"Beta?" Beta opened her eyes instinctively grabbing the hilt of her gun.
"Everything alright?" Beta asked, no trace of sleep in her voice. That's how it always has been – she could drop off to sleep in a moment and wake with no apparent disorientation or grogginess.
"We still have about an hour until we get there. But the White Queen asked me to tell you that she has successfully hacked into one of the remaining Umbrella facilities located in Ireland. She is in the process of decoding several program initiatives to see if any of them are aware of our survival or the survival of any of Alice's old teammates. She says so far, they are not aware of us, but she picked up chatter that they are tracking several priorities across the globe that include human survivors."
"So there are still humans out there." Beta murmured. "Is the radio call from Arcadia still broadcasting?"
"Yes, I can hear it now, but its weird because the signal is bouncing around too much so I can't tell if its still coming from the coordinates its broadcasting..."
"What did you say?" Beta interrupted, turning to look at her clone. Vee paused and cleared her throat. "How are you tracking the signals? We don't have any equipment for that." Beta asked.
"Yeah...I'm not sure how, but I can sort of hear...them...the signals. It actually started about a week ago but...before it was just being able to tune in, like I was a radio. But now, its like I can see where they are coming from..." Vee sighed and adjusted a knob on the control panel.
"Do you need a break? I'm impressed you are even still able to fly this thing for 5 hours straight." Vee hesitated.
"Um, there is another reason I decided to wake you up. I was getting tired about an hour ago and I started playing with my flashlight, just twirling it between my fingers." Vee handed Beta her small but powerful Maglight. "It was like I could suddenly feel warmth under my hand and I flipped the switch on as I was playing with it. And then...I felt awake. I felt like I had gotten a nice solid power nap. Go ahead, open it." Beta unscrewed the top and two chunky batteries fell into her lap. Beta's eyes widened as she picked one up. It wasn't only dead – it looked as if it had literally been sucked dry, the casing crushed and folded in on itself. Beta looked at Vee with raised eyebrows.
"Next time I'll relieve you...we wouldn't want you do to do that to the helicopter's electrical system by accident." Vee grimaced a bit.
"Yeah I thought of that. Which is why I woke you up - just in case something happened." Beta sat back in her seat and looked out the window at the sky. "That makes two," Beta murmured to herself. First Liv could read their thoughts and now Vee was using electricity to rejuvenate herself and could track radio waves. The White Queen had been right...