Author's Note: Hey yall I'm sooooooo sorry for taking so long. Lots of drama, sickness, and make-up work in school to get through but here's chapter 18. Enjoy.

A New Age, A New Team
Chapter 18: Stolen Betrayal

"So where is this new guy you two were telling us about?" Rashad asked Mary-Lynn and Natalie impatiently.

"Patience is a virtue Rashad dear." Mary-Lynn said sweetly; slightly lacing her voice with a hint of pheromones to calm Rashad down.

Rashad gave a heavy sigh, "The meeting was supposed to start," he checked the clock on the wall, "two minutes ago."

"Lighten up Rashad, it's two minutes." Lucas said in his thick Scottish accent, which made Rashad glared at the Scottish boy with his brown eyes.

"He'll be here." Natalie said softly in her English accent, but with confidence.

Everyone on the Chaos team sat in silence around the low rectangular table in the dimly lit living room area of the Chaos base. Mary-Lynn was sitting in her usually large chair with her legs dangling over the side, Rashad, Ashley, Lucas, and Karen were sitting on the couch, and Natalie was sitting in the other chair across from Mary-Lynn. Each person took a moment to look around at everyone else, while Natalie looked over at Mary-Lynn, who was busy filing her nails. Why is she always so calm? Natalie thought in slight annoyance, though she showed no sign of it on the outside.

KnockKnock

Everyone in the living room looked over at the door that was down a hallway behind the couch.

"That's him." Mary-Lynn said as she stood up.

"How do you know that it's him?" Karen asked with her voice laced with a French accent.

Mary-Lynn swung her feet around and stood up from the chair, "Because honey, I control pheromones." She said as she rolled her violet eyes and made her way to the door. "I can smell anyone's natural pheromones easily." She said as she opened the door to Orion standing in front of her. "See?"

Orion looked down at the little southern bell raised an eyebrow at her, "Am I missing something?" He asked in his Italian accent.

"No suga, come in." Mary-Lynn ushered Orion inside and shut the door behind him. She walked down the hallway in front of Orion and when she entered the large living room where the rest of the team was, she stopped. "Yall, this is Orion Paradox, also known as Sparks." She introduced.

"Hello." Orion nodded his head once.

"You're late." Rashad snapped.

"I'm sorry?" Orion said more of a question than an apology. What the hell? You hired me, therefore I arrive when I arrive. He sighed.

"Whatever." Rashad snarled as he turned back around to face the rectangular table in front of him.

"Sorry about Rashad." Mary-Lynn whispered in her southern bell accent to Orion, "Unfortunately, he's naturally that cranky." She sighed as she flopped back down in her chair.

"Alright here's the deal," Rashad started as he pulled out a large rolled piece of paper out from underneath the table, "we're wanting to pull off a heist," he spoke as he unrolled the large piece of paper out across the rectangular table, "here."

Orion's yellow eyes looked over the large piece of paper, which turned out to be a blueprint, and saw the name in the corner. "The Technology Center?" He asked.

Rashad looked up at him for a moment and then looked back at the blueprint, "Yeah. We're wanting to steal some technology for it."

"No really?" Lucas said sarcastically, which made Rashad glare daggers over at him.

Karen placed her hand softly on Lucas' knee and looked into his brown eyes, with gold flecks, with her blue eyes and she slowly shook her head. Stop it Lucas. He's not in the mood. She thought, though there was no way for Lucas to hear her thoughts, but Lucas seemed to understand anyway.

"How are you going to get it out of there without tripping the alarms?" Orion asked, which made Rashad slowly looked up at him in annoyance.

"I was getting to that," he said dryly.

"Sorry." Orion said sheepishly.

"Anyway," Rashad continued, "every night there are two guards posted outside of the center." Rashad took two small toy soldiers and placed them in front of the center doors. "Mary-Lynn this is where you come in."

"Say no more honey." Mary-Lynn waved it off.

"Good. Karen I want you to stay with the van as our get away car."

"Ah," Karen slightly whined, "why do I not get to go in with you guys?"

"Because if one of the guys stays with the van and someone sees them they will probably suspect something is up, but if an attractive lady like yourself is with the van they might not think that as easily." Rashad said with a sneaky smile.

"Ah, I see." Karen nodded a couple times. "Very good then."

"Good." Rashad sighed and then turned to Natalie, "Natalie I want you to stay outside with Mary-Lynn and watch her back why the rest of us move on." Natalie nodded her head once. "Once that's taken care of we'll be ready to go inside." Rashad paused, "Mary-Lynn you have to knock them out and get back to us as soon as possible."

"Can't stand to be away from me too long, huh?" She smirked, though Rashad just glared. "Oh fine, I'll just over exert their adrenaline and they'll be out like a light in no time."

"Good. Natalie you need to stay outside in case someone comes, and if someone does create a distraction so we can get out of there."

"No problem." Natalie nodded.

"Before we get inside I need you Lucas to short-circuit the security cameras inside."

"Alright." Lucas smirked. "But in order to do that I have to stay where I am because as soon as I remove my hand from the wall, the cameras go back to normal."

"You're joking right?" Rashad gasped.

"Afraid not." Lucas sighed.

"Alright fine," Rashad looked up at Orion, "what's your power?"

