Chapter 8 – Breaking In
Tally walked away from David and Croy and towards the city of Diego. She switched on her sneak suit. She was thankful it was starting to get dark. If it was dark she could blend into the shadows where hopefully none of the regular Specials could find her. From what she had learned from Shay none of the special Specials had been turned Special again.
She ducked into a dark corner by the outskirts of the city and huddled in the shadows for a moment. Tally switched on her skintenna and listened carefully to here if Shay or Fausto would respond. After waiting a moment a raspy voice came over her skintenna.
"Tally-wa…is that you?" Fausto's voice asked.
"Yeah it's me Fausto. Are you guys still okay?" Tally asked.
"Yeah we're fine Tally-wa." Shay's voice was now coming over the skintenna.
"Hold on a second." Tally told Shay and Fausto. "Okay David can you hear me?" Tally asked softly.
A single ping came over the skintenna network.
"Tally what was that?" Shay asked.
"Relax Shay-la its David. Fausto gave the Smokies an antenna to listen into our skintenna's so they could communicate with us." Tally explained.
Muffled sounds came over the skintenna but Tally couldn't understand what exactly they were saying. It sounded like Shay and Fausto talking about something but she couldn't understand what.
Another single ping came over to network.
"Is that David?" Shay's voice came again, strong and clear this time.
"Yep that's David. One ping means yes and two means no." Tally said.
Another single ping came over the network.
"So Tally where are you?" Fausto asked.
"I'm almost there guys. Don't worry." Tally said.
"Hurry…" Shay said softly.
"Im coming Shay-la but I have to be quiet for a bit okay." Tally said.
A ping came through the network and Tally heard Shay and Fausto both gasp.
"Okay, that is going to get some getting used to." Shay chuckled.
"Okay well just say something when you start to get close and me and Shay-la can describe where we are at." Fausto said.
"Okay." Tally said.
Tally went silent and started to move again. The streets of the city were completely deserted. It was nothing like what had been going on when she had first arrived. She scanned the area slowly before carefully making her way into the city. She started thinking about how exactly she would get into Town Hall. Would she be able to use her sneak suit in there? Would she get caught? How many Special's would be in Cables new headquarters? How did Cable cure herself? All these questions Tally had floating around in her mind but not one of them had an answer.
A sudden movement in front of Tally startled her. She quickly slipped into the shadows. In front of her she saw a figure with scared brown eyes. It was a male; he had short dark brown hair and was backing slowly up from her. Suddenly she recognized him. He was a Smokey.
"Ryde?" she hissed softly.
The boys head shot up at her razor-like voice and stared at her with fear-filled eyes.
"Y-Y-Yes…" he quivered.
"Ryde it's me, Tally." she said softly.
Ryde's eyes grew wide. "Tally…your Special…" he said.
"Yes but I'm not the bad Specials…I'm trying to stop Cable. You need to get out of here and fast." Tally said softly.
"Good luck with that Tally." he said.
"Are there any other Smokies around here?" Tally asked.
He shook his head. "Nope I'm the only one that escaped." he said softly.
"David and Croy are waiting outside for me." she said. "Go out there and find them. But be careful. I will let them know you are coming." she said.
Ryde nodded slowly and scurried off quickly into a thick blanket of black.
"David?" Tally said through her skintenna.
A ping came over the network.
"I found Ryde he is coming out looking for you." she said.
Another ping came.
"Okay good." she said.
Her skintenna went silent and she started moving again. After a few minutes of slowly navigating through the town she found herself standing by Dr. Cable's new headquarters.
"Shay-la? Fausto?" Tally asked into her skintenna.
"Tally! Are you almost here?" Fausto's voice asked.
"Yeah tell me where you are." Tally said.
She surveyed the walls of the town-hall looking for a window or something to sneak into. Well we are underground in a dungeon-basement-type thing." Shay said.
"Nice description Shay-la." Fausto chuckled.
"Well I know you guys are underground, so there is a start." Tally laughed.
She got to the back of the Town Hall and found a small window that lead, to what she assumed, was the basement that Shay had been talking about.
"Shay-la do you know how far down you are? How far down does this go? What section are you in? Are you in a little room or what?" Tally asked.
She carefully kicked the window open, trying her best not to make a sound. She looked in the window below her. It was a large hallway that was dimly lit up by a few flickering lights that hung from the ceiling. There were sets of doors on each side of the hallway. It looked like there were about 20 doors on each side all labeled with a shiny gold plaque. She slipped in through the window with great ease and landed safely in the hallway below her.
"Well we are in the very bottom. I think its level E. And we are in a room labeled detention center." Fausto said.
"Okay well what level am I in now?" Tally asked.
"Well are you on the main level or the level below the main level?" Fausto asked.
"The level below the main level." Tally answered.
"Okay then you are in level B." Fausto said.
"Okay so I go down 3 more levels and then I reach you guys in the room labeled 'detention center'." she said.
"Yeah. We are all in different little cells. Well there are two of us in each cell. Fausto and I are in one and the other Cutters are split up into twos in the others." Shay said.
"Okay Shay-la. Don't worry, I'll find you guys." Tally said.
"Okay." Shay and Fausto answered.
"David, are you still there?" Tally asked through her skintenna.
Ping.
"Okay did Ryde find you?"
Ping...Ping
"Okay well hopefully he will soon. I'm just checking in. I have to go find the Cutters."
Ping.
She walked down the long hallway softly, keeping alert for any voices of any Specials or anyone who could be a threat to stopping her free her friends and finding Maddy. At the end of the hall was a small silver elevator that led down to the other levels of the Town Hall. She used her skintenna to call the elevator and stepped inside and told it to go down to Level E.
When it stopped and opened she flattened herself against the wall of the elevator and slowly looked out into the hallway. There was no sign of anyone so she slowly crept out of the elevator.
Walking quietly and swiftly she checked each of the doors looking for the 'detention center'. She should have known. That was where Cable had put the Smokey's the last time she took over the Smoke why would she be any different this time? She was so predictable after all.
She finally reached a large door at the end of the hallway with a golden plaque that said, 'detention center'.
"Okay Shay-la, Fausto." she said to her skintenna.
"Where are you Tally-wa?" Shay asked.
"Outside the door. Is there anything or anyone in there that will know I'm there?" Tally asked.
"Not that I know of. Cable and the others aren't in here. They haven't came in here once since we got here." Fausto said.
"Okay, uhmm how do I get the door open?" Tally asked. She felt stupid but then again she didn't want to break down the door. Then Cable or someone would know she had been there. She needed a quick and careful escape. One that left very little clues behind.
"Use your skintenna I guess. Don't break down the door though." Fausto said.
"I know! I wasn't going too." Tally said.
Fausto and Shay both chuckled. "Tally we all know you have a little problem with destroying things." Shay's voice came through to Tally.
"Ha-ha. Very funny." Tally said. She was smiling.
Tally used her skintenna to open the door. The 'detention center' looked awfully similar to the one at the Special Circumstance Headquarters. She turned to her right and saw a few small detention cells. She assumed they were the ones that Shay and Fausto and the others were being held in.
"Which cell are you two in?" Tally asked.
"Hold on." Fausto said.
A moment later Tally heard a soft sounding at one of the doors and Fausto and Shay's faces appeared. Both had huge grins on their faces. Tally's face broke out into a full-grin and raced towards the cell. She was going to get them out.