A/N: Sorry this took so long to update but with school & everything else, it's kind of hard. Anyway, here is the next installment.
"Dr. Necrose, I'm going to run security again, you know, to make sure everyone is doing what they're suppose to." Aaron told.
Immediately Necrose was suspicious, because face it, when has Aaron ever volunteered to do anything for him? So why would he start now? But Dr. Necrose just brushed it off and let Aaron go anyway. After he all, knew the consequences of being disobedient.
When Aaron received the go ahead from Necrose, he started walking calming to the front doors, since that was where his SSJ was and he did not want to arouse any suspicion.
Once Aaron reached the front doors, they opened for his with a 'whoosh' sound, letting him outside into the cool, dark night. The only lights around where the ones from the building now behind him and the few building scattered in front of him.
After walking what he hoped was far enough away, he quickly called in his last support, Vas and Ram.
"Aaron, what is going on? Everything over here is chaos." Vas started asking, scared out of his mind.
It was at that moment that Aaron heard a crashing sound.
"Are you guys alright?" Aaron instantly asked, worry clear in his voice. After all, if they couldn't help him, then that would his plan a heck of a lot harder.
"Yes we are fine Aaron Stone. But it seems like the game Hero Rising is coming to life. The Omega Defiance is close to completely ruling us. Why aren't you doing anything?" Ram hurriedly explained.
"Because, they have everything and everyone that I care about. Right now, I can't do anything without having someone I know get hurt in the process. I need your help." Aaron simply revealed to them. "But don't worry, Emma has placed a tracking devise on me so you should be good."
"Well we can try. But we have no way of getting to where you are once we locate you." Ram explained, using a hand held computer he had just recently bought to try to locate Aaron.
"I told Necrose that I am doing security so he will not expect me back for awhile, which means that I can send the SSJ for you, because even though I am doing security, he will not allow me to leave the area around this building. So he would not think of looking for it." Aaron explained in a calm filled voice despite his situation, while making a wide circle around the perimeter.
"We will be there as soon as we can Aaron." Ram confirmed.
"Wait, how do we drive it?" Vas asked, realizing that they had no idea how to.
"Easy. There should be a button that says start on it, and a tracking ball in the center of the control panel. If you need to protect yourselves, there should be a joystick on the left side. Use that to aim, and then press the button right on top to fire. Wait guys, I think I hear something." Aaron patiently explained in a hushed voice, just be double sure no one heard them.
After a moment of silence, Aaron came back on to whisper, "I think someone is coming guys. I have to go." Seconds after, he cut the connection.
"Show yourself." Aaron bravely commanded into the dimly lit darkness all around him with his gauntlet raised and ready to fire.
"I would not be saying that to someone who is able to eliminate everyone around you." Elias Powers threatened, walking out of the surrounding shadows.
Upon seeing Powers again, Aaron quickly got nervous, and then put on a brave face, remembering the first time they met.
"I'm curious, you like it?" Powers genuinely asked, leading Aaron into spilling information about his other identity.
Not realizing he was being tricked, Aaron replied, "Oh man, I love it. My brother and me, we play all the…"
Once Aaron realized what he said, he instantly stopped, and hoping Powers did not hear the part about his brother. Too bad for Aaron, he did.
Snapping out of his reverie, Aaron hastily replied with the first lie that came to him, "Yea I was just talking to some other people who are doing security. Apparently someone was spying on us. But they were quickly overcome by the amount of people and fire power." He hoped Powers believed him.
"Really?" Powers questioned, seemingly interested.
A few seconds later, Ram's sacred voice came through his earpiece. "Uh, Aaron we have a problem up here."
Hearing a muffled, scared voice come through Aaron's communication device, Powers got a triumphant grin on his face and asked, "You mean those people?"
"No there were other people. They were on foot." Aaron bluffed, trying to buy some time. 'That's it!' He thought to himself.
With malice clear in his voice, Powers assured Aaron that his "backup" would not be able to help him where they were going.
Once again, Vas' scared & panicked voice came through Aaron's ear piece. "Aaron we have been captured, HELP!!!!"
Hearing Vas' plea, Aaron hurriedly went through as many different scenarios as he could. But he didn't get far before Powers interrupted him.
"Tell them you can't help them or your family dies." Powers ordered Aaron, knowing he was now in full control of the situation.
With a sigh, Aaron regrettably replied, "I'm sorry guys, but there is nothing that I can do." 'At least not with Powers here.' He thought,
terminating the connection.
"How long do you think this silly scheme of yours will work for? Eventually I'm going to find a weak spot. After all, every good plan has one." Aaron confidently taunted.
"No, not mine. You see, being twice as smart has made me look over every detail of for weak points." Powers cockily countered, pacing directly toward Aaron, then stopping a few feet from him, in an attempt to rattle him.
"Yea, we'll see about that." Aaron bravely retorted, walking toward Powers then around him back to the building he came from, even though inside he was feeling pretty rattled.
