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Six
My excitement only intensifies as Nine loads the car with our weapons and refills it with gas.
We made a short stop at Illinois to stay overnight and for gas.
"Let's go, everybody!" Nine announces, closing the back of the van.
I ride shotgun with Ella next to me, holding BK who is in beagle form.
"Nice of you to join me, sunshine."
I roll my eyes and help Ella settle in.
"Are you excited to get your Chest?" Ella asks me as the others pile in.
I nod. "Yeah, especially after all I had to go through in that base."
I remembered the way the Mogadorians left me to rot in my cell; without my Katarina. I remember how they would make me watch as they tortured Katarina before finally killing her. I remember the way the Mogadorians looked at me whenever they dropped a tray of mush at my cell. I remember the way my first Legacy came, how it came at the most perfect moment possible. I remember the frantic look on the Mogs' faces when they realized I was gone; the sirens blaring and the Mogs rushing to find me and how they never did.
I remember killing the Mog that killed my Katarina; justifying her death.
Ella gives me a sympathetic look, her big brown eyes telling me it's going to be okay. I smile at her and tell her that we'll get through this. That we'll get her Chest too.
After the others have piled inside, we set off.
It's a nine-hour drive, so, once again, we're left to cope with each other all crammed up inside a stolen minivan.
As if to break the silence, Nine punches a CD inside the car radio and turns it on full blast. The radio starts playing a fast-tempo, post-hardcore song. With our advanced hearing, the song could've broken our eardrums within seconds. I turn the volume down a couple of notches and then I start to hear the lyrics more clearly. It's a great song about being angry with all the pressure everyone is giving you and just lashing out and telling everyone to screw off. It could be good as a soundtrack when killing Mogs.
Sensing my enjoyment, Nine switches to the radio. I give him a glare but didn't try to move much since Ella is sleeping on my lap. It's a wonder how she can still sleep so peacefully at night.
I rest my head on her back and drift away again.
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Five
John is now the one driving and is parking the car some miles away from the base. I personally have never been here so it's hard for me to relate to the anger the others have. Nonetheless, I stuff two daggers in my pockets and strap a machinegun to my back.
We all start to pile down.
John is the one to assign us the tasks.
"Okay, so. Five and Six, you check if there are any Mog soldiers guarding the doors. Use your Invisibility and Flying Legacies." I nod at Six.
"After, Nine and I go inside and kill some of the scouts. Ella and Six, you go and find Six's chest while we block off the Mogs. Use telepathy to contact us if there's any trouble. Eight and Five will also help in blocking the Mogs and Marina is in charge of healing but will fight off the scouts as well."
"Sam, Malcolm, and Adam, block the exits and make sure there's a passageway for us in the end. Be prepared to fight off advancing Mogs."
"The Chimæras will also block the exits. You guys can't come in since there's a poisonous gas inside the base that's used for killing Chimæras."
"Sarah, you stay with Marina," John continues then hands Sarah a gun. "Use this only if absolutely necessary. I don't want you to get hurt, okay?" Sarah nods.
"Are we all set?" John asks. We all nod in anticipation.
"Move out!" John announces and Six immediately grabs my hand, turning both of us invisible. We walk towards a sort of mountain and I soon become confused.
"Where's the base?" I whisper.
"It's inside the mountain." She whispers back.
I have to say, the Mogadorians did a good job in hiding their base. It's barely visible but after floating us up, Six led me to an entrance guarded by four huge scouts. They stood tall, at least six feet, with their hands tightly clutching Mogadorian swords and blasters attached to their belts. They looked intimidating, to say the least.
Six grips my arm tighter, signaling me to go back. I float us down the mountain and back at the others.
"Four on the entrance. Heavily armed and huge." Six reports back once we're settled.
"Okay, Nine, let's go." John says. Nine nods and grins excitedly before dashing to the mountain and up on the side with his anti-gravity Legacy, pulling John along by the wrist.
Six nods at us before going invisible with Ella. I momentarily see Ella clutching a gun hard with her hands.
The rest of us follow.
I grabbed Sarah and Marina and floated them up while Eight teleported the rest of them.
John and Nine are fighting off the four guards, making them busy, so we sneak in.
Marina and Sarah take position in one corner as I take my fighting stance.
Suddenly, an alarm starts blaring and I nod at the others. They nod back, prepared.
Three rows of Mogs charges, their swords gleaming in the low light of the base.
I rush up to them and begin stabbing and shooting. John and Nine have now joined us. John is burning down Mogs within seconds while Nine is maniacally stabbing and beheading Mogs that dare stand in his way with his pipe-staff.
Beside me, Eight has turned into a huge wolf and is teleporting to Mogs at an unearthly rate, biting and clawing his way through the army.
Adam is sending earthquake after earthquake, each more powerful than the last. I see Marina pressing her hands to Sam's side who was shot from a Mog cannon. Malcolm is shooting down Mogs and tackling them, instantly turning them to ashes. He is seriously stronger than the ordinary human. I make a mental note to ask him about it later.
