A/N: Hope you enjoy and Happy birthday Michelle
Chapter 20
The next morning Bayley slowly opened her eyes to see the space beside her in bed was empty. She wiped the sleep out of her eyes and sat up, causing the covers to fall to her waist revealing that she was topless. Bayley smirked as she remembered last night with Sasha. The girl had come back to the room after a while and the two spent the night together before Bayley eventually fell asleep in Sasha's arms. So waking up without her in bed beside her was a little disheartening.
Bayley slowly pushed the covers back fully as she swung her legs to the side and pushed herself out of bed to gather her clothes that were splayed around the room. As she tugged on a pair of pants and a bra she slowly made her way to the adjacent bathroom only to let out a sharp scream as she saw a beaten and bloody Sasha sitting on the floor against the tub with her eyes closed.
"SASHA!" Bayley yelled as she rushed over to the girl and sat down beside her, taking her head in her hands
Sasha's slowly opened her eyes, groaning at the light before her eyes focused on Bayley causing her to smile, "Morning babe...ready for round four?"
Bayley rolled her eyes and glared at the girl as she looked over the shorter girl's injuries, "What happened to you?"
Sasha grunted as she sat up a little bit causing her stomach to burn in pain and a wave of nausea to come over her. Bayley noticed and grabbed the girl to steady her but Sasha simply waved her off, "Nothing happened."
"Nothing happened?" Bayley repeated in shock, "You have a black eye and a bunch of bruises all over your body...but nothing happened?"
Sasha let out a sharp cough which sent pain straight to her chest before she just closed her eyes and rested her head on Bayley's shoulder, "Have I ever told you how much I love you?"
"Don't try and get out of this Sash" Bayley said seriously, "You're hurt. I want to know what happened"
"I was just doing some hero work...we are heroes...aren't we?" Sasha said sarcastically causing Bayley to glare harder, "Sorry. I was helping someone out."
"Who? A friend?" Bayley asked but Sasha just shook her head
"I can't tell you" Bayley quickly opened her mouth to protest but Sasha grabbed the girl's hand and said, "Not that I don't want to! I don't think this person would like it if I told people what happened. Just know that some bad people hurt them and I helped…so you can't be mad at me."
"I'm not mad that you helped a friend. I'm mad that you snuck out after I fell asleep and went out there without me. I could have helped you! What if someone from WWE saw you or what if you had been killed Sasha!" Bayley snapped causing Sasha to smile
"Aw you care about me" She joked
"Of course I do you idiot! I love you!" Bayley yelled with tears in her eyes causing Sasha to frown as she immediately felt guilty for making her girlfriend sad.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry!" Sasha whispered as she gripped Bayley's face in her hands before placing a light kiss on her lips, "I won't do it again...promise."
"I just...I thought you trusted me enough to not sneak out and-"
"I trust you!" Sasha practically yelled, hurting her chest as she rushed forward, "I trust you more than anyone else...I just. This person didn't want anyone else to know. It was kind of uncomfortable for them. I just wanted to help...besides I didn't want to see you get hurt either."
"Sasha I glad you helped your friend but I literally can make myself indestructible" Bayley said as she rolled her eyes while Sasha's eyes went blank
"Oh yeah...I forgot about that" Bayley laughed at this causing Sasha to smile and watch the taller girl's face as she laughed, taking in her features and the way her body relaxed at the natural movements, "I love you"
Bayley blushed and kissed Sasha before saying, "I love you too...but I don't want you going on any side adventures without anymore."
"I won't" Sasha said with a smile
"We're in this together alright?" Bayley said in a low tone
"Alright" Sasha agreed with a smile
With Charlotte
The blonde carefully pulled her hat down lower as she walked quickly with her head down in the crowded mall. She was dressed in a dirty plaid button up over a white shirt and jeans and she had on a black hat that covered her blonde hair, which was braided back. She had found a lead on Becky thanks to the help of her brother who told her to search for energy spikes around the city in unusual spots. Becky was literally a walking energy conductor, taking in the energy around her before turning it into fire so when Charlotte found an unusual amount of energy at the mall not too far from where they last saw Becky, she knew the girl had to be here.
Well at least that's what she hoped. So she dragged her remaining teammates to the mall with her to search for the redhead. They were all dressed in regular clothes with hoodies, hats or shades on covering their hair and eyes as they tried to draw as little attention as possible.
