"You're telling me that fucking Cassandra and her legion of dumbasses took our parents?" Brice shouted while everybody sat in Suzy's suite.
"I told Mommy something bad will happen." Alex murmured and everybody turned around to see him and Juliana standing in the doorway of their bedroom. Shawn narrowed his eyes suspiciously before walking over to Alex and Juliana.
"Alex, how did you know?" He asked kneeling down to his level.
"Juliana saw it too. We had our arms hooked and it came to us like a movie." Alex explained and Shawn nodded.
"I've discovered your siblings' powers." He said looking at AJ while he, Julian, and Suzy raised an eyebrow. "Whenever the twins are linked together they can have visions." Shawn explained and Julian rushed over to them.
"Alex, Julie hook arms again." Julian told them before they did what he said. "Do you see anything?" He asked when both their eyes flashed white.
"Alena is going to wake up soon." Juliana said and Suzy sighed.
"They're probably like me, Julian. The visions will just come to them. They're not like my Dad who can see anything he wants." Shawn explained and Julian sighed.
"It was worth a shot." He muttered.
"Where are they?" Ebony asked.
"Read the note." Suzy told them before Serenity snatched it off the table and read it aloud.
"We have your parents. If you plan to have them back you'll come to the area beneath the jungle." Serenity read and everybody looked at her confused.
"What the hell does 'beneath the jungle' mean?" AJ exclaimed.
"Well obviously it's located in the jungle." Chrissy said and Tyler stood up.
"We need to break up in groups and one of the groups needs to search for this place." Tyler said as Conner turned towards Renegade.
"You guys should chill out here. These our parents and you don't need to be involved." Conner said looking at Renegade, Lazarus, Izzy, Lorgo, and Alana.
"No way, we're going with you guys. Your parents have treated us like their own. I don't know about the rest of them, but I'm helping." Lazarus told him standing up with a determined look on his face.
"Jillian has been like a real mother to me. I'm helping too." Izzy said standing with Lazarus and Julian smiled over at her.
"We're doing this and you can't stop us." Alana said firmly and Serenity smiled.
"Let's do this then." Serenity smirked while everybody gathered around the coffee table.
"We need to pick a leader." Lilac said.
"Renegade!" Lauren shouted and Renegade looked at her confused.
"I second that!" Roddy exclaimed and Renegade whipped his head over to him.
"Everyone who wants Renegade to lead us, raise their hand." Lauren called out and before Renegade could say anything, everybody raised their hands.
"Why me?" He asked and everybody started at him like he was stupid.
"It's pretty obvious." Bolt muttered and Renegade shook his head.
"No, it's obvious that Serenity should be the leader." Renegade said and Serenity waved her hand dismissively.
"Renegade, you're the one that can remain calm and order us around correctly. It's clearly you." Chrissy explained and Renegade sighed. He shook his head before standing up and crossing his arms.
"Let's get ready then." He smirked before everyone cheered.
"Wait! Where's Shade?" Suzy shouted.
"He should have been back now." Bolt murmured.
"I don't have a good feeling about this." Shawn sighed and Suzy slammed her hands on the coffee table.
"They have them! They must have grabbed him too!" She yelled and Serenity put a hand on Suzy's shoulder.
"We'll find him." Serenity told her and Suzy fought back tears, but nodded.
"We're going to split us up into four groups and one group of two people." Renegade said as he looked up to Bolt. "I want you, Ebony, and Flash to check out the jungle and find the base." He told them before they nodded and took off.
"What are the groups?" Derek asked and Renegade grabbed a notebook and a pencil out of the hotel desk.
"Aerial, Underground, Marine, Stealth, and the two-person group are going to be the distraction." Renegade said as he started to split the groups up. "There are going to be leaders of each group. Tyler, you'll be the leader of Aerial. Brice, Underground, Hydro, Marine, and I'll lead Stealth. Julian and Shawn you two will be the distraction." He explained and Shawn looked at him confused.
"Won't they recognize us?" Shawn asked and Renegade pointed at Suzy not looking up from his work.
"Not with her power disguising you." He said and both Shawn and Suzy nodded.
"But Cassandra can read our minds." Lilac said and Renegade stiffened—having forgotten that Cassandra could read minds—before turning towards Lauren.
"Lauren, do you think you can block her power like you block Reese and Shawn's predictions?" He asked and Lauren shuffled her feet nervously.
"I'm not sure." She mumbled.
"Try it now. Block Suzy." He said while Lauren closed her eyes and concentrated. Renegade turned towards Suzy and looked at her. "Can you read anyone's mind?" He asked and Suzy looked up at him.
"Everything is kind of muffled, like static on a television." Suzy explained and Lauren's eyes widened.
"I did it!" She cheered and Renegade smirked.
"You're going to have to block her power from everybody's mind before we get there. She can't know we're coming." Renegade explained and nodded.
"I can get us a plane." Tyler said suddenly and everybody stared at him. "What? You do know my Dad, right? Prower Planes. Hello?" He said.
"That'll be perfect." He said before everybody gathered around Renegade to see his plan. Ebony, Bolt, and Flash were speeding through the thick vegetation of the island looking for anything out of the ordinary.
"How hard is to find a bad guy headquarters?" Flash asked as they continued to run through the jungle.
