To any of you who play guitar and know what I'm talking about..........I HATE BAR CHORDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
On with the story!!!
TTNG: New Team
Chapter 32: We're Ready
"Hex, do you know where you're going?" (Sunny)
"Of course I do! LB's reading the map!" (Hex)
"LB? Do you know where we're going?" (Crow)
"Of course I-Uh oh...." (LB)
"..........."
"You have five PHD's and you were holding the map upside down?!" (Sunny)
"Hey! I'm not good with details...or people. I'm still trying to figure out how I got a degree in psychology..." (LB)
"Hello! I know how to get there!" (Lucky)
"Hex, just let me drive." (Crow)
"No way! You're not touching my baby!" (Hex)
"Hex, why can't you just let someone else drive? Remember the time we had to go to Everett, and we almost went to Portland?" (Sunny)
"LB was holding the map that time too." (Hex)
"Hey! I wasn't when you took us to Canada when we had to go to Olympia!" (LB)
"Yes you were. You ripped it in half!" (Hex)
"It was an accident!" (LB)
"Hey! A Starbucks!" (Ari)
"Don't you dare!" (Percy)
"Hey...since I know how to get there, can I drive?" (Lucky)
"NO!" (everyone)
This is what Arachne and Percy had to listen to on their headsets. Since there wasn't enough room in the car, they were both riding on their motorcycles.
"Oh look! It's raining!" (Crow)
"It's Seattle, Crow. It's always raining." (LB)
"Would you guys shut up and let me tell you where to go?!" (Lucky)
"A map is more reliable." (LB)
"It depends on the person holding it." (Hex)
"That's it! I'm turning off my headset!" Percy exclaimed.
"Don't you dare, Percy! We need to keep in contact!" (Sunny)
"We're four feet away from each other!" Percy argued.
"Both of you calm down before you make Hex crash!" Arachne laughed. She was trying to keep everyone's spirits up, and she was the only one who could do the job. She felt a sudden ache in her ankles.....no! The doctors made a mistake. It was all in her head. Like when she saw The Sixth Sense and thought she saw dead people for a week.
"I will never crash my baby!" (Hex)
"Oh shut up Hex." (Sunny)
"Why don't you make me?" (Hex)
"EYES ON THE ROAD!!" (everyone)
"Take a left! Not a right! A left! LEFT!!" (Lucky)
"Your left or mine?!" (Hex)
"WE HAVE THE SAME LEFT!" (Lucky)
"Are you sure?" (Hex)
"JUST TURN LEFT!!!!" (everybody)
A half an hour later..........
Lucky was sitting on the middle seat, since she was the smallest. She never liked taking the middle seat. Sitting in between Crow and Sunny who were both yelling at her inattentive brother, never really appealed to her. Well, they weren't yelling at him now. After LB got fed up and threw the map out the window, they decided that maybe they should listen to Lucky.
"Hex, that's the exit."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure!"
"I think this way might be faster..."
"Don't even think about it!"
Giving directions to her brother was impossible. He always thought that he could find a short cut, and ended up getting hopelessly lost, resulting in them taking twice as long to get to their destination than they would have had to in the first place.
But while Lucky was giving the directions, Sunny was thinking. What exactly had Lucky found out? Knowing Lucky like she did, the girl must have been very thorough. In fact, she probably knew more about her team than she did. That bothered her.
Meanwhile, Ari was wondering the same thing. If Lucky looked through her life as Penny Parker, she had probably found out about 'The Incident'. Ari wondered if she knew the real reason she quit skating, and the real reason she hated Roxy Carmical so much.
"Stop here!" Lucky abruptly shouted. Hex slammed on the breaks, and Ari and Percy stopped right behind him. When they got out of the car, they looked around.
"A library?" Sunny asked. It seemed like Slade to hide in a library. It was in plane sight, and to top it all off, it was abandoned.
It took awhile for them to get through the library, mainly because Crow and LB kept getting distracted by the books. But when they got to the back, Lucky suddenly stopped. The team watched her for a few seconds, as she ran her fingers over an old bookshelf.
"Lucky," Sunny whispered. "Are you sure you want to do this?"
Lucky let out a sad laugh. "I should be asking you the same question."
"What do you mean?" Hex asked. Lucky turned around, and remembered all their pasts as she looked them over.
"Slade knows everything about your pasts. The good, the bad, the skeletons in your closets. I know that he needs to capture you guys to make the plan work, but you need to know that it won't be pleasant. He'll bring things up from your pasts that you never knew," she looked at Percy. "you never want to think about," she looked at Sunny. "things you never accepted," she looked at Crow. "or that you never told anyone." her eyes settled on Ari.
"We can handle it, Squirt." Hex said. She secretly loved her old nickname, but she rolled her eyes in disgust. Sunny stepped in front of the younger girl.
"We're ready. For anything."
Once again, a transitional chapter. This one was more to get a better feel for the characters, and a kind of peek into their pasts before I fully reveal them. Trust me. Ari's will shock you. But if you paid attention in this chapter, you just might figure it out.