Beyond Sight.
Chapter Six:
Wildwing stared out the window and watched the traffic below go by. Jessica was still asleep; she'd awoken again the night before and had gotten in such a panic that they'd had to sedate her. The doctors had suggested perhaps taking her back home where she'd be in familiar surroundings would help her get over what had happened a little more easily. They'd decided she would have the remaining spare room at the pond where she would be safer from the many reporters who kept trying to talk to her about their relationship and what had happened. One had even disguised himself as a nurse and started asking all sorts of questions about her personal life until Nosedive had noticed the badge he was wearing said Mrs. Levil. Of course when Wildwing found out he'd flipped and tried to deck the guy, he would have managed it too if Canard, Grin and Duke hadn't held him back.
"Hey," Wildwing looked up to see Cassidy in the doorway with a sandwich and a hot drink, "I thought you might like something to eat and drink."
"Thanks." He said taking the sandwich from her and taking a bite.
"It's okay right, I'm not too good when it comes to anything food related," she said looking worried, "apart from eating it I mean." The smile felt a little foreign to him after the past few days but he allowed it none the less.
"Where are the others?" Wildwing asked as he took another bite of the sandwich.
"Oh Duke and Canard are out somewhere or other, Grin was meditating when I left and Mal, Tanya and Dive are all getting that spare room at the pond ready for Jessica. Oh and Hitome's organising Jess' stuff to be delivered to the pond by tonight."
"Great," He looked up at her, "any news on whether they caught that mob guy that organised all this?"
"Cleghorn said that even if they did find him they have no concrete evidence to show that it was him in the first place," she said staring intently at her feet with her hands on her knees, "I think that's where Duke and Canard may be. You know out looking for evidence." Cass looked over to her friend then back to Wildwing, "How's she doing anyway?"
"They had to sedate her the last time she woke up, it was like she couldn't even hear me she was so scared." Wildwing clenched his empty fist, "She just screamed and screamed." He looked over to Jessica, "even the saurians weren't this cruel."
"Jessica's tough, she'll pull through." Cassie said putting her hand on his shoulder and getting up. "Listen there's something . . . I'd better go Hitome had heart failure last night when I was five minutes late back." Cassie laughed nervously. She walked off and waved then headed to the roof. Where she pulled her back pack off her back and grabbed her Light Sphere out fit.
Before long she was flying south listening to a reluctant Hitome on an ear piece give her directions to a villa in Mexico where the Mob boss might be hiding. It was a huge place with majestic pillars and staircases that went ever so well with all the armed guards there too. She zipped past the guards too quick for them to notice anything other than a slight breeze and she landed in the main hall.
"Which way now Hitome?" Cass whispered into the ear piece.
"According to plans you go up to secon floor. Then you turn righ and it third door along. But you just gettin evidence for now you can't go super hero and fly him back to Anaheim you understand?"
"Yeah, yeah I know the stealthy heroine catches the bad guy, I get it Hitome." Cass floated up the stairs and to the door indicated and entered the room silently, "alright I'm in," she said as she went over to a computer, "the computer's on how do I use this thingy again?"
"Decoding device! You bubble brain!" Hitome yelled in her ear.
"Ow Hitome not so loud."
"The small wire on the side should plug into a USB port."
"A what?"
"Just look for a hole tha matches the end of wire!"
"Okay okay." Cassie studied the computer and finally found the oblong slot, "Got it, now what?"
"Now you press button and leave to me, I hack system and download all files on boss computer to my systems so we can study for incriminating evidence."
"Right. Okay," Cass said pressing the button and sitting down in a nearby chair to wait. She watched as the screen flashed and numbers and letter flashed along the screens and then after about five minutes she heard something, "Um Hitome someone's coming!"
"I busy!"
"But someone's coming right now."
"I not finished yet, I need two more minutes!"
"Well they'll be here in thirty seconds." Cassidy hissed and looked around for some sort of hiding place, these guys couldn't hurt her but she didn't want anyone knowing she was snooping around. She'd run out of time so she flew up to the ceiling and closed her eyes hoping they wouldn't notice her.
"What's this?" A familiar voice said.
"Looks like a decoder," said someone else with a Brooklyn accent, "someone's already hackin the system." Cassidy opened her eyes and bit back the gasp when she saw Canard and Duke standing right below her.
