Hey guys :) I am so sorry that this has taken so long to finish. I must have seemingly dropped off the face of the planet :P I just got so caught up with school and work and family stuff that I just kept putting off finishing it and I am super sorry about that. But I hope you enjoy this chapter and I hope you guys forgive me :)
DISCLAIMER: I don't own McFly.
"Right, so the only way to take down The Organization and save the world is to find a star and remove it from its holding place?" Tom asked confused.
"That's what all of my extensive research has come down to." Gordon said nodding slowly as if checking it over in his mind.
"That's hardly extensive." Ruby scoffed.
"They're quite well hidden." Gordon said coming to his own defense.
"Do you have a location on him?" Janet asked while putting the equipment in the van.
"Yea, it's all in this file." Gordon said handing a manila folder to Tom.
"We'll see you soon Gordon." Lo said tearing up.
"Come on," Macy said dragging Lo behind her, "we won't be gone for that long."
The 8 of them climbed into the van, waved goodbye to Gordon and then shut the door. Everyone was silent and scared. It was visible on their faces. They were about to venture into the unknown. They didn't have a plan, they didn't know what resources they would need and they didn't know what was going to happen. Lo opened the folder and scanned through the information, committing it to memory. She looked up at them 2 minutes later, a dubious look on her face. She then climbed into the front seat next to Macy and started the engine and pulled off.
"Well?" Tom asked after a few minutes of silence.
"The information is vague, there's minimal detail. But minimal could be good so, I've got it. We have to basically read between the lines, follow every instruction down to every full stop. We have to make sure we cross our t's and dot our i's." Lo replied not taking her eyes off the road.
"So where are we heading first?"
"Out into the country. There's an abandoned warehouse that's supposed to be something there that when taken will destroy The Organization." Macy said staring at the road ahead.
"Location?" Lo asked.
Macy simply pointed it out on the paper.
"I don't have a very good feeling about this." Harry said slowly.
"Look," Ruby said beginning to lose her temper, "I have had enough of you guys complaining. We are going to save lives by destroying The Organization. That should make you feel good enough to keep going, the fact that you're helping people. So just shut up for two minutes and give the complaining a rest." With that she turned and put her head on Dougie's shoulder and shut her eyes.
She'd been tired recently and all of this worry was really getting to her.
After driving for two days, they could see a large seemingly abandoned warehouse looming ahead in the distance. Lo stopped the van about a mile away and they all jumped out ready for anything. Macy slowly surveyed the area in the distance taking in the snow covered trees, frozen over lake, snow mobile and finally the run down warehouse. "I don't think this is the place." she said.
"Separate into pairs, check the area. Lo and Harry, teleport over and come in from the North, Macy and Danny come in from the East, Ruby and Dougie come in from the West and Tom and I will come straight on from the South. Avoid being seen and leave no ground uncovered, if you run into trouble press the button on these gadgets. Understand?" Janet commanded ignoring Macy and handing each person a wrist strap with a red button on it.
Everyone nodded with grim looks on their faces.
"Well what're you waiting for? Move it!" Janet said sternly.
Harry and Lo disappeared, Danny, Dougie, Macy and Ruby went off to their sides and Tom and Janet headed forward slowly looking around.
It was 10 minutes before Janet pushed her button. Around 20 large men in red jackets had suddenly appeared around her and Tom.
"No, no, no, no, no. Gordon said NOTHING about men in red jackets!" Tom yelled as the Red Jackets moved in slowly, "who the heck are they?"
"They're the Red Jackets, and they mean we're in the right place." Janet explained looking satisfied as she pushed her button furiously, "They're like a serious upgrade from the Black Jackets."
"So, we take them down the same way? By removing the wires and what not from their backs?" Tom asked confused.
"Nope," Janet said throwing the first punch, "It's in their heads, but it's not exactly that easy. They're about 20 times harder to destroy."
And that was that. The fight had begun. The others finally reached Janet and Tom but the fight was nowhere near in their favor.
"Do you remember what we taught you in fight training?" Lo yelled as they began running to join the fight.
"Yeah!" the three boys yelled back with fear in their eyes.
"Well, now is when it really comes into play!" Ruby yelled at them as she threw a punch at the back of a Red Jacket's head.
And the fight was on. And it went on for almost 30 minutes with multiple blows being taken on both sides. Broken bones and bloody wounds were taken by each of them. But at the end, with only the most powerful and dominant Red Jacket left, the fight was still tough.
"Tom!" Janet yelled, "circle round, elbow to the temple!"
Tom did as he was told and knocked the Red Jacket off his feet.
"Dude!" Ruby exclaimed, "that was awesome!"
Eventually the Red Jacket became unconscious, they then retrieved the box from his head.
"Let's go check the warehouse," Janet said taking command again, "4 of you take the left flank, the other 4 of us will take the right. We're looking for something that tells us what to do next. Go!"
With that they all did as they were told. Inside the warehouse, there was everything from computers to beds to guns to fight training ares to maps and everything in between. After about an hour of searching Ruby found something.
"What's this?" Ruby asked uncovering an old trunk and dusting it off.
Everyone else came running over.
"It's locked..." Danny said frowning.
