Yay! One more before midnight! :]

This one was actually slightly difficult to write…I'm sorry if it's not as good…I had a strangely hard time with it… :/

Anyway, thanks to Blue and Superdani (I'm sorry, but my computer is stupid and doesn't like your name for some reason. :/) for your reviews. :]

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I only own Luci and Luke.

Sara, Seth, and Luci watched Jack and Alex return from scoping out a way to get into the mountain and they continued up the rock and dirt trail. Nobody said anything for a while, and Luci started to pant from the uphill walk.

"How much longer till we get there?" she asked.

"Not long, Luci." Jack replied. "Just a little further."

They went on a while more in silence and Luci stopped when she felt a strange aura. The rest of them kept walking as she looked around. It took a moment, then Seth realized she wasn't there and turned to find her. She was slowly turning circles, looking around. She looked confused when he reached her.

"What's going on?" Alex said. She, Jack, and Sara had come back for them.

"There's a-" Luci's hand flew to her neck. She looked to Seth and her hand slowly revealed a dart in the side of her neck.

"Seth…" she breathed. Her eyes rolled into the back of her head and she slowly began to fall.

"Luci!" Seth caught her before she hit the hard earth. "Luci! Speak to me!"

It was no use. Another dart was shot into his neck along with Sara. They all collapsed to the ground.

"Sara! Seth, Luci!" Jack ran towards the kids, but men from the government dressed in black surrounded them in minutes, and they were held hostage.

"Mr. Bruno." said one of them. "And, I believe, Dr. Friedman."

"What did you do to them?" she asked.

"Consider yourselves lucky. I could've had you both shot on sight for trespassing and violation of government property."

They took Sara, Luci, and Seth away on stretchers, sliding them into the back of a special truck. Jack watched with a helpless since of determination. He'd had enough.

"Sara!" he punched the guy holding him in the face and attacked anybody else who came near him. But he was unsuccessful, and they soon had him pinned to the ground. Alex came to his aid and helped him to his feet, turning to the man who had spoken before.

"Sir, with all due respect, you have to listen to me. They came in peace, we can not respond with violence. The future of Earth depends on it. It is absolutely vital that they get home."

"They are home, Dr. Friedman." he replied. "They're now in my custody."

"Custody? You can't expect to keep them prisoner and get away with it. They have rights! They-"

"They are illegal aliens on U.S. soil without so much as a passport."

"You can't keep this quiet. The world has the right to know that they exist."

"And you're going to be the one to blow the whistle, Doctor? A failed astrophysicist, fired from universities for obsessing over UFO's, teamed up with an ex-con, declaring that the government has captured two, no three normal looking kids and is holding them hostage inside a mountain that doesn't exist? It'd be so much easier to let you speak. Then to deal with all the paperwork involved with killing you."

"Someone will believe us." said Jack.

"From behind bars? Let me remind you, Mr. Bruno, that as a convicted felon you're looking at 20 years just for standing on this mountain talking to me. Shall I go on?"

Jack hesitated, glancing at the kids, before answering. "No. I get the message."

Alex turned to him, completely shocked. What was he doing? Giving up on the kids? Leaving them to the government after coming all this way? She couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"Smart man. Give them a lift back down."

"What?" Alex whispered to Jack as everyone started to disperse. "That's it? You're just going to-"

"Sir." one of the men approached the guy that had spoken to them. "One of them is waking up."

"Which on?"

"The long-haired female."

Jack and Alex's eyes grew wide as they whirled around to face the truck. Luci was starting to sit up. She was holding her head and she seemed like she was dizzy and unfocused. Unstable. She tried to look around at her surroundings.

Seth? She threw out her mind to everyone near her, obviously unaware that there was more than just Jack, Alex, Seth, and Sara now. Everybody started to panic, looking around for the person who said it.

"Who said that?" The man said, looking around frantically.

"Luci." Jack breathed. Luci! Shhh, don't! Seth is there with you. It'll be okay.

He mentally called to her and she turned to him, confused and scared. He looked back at her with apologetic eyes, knowing there was nothing he could do to help her. Men started toward her and surrounded her in just minutes, rendering her helpless. She tried to create a force field, but whatever was in that dart wouldn't let her.

"Well, well, well." the man said. "It has powers."

"It has a name." Jack said through gritted teeth. The man only laughed.

"A little attached are we?" the men drug her over to where he was standing and held her there. She didn't struggle much. She felt weak, and couldn't move her muscles much. She averted her eyes to the dirt.

"Why is she awake?" the man asked.

"Maybe the dart didn't hit right."

Jack, what's going on? It was Luci again in Jack's head. Why is everyone so intense?

It's okay. I'll get you out. I promise.

"Either way, take her to the other room." the man continued. "We didn't expect a third guest anyway."

They started to drag her away, and she tried her best to get away with no success. She was tossed into a different vehicle away from Seth and Sara.

Seth! She called out to him multiple times, but Jack and Alex were the only ones who heard it.

Wa-la! What are they gonna do with Luci? What about Sara and Seth? Uh-oh. :]

I'm tired. Big typing day tomorrow. :]

Cally