"Anything yet?" Charlotte asked into her small earpiece, earning a various array of 'no's from her team causing her to mentally curse.
"Are you sure she's here?" Paige asked over the coms as she and Baron looked around the food court.
"I'm sure. The last energy spike was less than 15 minutes ago. She couldn't have gone far" Charlotte answered as she checked on her phone
"What would Becky be doing at a mall?" Bayley asked
"Shopping for a take over the world outfit" Jey responded sarcastically causing his twin to snicker in response while Charlotte just rolled her eyes.
"Reid and Shane are the ones trying to take over...I don't know why we're chasing the walking chucky doll" Baron said seriously causing Sasha to shake her head and get ready to say something but Bayley, who was walking beside her, took her hand and calmed her.
"We're looking for The Man because she has just as big a part in this as Shane or Reid." Bayley answered causing the rest of her team, except for Sasha and Charlotte to mumble their disagreements.
"More like The Man is hunting Charlotte's brother and she's willing to risk our lives to protect him." Baron said seriously before pausing, "I mean honestly...I would just go ahead and turn him over to her. He's a villain isn't he? Why are we keeping him tied up in a basement?"
"Because he is our only lead to Shane" Charlotte insisted, "He's given us more information about this whole thing than anyone or anything else. He's valuable"
"He's your brother" Baron argued, "Just admit it...you are never going to turn your brother over. Even when this is all over...you will never let him go."
Charlotte stopped walking and thought. Did she want her brother to go? Or course she still loved her brother and the fact that he was here and alive made her heart race a little but, he was evil. He had turned his back on her and their family. He had used her siblings and was working with villains, but he was still her brother. Her baby brother who she loved very much, would she be able to let him go when this is all over.
Charlotte went to say something but stopped when she saw Becky staring back at her through the crowd. The girl's red hair was flowing down her shoulders freely and she wore a bright yellow long sleeved top that had black lines on the side of the sleeves to make her black pants and boots. Charlotte's eyes went wide as the girl smirked and waved at her just before a crowd of people walked by, and as soon as they were gone, so was she. Charlotte cursed and rushed over to where Becky was once standing, "She here!"
"What?"
"Becky! She was here. I just saw her!" Charlotte said as she frantically looked around trying to spot the redhead. Charlotte soon saw a flash of redhead turn the corner causing her to rush after her, "She's heading down the south corridor"
"We're on our way!" Sasha said quickly
"Actually...we have some company!" Jimmy said over the comms causing Charlotte to give a confused glance while she continued to chase after the redhead
"The Bludgeon freaks are here too" Jey added as screams could be heard throughout the mall and the sound of a loud smash could be heard throughout their comms
"Baron and I are headed to your location" Paige said quickly
"Those are the guys who got erased from our memories?" Bayley asked
"Wait what?" Paige asked confused, "You guys don't remember these creeps?"
"Nope...they have a ring master-"
"Yeah Bray Wyatt"
"Yeah well he erases memories, ours included" Sasha said just as Charlotte saw Becky stop in front of a door, looking back to simply smirk at Charlotte before she exited the building.
"You guys go after those guys. They're connected to Shane. I got Becky" Charlotte said as she slowly looked around to see if anyone was watching her.
"What Charlotte are you serious? You wanna handle The Man on your own. She's kinda...crazy" Sasha said slowly as she tried to make sure that Charlotte was absolutely serious.
"My powers can cancel out hers. I can handle her" Charlotte said only slightly confidently, "Go handle the freak show."
"Yeah...help would be strongly advised" Jey said sarcastically as the others could hear him fighting someone.
"We're on our way" Bayley said to the twin
"Be safe guys...remember. We're still wanted" Charlotte said before she quickly walked to the door Becky had walked through and after a breath, pushed it open.
The door led to a set of stairs causing Charlotte to sigh before she began muttering, "don't be the roof, don't be the roof"
Soon Charlotte found herself walking up three flights of stairs to the roof causing her to roll her eyes. The blonde slowly stepped out onto the roof and braced herself as she saw the redhead staring out over the edge of the roof with her back to her, "You just had to pick the roof didn't you. Ya know. If you wanted to have a private conversation...you could've called"
"Private?" Becky repeated, "I was hoping you'd bring the whole gang up here. You're the one who's made it...personal"
Charlotte watched as the redhead turned to face her with a big smirk on her face, "What's with the yellow? You into Kill Bill now?"
