Chapter 25: Hideout
Fitz blinked and Sophie was gone. There was a muffled sound that he couldn't make out, then silence.
Silence.
For a few moments, Fitz just stood, shocked. Then he sprang into action.
"Keefe!" He yelled at the imparter. Keefe picked up.
"Hey, Fitz! I just-"
"Keefe. No time. Something's happened. Sophie's gone. Meet me at the Oralie River. Call the others."
Fitz hung up before Keefe could ask questions.
When everyone had arrived, Fitz explained what had happened.
Dex pulled out a pink rectangle with green wires all over it. "I recently made a tracking device. It can find anyone, even if there's nothing on them connected to this. It tracks cells and DNA."
"Kay. Turn it on. Find Sophie Foster."
Dex murmured the name into the small device and it beeped.
"She's in the Neverseen's hideout. It's in Nichester Valley. You know, that place in the Neutral Territories?"
"Yeah. Okay, let's go."
They all locked hands and Fitz pulled out his new pathfinder, the one he got for his birthday.
They leapt to the Neverseen's hideout, which turned out to be an empty wasteland with an old shack in the middle of it.
The group approached the shack.
The door creaked open, revealing an old musty room. They scooted in the tight space, looking around.
Suddenly, a scream came from Linh and she was gone.
Keefe yelled and vanished.
Tam vanished.
Dex vanished.
Biana vanished.
Fitz found himself falling through the air and landing in a cinderblock room, with the rest of the crew getting up from the fall.
"Well," Fitz said. "We're here."
They decided they had to split up. There were three tunnels going different directions.
They realized they had no camouflage.
Biana and Linh went down one tunnel, and Biana vanished them.
Dex and Keefe went down another, Dex using an obscurer.
Tam and Fitz went down the last one, Tam using the shadows to cover them.
Biana and Linh held hands as they walked down the dirty hallway. They found themselves in a room with a wooden table in the middle, and sofa's all around. They saw the room was empty and went searching for clues.
Dex and Keefe stayed close together in their hallway, finding themselves in a room with a table and many hallways coming off of it. They agreed to search the room and then split up down the two different hallways.
Fitz and Tam made many turns before a yell shattered the silence and Tam was gone.
Fitz started to run. Someone had found them and Tam was gone. He had to get Sophie and the others and get out of here.
He frantically opened a door and gasped at what he saw.'