Woo Action time. I love writing fighting scenes but I don't think i'll all that good at them.
I don't own Victorious or the characters.
"That's probably Beck, let's go." We walk side by side out to see Beck in a truck waiting for us.
Tori POV
The large abandoned building was a dark gray colour and had graffiti all over it. The windows were broken and there was no visible light from inside. The road in front of the building was completely vacant. Beck's truck pulled in, Jade and I stepped out. I stretch my arms once before pressing the button on my Bluetooth like earpiece. "Ready?" I ask.
"Always ready to kick butt." She answers shoving me along with her foot on my butt.
"My butt is not made for shoving!" I say but walk along. I have Robbie do a quick scan before we open the doors and head down the hallway. It looks like it had used to be some sort of doctor's office, maybe a therapist office. The paint on the walls is chipped and cracked they're no furniture.
"You sure this is the right place?"
"Yeah." I answer. Through the earpiece Robbie told us to go a door on our left. Surprise Surprise the doors locked. I start banging my shoulder agents it but Jade puts her hands up stopping me. She cracks a grin and lit up her hands to melt the door's hinges. I roll my eyes and push the door open. The dim light from outside has disappeared and we're drenched in darkness. I feel a shiver run up my spine as I feel a chill. Jade lit up her hand enough for us to see in the dark. She takes my hand in her other and we walk down. My breath catches. She's holding my hand, sure it's so I don't fall on my face but still. Okay I admit it I have a crush on Jade, how can I not? She's beautiful, funny; she can be sweet but still kick butt! She's not a thief anymore either but I'm pretty sure I saw her eying Beck and I don't even know if she's gay. My toe bangs agents the edge of a table breaking my train of though.
"OW!" I exclaim hopping back a few steps. Jade catches my arm preventing me from falling over. She shakes her head slowly.
"You can be a real klutz." The goth said in disbelieve.
"I am not a klutz!"
"You totally are." She dismisses and let's go of my arm. My toe hurts too much to continue this argument. I kneel on the ground and take off my shoe.
"You know there are mouse droppings all over the place." I look closer and indeed there is and it's all over my knee.
"Eww. Eww. Eww." I grumble fixing my shoe back on and standing up straight. She rolls her eyes. Her flame is starting to flicker. I rip off a piece of wood from the old table that hurt me, ha take that stupid table, and wrap it in strip of cloth from the couch. Jade smiles when she realizes I'm making a torch and she pulls the cloth on tighter before lighting it up. The room is instantly a lot brighter. She lets her own fire die as we head down.
Robbie says there is a hatch that will lead us down to the basement. We find it when the tapping of our feet agents the cement changes. I rip of the carpet and there is indeed a wood hatch. Its unlocked and we open it up. Jade looks hesitate to climb down the rickety ladder so I go down first. Not wanting to be outshined the ex-thief comes down after me. It looks like an old warehouse basement the difference is that here is a large cage filled with people all standing in lines.
"There security system is really lacking." I speak my mind looking around closely for traps.
"Or they want us here, best be careful." The cage of people is across the room and there seems to be a tunnel in the back of the cage. There is a single shaky light bulb in the middle of the room. The torch dies out and Jade steps on it with her boot and tosses it aside. The victims in the cage don't seem to acknowledge our presences. We inspect the area for any wires or traps then walk along hand in hand. I'm unsure who reached for the other's hand first but it doesn't really matter. We slid past a few traps and tap on the bars of the cage. The people inside still don't seem to notice us even though we're not even a foot in front of them. I can see now their eyes have an odd glossy glow to them and each of them wore the same blank expression.
"Jade. I don't think they have control of their own minds." I look around the room for another way out but the only way I see is through the back of the cell. Jade is staring hard at the people trying to get their attention but she eventually gives up.
"Guess we'll have to go that way." She lit up both of her hands and snapped 2 of the bars off, enough for us to walk in. "What did you ever do without me?"
"We actually had to cut things!"I gasp and make a face. We both chuckled as we made our way past the crowd of people, none reacted to us pushing them aside. "Careful Jade." I can almost hear her roll her eyes. There isn't much light in the tunnel but I don't want jade to run out of juice. Who knows who we'll have to face? Suddenly she stops dead in her tracks and pushes me to the side of the tunnel and into a small gap in the wall. I know better than to speak. I hear the people before I see the light from there flashlight. They don't make an effort to keep quiet. They're foot steps are loud enough and they are talking.
"They move really slow. We need to speed up production." One of the men said.
"We'll crank up the beam, and make the signal stronger."
"When will we attack LA?" The first man asked.
