I HATE CHILI'S!!!!!!! Okay, you all know the restaurant Chili's right? Well, if you do and you LIKE their food CURSE YOU ALL! THEY COULD HAVE KILLED ME WITH CHICKEN STRIPS!! Okay, I know that sounds ironic and retarded but I'm dead serious. I have a VERY severe food allergy to every kind of nut possible. If it's a nut, you name it, I'm DEATHLY allergic to it. If I ate a peanut it would kill me. So anyway, we went to Tennessee for my skating team's last competition for Nationals and before practice we decide to eat at Chili's. Well, I had never had their food before so we decided to try it. We go in, my mom explains the whole allergy ordeal, needs to make sure food is not contaminated thing and the waitress said she would check. I order chicken strips, because we figured, how could they contaminate chicken? So the girl brings our food out and my mom asks if she had checked to make sure the food was okay for me to eat and she's like, "Oh, yeah, sure." So I try a bite and like five minutes later I have a reaction. I thank the Lord that it was a mild reaction or I would've ended up in the hospital (I'm terrified of hospitals by the way). Allergic reactions, my friends, are not fun. If you have never had one you are REALLY insanely lucky. First you start to feel like there's a huge lump in your throat and then your chest kind of get's tight and it starts to get hard to breathe. (Luckily I realized I was having a reaction at this stage and took a huge dose of Benadryl before anything worse happens) And then it starts to hurt in your chest and your start throwing up and I think it's called an anaflectic attack or something like that where your throat actually CLOSES up ALL THE WAY and you can't breathe at all. It's a really scary thing. Okay, I think this A/N is long enough so on with the story.
Chapter 20
Max pov.
I watch as Daniel walks around the Tunnel with a smug look on his face. He picks up an apple that was left over from our dinner and tosses it slightly up and down in his palm. "Maximum, Fang, how nice of you to join your flock once more. You know this really is a nice tunnel. Could use some light though. Bit dull for my tastes but I suppose that when you're a mutant freak things are different around the house, eh?"
"Yes, I think it is rather evil-maniac oriented in here, isn't it? You should feel right at home." I smirk.
He raises an eyebrow. "Still into playing games with your authorities, huh? Well, darling, I'm afraid in this world playing games is only going to get you killed sooner."
"You're speaking from experience right? I always knew there was something about you that seemed half dead. What happened to your heart? Did you get hurt and decide to cut it out and hang it on your mantle to show the world that you're an emotionless blurb in this world?" I snicker at him and he set's down the apple and takes a step closer to me and Fang.
"Really? I thought the same thing when I was reading the files about your pal there." He cocks his head and looks at Fang briefly.
I have to restrain myself from killing him on the spot. "Well then. Shall we get on with this meeting before my heartless pal here rips out the rest of your organs and splatters them on the freeway for your wife to find?"
For a moment his eyes grow cold and I can tell I've hit a nerve. "Ah," I say and walk around, circling him, "so there is a wife."
Rick steps into our conversation and motions for the flyboys to stay put. "Sit down." He orders.
"Make me." I snarl at him.
He nods. "Alright then." He snaps his fingers and at least fifty flyboys are shoving both me and Fang onto the hard metal floor. How could they fit them all in here?
"Okay." I growl. "We're sitting. What the heck do you want with us? Oh, right. Now I remember. You want revenge because we blew up your new headquarters." I shake my head for effect. "What a shame really. Those Eliminators of yours really are very flammable. Blow up quite easily don't they? You should fix that."
Daniel gives a creepy smile and turns and nods at Rick who pulls out a monitor. He speaks into it, "Bring her in."
About a dozen or so flyboys come in carrying a kicking and screaming Skye. Her hair is disheveled and she is practically drenched in blood with opens wounds everywhere.
"Let her go." Chortles Trevor.
"Really?" Daniel smiles again. "Why should we? She's betrayed both of us."
Everyone stares at Skye who has tears streaming down her face as a flyboy elbows her in the stomach.
"What are you talking about?" Shane glares at Daniel.
"Oh, so you don't know." He walks over to Skye and pulls her head up by her hair. She winces and more tears start streaming. "She's been working for us the whole time. We've had surveillance on all of you since you morons 'rescued' her from TDI. Do you actually think you could get past all of our security that easily? She's been reporting back to us the whole time."
Everyone stares in disbelief at Skye. "But," Daniel continues, "She seemed to double cross us. With your last mission she never told us anything. Broke in and attacked half our crew in the surveillance room. Screwed up a lot of money's worth of technology." He twists her arm into a painful position and she screams again. "She's betrayed both of us. So the question is; whose side is she with now?" He yanks at her matted black hair again and I see her grimace. "Are you going to come with us like a good little girl, or are you going to stay with them so we can kill you ourselves?"
