Chapter 13. Double Zeros
This morning I was not looking forward to training, I had no idea how to use my powers myself. I didn't even know what else I could do. Another thing was I didn't even know how we could work together. I mean, Molly and I could. This morning I was laying comfortably wrapped in Chase's arms. Chase and I were happily asleep.
"Chase. Y/n. C'mon." Nico said while coming in our room.
"Isn't the whole point of not going to school so we don't have to wake up on time anymore?" Chase asked her.
"I'm exhausted." I said to them.
"Mm. School just started. Let's go." She said before leaving. Chase groaned.
"All right." He got out.
"Please, let's go." She said again. Chase quickly placed a kiss on my head.
"Good morning." He said before giving me another kiss.
"Good morning." I said to him before getting out of our bed and putting my top on. When we went to start training everyone was there except Alex. What a surprise. Gert had got some dummies ready for us.
"Does anyone want to explain Molly?" Gert asked, we hadn't done anything so how would we know. "We haven't even done anything yet." She added, maybe she was tired.
"Maybe she, like the rest of us, didn't get enough sleep." Chase said to us, I struggled falling asleep after Chase left.
"Could just be puberty. You said it yourself, adolescents need more sleep." Nico said before pulling Chase up. "Anyways, she can skip this one. She's further along than the rest of us. Y/n, you are as well so you can sit out as well if you want." Nico said to me.
"I mean there's things I don't even know how to do yet. I might watch and just wait to see what I can contribute." I said to her she nodded, I sat down on the stairs.
"Speak for yourself. I've been practicing." Karolina said to us before using her powers to levitate and fly to the top of the stairs.
"Uh...um, how much practice?" Nico asked her, there must've been a lot.
"Enough that you're suddenly nervous you're not the best anymore." Karolina said while walking down the stairs.
"Wait, I thought I was the best- -" Chase started, he could never be.
"No. Not even close." Nico said to him.
"Oh, you want to make this a competition?" Gert asked, I stood.
"I'm down for that." I said to them.
"I think I already did." Chase said before using his Fistigons. "Yeah, that's right! That is how you do it." He said before the dummy caught on fire.
"A fire extinguisher." Karolina said to us, I had no idea how to deal with this.
"I got it. Extinguish!" Nico said before the staff put the fire out.
"Ok. You're definitely better." Chase said to her.
"Guess that makes it our turn." Gert said before approaching Old Lace. She looked at the tiger and then screamed. Chase then approached her.
"Hey, you ok?" He asked her.
"Yeah, yeah. Just a little- -" She said before being in pain again.
"Ow! No, no! I'm not." Gert got out, I went over to her.
"What happened?" Karolina asked as she approached her.
"It's, um...it's called 'brain lightning.' It jus- -it happens when I go off my Sertraline too quickly." She said to us, I knew wheat she meant by that.
"English, Gert. This is new to some of us." Chase said to her.
"It's kid of like getting a hot poker shoved in your brain, coupled with dizziness and blindness and ringing in the ears. I could go on." She said to me, it happened to me sometimes.
"You had me at 'hot poker.'" He said to me.
"Is it me or is it hot in here?" I asked them, they all looked at me.
"No, it's cold in here. Are you okay?" Nico asked me as she walked over to me.
"I don't know." I said to them, Chase said to me.
"Are you going through withdrawal do you think?" He asked me, I couldn't be.
"I just think it's because I'm tired, there's no need to worry." I said to him as he came over to me.
"Why don't you sit this practice out go and get some sleep." Nico said to me, I sighed.
"Fine, but I'll be here next practice." I said before going to Chase and I's room. I took my shirt off and got into our bed and had a sleep. After a while I heard on the door before I heard it open. I rolled over and opened my eyes and saw Chase.
"I wanted to check on you. How are you feeling?" He asked while sitting next to me on the mattress.
"I feel alright now, whatever I had it's gone now." I said to him, he smiled.
"Good, now how about we join the others. None of us are working well together." He said to me and I smiled.
"Drama. I'm liking the sound of that." I said making him laugh and shake his head. He walked off and I got ready to go downstairs. When I did I overheard him talking.
"Do you know why Atlas won the D1 lacrosse championship three years in a row?" Chase asked as I was coming downstairs.
"Actually pride myself on not knowing." Gert said to us.
"Or caring." Nico said while holding an ice pack.
"Now I'm curious." I said before walking over to him.
"It wasn't just about talent, or speed or natural physical ability. Although...it didn't hurt. But Coach Alphonse always made sure that we had a game plan. That's what we need." Chase said to us, how could we even make one. We didn't even know what we're up against, except from our parents.
"Making a plan has always been Alex's job." Molly said to us.
