err... who am i?-Yep, he's here. That it is and it's gonna get darker and creepier still. Oh, the shock and fear of it will hit her very soon, especially after what happens in this chapter. Thanks, I'm glad you think that. XD He-he, don't worry it will be updated very soon.
lissysue85-Yep, and the reason is explained a bit more in this chapter. That she is. Thanks, I'm glad you liked it and I hope too. XD
Little Miss Bump-Well, I'm glad it was unexpected cause that is exactly what I wanted. XD I'm also glad that you fine it exciting. Oh, she's gonna get lucky in this chapter but not so much in later chapters. Oh, they are in this chapter too. Don't worry, inspiration is high so you probably won't have to wait very long for me to update.
Pinkranger888- XD That he is, and more evidence of that is in this chapter. Yep, he found her. Thanks, I'm glad you like it. It's okay that you don't review every chapter, you enthusiasm makes up for it. Well then I hope you enjoyed your vacation. Don't worry, as I told LMB I will be updating pretty often seeing as how the inspiration for this story is so high.
Chapter Ten- Trap
Jeff had been sitting at his desk reading over one last report from Tracy Industries before turning in when the rescue alarm sounded. He quickly stood from his chair after he activated Command and Control switch. The monitor before him flared to life with the face of his second eldest son as he sat back down, his four earthbound sons entering the room.
"Dad," John began, looking as pale as he had when they had been told of the Hood possibly being in Egypt. "The call came from Dr. Ness."
"What all do you know John?" Jeff asked, his worry for his daughter growing as his four sons came to stand by his shoulder to see what was happening.
"Strange things are happening in all of Egypt. Frog and locusts are coming out of nowhere and destroying all crops in their path and just being a complete nuisance to the population as they pass through," John explained. "Though they all seem to be heading for one place."
"Amarna," Jeff whispered softly. On the screen, John nodded. As Jeff began to stand from his chair, Scott, Virgil, Gordon, and Alan went to their prospective portraits as they slid up to expose the lift behind them. As Jeff moved to go to his own portrait, he glanced over to see that Gordon had suddenly gone a few shades paler and his green eyes were wide. Jeff stopped heading towards his own portrait and instead headed over to where his second youngest son stood in his lift."Gordon?"
"Something's happened to Evie," he responded. The rest of his family went pale when he said this. The last time the twins had experienced something like this had been five years ago, when Evelyn had known something had happened to Gordon before Jeff had called her and told her that he had been in an accident. "I don't know what, I just know that she's hurt."
Jeff nodded and grasped Gordon's shoulder for a moment and gave it a supportive squeeze before heading over to his own lift and stepping inside. "Thunderbirds are go."
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Evelyn did not respond to the Hoods 'greeting' as he stopped before her, still smirking. Her flashlight fell to the ground and clattered to the floor. At the Hoods shoulder's stood Transom and Mullion, who were also smirking at her. "I supposed you are wondering why we are here. The answer to that is very simple; revenge. And in order to extract my revenge, we had a very useful ally who also has a thing of her own against her."
"Who?" Evelyn asked, her eyes flicking back to see Kyleigh and Narmer exchange glances, obviously confused as to how this man knew her. But who has a thing against me? I mean sure there were a few people in school that thought I was a spoiled brat and hated my guts but I never took them to be the violet type. The Hood smiled and glanced back at the other end of the room. "Saadia!"
A shadow appeared in the doorway on the other side of the long and narrow room and as she stepped into the light it was revealed to be women with tanned skin and sleek black hair wearing khaki cargo pants and a tight black shirt. She smirked as she walked towards Evelyn, who now stared that the women with her mouth open for she had seen this woman before, only in her dream she was known as Meritaten.
As Evelyn blinked, an image of said women flashed before her eyes and the features of both Meritaten and Saadia melded into one image. The corpse also looked towards the women and a smile formed on his decomposed face. "Meritaten."
She stopped before the corpse, still smirking. "Yes Yuja. It is I, only reincarnated. Just as our dear Henuttawy has been. And it is she you have to thank for reading the excerpt from the Book of the Dead."
