Chapter Twelve:
Shade and Pyro stood on the edge of the property looking out over and enormous Garden Centre. Shade looked at Pyro.
"Are you sure this is the place?" She asked.
"Yeah, defiantly." He looked back at the piece of paper. "Building seven it says." Shade shrugged and ran at the chain link fence. Pyro followed her.
It wasn't hard to get over, Pyro melted the barbed wire at the top. They landed and took off.
"Do you see any buildings?" Pyro asked looking around. Shade shrugged.
"I see green houses."
"Huh, come on, this place gives me the creeps." Pyro ran over to them and Shade followed.
They stood outside a row of around ten glass structures. Shade looked in between the first two and saw there were at least ten more rows behind this one. She sighed.
"Seven?" Shade asked.
"Seven," Pyro said. They looked at the building next to them. It read 'One'. They looked at the next one, which read 'Eleven'. "Come on." Pyro sauntered between the buildings.
Shade took a deep breath looked around and followed him. When they reached seven it seem okay. Pyro tried the doorknob and the door open. "That was easy." He said quietly.
Shade nodded and looked through the doorway to see an orchard of…pot.
Pyro looked in after her. "Magneto wanted us to get…high?"
Shade shook her head, "There." She pointed down the rows of cannabis to see a huge silver safe. "I am betting what we were sent to get is in there."
"Ah," Pyro nodded and went towards it. Shade followed him until they stood outside the huge metal structure. "What do you think is in there?"
Shade shook her head and started to twist the combination that Magneto had given her into the lock. The door swung open to reveal shelf upon shelf of plastic explosive. Pyro went to step inside the safe but Shade put her hand on his chest stopping him. He looked at her.
"Maybe I should go in," He was going to argue but seemed to think better of it and nodded. Shade stepped inside the enormous safe and looked around. She shrugged off the empty back pack that was resting on her shoulder. She held it in front of her and started to put block upon block of explosive in it.
Once the bag was full she stepped out of the safe. Pyro was leaning against the door an looked up at her.
"Got it?"
Shade nodded. Suddenly all the over head lights above them turned on. Shade screamed, she wasn't wearing the sunglasses she usually did because it was night time. Shade dropped the bag and feel to her knees wrapping her arms around her head trying to shield herself from the brightness.
"Shade!" She could hear Pyro but couldn't stop screaming, it was so bright. There was a clicking sound and suddenly the sprinklers above their heads started clicking then water started to mist down on them.
The mist soon turned to a steady stream of water until them were both soaked and the water was almost a cm deep and rising. Shade knew Pyro was afraid of deep water, she had felt it when she had emerged them in darkness that first night. The water was getting deeper and she could hear Pyro stumbling around the water.
Shade was on her knees and the water was already around her waist. She wanted to get up to do something to stop Pyro's fear but couldn't….it was too bright. She need al least the tiniest shadow to create darkness, just like Pyro need flame but couldn't create it. Shade couldn't create darkness out of light.
It was getting deeper, Shade squinted around herself the water was rising fast. She stood up to avoid being submerged completely. "Pyro!" She screamed. She couldn't find him. It was too bright. She was going to pass out….everything finally went dark.