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Chapter 14
This was it. They were doing it tonight. The last two days had been spent planning- with a field trip to Tivoli Gardens- and they were ready to take down the Creators for good. They'd decided that all four of them would go, after much debate. Sabina had wanted to come, but David and Ben had been against it. However, she'd worn them down, and she wouldn't miss it for the world. Which was what it might take.
Sabina was choosing to stress out over the girly things, while her fellow spies were worrying about the details she found trivial. Take right now, for instance. Sabina was complaining that she didn't have anything black to wear, while Ben was complaining that if there were too many of them they were more likely to get caught. Alex and David were trying to reassure them, but it wasn't working very well.
Just then, Alex's phone rang from across the room, and he dove across the bed to get to it. "Hello?" He asked, pushing his hair out of his eyes.
"This is Mrs. Jones," she said. Alex almost thought he smelled peppermint. "I'm afraid that your housekeeper Ms. Starbright and your young friend Mr. Harris have been kidnapped."
Alex dropped the phone in shock. "Hello? Alex?" Mrs. Jones' voice said from the phone. Ben reached over Alex to pick it up. "Mrs. Jones, this is Agent Daniels. What did you say to Alex to make him respond like that?"
"His housekeeper and best friend have been kidnapped by the very people whose compound you are currently staying in," Mrs. Jones said curtly. "I trust you will get to the bottom of this?"
"I'll do my best," Ben promised.
That afternoon...
The knocks echoed against Alex's door. He slowly got up to answer it, brushing off Sabina's help. Chris stood there with a gun pressed to Tom's back. His face was grim.
"Come with me," he ordered. "If you try anything, I'll kill your friend. Tom, is it?"
His face pale, Alex walked out behind Chris. Sabina, David, and Ben followed him, David slipping his gloves on noiselessly. Chris led them down to the labs.
"Tom, are you all right?" Alex asked his friend. "Are you hurt?"
"I'm fine," he responded. "Truthfully, it was kind of nice to get away from my parents' fighting. Jerry might wor-"
"I'm sorry they were fighting again," Alex interrupted, giving Tom a look that said to drop it. He didn't want Tom giving away anything else about his family, because that would only put them in more danger. "Chris, where's Jack?" He asked.
"She'll be fine as long as you cooperate," was Chris' only response. They reached the labs, and Chris gestured for Alex and the others to go in front. They went, a little bit uneasy about having him at their backs. Then they realized that they had bigger problems. Jillian, Nathan, and Brynne were waiting for them. So was an unconscious Jack Starbright.
"We know something's going on," Nathan informed them. "Brynne says she overheard the four of you plotting against us. However, the news about Doctor Gail's was correct. She confessed everything. Was she working with you?" Alex had no idea what to say. He knew that Sabina had simply described one of the doctors she'd seen when she snuck into the labs, but apparently she'd been an actual spy.
"No, it wasn't," David said. "I have no idea what you're talking about, but I think I know why Brynne accused us. She's jealous of Sabina. She thinks Alex likes Sabina and wants him to like her. She's just a jealous schoolgirl with a crush."
Everyone looked at Brynne. "Well?" Jillian asked her employee. "Brynne, is this true?" She didn't respond. "Brynne, you've seen the methods we use to convince people to talk. Do you really want to stay silent?"
She stubbornly refused to open her mouth, but her face seemed to grow a little paler. "All right," Jillian said. "Chris, would you be so kind as to bring out one of the-"
"Fine!" Brynne snapped, apparently fed up. "Yeah, I accused them falsely. The CIA hired me to work for them and spy on you, and I don't regret it in the slightest. You're worse than my mother!" She pulled a knife from her shirt and grabbed Sabina, who just happened to be the closest to her. Looking around, Alex realized he had almost no chance. Brynne was threatening both him and the Sharpes by holding the knife to Sabina's neck, and Chris was threatening him by holding his gun to Tom's head. Glancing at Ben and David, he knew they were also assessing the situation.
"Look, we don't want to do anything," Ben said, stretching his hands out. "We're unarmed, and we're not going to attack you."
"So whose side are you on?" Brynne demanded.
"The Creators," Alex replied. He knew that they could still destroy the mutants tonight if they pretended for just a little longer, but if they were locked in a prison cell with Brynne they wouldn't be able to do anything. This was, however, an extremely risky gamble. Brynne seemed a little...unstable, and if she decided to kill Sabina then Alex had no idea what he'd do.
"You know what, screw this," Sabina said suddenly. Everyone swiveled around to look at her, still in Brynne's arms. "I'm sick of being treated like I'm just a worthless girl," she spat the last word out. She stomped down hard on Brynne's foot, her high heel connecting, and abruptly raised her arms above her head and dropped down through Brynne's now-loose grip. David snatched the knife away from Brynne while she was still processing this, and spun her around so that the knife was at her throat.
"Well," Jillian cleared her throat. "It appears there is no reason to hold Mr. Harris and Ms. Starbright against their will anymore. Chris, please take Brynne down to the dungeons. Alex, David, Sabina, Ben, I am so sorry. Please, do your best to forget about this incident. Sabina, can I borrow those shoes?"
