Chapter 10. Hostile

I focused my powers onto something that could do a lot more damage, the drill. I didn't move it yet but if I did move into, it would be ploughed through them. "Looks like all your kids have a little something extra." Mrs. Wilder said while looking at us in shock.

"Not Gert, all right? She's just a regular kid." Mr. Yorke said to her, but that ended when Gert's friend came to join us.

"Disobeyed me. Good call." Gert said with a smile, I would look but I was scared that the drill might shift.

"That could've only come from one place." Mrs. Minoru said before looking at the Yorkes.

"I've been meaning to bring you all up to speed on that." Mrs. Yorke said, I saw that Mr. Yorke had a gun.

"I got this." He said while pointing it at the dinosaur.

"No!" Gert shouted but it was too late.

"Fine, if that's how they wanna play, then let's bring it!" Chase said before using his weapon. I detached myself from the drill and decided to focus on a collection of rocks. Of course we couldn't do anything because Nico didn't have the staff. I decided to see if I could lift multiple things at once and I could. I collection of rocks floated up. I decided to keep them in the air until we got the staff back. Or until they were distracted. Karolina stood forward and started shooting whatever it was out of her hands, this was a good time to throw the rocks. I do so but it did nothing.

"Karolina." Mrs. Dean said.

"I can help her, so can you Y/n." Molly said before she ran off to the side, I followed her. She went over the barrels. She lifted one up and I did the same. Something happened and me and Molly fell to the ground.

"Molly, are you okay?" I asked her while turning my head.

"I think so. Are you okay?" She said to me.

"Yeah, I think I'm okay." I said while nodding, I looked over to our parents and saw someone I'd never seen before.

"Chase, run!" I heard Mrs. Stein call out. We're we in danger.

"Jonah, stop!" Mrs. Minoru said, he had a name. "Let's try to reason with them." She added, her staff was blown out of her hands. I stood up and I pulled Molly up as well.

"Tina!" Mr. Minoru said, making sure his wife was ok.

"Y/n, you need to get out of here!" Dad shouted at me, I couldn't. Not yet at least.

"I swear, Jonah, if you hurt my son- -!" Mr. Wilder said to him with anger.

"Geoffrey, please." Mrs. Wilder said trying to calm her husband.

"Jonah, this isn't necessary. Please." Mrs. Dean said to Jonah, I watched as his hand glowed like Karolina's. I watched as he knocked my friends down.

"No!" I shouted, I lifted up two barrels this time. We all walked alongside each other, I let go of the barrels and they felt either side of our parents. Jonah stood forwards once we stopped.

"You guys have to go. He came for me." Karolina said while nodding at us.

"What?" Alex asked her in disbelief.

"Are you crazy?" Chase asked her.

"I'm not leaving you behind." I said while looking at her.

"No, we're not leaving you." Nico said to us, I shook my head at Karolina.

"I'll hold him off and I'll meet you outside, okay? It's the only way." Karolina told us, so she was already going to hurt my best friend. I know that something happened between them and if they were dating now or whatever, Karolina was already breaking Nico's heart.

"Don't do This, please, I'm begging you! You can't do this alone!" Nico said to her, Karolina looked at me.

"Go! Go!" She said to us.

"I'm not leaving you." Nico told her, I knew what I had to do.

"Told you to go. Go. Nico, go. You have to go. Y/n, take her with you, carry her if you have to." Karolina said to us, Nico looked at me. I grabbed her hand and we both ran.

"Nico, remember Karolina is strong. She's gonna come back to us alive. Don't worry about her." I said to her as we were running. The fence was clanking as we ran by it. We looked into the site.

"God! Who the hell is that guy?" Alex asked us, the was a huge power surge heading our way and we all screamed. Before ducking behind a car. It hit the cables above us and they all sparked. I had my arms over my head. Once it was over I lowered them. This was like a nightmare only worse because it was reality. My breathing was all shaky, I needed to think of something positive. Just think about puppies or think about your celebrity crush.

"Maybe Karolina won." Gert said with a smile, hopefully.

"Then where is she?" Nico asked, we all stood up and Gert tried the keys in the car.

"Car's dead." She said nervously.

"This has got to be the worst thing ever." I said while looking behind.

"So are these." Chase said about his fistigons.

"An EMP, it fried everything." Alex said, could anything else go wrong.

"Oh, my God, stop talking about how everything is fried. And dead right now, please!" Nico said, I sat next to her. She always knew that she could cry on me or whatever.

