Welcome to chapter number fifteen, and thank you for sticking with me so far! Things get really interesting because when you look closely, you might find details which can help you in the end, even if they're really obvious in this chapter (I hope). But first, I'll reply to the reviewer:
LabRatsWhore: Yeah, he sure is up to something: he did want to destroy the world. And Kaz needed to be 'intense' so Oliver would finally believe him, and thanks for your review!
Enjoy!
-Writer207
After school, Oliver and Kaz quickly hurried to the school. Kaz didn't keep up his act, making Oliver believe he made a difference and helped keeping Kaz calm during the day. And now, they would be on their way to the hospital so Kaz could try and find out who had 'turned him evil'.
The plan was simple. They'd arrive at the same time, but they would go their separate ways before starting to work. Oliver would keep Horace busy and stand guard while Kaz would try to find out who the mole is by use of the security cameras. And in the meantime, he could also try to find out who framed him.
They walked into Mighty Med, and Kaz immediately went to search for the room they needed instead of taking care of Surge, who still needed a lot of good care and still was unconscious after being found in Tidwell Manor. Oliver stayed around in the lobby, and when he wanted to follow Kaz (so it wouldn't look too suspicious) he was held back by Horace.
"Oliver! There you are! I needed to tell you something very important!" Oliver nodded.
"Sure! What is it?"
"The guards still haven't found Alan yet," Horace said, sighing. "Nobody knows what he's done or why he left. If he left. If you find him, tell me. Understood?" Oliver nodded again. He didn't really care about Alan right now, but he would definitely tell Horace what he knew about Alan if he saw the super again. When he wanted to leave, Horace still stopped him.
"Also, I just had a terrible call from the Mighty Max. The Annihilator has escaped." Oliver's eyes widened.
"What!?" Oh no! This can't be true! Thousands of thoughts raced through his mind, but this is a summary: this is the worst news ever; Kaz might turn evil again; I'm in complete denial; now even more villains will be born. Horace walked away from the startled boy, resuming his tasks as the chief of staff.
He completely forgot to guard the control room because of this news. Instead, he absentmindedly went to check upon Surge, who hadn't woken up until now.
Kaz walked around the hospital, trying to find the control room. Hey, if this hospital gets attacked at least once a week, they sure wanted to know how these villains got in. with the current crisis, it was possible one of the guards working here was evil as well. Kaz really hoped nobody deleted the tapes of last week, or then he was screwed. He once opened all doors (trying to find the Door of Doom) and ended up in the control room once before, so it couldn't be that hard to find.
And eventually, he did end up opening the door leading to the control room, where they checked the images filmed by the security cameras almost nobody can see. And eventually, he did end up stopping in his tracks when he saw a guard sitting there.
"Philip!" Kaz said when Philip turned his head. "What are you doing here?" Philip stood up out of his chair.
"I work here. What are you doing here?" After the attack of last night, the head of guards decided to go easy on him for the next couple of days and sent him to the control room, which always suffered from the minimum of attacks. Kaz stuttered.
"I work here too." Was his answer, and Philip shook his head.
"I meant: what are you doing in this room?" He explained, "Only guards are allowed to be in here." Kaz shrugged and realized he just had to improvise.
"Why?" Now Philip looked at him, surprised.
"You know I can't tell you because it's so obvious. Now, leave!" Kaz shrugged again and was about to leave until he realized he just had to find something he couldn't lie about and have Philip to believe. Eventually, this is what came out of his mouth.
"Pity. But I can tell you there are donuts in the cafeteria." Technically, he wasn't lying, because the cafeteria served donuts to the guards today. It may be a hard stereotype, but the guards at the Mighty Med really enjoyed eating donuts. Which is why Kaz was surprised by Philip's uncaring reaction.
"So?"
"So?" Kaz repeated, "Aren't you hungry?"
"I am hungry," Philip explained, "but I don't like donuts." Kaz could've face palmed if he didn't have to be in here and wasn't just 'lying' to gain access to the footage, waiting to be viewed on one of the three computer screens.
"Then what do you like?" Kaz eventually asked. "There are also other things in the cafeteria." Philip didn't have to think about that question.
"I like apples." Trust my luck, Kaz thought as he put a smile on his face.
"Well, there are apples in the cafeteria." And now Philip smiled as well. He liked Kaz, warning him about snacks when he was just getting hungry. What a nice lad…
"Why didn't you tell me this earlier? Thanks!" And Philip walked out of the control room, not even caring about the fact he was leaving the control room unguarded with only Kaz around. That just spelled disaster, but Philip was hungry and he needed to eat.