"Uh...sure..." Sabina said, caught off-guard.
"Can we go eat now?" Alex asked out of the blue. "It's dinner time, and I for one am starving."
Nathan dismissed them, and they hurried out, trying not to listen to Brynne's protests as she was dragged towards the dungeons. "We have to rescue her," Sabina said urgently in an undertone. "She's working for the CIA, she's innocent!"
"Calm down, Sab," Alex said. "We'll help her escape. After all, I don't think the Sharpes are going to want to keep us around after we destroy everything they've worked for."
That night...
"Remember, we don't want to echo down the halls," Alex whispered as the four of them stole silently through the darkened labs. They'd already almost set off the land mines and trip wires, and were trying to avoid the motion sensors on the cameras. Jack and Tom has been too tired to come, and were sleeping in Sabina's room.
"Oh, that's why I couldn't wear high heels," Sabina realized.
"That, and the fact that its entirely impractical to wear high-heels on a spying mission," Ben informed her. Alex stifled a laugh at his friends' antics.
"Hmph," Sabina muttered. "Hey, David!" She hissed. He turned around and raised an eyebrow. "Does this black jumpsuit make me look fat?" She asked, jutting her hip out and flipping her hair back.
"No comment," David told her, turning back around. The look he gave Alex clearly said, 'shut her up!'
"Sabina, unless you want to be killed, I advise you shut up now," Alex said in a conversational tone of voice. Her eyes widened, and she clamped her mouth shut with an audible click. They continued on silently for a while, until they reached the place where the main air duct was.
"This is it," David whispered. "The duct above us connects to all of the others. If we release the gas through that, they'll be dead within seconds. Get your gas masks on!" They all pulled in their masks, then gave David a thumbs-up. He nodded, pulling his own on. Alex and Ben gave him a lift up, careful to stay in the cameras' blind spots. He slid off his left glove and set it inside the air duct, then pressed the button to release the gas.
As he got down, he studied the blueprints again. Suddenly, he gasped. "What?" The others asked simultaneously, leaning over his shoulder to peer at the map.
"The dungeons connect to the air duct," he said, his voice muffled by the gas mask. "They're the farthest away, but Brynne only has five minutes. Set only where I step!" He took off, the others being careful to follow him so as not to alert the cameras. When they finally reached Brynne, she had her hands clamped over her mouth and nose, and she was almost unconscious from holding her breath so long. Ben scooped her up in his arms and slid the extra gas mask over her face.
"We have to get away," Alex said through the mask. "They have sensors on the mutants, and when those go dead they'll come check on them. We have to get Tom and Jack and get out of here!"
The four of them dashed upstairs, Ben carrying Brynne. They relaxed once they made it out of the labs. Now that there were no cameras, they threw caution to the winds and sprinted to Sabina's room.
Now that Brynne was strong enough to run, Ben set her on her feet, and the seven of them made their way to the roof, trying not to wake everyone up. When they got there, the helicopter MI6 sent was just landing. They climbed inside, their hair blowing around, and got all the way to Belgium before anyone in the compound realized the mutants had been killed. Of course, by that time, the gas was making its way upstairs. No one in the compound survived.
At MI6's offices in London...
"Brynne?" Mrs. Jones looked like she could hardly believe her eyes. Her peppermint fell out of her mouth and hit the floor. The sound seemed to bring her back to reality a little. She sat down behind her desk, her hands shaking. "Would someone please explain to me what's going on?"
"I think Brynne should explain," Alex said evenly, turning towards her. In the helicopter, she'd explained to them what had happened. Now it was time for her mother to know.
"You thought I was dead," Brynne began. "But I was kidnapped by the CIA. They thought you were doing things you weren't, and planned on using me for information and to manipulate you. When they realized you were innocent, they put me to work. They sent me to the Creators, because they didn't think you knew anything about it. This was three months before you sent Alex and Ben to the Creators. I told the Creators I ran away from you. They believed it, and I got into their good graces. I had to lie to Alex, David, Ben, and Sabina, because otherwise they would be too likely to give something away." She took a deep breath, looking steadily at her mother. As Mrs. Jones' eyes welled up, Brynne walked around the desk to hug her.
"Excuse me," Jack said. She was very pale, and there were circles under her eyes. Tom looked about the same. "Can we go now? After all, Sabina probably needs to get back to her family." Sabina swore, remembering her family and Anna.
"Certainly," Mrs. Jones agreed. "Anything for the people who brought my daughter back to me. I can promise you that we will never use Alex again without his full permission, and not until he's eighteen. We can fly Ms. Pleasure back to her family, and Mr. Micheals back to the Indian Secret Service. If you ever need anything, money or otherwise, please don't hesitate to contact us."
"You ready to go home, buddy?" Jack asked Alex, pulling him into a hug. Alex nodded fervently.
The end! Of this entire fanfic! Yay! This is the longest chapter yet! I'm using way too many exclamation points! PLEASE review and pm me, constructive criticsm is welcome.
I don't know what the next Fanfic I write will be, but keep your eyes out. I might do a sequel to this, but probably not for a while.
Thanks for reading,
-readingnerd18
