Hey guys I know it's been a while since I posted a chapter and I'm super sorry! But here is chapter 27, so enjoy and leave a review! Hopefully I'll have time to write more of my story!
The General was sitting in his office, waiting. He heard footsteps outside.
"Come in," he said before the person had knocked. It was Scarlet. The General grinned. Finally.
"She's strapped in and ready," Scarlet Meadows said. She left the room after that, not waiting for the General to respond. The General found it a little annoying, but didn't mind that much. Normally his assistants stood quivering until he released them.
The General got up and walked briskly down to the Extractor room while turning on his earpiece.
"Members of group 1A, report to the Extractor room," he said just loud enough so the earpiece could pick it up. Then he turned it off again, so his employees would not hear anything they weren't supposed too.
He arrived in the Extractor room and saw Dr. Weigman sweating nervously and huddled over the girl slumped in the chair, knocked out. He was poking her and taking blood samples. The General believed the girls name was Emily, and his agents had found her in a barn in the boundaries of the Anomaly wall. One of his scientists had said that she could teleport other people by changing their surroundings. Sounded useful.
"Quickly, Dr. Weigman," the General said loudly, causing the scientist to flinch and almost stab Emily in the eye with the needle.
"I'm about done, sir. Should I wait until group 1A comes?" Weigman said quickly. He scampered over to the computers and clicked a few buttons.
"Start it now," the General said. He heard footsteps rushing in behind him. Must be group 1A. Sure enough, 20 soldiers came rushing in and sat in their seats.
"Perfect," he said. Dr. Weigman started the Extractor and it moved towards Emily, the needle growing longer. She groggily woke up and started struggling in her chair, screaming as she saw the needle moving towards her. The General chuckled.
The needle pierced Emily in her chest and sunk deeper. Emily's struggling got weaker and soon she slumped over again, this time most likely dead. The Extractor started flashing a green light.
Dr. Weigman squealed. "It's done!"
He ran over to the Extractor, pulled a lever, and then grabbed the 10 bottles that fell out of a tube connected to the machine. The bottles were filled with a thick, dark red liquid. He then connected each bottle to a syringe and scampered over to the soldiers waiting in their chairs. The General noticed they looked nervous. Too late to back out now. Well, technically they never had a choice in the beginning.
Dr. Weigman stuck the syringe into the first person's arm and used half of the liquid. The soldier shuddered and passed out. Dr. Weigman went to the next in line, using the rest of that syringe. He shuddered and passed out as well. Dr. Weigman continued until all members of group 1A were laying on the ground, passed out, and all 10 syringes were empty.
"Now we wait," the General said with a grin.
"So… what do we do?" Diana said cautiously. She had just told everyone what she realized from her dream. They were just staring at her, unable to process what she said.
"That complicates things," Quinn said, but his voice was a pitch too high. Astrid blinked a few times and seemed like she was organizing her thoughts.
"Well, we should lay out everything we know about the General, then," Albert said. Everyone nodded.
"We know he wants to take our powers and make an army, but we don't know what for," Lana supplied.
"Dr. Weigman said something about a war, but a war against who? Or what?" Astrid added.
"I think we can assume he knew the FAYZ was gonna happen," Jack said.
"Wait, why?" Albert said as he squinted at Jack. Albert was also holding a laptop and was typing in all the information supplied about the General.
"Well, don't you remember he joined Coates the year following the meteor crash, after the assistant principal before him mysteriously disappeared?" Jack said. Brianna was about to say something, probably 'Why do you know that?' or 'Duh, that's obviously common knowledge,' but Jack continued before she could. "Also, he already knew to trap the hands and somehow knew all the moofs immediately after we escaped."
Everyone in the HQ was quiet for a minute. Only Jack, Sam, Quinn, Katie, Albert, Brianna, Dekka, Diana, Lana, Caine, Astrid, and Edilio were in the meeting. The rest were outside, playing with Lily or watching Baby Leo, who already looked like he was one year old.
"Since he knows about these… moofs…," Katie started, "Maybe he has more captured. How many more of you are there?"
"Not many, but still a few. It could be bad news, especially if he gets Penny," Sam said.
"What about Lily and the original Leo's mom?" Lana said. "You said that one of your teachers was Ms. Meadows, but that doesn't really fit with what Leo said."
Diana nodded. "Yeah, doesn't make sense. Leo said his mom went missing a week ago, but had gone crazy after their dad died in the war and started to steal stuff. Except she seemed perfectly fine, if not boring."
"Maybe she started to work for the General after her husband died. Or maybe she was working with him from the beginning, as well as her husband. And she just told Leo and Lily that their dad was in a war, but he actually died on a mission the General sent him on," Astrid said with her eyes wide opened.
"Or maybe their dad did die in a war. Except the war Dr. Weigman was talking about," Edilio said quietly.
"And then their mom probably was stealing stuff for the General," Quinn said. "And she left Leo and Lily because the General made her."
"Or she died," Dekka added grimly.
They sat in silence for a while, listening to the muffled sounds of Lily's laughter. It sounded like John and Sanjit were playing tag with her.
"I think we should start thinking of our next move," Albert said, ending the silence. Everyone nodded their heads, but no one supplied any ideas.
They honestly didn't know what to do.