I rushed through the familiar, white hallways, trying to find my way out of them and back into the forest.
A left turn here.
A right turn there.
A straightway sprint.
Luckily, no guards came around.
I slowed down as I was coming up to a right turn. I gazed behind my shoulder before I made that turn, hoping that no guards decided to turn up.
I was about continue on with my fast motions when I saw someone standing on the left side of the hallway, next to an ajar door. I knew who he was since his white, angel-style wings that were sticking out from his back gave it away.
"Wayne!" I shouted at the person as I began walking up to him.
Wayne turned around, looking at me with a surprised look. "Oh, you're safe! You're okay!" He extended his arms out.
"What are you doing here? I thought Toosk told me you guys weren't gonna come in here without me."
The angel dropped his arms. "Well, how could we come in here if you weren't around? We had to save you!"
"Well, um..." I gazed around my surroundings, then back at him. "...I had to save myself, actually."
"Oh, Toosk was the one who had to get you... I guess, he's a bit too late!" Wayne letted out a mirthless chuckle.
"But what are you doing?" I asked.
"I'm guarding Mitty," he responded, nodding towards the door. "She's checking to see if Pierre has already made his 'extra power source,' like what Toosk told us about." He made quotation marks with raised fingers when he said 'extra power source.'
Then something clicked into my mind: The ability to be so close to be taken over... That machine behind the chair... "I think it is true," I concluded from my thoughts, "that Pierre has already made his extra power source."
Wayne rose his eyebrows. "Really, how?"
"I was this close to getting taken over." I showed him how close I was by leaning close to him and using my pointer finger and thumb as a measuring tool to show how 'close' I was.
"Pierre got into your mind?" His eyes went wide.
"Almost. Until I realized that what I was seeing wasn't real. But it was interesting because I wasn't actually in the scene, I was just seeing the perfect paradise, like a bystander. I was able to stick my hand through it with some difficulty, but either way I was able to go in there, but I didn't...'cause I knew it would be the wrong thing to do."
"Wow...willpower."
I nodded my head. "Yea. And then when I went back to reality, it was easy, more easier to get back in here than over there." I nodded my head to the side. "I guess Pierre used his power source to break my mental shield. It was one good attempt...but not enough to stop me." I smirked.
"Keep it that way." Wayne patted my shoulder.
"Wayne," I heard Mitty say.
I looked ahead as Wayne turned around; there was Mitty next to the door with a surprised look.
"Captain! Captain, you're here!" She walked up to me. "You're fine, right?"
"Yea, he seems fine, I was talking to him," Wayne answered Mitty for me.
She shot him a 'I-wasn't-asking-you' look. She then gazed at me. "So you're good?"
"For the most part, yea," I told her. I was feeling fine, it was just my head and thigh that was killing me.
"Okay, good." Mitty then turned to the blond man. "Alright, so Pierre does have an extra power source he's using. It's like some big type of machine with pipes that go underneath the ground. I say that they connect to other rooms, but who knows?"
I rose my hand. "I know."
The two of them looked at me, showing me that I had gotten their attention.
"I was sitting in a chair after I came back to reality. And behind the chair was an object that did look like a machine. I didn't think much about it, but now with what you told us, Mitty, I think that's how Pierre got into my mind so that I could be so close to that alternative universe: he got enough energy through that machine so that he can achieve breaking my mental barrier."
"Oooo, so this source won't only give Pierre more power to control those he's controlling, but also make you more vulnerable to his control!" Wayne grimaced. "That's not good."
"None of this is good, we gotta destroy it!" I told them.
"We can't, there's someone in there!" Mitty blurted out with an anxious look. "Someone's guarding it and I believe she saw me, since I heard her call for backup."
"What about the plans?" I asked. "Since that's what you guys were suppose to get, right?"
"Too late, the plans are already real," Wayne informed me. "The plans were for his power source!"
"Oh..."
"We gotta find Toosk!" Mitty said with haste. "C'mon guys!" She then began to run down the hallway.
Wayne began running behind her, but got off his feet and glided through the wide hallways with his wings.
I decided to take a peek in the room. I crept to the other side of the door and pulled it opened a bit to see what was in there.
From what I was able to see, it was a circular room with sunlight as its lighting. In the middle was a huge, silver box-shaped machine with many pipes stretched out across the remaining diameter of the room and went through the walls.
Circling around the machine was who I was waiting for these past days: Bella.
My eyes widened as I saw her turn her back on me, making me see that she was still wearing the clothes she wore last time she saw me.
"Bella," I said under my breath.
She stopped walking her course and snapped her head towards my direction, staring straight at me with cold, blue eyes.
Those aren't her eyes...those are... I felt the world stop for a moment as I held onto the doorjamb. Pierre has her--?
"Captain!" I heard Mitty snap at me as two hands grabbed onto each of my shoulders, pulling me away from the door.
"Pierre has Bella!" I shouted at the door.
