AN: Yay another chapter. So far I've been posting once ever week but I don't know if it will continue because I've been getting a lot of homework lately. The only reason I don't have any today is because I had finished my Drawing and Painting homework and I'm almost done my Planning projects, and for English we're watching the second X-men. I now see how this story relates to that but that is a coincident because I have never watched the X-men before Monday. I still have no idea what D.E.B.S.
Jade's POV
"Someone set it off." I turn my head to the left to where the voice came from. We're in the parking lot waiting for the okay to go back in. I'm surrounded by people but no one who seems to be talking to me or who seems to fit the voice. Shaking my head I turn my attention to a security guard who tells us we can go back in and that there is no fire.
I've been staying with Tori for a week now and I swear she is stuck up and boring she must be so glad I'm here to make her life interesting. I learned some interesting things about her over the week. Apparently she's the star of her family and is not the only one with superpowers. Her father is in the police force and I know for a fact I have past him at least once over my thievery years. I don't know what her mother does but her sister is also at HA but is one of the lesser know agents. Tori dragged me to HA headquarter where I was stuck in a boring class about jet maintenance.
"I call shotgun." I say hopping into a small jet and sitting by the side.
"I wanted shotgun!" Tori complained moving to sit beside me. We're in a jet waiting to take off. Tori has been called for a small job and I'm coming along. We're currently off to arrest Dr. Amam for disturbing a endangered species on a small island with a long name I couldn't be bothered to remember.
"Do you two ever stop bickering?" Beck asked from the pilot seat. He's flying us to the island. I prop my feet up on the back of his seat. He turns over to look at us and wipes his forehead with a greasy hand. Instead of answering him I ask,
"How much longer?"
"Not too long." He answered. I'm about to tell him that's not a proper answer but instead Tori exclaimed.
"There it is!" Tori got up and pulled on a parachute.
"Awesome, finally some fun!" I exclaim grabbing my own parachute. Tori slides the door open.
"Jump on three." Beck calls from his seat. "One, two, three!" We drop ourselves off the jet and fall through the air before pulling our cords and easily landing. We ditch the parachutes and head towards the large building beside the water.
"How are we going to get in?"
"Through the vents." Tori answers pulling her dumb HA jacket on tighter.
"How original." I grumble but follow her towards a airshaft.
"Robbie is the air vents clear?" She asks into her ear piece connecting her back to head quarters. I can't hear him respond because I don't have one but she nods to me and climbs up to the end of the vent and struggles to unscrew it. I roll my eyes and melt the ends so I can pry it open. We climb in the shaft Tori first and I pull the outlet back on. We crawl through the shaft in silence for a little while.
"Was Cat a good friend of yours?" I ask slowly. Tori pauses in her crawling.
"Yeah. She was." Cat's funeral is this weekend. "Why?"
"We were c-" With a clang the shaft we were traveling in shifted and the end we just came through dipped down to a fourty five degree angle. We start to slide backwards both struggling to get a grip on the metal. I light up my fingers and dig them into the vent slowing myself before coming to a stop on some ice behind me that Tori must have put up to stop our sliding. She didn't expect me to slow before that though and is now laid on top of me both my hands digging dimples in the metal and my back agents a barrier of ice. She's blushing and it takes a moment for her to realize what happened before she untangles herself from me.
"Gosh are you ever red." I purr.
"J-just melt the ice." I smile and punch a whole into the ice barrier she made, crawl through it and carefully crawl through the vent.
"Dr. Amam knows we're here no reason to continue to hide. Let's bust in now." Tori nods and I cut a hole into the bottom and we drop gracefully down. We were in a long hallway with many doors. We both look around carefully. "Ask your nerd which door we take." Tori rolled her at the nerd comment but pressed a button on her earpiece and asked anyway.
"He said three doors down and to the right, and then head through a door on the other end of that room." I headed down the hallway and opened the door. There were lasers moving across the first half off the room and a large pool with something moving in the second half. I rolled my eyes. Lasers, Really? I roll my eyes.
"Ready for this?" Tori asks with a smile.
"The real question is? Are you?" We both take off moving through the room doing spins off the wall and back flips easily getting past the lasers. We arrive at the edge of the pool at the same time. There are sharks swimming in the water. Tori has already started to cross by freezing the water. I follow her at a slower pace. She pulls the door open and we head inside the main room. Dr. Amam was sitting in a large chair behind a desk and a small computer. The rest of the room is empty
"I was expecting you two, how do you like my new pets?" He asked with a cackle.
"They're really stupid." I answer quickly cutting him off.
"What are you ejecting into these waters Dr. Amam?" Tori asks with a growl.
"Toxic waste." He answers spinning around in his chair once.
"Can we beat him up now?"
"Fine, le-"
"Ahh but first you must vanquish my other new pets." He presses a button on his desk and out of the back doors enters a large, misshaped, tattered leopard. I roll my eyes, this guy is insane. Tori gasps beside me. The leopard growls and rushes to Dr. Amam's side.
"I'll take the ugly beast." I growl back. The leopard comes running towards us. We both jump out of the way.
"Don't hurt it, Jade!" Tori yells.
"Wouldn't dream of it." I grumble. As the beast pounces towards me I hit its back while jumping over it. The leopard seems old and has bad eye sight because it takes it a while before it sees me again. It jumps towards me in a long stride and raises on its hindlegs while slashing towards me. It hit the side of my face before I can jump back. I yelp as I feel my cheek stinging. I move away from the old cat.
"Jade!" Tori yells freezing the paws of the leopard to the ground.
"I'm fine!" I yell back as the big cat breaks free from the ice. It pounces back at me this time I manged to grab its paws before it clawed at me again. It snapped its jaw forward. I spin out of the way and sent a blast of fire towards it. The cat lets out a screech and jumps back. I sent another few blasts of fire at it and it runs off back through the door. I see Tori is already handcuffing the Dr.
"You didn't hurt it did you?" She sounds concerned for the cat.
"I might have scorched its tail." I say wiping away the blood on my cheek although honestly my head is hurting more.
"Are you alright?"
"Just peachy." I grumble. I lean on Dr. Amam's desk.
"Jadeā¦" She says slowly approaching me. My head is spinning and I try to stand but instead fall over. Tori's quick and she catches me. I've probably stained her jacket but she doesn't seem to care. Tori helps me back on my feet. I look up and realize that Dr. Amam must have run off.
"Tori, he ran off!" I say attempting to follow him out the backdoor.
"It's an island, he can't go anywhere." She says reassuring me.
"He has a boat at the northwest side. He'll get away unless you go now." I look around confused. There is no one else around.
"He has boat. Come on." I say grabbing her wrist and pulling her out the door.
"Where are we going? " Tori ask as we head down to the dock.
"The Northwest dock."
"Why?" I pause at this. Why are we going there? "Look there." She says before I can respond. There indeed is a boat hovering in the water out into the water.
"Seems he run out of fuel." I say with a chuckle.
"I'll get Robbie to sent someone out there." Who did I hear? I'm going crazy. I am now absolutely mad.
"You're not mad. Not yet at least." I am mad. I am totally mad, absolutely bonkers. "You're not bonkers!" The voice said again. "I'm an angel and I'm here to help you."
