Jack was working on the Extractor in his room. The General didn't trust him completely, so he locked Jack up with the machine instead of letting him work in the Extractor room. Or the lab. Jack was a little disappointed, because he figures there would be all kinds of high-tech gear in the lab. Like everything from the Spy Kids movies. Jack could have stolen so much advanced gear he wouldn't even have to use his power. Which is probably why the General didn't let him go in there.
Jack heard a knock on the door that made him jump. Usually the General or someone the General sent to get him didn't knock, they just barged in, hopeful to catch him doing something he wasn't supposed to.
"Um, come in?" Jack said. The door opened and Katie walked in. Jack breathed a sigh of relief.
"So, you convinced him?" Katie said. Jack nodded.
"Good, Astrid's glad. I would put her in your ear but it might break your eardrums. She really didn't have a whole lot of faith in you," Katie added. Jack shrugged, he didn't have a whole lot of faith in himself.
"Is everyone else okay?" he asked while working on the Extractor.
"Yeah, I checked on them. Except there's one more person I need to check on, a mystery girl that wasn't with us before," Katie said. Jack stopped working and turned around.
"A girl who's a moof?" he said to himself. "It could be Taylor, Penny, Sinder, Emily, or Jill."
Jack saw Katie nodding to pretend she understood, so he added, "Taylor can teleport, Penny can make you see visions, Sinder can make plants grow, Emily can change the surroundings around you or something like that, and Jill can make everyone stop what they're doing by singing."
"Ah, yes," Katie said. "Well, I better go see who it is. Good luck with what you have to do next."
"Bye," Jack said as she left. He was sad that she was going, he didn't like being all alone. And he wished he could of had an earpiece, but the General would have noticed it.
Jack went back to work on the Extractor, until realizing he was done. The Extractor was fixed. Any minute now the General would come in and take him to the Extractor room. Jack resisted the urge to smash it against the wall. He couldn't fail the plan, not when everyone was so close to escaping.
Sure enough, two agents walked in and asked if Jack was finished yet. Jack gulped and nodded his head. Jack watched as they struggled to lift up the Extractor. He wouldn't offer to help, maybe they would accidently drop it. But then it would take that much longer for Brianna and the others to get out of here. Jack still didn't offer to help the agents carry the Extractor as they walked to the Extractor room, it was fun to watch.
Sam was sitting against the wall on the floor when an agent burst through the door.
"Your appointments with the Extractor has been rescheduled. It's now," he said with a grin. Caine stared at him.
"Only one? Sir, we are highly dangerous juveniles, it says so on our cards. It literally says 'Highly Dangerous Juvenile.' And I'm pretty sure if you scan the barcode, it says 'Shoot first, think later.' So I demand to have more than one scrawny agent carry me to my death," he said. Dekka and Sam almost smiled. The man stared at Caine and held up a strange material.
"I'm pretty sure once I wrap your hands in this you will just be a juvenile," he sneered. Caine stared daggers at him as the agent wrapped all three pairs of hands in the material. Then the agent started prodding them out the door through the hallway. Sam saw the agent was wearing a watch. It was 2:15pm.
Lana was sulking in her cell when the agents came to get them. That wasn't supposed to happen yet. Katie was supposed to check back first.
"Astrid, agents are here and Katie hasn't checked back," Lana whispered as quietly as she could. Lana heard Astrid curse.
"Just go along with it, only a minor setback," Astrid said.
"Sorry, I'm checking on who the other girl is right now," Lana heard Katie say. "They're a bit early, aren't they?"
"Yeah, a bit early," Lana whispered with a frown.
"Let's go, girls," the man who entered their room said with a sneer. "Time to give your powers away."
Brianna looked like she was about to start a fight, so Lana elbowed her. They were supposed to come quietly. Brianna stuck out her lower lip to make a pouting face at Lana. Lana rolled her eyes.
"Come on now, get a move on. Don't make me start to use force to get you there," the agent said. The three girls stood up and started walking to the Extractor room.
Caine, Sam, and Dekka were already there.
"How's it been?" Sam asked when the three girls walked in. That earned him a knee in the stomach from the man holding onto him.
Lana looked around and saw Jack quivering by the computers. He tried not to make eye contact with any of them.
It didn't take long for the General to walk in. He was wearing an outfit similar to what the Men In Black would wear; a black suit and sunglasses.
What surprised Lana was Dr. Weigman, who was stumbling along behind the General. She glanced at Jack, who had somehow gone paler than he already was.
"Tie him up," the General said to some of his employees. They nodded and headed over towards Jack.
"Um, what?" Jack said, slowly backing up. The General laughed.
"Did you honestly think I believed you?" he said. "I just decided to use you to make the Extractor better. And now you can be the first to test it out. I'm sure Cameron, no matter how incompetent he is, can figure out how to work your Extractor. Oh, and I hope you're smart enough to know that if you struggle, the agent holding the fast girl has a knife he would use without hesitation."
"My name is Carter, and no offence taken," Dr. Weigman said. The General stared at him with a look that said that-was-meant-to-be-offensive-you-imbecile.
Jack looked over towards Brianna, noticing that the person holding her was showing off a knife while he smiled. Jack sagged his shoulders and walked over to the chair himself.
"It's a trap," Lana whispered as quietly as she could. Astrid, Edilio, and Quinn started yelling profanity.
"Oh, and Dr. Wideman, the first thing I would do is disconnect their earpieces," the General said and locked eyes with Lana.
"Weigman. And I'm on it!" Dr. Weigman squealed giddily. He started typing on the computer and soon all Lana could hear was static.
"Good, now start the Extractor," the General barked. Dr. Weigman was about to until Brianna interrupted.
"Wait!" she cried. Everyone in the room turned to her with shocked expressions. Brianna put on an innocent smile. "Aren't you going to explain your evil plan to us? All the good villains do that, you know."
The General narrowed his eyes. "Don't think you can easily trick me into stalling, The Breeze. I do not fall for stupid tricks. You don't even know who I am. And once I get all of your powers and transfer them into my soldiers, I'll be able to take over. So no, i'm not falling for your tricks."
"Well, I beg to differ, but it seems like you kinda just did," a voice said from behind them. Lana whipped around and saw Katie, with Taylor behind her.
Taylor started bouncing behind each moof, unbinding their hands then bouncing away again. Jack jumped from his chair and ran to the computers, shoving Dr. Weigman out of the way. He started typing until Lana heard the static stop and Astrid started screaming in her earpiece again.
"We have to go, now! Forget the plan! Just sprint out as fast as possible! Drake is free!" Astrid yelled.
The kids bolted for the door and were halfway out of the building before things started to get worse.