"Hey, maybe Karolina's okay. Maybe she escaped." Gert said to her, she needed to stop talking.

"To where?" Nico asked her.

"Maybe she's hiding." Gert said to her.

"Gert, you're making her feel worse." I said to her. Gert nodded, Nico began standing up.

"I just, I can't take this anymore. I'm going back." She said before walking away.

"Come on, Nico. You've gotta be smart. I mean, look at us." Alex said. She looked at all of us.

"Yeah. We're missing someone!" She said before walking away. I looked at Chase quickly.

"Chase, if I don't come back, just know that I love you so much. But I have to help my friends and I hope that you can forgive me if something bad happens to me." I said before kissing him, he kissed me back.

"I love you to but please be careful." He said to me worriedly.

"When am I ever careful." I said before running after Nico. We both stood by the opening in the fence.

"We have to find the kids." I think Mr. Wilder said.

"Let's go." Mrs. Dean said, where was Karolina. We both ran from the fence and went to where the others were.

"Guys! Guys!" We both shouted as we ran over to them.

"They're coming!" Nico said to them.

"Go, go, go, go!" Gert said and we all started running. We walked for hours upon hours and my legs were aching. What did help was my ankles were starting to hurt.

"I'm hungry. I'm so hungry, guys." Molly said to us.

"So am I. I'm so hungry I feel like I'm gonna throw up." I said while linking arms with Molly.

"Let's try and find a liquor store or something." Alex said, could we get some alcohol. I have my fake ID on me.

"Sounds nourishing." Gert said sarcastically. My feet felt like they were gonna come off.

"I'm more concerned how hungry she is." Chase said meaning Gert's pet. A cop car stopped by us. Had someone mentioned us to the cops.

"Just relax. Nothing going on here." Alex said to us, I lifted my leg up to look at my foot. It looked awful. My it was red on some parts where I'm guessing my heel had been rubbing.

"We have to get off the streets." Nico said.

"More importantly we need to change. If our parents have gone to the cops and described what we're wearing, they're going to be able to find us if we look like this." I said to them while motioning towards my dress. Alex was looking at something, he was looking at the observatory. We started our way over to it. Worse thing was, no we never took a trail to the top, we walked up there like idiots. I had to hold onto Chase the whole time because I was still wearing my heels. I couldn't stop thinking about Karolina.

"What are we supposed to do now?" Nico asked when we got to the top, most of us were carrying blankets that we found. I was never going to wear heels again.

"Oh, I can't think. I need sleep." Alex said tiredly. I felt so tired. Chase had told me on the way up that my eyes had gone back to normal, which as a good thing.

"Who the hell can sleep?" Chase asked us all, I could because I was exhausted.

"Actually, I'm still a little wiped out." Molly said to us.

"I feel like I'm going to pass out anytime soon." I said before resting my head on Chase's shoulder.

"And when we wake up? What happens then?" Gert asked, we save Karolina and then go our own separate ways out of town.

"We get out of town." "We save Karolina." Nico and Alex said at the same time. Both of them were right.

"Wait, you'd seriously leave without her?" Nico asked him, he sighed at her.

"Look, Nico, we don't know where she is or how she is." Alex said to her, but we still shouldn't leave without her.

"Or if...she still even is." Gert said to us, she wasn't helping at all.

"Look, I'm sorry, but we have to do what's best for the group." Alex said to us.

"No, I say we have to think about each other." Nico said to us.

"I think that we should find Karolina then get out of town." I said while trying not to fall asleep.

"If it was me in her place, I'd want you guys to go." Chase said to us, but I wouldn't go. If he was in that position I would try all I could to find him and then once we were both together that's when I would leave.

"Well, if it was you in her place, we would. I mean I would have to force Y/n to come with us but we would go. But it's not. Remember? It's Karolina, okay? She did everything she could to protect us." Nico said to us, I nodded. I agreed with everything she said.

"That's true. Last night, Karolina could've saved herself, but she didn't." Molly said, that was true. She sacrificed herself for us?

"I see what's happening here. I like it." Gert said to us.

"Screw it. Me too." Chase said making me smile. I knew I could count on him.

"Okay. We look for her." Alex said to us, Gert's Dino growled.

"Shh! Quiet, girl." Gert whispered to it. Chase wrapped both the blankets that he had around me.

"I really need to get out of this dress." I said while looking at Chase.

"And you will soon." He said to me, with a smile. We walked to the nearest thrift store.