"I hope Aaron has a plan. If not, we're all doomed. I still have yet to kiss a girl." Ram cried out in despair.
"Don't worry Ram, Aaron will get us out of this. I hope." Vas added the last part under his breath, while being led to a jail cell.
On the way, they passed the room Emma was in. When they saw her, the last of their hope faded. After all, with Aaron working for the Defiance, and Emma captured by them, then they knew that they were done for.
What they did not know was that at that very moment, Aaron was trying to put his plan into action.
Once they got to the holding area and seeing everyone else close to Aaron there, it really started sinking in that they really were done for.
"Ugh, I'm so bored." Jason spoke, leaning his head on against the back wall of his cell.
"Don't worry Jason, we'll be out of here soon." Mrs. Landers replied, trying to reassure not just herself, but also her son.
It was then that they heard two sets of heavy footsteps and two sets of lighter ones. When they looked up to see who it was, they were all shocked, except for S.T.A.N., who had seen them before.
Crawling over to S.T.A.N., Jason quietly asked, "Uh, S.T.A.N., who are those people and why are they here?"
"Those two people are Vas and Ram. They have helped your brother on his missions before. As for what they are doing here, I have just as much idea as you. But my guess is that they were trying to help your brother but they got caught." S.T.A.N. answered.
"Back up a minute S.T.A.N. Are you saying that Jason and I were the only ones that didn't know?" Mrs. Landers questioned, joining the conversation.
In response, S.T.A.N. said, "Not the only ones. There were his band members, people at school, other teachers, the principal, I can got on if you like."
"No, no that's fine." Mrs. Landers replied in an 'I-get-it' sort of voice.
"Jason, S.T.A.N., Mrs. Landers?!" Vas and Ram gasped together.
"If you and Dark Tamara are here, and Aaron is working for the Omega Defiance, then we are certainly doomed!" Vas cried out in anguish.
"Wait, wait, back up. Who is Dark Tamara?" Jason questioned.
"Oh I forgot, you don't know the entire story. S.T.A.N. how much have you told them?" Ram responded, asking his own question.
"I have told them everything except Dark Tamara's identity. I thought that just maybe, we could keep one person's identity secret. But I guess not. Go ahead, tell them." S.T.A.N. allowed.
"Thank you S.T.A.N." Vas began. "Dark Tamara is someone you know. Her real name is Emma Lau."
"Emma is Dark Tamara?!" Jason gasped in pure shock. "That is so hot!!"
Seconds later, everyone erupted into laughter. Only Jason would think about something like that, in a time like this.
"Hey it gets my mind off our situation and helps me keep up my hope till Charlie saves us." Jason explained.
At that moment, Aaron was officially putting his plan into action.
Once Aaron got close to the automatic doors, they opened for him with a 'whoosh' sound. He then proceeded to walk towards Necrose's office. His plan was to grab his key card and try to gain access to the weapons storage area. Everyone working Necrose would know that he would not normally be allowed there, least he have the resources to rebel.
So he continued his walk through the moderately lit hallway.
'So far so good; I so hope I didn't just jinks myself.' Aaron thought to himself. But like many things in life, it was not meant to last. Soon, he was than assaulted by many guards. Unfortunately, these were not the normal guards. They were guards wearing Zero's enhanced battle suit.
"This depleter better work on all of them or I'm in deep trouble." Aaron silently whispered to himself, grabbing it out of a pocket on his belt, activating it, and tossing it. Luckily for him it did. 'Man am I glad I found that outside.'
After he made sure they were all down, he continued down the hall, jogging to Necrose's office, but being more careful now than ever before.
Soon he reached his destination, only to find it locked. Noiselessly thinking to himself that there was only one way to open the door, Aaron pointed his gauntlet at the door, fired, then ran to take cover around the nearest corner in case Necrose came out.
After waiting about a minute, Aaron cautiously peaked around the corner only to come face to face with the two people he hated the most, Elias Powers and Dr. Necrose. Actually he was not sure that they should even be considered humans with the way they acted.
"Aaron, just who we were talking about. Come with us." Powers stated in a fake friendly voice, while putting his arm around Aaron's shoulders so he didn't attempt an escape.
Aaron went with them, knowing he had no other choice.
Turns out, they were going back to Necrose's dimly lit office.
Once inside and behind the closed door, Powers released him and went to stand on the left side of the door.
"Have a seat Aaron." Necrose offered, gesturing to a chair in front of his desk.
Knowing that chair most likely had cuffs or something to restrain him, he cockily replied, "No thanks, I'd rather stand."
While walking over to Aaron, Powers once again tried to persuade Aaron to in the chair. "You've been walking all day, surely your feet must be tired. You deserve to sit." Upon reaching Aaron, Powers put both of his hands on the boy's shoulders to guide him to the chair.
"Also, if you try to resist us…well let's just say your family and friends will suffer." Necrose replied, toying with a remote.
The truth was, the remote didn't do anything; Heck it did not even have batteries. It was just there to fake Aaron out and to make sure he obeyed every word.
