Torn awoke to whispering and occasionally a loud voice not bothering to be quiet for him, which he soon recognized as Vee. He didn't open his eyes for some time but they must have noticed his breathing changing or his face tense up in pain because they started to say he's awake, he's okay. Slowly, realizing his cover was blown, he opened his eyes and saw faces of various elves peering into his. He was a little surprised at them all hovering over him so he was taken back at first but then he got used to it after a few seconds.
"Finally, Torn, you're awake!" Tess said and leaned down and gave him a hug. Torn winced, he must have had a broken rib, and he didn't hug her back he just laid there with a complete 'get off me' attitude. "Oh, heh, sorry," she said getting off him and giving a shy smile."
He moaned as he sat up against what everybody was protesting him do and he tried to find his voice before he spoke. "How long have I been out?" He asked in a rougher voice then usual.
"Two days." Jinx said out of the side of his mouth, "We were startin' to get a little worried dere."
"Probably best ya were out of it." Vee said plopping down next to him on the bed and making herself comfortable. "Dun think you'd wanna be awake with how banged up you were. From the metalheads and explosion combined we thought you'd be dead."
"Do I want to know how bad?" Torn asked shifting his position trying to take some weight off of a sore spot.
"No, you really don't." Jen said from her seat on the bed opposite of his. "But the good news is your face is okay."
"Yes, that is all that matters." Vee said seriously, slapping him on his good arm.
Carion rolled his eyes and shook his head. "Women…" He muttered and immediately had daggers pointed at him from Jen, Vee and Tess. "Sorry." He said putting his hands up in defense.
"Carion, ya 'ave no idea how to talk to women do ya?" Jinx said and moved over to Jen and put on his best flirting face. "So how ya doin'?" He asked taking the cigar out of his mouth. Jen rolled her eyes and got up form her seat on the bed. "See?" He asked Carion. "I'm a natural."
"Of course you are." He said and turned back to Torn. "Okay, the good news is there hasn't been any metalhead sighting in the city since we killed the ones in Haven Forest, the bad news is the Barron has taken another kid for his dark eco experiments."
"Ah shit…" Torn muttered. "Why didn't you do anything?" he demanded.
"We tried." Karne said stepping into the room seeing that he was awake. "We really did, Tess saw some KG picking some blond kid up around the Industrial section, she called us and tried getting out there herself but didn't make it in time. We have Ashelin working on the inside trying to get him out, but she can't get past the guards in there without her father or Errol."
Torn sighed in frustration and swept the blankets off him tried to get one leg out of the bed.
"Whoa, whoa! Torn! What do you think your doing?" Carion said pushing Torn back down.
"Get off me, I've been lying in this damn bed for long enough I have work to do." Torn said trying to push him away with his good arm.
"Yer work is 'ere, in the bed restin', ya had a nasty crash, I doubt ya can even walk, we had to set yer leg ya know." Vee said.
"So even if you wanted to walk you're screwed." Jen said shrugging. "Too bad."
Torn sighed and slammed his fist against the bed. "Well can you at least give me the maps? Let me plan something out?" He said pleading to them. "I'm not nearly finished with our strategies."
"No way, man." Jinx said leaning up against the pole next to the bed. "You ain't gonna do nothing for a couple days, not until ya get all betta."
Torn grunted in frustration looked around trying to think of something to say or do. "You're not moving and the pain you get when you do move will keep up to our word." Karne said folding his arms, just then his communicator went off and they heard Ashelin on the other end.
"Hey guys, I just got in the room with my father where they're keeping the boy. He looks bad, he really does. It's only been going on for a couple days but it's already taking it's toll on him. I tried to speak with him while he was laying there but he seems either reluctant to talk or he's a mute. Father seems to think this boy is different from the others, I'm worried, he may keep him here for more then just a couple months." She said.
"Can you get him out?" Karne asked her. "We know you couldn't before but has anything changed…?" He asked hopefully.
"Sadly no, I can't go in at all. And Aaron or Marcus can't get in without someone the Baron trusted extremely well."
"He doesn't trust his own daughter?" Vee asked with a disgusted look on her face.
"No," Ashelin said. "I'm trying but I can't seem to do anything, we can only hope father will move him to a different cell where I can sneak in and get him out, but I doubt it."
"Okay, well, keep trying Ashelin, you're our best inside man, er, woman rather." Carion said with a smirk.
"I know, and by the way, how's Torn fairing? He awake?" She asked with her voice softening and adopting a concerned tone.
"Yeah, he woke up today, being a little bit of a stubborn prick but he's fine." Carion said glancing over to Torn.
"I'm not being stubborn, I just want to get work done." Torn said sharply.
"Hate to break it to ya, but that's called bein' stubborn." Vee said looking at him with her arms crossed.
"Torn, you rest!" Ashelin said harshly over the communicator. "I will not have you collapsing in the middle of a battle just because you think you're to damn tough to take a break! Mar, it's almost a good thing this happened now you can rest!"
Torn huffed but still wouldn't give in and admit he was defeated.
"Oh damn, I have to go, fathers coming. I'll drop by later." Ashelin said and then quickly turning off her communicator before the Baron noticed it.
"That man is a real bastard." Carion mumbled before walking over to the table and resting his hands on it. With Torn sort of out of it for the next little while he was next in line to be their commander, well beside the Shadow. "I'm out of ideas, we have no idea what the Baron's doing and we can't get anybody in their to figure it out. We're stuck, other then just being the crap outta metalheads we can't do nothing."
"Don't say that, have you ever heard me say that? No, because if I did then I would believe it. What are we a buncha rats? Since when did the Underground give up this easily?" Torn said boosting everybody up, "We are kicking their asses, we know almost everything about them other then their plans but they don't know shit about us."
"Guy's gotta point." Jinx said. "They dun know who we are, what we're doin' or who we're doin' it with." They all gave him side glances with a raised eyebrow. "Jus' sayin' they don't." He said.
"We have to keep it up and keep fighting. It doesn't matter what we're doing as long as they're not getting any further in their plans." Jen said.
"We can't give in that easy." Torn said. "the Baron will fall and we will all be there to watch him come down."
They all nodded and cheered for that, it was one thing they could all look forward to the bringing down of the Baron. Them watching him die and if possible being by their hand it was a common goal that brought every single one of them in the Underground together despite their vast differences.
AN: Oh Lord I hate this, I hate this so much. I hate school even more, blame school and the script I have yet to memorize. And the first performance is next month and I have 2 billion lines, God help me. I am up to my neck in school and shows. But I have to say as you may have noticed this will not get updated as much as I would like but it will get updated. Fear not, I never abandon fics except that one I abandoned but that was only because I followed the storyline of the show and I changed certain things and the plot crashed and burned. But it lasted a good 52 chapters and I'm babbling I'll stop now.
Um, also the next chapter will skip some time because of lack of action and events, they can't have a different adventure every week I just don't have that many ideas in my head and that would be a bit stupid. And the next chapter will be longer, I promise you that, it will be much longer and things will happen. But I pray that I can update within two weeks I know I've been bad at that haven't I?
