Chapter 32:

Ross's POV

I opened my eyes. I could see out one eye, but the other one had blood covering it. I squeezed my eye shut when the blood touched it. I gingerly tried to bring my hand to my head, but remembered that Edililo had it tinfoiled me. I got up and looked around, where town hall once stood grand, in its place was a blackened pile rubble. There was a fire raging through the hardware store. I could hear people talking, even though my ears were ringing, I hope they weren't damaged. Suddenly I was on the floor and a shooting pain shot up the back of my legs.

"What the hell was that Ross!" Sam demanded.

"What? What was what?" I said still trying to get everything together.

"Trying to kill me! Shooting a missile at town!"

"You think I shot the missile at town! Where would I even get missiles in this hell hole!" I demanded, getting back up.

"If it wasn't you then who was it? Daniel, Drake, Barbara.."

"Don't you blame Barbara for this!" I shouted.

"Who did it then! He demanded again.

"I don't know! Drake probably. All I know is that I saw Albert dead on the ground and Daniel standing there with a gun in his hand and laughing at the incoming missile!" I said. Sam's face went pale when he heard about Albert.

"Albert's dead."

"Ya. But it wasn't me Sam! And I wasn't going to kill you. I just wanted you to know that I am not helping you in this crap! You were going to kill Caine! And I know if you could have gotten up you would have killed me too!" I said to him.

"Turn around Ross." He ordered.

"What. You want me to turn around. What you want to walk ten paces then draw our hands and shoot!" I said beginning to lose my temper.

"Just turn around Ross!" He shouted.

I swore at him and turned around. To my surprise though he unwrapped my hands.

"Don't make me regret this. Where's Albert"s body." He said.

I walked over to where I last saw him, wiped blood of my forehead. I looked down. There was a pile of rubble where Albert was. Sam called for Dekka, who'd had her stomach healed. She scowled at me and cut the gravity from the rubble was. It lifted off the ground and high into the air. And sure enough under it all was Albert's dead body. I looked away and took another look around. The plaza was destroyed. From the damage me, Sam and Caine caused and the damage the missile had done, it looked like a war zone, which it probably was at that point. I loomed around even more, kids were flooding in from all corners to look at what had happened while they slept. Edililo, Jack, Orc and Sanjit were keeping kids away from the destruction of the plaza. I saw Lana sitting on a stool looking tired, she must have had to heal lots of injures from the lot of us. Ellen the fire chief was trying her best to stop the hardware store fire from spreading. I scanned the crowd for Barbara, she wasn't there..yet.

"So Daniel did this." Sam said to me snapping me out of my trance.

"We destroyed this place." I muttered,

"Ya, we did. Ross, we need to work together. For now away. That cut on your head is pretty bad."

"Huh, really." I said, putting my hand to my head. I winced as I touched it.

"Come on, I have something to tell you." He said as we walked over to Lana.

"What is it." I said yawning.

"Hey guys what's up!" Brianna said running over over to us.

"Any Drake, Daniel or Diana." Sam asked as Lana healed my head.

"So, you nearly took out Sam and Caine?" She asked as she put her hands on my head.

"Well, ya I suppose. But I wasn't going to kill them. I just don't like being used by them." I said to her.

"You have to pick a side. In here there are two sides, Gaia or Sam. Simple as that. And believe me Sam is the better option. Done" she said.

"...has gone transparent again!" Sam said.

"Ya, what will we do. Albert and Astrid are dead now, Astrid was the smart on e and Albert got people to work. What will we do now. " Brianna said to Sam.

"I don't know, but for now try to get as many people to work as you can." Sam said as Brianna ran off.

"Ross, I have something to tell you. But you have to promise not to run off when i tell you." Sam said turning back to me.

"Ya. Ok so, what is it." I said suddenly listening.

"Barbara's gone. She isn't at home anymore. We think that she was either kidnapped or shot the missile." Sam said sullenly.

"Daniel.," I snarled. I then got up and ran away from Sam and towards the highway...