"So we're going undercover. Try this." Nico said while handing me and Chase some clothes.

"Thanks." Me and Chase said to her. She knew me too well. It was the perfect outfit for me. I didn't understand what anyone would throw it away.

"I'll be back." I said before going over to where there were glasses, I was hoping that there would be contacts but there weren't so, I grabbed a pair of nice glasses. I walked over to where Nico, Molly and Chase were and put them on. I looked good. In the shades at least.

"The struggle is real." Molly said to us, I nodded.

"But at least we're making the most of it." I said before going into the changing room and putting on the outfit that Nico chose for me.

"So, how do I look?" I asked looking at them all.

"You look great." Nico said to me.

"Does anyone know where I can get some scissors or something, so I can cut my hair." I said to them.

"You are not cutting your hair." Chase said to me, we all paid. I decided to trade my heels and got a pair of heeled boots instead. We made our way back to the others.

"Phase one of the mission's complete." Molly said, I started drinking from my water bottle.

"What's next?" Chase asked before having a sip of his.

"Uh, what's next is goodbye. Someone isn't coming on the rest of the mission." Alex said, who wasn't coming with us. Was it me?

"What? But she's good! She...she doesn't hate squirrels. She poops in the trees. We're a team! Okay, let's at least vote on it." Gert said to us, we all looked at her. "Molly?" She asked hesitantly.

"It's not safe, Gert. We'll get caught, or she will." Molly said to her truthfully. We couldn't risk it. Gert went to talk to her pet. We gave them some privacy. We knew that it wasn't fair for her but it needed to happen. We decided to head to Timely. Nico went to take a guy who works at the church's coffee so we could get his attention.

"Excuse me! Mistake! That's mine." He said to her. We all stood up and looked at him.

"Oh. What the hell is this?" Nico asked after drinking some of order.

"Six shots of espresso. Don't judge me. Caffeine is the only vice I have left." He said to us.

"Trust me, I order the same thing." I said before Nico handed it to me. I took a quick sip of it.

"What is this?" He asked us.

"We're friends of Karolina's. She's in trouble. We need your help." Gert said to him.

"What happened? Is she okay?" He asked us concernedly.

"We don't know. We think she's being held in the church." Alex said to him. She had to be there.

"Well, I'll call Leslie." He said to us, I shook my head.

"She's part of it." Nico said to him, he stopped.

"You can't trust her." I said before taking a long sip of the coffee.

"Part of...what?" He asked us confusedly.

"You ever notice that every year one of your young parishioners goes missing?" Alex asked him with a sigh. I was hoping that this would spark something in his mind.

"They're runaways. Sometimes they, you know, run away." He said to us, he was clueless.

"Yeah, except these kids aren't coming back. Same time of year, every year." Chase told him, still nothing seemed to click unless he was trying to play dumb.

"That doesn't mean..." He told us, it really does.

"Karolina might be next?" Nico asked him rhetorically. I was hoping she wasn't next.

"Leslie wouldn't hurt one of her congregants. Let alone her own daughter." Vaughn told us, I wouldn't be so sure of that.

"Maybe not, but that weirdo Jonah would." Molly told him.

"He's in control now, not Leslie." Alex said to him.

"Leslie has no control now. Only Jonah does." I said to Vaughn.

"Jonah? Leslie's father's friend? Look, every day I come to work at the church is a day I feel at home. The Deans are my family, and the Gibborim it helped hey my life together when no one else would. Now a bunch of weird kids in bad wigs tell me it's all a sham? Can I have my coffee back?" He said to us, I downed what was left. There was no way I was giving it back.

"No chance, dude." Molly said to him.

"Absolutely not." Chase said to him.

"Brainwashed dick." Gert said making me smirk.

"It's all gone, dude." I said to him before he walked off. At least I got a free coffee. I was thinking about Karolina, she was probably scared and confused. We had decided that me, Chase and Molly would get on the bus to the church.

"Plenty of room for everybody. Come on. Plenty of room." One of the women said to us. "Can't believe I almost missed you." She added before we got on the bus. I was scared. Chase took my hand and held it. Once the minibus started going, I started worrying. Once we were dropped off at the church we were handed paperwork to fill out.

"Contact in case of emergency?" Molly asked us.

"Just write N/A." Chase said to her.

"Can I put my dealer down?" I asked Chase seriously, Rodney could be helpful if something happened to me.

"No, just wrote N/A." He said to me. I rolled my eyes and put N/A.