"Yeah, well, Alex isn't here." Nico said, he never was anymore.
"Maybe that's why we suck." Karolina said to us.
"It probably is the reason." I said to them.
"No, there's zero correlation between Alex and us sucking, actually. So, there." Nico said to us, I wouldn't put it past if was because of that.
"He might not have had any superpowers, but he brought something to the table." Molly said while joining us.
"A nerd brain?" Nico asked her, he did have a lot of information.
"A nerd brain could help you figure out the Staff." Chase said to Nico, he made a valid point.
"I don't need his help, I- -or anything else from him. He chose to be off the team." Nico said to us, she also made a valid point. Screw Wilder he didn't deserve to be on our team.
"Maybe we're more than a team. We're a family, and without one of us, we're not whole." Karolina said to us, a dysfunctional family at that.
"Let's dial it down with the Gibb-jib, a.k.a. bullshit." Gert said to Karolina, could we kick Gert out of our family as well.
"Hey. Hey, hey. Come on, you do my need to bring her religion into this." Chase said whole going over to her.
"You don't need to take her side and gang up on me." Gert said to him. She was such a bitch. I can't believe I ever was her friend.
"No, I- -I wasn't." Chase said to her,
"Oh, ok, so then, I'm just crazy?" Gert asked him, just a little bit.
"No, I didn't say that, either." Chase said to her.
"You know what? I just must have not understood you. Maybe if you could restate it in the form of a lacrosse metaphor." Gert shouted at him.
"Gert, just calm down." I said to her after Old Lace growled.
"Don't tell me to calm down, Y/n." She said to me, I just rolled my eyes. "I'm gonna go check on Old Lace." She added before walking away.
"I'm gonna go do something." Chase said before walking away. "Hey, um, Molly, maybe you can do it with me? And Y/n, I could use you as well." Chase said I smiled.
"Anything." I said to him with a smile.
"Why would I do that?" Molly asked him.
"Go." Karolina said to her.
"He needs you." Nico said to her, we then followed Chase.
"So, what are we doing?" I asked him, he looked at me.
"Now that would be ruining the surprise." He said to me, I looked confusedly at him. There was a car. Molly was lifting it and I was passing him the tools.
"Not sure why you needed me for this. I kinda feel like you're exploiting my powers. I have a higher calling than a human Jack." Molly said to us.
"Now I would say that I feel the same but I'm just glad that I'm passing tools rather than moving trucks." I said to them both. That was way too exhausting.
"Yeah, I- -I know, Molly, I- -I don't really need you to hold the car. And Y/n, I don't really need you to pass me tools." Chase said to us, I drop all the tools that I had in the air to the ground. Molly dropped the car.
"You don't?" She asked him.
"Easy, easy." Chase said before holding the car. One word I'd heard numerous times.
"Spill. What's so important you couldn't talk about it in front of Gert?" Molly asked him. "Oh, my God, it's about Gert?!" Molly said to him, I hated their relationship.
"Yeah, if you could keep it down?" Chase said in a whisper.
"Now, before I gag over this whole conversation, I'm gonna go." I said to them before leaving. I saw Nico and Karolina.
"Are you done helping with Chase?" Nico asked me, I looked at her.
"He didn't really need me. Now he's talking about Gert." I said to them, they looked at me.
"Do you think there's something going on between them?" Karolina asked me, I looked at her.
"I don't but if there is. I just want him to tell me rather than do it behind my back." I said to them, Karolina and Nico both hugged me.
"If there is, you know what I'll do to him." Nico said to me, I knew exactly what she would do.
"Go and talk to him." Karolina said and I nodded, I then walked back over you where Chase was and shut the door behind me.
"Is everything okay?" He asked me, I looked at him and sat on the work bench.
"I need you to be honest with me. Is there something between you and Gert? Now I won't get mad as long as you tell me the truth but I can't promise that I won't be hurt." I said to him he looked and me and started to walking over. He then took my hands.
"There's nothing between us, they're used to be but now I just want to make sure that she's alright seeming as she's off her meds. I promise that you're the only one in my life like that." He said before kissing me reassuringly.
"I guess I was paranoid over nothing. Also, can you wear this little outfit more often." I said to him before kissing him again.
"Are you using me now?" He asked with a smile.
"Maybe." I said to him with a smile.
"They're kidnapping Alex." We heard Nico say, we then exited the room and went over to her.
"Is it really kidnapping if they're his parents?" Chase asked as we walked into the main foyer hand-in-hand.
"Seeming as they are teen-murdering sociopaths, I'd say yes." Gert said to us, did we have to.
"We've got to stop them." Nico said to us.
"As much as I hate to say it, let's save Alex." I said to them all.