Evelyn's eyes widened as she looked between the corpse and the women, who had both turned to look at her. They think I'm Henuttawy! But that's impossible! Wait, Book of the Dead? Evelyn shifted as Yuma's eyes roamed her body as he smirked. The Hood smiled at the uncomfortable Evelyn. "We also had help from another. A man you known as Adrian Ness, who grew up in the same orphanage as Saadia and is currently putting in a rescue call to your family."
"You just can't let it go can you," Evelyn scoffed and shook her head. "Even after Alan saved your life, you still want us dead."
"Your father left me to die in that mine," he growled in reply."And I assume that after young Alan did that your father made him part of the team?"
"What in the world is going on?" Narmer demanded from the other side of the room, struggling against his captor. "How do you know her?"
"Ah, yes," the Hood began, turning away from Evelyn who did not move as Yuja and Saadia watched the exchange with interest, the latter of which translated the conversation into Egyptian for the corpse. The Hood smirked towards Kyleigh and Narmer before turning back to Evelyn. "You have yet to tell the world that it is your family that makes up the members of International Rescue."
The couple stopped struggling against their captors and looked towards Evelyn with wide eyes and expressions of complete disbelief. Evelyn smiled sadly towards them and gave them a slight nod to indicate that the Hood was indeed telling the truth. The Hood smirked at the shocked expressions on the couples faces before turning back to Evelyn and asked, "I wonder, did your father ever make you part of the team or were you left behind as always?"
"He did as a matter of fact," she growled in reply as she glared at the Hood.
"And they are currently on their way here right now," added a voice from the doorway Saadia had just entered through. Narmer and Kyleigh glared at their former boss as he walked past them without a second glance, the former of which was cursing him in Egyptian. "Though they have no idea they are flying into a trap."
"You'll never get away from it!" Evelyn yelled as she glared at Adrian, who came to stand beside Saadia and smirked towards Evelyn. She looked away from the man and towards the Hood. "We put you in jail once and we'll do it again."
"Oh, I won't be going back there again," the Hood replied calmly, stepping towards Evelyn who in turn took a step backwards towards the wall behind her. This only caused him to smirk once more. "I'm afraid that they will be too busy morning your death."
Behind him was the sound of scrapping metal as Saadia pulled a dark silver knife from its sheath. Saadia smirked as Evelyn's eyes widened once more. She held it up and the light from the lamps reflected off of the knife."I see you recognize this knife Evelyn. It was this same knife that I used to kill Henuttawy in my past life."
Yuja smirked as Saadia stepped towards Evelyn, who began once more to back up towards the wall behind her. Her heart thundered in her chest and she watched Saadia walk towards her with wide eyes. Evelyn continued to slowly back away. They wanted to kill her, just to cause her family pain.
A pained grunt from the other side of the room distracted everyone. All those who had been facing Evelyn turned to see that Narmer had used the back of his head and bashed his captor in the face, who promptly released the hold her had on the man as his hands flew to his face. Evelyn took this distraction and began to run along the wall, away from the group. Narmer smirked as he looked up from the captor he had knocked un conscious. "Run Evelyn!"
The group that had turned to see what had happened spun back around to see Evelyn running. Evelyn screamed as Yuja roared, causing her to fall back against the wall beside her. The section of wall spun around and with a scream Evelyn fell into the dark tunnel. Glancing back at where she thought the wall she had just come through was, she cautiously stepped forward.
She let out another scream as the step beneath her disappeared and she tumbled down the dark staircase, her backpack flying free from her shoulder and tumbling down with her. She let out a groan of pain as she finally stopped tumbling. Evelyn blinked several times, hoping to get rid of the flouting dots that obscured her vision. After several moments of not being able to get rid of them she felt herself falling into the welcoming embrace of unconsciousness as her bag landed beside her in the dark, the pouch containing the monitor peaking out.
Up in the camber she had just fallen from, the Hood motioned for Transom and Mullion to go after her. As they stepped forward, Yuja growled something in Egyptian to Saadia who in turn held up her hand. Transom and Mullion stopped in their tracks. "Let her go."