"Just wanted you to be able to find me." Becky said with a smile as she began to pace around the roof, "Didn't want this little game to last too long."
"I'm not playing a game" Charlotte said seriously
"Ya have no choice." Becky responded just as serious as Charlotte causing the blonde to pause and think as she listened to Becky's words for a second before saying
"I read your files...your work. You documented everything...and it really helped me get inside your head ya know. Even though there isn't that much space up there." Becky glared at Charlotte and twitched her head slightly in discomfort at the topic, "Is that why you're talking like this. You're speaking in longer sentences and you're on the verge of an accent. It's almost like your personalities and combining, pressing into one person"
Becky glared at Charlotte as she uncrossed her arms and took a step forward as she yelled, "SHUT UP!"
The scream caused Charlotte to immediately react by channeling her powers and creating a ball of ice. Becky stopped and stared at the ball before calming herself and smiling, "I'm sorry for my temper, I didn't mean ta yell. I'm working on my anger...but uh… there's no need for powers...w-we're just having a friendly chat...we are friends...aren't we?"
"Depends" Charlotte said after a while causing Becky's eyebrow to raise as if telling her to go on, "Depends on what your plan is."
"My plan?" Becky asked
"What do you want? Why are you at this mall? Why are the Bludgeon brothers with you?"
Becky took a small step back and placed her arms up to signal for the blonde to slow down before she laughed lightly at the woman, "You have so many questions...I figured you would. You're too smart for your own good sometimes."
"Tell me what you want"
Becky flashed a crazy smile and let out a laugh before she suddenly stopped and became very serious as she whispered, "I want your brother."
"Why?"
"He and Rebecca are linked...he dies, she dies" She said slowly in a sing-song tone
"H-how are they linked...what are you talking about?" Charlotte asked confused
"Old Shaney boy took his brain and your brother's blood and made Rebecca. He connected the two through blood and energy, twisting Becky's DNA with Reid's and using her old serum to create Rebecca 2.0. Once I drain your brother of his blood and his knowledge...I'll be able to reverse it. Your brother is the key to getting rid of her once and for all."
"I will never let you touch him" Charlotte said seriously causing Becky to nod as her right hand twitched slightly
"I know" The redhead said with a smile, "It's so endearing how you look after him. How you look after your family...but I mean he and I are connected by blood. His blood is basically running through my veins. That practically makes us sisters"
"I already considered you my sister" Charlotte said sadly, "The Becky I knew was my friend"
The redhead tilted her head slowly before staring blankly at the blonde, "The Becky you knew wasn't real. None of them are real. Only I am real. Whatever that freakshow Niki did to me, awakened me...the real me. The rest of those personalities...are nothing more than fake replacements...but they will never be real"
There was a pause before Charlotte moved on to her next question, "What are you doing at this mall?"
"Window shopping of course." The redhead laughed, "I want to look my best for Heromania. It's going to be the biggest event in history. That's what Shane says"
"Where is Shane?" Charlotte asked seriously
"Preparing. He and the engineering students have a lot of work to do." She said simply with a shrug, "as do I"
"You aren't concerned about his plan? He wants to get rid of all powers. YOUR powers! Why are you helping him?" Charlotte asked confused causing Becky to stop and think
"I'm not helping him. I'm helping myself. I don't care about powers. There's something else I want"
"What? What could you possibly want that is more important than your powers?"
"To be the only person in my own God damn head for once!" She yelled, more to herself than to Charlotte causing the blonde to brace herself for an outburst but stopped when the redhead began to pace and calm herself down. After a minute the redhead began mumbling, arguing almost, to herself as she bent over and held her head in her hands before saying, "Sorry I didn't mean ta snap."
"Why are the Bludgeon brothers with you?" Charlotte asked finally as she took a few steps closer to Becky causing the redhead to laugh slightly, still bent over so her hair hung over her face, "What are you doing with them? Why are they attacking this mall?"
Becky laughed harder before she head shot up and she looked at Charlotte with a bright smile and said, "They're simply a distraction"
"Charlotte! These guys...they...they're robots!" Sasha said through Charlotte's earpiece causing the redhead to laugh before she charged at Charlotte tackling her.
Charlotte quickly threw her hands up to shield her face from the crazy girl who threw punch after punch at her face, until Charlotte finally managed to buck the girl off of her. However, Becky smirked and rolled to the side before she wrapped her legs around Charlotte's arm, holding it in an arm bar causing Charlotte to let out a scream in pain as the redhead yanked back on her arm.