"Just keep looking." Ebony told him before she went flying back through the air. Bolt and Flash skidded to a stop before looking back to see an electric force-field.
"What the hell?" Bolt murmured while Ebony ran back to them.
"How do they even get this stuff?" Flash asked and Ebony shook her head.
"Toss me up." Ebony said as she put a foot in Bolt and Flash's hands. They threw her up and she covered her face with her arms to avoid all the leaves and branches hitting her. She broke through the tree line and saw a decently sized building covered in ivy and other plants near a runoff that led to the ocean. She landed back on the ground with a small thud and dusted herself off.
"There's a building behind this fence. A kind of small one, but there's no doubt about it, that's probably where they are." Ebony told Flash and Bolt.
"We should get back and tell the others." Bolt said as he and Flash turned to leave. Bolt stopped when he saw Ebony staring back at the electric fence. "What's wrong?"
"Shouldn't we try and get Shade?" Ebony asked softly, a little afraid for her little brother trapped in there.
"Not just three of us. We wouldn't be any help. We have to get the others." Bolt told her with a hand on her shoulder. Ebony nodded, knowing he was right, and took off following them. Shade groaned as he slowly opened his eyes to see that he was in a bright room. He tried to move his arm to cover his eyes, but it was secured to the wall. His vision slowly started to clear up and he saw that he was chained to a wall in small white room.
"You!" Shade exclaimed when he saw Cheka leaning against the wall.
"You know I got a name besides 'you,' I mean, you really have to stop saying that every time you see me." Cheka muttered.
"I knew it! You're just one of them trying to fuck with us!" Shade growled and Cheka shook his head.
"I'm the reason you're alive right now." Cheka told him walking up to him.
"If you're so good, let me go." Shade said and Cheka shook his head.
"Not till the rest of your friends get here. Trust me, you're going to need the help." He told him. "Nice to know you listened to me though." He said tapping the pendant around Shade's neck.
"Is it some tracking device? Is that how you guys found me?" Shade asked and Cheka rolled his eyes.
"No, stop being so paranoid about me. Besides, Will and Joseph have been following you all day. That's how they found you." Cheka explained and Shade slumped forward. "I'm going to die today." He told Shade shocking him.
"What do you mean? You're going to kill yourself?" Shade stammered nervously.
"Now you care, huh?" Cheka chuckled sadly. "Not exactly." He shrugged crossing his arms over his chest.
"Does this have to do with your secret undercover thing?" Shade asked.
"Yeah, you'll eventually know about it. Just not now. Cassandra, she's not the brains behind this operation. A woman named Angelica is. The group I'm a part of? She's been killing every one of us. Me and someone else are the only ones are left. Up to this point, I thought she was just trying to take us out, but it's because she wants this." Cheka said holding up the stone hanging from Shade's neck.
"What does she want with it?" Shade asked.
"What does any crazy bad guy want? Power. That is a powerful thing around your neck and again, you'll eventually know. It used to belong to me. She doesn't know I'm here, but by the end of tonight, she will know. She found out that I gave the stone to you so that's why she had Cassandra kidnap you. But I convinced to Cassandra to let me handle it. Alas, here we are." Cheka explained motioning his hand between the two of them.
"Why don't you take it back and use it against her?" Shade asked and Cheka sighed.
"A lot of rules and contingencies needed to activate the power is the simple answer." He shrugged. "I'm just here to keep you alive until your friends arrive and make sure you keep that thing like your life depended on it—which it kind of does." He told him and Shade sighed.
"Nothing you said makes sense." He grumbled.
"Welcome to the party." Cheka muttered under his breath. "Mira, we're going to be really good friends. I just need you to trust me on this and don't try to stop me whatever happens today, okay?" He asked looking at Shade while Shade looked at him confused.
"But you said—"
"You trust me or not?" Cheka asked. While every thought in Shade's mind was screaming at him to not trust Cheka, that gut feeling returned and he wanted to trust him.
"Okay." Shade muttered and Cheka nodded.
"Let's hope your friends get here soon." Cheka muttered before letting Shade go, but making sure he stays in the room.
"What is going on?" Shade asked and Cheka frowned.
"We found the headquarters!" Flash exclaimed as he burst into the room. Flash rattled off the location to everybody and Renegade nodded before looking back at his plans. Shawn looked around at everybody as they got ready to head out and sighed.
"You guys, I have to say something." Shawn said as everybody looked at him.
"Is it about me?" Bolt asked and Shawn looked at him like he was stupid.
"No Mr. Advance Placement." He said mockingly. "I had a vision a while ago and…that thing that happened with Static. Well I think we're about to see it with all our parents." He muttered and everybody looked at him in shock.
"Why didn't you say anything before?" Brice exclaimed.
"I wanted to talk to my Dad about it first, but…" Shawn trailed off sadly and Ginger put a hand on her brother's shoulder.
"You'll stop them." Ginger told him and he nodded. Ginger was staying behind to watch the younger children because she wasn't much of a fighter. She had faith in her younger siblings and friends to bring her parents back.
"You guys don't worry about it. We've stopped them before and we'll do it again to save our parents." Renegade said and everybody snapped their heads over to him. "I mean your parents." He muttered quickly.
"Aw, Renegade loves our parents!" Julian smiled and Renegade rolled his eyes.
"Let's just go." Renegade mumbled.