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Chapter Fourteen
"Hey Jade, ready for the party?" Tori asked, walking up to Jade at her locker. Jade looked at her, blinking sleepily, which made Tori giggle.
"What party?" Jade asked, pulling a cup of coffee out of her locker and taking a sip.
"The graduation party Robbie's throwing at his house." Tori said, rolling her eyes.
"Ugh, do we have to go?" Jade asked, taking another sip of coffee.
"Relax; it's just going to be Beck, Robbie, Cat, Andre, and us." Tori said reassuringly.
"I know." Jade said grumpily. "Can't we just stay at my place and watch movies?"
"What's wrong?" Tori asked, frowning at Jade.
"Why do you want to go to this party so badly?" Jade asked, answering a question with a question.
"Answer my question Jade." Tori said, folding her arms.
"I will after your question after you answer mine." Jade said, looking at Tori over her cup of coffee.
"But I asked my question first." Tori protested. Jade responded by shrugging.
"I don't care. Answer the question." She told Tori, taking another sip. Tori shrugged helplessly.
"I don't know, I just feel bad that we don't spend much time with the others outside of school anymore. I kind of feel like we've been ignoring them."
"Alright, fine, if it'll make you feel better, we'll go to the stupid party." Jade sighed, shutting the locker.
"Thank you Jadey!" Tori said excitedly, hugging Jade and smiling when the other girl stiffened at the pet name. "Now, why didn't you want to go?" Jade sighed and looked away as Tori pulled back.
"I don't know, I just don't like goodbyes, and that's what this feels like. Like we're saying goodbye. Because you know as well as I do that most of us are going to go our separate ways once we graduate. We might keep in touch via Facebook, or Skype, or Twitter, but we probably won't actually meet up very often."
"Yeah, but even if that's true, shouldn't you at least come to say goodbye?" Tori asked, gently grabbing Jade by the chin and making the goth girl look at her. "After all, if we won't see each other very often, doesn't that make every time we do see each other special?" Jade sighed.
"You're right." She admitted, somewhat reluctantly.
"Of course I am." Tori said with a smile, pulling Jade back into a tight hug.
"I never should have let you take that poetry class." Jade muttered, making Tori laugh. "It made you way too smart with emotions for me."
"Oh, like you could have stopped me." Tori teased, pulling back and smiling up at Jade.
"I could have." Jade insisted, flicking Tori on the forehead.
"No you couldn't." Tori said, shaking her head. "Angela's right, I've got you whipped." Jade's eyes widened.
"She told you about that little theory, huh?" She growled. "That's it, I'm deactivating the personality matrix in her coding. "
"Don't you dare." Tori said with a laugh, kissing her. Jade opened her mouth, closed it, and scowled.
"Fine." She growled. "But only…"
"Because you want to want to, I know." Tori said, kissing Jade on the nose.
One hour later
To Jade's surprise, the party wasn't awkward at all. Nobody was under any illusions that they'd all stay as close after graduation as they had been before it, so everybody worked on making the party just as much about celebrating the good times they'd had together as it was about celebrating the upcoming graduation. They talked and joked about past adventures, played games on Robbie's Xbox 360, watched in shock as Cat beat everyone at Risk, and generally had a good time. Things were going smoothly, up until Beck got up in the middle of a second round of Risk. "Sorry guys." He said, pulling out his cellphone. "I've got to take this call." A minute later, Andre went to the bathroom, Cat went to the kitchen to check on the cookies she'd put in the oven, and Robbie, after much begging and pleading with Jade, went to go get Rex, leaving Tori and Jade alone.
And then Hell broke loose. Jade had taken the opportunity to snuggle up next to Tori, when they heard glass shatter and Cat scream. Jade and Tori both looked up in surprise, immediately concerned. But then Robbie let out a scream as more glass shattered. Jade quickly got to her feet, Tori close behind, as Andre and Beck both let out shouts of surprise and more glass shattered. Jade turned to stone and threw up a forcefield around Tori, keeping the other girl from moving. "Stay there!" She yelled, running for the kitchen.
"Jade, let me out!" Tori protested, banging on the shield. Jade ignored her and ran in to the kitchen, coming to a complete stop. Cat was nowhere to be seen, but there were four…things in the kitchen.
"What the hell?" Jade muttered, staring at them in shock. They were all about the same height as a regular human, but they were green, with pointy ears and odd markings on their chins.
"We are soldiers of the Skrull Empire." One of them said. Jade frowned. That voice sounded rather familiar. "Stand down now, or be subdued."
"No." Jade said, rushing forward and punching the…Skrull in the face, knocking it to the ground. The others drew pistols and began to open fire. Jade threw herself to the side, cursing the fact that she didn't have her costume on, then turned both of her arms back into flesh and stretched them out. She grabbed two of them by the head and slammed them into the third several times until she was sure they were subdued, then dropped them. Jade looked down at them, frowning. She really wasn't sure what to do right now. She didn't want to leave them unsupervised, considering the fact that her friends were also in the house, but it's not like she had any rope. And considering the other noises she'd heard, there were definitely other things in the house. Jade shook her head. She'd spent too much time here in the kitchen, it was time to move on.
She left through a different door than the one she'd come in, turning her arms back into stone as she did so. When she reached the entry hall, she felt a cold pit in her stomach grow. She was completely surrounded, with Skrulls on the stairs, the living room, and two coming behind her, all with their rifles raised and pointed at her. "Surrender or be subdued." One of the Skrulls commanded." Jade considered her options. Her powers were controlled by her brain, so if she was knocked out, it would knock out the forcefield around Tori as well. On the other hand, if she did surrender, there was no way of knowing that they'd leave Tori alone. She rather doubted that they would, frankly. That left her with one option.
Jade turned her biceps and shoulders into flesh and shot out her arms, hoping to take at least of a few of them by surprise. It didn't work, and they shot her before she could hit any of them. Jade hit the ground with a thud, unconscious. "So stubborn." The Skrull who had previously spoken said, shaking his head and sighing. "Go collect the girl and the soldiers she defeated." He ordered, pointing to the others. "And hurry, we only have a limited amount of time at our disposal."
One minute later
Mr. West glanced at his phone, then pressed the button, sealing off his office. "Yes?" He asked, picking up the phone.
"We have her." The head Skrull said.
"Did you grab the Vega girl as well?" Mr. West asked.
"Yes, we knocked both of them out."
"You knocked her out? Do you know how much harder it'll be to get her to cooperate now?" Mr. West yelled.
"She refused to surrender and attempted to attack me and my men." The Skrull replied calmly. Mr. West sighed and stood up.
"I'm on my way. When you get to my house, chain them up in the basement, make sure they're in separate rooms."
"Understood." The other Skrull said, hanging up. Mr. West let out another sigh, adjusted his tie, and left the office. Time to get to the real work.
Author's Note
Alright guys, things are coming to a close for this story! Just so you know, there'll be 17 chapters in total for this story. Thanks for reading, and see you next time!