Meanwhile, I've created a huge fireball and hurled it towards the advancing Mogs, burning them to cinders. John has coated himself in flames and is slashing through Mogs as well as shooting them.
Out of the corner of my eye, I see a Mog advancing towards Marina but she is too busy healing Eight to notice. Its sword was just centimeters away from impaling her when I rush to it, grabbing its neck and slamming it to the floor. It struggles but I'm strong enough to hold it there. I pull out my dagger and slowly whisper, "No one messes with the Garde and gets away with it." With that, I stab him straight to the heart, making him explode into ashes. The ash singed my eyes, making me momentarily blinded but I washed them off with my element Legacy.
Marina nods at me thankfully and is back on firing out Mogs. Beside her, Sarah is also shooting some of the scouts to keep them from getting nearer.
I suddenly hear a voice in my head. Five? Five can you hear me? I reply quickly, "Yes, yes. Ella, is this you? What's wrong?"
"We need you. Six has been captured. Get Marina and come quick on the second floor. ASAP."
"Okay."
With that, I fill Marina in on what I knew and we dashed upstairs. The walls were grey and blank. The halls were dimly lit and some Mogs were waiting for us. Marina hurls them away with telekinesis as I turn into another room where Ella led me to.
I immediately see Ella fighting off Mogs with her lasers. I rush in to help her and envelop them in the ground.
"Are you okay?! Where's Six?!" Marina asks frantically.
"I'm okay! Six has been captured but I managed to slip away. She's been taken away in one of the cells. Let's go!"
We rush down the hall with Ella leading.
Six
I try to struggle free but the two Mogs holding me are too strong. They've injected something in my arm that made my Legacies disappear and made me progressively weaker. I was so close in getting my Chest. Just a door away when a Mog captured me.
"Where are you taking me?!"
"Let's just say your old cell missed you." Says one with a disgusting smirk plastered across his face.
We reach some sort of hall and I immediately recognize one of the rooms as the room that they used to torture Katarina.
They throw me inside it and slammed the doors shut before clicking on a button, activating a force field. Great. Just great.
I try to find some sort of weapon and I find a long piece of wood. I use it to tap the fore field and was greatly amused to find out that inanimate objects don't affect it.
I try to tap the button to make the force field disappear but it's too far away for me to reach.
Next, I try to communicate with Ella.
Ella, Ella, where are you?
Six! I'm with Five and Marina! We're going to rescue you! Where are you? We're on the second floor, Hallway C.
I'm in one of the cells in Hallway F.
Okay, we're going to be there in five. Stay safe, Six!
You too!
And then our communication breaks.
I try to sharpen my little wooden weapon by rubbing it against the concrete walls. It makes a loud, piercing sound and one of the soldiers comes in. He disables the force field and comes in then slaps me hard across the face.
"You stay quiet!" he shouts, his sour breath washing all over my face.
I quickly grab my stick and stab him with it. He falls to the ground, soon disintegrating into ashes.
"Stupid Mog," I mutter before dashing out.
The syringe left a nasty mark on my arm and whatever medicine they injected me has taken its toll. I stumble a little bit but dash to Hallway C nonetheless.
I plow through some of the Mogs blocking the way with my stick and I see Ella, Five, and Marina fight some Mogs a little farther away from where I'm at.
After all of them have been turned to ashes, I rush to the three girls.
"Ella! Marina! Five!" I shout.
They all turn. "Six!"
Ella is the first one to hug me, wrapping her arms around my waist. I hug her back, happy to be reunited with them.
Marina presses down her hands to the side of my face where a Mog slapped it and started healing it.
"Where's your Chest?" Five asks.
"Down in that room." I say, pointing.
We sprint to the room and fidget around with the doorknob until Five just kicks it down.
Several Mog scientists are pouring vials on my Chest until I kick them hard in the shins, making them stumble back, both from the pain and the shock.
I quickly grab my Chest and sprint out. They must've found my hidden spot and dug it out.
We dash downstairs and were faced by a fighting frenzy.
Nine is plowing though the Mogs merrily with his bare hands. Eight is wolfing them down with his fangs. Marina has immediately created a telekinetic force field around Sarah, Sam, Malcolm, Adam, and herself while she healed them.
I jump into action and shoot off the Mogs with a gun Malcolm handed to me.
Five is in another corner, creating tornadoes the size of buildings and hurling them towards the Mogs. Her force is making the base crumble and this whole place will be rubble in no time.
John dashes next to me and tells me we need to go. I nod and tell Ella the same thing. She then tells all of the others.
We pile outside and rush inside the van, relieved and extremely exhausted at the same time.
I'm in the shotgun seat again with Ella next to me. Malcolm is driving.
Before leaving, John sets the base on fire with his Lumen and gets inside with Sarah in tow. The Chimæras are badly bruised but all seem to be safe.
We drove the rest of the way in silence after hearing the base explode.
After a while, Nine asks.
"Wait, dudes, where's Five?"
All of us suddenly gasp.
"No!" Nine exclaims looking back as Malcolm continued driving.