Chapter 5
Not much time to give hugs...
When they finally got back to their house Jake told everyone stay in the car while he went in a told everyone which were probably already ready to go to leave. He jumped out of the car and ran up to the door almost barging it down and rushed right through. "Alright you know what to do!" He yelled. Tom, Francis, Marla, and Marcus had already packed everything they could into their cars and had just ran in to get another load. "We have to go I can sense unfamiliar traces of SH near us it must be the Apprentices we have to get the hell out!" Francis shouted then rushed out the door along with the others.
They got out to the stuffed cars packing in more. "We got everything we needed and ready to go." Marcus barked out. "You got the detonator right?" Jake asked. Tom took happily took it out "Yep right here.." He sounded proud. "Good now lets get the hell out of here."
They all got into each of their cars quickly starting them up which everyone had practiced to do in any situation like this and more. "Alright lets hit it." Jake signaled. Jason accelerated the car away from the house with everyone following them. "Put on the ear piece Jake." Jason reminded him. The tiny black ear piece was a small communication device used to talk with others. He opened up the glove compartment and found it in the secret opening on the top where their guns and other gadgets were stored in. "I wanna see it, looks so cool." Olga saw it from the back seat. "I'll let you see it later." Jake popped his right in already jumping right into a conversation between Tom and Francis about the detonator. "Should I do it now man?" Tom asked. "Wait... everyone a safe distance away?" Francis asked cautiously. "Affirmative." Everyone answered including himself. "OK you know what to do Tom click it."
They could hear him click it on the tiny earpiece. In return the house that used to be their hide out exploded sending flames and pieces of the house littering to litter the street. Can't leave any evidence behind. "Wow that was shiny!" Olga was looking out from the back window. Jason who didn't have his earpiece on during the explosion chuckled "Tom had the detonator didn't he?" Jake smirked "Just take the escape route just as planned." Jason drove on until they got to a parking garage, he turned into it with everyone following him. "What are we doing in here?" Catherine wondered. They drove they cars a little far into the back of the parking garage so they would be unnoticeable and stopped. "you'll see you two will have to stay here we'll be back soon." Jason told Catherine and Olga. Then both Jason and Jake got out of their cars. "OK everyone lets get the job done, Ron and I will make sure no one who might had followed us gets through." Francis ordered, everyone had gotten out of their cars.
Marcus stood beside his red car with his hand rested on the hood. "I've always thought this stuff was cool." Marcus then held a little unnoticeable flap on the cars hood and peeled the color off like a sticker revealing a whole new color of white then began peeling off the other parts of the car. Everyone did the same and when they were done they began to take off the help caps where a different one was right under it. "Hey my car don't look that bad... love the blue color." Natalie examined each side of the car to see if they missed anything everyone did the same as well. "Got it lets go lads." Marcus waved over Francis and Ron.
Jake hurried back to his car which was only a few steps away, got back into the passenger seat."Alright everyone lets move out." He could hear Francis order. They all drove out of the parking garage like nothing ever happened and drove off. "Alright everyone you know where it goes from here good luck." They all split up going different ways so they wouldn't be recognizable but all heading toward the same way and would eventually meet back up. They would stay in contact over their earpieces to stay in touch. "Be careful Jake..." Natalie told him in his earpiece. "Don't worry Natalie I'll be just fine your the one I'm worried about." He replied. He could hear her giggle on the other line "We've been over this so many times before Jake." he grinned taking in their joke no one else would understand it. "Can I see it now?" Olga asked. He glance toward Jacob who nodded yes. "Sure but not too long you can say hi to everyone." He took it out and handed it to Olga. "Make sure you don't lose it."
Olga put it in her right ear fitting in nice and snug. "HI EVERYONE!." She excitedly yelled to everyone. Jason winced in pain, he held his ear. "Not too loud Olga..." Olga only giggled "Oops sorry everyone." She apologized to everyone. "Their so cute at that age." Jason smiled while turning the car but he wasn't talking to Jake must have been talking to someone on his earpiece. "So you have the powers too?" Catherine asked Jake. "Yeah sure do apparently I'm the chosen one." He told her. Her eyes grew wide with glee. "No way wow its so nice to finally come across the one never thought I would in my life time." This only made Jason chuckle "Yeah... well they say all you need is the right DNA so there could be more than one... I don't know why they call it the chosen one." She looked at him as if he was crazy "Yeah sure there are more just like you out there but its so rare to become one its considered a great honer."
A great honer? He wouldn't call powers that were only created to kill and destroy an honer the only reason he took these powers was to save his friends from the POW camp now he uses them for good and who knows end the war. But now he was using them to keep Olga away from the enemy so they wouldn't be able to activate their WMD. But why a little girl...
"Hey Jake did you hear me?" His train of thought was broken by Catherine but he quickly replied. "Yeah... yeah I heard you sorry." He scratched his head then he realized Olga had her hand reaching out toward him with the earpiece. "Thanks for letting me see it." He took the earpiece from her hand and put it back into his ear. "No prob." Then turned back into his seat. "Not one cop in sight this is great..." he could hear Jason mumble to himself. "I know right." They both laughed. "Whats so funny?" Olga had no idea what was going on. "Oh its nothing Olga don't worry."
