Chapter 3

"Ramses! Where's the nearest place that you can make a portal?" Clever asked, obviously already forming a plan on how to defeat the robots.

"The destination we were heading, smarts!" Ramses grumbled.

Clever muttered a curse in Ancient Greek under her breath, obviously hoping that there was one a little closer. "Do you think we can take 'em?"

"How many are there?" Hannah asked, looking over Clever's shoulder.

Clever looked at her shield for a second as we kept sprinting down the hall. "Hundreds, maybe. The dots are too close to tell."

"With Sam here, we can take 'em!" John smiled, breathing hard.

"DADOs are coming up, guys!" Clever barked, putting Hannah on the floor. Everyone quickly drew their weapons, determination in their eyes.

"Most seem to be blocking our way, so we should give 'em the whole deal. Hannah, you get the far right, yell at someone if you need help. Spike, you get the forwards. Sam, can you jump into the middle of 'em and start destroying them from in there?" A brief nod was my response, unsheathing my swords. "John, you get far left with Rupin. Seems like there's more over there blocking something, find out what. Ramses, hold up the ones behind us. I'll try to help the newbie here." She jabbed a thumb at me at the word "newbie" making me feel sort of helpless in their eyes.

"Let's roll!" Spike cheered before running down the hall, his black obsidian sword glistening in the dim lights. John quickly hugged me before running off with Rupin to the far left. Hannah skipped, holding a sword that seemed too large for her but handled it rather well, off to the far right, where she began electrocuting the robots with glee. Ramses ran off behind us, to do whatever he does. Clever and myself began sprinting towards the front right on.

I jumped on top of a DADO's head, slashing it's metallic skull in half once I was on the next, repeating until I decided to head to the floor. I had lost sight of Clever a little while back, but I was doing just fine all on my own. The robots seemed attracted to me, and tried to grab me, but I slashed their chests open before they could, making them collapse to become road blocks for the next one. The battle raged on for minutes, some people moving from the positions to help others every so often. No one once moved to help me, but I moved to help them.

Spike slashed the last robot, all of us breathing hard after a hard battle that we won with only minor scratches. We all headed to the left, were Ramses face palmed himself when he saw what was there.

"Let's just use the thing, okay?" Hannah said with a tone of happiness in her voice. As Ramses began mumbling something before a hieroglyphic appeared in midair, Clever looked down at her shield as cursed once again.

"Hurry up, will ya? They got through your barrier and are heading this way!" She yelled, looking from Ramses back to her shield constantly. He grumbled a few things before a wormhole made of sand appeared next to the small obelisk. Everyone went inside, John holding my hand as we jumped in.

"This isn't my preferred method of going from place to place…" I joked as we popped up in a destroyed mansion.

"This is quicker than any other way I know, sis," John said as he punched my forearm playfully. He walked up to a half of a couch and sat down on it, putting his feet up onto a makeshift coffee table.

"Welcome to the 21st, Sam!" Hannah cheered with a smile, hugging my waist.

"Where on Earth are we?" I asked no one unparticular.

"Brooklyn. Just a few miles away from the old camp," Spike said as he grabbed a coke out of an ancient fridge on it's side.

I smiled, pressing the button on my watch to revert to my destroyed clothing. I looked even worse than the mansion. "Pendragon's friend Patrick works at the library here in New York. He'll be excited to hear that we're safe."

John gave me his "what?" face, "But- Pendragon doesn't even live anywhere near here!"

"You haven't told them?" I mouthed, hoping that he understood what I mouthed. He just shook his head.

"Haven't told us what?" Ramses asked. Carp, he's a lip reader.

"That we actually grew up in Asia," I thought up quickly. It was the truth, of course. "Pendragon's a guy we met a few months ago."

"So, you want me to go and tell this Patrick guy we're safe so he can tell Pendragon?" John asked in his annoyed voice.

"I can contact Pendragon's girlfriend right now, but it's kinda complicated on how to operate it fully," I said as I twisted my ring around my finger.

"You're not contacting anyone," Clever stated, her arms crossed across her chest. She stared me down, looking for anyway that I could contact someone on me.

"Fine," I grumbled, heading over to the fridge to get a coke. I popped the top open and sat down on the couch next to John.

"Keep an eye on those two, will ya?" Clever whispered to Spike. "We can't trust 'em."

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