As soon as he sat in the chair, the obvious happened. Restraints seemed to come from nowhere and do their job. The faint glow coming off them told him that it was laser proof.
"Ok so here is the deal Aaron Stone." Powers sneered. "You can either be a good little boy and tell us everything you know about T Abner Hall, or someone close to you can the fall; Your choice."
Now, Aaron had a big decision to make; Betray the one man who had given him basically everything he needed on his missions for the past year or so, or save his family.
'I'm sorry Mr. Hall.' Aaron thought to himself, dropping his head in shame for what he was about to do. "Fine, what do you want to know?" Aaron regrettably asked.
"Perfect." Elias and Necrose darkly replied together with identical evil smirks on their faces.
"Tell us everything you know about him." Necrose commanded.
Sighing, Aaron started telling them everything he knew with some half-truths mixed in wherever possible.
"I hope Charlie is trying to rescue us. I'm not sure how much longer I can last." Jason complained, banging his head against the laser proof bars of his cell.
"Don't worry Jason; I'm sure that he is." Mrs. Landers told her youngest in a tired voice. Already, they had been stuck in their cells for at least two weeks from what they guessed. Without any sunlight, it was hard to accurately count the number of days and nights that went by; not that it would matter much. Each day, they lost even more of their already low of rescue.
'Ugh, I have to get out of here.' Emma determinedly thought to herself while uselessly fighting her restraints. 'If I could just reach my…'
Hearing footsteps, she immediately halted her struggle in case it was Necrose coming to do her more harm. The truth was, she was actually scared of the guy. Especially now with the position she was in. The doors then slide open to reveal a security guard. For once Emma was actually happy about this.
'Ok think Emma. How can you quickly and quietly take care of this guy with your hands literally tied and get the key to release yourself? I got it!'
As soon as the guard was close enough, she used her head to bash it against the guards' successfully knocking him out and making her see stars for a few seconds.
The good thing for her was that right before she bashed her head against his, he had his keys already out just for in case something had come lose or undone. This meant that went he fell, his keys dropped almost right into her left hand. Thanks to her quick reflexes, she was about to catch them right before they slipped through her fingers.
Within a millisecond of catching the keys, she went to work searching for the right one to free herself.
Just as the guard was waking up and picking himself up off the floor, which he had fallen onto non-too gracefully, Emma managed to locate the correct key and free herself.
Spotting the guard picking himself up off the ground, Emma quickly went over and delivered a swift roundhouse to his head. 'Well that should take care of him for a bit.' She thought before keeping his keys, taking his weapon, and key card.
Quickly but calmly she walked over to the door, opened and peaked out to see if any guards were coming. The good news for her was that there weren't.
Silently clearing the door, she started thinking of where the weapons would be stored so she could her locater and find Aaron.
'I have to find Aaron and hope that if he has been captured, he has not told the Defiance anything too critical. But if he has, I think I have a good idea where he would be.' She thought, keeping her eyes peeled for any guards. With that, she crept down the hall toward where she thought Aaron might be.
"What is Mr. Hall's greatest weakness?" Dr. Necrose asked Aaron in a calm but authoritative voice.
"Don't you already know that?" Aaron spat; feeling horrible for betraying Mr. Hall after all the man has done for him. Already he had told them how to disable one of his jets, how to completely control the jets remotely, and his favorite, where he last saw Mr. Hall. But that had been over to weeks or so ago, so Aaron felt pretty confident that for now, Mr. Hall was out of harms way.
Slamming his hands on his desk and standing up, Necrose warned Aaron about the consequences of what would happen if he did not obey everything that they said or asked.
Taking a deep breath, Aaron prepared to make the ultimate betrayal of his life. Seconds later, that breath was released because the door was roundhouse kicked, open to reveal Emma who screamed at him not to say anything.
"Emma?!" Aaron gasped. He thought that she was dead because of what Necrose had said earlier about her "not being to survive what he had in store for her."
"Aaron duck!" She warned him before raising her gun, ready to fire.
At the last second, Aaron screamed, "Don't!"
Not expecting this response from Aaron, she immediately froze up, her weapon automatically dropping to her side in shock.
Getting her voice back seconds later, she demanded to know if he was crazy and why he even said that.
"Because they have EVERYTHING I care deeply about." He emotionally revealed to her. "If you shoot them, then you are basically shooting my family."
Gasping in shock once again, she lowered her weapon.
"Now you both realize the position you're in." Powers gloated. "Why don't you come over here and hand over that gun before anyone gets hurt."
'I-I can't do this!' Emma fearfully thought to herself. 'There HAS to be something that I can do…I got it!'
Getting impatient, Powers threatened, "You might want to hurry up. They don't have much time left."
'This had better work.' She thought while seeming to comply with Powers' orders.
As soon as she got to point blank range, she quickly shot first Powers, seeing as how he was he closest, then Necrose.
After that, she quickly freed Aaron.
A/N: Sorry the wait for this was so long, but to make up for that, decided to make this chapter longer. I hope you enjoyed it.
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