"Why would someone be hacking their own system?" Canard asked.
"I finished! What going on?" Hitome said very loudly and both Duke and Canard look up and yelled out whilst pulling their guns on her.
"No wait I'm on you're side!" Cassidy said waving her arms in front of her.
"Kid?" Duke said giving her a look.
"Do I know you?" Cassidy said unconvincingly.
"Cassidy!" Canard gaped.
"You very bad actor!" Hitome yelled.
"What's going on in there!" Someone yelled form behind the door, "Boss?" It burst open and the minute the four guards saw the two ducks and the girl on the ceiling they pulled out their guns and opened fire. Canard and Duke didn't have time to do anything and braced themselves for the hits but Cassidy flew in front of them and held her left hand out and a sphere of gold light surrounded them and the bullets merely bounced off.
"We have to get out of here!" She said taking charge as the two older men simply gaped at her. She rolled her eyes when neither one responded and concentrated on holding the sphere whilst flying away so that she would bring her friends with her. "Did you guys come in that airplane of yours?"
"Uh yeah." Duke replied.
"Well where'd you park it!" She yelled feeling her light shield weakening.
"Behind that bunch o trees over there!" He yelled back. Cassidy accelerated and she soon found the airowing, once there she set them down and followed them into the fighter.
"What the hell are you!" Canard finally found his voice as he started up the plane and activated the weapons to take out three jeeps heading their way with more men from the villa inside firing at them.
"Can I please explain when we're not in danger?" She said pointing at the men.
"Can't you just make another one of those force fields or somethin?" Duke asked.
"It's not that simple, my light shields use up a lot of energy," she told them, "so normally I'll only use them for a few seconds or so but I just used one for a full five minutes so my powers need to recharge a little before I can do anything major just yet, let alone use another shield." Canard got the airowing into the air and put he autopilot on to take them home.
"I ask again what are you?" Canard crossed his arms and glared at the blond girl in front of him.
"Would you believe your friendly neighbourhood uh . . ." Canard did not look amused, "I'm from a place called New Heaven, I'm not allowed to tell you much just that I was sent here to help this planet over come a great evil."
"What great evil?" Duke asked sitting down.
"I don't know," Cassidy sighed figuring she may as well tell them as it was unlikely she would get home anytime soon anyway, "you see on my world we have this massive computer and it sort of listens to thoughts and feelings of different realities. Well when a wish is truly great then people like me are sent to respond."
"So when you and Jess argued the other day and the lights flashed . . ?"
"It was me, when I loose my temper I sometimes loose control of my powers."
"But Jess said she was baby sitting for you." Canard argued.
"She was she's sort of from new heaven too," Cassidy noticed they were nearing their destination and looked at the worriedly, "listen no one but me and Jess are supposed to know, well Hitome knows but that's only cause she saw us arrive here, but that not the point," Cass made a face that reminded Canard of a puppy dog, "please don't tell anyone, I'd be in so much trouble if everyone knew."
"What about the others, Wildwing, the rest of the team?" Canard said as he turned to land the airowing.
"Yeah I think they gotta right ta know ya know." Duke agreed.
"Please you mustn't." Cassie looked almost like she would burst into tears there and then when;
"I got it!" Hitome shrieked through the ear piece making Cassie yell out in pain again.
"Got what Hitome?" Canard said loudly to make sure the girl could hear him.
"The evidence we need to put tha creepy mob boss away for life!" She shouted, "I go make copies and take some to police!"
"Just so long as you don't shout like a lunatic down my ear again!" Cassie said through gritted teeth then looked up, "was it really obvious it was me?"
"With the blond hair, figure and that voice of yours it's not hard to recognise you." Canard said as he walked out of the airowing into the hanger leaving Duke and Cassidy to give him a funny look behind his back.
"I got ya by the voice," Duke said, "but I wouldn't have recognised you other wise kid." He smirked, "I think you've got an admirer."
"Who Canard?" Cassidy said as she followed the ex-thief out of the Plane. She removed her visor and stashed it in Duke's room, with his permission of course and went to see if Jessica had arrived yet.
Sorry this chapter waffles on a bit, I'm not all that happy with it. I'd love your opinions either way though so please review and I hope to post something better next time. Toodles Angel xxx