"That means I don't have any family, though." Molly said to him, at the end of the day we didn't. JJ was my family but you know, he's gone.

"Bingo." Chase said to her.

"Do you think that's what Destiny wrote?" Molly asked us, probably if no one was there on the contact list I would mean that they wouldn't be missed. At least that's what our parents probably thought.

"That's what they all wrote." Chase said to her.

"It makes sense that our parents would kill the ones with N/A written down." I said while wobbling the pen.

"It's not a lie, though, not for me." Molly said to me and Chase.

"It's not too far from the truth for me, either." Chase said to us, I put my hand on his.

"At least you still have a chance that your dad might be okay." Molly said to him, that was right and I was hoping that Mr. Stein would be okay.

"Yeah, but you get to believe your parents were heroes." Chase said to her.

"And listen, I may not know anything about parents being close to death or actually being dead. But the day I considered that I didn't have a family, was the day that JJ passed." I said while looking at Molly. I saw a hand get placed on Chase's shoulder.

"Can I get you to come with me?" The guy said, it was Vaughn.

"Does this mean you've changed your mind?" Chase asked him.

"Or your busting us." Molly said to him,

"Or are we gonna start a riot." I said with a smile, they just looked at me.

"It means stop talking and follow me...now." He said to us, he took our forms and we all followed him.

"Vaughn? Surprised to see you down here." One of the women told him.

"Is there a problem?" The other asked him.

"No. Not at all. It's just that there's something special about these three. Leslie will be very interesting in them." Vaughn told them, they looked through our forms.

"They're special, indeed. Leslie will be very happy." One of them said while handing the forms back.

"You're about to meet someone who will change your life." The other said to us, they were both smiling at us. It was creepy.

"I wish I could trade places with you right now." The other said to us before we walked again. This place was the creepiest. I don't know why anyone would want to join this church. I was hoping we could find Karolina soon. This place made me shudder.

"Wow that was crazy. I can't believe Aura and Frances bought it. Oh, God, I think I'm gonna puke." Vaughn told us as we were going up a lengthy staircase. We reached a door that said 'private'. "This is Leslie's private chamber. Look, if Karolina is anywhere, she's in there. The problem is, only Leslie knows the code." He told us, luckily for us that code wouldn't be an issue.

"No problem. I brought a codebreaker." Chase said while looking at Molly. It was probably a wise decision that I rested my powers for a while. Molly pulled the door of its hinges.

"Shit! Oh! Now I'm freaking out. Yep I'm walking away. Walking away and pretending I did not bring a monster into my church." He said making me laugh. This guy was hilarious. We saw Karolina. She hugged me and Molly.

"Karolina, I'm glad that your here." I said while hugging her, Nico would be a lot happier now.

"You okay?" Chase asked her.

"Oh, I don't even know what that means anymore." She said before hugging Chase.

"You don't look so good." Molly told her. She did look a bit pale.

"I'm just a little weak. I didn't think I'd ever see you guys again." Karolina said to us.

"We were thinking the same thing." I said to her with a light laugh.

"We"re not leaving anyone behind. Come on." Chase said before we all helped her up and supported her.

"Pretend I'm showing you around. This is a tour. Perfectly normal." Karolina said to us as we were going downstairs. We walked into a hallway and saw Aura and Frances.

"Karolina. Get security." One of them said to us and the other.

"What? No. There's no problem. These are my friends." Karolina said to them truthfully.

"Security, fourth floor." One of them said on the phone.

"Karolina, you're lying." One of them said to her, the other hung up.

"They're coming." She said to us.

"Time to run!" Chase shouted at us.

"Let's go!" I said to them.

"Come on!" Molly said to her.

"Go, go, go!" I shouted and we all ran down the stairs.

"Come on!" Chase shouted.

"Come on!" I shouted.

"Come on!" Molly shouted.

"In here!" Chase said to us while stopping.

"Can't get out that way." Karolina told him but he went anywhere. We heard radio transmission so we decided to follow after Chase. We hid up against the wall and watch as security walked by.

"Let's see if there's any more of them." Chase said to us before reaching into his bag. He got the X-ray goggles out and put them on. "Ugh." He expressed while taking them off.

"What was it?" I asked him curiously.

"What did you see?" Molly asked him.

"I'm not sure." He said to us, so we didn't know what was coming. Great.

"Come on. Let's go." Karolina told us, I want to get out of here already.

"Come on." Molly said to us, Chase picked up his bag and we left where we were. We ran through the hall, when we made it outside it felt so nice. We saw a van drive to us.

