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Dex groggily woke up from his drug induced sleep. He slipped the device from his sleeve into his hand, and kept working on the device, until finally, it was finished.
He was surprised that Trix hadn't come back yet, but he took advantage of this.
He craned his neck, trying to see the screen. He could barely glimpse it, but it would have to do.
First, he got his I.P. address. Then he slowly texted Biana's imparter. The message said:
Kidnapped by Neverseen. Get help. My I.P. is 94859483 Hurry.
He barely had time to hit send before Trix came back and drugged him again.
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Biana yelped in surprise when she heard her imparter beep. She had been sleeping, and it surprised her. She took one look at the message and paled.
Glad she had slept in her clothes, she ran to her parents.
"Mom, Dad, look!" she said urgently, showing them her imparter screen.
Alden and Della recoiled a bit.
Alden turned to Della. "Contact the Collective. We need to get to that address as soon as possible."
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Dex startled awake when he heard shouts of surprise. There was thumping against his door, and he frowned in puzzlement until he remembered the message he had sent.
The door crashed open, and Alden hurried into the room. Dex sighed in relief as Alden cut his bonds.
"Trix?" Dex asked.
"We got her," called a voice from the other room.
The person came into the room, and Dex rushed to her.
"Mom!" he cried, nearly crashing into her.
"I'm so glad you're okay. We didn't know where you were when you didn't come back, and the Council refused to track you until we were sure you were missing."
"Where's Biana?"
"We forced her to stay home."
Dex nodded, then grew serious. "We have to rescue the others. Sophie, Tam, Linh, and Keefe are bound somewhere like me. And Fitz…" Dex bit his lip. "I know the coordinates of where all of them are, because of this device I stole from Umber. For everyone except Fitz, we're only up against Umber. But for Fitz… we're up against Fintan, Ruy, Gethen, Alvar, and whoever they rescued from Lumenaria."
The adults exchanged a glance. "Let's get Sophie and the others first," Alden said finally.
They tracked and light leaped to Sophie's location. She had an ability restrictor on, and Dex quickly disabled it.
"Dex?" she mumbled, confused.
Dex quickly filled her in as he untied her.
They then light leaped to where Keefe was.
Umber was there.
"W-what?" Umber stuttered, but quickly recovered.
And she did what any member in the Neverseen without a fighting ability would have done.
She ran.
Alden dashed after her, and quickly caught her, tying her up.
Sophie cut Keefe loose, transmitting what was happening to him.
The group quickly got Tam and Linh next.
Now for Fitz.
Alden set the light leaping crystal to Fitz's coordinates, and hesitated before creating the path. "You realize we're going into a room full of murderers, right?"
Sophie resisted the urge to pull out an itchy eyelash. "What else is new?"
Alden created the path, everyone linked hands, and stepped through.
However, they weren't in the room Fitz was in.
They were in the room next to it.
Which meant they were face to face with the Neverseen.
Fintan was torturing Fitz, so he wasn't in the room.
Ruy reacted quickly, and Sophie saw what was coming next. "Scatter," she shouted, and everyone dove, and the forcefield only trapped Linh. But a member of the Neverseen was in the forcefield too. Alvar.
Ruy continued shooting forcefields, putting everyone in a one on one fight.
Sophie vs Gethen.
Keefe vs Ruy.
And Dex vs Jolie.
Tam, Alden, and Juline were trapped in a different forefield, with no one to fight. They could only watch.
Tam tried to use the shadow vapor trick he had before, but found he couldn't.
That's when everyone made their attack.
Linh shot a tidal wave at Alvar, but he dove out of the way. Dodging her water attacks, he made his way forward.
As he pulled out a knife, Linh made a large sphere out water around herself, and made it hard as ice.
Alvar stabbed the shield with the knife, and the wall shattered.
Linh desperately fired more water, but it was no use.
Just as Alvar was about to reach her, he slipped on one of the pieces of shattered ice, and fell to the floor. Using the distraction to her advantage, Linh pinned Alvar down with water.
No matter how much he struggled, he couldn't get up.
She created another ball of water-ice, and launched it at his head, knocking him unconscious.
