Chapter 18
Jack, Alex and I were sprayed down with chemicals in our suits and the doors opened to let us through.
We walked down a hallway to the testing room and Jack walked right in and hit one guy in the helmet, using a test machine to knock him out.
A second guy came to help his colleague but was knocked to the ground by my running forward and kicking him into the colleague that Jack pushed.
Immediately, Alex went to Sara and I went to Seth as Jack got ready to kick some more butt.
"Come on, come on. Wake up!" I said, struggling with the cuffs around Seth's wrists and ankles.
One man ran over with a baton and hit my in the back of the thigh.
"Ah!" I yelled out in pain and turned around to punch him in the face but met the guy halfway. He caught my fist and twisted my arm behind my back.
"Aaahhhh!!" I yelled and out of the corner of my eye, I saw Seth's body twitch.
The Amoria connection, he could feel my pain!
Jack let out a war cry and slammed the guy who had a hold on me to the ground.
He threw him, and another guy out the glass wall.
Alex pulled out a tube that let out white steam and sprayed it over a third guy as I went back to trying to release Seth and Sara.
Jack grabbed a stool and slammed it into the man and he went flying through the glass as well.
Jack, Alex and I removed our helmets and continued to get the siblings out of their restraints.
Jack and I grabbed little tools and tried to pick the locks on their wrists and ankles and Alex tried looking for something to deactivate the sedatives they had been given.
"What is it?" Jack asked, working on Sara's locks.
"Uh, some sort of Anesthetic." Alex replied.
"Can you fix it?" I asked.
"I don't know, but I can try." Alex said, looking it over again.
After a second more of struggling with the locks, I turned to Jack, "The locks are too strong. I can't get it."
Jack looked up and around to see if anyone was coming back.
"Green is oxygen." Alex muttered, playing with the machine.
"We got to hurry, we got to hurry." Jack said and continued to struggle with the locks and I followed his lead.
In frustration, I put the small tool down and looked up at Seth's face.
He looked so peaceful when sleeping...so angelic...
I felt eyes on me and looked up at Alex, smiling at me. She seemed to have gotten the machine to work and was waiting for something to happen. A sign that it worked.
I blushed and looked down at Seth again.
Suddenly, Seth opened his eyes and took a deep breath.
"Seth!" I said and smiled. His eyes focused on me and he smiled. As in, he really smiled!
His wrists phased through the metal cuffs and he sat up.
"Emily? Alex?" He asked and we nodded.
"It's okay, now. It's okay." I said gently and gave him a hug.
Alex smiled at me from behind Seth and I smiled back.
"Emily. I could feel your pain. Are you alright?" He asked me as I let go of him.
"I'm fine now. Don't worry. We're going to get you and Sara out of here." I replied and he smiled at me again.
And to be honest, that smile was so much better than the one in my dream.
Jack, Alex and I ripped off our monkey-suits and we ran with Seth and Sara back the way we came, through hallway after hallways until we came to a small hatch.
Jack looked through the square window on it and opened it.
He gestured to me first and I went through, beckoning to Seth who came after me, then to Sara.
Alex and Jack followed soon after.
Seth looked at his device and pointed straight ahead.
"It's over there." He said to us.
Jack walked past him and waited for two scientists to walk past above us on a metal platform then beckoned to follow him.
Slowly, we made our way to the stairs to the platform the scientists were just walking on and once we got there, we hid behind some boxes and looked over at a...my eyes widened...
A huge Spaceship!!
I looked at Seth and Sara who looked beyond excited, "That's your ship?"
They nodded, "It's amazing!" I exclaimed and they smiled at me.
Sara turned to Jack, "We have to hurry."
"Well, tell them that." He replied.
"Good idea." Alex said and began to walk down the steps again, grabbing a spare lab coat that was sitting there.
Jack and I looked at each other in bewilderment and raced down to go get her.
"Wait!" Jack whisper yelled.
He stopped when Alex threw her jacket at him.
I raced back to the boxes to watch her strut her stuff over to the scientists.
"Excuse me!" She called out and everyone turned to her, "Do you not hear the alarms? Work in this sector is to cease immediately. We have off-the-chart readings of sodium hypochlorite, xenon, hydrazine, and you don't even want to know how bad the gamma radiation is." Alex said and I raised my eyebrows, impressed.
"But you're gonna have to do some serious, and I mean serious, scrubbing down."
"Who are you?" One man asked her but immediately regretted it at her response.
"Who am I? Who am I? I'll tell you who I am. I am your worst nightmare at a court-martial, soldier. Now, you can either do as your told, or I can go tell Henry Burke you disobeyed his direct orders. Your call. Choose wisely." Alex said.
Ten minutes later, all the scientists had evacuated the sector and it was just us.
"Nice going Doctor." I praised Alex and she chuckled.
Seth and Sara walked up the the hem of the ship and after a moment, Seth placed his device onto it and the bottom ring of the ship lit up, the engine started and the doors opened.
Sara and Seth came over and stood in front of us as we all started in awe at their spaceship.
A bright white light formed from the door to the ground and Seth took my hand and lead me on it with Sara and Jack and Alex followed.
We made it halfway up when we heard the sounds of guns cocking and we all turned around.
"Thank you!" The leader, who I now understood was Mr Henry Burke, said, "We were having a hard time figuring that part out."
Seth immediately put his arm out in front of me protectively and Sara was protected by Jack.
I looked at Sara helplessly, asking her to do something in my mind but she shook her head slightly.
Jack stepped forward.
"Jack." Alex and I said at the same time.
"A brave but empty gesture, Mr Bruno." Burke said.
"They're just kids." Jack shot back.
Seth suddenly stepped forward and stood beside Jack, taking his hand. I didn't hesitate to follow his lead and intertwined my hand with his. Sara stepped forward and locked hands with Jack's other hand and Alex took my other hand.
We stood together, glaring at the men in front of us, ready to shoot.
Suddenly, every one of them opened fire and Alex, Jack and I ducked from the bullets.
But it didn't hurt. Every bullet hit us and broke on impact.
I held on tight to Seth's hand and he squeezed mine, looking away from the guns and down at me, smiling softly while jutting his chest out, activating his power. I looked back up at his electric blue eyes and saw...
Love.
"Hold your fire! Hold your fire!" Burke screamed at his men and Alex and Jack checked themselves for any injuries but found none.
I looked up at Seth again and smiled, "You just saved us." I whispered.
"Of course. You, your uncle and Alex mean a lot to my sister and I. Especially you." He whispered back and then we faced the men again and glared right at them.
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