Back at the command center, Cruger noticed that something wrong. "Does anyone know where Cadet Manx is? Or at least know when she will be back?" He asked, noticing that I didn't come back to finish out my shift. When none of the other cadets knew where I could be, the commander went straight looking for Kat. As he was fast approaching her lab, Kat started running out of the lab, towards him with a scared and frantic look on her face. He thought to himself, this cannot be good. "Olivia's not in her room studying or working on any of her projects in the lab. Far as I know, she's not scheduled to train with the rangers this afternoon and I can't find her anywhere else in the academy. I sent the rangers to check the ice rink and they said that she's not there. I'm getting really worried about her. You don't think that she could have heard anything that we said to the rangers about what happened?" Kat said nervously as she bit her lip.
"There is a possibility that she did hear what we had told them, but I don't think she could have, Kat. Unless she has somehow started to develop the technology to listen through thick walls that we don't know about yet." said Cruger.
"If she could have heard anything that we have said to the rangers, the only way is through the air vents and I don't think that she would be even up there." said Kat, as she looked up at the air vent over her. Before they could say anything more, the alarms went off and headed to the command center. As they entered, a live video feed had suddenly appeared on the monitor in front of them. Frightened by what she was seeing on the screen, Kat noticed that I was sitting in a chair with a hardened look on my face and that my eyes were covered by a blindfold.
"Look whoever you are, I know that you're there. I can hear you moving in the background because I'm not that stupid. You're around here somewhere and I will hurt you really bad once I get myself free. Now I ask you again, what do you want with me? Also, can I have something to drink or something to snack on? I'm really thirsty." I asked, struggling to get out of the chair. Then a mysterious figure of someone had walked into view and took the blindfold off my eyes.
"Well, if it isn't SPD." The woman said with a smirk on her face as she stood behind me and face the camera. Suddenly Kat recognized who she was. "Let her go immediately, Astra. This fight is between you and me. My daughter has nothing to do with this." Kat said calmly at the live video as the commander tried to hold her back. "No, I won't let this extraordinary little brat out of my sight. Why should I let the girl go when she is going to all of my bidding? Whether she wants to do it or not and after that she has a date with destiny in Gruumm's army. It's no wonder she hasn't realized how powerful she will become." she said slyly. My eyes widen at what she had said.
"Powerful? What does she mean by that? Since when am I going to be powerful? My gift isn't even advance yet and I'm going to be powerful." I asked, as I struggled to get out of my imprisonment. Kat started to hiss as Astra continued circling me. She raised up my head with her hand. As I went to bite her hand, she quickly pulled it away. "You know something Kat? She was gorgeous as a child and now she's even attractive. She must have gotten all of her good looks from you, my old friend." she said. I looked at Kat with a scared and terrified look on my face. She could see the tears streaming down my face and I decided to say something quick before the video completely went out.
"Mom, I'm sorry for what I did. I didn't mean to eavesdrop on the entire conversation. I was hiding in the vents when you and Cruger were telling the rangers. I promise that I won't do it ever again. You can ground me for life, take away my rec time, make me polish the front steps, I'll even clean the vents throughout the entire academy. Please come save me. I don't want to be taken by her." Comprehending that I was imprisoned against my will by Astra, Kat started to get really worried and very distressed. Cruger walked over to embrace her, hoping that it would give her some comfort that I was still alive. "I should have never let her out of my sight, at least not let her walk off the base without someone going with her." said Kat, "I have to go save her, right now and get her out of this."
She started to walk out of the command center when the commander put a hand on her shoulder. "Kat, listen to me. I know that you're worried about Olivia right now and I understand that you want to rescue her," said Cruger, "but we need you here in case she tries contacts you again. I'll send the rangers to go looking for her, once we find out what Astra has planned. At least we know the reason why she left base." Knowing that the commander was right about the situation, Kat nodded and walked out of the command center towards her lab. When she arrived to the lab, she wondered to herself about why I was hiding in the vents to hear the conversation.
"I am going to give a long discussion with her when she gets back. She is definitely going to be cleaning." Kat said to herself. While he and the rangers were coming up with a fail-safe rescue plan to save me, I was being held hostage in a massive warehouse guarded by a couple of Krybots. When I came to a couple hours later, I tried to move my hands, but couldn't move my wrists and before I knew it, I could feel something wrapped around my neck. "What have you done to me? What did I do to deserve this kind of treatment?" I asked angrily. She ignored my questions.
"While you were knocked out, I went ahead and put a shock collar around your neck so that you will do anything that I say. If you don't, then you will get a little shock by this remote, forcing you to do any little thing that I want you to do. Your mother was so pitiful for hiding you away from Gruumm. Did she ever tell you why I wanted to kidnap you so that you could work for Emperor Gruumm?" Astra asked as she did the finishing touches on the remote control for the shock collar. I gave her this disgusted look on my face, knowing how possibly stupid she could be.
"No…although, to be honest she did leave out a bunch of details on why she decided to hide me and everything, but she didn't. I would say something funny about this and now that I'm in your clutches, I can't think of anything really witty to say towards you. So let's get done and over with it, shall we? Because I'm not getting any younger and I wasn't born yesterday, so chop-chop." I said.