Alarms where screaming everywhere and I was desperately trying to find a way to fausto. Where did fausto go? Shiloh was hissing at something in front of us and she refused to let me go in front of her. A rain of metal came flying down and one of them hit Shiloh. She fell to the ground dead instantly. My screams where drowned out to an ear rattling explosion.
I couldn't see straight, everything was blurring around the edges. Cable was approaching me, laughing and she was dragging someone with her. Fausto was being dragged by the hair. "That little invention did not work! Because of you smoke a Diego have fallen!" she crackled. I walked forward to her.
"I may not have any inventions but I will end you right here and right now cable" I snarled. Cable just laughed and pierced my chest with a handful of needles and slid them down my chest. It stung badly. I opened my eyes to see Shiloh lying across me digging her nails into my chest as she purred. "ouch shi" I groaned pushing her off of me.
"I thought it felt like I was being sat on by something" fausto groaned from next to me as Shiloh got off of him to. "We really should consider keeping her in the yard at night" fausto muttered. "I think we should seriously consider putting you in the yard and letting Shiloh have her bed half back" I teased. "Oh so funny" fausto said rolling his eyes.
I was just about to kiss fausto on the cheek when I heard a shocked yell and a crash of sorts. I was up within a second and fausto was already out of the door. "Behind me Megan" fausto yelled shoving me behind him. "Skyler where are you?" I yelled as we got into the front room. Standing in a pile of rubble was shay and maddie on the floor. I pushed past fausto and shay grabbed me.
Shays arm was tight around my neck. "I'm here to save you fausto, quick out the door I will knock her out!" shay shouted. "No wait shay! Put Megan down! She is with us!" fausto said quickly. "What?" shay asked. "I convinced Megan to come to cables side last night, we were going to escape tonight!" fausto said. "This true Megan? Tell the truth I will know if you're lying or not" shay hissed in my ear.
"Yes, I'd rather be with fausto!" I gasped through her hold. I could see our reflection in the mirror hanging in the front hall, my face was turning red. There was a vicious growl then and Shiloh was stalking shay with her tail twitching. "Put her down shay-la or the cat will get you" fausto warned. Shay released me "Shiloh chill" I said stumbling forward and wrapping my arms around her massive neck.
I didn't have to bend over much to wrap my arms around her neck. "Well looks like I helped you guys out a little" shay said rubbing her grungy looking hair. "Yea you sure helped! You broke the door down and you tried to strangle me!" I shot at shay. Shay just shrugged and stretched. "Megan is everything ok?" skyler asked nervously entering the hall with his eyes on shay.
"Yes, no shay don't even think about it! That's my little brother and he is coming with us" I said eyeing shay as she knelt into a crouch. "Go get me maddies medic bag skyler" I said as I walked towards maddie. "Why?" shay asked standing in front of me. "Well I'm not just going to leave her there, you think the cutters should get an even worse name then they already have?" I asked staring right into shays eyes.
Shay just huffed and let me pass without any more challenges. Skyler returned with maddies medic bag and I zipped it open. "I'm going to sedate her in case she wakes up" I said as I grabbed a syringe from the back. Shay nodded "fausto come help me, hold this" I said handing him the syringe. Fausto took it and noted what was in the syringe. "Stab it in her neck" I said prodding at maddies neck. Fausto nodded then turned around and stabbed the syringe right into shays neck.
Shay screamed and broke out of Fausto's hold. "DON'T LET HER ESCAPE!" I shouted. Fausto tackled shay and held her down while she struggled. A minute later shay calmed down. "What was that?" she asked gritting her teeth. "shay-la listen to me, cable messed with your mind the same way the government messes with the pretties mind, that was the cure for the special lesions" I said softly as I knelt down.
"How do I know you're not lying? You lied earlier and I couldn't tell if it was a lie or not" shay said. "How do you feel shay?" I asked her. "I feel, calm" she said looking right into my eyes. "For the first time since becoming a special right?" I asked. "Yes, your right" she said. Fausto got off of shay and she got up and then to my surprise hugged me tightly.
"Thank you Megan" she whispered into my ear. A groan came from maddie and she sat up. "NO! WAIT SHAY DON'T HURT MEGAN!" maddie said leaping up and tearing me out of shays arm. "Maddie its ok! Megan and fausto cured her!" skyler piped up. "What? Oh, shay how do you feel?" maddie asked. "Calm maddie! I feel relieved and calm!" shay said grinning.
"How do we know you're not lying?" maddie asked. "Trust me maddie, it worked" fausto said grabbing us all into a hug. "This means we have hope now, we have real hope!" fausto whispered. "there has always been hope fausto, ever since the smokies became real, there was hope, we have finally started to achieve the smokie rebellion goal, we have finally found a way to bring the specials down and now that we have two cured specials we can advance more" maddie said wiping a tear from her eye.
"How about a whole team of cured specials? Better yet how about a whole team of cured cutters" shay said grinning. "Can it be done? All the cutters?" I asked hopefully. "Yes Megan, me and you we can think of a way, we can! Put that brain to good use how can we do this?" shay asked. "Well, as a unit it be hard, but what if we could separate them and take them down one by one?" I asked.
