I was gonna update on Monday but I had to go to hell.

*School

Chapter 24

Riley rolled her wheelchair back and forth across the room, staring at her feet and muttering to herself. She'd been doing that for the past twenty minutes, and it was making Daniel nervous. What was wrong with that man showing up to see them? He seemed like a nice guy.

As Riley rolled over to the other side for the umpteenth time, Daniel let out a huge sigh. "Riley, what's so bad about this? Why are you so nervous?"

Riley clamped her hands on the wheels of her chair, stopping in her tracks. She looked up at Daniel. "Seriously? What's so bad about this? Omega, did you not hear him? He wants to take you guys away and force you to join his army. Does that not make you worried?"

Daniel shrugged. "Not really. I don't even know what's going on here. And could you call me Daniel instead of Omega?"

Riley gaped at him. She glanced at Allen, who just shrugged helplessly. She groaned and put her head in her hands. "Oh my gosh. Are you serious, Omega?"

"Daniel," he corrected.

She shook her head. "Okay, we'll talk about that later. We've got to get you guys out of here before Percy shows up. He said he would be here tomorrow, so we should have plenty of time to find a place for you guys to go. There's still some safe houses that Percy hasn't found out about yet, so we could take you to one of those. There's one somewhere in the city. It just looks like a normal house, so no one would really suspect that you would be there..." She started talking to herself once again.

Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. Riley yelped and almost fell out of her chair.

Mokona started walking toward the door. "Um, should I-?"

Riley shook her head frantically. "No! Don't-"

But Mokona had already started turning the doorknob, and before he could process her words, the door swung open, and a man walked in.

Daniel immediately recognized him as that Percy guy from the video chat thing. Everything about him looked the same, except for the fact that he somehow looked a lot more... evil in person. Daniel didn't know how, but he just did. That, and he was a lot smaller and wasn't just a head on a screen.

Daniel smiled and waved. "Hi!"

Percy grinned and walked toward Riley with open arms. "Riley! Wow, it's been so long since I've seen you in person! You look great!"

Riley stayed put, staring at the smiling man in a mixture of confusion and disgust. "Um, what are you doing here?"

Percy reached her and clapped her on the shoulder. "Oh, I was in the area and decided to visit my old friend. So, how have you been? I see you upgraded some of your weird tech stuff," he stated, looking around the room.

Riley grabbed his hand between two of her fingers and removed it from her shoulder, curling her lip as she did so. "You seem to be in an awfully good mood. What's happened?"

Percy shrugged as he began walking around the room. "Oh, nothing much. Just that the army blew up the enemy base before they could finish evacuating is all."

Ash didn't even hesitate. She drew her iron sword and lunged at Percy. Mokona immediately grabbed her arm and yanked her back, making Ash drop her weapon. Mokona gripped both of Ash's hands together, keeping them behind her back like , that didn't keep Ash from screaming at Percy at the top of her lungs.

"YOU FREAKING BASTARD!" she shrieked, struggling against Mokona's strong grip. "PEOPLE LIVED IN THAT BASE! ENTIRE FAMILIES! THAT BASE WAS SOME OF THEIR HOMES! AND YOU KILLED THEM! THEY HAD LIVES, THEY HAD FAMILIES, AND YOU- YOU JUST- YOU'RE DESPICABLE!"

Percy smirked and walked up to her, leaning down to look her in the eyes. "Your point is?"

Daniel furrowed his eyebrows. This guy killed people? That couldn't be right, could it? He'd seemed so nice during the video chat.

Percy grabbed Ash's chin and tilted her head up, moving it from side to side as though examining her. "Hmm. Tough, strong, small and fast- you'd make a good warrior."

Ash curled her lip. "I'd only join your army if my life depended on it."

Percy chuckled. "Good. Because it does." He let go of her face and twisted around to look at Herobrine. "And you-" He strolled over to the white-eyed man, who was glaring down at him with pure hate in his eyes. "I've seen you before. Herobrine, is it?"

Herobrine snarled. "What's it to you?"

Percy chuckled and looked at Alex and Peter, who were both still sitting on the couch with comic books in their hands. "I believe the two of you were with him? Alex Perrson, daughter of Notch, and Peter Krystal, prince of the End and brother to the future queen? Am I correct?"

Neither of them spoke.

Percy nodded. "I see." He strolled back over to Riley. "Now, how about we get you and these new warriors back to our own headquarters, shall we?"

xXx

Nike stared upwards as cracks spread through the purple, gold, and turquoise barrier. She tapped her boyfriend on the shoulder. "Hey, Harvey?"

He stopped his conversation with a kid and turned to Nike. "Yeah?"

Nike pointed up without a word. He looked where she was pointing and his eyes widened. "Crap. This isn't good."

Nike rolled her eyes. "No kidding. What do we do?"

He shrugged. "We could go find Presea," he suggested.

Nike nodded. "Okay, you go do that while I try to keep it from breaking."

He raised an eyebrow. "What? No, I'm not leaving you here."

"Yes you freaking are, you stupid polite asshole."

He rolled his eyes. "Love you too." He whistled to get everyone's attention. All the people looked at him, and he sighed. "okay, so the barrier is kind of starting to break, and I think that the enemy might be attacking, so maybe we should, like, maybe all start evacua-"

He was cut off by someone screaming and everyone running towards the doorway. Someone punched in the code, and the people started to run out of the building.

Nike took a deep breath and raised her hands above her head. She'd done this many times before, so this was one of her stronger spells, but without Harvey or Allen, she wasn't sure she could hold the shield. She spoke the words quietly, and a gold beam of light shot from her palms and smacked into the barrier, filling in the cracks. Unfortunately, an explosion crashed into the shield, countering Nike's magic and shattering the barrier completely.

Then she couldn't breathe.

Nike immediately started panicking. Harvey couldn't swim, and he wasn't out there with everyone else. He'd gone to find Presea.

Which meant she had to go find them.

Nike's ears popped, and she opened her eyes. She was really far underwater, and could already feel the pressure pushing against her body, threatening to crush her like an aluminum can.

She swiped her arms through the water and began kicking her feet, trying to swim in the direction she thought Harvey had gone to. She couldn't see anything, and the pressure was only getting worse. She heard a loud crack and gasped, her hand flying to her chest. One of her ribs must have broken from the pressure.

Snap.

Her arm was flooded with pain.

Crick.

Her leg.

She screamed and stopped moving, trying not to jostle the broken bones. Black spots danced in her vision.

I'm sorry, Harvey, she thought, just before going unconscious.