"What's in it?" Harry asked.
"Well it's locked so... oh!" Danny said coming to realize what Harry meant, "papers. Maps of some kind or so it looks like."
"This could be it," Lo exclaimed excitedly, "open it!"
"Maybe there's a key?" Dougie offered beginning to look around.
"I don't think we have time to look for a key," Ruby frowned, "let's smash it open I mean it's clearly not high tech or anything, I think there's a lock cutter thingy in the van."
"I'll be back." Harry said running outside.
Two minutes later he was back lock cutter in hand. 5 minutes later the lock as cut and they had the papers spread out on the floor.
"I think these are blue prints." Macy mused out loud.
"Yeah, but blue prints for what?" Lo asked jumping in, "hey! Maybe they're what the star is hidden in. Look, if you see that box in the middle of the whole thing, it's got a weird box in the middle. Maybe that's where it is..."
"Yeah, but where is that?" Harry asked.
"Well, people hide things underground... maybe there's a secret passage that leads underground." Danny suggested.
Ruby pulled a face and then looked at Danny like he was dumb.
"I hate when people look at me like that!" Danny exclaimed, "what?"
"Look down you moron, like look through the floor." Lo said shaking her head.
Danny did as he was told.
"Nothing down there but mud and rock and what not." he said after a few minutes.
"But where else is big enough?" Janet said asking the question on everyone's mind.
"In the pond!" Danny said excitedly, "I can see the structure."
Everyone looked at Danny and then at one another and then hurried out the warehouse towards the pond.
"Umm guys... how do we get down there?" Dougie asked, "the pond is frozen over."
"This is absolutely ridiculous!" Harry said getting angry and kicking at a massive rock, "I mean how on earth are we supposed to get down there and do you have any idea how much I am hurting right now. I feel like rubbish. I am absolutely knackered and I just want to sleep. I am sick of this whole thing. The Organization is clearly way to smart for us and we don't even know where they are and..."
"Harry!" Macy yelled, "look."
Harry turned around and looked. The pond was no longer the pond, it was now a circular building with a glass roof.
"Wait," Janet said stopping everyone before they all went running in, "you know The Organization are computers. The computers control the different Jacket regiments around the world. When we take the star out of it's holding place we shut down the computers for good therefore the Jacket's shut down also."
"But what about when we take the star out. Someone could just as easily put it back in." Dougie said.
"Not true," Lo said from where she was sitting, pouring over the file Gordon had given them, "the star sits in a chamber surrounded by these weird toxic and explosive gasses. I can't believe I missed this before." Lo looked away from the group.
"What is it," Tom asked, "what aren't you telling us?"
"Whoever removes the star... dies." Lo said quietly.
They all looked round at each other silently. Everyone's face was blank.
Ruby broke the silence, "I'll do it." she said determinedly.
"What?" Dougie demanded, "No, you're not doing it. I won't let you. I'll do it." he said putting his arm around Ruby.
"No." She shrugged him off and took a few steps back. Dougie's face looked confused and slightly hurt, "I should do it. I'm gonna die anyway so there's no sense in anyone else doing it but me."
"What are you talking about Ruby," Janet exclaimed, "You're not going to die anyway and like Dougie said, you're not doing it, you've just gotten better and-"
"But I haven't," Ruby said cutting Janet off, "I haven't gotten better, my cancers getting worse and I'm going to die within a matter of months, the only reason I still have the strength that I do is because of my powers. I'm doing it and you'll aren't going to stop me!" and with that she turned and began walking towards the circular building.
When she was almost at the door she stopped and turned back around.
"I'm sorry I didn't tell you," Ruby began, wiping the tears from her eyes, "but it didn't seem fair to burden you with my problem. You guys are my world and I could never watch you sacrifice yourselves when I'm going to die anyway. I really don't know what to say to you girls right now except, thank you for being my family. You McFly boys, thank you for becoming part of our family. You have all brought so much light into my life and for that I'm grateful. I really do love you guys."
Ruby was crying as she walked over to the group of seven and hugged each crying member. She stopped at Dougie and took his face in her hands and looked him in the eye, "I love you." she said kissing him for the last time.
Dougie looked shocked, as Ruby turned and walked back towards the circular building.
"Ruby!" Dougie yelled jogging after her, turning her around and taking her hands, "I love you too."
Ruby gave him one last hug before walking through the door of the circular building.
Dougie walked sadly back over to the group. 20 seconds later there was an explosion that shook the ground. Janet sunk to the floor in tears and everyone soon joined her. Ruby was gone, for good. And each and every one of the wished that they could've been in her place. She was like their little sister and no one would ever replace her.
So that's that. The end. I hope you guys enjoyed it and I'm not gonna lie the end made me tear up just a little :'( I will hopefully get around to updating my other story as soon as inspiration strikes! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that that's soon :) ohhh and guess what? I'm a pioneer on McFly's supercity :) that makes me happy because I got a certificate that they actually signed. Like strangely enough... their DNA is like potentially on it :) That does sound really freaky and kinda stalkerish :P but anyway I think you can add friends on it so if any of you guys are members and you wanna be friends on that you can message me your name for their supersite and then we can be friends :) So, until next time :)