The General watched the kids run towards the door.
"What are our orders, sir?" one of his agents asked him.
"Separate them," the General said. Then he aimed his gun at the slowest girl's leg and fired.
Dekka was the last one through the door. Or at least she would have been if she wasn't shot in her thigh. Dekka screamed and fell down.
"Help!" she screamed. Jack was the only one who heard her and quickly ran back to her.
"Where are you hurt?" he asked worriedly.
"My thigh. Now hurry up and pick me up, they're coming!" Dekka said through gritted teeth. Jack carefully scooped her up and started running back out the door.
Suddenly, Brianna was there.
"Are you okay, Dekka!" she cried. Dekka nodded.
"Keep running, Breeze," she said. Brianna shook her head.
"I'm going to stay with you like how you stayed with me," she said, which made Dekka smile.
Jack continued running, following far behind the others. Brianna trotted beside them. Soon they reached a fork in the hallway. Everyone in front of the three of them turned left. But before Jack could catch up, agents blocked the left. Jack, Brianna, and Dekka had no choice but to run to the right.
"It's a dead end!" Dekka cried out. Jack stopped running and gently put Dekka down. He started breaking an opening through the wall. Sunlight streaked in.
"Brianna, trip the people that are coming or something!" Dekka yelled. Brianna nodded and disappeared in a breeze. The men that were racing towards the three kids found themselves sprawled across the floor after tripping over a foot that seemed to appear out of nowhere, and then were punched several times before they could process what happened. Brianna appeared next to Dekka again.
"Okay, let's go. We'll catch up with the others later," Jack said and picked Dekka back up. He accidently touched her bullet wound, making Dekka flinch. "Sorry."
Jack started running in his weird way after that, with Brianna only having to slow down a little.
Drake heard a commotion going on.
My little playmates must have escaped, he thought to himself. He decided he would wait for them. Wait right where they were heading.
Sam was sprinting down the hallway, not knowing where the others were. He was in front of everyone else. Soon he burst through the front door and saw a car racing towards the building. Sam hoped it was Astrid, Quinn, and Edilio.
Sam glanced behind him. The agents were still in pursuit of him, and there was no sign of the other kids. Sam cursed. The car pulled up next to him and Quinn threw open the back door.
"Get in!" Quinn said. Sam hesitated at first, looking back at the front door.
"We'll keep circling the building for the rest, but get in Sam!" Astrid screamed. Sam complied and the car started driving before the door was shut.
They would have circled the building to wait for the others, if the fleet of army trucks didn't start chasing them. Edilio, who was driving, muttered some rude words aimed towards whoever was driving those army trucks.
"We have to go, Sam. The others will be fine. If we don't go we'll die," Edilio said. Sam gritted his teeth.
"We'll find them again as soon as possible," Sam said. Edilio sharply turned away from the building, causing Sam to crash against Quinn.
"Well, I guess it's us four again, for now," Quinn said once they left the other trucks in the dust. Then they drove in silence until they stopped at an abandoned barn.
Taylor was running besides Katie. She couldn't teleport away because the agents had had her blindfolded when they dragged her in. She tried teleporting back to the DeSales island, but it seemed she could only teleport within a certain radius. So she was stuck in her cell until Katie rescued her.
Taylor glanced behind her and saw Caine, Diana, and Lana. She saw no sign of Jack, Dekka, and Brianna, they must have lost them at the fork.
Taylor could no longer see Sam ahead of her. She was too busy gaping at who had blocked them from sprinting outside. Drake. They turned around, only to realize the five of them were surrounded with agents aiming guns at them.
"Long time no see, Diana, Lana, and Taylor," Drake said while smiling a shark grin. He looked at Katie. "Who are you?"
"Um-" Katie started. Drake interrupted.
"Nevermind, I don't care. Just more people to whip, in my opinion," he said. His whip twitched as he started walking in circles around them. Like a hawk circling a mouse.
Taylor noticed a fire alarm behind Drake. Taylor bounced there, pulled the fire alarm, and bounced back to where she was before Drake noticed. The alarm started blaring and a bright red light flashed. It caught all the agents by surprised, allowing the five kids to run out the door. Caine telepathically chucked Drake against the wall for good measure.
The five kids got into the first car with a key they could find. Then they drove off, not knowing where the other seven went.
"We'll go back to find them," Katie said. Lana nodded her head.
"I hope they're all okay," she said. Taylor smirked.
"Worried about Quinn?" she said. That earned her a elbow to the ribs from Lana.
"Stop fighting. I- I have something important to say," Diana said. "I'm… I'm going to have a… baby."
It took a while for the kids in the car to process that.