A/N: It's like a have this thing for putting two chapters up at the same time or something. I've been doing that for a long time now. Keep it up with those reviews. I think I'm putting in a new character in this chapter. You are going to find out more about these towers in this chapter also. Please R&R.
Chapter 10
Robin was shoved against the ice wall that surrounded and protected the tower. Enzo was yanked off his shoulder while the alien protested loudly. Robin was searched for any weapons and they found all of them.
The earpiece was taken and his invisible gadget was taken away from his too. Enzo was searched as well and when they found nothing they let him back onto Robin with a heavy shove. Robin got hand cuffed while Enzo got some kind of collar put around his neck. There were around five guards around the two. There was no plan to escape.
Robin was lead through the outer wall and into the ground level of the middle of the tower. The tower itself was not ice, but at least ten stories tall. Robin looked up at the huge thing looming above him. A door slid open and the guards pushed Robin and Enzo into the main room of the whole tower.
The main room was round with a huge map that covered half of wall. A huge desk was in the middle of the room with around six aliens behind it taking calls and paper work. Robin was memorizing everything just in case he had to. Enzo seemed like he already knew the place.
"There are ten stories with the same round rooms here," Enzo whispered into Robin's ear. "There are only two elevators on both sides of the room. That's the only way up or down. Guards swarm all levels and the boss lives at the top while the storing rooms are the 8th and 9th floors. In this case the potions would be in the storing area. The testing places are most likely on most of the floors, but one floor might be the place for prisoners. Got it?"
Robin just nodded his head so the five guards around him would not know they were talking to each other. They all squeezed into an elevator and all the buttons were in some alien language that Robin did not understand.
"We are going to the top floor," Enzo whispered with panic. He knew if they were going to the top they were heading for the boss of the tower, and that meant that they were in a huge amount of trouble.
It took a few minutes to get to the top and the door slid open again and the guards lead Robin down the hallway and past a few doors. The place was nice. The floor had red carpet that seemed really soft and the doors had plasma hand openers that only worked for the boss. Cameras were everywhere also. Robin noticed this right away kept walking.
Finally they stopped at a giant door that was tightly locked. One of the guards took off one of his gloves and placed his bare hand on the tiny screen that would scan your handprint.
"What is it, Kora?" someone behind the huge metal door asked. The guard, Kora, pulled her helmet off and Robin saw that she was half cat and half human. She had bright green cat eyes and her ears were round like a jaguar. Her fur was like a jaguar also, but her noise was pointy though.
Robin had thought she was a human by the shape of her body at first, but then thought about what Enzo had said about how they wanted to test on humans and how they wanted them so much. So he knew she was not all the way human. He had also thought she was a guy because he never saw her face, but he felt stupid when he found out who she was. Not every guard could be a guy.
"We have captured Enzo from the island tower," Kora said and glared at Robin with her sharp eyes. "And the punk who snuck through island tower. They were both together." Robin frowned and said nothing.
"Come in with both of them and all the guards," the person behind the door said and the door slid open with a mist. When the mist cleared Robin saw a tiny room with a huge desk with a huge over stuffed chair behind it. The back of the chair was facing Robin, so he could not see who was behind it. He glanced up at Enzo and the little alien was sweating like mad.
The door shut behind the huge group and the chair swung around so the two could see the boss. The guy looked almost the same as Kora, but with shorter black hair and was a lot older than the girl guard. His cat eyes were fixed on Robin with a death glare.
"So you're the one who busted into the Island Tower and stool that gadget that was the most heavily guarded of the whole place?" he asked Robin. Robin had no time to answer when the boss started to laugh. "You got talent, kid."
Robin saw Kora roll her eyes and give a sigh. She folded her arms in front of her and Robin then noticed that she was a teen like himself. What was she doing working with these adults?
"And this rat," the boss said while pointing to Enzo on Robin's shoulder. "How the heck did you get out of that tower?"
"He most likely got a ride from him," Kora said and jabbed her thumb at Robin. "Island Tower told us this guy has been trying every escape there was, but failed every time he tried. For a smart inventor he sure does seem dumb."
Enzo frowned and was about say something but Robin said before he could, "Why did you bring us up here?"
"Oh..." the boss said in surprise that Robin would even ask that question. "In case you have not noticed, every alien tower on earth is on the lookout for you. We know you work for Slade and got out of one of the most best Towers. We know you knocked out around 13 guards with only three bolts from ventilation shaft and a pole. We knew you hade taken one of the best inventors the alien towers got. We now know, with Enzo's help, where Slade's hideout is. We sort of secretly bugged Enzo when he tried to escape that day you picked him up."
"How come you hate Slade so much?" Robin asked slowly. He wanted information and this was the perfect guy to get it from.
"Slade has sent agent after agent to steel our stuff," the boss said and it seemed like he was getting mad. "He has only gotten a few of our things in the past, but not big things. He only attacked our weaker Towers that had stuff that was not very important. But when you came in everything fell apart. When we knew that Slade could take a lot of stuff away from us in a tiny amount of time we had to do something to stop him."