"You are the one that came up with this plan," Mullion growled as he stepped towards Saadia. "And now you want to abandon it?"
"Not abandon," she replied, her smirk returning. Mullion stopped in his tracks and winced as the Hood used his powers on the man. He glanced back at the Hood for a moment before looking back to Saadia, whose smirk had turned into a twisted smile. "I'm just suggesting that we go to plan 'B', since she knows what plan 'A' is."
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As the darkness around Evelyn began to lift, she groaned as a shrill beeping sounded in the dark tunnel. She grimaced at the effect the sound had on her throbbing head. She felt the cool, musky air of the tunnel on her bare skin and shivered. She pried her eyes open and blinked several times as a small, flashing light came into focus beside her and lit the interior of her bag every time it flashed.
She gently pushed herself up into a sitting position, grimacing from the soreness of her limbs. She then reached over to the small pouch that held the monitor and withdrew the screen. The second button was flashing and when she pushed it, the worried face of her second eldest brother filled the screen, looking relived at the sight of her. "Evelyn!"
She grimaced at his yell and a guilty look formed on his face as he muttered an apology before asking softly, "Where are you?"
"Somewhere in the Palace," she replied as her mind began to clear as she glanced around the tunnel that had been slightly light by the screen. She looked back at the screen to see John looking at one of the other monitor before him up on Thunderbird Five. "Okay, I've got a lock on your monitor's signal Evie. Gordon will be getting to you real soon."
"You mean, they haven't been captured?" she asked."
"Captured?" John repeated, shaking his head. "No. They're fine. From what Scott has told me, only a few people are even conscious or alive. What happened?"
"It was a trap John. All of it," she replied. "Dr. Ness was working for the Hood the entire time and he tricked me into reading an excerpt from the Book of the Dead and-" she was interrupted by the sound of the doorway above her being removed from its place and looked up to see flashlights pointing down at her. "Evelyn!"
"I wanna hear the rest of this once you get home Evie," John commented before the screen went black. Evelyn replaced it into the bag as two figures ran down the stairs towards her. The first of the two figures dropped to his knees beside her before pulling her into his arms. Evelyn's arms warped around her father tightly, the figure that had also come down the stairs kneeling down beside them.
Jeff released her after a few moments and held her at arm's length as he looked her over, though with the helmet on she couldn't that. "Are you alright?"
"I-I don't know," she replied softly, shaking her head. She felt a pair of arms warp around her from the side and leaned against what she knew without looking was her twin. Jeff reached up and brushed a piece of her now filthy hair out of her face as she continued to lean against Gordon. "Let's get you home."
"How many people are being taken to the hospital?" she asked as Gordon released her and both he and Jeff helped her to her feet. Gordon then bent down and grabbed her bag and slung it over his shoulder before returning to her side.
"Only seven were alive when we got here and two of them still conscious. The staff at Kasr El Aini Hospital will be waiting for us," Jeff replied as they began to make their way up the stairs with Evelyn between them, his arm around her shoulders. "Luckily several staff member speak English."
"Then I should accompany them to the hospital," Evelyn stated as they walked. Two head quickly turned towards her and she shook her head to keep her from interrupting. "Listen, if I disappear with you guys, people will be suspicious. I don't want our identities to be reveal because of me."
Though because of the Hood, Kyleigh and Narmer now know, Evelyn thought as they reached the top of the stairs and stepped through the doorway into the room she had run from roughly an hour before. The bodies were still laying on the floor of the room though a few were missing. There were no evidence of the frogs and it seemed that her flashlight was also gone from where she had dropped.
She heard Gordon groan beside her and glanced over at him to see him hang his head in defeat. "I hate it when you're right."
"There's no convincing you otherwise is there?" Jeff asked, bringing the group to a halt as he looked down at his daughter though she could not see his face. Evelyn shook her head. "Then I will ride with Scott in Thunderbird One and as soon as we reach the island, I will come right back in Tracy One to get you."
"And I explain everything that has happened since last night when we get home," she added softly. And explain how everything that has happened here is my fault, she thought grimly as the group began to move past the bodies and towards the now open doors that led to the main entrance of the Royal Palace.