Chapter 12 – Gone In The Crash
Rue and Danny ran up to Eva's Jordan.
'Hey! If this shield with Sul doesn't work, will you…' Rue gestured.
'Of course! I'm not that stupid. You will be protected as long as I am conscious and alive,' Jordan smiled.
'Great! We were just wondering because well…doesn't it risk being found out by the others?' Danny whispered.
Jordan sighed and nodded.
'Yes, but it is worth the risk. As long as we all live, nothing else matters,' he said.
Prince Aikka came up.
'It is almost time for the race,' he gestured to Danny.
'Ok! See you guys after!' Danny waved.
He went off with Aikka through the portal.
Jordan and Rue saw the signal go off. They walked towards the Arrow. It was the time…
They reached the Arrow. They saw the others already there including the other Jordan adding some final touches.
Molly's Jordan went into the pilot seat. Molly, Rue and the other Jordan went into their gunner turrets. Both Aikkas and Danny were on G'dar. They were all then ready for the race.
Everyone else was in the control room. They were preparing.
The star racers all dropped into the sky below.
Eva watched them. She smiled when she saw a light blue mist appear around G'dar and the Arrow. Sul had already put up his shield.
She sat smiling. Satis then ruined everything for her.
She suddenly saw the sky surrounding her. She gasped. Everyone could see her in the cage. Satis laughed.
'I thought you needed the perfect view for this!' he smirked.
Everyone went in the dip. They all stopped when they saw the bird cage in midair and the huge figure of Satis in front of it.
'Do not panic,' Eva's Jordan whispered.
'What am I supposed to think? She is stuck in a giant bird cage thing with the monster! I want to go and kill him!' Molly yelled.
'Let me go first! Have you seen her properly?' the other Jordan asked.
Everyone looked closely and saw the red marks on Eva's skin.
'That is it! I want him dead now!' Prince Aikka muttered.
'Not if I get there first,' Jordan shook with rage.
Eva slipped back a bit. She didn't want to be seen. She wanted to be held close, cared for and loved. She wanted anything but this.
She glared at Satis.
Satis smirked.
'This isn't what you should be scared of,' he told her.
Satis flicked his hand. Sul swung into the wall. The blue mist disappeared around G'dar and the Arrow.
Eva gasped.
Satis swung G'dar into the Arrow. The Arrow hood quickly swung up and both Aikkas and Rue went inside the star racer. G'dar flew back up into the Nurasian Avatar ship.
'Quickly! Rue go with Danny into Jordan's gunner turret! Both Aikkas take Rue's place!' pilot Jordan commanded.
Everyone got into their places. They were ok. Jordan got ready to use his Avatar powers to protect the star racer.
Satis faced Eva.
'Oh and you know what? You let your mind slip,' Satis smirked.
Everyone all over didn't understand.
A huge blow hit the back of Jordan's head. He fell to the floor unconscious. Rue and Danny panicked.
'Jordan has been knocked out!' they both yelled at the top of their voices.
Eva heard them. She shook her head violently.
Satis then made bars fly out at the star racers. Everyone started flying for their lives and Sul couldn't make the shield again.
Rue and Danny tried shaking Jordan awake. He slowly stirred. They kept shaking and shaking him. Jordan slowly sat up.
'Jordan! You have to do something!' Danny shouted.
Eva watched the whole thing.
'Stop it!' she whispered.
'Well violent methods did not work but your mind did slip. I was going to do this but now with my new found information I can get rid of your Avatar too!' Satis laughed over and over.
The words echoed all around the area. Almost everyone heard them.
'What? That is who I am!' pilot Jordan shouted in a very confused voice.
Canaletto appeared in front of Satis.
'You have gone too far this time! If you do not stop this now then I will make sure you do!' Canaletto boomed.
Satis didn't seem to care.
'Well then. I will end it,' Satis said.
Canaletto realized too late what Satis meant. He couldn't stop it before Satis had done it.
Satis flung a bar in front of Arrow. The Arrow hit it and started falling down. Bars kept flying and damaging the craft until Satis was certain it would crash.
'No!' Eva yelled.
In the Arrow, everyone was in as much shock and panic. Rue and Danny shook their friend.
'Jordan!' they shouted.
Jordan sat up. He looked around.
'What is going on?' he asked.
'Satis knows your secret! We are going to crash! Just do something to help all of us now!' Rue shook Jordan.
'Please!' Danny begged him.
The communications link popped up. It was of everyone else in all the gunner turrets and pilot seat.
'Everything is falling apart!' Prince Aikka shouted.
'Are you the Avatar?' they others asked him desperately.
The Arrow was falling down and down. It was terrifying seeing the once majestic craft fall so fast.
Eva saw the chaos. She was sobbing uncontrollably. She couldn't stop. She just watched, unable to do anything.
Don, Maya, the two Stans and Kojis were trying to help the others. The communications link had become broken and the screen no longer showed the others in the Arrow. They were all so shocked.
'We have to help them!' they all yelled.
All the other star racers were being flung about. Sul still couldn't produce a shield as he was trying to stop himself from crashing into a wall.
The Arrow was getting closer to the ground.
Satis was laughing at the whole scene. Canaletto managed to stop the other star racers being thrown about but he couldn't do anything else.
'I must admit, my first plan had been flawless. I caused a crash a lot different from this one but it drove everything my way. I just had to pick the right person and then there would be my perfect pawn,' Satis smirked.
Molly heard him. She gasped.
'He made my dad…crash…on that day,' she silently sobbed.
Everyone else in the Arrow was concentrating more on the semi-conscious Jordan.
'Can't you do anything?' both Aikkas asked.
Jordan clutched the back of his head. He felt so weak…he could do something but it would take too long.
He closed his eyes and concentrated. He grinned.
'I can do something!' he whispered.
Everyone smiled. There was still hope left there…
The Arrow crashed. Glass flew everywhere and the Arrow was broken.
Eva stared at it. She could hardly see it for the dark pit it feel down, but she saw a light reflecting off tiny shards of shattered glass. Tears ran down her face.
'You killed them. You killed them all,' she whispered.
Satis laughed. Eva was back inside the tip of the Avatar ship. She kept looking where she had been looking at the Arrow, unable to speak, unable to stop the tears. She felt more pain than all the beams had ever caused.
One of the Stans and both the Kojis were still working.
'Stop. They don't need our help anymore. It is…it is…' Stan burst into tears.
Maya's face was of shock and despair. Don couldn't even blink. He just kept staring into the distance.
'I found out recently Molly is really…' Maya started crying.
'I learnt it like that. She also crashed a bit like this. She lived though. Your Molly will be fine,' Don held her hand.
Maya tugged her hand away and left the room. The mechanics desperately tried to reach the others but they gave up in tears.
Don couldn't believe all their lives would be gone just like that. Eva couldn't either.
She kept expecting to wake up and see them on Nurasia, before she went into the trans-dimensional portal. They would laugh about it and say it was a silly dream. They would kid she couldn't get rid of them that easily.
She couldn't wake up from her living nightmare.
Tears never seemed to stop flowing from her eyes. She didn't even rub her eyes even though her vision was blurred. She kept crying.
Satis kept laughing even after he had disappeared form everyone's view. It taunted Eva and made her think of the kind person he was on her home universe. She cried even harder.
'Why?' she whispered.
Satis laughed and it became stuck into Eva's mind long after he had stopped. It kept playing over and over, teasing her about her loss.
Hope was gone. Eva didn't believe anymore.