"You're welcome!" Kaz yelled as Philip hurried to the cafeteria, and he snickered, "Wait until you see you can't eat those apples." Horace had just ordered some iPads to be used by the staff, but Horace only called them by the company that made them: 'Apple'. So, yeah, there were apples in the cafeteria; just not the ones Philip was hoping for. Kaz sat down on the same spot as Philip sat and he quickly searched for the footage of a few days ago. Luckily, Philip let an important program opened on the computer, granting Kaz access to the footage from last month. Kaz smiled.
"Let's see here…" He went to the day that Oliver found the Dagger of Truth in his backpack, and he skipped back to the time when they arrived in the Mighty Med. Kaz saw how he was boring himself in the lobby, and then came Skylar in. he talked to her, and then Citadel fell out of his wheelchair, and Kaz on screen helped him out. While he and a nurse forced the hero back on his wheelchair, Skylar took the Dagger from behind her back and put it in Kaz' backpack.
Kaz frowned. "Skylar? Why would Skylar do something like that?" He decided to skip backwards to some scene in the lobby, and Kaz picked the moment when NeoCortex was turned evil. He watched attentively as they made a decoy from the hero and placed the phone on the counter instead of their pants. The two left, and Skylar came into the lobby, using super-speed. She used the contamination device to turn Neo evil and then noticed Oliver's phone, changing the message.
"What the heck!? She…" Kaz began, but he quickly turned silent. Nobody was allowed to hear him being in here, or else he couldn't gather the proof that he wasn't working with the Annihilator. He skipped back some time, until he saw the Annihilator and Skylar Storm in their private moment before he was taken to the Mighty Max. Kaz couldn't believe his ears when he heard the words the two used to talk to each other.
Kaz sighed in desperation. "Oh no! Skylar's the mole! She's working for the Annihilator. Oliver needs to see this." He quickly put one of the two flash drives he took with him in the right port and downloaded the footage onto it. He patiently waited the time it took to download it times two and when he was done, he had two copies of the footage. He nodded when the last download was complete, and he took back the second flash drive.
"And now to show this to Oliver-ah!" He screamed the last part, because suddenly Skylar Storm was standing in the doorway. She had crossed her arms and was looking at him with that stern expression she always used when she thought he was doing something incredibly wrong.
"Skylar!" Kaz said surprised, "What are you doing here?" Skylar sighed.
"I thought Philip was here. What are you doing here?" He was in big trouble now. With his newfound knowledge, he just had to lie hard. But if he lied hard, he would use 'fire' a lot and she would know he was lying. So he came to one solution which, in his eyes, was the best.
"I'm not going to tell you." Yes, that was the best solution he could come up with. Skylar nodded at the middle computer screen.
"Then you shouldn't have left the file open you were looking at." She pushed Kaz out of the way and pressed 'play'. Kaz, seeing the danger was increasing each second, tried to sneak out, but Skylar was one step ahead of him. She closed the door with her telekinesis and Kaz almost walked into it. "You're not going anywhere."
"I know what you are. And I will tell Oliver about you." Skylar huffed after Kaz boldly said this.
"Please. Who do you think he'll believe: your or me?" Kaz shrugged again.
"At this moment, I think he'll believe me, especially after I show him this." He took the flash drive in his hand and showed it at Skylar. He didn't think that she would destroy it by exploding it, but she did. He looked at the remains of the flash drive and then looked back at the villainess. "Now I'm starting to think it wasn't a good idea to show you."
Skylar crossed her arms. "Oliver will never believe you." Kaz shook his head. He was sure Oliver would believe him, even without that flash drive.
"Why is that?" he dared to asked and she slowly advanced to him, cornering him eventually in the corner farthest away from the door. Skylar said: "Because you broke in here to destroy the evidence and I busted you." Kaz frowned, confused by her words.
"No, I haven't. I busted you!" He said, disagreeing with her. Skylar sighed. Why didn't he believe she was just going to tell Oliver the lies so he wouldn't trust Kaz anymore.
"But he will believe me if I tell him I stopped you by knocking you unconscious but couldn't stop you from deleting the files." Kaz was forced down to sit in the corner because Skylar came a little too close to him. And he still didn't really understand what she meant.
"But I didn't – oh!" Yeah, then he understood. He smiled because he finally got it, but it disappeared as soon as he saw her purple fingertips. As a comic book fan, along with the fact he had put up an evil smile, he immediately knew what that meant. "Wait, don't-" He was cut off when the fingertips touched his head. A wave of sleepiness crashed over him and when he closed his eyes, he couldn't open his eyes and not a second later he lost all sense of space and time as the dark took him in.
