Disclaimer: I do not own Uglies.
Dr. Cable's POV
Tally walked out of the room. If you could call it a room, for the buildings in the Smoke were very poorly built.
I was smiling ear to ear. We finally had the Smokies, bound and captured, and were shipping them off to various cities. But we still had not found David.
I had big plans for David. Once we captured him, he would immediately go under the knife. But to make sure he blends in, I was going to test my newest invention on him and his parents. I had been working on erasing memories from a person's mind for some time now, along with replacing the memories with artificial ones, and I needed a test subject. My test subjects would be David and his parents. I would also use my super lesions on all of them too.
One of the Specials burst in, interrupting my thoughts.
"Youngblood's on the loose!" she yelled at me. I didn't hesitate a second. Me and a dozen other Specials got into hovercars and went after her. We followed her into the woods, but she obviously knew the way better then we did. Then she disappeared.
"Crap!" I yelled. "We lost her!"
"Maybe not, Boss," said Colin. "Can you smell that?"
I took a good sniff. Beneath all the smells of the forest, I could smell an unwashed human. I followed my nose all the way to a home in the rocks. We burst in to the home, and my lips curled into a smile. Maddy and Az were in the home, startled by our abrupt entrance. We seized the two of them, and Maddy gave me a hateful look.
"Nice to see you again, Maddy," I said with razors in my voice.
"Same to you, McKenzie," Maddy replied coldly.
"Take these two back to the city," I said to Colin. "Keep them at headquarters until I get there." Colin nodded, and took them to a hovercar. When they were gone, I took a nanotech grenade, and threw it at the home. It exploded, and the house was torn to pieces. I smiled with satisfaction. Then I went back to the Smoke, which was emptied of all Smokies.
"Burn the city," I said. The Smoke was turned into a living bonfire in a matter of minutes.
"Time to go," I said. The Specials withdrew from the burning ruins, and we left for the city. I was disappointed that we had not found David, but we had the Smokies in our clutches. For me, that was enough.
But where had Tally disappeared to?