"I hope you said goodbye to your brother...because you will NEVER see him again!" The redhead said just before she gave the finally pull, breaking Charlotte's arm with a loud crack causing the blonde to scream in pain. Becky soon stood, standing over Charlotte as she held her broken arm in pain. The redhead smiled and looked down at the blonde before saying, "Bye...sis"
With Carmella
"I've looked everywhere" Enzo complained as he sat with three of his classmates in the empty classroom.
Things had been weird around WWE, classes had stopped because HeroMania was coming up so everyone was given a lighter schedule and plenty of time to strategize, run through the practice courses and train. So most of the classrooms were empty. The only real people around the school part of the compound were the engineering students who worked in the same building.
Enzo, Cass, Carmella and AJ were all sitting around, Aj perched on the teacher's desk in the front while, Carmella and Cass sat in the desks and Enzo sat on top of one in front of them. All of them had slept, ate and showered before looking for any sign of Nikki Cross, but so far they had come up empty handed.
"You've looked nowhere except for the mess hall, and if you stuffing your face with food is you looking then-" Cass started but Enzo stood up and cut him off
"I'VE LOOKED! I sent my clones out all over this compound and they've found squat!" Enzo snapped before he hopped back up on the desk he was sitting on, "She's not here"
"Charlotte says that she has to be." AJ said seriously as she ran a hand through his hair
"Charlotte was wrong" Carmella said as she rolled her eyes
"I don't think so. Cross being here makes sense. If Becky wanted her then she would keep Nikki in a place where she could keep an eye on her….experiment on her." AJ added causing Enzo to turn on his desk to look at the boy
"Well we've already checked her room" Enzo said, "So if she was keeping her where would she be?"
"Maybe we should talk with Xavier and the others" Cass suggested, "Fresh eyes could be helpful with this. Maybe they've seen something on their search for Dean"
Carmella crossed her arms over her chest and nodded, "I'll talk to woods...you all keep searching. We all can't be too close, HeroMania is giving us a good cover to be together but remember...WWE is still watching us."
The others nodded and slowly left the room leaving Carmella to herself for a second before she too left. She quickly traveled throughout the compound before she found herself walking past the engineer's hall. Carmella looked around before she felt someone bump into her, "Hey watch it!"
"You watch it Freak!"
Carmella looked back to see Chad Gable standing behind her. The blonde girl crossed her arms at the boy before asking, "Who you calling a freak, midget?"
Gable went to say something but stopped when Xavier, Kofi and Big E stepped up behind Carmella, all towering over the boy and all seriously, outnumbering him. Xavier crossed his arms and looked at Gable before saying, "Why don't you leave the girl alone and carry on with whatever it is you do?"
"I heard he's just an errand boy" Big E laughed
"Ya know I've heard that too. It's because they don't trust him with the big boy tools" Kofi added
"Because he's too short!" E laughed
"And too weak" Xavier added as he stepped forward towards the boy, "So why don't you move along...unless you want to face all four of us?"
Gable looked like he was going to say something but he refrained himself and turned and left causing the boys to snicker before turning to Carmella, "What's up blondie?"
"I needed to talk to you three" Carmella said with a small smile
"What about?" Kofi asked, "Did you guys find she who shall not be named?"
Carmella rolled her eyes at this codename before shaking her head no, "We've looked everywhere and we can't find her. AJ says she has to be here because Becky was probably experimenting on her, but we haven't seen anything. We were wondering if you guys had seen something."
"No...we haven't seen her." Xavier said
"But...if Becky was experimenting on her then she has to be here...probably in some secret bunker. Somewhere hidden where she could test on her without others knowing. Maybe the engineer's lab...they're in on Shane's whole thing" Kofi said as he thought
"The engineer's lab has glass walls you can see right in there. There's no way her secret lair is in a glass box." Xavier argued, "Every comic book supervillain has a top secret lair, it has to be hidden in a place where only she can access it. Try her room."
"We already tried her room...wait...are you guys using comic book logic to deal with this?" Carmella asked with a confused look while the boys stared back at her with an obvious look, "of course you are...a-alright we'll check in her room again."
"And we'll keep looking for Dean" Kofi added causing the group to nod and say a quick goodbye before heading their separate ways.
After an hour of rounding up the rest of her team Carmella and the others snuck into Becky's room and began to rummage through everything. They tore back her bed and her closet which didn't budge and went through everything in her desk and by now Enzo and the others were getting tired.