"Boss wants it to be at nightfall but we're behind schedule. Maybe 'round sunrise." They walk past us now. There are three men, one who hasn't spoken. They are wearing colourless jumpsuits with a simple logo made out of triangles and crescents on the back. As they're light passes I can make out the spot where we are. The tunnel looks man made and there are a few other gaps that I can spot. I can see now how close Jade and I are. I can count all every color in her eyes and feel her unsteady breath. No now is not the time, Tori. I'm surprised they can't hear my heart pounding, but they just keep walking past us. With the stealth of a hungry leopard, Jade moves closer to them but the silent one must have seen the movement in the corner of his eye. He spun around pulling a long bo staff out a small hidden belt. He stood with a strong defensive position and a hard look on his face. The other two scramble a bit before pulling out two handguns. I know Jade wants to go after the silent man so I call out;
"I got these two." She doesn't answer but strikes first. I approach the two amateurs slowly. They're hands are shaking but they're faces are hard. I flick my wrist freezing the gun from the inside out and start a flurry of punches and kick the guns out of arms reach. I twist his arm and knee him hard in the gut. He lands on his knees with a groan and I shove him backwards. The other one grabs me by my shoulder and arm trying to pull it backwards. I flip over and kick him with opposite leg. He hit the wall and I grab him by the back of his head and hit it with the other's. With a thud they both collapse unconscious on the ground. I turn just in time to see Jade's flames exploding forward in front of her face after she blew in her cupped hands. The last man jumped back his hair and clothing burned but wearable. Jade pulls his hands over and behind his head and kicks him onto his knees.
"Please no!" He finally speaks.
"Who are you people?" I demand. He vigorously shakes his head until Jade adds more pressure to his arms.
"We're the RCHB that stands for Revolutionaries for changes in human behavior." He hissed as Jade added more pressure. "The man employing us wants the city to do everything he says. He uses mind control." Jade released the pressure a bit.
"How did they chip everyone?"
"Through the water." He answered quickly. I glanced at Jade who kept her eyes fixed on the squirming captive. "They are going to activate it soon but something went wrong so they are using the people over there as a test."
"Where is the boss the others were talking about?" The pyrokinetic asked.
"Through the tunnel past a few guards and through a large door." He groaned.
"Anything else you want to ask him?" I shake my head and Jade smacks his face into the wall. She dumps him on his own away from the others and since we have no rope I freeze them to the wall. We walk down the hall and sure enough there are a few guards standing outside a large door. "Ready?" Jade asked.
"Ready." We both quickly take down two guards and burst open the door. The room is big enough there is a hatch near the back corner and a large shelf beside it. At the center there is a giant computer with a man sitting at it typing away. Jade rolls her eyes as we creep up on him. It seemed almost…too easy.
THUD
The next thing I knew something was on me and I was pinned. It growled and I felt something scratch my stomach and chest. I knew at that moment whatever attacked me wasn't human. I raise my hands up to cover my face and flick my wrists to try and freeze whatever it was but I can only get its torso. I flip it over and jump away. I see that it's a large, white dog; maybe a Mastiff or a Boxer. It was scrambling to stand up with only its back legs. What caught my eye was that it had a larger than normal claws, normally dog claws aren't used in a fight but he or she is unable to use his jaws. It has a shiny black muzzle covering its mouth, and an extra inch long claws. I'm surprised it can even walk. Jade is struggling to hold down a similar white dog. I freeze its legs and she lets go with a sigh. The man is now trying to grab his stuff and escape through the back hatch. Jade tosses a fireball at the ladder leading up the hatch and the man jumps back. On his desk it says his name is Victor Hudson. Victor's head whirls around in a failed attempt to find another way to escape.
"Hunter, attack!" He yelled to the dog. The dog whimpered in response and failed to get up.
"You're cornered. Give it up?" His eyes widened and he shook his head. Suddenly Jade jumped forward and grabbed him by his neck. He drops the bags he was holding and his hands go to his neck. He lets out a gurgling, chocking sound.
"Where did you get the mind controlling chips?" Jade asked with a menacing growl. His eyes widened and Jade let him fall to the ground. He burst out in a coughing fit. He shook his head violently rubbing his neck. Jade turned to glance at me.
"I'll call Rob'." I press the button on my modified Bluetooth. "Robbie?" I ask. I could only hear static. "Robbie you there?"
"What happened?"
"I can't get a signal." Jade grabs him by his collar and pushes Victor agents the wall. "I'll find some rope." I turn around and head to a small closet opposite of the shelf. Pulling the door open I find a small pile of rope near the back corner along with cleaning supplies.
"Found some!" I call back. I hear Jade mumble a fantastic. I take the rope back over to the pair and tie Victor's hands back in a tight complicated knot then we take him along the tunnel. Two of the three frozen workers have left but the one Jade fought is still frozen to the wall. I refreeze him as we continue along. I feel Victor tense up but I continue to shove him along. We wait silently in the parking lot for Beck's car, the armored trucks and police cars. The only information we got out of him is that he's not the leader of the whole operation and that arresting him won't change anything. Beck's car is up first driving in and then the rest of the cars follow. Victor tenses and tries to pull away but I held him back.
"Nice work you two." Sikowitz one of the older agents said.
"Enough with the congratulatory speech. Just take us back to her apartment." Jade says crossing her hands over her chest.
"Congrats you've saved the lives of all the people here." Sikowitz said ignoring Jade completely. "Beck will take you home." He finished taking Victor from us and putting him in the police truck."