up off of the floor and quietly tell Eddie and Jerry what I saw. They don't look too happy, and they decide they need to check for themselves. They get up looking upset and worried. "Satisfied?" I ask sarcastically, since the apparently couldn't take my word for it. "No," Jerry says grumpily, obviously upset at how Jack's seemingly perfect plan had worked out, and that someone we trusted had betrayed us. "Well, what are we going to do? There's three of us to rescue Jack, Kim, Milton, Skylar, and her dad, plus fight Jason and however many other people are guarding them, and we have to do it before Jack, Skylar, and Skylar's dad are killed," Eddie says worriedly. I turn to the side a little and notice a couple of black outfits hanging on some hooks on the wall, and I let a smirk cross over my face as an idea forms in my head. "Guys, I think I know what to do," I say, and explain my plan to them.
Author's Note: So, what is Rudy's plan, and will it work? Can they save Jack, Skylar, Milton, Kim, and Mr. Larks? Guess you'll find out in the next chapter! Review! :D