Part Twenty Three
Michael drove one car and Alex drove the other. Maria sat in the front seat. She took out her gun and much to the consternation of Michael opened up the gun revealing the bullets she had loaded early during the day for the file retrieval. Although he was seeing her do this for the second time, that slight feeling of disbelief and still remained. Part of him couldn't help but feel uncomfortable as he watched his, before she met him totally innocent and naïve, girlfriend handle a weapon with the mark of expertise.
Following the sheriff's instructions the two cars pulled up in the street just before the cul-de-sac. Isabel changed hers and Alex's clothes to black and Michael did the same to his and Maria's. It was necessary to take all the precautions not to be seen. The four teens walked quickly to the end of the cul-de-sac that was Prescott Drive where a quiet whisper let them know where the sheriff was.
The four friends joined the sheriff and crouched behind the huge tree that stood slightly to the side of the huge gates that blocked the entrance to the house that held there friends captive. A quick whispered conference began where everyone exchange information. The information that Maria and Alex had gathered merely confirmed the sheriff's suspicions and the congresswoman's presence made the other's positive that they had the right place.
The sheriff handed Alex one of two walkie-talkies he had. "Okay, you and Maria wait out here and Michael, Isabel and I are going in," Jim said.
"Uh no way. I'm going in with you," Maria put.
"Maria you can't come in…" the sheriff was cut off before he could state his reasons.
Maria suddenly remembered the sheriff wasn't aware of her training, "Sheriff, I think you are underestimating me," she began.
"Maria you could get hurt."
Maria didn't see any way to make her point clearly without going into a lot of detail. She did the one thing that would at least get his attention. She took out her gun. Even Michael laughed at the expression on the sheriff's face when he saw the weapon.
"I know how to use it. Don't worry, sheriff. It's too long to go into right now but I am fully qualified to go into a situation like this," Maria said.
The sheriff looked like he was about to argue with her when she looked him directly in the eyes and said, "Trust me, please."
The sheriff glanced at Michael, and seeing his almost unnoticeable endorsement, nodded at Maria in agreement, albeit slightly grudgingly.
"I'll explain everything later, I promise." And that would have to do for now.
The sheriff took out a rifle from his trunk and loaded the bullets. He also pulled out his gun that lay in his holster and checked that before looking at Michael, Isabel and Maria. It was time to go. Alex stood behind the tree and watched as his friends left. Two of them armed and two of them not, their powers all there was to protect them. It was his job to wait, to bring the car around if they needed it in a hurry and to communicate with, via walkie-talkie. Alex wanted to go in with them but he recognised the danger that would present to both him and his friends that could be distracted by his presence.
Inside the house four friends were about to storm, two couples sat terrified unaware of each others presence and unable to communicate with anyone. What made things worse for Tess, at the very least, is that she didn't know why she had lost the powers she had never been without since she was a little girl. Kyle was scared because he could see no way out of their situation without Tess's powers yet he was trying to be strong for the girl who seemed totally lost now that, despite a lessening in the exhaustive state she was in, still couldn't access her powers.
Max wasn't scared or terrified. He was still unconscious and had been since their capture. He was wondering around in a mist like state while his body tried to heal the massive injuries that had been done to him. Through the mist he could hear a voice calling him. It was a sweet voice one that, although he didn't recognise at the moment, he knew he had to get to. So he moved towards her voice, closer and closer. Sometimes he could hear tears in her voice and a part of him felt extreme pain at that. He moved faster and ran to stop her tears.
Liz had been sitting on the floor of her square prison for hours now, Max's head in her lap as she talked with him, pleaded with him to wake up. He hadn't moved since they had been thrown in the room but she hadn't given up yet. He would wake up that she knew, it was just a matter of when. Somewhere in her subconscious she could feel him getting closer and closer to her and that kept her going. It was a waiting game.
Two doors down, the level of terror rose suddenly as the door that held them was flung open. Two huge burly guys walked in and yanked up the two teens who were sitting against the wall in the corner of the room. Whatever they had been brought here for was about to happen. The couple refuse to let go of each others hand despite their captors attempt to separate them. Holding them in a tight grip the two kids were led out the room they had been sitting for hours into a long corridor. Tess immediately tried to contact max and had no success. She attempted Isabel next, holding on tightly to Kyle's hand for support, and for the first time in a long time she felt a connection go through. It wasn't a strong connection (they were surrounded by lead) but it got through.
Isabel, Michael, Maria and the sheriff were at the gate deciding the best way to enter when Isabel gave a soft cry. The soft faint voice of her friend in her head was the first sign of their friends still being alive they had received. Immediately all the pressure that Isabel had been holding inside her was relieved. She let Tess know about Max and Liz and told her to hold on.
On the other side Tess exchanged a look with Kyle. Without saying a word reading the new light in her eyes Kyle knew that Tess had succeeded. It was a short conversation that was hard to hold on to because of the lead surrounding the area but contact had been made and that was all they needed to hold on to.