She finally looks up at us with red puffy eyes and bloodstained face and hair and then slowly turns to Daniel and growls, "Go to hell."
Daniel's face is grim and he snaps his fingers. The flyboys restraining her let go and she collapses into a heap on the ground. "Very well." Daniel straightens up and heads toward the exit. "Your choice has been made. You won't be accepted back." The rest of the flyboys follow behind him but one of them kicks her with a ton of force and she screams and whimpers on the ground in a pool of her own blood and they walk away, harshly laughing and snickering as they go.
When their all gone me and Fang help everyone else get untied. Shane walks over to Skye's limp but still conscious body on the ground and kneels down. The whole Tunnel is silent, waiting for the Tunnel Guards' leader's reaction to the situation.
Skye is still crying and curled in a ball and averts her eyes. "I'm sorry Shane." She manages to say in a raspy and choked voice. "They didn't give me a choice."
He nods slightly and stands up and turns his back to everyone. Moments later when he turns back his face is a solid mask of no emotion. "When you get your strength back you're leaving. You're no longer welcome here." Shane walks off into the other tunnels and everything goes incredibly quiet except for Skye's whimpering. We all turn our attention away and immerse ourselves in something, not wanting to really talk to her. It was going to be a long night.
The next morning, which turned out to only be a couple hours away, I woke up way before everyone else. I hadn't slept much anyway though. Not after last nights 'activities'. It all was just a little disturbing. Skye had gone quiet about three hours ago but I heard her rustling as she woke up.
She moaned as she tried to stand up. She tried to crawl her way over to me. "Max?"
I turn to her, "What?"
"I'm sorry. I'm sorry I betrayed you guys. I never meant it." She starts sobbing. I just sit there, feeling awkward. This was a different Skye than we had seen. "They made me. You know how they are. If I didn't listen to them they would have killed me."
"They've been telling us the same things." I tell her quietly, not wanting to wake the others up. "They've been trying to order us around for years, Skye. And we've managed to stay alive this whole time. We fought our way through. You just chose the easy way out."
I stand up and walk over to the rest of my flock, leaving her sitting there, with an actual look of hurt on her face and I briefly wonder; what if she really was sorry? What if she really had meant it? Oh well, in the morning Shane was getting rid of her. I guess we'll never know for sure.
Trevor pov.
That night I hardly get any sleep at all. And the sleep I do end up getting is ridden with the worst nightmares I've ever had in my life.
When I wake up that morning I would just prefer to lie there on the cold hard floor and never wake up again, wishing it was all just a dream and everything would go back to normal. But when I wake up I see Skye huddled in a corner all alone looking like she had just been run over by a truck. And so I know it wasn't just a dream, even though I wished in all my heart it was.
Not everyone was up yet. Just mostly the older ones. I decide to get up and go over to Skye. She doesn't look up when I do and I sit down and lean against the wall beside her. We just sit there, in silence for a long, long time before anyone says anything.
Finally I break the silence by saying, "Why'd you do it?"
She looks at her feet. "I take it you mean work for Daniel."
"Yeah." I reply and wait for her answer.
She looks up at me slightly and then turns her head and looks solemnly at the wall ahead of her, as if remember a horrible even from the past. Eventually she says, "They were going to kill her."
"Who?" I ask.
She looks at me, teary-eyed and starts her confessions, "My sister. They kidnapped us both and changed us. She would be five right now. Daniel said if I didn't come spy on the Tunnel Guards he'd kill her."
"What did you mean by she would be five?" I ask her.
"All break-ins that are planned I'm supposed to report to Daniel. When we demolished TDI without warning the other day he got mad and killed her. He sent an agent to give me a picture of her mangled dead body. He had killed her even without communicating with me. I couldn't come up with a lie or anything to tell him at all. He sent a note attached to the picture. He said that I had betrayed everyone. I couldn't fit in with them anymore. I couldn't fit in with anyone anymore. No one would trust me." She wipes away a few of her tears. "I guess he was right." Then her tears start spilling out onto her cheeks uncontrollably now. I hated to see her this way. She had been my best friend for as long as she had been with us.
Oh, I get it now. She hadn't done it for loyalty to Daniel. She had done it out of love. Love for her sister. Love that was now destroyed. She was practically a shell now. Daniel had taken away her sister from her, and now we had taken away everything else.
What did you think? This was literally my longest chapter yet! Over 2000 words! Yay! Please review! Sorry to leave it on a sad note but . . . I had to stick with my plot. You'll get over it. I update almost every day anyways. And I got this chap up a day early! Yay! Reward me with reviews! -Kristen