They were now passing up the Le Louvre that held most of the nations master pieces. He always thought the glass pyramid in the front looked cool but this wasn't the time for site seeing. "Huh never been there before must be a helluva place to see look at that line of people." Jason sure was right there were a lot of people lined up to get inside. "Alright you know we're close to the our destination when we pass up the Opera." The real thing that sucked about driving by famous monuments was there was a lot of traffic near them. "I wonder how people could be looking at monuments during a World War." Catherine was over looking the traffic still glance at the line of tourists at the Le Louvre. "I don't know but I can tell you none of them are from the States or Great Britain or any other country fighting against the french." Jason replied, that was a definite fact.
Jake knew where this was going to head toward to and he wanted to end it now so he changed the subject. "Look at the mimes looks like their touching a wall." Every looked toward the group of mimes entertaining the line tourists while they waited. "They look funny." Olga was standing on the seat laughing and looking at the mimes. "Yeah they never talk either so don't get mad when you try to say hi and they don't say hi back." Catherine switched seats with her so Olga could get a better look. "Yeah their sure one weird group of people but their fun to watch. One of the mimes pretended to throw a pie in the others face which made Olga burst out laughing.
The finally got through the mind numbing traffic and head toward their marked location. "Whats going on lads we're already here at the new hideout." Marcus asked over the earpiece. Before Jake replied Jason did the talking "We were stuck in the bloody traffic near the Le Louvre." There was a moment of silence then he spoke up again. "Its alright lad... but are you close to us Francis is getting nervous." Well I guess he would be since they had his one and only daughter and the cute little Olga that well... you know. "Yep we're very close just got of traffic we're on our way." Jason looked at a sheet of directions he had then made a right. "Good... good but if anything happens you know we're on stand by." Yeah they should with the people their riding with. "Yep OK don't worry we're coming." After passing up the Opera they made a few more turns then stopped. "Yeah just to let you know we're here." Jason chuckled. They stopped in an alley way where Francis and Natalie were waiting for them.
Before anyone knew it Catherine and Olga were out of the car hugging Francis who looked happier than he had ever seen him, well no ones ever really seen him that happy but he didn't blame him no one did... but someone else was waiting there to hug him too. He got out of the car and made his way to Natalie but she had ran up and bear hugged him. "I know it hasn't been that long but I was worried about you." Jake brushed her hair. "Yeah I was too but don't stress yourself over it." Natalie blushed "Yeah I know but you know the way I am." They gave each other a kiss then moved on to unloading the stuff out of the car into their new hideout.
"You guys need help with your load of things or did you already get it all in?" Jake asked her. "Yeah we got it all, Tom had his hands full of stuff wanting to get it all in one trip." Yeah sounds like him. "Bet ya all he's going to be out here any second now lending us a hand." Jason joked but he sure was dead on. Out came Tom walking right past them to the car. "Hey guys glad you got back in one piece." Already rummaging through stuff.
Jake walked to the back and grabbed a suit case. "Yeah you too Tom." Jake patted him on the back and headed toward the open door. He walked right in with Natalie leading the way since he had no clue where it was. "Here follow me its right up the stairs." The place almost looked like a hotel but they began to walk up red carpeted stone stairs which he could tell were old but this was an old part of the city, hell the whole city was old. The place almost looked like it had been abandoned for a long time but he could hear people talking in other rooms. "Yeah don't worry about them they know we're here and their part of the resistance too."
They finally stopped on the stairs but in front of a big picture frame with a strange painting in it. "Why did we stop here?" His question was answered quickly as she peeled apart of the painted up revealing a number code locked and entered a few numbers. "The code is 6-2-10 by the way." She told him while opening the frame as if it were a door to an opening in the wall which would be their room. "How long had this been here?" But she shrugged. "I have no clue ask Francis."
They entered through the secret entrance to be greeted by the rest of the group. "Top of the morning to ya lad." Marcus took the suit case out of his hand and motioned him to sit down on the couch they had but he wanted to look around more. The room was big and very open and had other doors leading to different rooms. It had no windows to look out of but in another room he knew was Francis had a computer monitor with divided views form hidden sir valence cameras looking out side the building and inside. "Hey pretty cool isn't it the resistance here in France gave these to us." Francis surprised him who had been by the door way of the room the whole time. "Yeah this is great... so I'm guessing they know about the Olga too."
Francis nodded "Yep that is why we're here in one of the bases of the French resistance, they say this was made and used around World War 2 for them to use against the Nazis." He replied also answering a few questions he had. He was about to speak up but Francis held out right his hand. "I just wanted to Thank you for finding Olga and my daughter." He grabbed his and shook it. "Your welcome I know how much you care about them." Francis smiled "Yeah even though Olga isn't my daughter I still treat her as one of mine since she's well... never had a family." The moment began to feel solemn but Marla came in brightening it up again. "Hey cheer up you two lets enjoy the moment while we can." She had a bottle of wine and two glasses. Both Francis and Jake nodded. "Sure why not."