As they neared the end of the corridor Kyle and Tess heard loud voices yelling. The closer the two got, the clearer the voices became. A woman's voice was yelling about some files that had disappeared, files that were needed, that were essential for the next phase. An agent had disappeared with the files and due to some incompetence on the part of the idiots whose job it was to retrieve such information they, both the files and the agent were still missing.
Another quick look over the two guards was exchanged and even a small grin could be seen on Kyle's face as he and Tess recognised the success of the mission that had started this whole process. The two teens were now at the end of the corridor. They were thrown into a room. This room had a table and three chairs in it. Like the square room that they had just left, it was painted entirely in white.
The only difference there was between this room and the other one was that one side of the room was covered in a huge mirror. It didn't take a genius to realise, much less the son of a cop and his girlfriend, that it was a two way mirror. The two of them stared at their reflections in the mirror, ignoring the state that they looked, covered in bruises that were darkening and the torn and dirty clothes. Their aim was to show whoever it was on the other side of that mirror the look of pure defiance and the one that showed that whatever happened they were not about to give in.
Tess leaned over and in Kyle's ear whispered the things she had learned from Isabel. She told Kyle to be ready. And he was. But before they could deal with a rescue they had to deal with an interrogation. He hoped as did she that there rescue would come before anything really bad happened. And he wondered about Max and Liz and prayed that they were okay.
The door opened and in it walked the congresswoman. Both Kyle and Tess kept there expressions carefully blank, careful not to give a way anything that would reveal their knowledge of her involvement. She didn't say anything at first and just stood there staring at them. It was a contest to see who would last the longest. Kyle and Tess were determined not to lose.
It would have went on forever but enough time had already been wasted with the disappearance of the files. The congresswoman was furious. All her plans had been disrupted. The files were missing. Four subjects had somehow eluded capture and seemed to have completely disappeared despite various parties searching for them. Subject 1 was still unconscious and Kivar was arriving in a couple of hours expecting results that she couldn't provide. To make matters worse Nicholas had thrown 4 tantrums already and no doubt was going to throw a few more. Apparently the age of the body he now inhabited was affecting him since he was behaving more like a teenager than the second in command of one of the galaxies largest and most powerful armies. Like she didn't have enough to deal with.
And now to top it all of she had to deal with an interrogation that she just knew was going to go badly judging by the looks in these two's eyes. Plus they were the only subjects that could be interrogated and quite frankly they were at the bottom of the list. She was having an extremely bad day which was just about to get worse.
She didn't know how right she was.
End Part 23
Michael drove one car and Alex drove the other. Maria sat in the front seat. She took out her gun and much to the consternation of Michael opened up the gun revealing the bullets she had loaded early during the day for the file retrieval. Although he was seeing her do this for the second time, that slight feeling of disbelief and still remained. Part of him couldn't help but feel uncomfortable as he watched his, before she met him totally innocent and naïve, girlfriend handle a weapon with the mark of expertise.
Following the sheriff's instructions the two cars pulled up in the street just before the cul-de-sac. Isabel changed hers and Alex's clothes to black and Michael did the same to his and Maria's. It was necessary to take all the precautions not to be seen. The four teens walked quickly to the end of the cul-de-sac that was Prescott Drive where a quiet whisper let them know where the sheriff was.
The four friends joined the sheriff and crouched behind the huge tree that stood slightly to the side of the huge gates that blocked the entrance to the house that held there friends captive. A quick whispered conference began where everyone exchange information. The information that Maria and Alex had gathered merely confirmed the sheriff's suspicions and the congresswoman's presence made the other's positive that they had the right place.
The sheriff handed Alex one of two walkie-talkies he had. "Okay, you and Maria wait out here and Michael, Isabel and I are going in," Jim said.
"Uh no way. I'm going in with you," Maria put.
"Maria you can't come in…" the sheriff was cut off before he could state his reasons.
Maria suddenly remembered the sheriff wasn't aware of her training, "Sheriff, I think you are underestimating me," she began.
"Maria you could get hurt."
Maria didn't see any way to make her point clearly without going into a lot of detail. She did the one thing that would at least get his attention. She took out her gun. Even Michael laughed at the expression on the sheriff's face when he saw the weapon.
"I know how to use it. Don't worry, sheriff. It's too long to go into right now but I am fully qualified to go into a situation like this," Maria said.
The sheriff looked like he was about to argue with her when she looked him directly in the eyes and said, "Trust me, please."
The sheriff glanced at Michael, and seeing his almost unnoticeable endorsement, nodded at Maria in agreement, albeit slightly grudgingly.
"I'll explain everything later, I promise." And that would have to do for now.
The sheriff took out a rifle from his trunk and loaded the bullets. He also pulled out his gun that lay in his holster and checked that before looking at Michael, Isabel and Maria. It was time to go. Alex stood behind the tree and watched as his friends left. Two of them armed and two of them not, their powers all there was to protect them. It was his job to wait, to bring the car around if they needed it in a hurry and to communicate with, via walkie-talkie. Alex wanted to go in with them but he recognised the danger that would present to both him and his friends that could be distracted by his presence.
