Part 2, chapter 28!!!

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"YOU LIAR" Kori yelled at Xavier, who shrunk back in fear as he saw her eyes turn bright green.

"Kori CALM DOWN." Richard yelled trying to reach her, but the ropes on him prevented him to do so.

"I already told you I didn't do it." Xavier said as he looked over at Barbara, who was lying on the ground with blood coming out of her leg, his eyes longed to go over to her.

"Then who did it?" Kori asked furious that this jerk was messing with her.

"I did." A calm voice said, Kori looked to her right and saw Karras standing there with a switch in his hand.

"What!" Kori whispered.

"You know what." Karras said with a smug smile. Kori's control snapped as she tackled him to the ground.

"You sick BASTARD!" Kori yelled. She was thrown off of him and she landed on her back hitting her head against the edge of the tank, she squeezed her eyes shut in pain.

"Don't do things like that Kori, you'll only get hurt." Karras said as he walked over to Kori and moved her hair out of her eyes.

"DON"T TOUCH HER!" Richard yelled furiously struggling to get out of the ropes.

"I can do what I want." Karras said dangerously, as he flipped the switch.

It took everyone in the room a couple of seconds to register the rapid blinking noise and what it was.

"KORI!" Richard yelled at the same time she screamed his name.

The noise stopped as did everyone's heart as the warehouse they were in exploded.

2 HOURS BEFORE

Kori had no idea where Richard had even gone, maybe he was back at the Manor. She highly doubted that though, this was his best friend they're talking about.

She would just call him and ask where he was, but he wasn't picking up his phone. Kori at first thought he was just ignoring her, but something told her it was more than that and that scared her.

She had been so close to calling Rachel, but chickened out in the last minute. Why she had no idea, maybe it was because she didn't want to bother her and it was now 12 at night. Rachel could get very grumpy if being woken up.

Kori needed to find Richard and Barbara and she was on her own, with no help. She just hoped she could get to them in time before anything bad happened.

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Richard stirred slightly as he heard his name being called. At first he thought it was Kori and he was in bed, but then he registered he was on nothing near soft and comfy. Then he remembered seeing Barbara hanging from the ceiling.

Richard's eyes shot open and he groaned as his head started to spin a little. It felt like he had a massive hang over, but he was guessing it was the hit he had taken not that long ago.

"Oh my god, it's about time you wake up." Barbara said

"What are you taking about?" Richard said groggily. He tried to rub his eyes but he realized his hands were bound with rope.

"Well I gave you a warning, but it was too late and now you're stuck here with me." Barbara said with a roll of her eyes.

"Right, but maybe I can grab my phone it's in my pocket." Richard said as he squirmed to get his phone out of his pocket.

"About that, the guy in the mask threw it in the water tank." Barbara said sheepishly.

Richard let a growl escape his mouth that was an expensive phone.

"Yeah well that guy in the mask is your…" Richard started but then wondered why Xavier was wearing a mask. He wouldn't be wearing it if he didn't want someone to know who he was, and seeing as he and Kori knew, that meant he didn't want Barbara to know the truth.

"The guy in the mask is my what?" Barbara asked as she looked at Richard.

Richard gulped nervously, "Nothing."

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Kori was pretty much wondering around aimlessly. She knew she should at least call someone to help her, but why bring them into her drama?

Kori past the park and was now headed into the North part of town, the gang side. More like the area where crime was high and murders were made.

Kori shuddered as she looked at a dead cat on the side of the road that was another thing it was really messy over here.

Kori looked ahead and saw abandoned warehouses, at first she wouldn't have thought much about it but then she saw a guy walking on the roof of one of the warehouses. He was wearing a mask and he jumped then disappeared.

Kori was shocked at how he did that, but then shook the thought away as she decided she would check it out. Walking fast so no one saw her she looked to her left then right before she threw open the door.

Kori closed her eyes tightly, thinking someone would grab her.

"Kori?" Richard's voice came out sounding like a question rather than a statement.

Kori peeked through her eyes, "God don't do that."

"Sorry, can you un tie us?" Richard asked. Kori nodded and she started walking over to Barbara knowing Richard would want her safe first.

Kori looked around and pushed over a box to stand on, she climbed on top of it and grabbed a pocket knife out of her pocket and cut Barbara down. Barbara fell to the ground clutching her leg, that got cut I the process.

"Sorry." Kori mumbled, just as she was about to help her up a figure jumped into the warehouse from the window and pushed Kori to fall into a tank of water that was an opening in the warehouse floor and it stretched beneath ground level.

Kori closed her eyes and sucked in breath as she plummeted into the water, which was freezing. She heard Richard call her name just before she hit the water. Kori sunk about 8 feet from the speed she was going when she was pushed in, quickly she swam up.

Breathing in air once her head was above water, she wiped her hair out of her eyes. Kori swam to the edge and pulled herself up. Lying on her stomach she breathed in and out. Kori had no idea how they were going to get out of this.

"Look who decided to join us, finally." Xavier said almost in a mocking way.

"You know him?" Barbara asked bewildered.

Kori snorted, "Like you don't know he's your…"

Kori stopped when she saw Richard was glaring at her, as if to say 'stop talking'.

"He's my what." Barbara asked, twice they said this and she got no answer.

"Nothing." Kori said quickly.

"Come on, cutie." Xavier said as he pulled her to her feet and dragged her to the other side of the warehouse. Kori struggled against his hold on her but it was useless.

"Let go of her." Richard yelled, trying to break free.

"Why would I do that?" Xavier said rhetorically.

Richard growled, and Barbara tried to help but she couldn't stand because of her leg.

"Let her go." Barbara said as she watched Xavier start to tie her feet together.

"You're sick Jason and you won't get away with this." Kori sneered.

"What would make you say that?" Xavier asked as he tied the final knot on the rope.

"Because we will escape, and I'll make sure you go to jail for murdering my sister." Kori said.

Xavier stopped what he was doing and said, "I didn't kill your sister."

"Like you expect me to believe that." Kori said.

"I swear I didn't." Xavier said as he backed away from her, not even trying to stop her as she undid the rope on her legs. Kori's eyes flashed, but she was determined not to lose control.

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That's it for now, I know it's short its just that I wanted the Countdown to have parts.

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