"Karolina!" Gert shouted.

"Karolina, get in, get in." Nico shouted. Karolina got in first. "Karolina, you okay?" Nico asked her, I got in the van next.

"Did they hurt you?" Gert asked her worriedly.

"Holy shit, that was- -" Alex said to us, Chase got in the passenger seat and Molly joined us in the back.

"I just need to do this." I heard someone say.

"Get the door!" Alex shouted at us.

"Go! Go!" Me and Chase shouted. Alex drove off. I sat back against the side of the van. I couldn't believe we just did that. Alex drove us back to the hill. Me and Molly we're moving branches. Seeming as we needed to start a fire. This was our new life and it needed to get better. I couldn't live outside like this.

"Do you think it will be like this forever?" I asked Chase while wrapping my arms around him.

"Hopefully not but I hope that there's always going to be me and you." He said to me with a goofy smile.

"What happens after we graduate from college? I'm not going to be living in this country anymore. At least not for a few years." I said while looking up at him. I wanted teach English in a few countries. Luckily I had a clear criminal record for now that was. But at least the massive plus about being on the run is that I'd have to sober for a long time but that wouldn't bother me.

"We'll figure it out as we go along. But for now let's collect some more sticks." He said to me. We both went to get more wood.

"Where's Alex?" Nico asked all of, I didn't even realize that he wasn't here.

"I don't know." Molly answered.

"He was here a minute ago." Chase said to her.

"Oh, my God. That little shit went and called his parents." Nico said to us.

"He's going to get us caught." I said while putting my free hand on my head. I couldn't believe he would do this to us. He was all about making sure that we wouldn't get caught and now he's decided to become a hypocrite. I wonder what our parents were doing right now. I was hoping that they were losing their shit seeming as we could destroy them so easily. When the sky turned to black we decided to call it a night. Alex still hadn't returned. Me and Chase were sharing a blanket I had my head on his chest with my arm wrapped around him. It was nice and peaceful, I felt safe sleeping in the back of van. Maybe it was because we were altogether. When we woke up we quickly washed up with what we had. I found out my mirror and rummage through Nico's bag, with her permission, to get some makeup.


We then started walking to the bus depot. "...boarding in ten minutes." The P.A. Said, we all stopped and looked at the sign. Molly opened the door and we entered.

"I'm no lookout. And get some good snacks." Gert told us, it was really hot today.

"Well, there's not much to choose from." Alex said while looking at our options. Our only options were: New York, Dallas, Phoenix, Boston, Atlanta and Las Vegas.

"Boston's further away, which means that we will be a lengthy distance away from our parents." I said while looking at the Departures screen.

"It's not too late to change our minds." Alex said to us, it really was.

"Yeah, it is. I say Phoenix." Chase said to us, but Boston would be so much better.

"Does Arizona like brown people? I don't think they do." Molly said to us.

"Just pick whatever's leaving soonest." Karolina said to us, that made sense. The door swung open and we all looked behind us.

"Guys! Guys! You're never gonna guess who's here. Old Lace!" Gent said to us, who the hell was that.

"Old Lace?" I asked her confusedly.

"Who's Old Lace?" Karolina asked her confusedly.

"My dinosaur. That's her name." Gert told us, great it had a name. The news came on.

"Breaking news right now. An amber alert has just been issued for Molly Hernandez. She was reported missing from her home in Montebello. Detective Flores says the LAPD believes she has fallen in with a group of teenagers that are persons of interest in the death of Destiny Gonzales. As you may recall, the Gonzales death ruled an accidental drowning. Now the LAPD is calling it a homicide. Anyone with news regarding this case should contact the police immediately..." The News Anchor said, they chose the most unflattering picture of me. But with me being a person of interest I wouldn't be able to leave this country.

"Holy shit." Chase expressed, we continued watching.

"Our lives are over." I said to them, my voice was breaking.

"They framed has for Destiny." Karolina said to us.

"Those assholes." Nico said to us, I couldn't believe this was happening.

"I'm not kidnapped. I would know." Molly said to us.

"They just made us America's most wanted." Chase said to us, after many famous serial killers of course. They got sat in front of us turned round and looked at us.

"Guys, we gotta go." Very said and we all ran out.

"What do we do?" Nico asked us.

"Where do we go?" I asked them.

"We run." Alex said before we started running. This was our life now, running away. I was looking forward to the day when this would be over but it wouldn't be over and we would never be safe.

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