"I can make things explode with a single thought."

Rashad smirked devilishly and looked at Lucas, "That's perfect then. You short-circuit the security cameras and stay where you are… So that leaves me with Orion, Mary-Lynn, Ashley, and myself. Alright." Rashad nodded to himself. "Once that's through, we can move inside." Rashad moved the blueprints a little closer to himself in order to get a better view, "We're on a tight schedule here and we don't have any rooms for screw ups, alright?"

Everyone nodded, while Orion looked around at everyone. Obviously, he's the leader, and he's not a bad one.

"There's a security system room in a secret room," he pointed to a wall, "Mary-Lynn, if the security guards haven't come out of there already, there's a painting on the wall. Move it to the side, the code to the lock is 4–"

"Um, Rashad darlin'?" Mary-Lynn interrupted. "Why don't I just send some pheromones through the door and have them open up for me?" She chuckled.

"That works to." Rashad smirked. "I need you to knock them out also, and when that's done, Natalie you can come inside and don't forget to bring those two guards in with you."

"Um, problem." Mary-Lynn said bluntly.

"What now?" Rashad sighed.

"How many are in there?"

"Probably six, why?"

"I can't leave then. If I'm keeping those two outside being brought inside plus those six, that's eight guys unconscious. I can't leave unless you want them wakin' up." She sighed.

"Fine. Natalie once you got those two guards inside the security system room with Mary-Lynn, I want you to stay with her, and turn off the security system. Once that's done, Lucas you can come in then, and then Ashley I want you to stay with the girls so that we have a more offensive power protecting them... No offense girls."

"None taken." Mary-Lynn and Natalie said with slight annoyance in their voices.

"That leaves me Lucas and Orion. Alright." He sighed, "Once that's taken care of the four of us need to head to the basement." He pointed to a small staircase to the right, "That's where they lock all their most prized inventions." Rashad smirked devilishly at Lucas and Orion. "I want the three of you in the security system room following us to make sure we're alright and keeping a look out for anyone we haven't expected." Rashad looked right at Natalie and Ashley when he spoke. I'm mostly counting on you two because Mary-Lynn isn't quite the most reliable person in the world…

Rashad reached under the rectangular table once again and pulled out another blueprint. "This is the basement," he said as he unrolled the new blueprint. "Once the security system is turned off, we can do whatever we please as long as it isn't too much." He smirked. "There's about a foot thick steal door with a code on it to get to the technology." He pointed at the wall on the blueprint.

"Wanting me to short-circuit that too?" Lucas smirked.

"Not this time." Rashad sighed. "The vault door runs on a security system directly linked to the police station." He paused. "Doing that could trigger the alarm."

"So what does that mean?" Karen asked in confusion.

"It means we have to manually crack the code to open the door, or we get nothing." He sighed.

"Rashad none of us are that technologically advanced enough to crack vault doors." Ashley said in disappointment.

"Who said?" Rashad asked. "My brother Jamal is a genius at technology, and it ain't like I didn't learn a thing or two from him." He smirked. "I'll crack the code. It should be easy. I've been working on it for awhile now, and I just need the last two digits which I'll have by tomorrow morning so no problems." Rashad waved it off. "So moving on, once the code is cracked I want the three of you in the security system room coming down to the basement immediately, and then Karen I want you bringing the van around to the side." Rashad paused for a moment to look around at everyone. "Now here's where it gets fun." He chuckled.

Mary-Lynn stopped filing her nails and looked up at Rashad. He very rarely laughs. Mary-Lynn thought because she was slightly worried by Rashad's chuckle.

"Orion I want you to blast a hole in this wall, and from there everyone just picks up whatever they please and puts it in the van." He smirked.

Everyone in Chaos looked around at each other with smiles. Destroying things was more their style if anything.

"Genius Rashad." Karen said softly as she looked over at Rashad.

A small hooded figure walked down a foggy dusty road towards the front gates to the mansion, but paused just outside of the gates. Small hands rose up to the edge of the hood and pushed it back to reveal Natalie standing in front of the gates. Where is she? She sighed though on the outside she showed no sighed of hurry. I hate being near this place, especially by myself.

"Nervous?" A cool, calm female Australian voice asked as a teenage girl appeared on the side of the gate closest to the mansion.

"No."

"Don't lie. I can smell it on you." The teenage girl chuckled. "Remember? Heighten senses." She smirked as she came into view.

"Are you ready to do busy Lyndsey?" Natalie asked in slight annoyance.

"Of course." Lyndsey smirked.

"I heard that you were possibly thinking about switching sides…" Natalie's voice trailed off as a devilish smirk grew on her face.

"Possibly." Lyndsey said coolly.

"What if I told you that you could join Chaos if you wished?" She raised an perfectly shaped eyebrow at Lyndsey.

"I'd ask you what I had to do in return."

"Get inside information on X² that only a member of X² could get." She smirked.

"I don't know." Lyndsey said softly.

"Fine. No information, no spot." Natalie sighed.

"Fine." Lyndsey said quickly, and then gained her posture again, "Consider it done."

"Pleasure doing business with you." Natalie said as she put her hood back over her head.

"Like whys." Lyndsey nodded, as Natalie turned on her heal and slowly walked away; disappearing into the fog.