welp. i hope you like it. it gets a little sad. R&R
Sam was waiting in the front of the barn. He could feel the adrenaline start to pump as he saw headlights in the distance. He checked his watch. 11:45pm. He quickly glance behind him to check if everyone was in place. He couldn't tell, it was too dark. Sam guessed he would just have to hope.
The cars screeched to a stop. Sam put his arms up, surrendering.
"Take me, but leave everyone else," he yelled out to him. He heard someone laugh.
"Yeah, sure kid. Of course we'll do that," someone yelled back at him. "Put your hands behind your back or we'll shoot."
Sam complied. He waiting with baited breath until they reached the line drawn in the dirt by Jack.
"NOW!" he yelled. Jack, who was in the barn, triggered the trap he rigged up. gallons of paint exploded from beneath a tarp that was hidden by the night. Sam saw the number of people coming towards him double as their location was given away.
Sam didn't hesitate but took off. He ran faster than he could imagine, because when he yelled it was also the cue for Leo to transfer Brianna's speed to him. As he ran, he aimed his light beams at the soldiers' legs, instantly incapacitating all of them. Sam hadn't planned on that ending the battle. Sure enough, more where coming out of the cars. He quickly spread small balls of light around the barn before he signaled for Leo to return the powers to Brianna. Brianna zipped up to Sam.
"What's the plan, boss?" she said. Sam nodded towards the people rushing towards them.
"You know the drill," he said. Brianna held up her wire and smiled. She was gone before he even blinked. Sam assumed it was because she had started to run, until he heard her scream.
"Brianna?" Sam yelled. One of the soldiers had her in a headlock.
"He teleported me over here! Like a reverse-Taylor!" she yelled. The man holding her hit her over the head and she crumpled to the ground. Sam cursed.
"Brianna!" Dekka yelled. She started sprinting over.
"Stop! Don't!" Sam ordered, but it was too late. Dekka was teleported over to point-blank range of a machine gun. The man holding it swung the gun against her temple and she fell to the ground. Sam cursed again and ran backwards towards the barn while shooting his deadly beam.
"We need a new attack plan," Sam yelled. "Jack, barricade the door! Fast!"
Jack leaped over to the door and closed it, stacking boxes in front of it.
"What's going on?" Astrid said. "Do they have a power we don't know of?"
"Brianna said they teleported her over to them, like a reverse of Taylor's power," Sam explained. Caine cursed.
"They must have kidnapped that Emily girl," he said. Diana gasped.
"I completely forgot about her," she said. Sam was going to ask them to explain, but he heard a pounding on the doors.
"Guys…." Jack whimpered.
"Just keep holding them off," Sam said. He needed to think of something. Fast.
"Is there any downsides, anything? There has to be a weakness," he said, mostly talking to himself.
"I can think of one," Sanjit said. Sam looked up at him, surprised.
"Great! What is it?"
"You aren't going to like it."
"Why?"
"Because whoever does it will probably die," Sanjit finished grimly.
Sanjit was ready to walk out the barn doors. Ready to face his fate. Ready to help save his friends.
It took a lot of arguing, yelling, and persuading to make them agree with him. Finally they did. Finally they realized he was the most logical option. He was the only one that wasn't needed. Of course, everyone argued against that. He eventually convinced them to let him do this. It wasted valuable time.
Sanjit straightened his baggy jacket that he tried to fit over the equipment so it would be some sort of a surprise to them. He glanced at Lana. She was crying.
"Don't worry, I can't be vinced," he said to Lana with a sad smile. He nodded to Jack, who shoved the door opened a crack so he could step outside. Immediately, he was transported right in front of one of the soldiers.
Sanjit opened his baggy jacket and saw the fear in the man's eyes.
Jack had wired a makeshift bomb to Sanjit's chest. Sanjit pressed the trigger.
The last thing he thought of was the irony that he had narrowly avoided a car bomb in Thailand so long ago, only to be blown up by a bomb now.
Sam heard the explosion and grimaced. It wasn't huge, because it was made in ten minutes out of bottles, spare wires, and gas, but it still did it's job. Sam peaked out and saw three-fourths of the soldiers gone.
Maybe they had a chance after all.
Sam took stock of what they had. Brianna and Dekka captured. Sanjit dead. Caine and himself were the only ones who could fight without guns, maybe Jack.
"Caine, are they out of your range? Could you telepathically steal their guns?" Sam asked. Caine shook his head.
"Already tried. They're too far away."
Sam cursed.
"Leo, could you still transfer Brianna's power while she's unconscious?" Sam asked. Leo shook his head. He looked like he was 11 now.
"They're either too far or she has to be awake," he said.
"Well, sorry to point out the obvious, but I think we are just about defeated," Diana said.
Sam saw Katie watching him, expectant. He nodded. Katie walked over to the corner and took out her iPhone.
"I'm going to go down fighting," Caine said.
"Why don't I break apart pieces of the barn, Sam lights it on fire, and you chuck it at them?" Jack asked. Sam sighed.
"It'll be our Hail Mary," he said bitterly. Their plan had gone so well, and now it seemed foolish to think it would have ever worked.
Before the three boys stepped outside, they heard one of the men yell.
"If you try anything other than surrender, both of these girls die!" he yelled. Jack and Sam immediately stopped in their tracks. Caine sighed.
"Seriously? You are going to stop for two girls? You are going to give everyone up just for two people?" he said angrily.
"Yes, because I don't want anyone else to die for me," Sam snapped back. Jack nodded his head.
Sam thought he saw Caine's eyes soften, but they went back to angry too quickly to tell. "Fine," he said.
"Come out with your hands on top of your head!" the man yelled. They all complied and were handcuffed, gagged, and thrown into the trucks. It was a short but depressing ride to the base camp of the General.
They were recklessly shoved across the pavement and through the hallways, where the occasional person would glance down and snicker, or say "It's about time."
The 14 kids were dragged right pass the cells and straight to the Extractor room. The General was there waiting.
"We meet again," he said as he looked over each person. He frowned as he came across Leo. Sam realized with a start that he has never seen Leo before.
"You can take off your sunglasses now. We all know who you are, General. Or should I say, the Gaiaphage," Astrid snarled at him, somehow getting the gag out of her mouth. The General merely chuckled and took his sunglasses off. The were radiant green.
"That took longer than I expected. You're slacking," he taunted. "Let Drake watch over the ones he requested. You know the drill."
Several of the men dragged the children to different locations. Brianna, Diana, and Astrid went to a room next to the door in which they all entered. Sam felt a chill down his spine as he heard a familiar laugh. Caine, Dekka, and Jack started to struggle.
"If you struggle, I'll go straight to killing your friends without powers," the General said dangerously. "Scarlet, take the non-mutants into the other room."
Sam flinched. It was Lily's mom. He glanced over and noticed that Lily wasn't with them. She must have been brought to a room where she was safe. Sam wanted to yell to Scarlet but couldn't get the gag out of his mouth. He watched as Edilio, Quinn, John, Katie, and Leo were dragged into the room next to the one Drake was in. Sam realized that the General didn't know Leo had a power.
"And finally, I can create my army," the General said.