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Chapter 25 Six
I look through the trees at the hidden base. We ditched the car and left our chests with it when we saw the dead bear and realised it got too close to the base. Sam, Marina, Adam and Ella are at my side, I almost imagine Brutus being with us. He is in a sense; Marina put his ashes in a bag and keeps him in her chest in the car.
"So how are we going to do this? Mercenary or stealth?" I whisper. I try to make it clear that I want to fight as many Mogs as possible after what they did to Brutus. I stare at the small entrance and look for cameras and spot one in the top right corner.
"Stealth will work better. Less Mogs to worry about that way." Sam whispers back. I curse my luck. Adam looks at the base curiously and rubs his head.
"I've got an idea. Wait for my signal." Adam says suddenly. He runs out in front of the metal door and starts waving his hands.
"Hey Dad! Get out here and fight me or are you too cowardly you bastard!" He shouts. I expect him to be shot immediately by a turret or be slaughtered by Pikens but instead the doors open and Adam is surrounded by Mog soldiers. In the centre there is one smaller than the rest but is obviously in a power position by the way he holds itself. Medals decorate his side and there's a large sword on his side. It looks almost identical to Sam's except slightly longer and glowing a faint yellow.
"Hello son, Ivan's missed you." He says cruelly. Adam looks at him with disgust. His father puts handcuffs around him and then kicks him into the dirt and laughs.
"You're not your brother. You're nothing but a traitor." He begins to circle Adam and gets his sword out. I'm about to jump out of the bushes and attack but feel myself be held back.
"Wait for his signal." Sam whispers. He gets his twin blades out slowly and I remember the picture on TK's hidden Loric wall. It was a picture of a figure with two black swords bleeding out; Sam is the only one with two twin black swords. My brain jumps to Eight, he was stabbed and saved, maybe Sam could be saved as well.
"You know the best thing about being a traitor, dad?" Adam whispers. His father bends down to his head.
"What?"
"You get to meet new people!" Adam head-butts his dad in the nose, before he can strike back I run out and throw him in the air using my telekinesis. The other Mog soldiers begin to charge but are met with Sam, Marina and Ella running out of the bushes. I turn myself invisible and sneak behind the soldiers. They start to slash manically at Marina but are met with her rolling beneath them and slashing their knee caps then Ella jumps and slashes their throats. She looks shocked for a moment but then continues to fight. Our chimera's launch themselves at Mogs throats and quickly kill them. Mine has turned into a large winged creature and claws at their throats and eyes.
Adam's dad lands hard on the ground and attempts to crawl towards a walkie-talkie. I storm up to him and pick him up by the scruff of his neck; he grabs his sword and plunges it towards my heart. At the last second I see a large boot kick it out of his hand. I look up and see Adam, his arms still behind his back in cuffs. I spin him around and snap the cuffs in one swift motion.
He grabs his father's sword and I expect him to slice it down, instead he uses the butt of the black sword and smashes it towards his temple. His father collapses onto the ground and starts to drool.
"Jerk." He then runs off and takes care of the remaining Mogadorian soldiers. Soon we're surrounded by piles of ash and are breathing heavily.
"So much for stealth." Marina utters.
"Every Mogadorian base has every type of surveillance equipment out there. I figured it was best to make a bold statement. Now follow me!" Adam waves his hand forward. I look back at his father and wonder why he didn't kill him; he told me that his father killed Three when we were in the Five's base and even I wanted to kill him out of revenge. Then I think of Brutus's last words 'Not all Mogs are bad, make sure you know your enemy's from your friends.'
We leave the chimeras outside the base protecting the car with our chests inside. The base is filled with dead animals that got too close to escaping, Ella starts to gag and I push her forward. Waiting will just make it worse. The grey brick walls are different to the base which was my home for Six months; this one feels more high tech and colder. We pass a room filled with overgrown plants with a massive out of order sign covering it. Suddenly an alarm starts to wail.
"Shit!" I shout. I look around for oncoming Mogadorians and see none, instead four turrets fall out of the wall aimed for us.
"Run!" Sam shouts, we scatter into different directions covering our heads, I summon all the energy I have into causing a miniature storm out of the air. I aim it towards one of the turrets and a small lightning strike hits it followed by a loud banging and a flash. The turret sets on fire. Marina is sticking her hands out and one of the turrets starts to compress. It tries to fight the energy pressing down on it but it soon goes dead.
Suddenly I hear a howl and see Sam clutch his arm and hit the ground; all of a sudden the other two turrets go dead and stop firing. I run over to him and look at his arm. It's covered in blood and is flowing out of him. Suddenly I remember the Loric wall again and it's prophesy. Marina jumps to his side and grabs his arm, Sam starts to scream. I hear a deep laughing behind me and see two Mogadorian soldiers holding a gun to my back.
"I will bring pride to the M-"He is interrupted by two gunshots, he looks stunned for a second and then crumples to the ground to ash. The other one spins around but turns to ash as well. I look behind them and see a skinny man in a white lab coat. I see a half open door he must have come through, it's filled with a bright light.
"Dad!" Sam shouts. Malcolm Goode looks at the turrets suspiciously. Sam jumps up his arm still bleeding and hugs his dad. It would almost be sweet if not for the wailing and the shouts of distant Mogadorian soldiers.
"Get out of here now, Sam. The turrets are disabled for now; I was hoping I wouldn't shoot you." Malcolm says suddenly. Sam moves away confused.
"You shot me?"
Malcolm sighs. "It was an accident, a scare tactic. It's dangerous here. I've made things that will kill you given the chance. Leave now." Made things? What does he mean by that?
"Not without you. I'm getting you out of here and anyone else in here. "Sam says stubbornly.
"What have you made?" I ask fearful for the answer. Only now I am realising that he works for the Mogadorians. Malcolm looks at me with regret and sadness in his eyes, and then looks back to Sam.
"Leave here now Sam." Malcolm repeats again.
"What are you hiding?" Sam brushes past his father with surprising strength and looks into the door where he came from; his mouth almost drops to the floor. Ella and I run to him and peer inside the door.
Ten identical clones of Sam in tubes of a murky brown liquid. Beneath each one is labelled a different number going up to Ten.
"Why do you think you were called experiment Zero?" Malcolm sadly says.
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