"This is pointless." Enzo said, "Maybe Becky really didn't keep crazy girl here, I mean we haven't even found her batcave"
"She's not Batman Enzo, besides this is our only option. We have to keep looking" Carmella said seriously while Cass sat down on Becky's bed, "Without Nikki then we can't reverse The Man"
AJ sighed and looked around at the walls as he ran his hand along the side, "I'm starting to agree with Enzo. We've been looking for a while"
"And we'll keep looking until we find something...ANYTHING!" Carmella snapped before she ran her hand down her face tiredly, "Xavier and the others haven't found anything on Dean. We can't show up empty handed too. Don't you guys wanna prove that we're just as good as Charlotte and the rest of them?"
"Of course but Mella...we've looked everywhere" Cass said with a frown as Enzo walked up to the desk and ran his hand over the small knick-knacks on the redhead's desk.
"Yeah...we even we through her weird collection of snow-" Enzo started as he picked up a snowglobe from Ireland, but he immediately stopped when the closet door opened up and the clothes parted to reveal an elevator that shot up out of nowhere, "What the hell?"
"The snowglobe!" Carmella said as she rushed over to Enzo and grabbed the snow globe to see there was a small chip attached to the bottom of it, "It opened the door"
"Man she really is like Batman" Cass said as he and AJ stood before heading over to the closet.
The four quickly entered the elevator before it quickly shot down and eventually opened to a large lab. The group's eyes widened before Carmella's eyes locked on a cage where a small pale girl was chained up and seemed to be passed out...or dead. Her clothes were torn and she had a single IV strapped into her right arm through the cage bars while her left hand and legs were chained to the cage bars.
"Holy shit"
"You think she's dead?"
"I don't wanna wait and see" Carmella said before she rushed over to the cage and phased through it to get to the girl.
"Carmella wait!" Cass said as the boys rushed over to the girls
Carmella quickly placed her hand under the girl's head and lifted her head up slightly, "Hey can you hear me?"
"How long has she been down here?" Cass asked while Enzo and AJ looked around the hidden lab.
AJ picked up a notebook which was full of scribbled notes, "A while, and I don't think The Man was feeding her properly"
"She has a pulse...but it's faint. We need to get her out of here" Carmella said
"Is moving her a good idea?" AJ asked
"Even if we could move her how are we going to get her out without people seeing us? We can't just carry an unconscious villain around the compound" Enzo said seriously
Carmella looked around before saying, "Go get the guys. Kofi can carry her out fast enough to not be seen. AJ...help me with her."
The group nodded and went Cass and Enzo left while AJ began melting the bars to create a hole big enough for him to pass through so he could get to the girls. Carmella carefully elevated the girl's head and checked her body for any injuries, quickly taking note of the bruises and needle marks on the girl's arm, "I can't believe Becky did this to her"
"Me either…"
Somewhere else
"It's almost done! The machine will be ready in one week and you all have your orders." A man said with confidence as he walked in front of two men.
"What about Class 1A? They were spotted today at the Creekside Mall" the taller of the two men said, "They still have Reid."
"Reid is not of concern. Your job is to focus on the machine. Nothing more...nothing less. Understood?"
"Yes Shane"
"Good Sami. I hope you have prepped the engineering students" Shane said as he stopped in front of the boy who nodded back, "Good...you are dismissed"
With that Sami turned and exited the dark room the men were in before Shane turned to the other boy and said, "and you?"
The boy stood taller at Shane's eyes, "Yes sir?"
"How's our latest project coming?" Shane asked causing the man to smirk before turning and press a red button on the wall behind him causing the wall to open and reveal Dean standing still in a glass case with his eyes closed. Shane slowly smiled and took a step towards the case before looking down at the shorter boy, "Is he ready?"
The boy nodded, "Just say the words and he's under your control"
Shane looked Dean up and down before saying, "Wake up!"
Dean's eyes shot open to reveal that they were a bright green color and he looked at Shane patiently, awaiting his next orders causing Shane to smirk before placing his hands on the shorter boy's shoulder, "Good work Finn"
"Of course sir" Finn said with a smirk
A/N: Sorry for any mistakes I was rushing to get this one out before the 6th for a reader's birthday. Anyway, hope you all enjoyed and let me know what you think. Also, make sure to follow, favorite and all that good stuff so you can be updated for the next chapter.