"What's with the 180? You were just leading the charge on Team Alex Sucks Ass. And Y/n, you were Vice President of that team." Chase said to us, I mean it was nice to be that.
"He does, but he needs our help." Nico said to us, I had to agree.
"It's ok to admit that you care about him. I do." Karolina said to us.
"I kinda miss his square head and chicken legs." Chase said making me smile.
"His confusion about when we talk about new things we can do." I said to them with a smile.
"His bad pitches for mission titles and codenames." Gert said, they were pretty terrible.
"And even though he thinks he's smarter than everyone, he really is smart. And I miss him, too." Molly said it all went silent and we looked at Nico.
"What? I got issues. About talking about my feelings. Or just generally having them. But for now, actions speak louder than words, and I say we head to the Valley and get Alex back." Nico said to us, I nodded. We had to save him.
"Gert, I think you should just stay here. After the brain thing this morning. I just don't think it's a good idea." Chase said to her, he then looked at me. "You, as well after this morning I don't want something worse happening to you." He added, I looked at him.
"I'll be ok, and if it gets to much I'll stop." I said to him before squeezing his hand.
"That's sweet of you. But seeing as I haven't gone full Britney yet, I don't need a conservator. I can make my own decisions, and I- -I want to join you." Gert said to us, we didn't even know how to get there.
"Join us doing what, though? How are we even getting to Van Nuys?" Karolina asked us, the car maybe.
"We have a car." Molly said before Chase and I led them to the car.
"Without a key, it won't start." Chase said to us, we could figure something out.
"Maybe Nico's staff can help." Karolina said while looking at her.
"No, the Staff can't control a car. Just seems to work with the elements. Earth, air, water..." Nico started, and this was none of them.
"Fire." Chase whispered, we all got in the car with me riding shotgun. I had stop lean back as Chase got the wires out, we were hot wiring this bitch. "If I hold these together all I need is a- -" Chase started before Nico cut him off.
"Spark." Nico said before igniting a spark.
"And now we've got a hot wired car that I didn't hot wire." I said to them with a smile.
"Alex put this in motion. It's up to us to bring him home." Nico said before we started to drive away. This was gonna be fun. I was hoping we'd get there on time. And we did. We then got to work. I was destroying the plane by taking the wing off so it couldn't take off..
"Molly, Y/n." Chase shouted after I'd finished. Molly then ran out of the plane and picked Alex up.
"Molly, I'm pretty sure I can walk." Alex said to her as we started running.
"We don't have time. I got this." Molly shouted at him.
"Guys, hurry!" Gert shouted.
"We're going as fast as we can!" I shouted at them, we then got in the car.
"He's coming. Go, go, go!" Karolina shouted. This was crazy and I was loving it.
"Go!" Molly shouted at Gert.
"I'm trying!" Gert shouted.
"Why'd you turn the car off?" Molly asked her, we didn't need this.
"I didn't. It's stalled." Gert said to us, it was a bit crammed in the back.
"Use the key!" Alex said to us.
"We don't have a key! The spell must've worn off!" Gert said, it had nothing to do with the spell.
"Spark!" Nico said and it didn't work.
"Go!" Alex said, we couldn't.
"Try again." Gert said to her.
"Spark!" She shouted. "I don't get it. It's like I can only do each spell one time." Nico said, this was the worst thing ever.
"You do get it. That's how it works! It won't do the same command twice." Gert said to her, we had come up with something. "Hurry, think of something. He's coming." She added while looking back.
"Forget a spellbook, I need a thesaurus." Nico shouted. I couldn't imagine the pressure she was under.
"Just say something!" Gert shouted at her.
"Hot-wire!" She said and it worked. She got in the car.
"He's catching up to us." Gert said to her.
"I got this. Wall!" Nico shouted and the tarmac came up. "Let's go!" Nico shouted before we took off. The ride home was great. When we got home Chase and I went up to our room.
"So, what are we going to do tonight?" Chase asked as he sat on the bed.
"I haven't gotten that far yet. I guess we'll just have to see." I said before sitting next to him. We then started cuddling before that got disturbed and we then heard shouting from downstairs.
"Tell me the truth! Where were you?" Gert shouted at Molly, what had happened.
"Ah, man, she wrecked a pimp's car." We heard a man stay.
"Stay behind me." Chase said while putting a protective arm around me.
"You wrecked a car? Belonging to a pimp?" Gert asked Molly, I didn't trust this guy so I held onto Chases arm.
"Yeah. And it was freaking awesome." The guy said before coming into the light. "Almost as awesome as this place. Damn. This sure beast staying in a hostel, huh?" The guy asked, we then walked closer to him. "It's cool. I'm cool. I'm Topher." He said introducing himself. I didn't like him.
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