Thirteen
The ground was getting closer.
And closer.
And closer.
Abby braced herself for impact. But it never came, instead she was caught.
By
…..
Looking up she saw who her saviour was. She knew at the back of her mind he would've caught her.
It was Connor after all.
Connor had known what to do as soon as he could stand up. Abby wanted him to catch her. But why had she said 'mum' to Helen?
'Abby!'
'Connor'
'Are you okay?'
'As long as we stop the bomb'.
Connor put Abby down and glanced back at Helen. She was looking annoyed. 'Abby' she said. 'I told you not to tell them. Fine, on your own head be it. If you all want to survive bring the artefact to me in under 10 minutes, Abby knows where to find me'.
And with that Helen and her guard left.
All eyes turned to Abby.
'What?' she shrugged and winced.
'Becker, give her pain killers' Danny said.
'No, not until the bomb is defused' Abby replied.
'Abby' Danny started but a wave from her hand cut him off.
'Ok, listen up we have 10 minutes to stop the bomb from going off and I know most you hate me, hell you all probably do, but if you want to live, then you gotta trust me, ok?' Abby shouted.
Some of the ARC personnel were seen to nod or say they trusted her which was good enough for Abby so she carried on 'I want all non- essential staff out of the ARC and Danny, Becker, Connor, 2 soldiers and Sarah to stay. Lester you can stay if you want but either way it won't make a difference'.
Lester was baffled. Abby was speaking to him like Cutter used too, the nerve!
Whilst he was puzzling on whether to stay or not the non- essential staff left the ARC, leaving Abby, Becker, Connor, Danny, Sarah, 2 soldiers and Lester.
'I take it you're staying?' Abby asked.
Lester nodded.
'Right, Becker take your men and go get the locking device. Sarah go with Danny to the medical bay and get pain killers for Connor – he'll need them then go to the armoury and get lethal guns. Connor stay with me'. When no-one moved Abby shouted 'NOW!'
That got them moving.
'Lester, go load the guns'.
Lester nodded and went to the armoury, leaving Connor and Abby alone.
'Before you even think about getting me to do anything answer my question'.
'Ok' Abby said 'but hurry'.
'Why did you call Helen, mum?'
'I can't answer that Connor'
'Please Abby'.
'Why do you think I did?'
'Uhh, because it's all some elaborate joke?'
'Because she's my mother'.
'Abby we have the locking device. Why did we need to get it?' Becker asked upon re-entering the main operations room.
'Tell you late-argh!' Abby said as the adrenaline holding the pain at bay finally left her and she collapsed to the floor.
'Abby!' Connor shouted and put her in his arms.
'Connor, here give her this Danny said as he, Lester and Sarah came into view. Arms full of guns and pain killers. Connor caught it and said 'thanks, now Abby this may hurt you but you have to hold on for me okay? I mean you're the only one who knows how to stop the bomb' Connor smiled.
Abby nodded and Connor plunged the pain killer into her leg and pushed down the syringe's top.
'Better' Abby mumbled.
'Another Danny' Connor said.
'Here'.
Connor did the same again and Abby said 'much better, now let's stop the bomb'.
Abby went over to the ADD and typed in a series of commands. Within seconds everyone was watching a bomb on the screens of the ADD.
'But how?' Sarah started.
'It's a viral bomb, can only be stopped by a DNA match and a very strong pulse of energy. It won't destroy the ADD but may create an anomaly' Abby replied.
'Who's DNA?' Lester asked.
'Helen's' Abby answered.
'But she said you put it in the ADD' Becker said.
Abby nodded 'but she created the bomb'.
'Guys we only have five minutes' Connor said.
'Have faith Connor' Abby said as something on the ADD came up.
It was an alert that said they only had 4 minutes left.
'Right set up the locking device to maximum, full power Connor. Danny, Becker, Smith and Fordson get ready to open fire. Sarah hand me a pain killler'.
'Thanks' Abby said after she used it.
'Good, right now is it all set up cause we're gonna have to run once it's done' Abby said.
'Almost, but what about the DNA thing?' Connor asked.
Abby pulled from her pocket 3 empty syringe fillers. She put one into the syringe and put it into her arm.
'Abby…' Connor said.
'You know for someone so smart you can be amazingly thick sometimes. Helen's DNA runs through me too' Abby replied as the syringe started filling with blood.
She knelt down by the locking device and smiled 'fuel' and placed the first filler of blood into the firing beam.
She repeated this until all the three remaining fillers had been used.
'Now get ready to run' Abby said as alarms started to go off.
'Why are there alarms?' Becker shouted.
'Didn't want you lot to not have a chance at escaping' Abby replied and looked at the timer.
'30 seconds, it's now or never; FIRE' Abby shouted and Connor pressed fire.
The ADD went black as a massive surge of energy hit it.
The beam was red and it caused more alarms to go off as well as an anomaly to open before their eyes.
'Lock it Connor' Abby ordered as they heard a guttural cry.
Connor locked the anomaly and the countdown stopped.
But before they could relax power bounced off and everyone in the room were knocked unconscious.