Chapter 3
The two kids awoke the next morning two a very loud truck driving by.
Rachel looked at the truck driving away with a look on her face that no one would ever want to see.
"You didn't wake up like you said you always do!!!" Rachel screamed. "Ugh.. sorry…" said Ben who still looked like he wasn't fully awake yet. "I don't think we wanted to get into that truck anyway," he said looking at it in the distance. "You see that the truck's completely black and has a giant letter on it. So it's not like the other trucks that take goods out of the town."
"Whatever we still could've tried," Rachel mumbled.
The kids packed up there bags in the vast desert they seemed to be stuck in. Ben thought to himself "This doesn't seem like the deserts I've heard about. It feels like all the happiness has gone far away and all hope has evaporated with the water, lost forever. Maybe it's just because the road seems to go on forever though."
He grabbed the remains of his nutri – grain bar he was snacking on and followed Rachel. She still had the hat on she always did even though it felt like it was 100 degrees.
"Why are you always wearing that hat?" he asked her.
"Because it keeps my hair in place and makes me look cute!" she smiled. "Rachel I don't think any type of hat even if it was strung out of the nicest material in the world, would make you look cute," he joked as she hit him on the arm.
Meanwhile in their car the three gang members were listening to music. All of the sudden the screen right below the radio started to ring. "Looks like were getting a call from the boss," said the black haired girl.
She looked around and realized she was going to answer it.
Click!! All of the sudden the familiar picture of the brown haired man fell onto the screen. He was wearing his orange suit like always and had his faithful Persian sitting by his side purring.
"Good afternoon Giovanni!" they all said as the red haired driver pulled over to the side of the road so they could talk. "Good afternoon Hazel, Chris!! Where is my nephew?!" the boss asked. "Right here uncle," the boy said waking up from his nap looking drowsy.
"Good now I can see you all," said Giovanni as he continued.
"Well I'm hoping you didn't fail on such a simple task," his eyes showing the hardship and suffering they would have to go through if they did. "Of course not boss!" Hazel said holding up the plans making sure that the money wasn't visible.
"Hmm.. good job you will report to me immedietly when you arrive back in Kanto!" he said looking happier which made all three rockets relieved. "And as for you Leo.." he said staring at his nephew. "Looks like you may be working your way up closer to the boss position soon."
The screen clicked again except this time turning off.
The tension in the room had vanished no one feeling every second moving by like a chance to be ridiculed an punished.
"Well he seems to be fond of you Leo," said Chris laughing as he grabbed his laptop that was loading Doom 3.
"I don't see how you can be obsessed with that game!" said Hazel her eyes changing color to a mixed green – blue color. "I wouldn't expect a girl to understand." And as Hazel seemed to be turning a little red from anger Chris just grew more intrigued with his video game.
"Sooo.. thirsty," Ben said walking down the endless road. "If you would've just saved your water like me you would be fine," Rachel remarked with a smirk on her face. "I.. hate.. you…" he panted. "Well don't feel to bad the road can't on forever but even if it does I know that I wont be thirsty"
Rachel was sticking her tongue at him when the saw the sand starting to swirl. "What the…" Ben said staring blankly. "I think this would be a good time to run," he continued starting to move away from the sand charging at them.
"I didn't think sandstorms could move this fast!!!" yelled Rachel trying to grab on to Ben.
"What are you doing??" he said as Rachel grabbed on to his hand. "If the sandstorm hits us we have to hold on to eachother!"
A look of fear crossed Ben's face not just from the raging sandstorm but from realizing he was holding Rachel's hand.
"If we get lost though we'll never find the road!" he replied. And as he looked over at Rachel he knew that the chances of them escaping the sandstorm was grim.
"It doesn't matter we just have to try to not get caught in the sandstorm!" he said trying to make her feel better.
But as the sandstorm grew faster they got caught in it.
As Ben looked out into the distance he swore he could see a huge rock type figure standing in the distance.
But before he could tell Rachel the sandstorm engulfed them and they were trapped.