Chapter 4: Unintended, Doubtful Benefits
Three days later, we got what we had been waiting for. When Emma and Scott were running errands outside the school, they came across a group of humans. They had looked normal enough at first, but as soon as they were away from prying eyes, the humans had pulled guns on them. The fight was over almost before it began, leaving only one of the soldiers unhurt.
Emma had pulled the location out his head. Then, before Scott could convince her otherwise, she had killed him.
"It's right by a large valley in the Rockies, dug into the mountain side. There's a runway we should be able to use to find it. Plenty of trees for cover. It's not too big but it's heavily guarded and the inmates are all wearing some kind of device that suppresses their powers."
"Do we know what the device is?" Hank asked. "If it's external, we can break it. It would give us another fighter."
We nodded.
"But if's it's internal, like a chip, we will have to figure out some way to break it without killing the person. If it's a vaccine…"
Scott grimaced, "If it's a vaccine or anything that isn't located in one spot, there won't be anything we can do."
Logan leaned forward in his chair. "What about Rebecca?"
Emma shrugged. "I don't know where her office is but she will be at the Base."
I spoke up. "How many captives?"
"There are four blocks. The guard I… talked to… was in charge of block two. I'd say there were about fifty. Two to a cell."
"Around 200!" Hank yelped, "How are we going to get that many mutants out of there?"
"We… really need to work on that."
"No kidding." Logan muttered.
Scott rubbed his temples, "Hank, about how many fit into a full sized plane?"
"Enough. Should I get to work?"
"Yes. We want to get them out as quickly as possible."
A/N: sorry it's so short. The next one will be longer. And it will be very interesting.