Chapter 13
"Perhaps it would be a good idea to enjoy family contact later." Seth said as he poked his head through the doorway. I laughed and let him help me through because knowing me I would totally trip.
"It's called a hug." I told him. He looked down at me with his perfect smirk.
"I like these…hugs." He said. Just the way he looked at me caused my cheeks to burn up so I just shook my head and jogged up to Sarah and Alex. About halfway into the tunnel things started to get hectic as vehicles and soldiers ran around. At first I wondered if it as always this crazy, but I noticed the out of place siren and turned to Alex.
"Did you guys create this?" I asked her and motioned towards the red flashing light.
"I don't know." She said. Well that's totally reassuring.
"Guys over here." Jack said and motioned us over to him. We ducked behind some ammo cases waiting for the next plan.
"We have to get over to that door." jack said and pointed to the door across the tunnel from us.
"Problem is how exactly are we going to do that?" I ask. I'd rather not be shot down after coming all of this way.
"We'll just have to make a run for it." Jack said.
"That's it you're officially crazy." I said and without waiting I just stood up and took off in a sprint. I flung myself down beside the ammo crates on the other side and let out a breath. That was actually easily then I thought. Sara and Seth were the next to join me while Alex and Uncle Jack ran over last. I opened the door and we all slid in quickly sealing the door behind us. When I turned around I gasped at what I saw. The ship was shaped like a flattened disk and the metal shined. It didn't even look like it had ever crashed.
"That is out of this world…literally." I whispered. I felt a hand slip into mine and looked up to see Seth smiling down at me.
"We have to hurry Jack Bruno." Sara said. Uncle Jacks face became this expression of disbelief as he stuttered finally pointing to the people down below that where working on ship.
"Well tell them that." He said. I sighed looking around when a rack of white coats caught my eye. I smiled and grabbed one of them shrugging it on.
"Let's give them the memo Alex." I said and tossed her one of the coats as well. She smiled and put it on following me down the metal stairs towards the base floor.
"Excuse me." I called out grabbing everyone's attention.
"Do you not hear the alarms?" I asked them as if they were deaf. They just looked at each other and then back at me like I was crazy.
"Work in this sector is to cease immediately. We have of the chart reading of Sodium Hydro Chlorides, Xenon, Hydro Xenon and you don't even want to know how bad the Gamma radiation is. Now you are going to have to do some serious and I mean serious scrubbing down." Alex improvised. My brain almost started to hurt as I tried to process what she had just said. What the crap is Hydro Xenon?
"Who are you?" One of the workers asked. I scoffed and raised my eyebrows at him in an expression of utter shock.
"Who-who are we? I'll tell you who we are. We are your worst nightmares and court martial soldiers. Now you can either do as you're told or we can go tell Mr. Burke you disobeyed his direct orders. It's your call. Choose wisely." I said waiting for them to, hopefully, choose wisely. They all shared a look before nodding and filing out for the room closing the door behind them. I let out a breath of relief and high fived Alex. I heard footsteps rushing down the stairs and turned around just as Seth pretty much plowed into me.
"Never do that again!" He ordered looking me straight in the eye.
"Man I'm going to start calling you care bear." I teased him with a smile. He just rolled his eyes and stepped away from me crossing his arms over his chest. There's my Mr. Ego.
"That was a bit dangerous." Uncle Jack scolded us.
"Ok, but you have to admit we were pretty awesome." I said. Uncle Jack laughed and tried to ruffle my hair, but I swatted his hand away before he had the chance too. He chuckled as I ran up to Seth putting space between us. Seth grabbed onto a nearby ladder and I helped him guide it over to the side of the ship. He climbed up and took out his blue device holding it in his hand while his other hand felt along the smooth metal of the machine. His fingers paused and he pulled them away replacing them with his device. There was a slight shudder that ran through the floor and slowly a part of the side lowered to the ground. Seth climbed down the ladder joining us in front of the ship. I smiled and took the first step climbing the lighted ramp.
"Thank you. We were having a hard time figuring out how to do that." All of us froze turning around to see the one and only Mr. Burke and…his small army. Jack took a step forward in a protective gesture, but Mr. Burke just laughed.
"A brave, but empty gesture, Mr. Bruno." Mr. Burke commented.
"They're just kids." Jack contradicted him. Suddenly Seth moved forward towards Jack taking his hand. Finally the boys were getting along! I was the next to step forward immediately taking hold of Seth's other hand in mine. Mr. Burke just smirked down at us as all of us held together. Out of nowhere there was a miss-fired shot and suddenly everyone had opened fire on us. On instinct my muscles tightened and the bullets bounced of my body leaving no sign of damage. For the short second I had forgotten the others didn't have our power and gasped quickly looking over to my right, but in a mixture of shock and awe I saw that the bullets were bouncing off their bodies as well.
"Hold your fire! Hold your fire!" He shouted. I squeezed Seth's hand and smiled knowing that we once again had the upper hand. Of course something had to ruin the moment though and I ducked behind Seth as the nearest wall exploded beside us and who else to ruin the moment, but Mr. Syphon.
"GO, GO, Go!" Jack yelled and turned pushing us up the ramp and into the ship. The ramp shut tight behind us and Sara led us into what had to be the control room for the ship. It literally had high tech everything!
"This is cool. Real cool." I whispered. Seth and Sara hurried over and took a seat in the two control seats. Jack stood beside Sara while Alex and I grabbed onto the back of the chairs. From the amount of chaos going on outside the ship it seemed like this would be a bumpy ride.
"We've got to get this thing up in the air now!" Jack instructed just as the syphon fired another shot which landed way too close to the ship for my complete comfort.
"Sara, if you've got shields I would use them!" I exclaimed.
"Activating shields." She stated and pressed multiple signals.
"Powers at 25% and increasing." Seth stated. Only a minute later the power was fully activated and the ship shuddered under our feet as it rose into the air.
"You do know how to fly this thing right?" Jack asked. If Seth wasn't busy I swear he would have glared at Jack.
"How do you think we got here?" He contradicted. I frowned and tapped his shoulder making him quickly turn to me.
"Well you crashed. Remember?" I reminded him. He opened his mouth, but didn't say anything. Instead he turned back around and continued to guide the ship through the tunnels. I smirked at my victory, but the smile wiped off my face as fast as it had appeared when I saw none other than the syphon blocking our path.
"Syphon!" I cried.
"Hold on!" Sara ordered. I planted my feet and held on tight as she tilted the shop at an angle as we headed straight for him. I swore I could see the energy building up in his high tech gun just as we hit him full force.
"Got him! Now that's what I'm talking about!" Jack said and put a hand on Sara's shoulder. I laughed and hugged Seth's shoulders as well causing him to let out a victorious "whoo-hoo" which only made my smile grow.
"Alright let's get this thing out of here." Jack said putting us back on task.
"Follow the tunnels." Alex instructed. Sara quickly brought up a map of the tunnels and chose the ones that would lead us to the exit.
"Watch out!" I cried as we dodged truck after truck.
"Oh no." I heard Sara whisper. I followed her eyes and cursed when I saw the main exit doors beginning to slide shut.
"Just a little faster." Seth commented and increased our speed. I felt the top of Seth's seat begin to crumble in my hands as I tightened my grip in anticipation. I think all of us were holding our breath until the ship tilted and barley nicked the doors as we slid out into the open sky.
"Take that losers!" I shouted and high-fived Alex. We were just full f last minute miracles weren't we?!