"That's brilliant! I can go back to the city and call the whole team in for back up, on the way back I can get them one at a time! Maddie I need a few dozen rounds of the cure and a week, also know this, tally is on her way, she decided to come in with the crims we followed here, some guy named Andrew gave us a GPS map to Diego, so I moved ahead but tally stayed" shay said as she dug through her bag to retrieve the mapping chip from her bag.
"Zane must be with that group then huh?" maddie asked. "of course, she should be here in a few days time, when she gets here track her down, get that cure into her, use fausto she will be distracted, Megan work the rest out I have to get going now" shay said as maddie handed her a bag full of injectors. "Ok I will get it worked out, skyler I need those maps, call the freeman unit, it seems we have another mission" I said grinning. Shay then nodded and left to go plan.
Four days later
This was it; this was the moment of truth. Tally had been in this city for the whole day wandering around; we let the city sink into her. Tally found her way to the overlook that night and I instantly had the plans worked out. We sat in the darkness of the trees now, archer's stances taken. Fausto was talking to her. I had a clear shot of tally but I kept to my own plan.
Fausto would get her, we were just back up. Tally was dangerous so we needed to have a backup. Tally was the most dangerous special because she had been used by the city. Used to find smoke, used to bring down smoke, used in the city, used in the wild. Tally was due to be paranoid and fierce. Fausto made his move; I watched his beautiful grace as he went at her. I thought it had worked for a second. F
For one second I got ready to leap out of the tree and onto my waiting board, I was ready to tackle tally into a hug and be the one to ask her how she felt, to bring her to Zane who was in the hospital getting his brain fixed from maddies nano's. Tally got away though. We scattered and followed her down the cliff she had jumped off of. "Hey I think I see something!" Anne called from over her shoulder. "What is it?" David asked floating over to her.
"It's about the size of a baseball" Anne replied. "It's probably just a squirrel" croy called laughing. "Not unless it's on fire!" Anne insisted. "Check it out" I yelled as I hovered over to join them. "It's the wardens!" calie shouted. "Oh shit, they won't be too happy with us, scatter!" I shouted.
The next morning shay came. She burst through our door breaking it again. She was flanked by the rest of her cutters. "We have a serious problem maddie!" she said breathlessly. "What is it?" maddie asked. "A few weeks ago tally and I accidently destroyed the city armory, they think it was Diego, they are on their way to attack! They have everything they had left, they are going to bomb city hall and take the city over" shay said franticly.
"Megan!" maddie yelled. "I'm here I heard it all" I said coming up from behind maddie. "Get in contact with the mayor, I will handle city defense, shay you come with me, one half go with maddie, other half with me, skyler come with me" I ordered. The freeman unit joined us as we walked through the doorway of the city defense headquarters.
I looked at the directory and ignored the looks we got from passing people. I found the floor we needed and we got into the elevator. I burst into the head of city defense's office. "Hey you can't go back there!" a receptionist snapped. "Block her" I ordered. Two specials blocked her and I opened the door. A middle pretty sat at a desk pouring over paper work.
"Excuse me; you can't just come barging in here! Get out now!" he said getting up. "Actually I think not, shay doors, ho, tachs make sure he doesn't call anyone" I said as I walked right to him. "My name is Megan freeman, I am first in command of the smokie defense resistance, and I was sent by our leader maddie, the city of Diego has a serious problem that you should be made aware of" I said sitting down coolly.
"What type of serious problem ms. Freeman?" the man said slowly. "The first war in over three hundred years, or should I say the first invasion in three hundred years" I said crossing my legs. "Why should I believe such a stupid idea?" he asked. I looked at shay and she nodded. "This should prove everything" shay said hitting the wall screen boot up button. She inserted a chip into it and it booted up.
"we have reason to believe that the city of Diego are behind the attack on the armory a couple weeks ago, it has been reported by my cutters that the smokies now have usage of sneak suits and since all of ours are accounted for we have also assumed Diego has joined forces with the smokies, we leave in three days time with all our defenses, if it is possible catch maddie and David and also make sure Megan freeman is delivered to me right away the moment she is captured, no harm is to come to her, when and if anyone hears anything of the cutters whereabouts please contact me right away, it is essential we get them in on this, I feel they can bring me those three without a problem" cables voice rang through.
"That's not possible, no" the middle pretty stammered. "I'm afraid sir it is, and in ten seconds you will get an emergency ping from the mayor who is convinced, he will also insist you allow Megan freeman and skyler freeman to come on this mission, Megan is to be given all rights over this" shay said. "Excuse me Mr. George, urgent call from the mayor" the receptionist said poking her head into the room nervously.
"Tell him the freeman unit has arrived and I am aware of his orders, we are setting out now" Mr. George said nodding. "Excellent, skyler show him the evacuation plans now-" "I found tally!" shay shouted. "Good, go get her, don't cure her, send her to cable have her confess to what you and tally did, then join us in the fight" I said as I ran my hands through Shiloh's fur.
I then got up and turned around. "freeman unit, this will be a deadly mission, the biggest we have taken on since forming, if you don't want to be a part of it I understand, you may join the evacuation" I said. "Not happening Megan, we are in this until the end" croy said seriously. Everyone agreed and I smiled "well then let's make sure the end of all of this and near" I replied. Then I turned around and walked out of the door.