"So, how are things?" Diana asked with a smirk in the back of the army van. The ten of them were all shoved back there. Astrid was shocked and angry at the same time because they weren't allowed to see their parents before they were taken away.
She was also a little relieved. She didn't want to tell them about Petey.
"I'm pretty good. Things could be better, though," Brianna replied with a sarcastic smile.
"What could be better than being crammed in the back of an army truck to be driven to a military base camp where we will be questioned, and then who knows what?" Quinn said sarcastically.
"What's going to happen to us?" Jack asked. Brianna, who was sitting next to him, put an arm around his shoulders.
"It'll be fine. They can't torture us or anything like that," Astrid said.
"I wish our powers would have went away. That's probably why they're taking us. For scientific research. We're all test subjects now," Jack moaned.
"Astrid, Edilio and I don't have a power," Quinn said. "So that can't be the reason.
"Sam and I, er, convinced the soldiers to bring you three along," Jack said sheepishly.
"I'm guessing 'convinced' means fought them until they agreed," Diana said with a smirk. Brianna started laughing.
"Man, I wish I could have seen some big tough army dudes getting a royal butt-kicking by two kids," she said. Almost everyone laughed, and that relieved some tension.
"Yeah, we'll all be fine," Edilio said reassuringly.
"And if things start to get rough, we could always break out. I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard," Sam said with a grin.
"Caine, you're not going to turn against us, are you? Because we should all stick together," Lana said and peered at Caine suspiciously.
Caine didn't answered. He continued to stare gloomily at his feet.
Astrid pursed her lips and was about to say something to Caine, but the vehicle took a sharp turn. Astrid was slammed up against Jack, which she would have preferred to not have happened. After a lot of mumbling and groaning, the ten kids untangled themselves from each other. Now talking was nearly impossible, because the ride just got very bumpy.
"We-e-e-e must be g-o-o-i-i-n-g off ro-o-o-a-d," Jack said as he was being bounced around.
"Tha-a-a-nks-s-s Ca-a-ap-p-ptain Obviou-s-s-s," Diana muttered while trying to stay upright.
The drive got smooth again after far too long. Driving off road through rocky terrain with ten teenagers shoved in the back of an army van was not a good idea.
The truck stopped suddenly, causing the group to lurch forward.
"This dude seriously needs to work on his driving skills," Quinn muttered angrily as he rubbed his head where he accidently hit the side of the car.
Astrid heard car doors opening and slamming, two deep voices talking, and then feet crunching gravel. The back door of the van opened and light shined in. Before Astrid's eyes adjusted to the light, she was gruffly pulled out of the vehicle and dragged across pavement.
"Hey! Hey! Gentle! I'm kinda important, here!" Astrid heard Brianna complaining to the soldiers.
When Astrid's eyes adjusted, she saw a big, intimidating building. Hundreds of army equipment were in the parking lot, and behind Astrid, there was no road.
"Woah, is this area 51?" Quinn asked. Diana rolled her eyes and smirked.
Astrid looked around at her companions. Caine and Dekka were staring moodily at the military base. Brianna had her arms crossed and was giving the soldier holding her a pouting face. Edilio, Quinn, Sam, Diana, and Lana were staring in awe at the sheer size of the building in front of them.
Jack was the only one who didn't have a soldier holding onto him. Astrid guessed none of them wanted to be embarrassingly pinned against the ground, again.
They must have not known yet that Brianna could slap them 20 times before they could blink, Caine could fling them into the air with merely a thought, Sam could blast a white-hot laser through them, and Dekka could cancel gravity beneath their feet.
The soldiers started dragging the nine of them in, with Jack following behind. He had a smug look on his face because he didn't have to be dragged around. Astrid rolled her eyes. She almost even smiled. But then she remembered things were about to get tough.
The end of the FAYZ was just the beginning of a whole new nightmare.