Chapter 16
The drive back was scary, well scary to watch more than anything. Digger drove well and not too outrageous, unlike his mates who were pulling stunts whilst throwing themselves over snow dunes. "So Blinx" Digger said this loud enough for her to hear but not too loud so the others could "How'd you come up with that?" she looked in the direction of the other three. Aerrow was clinging for life to one of the other drivers as the accelerator was put to the floor while the final flipped over the top of them nearly ramming into Digger and herself, Digger slamming the brakes just in time. "It just came to me in the heat of the situation" she finally said "Why didn't you tell them the truth?" she buried her head into his back again "I don't know what they know about me. I couldn't tell them who I was; I don't know what they would do then. Also it keeps me off Cyclonian radar" he gave a nod "Clever"
"Thank you"
'But maybe too clever for my own good' her mind wandering back to what Finn had said earlier.
"Is the princess feeling any warmer eh?" a voice close to them yelled over the engine rev.
Her face deadpanned as she looked at the source "And your name is?" His grin was lopsided as he answered "Billy Rex"
She smirked 'Billy and Mandy! I am such a child...'
"Can I call you Rex?" his grin never faltered "I'm not a dog eh"
"Could've fooled me, you're as excitable as one!" he gave a cheeky grin and zoomed on ahead again, Digger grinned as well "We'll be there in a minute" he muttered
As they entered the village one (or maybe two) of the Blizzarians howled, no doubt to let Piper and their leader know they were back. They pulled up in front of an ice hut, Blinx thought that it looked colder in there than it did outside and she wasn't wrong.
She followed Aerrow in and chose to stand when she was offered a seat at a table (ice chairs and all) she wasn't going to risk her liver freezing. "So what can you tell us about your time at Cyclonia? Do you know if they're planning anything big?" Aerrow questioned "I can't tell you if they're planning anything eh" Digger answered "I was made to work at the mining area of the Terra. I'm not sure what we were mining for, if we were mining for anything. Other than that we were kept in the cells day and night" Aerrow put on his thinking face "That doesn't give us much insight. Blinx, what about you?" she breathed in slowly "I wasn't made to work in the mining areas. I worked as a cleaner. I actually heard some of the Talons talking about a new lab being built. Maybe that's where umm..." she looked over to Digger pretending not to know him and he replied the same as when they had first met "Digger"
"Digger was working." Aerrow looked at her curious "Do you know what sort of lab?"
'Yes'
"No. Sorry"
"That's alright. We'll find out eventually. Also, do either of you know anything about a new person in Cyclonia? When I last fought Dark Ace, he said he was searching for Cyclonis' sister who had gone missing at the same time as the escape mission" Blinx tried to slow her beating heart by taking a few deep breaths, but it hadn't gone unnoticed by the long ears in the room. Digger looked at her from his spot at the table as did the others; well Aerrow looked around at the others then let his line of vision land on her. Blinx hesitated for a moment "I had a run in with her once. She's not nice. I think she may be worse than Cyclonis, but where Cyclonis is sociopathic and narcissistic, she's clever and cautious. She'd be more like a Ninja that would kill you softly" Aerrow didn't seem to understand her words but she hoped that it would convince him that it wasn't her. He turned to Digger "Did you ever meet this girl?" Digger only shook his head "Blinx did you catch the name of this girl?" at that precise moment Finn and Junko entered the small ice hut. Finn answered his questioned "Angelique. The name of Cyclonis' sister, Angelique"
'I'm doomed! Great, now I sound like Stork!'