Inside the house four friends were about to storm, two couples sat terrified unaware of each others presence and unable to communicate with anyone. What made things worse for Tess, at the very least, is that she didn't know why she had lost the powers she had never been without since she was a little girl. Kyle was scared because he could see no way out of their situation without Tess's powers yet he was trying to be strong for the girl who seemed totally lost now that, despite a lessening in the exhaustive state she was in, still couldn't access her powers.
Max wasn't scared or terrified. He was still unconscious and had been since their capture. He was wondering around in a mist like state while his body tried to heal the massive injuries that had been done to him. Through the mist he could hear a voice calling him. It was a sweet voice one that, although he didn't recognise at the moment, he knew he had to get to. So he moved towards her voice, closer and closer. Sometimes he could hear tears in her voice and a part of him felt extreme pain at that. He moved faster and ran to stop her tears.
Liz had been sitting on the floor of her square prison for hours now, Max's head in her lap as she talked with him, pleaded with him to wake up. He hadn't moved since they had been thrown in the room but she hadn't given up yet. He would wake up that she knew, it was just a matter of when. Somewhere in her subconscious she could feel him getting closer and closer to her and that kept her going. It was a waiting game.
Two doors down, the level of terror rose suddenly as the door that held them was flung open. Two huge burly guys walked in and yanked up the two teens who were sitting against the wall in the corner of the room. Whatever they had been brought here for was about to happen. The couple refuse to let go of each others hand despite their captors attempt to separate them. Holding them in a tight grip the two kids were led out the room they had been sitting for hours into a long corridor. Tess immediately tried to contact max and had no success. She attempted Isabel next, holding on tightly to Kyle's hand for support, and for the first time in a long time she felt a connection go through. It wasn't a strong connection (they were surrounded by lead) but it got through.
Isabel, Michael, Maria and the sheriff were at the gate deciding the best way to enter when Isabel gave a soft cry. The soft faint voice of her friend in her head was the first sign of their friends still being alive they had received. Immediately all the pressure that Isabel had been holding inside her was relieved. She let Tess know about Max and Liz and told her to hold on.
On the other side Tess exchanged a look with Kyle. Without saying a word reading the new light in her eyes Kyle knew that Tess had succeeded. It was a short conversation that was hard to hold on to because of the lead surrounding the area but contact had been made and that was all they needed to hold on to.
As they neared the end of the corridor Kyle and Tess heard loud voices yelling. The closer the two got, the clearer the voices became. A woman's voice was yelling about some files that had disappeared, files that were needed, that were essential for the next phase. An agent had disappeared with the files and due to some incompetence on the part of the idiots whose job it was to retrieve such information they, both the files and the agent were still missing.
Another quick look over the two guards was exchanged and even a small grin could be seen on Kyle's face as he and Tess recognised the success of the mission that had started this whole process. The two teens were now at the end of the corridor. They were thrown into a room. This room had a table and three chairs in it. Like the square room that they had just left, it was painted entirely in white.
The only difference there was between this room and the other one was that one side of the room was covered in a huge mirror. It didn't take a genius to realise, much less the son of a cop and his girlfriend, that it was a two way mirror. The two of them stared at their reflections in the mirror, ignoring the state that they looked, covered in bruises that were darkening and the torn and dirty clothes. Their aim was to show whoever it was on the other side of that mirror the look of pure defiance and the one that showed that whatever happened they were not about to give in.
Tess leaned over and in Kyle's ear whispered the things she had learned from Isabel. She told Kyle to be ready. And he was. But before they could deal with a rescue they had to deal with an interrogation. He hoped as did she that there rescue would come before anything really bad happened. And he wondered about Max and Liz and prayed that they were okay.
The door opened and in it walked the congresswoman. Both Kyle and Tess kept there expressions carefully blank, careful not to give a way anything that would reveal their knowledge of her involvement. She didn't say anything at first and just stood there staring at them. It was a contest to see who would last the longest. Kyle and Tess were determined not to lose.
It would have went on forever but enough time had already been wasted with the disappearance of the files. The congresswoman was furious. All her plans had been disrupted. The files were missing. Four subjects had somehow eluded capture and seemed to have completely disappeared despite various parties searching for them. Subject 1 was still unconscious and Kivar was arriving in a couple of hours expecting results that she couldn't provide. To make matters worse Nicholas had thrown 4 tantrums already and no doubt was going to throw a few more. Apparently the age of the body he now inhabited was affecting him since he was behaving more like a teenager than the second in command of one of the galaxies largest and most powerful armies. Like she didn't have enough to deal with.
And now to top it all of she had to deal with an interrogation that she just knew was going to go badly judging by the looks in these two's eyes. Plus they were the only subjects that could be interrogated and quite frankly they were at the bottom of the list. She was having an extremely bad day which was just about to get worse.
She didn't know how right she was.
End Part 23