Robin now knew that these aliens did not care who he was, but they only knew that he had been working for Slade and they did not know that he was really a superhero. Robin had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. Robin knew that taking Enzo to Slade's hideout was the big bomb for these aliens. They now knew that Robin was a threat even though he did not want to.
"Now that we know where Slade's hideout is we are going in there in a few hours to kill everything and every person in there," the boss said. "We are taking tons of guards in there are they are going to be loaded with weapons. It's going to be sweet!" As he said this a spark of glee was shone in his eyes and he looked really happy. He quickly went back to his stern face when he was Kora roll her eyes again.
"And why are even telling them this?" she asked the boss. "The teen is one of our worst enemies and Enzo here is always trying to escape. Why are you telling them how you are going to put down Slade and the background of the Towers? Sometimes, dad, I think you're insane."
Some of the guards chuckled about what she had just said. Robin caught the word 'dad' and was sort of shocked that the girl was the boss's daughter. He looked up at Enzo and saw that the alien did not look very shocked at all.
"Put them both in a cell and I'll deal with the kid later," the boss said after giving his daughter a stern look for her to behave. "And Enzo, you're leaving for the Island Tower in two days. Get used to your cell."
Robin and Enzo had been stuck in the cell for around nine hours of boredom. The word that would best fit Robin was dread and Enzo was more of the one that was bored. Robin was worrying about what would happen if Slade did die and Robin would stuck with no sleep for forever and could die as well. He was also worrying about what kind of punishment was in store for him.
Enzo knew what was going to happen to him. He knew he would fly down to the warm Island Tower and start working on another gadget for the stupid aliens. He knew that he would be working on escape plan after plan and failing for the rest of his tiny life. In the back of his mind he was going to really miss being with Robin. The teen was the only one who just got to know him. Robin might not have said it, but Enzo was starting to think they were becoming friends.
"When will they let us eat?" Robin asked Kora, who was guarding the cell and was NOT happy she was the one who had to do it.
She glared at Robin through the bars of the cell and said, "They don't let you humans eat. You would barf all over the floor with our food anyways. There is no point."
"I've lived with an alien who mixed ice cream and sushi together and called it fungus for around two years," Robin said to Kora. "I think I can take your food."
Kora gave a tiny smile as she pictured what he had said. "Oh what the heck," she said and a sneaky smile spread across her lips. "I think I can get something from the kitchen." She then sneaked away and looked sort of happy that she got to go steal something.
"Is she always like that?" Robin asked Enzo.
Enzo was staring at the ceiling and was dozing off. "Oh, you mean Kora?" he asked while getting up from where he had been sitting.
"Yeah," Robin said while picking at the straw on the floor of their cell. "She is the boss's daughter and is way too young to be a guard. She seems like she hates her job working as a guard too. What is up with her?"
"Kora worked at the Island Tower for a few years," Enzo said while blowing a piece of hay in the air out of boredom. "She hates her father and the only job that gives her a piece of action once in a while is being a guard. I think she wants to work against the Towers if she got the chance."
Suddenly Robin was into what Enzo was saying. "If she got the chance," he thought out loud and looked over at Enzo with a tiny smile.
"What?" he asked Robin when he realized he was looking at him. "Was it something I said?"
Kora snuck into the kitchen silently and grabbed anything she could get her hands on first. She loved pulling pranks on the Tower people and stealing their food. Her dad was such a waste of her time. She wanted to work for someone who put her into tough places that she really had to think to get out of. She did not care what side it was on.
When Kora was only 10 she told her dad she wanted to be a guard for the Towers. She had started at the bottom of the seven Towers all around the world. She had made it finally to the third best Tower called Island Tower when she was 12. So in two years she had advanced a lot. She spent a huge amount of time in the Island Tower though. It took her two years to get out of that Tower and into the next best Tower that was the one she was in now called Ice Tower. She was now 15 and hoping to get into Jungle Tower in less than a year.
When Kora thought about it she did not really want to get to Jungle Tower. If she did then it would mean that she was the best guard the Tower's had ever had and then she would be stuck to the Towers for forever and she could never change her job. She would have never gotten a challenge in her life. The only reason she stayed at Island Tower was because it was giving her tons of information about enemies that wanted agents.
Lucky for Robin, Slade had noticed Kora's ability and called her at once when he found out that she did not really want to work for the Towers. They had talked it over and Slade said he would make her into his spy if she got all the way into Jungle Tower.
Kora was now thinking of Robin. If she made sure he got whatever Slade wanted and got him back Slade could make her into his spy sooner and then she could really be having some action.
She came up to the cell and when she got there Robin stood up with Enzo on his shoulder. They had been talking while she was stealing their food.
"Can you bust us out of here?" Robin asked. "We know what you want and we can give it to you."
A/N: If I went on the chapter would never stop, so I need to leave it right here. Hope you liked it and please send a review. The next chapter will come soon because school is finally done. YES!!!!