Sophie narrowed her eyes at Gethen.
Gethen smirked back at her.
"Wanna play inside my head? Because trust me, I can beat you physically," Gethen offered.
Sophie started to shake her head, but then saw it was her best option. She needed to save her inflicting for Fintan.
She entered Gethen's mind, and immediately saw it was a mistake. His subconscious attacked hers viciously, and she frantically tried to block the attacks.
She shielded herself, then started her own attack. She shot mental blasts at him, and he scrambled to defend himself.
This continued on and off, until both grew tired. Then, Sophie got an idea. While Gethen was focused on blocking her mental attacks, she dashed towards him, and tackled him to the ground. She took him by surprise, and before he could react, she punched him with her sucker punch, knocking him unconscious.
Keefe glared at Ruy. "Not very fair, is it? I don't have an ability that attacks. Then again, you never did care what was fair," Keefe said.
Ruy didn't reply, instead shot forcefield blasts at Keefe. Keefe managed to dodge them, and suddenly ran towards Ruy, ducking under another forcefield. Keefe snatched a knife that Ruy held, and turned back to Ruy.
Ruy shot more forcefields, but Keefe blocked it with the knife, advancing towards Ruy. When he got close enough, Ruy stopped shooting, and instead got out another of his knives.
Keefe lunged at Ruy, and Ruy blocked the attack. Ruy brought down his knife in a sweeping stroke, but Keefe deflected it, twisting the knife when their blades rang together.
The knife was forced from Ruy's hands, and Keefe knocked him unconscious with the hilt of his dagger.
Dex nearly fell over in shock when he saw who he was fighting. "Jolie?"
Jolie just smiled at him.
Dex recovered quickly, and pulled out the device he had stolen from Umber. He had recently turned it into a weapon to deliver electric shocks. Little did he know that this was also Jolie's ability.
Jolie rushed at him, and he shocked her with the device. She shrieked in pain and surprise, but quickly shocked him back.
Dex brought the gadget back around to shock her again, but she knocked it out of his hands.
Jolie tried to shock him again, but he twisted out of reach.
Then, doing the only logical thing possible, he ran.
He stopped short when he reached the end of the forcefield, and Jolie smirked, sure she had him cornered.
But when she ran at him, he ducked and rolled at the last second.
Jolie crashed into the forcefield, which shocked her, and she fell to the ground, unconscious.
Just then, the forcefields went down for all of them, since Keefe had just defeated Ruy.
Wordlessly, they turned to the door that led to where Fitz was.
Sophie opened it, and the group sprinted inside. And stopped short when they saw that Fintan had a flame to Fitz's head.
"Come any closer, and I'll kill him."
Sophie wanted to inflict, but Fitz would get hit too.
Fintan seemed to sense what she was thinking, and said, "He's very weak. Inflict, and he'll die."
Sophie swallowed hard, and Fintan continued to hold the flame to Fitz's head, moving it closer.
"Now, surrender," Fintan ordered.
Sophie took a deep breath, and was about to do just that, when there was a loud crash, and Fintan slumped the floor, unconscious.
Biana appeared next to his unconscious form. She held a large wooden beam which she had used to hit Fintan.
"Don't ever tell me to stay home again," Biana said to Alden.
Alden nodded slightly.
Sophie ran to Fitz, who had been staring straight ahead this entire time, barely even registering that they were there.
She took his the bruises, cuts, burns, and shocks all over his body. "What did they do to you?" she whispered in horror.
Sophie looked into his teal eyes, and saw a haunted look in them.
"Fitz," she choked out. "We're here to rescue you. You're safe."
Fitz just shrugged, not caring. He didn't care about anything.
"Fitz?"
Fitz finally spoke. "You don't know what they did to me Sophie. You might as well leave me here. Let me die."
"Fitz, I-"
"I'm broken, Sophie," Fitz shouted. He turned away, and said more softly, "I'm broken."
Sophie's eyes started welling with tears.
No.
No.
They had finally found Fitz.
Mission accomplished, right?
But he was broken.
They had to fix him.
They had rescued Fitz from the Neverseen.
Now they had to rescue him from himself.
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