The hands then turned me around, forcing me to look at Mitty's worried face. "Captain, we've got to go!"
"Not without Bella!" I tore my shoulders away from her grasp. "I can't let her slip into Pierre's trap... No..." I shook my head.
"Too late, she's already under his control--!"
"WHOA!" Wayne shouted from my left side as he came speeding back to us.
I snapped my head up to look beyond Mitty: The guards had arrived: the fire guy, Toosk's friend, the guy who stabbed my thigh and whacked my head, and two other new guards I've never seen before.
Mitty already turned herself around to look at our opponents. "Oh...hell, no...they found us."
Wayne looked behind his shoulder to make eye contact with us. "There's only one thing we can do." He lifted up one of his hands, which was beginning to glow with soft, white energy floating off from it. He then turned to look at the guards. "We fight."
He then zoomed straight at one of the unfamiliar guys and struck him in the face with a blast of white energy, which I noticed had a purple shade to it. Then he threw a hook punch at him by making the bottom of his chin the target. The target flew up in the air and fell down with a loud THUMP!
Mitty flung both of her hands at the other unfamiliar guy and the guy who I last had an encounter with; her arms grew their abnormal length until they made contact with them two and twisted themselves around, tying the two guards up; she then slid herself over to them.
Now all that was left was me against the fire guy and Toosk's friend.
"What are their names...?" I mumbled to myself. "Right: Cole is the fire guy, and Lace is Tuukka's friend."
I noticed that Lace was just behind the fighting zone, looking over it like how a referee would look over a game. Meanwhile, Cole was storming up to me with his hands glowing ember, ready to fight me.
"I don't have my gun," I said under my breath. "There's only one thing I can fight with..." I felt uncertainty settle in after I thought of my idea, but immediately after that, my mind pulled out something else that comforted me: You need your supernatural abilities to fight against supernatural abilities. Be on their level or above to get the victory, I heard Toosk's voice tell me from memory.
It's not a matter of wanting, it's a matter of needing... I gazed up at Cole, who was now about a good three feet away from me. "I have to. I'm going to."
I then got a hold of my energy mentally and directed it to spread through out my body. I then dipped my head down, keeping my eyes on my target. When I felt the buzzing of my energy as it was hitting its highest level, I placed my speed into turbo by an aspect of my powers and sped up to him.
When with my supernatural abilities surfacing, I lunged off from my feet, feeling my powers taking over me in midair as my hands, which transforming into paws, extended out towards Cole with claws out.
I landed with my paws on my target's face now as a black wolf, making him tumble backwards onto his back.
He immediately shoved me off of him, but I shot him back by jumping back on him and gnashing my fangs against his neck. I then felt Cole placing his hands against my fur as the temperature of them began to rise dramatically.
I letted out a howl of pain, and rolled off of him, which got me away from the heat. The coldness of the tile felt good, but I knew I couldn't lay on there for much longer. I quickly got up on my four paws and swiped my front right paw at his leg with claws unsheathed as he was beginning to get up.
"AWWWWHHHHH!!" he yelled out as he crashed onto the ground.
Before I was able to attack him again, I felt a rough hand yank at my fur that was on my neck. I turned my head around, seeing that the guy who stabbed me got a hold of me; in his other hand was a knife.
Fury began rising in me; I showed it by growling with clenched fangs. I then letted out a bark and yanked at the opposite direction of him, setting myself free from his grasp with the expense of losing a few tuffs a fur. I then turned around to face him fully and jumped up, sinking my fangs into his wrist.
I heard a clanging of what seemed like his knife dropping then I suddenly felt him vanishing. I lowered myself back down on my four paws, realizing that he did disappeared.
"No!" I heard Mitty scream from behind me.
I turned around, seeing that the guy who I bit had a good grasp of Mitty with him holding her hands behind her back. Next to her was the guy Pekka first attacked with his sleeve-covered arm extended towards her; coming out from the sleeve was a blade, a blade that looked exactly like the one Toosk and Wayne made me touch when I first met them at the bar.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" I heard Wayne shout with disgust.
I turned my head to the right, seeing as the other unfamiliar guy had Wayne's wings and arms tied by what seemed like rope made out of water. Cole was next to him with his hands growing orange.
Oh no, I thought to myself. They're all caught...except for me... I felt fear and anxiousness settling growing inside me.
"Try to free them and we'll kill you in a matter of seconds," I heard a familiar voice tell me from behind.
I perked up and looked up behind me, seeing Lace looming down at me with a grave look. I letted out a low humming sound, wishing that my powers also gave me the ability to speak in my wolf form.
"Are you gonna be a good boy?" he asked me with raised eyebrows and a mocking smile.
I turned back to look at my tied up friends. The guy who I fought at my house now had his sword pointed to Mitty as the other unfamiliar guy by her side had his blade pointed at me. And the guy with what seemed like water powers that had Wayne in a lock had his free hand extended towards Wayne's face as Cole had his hand out at me.
They're not messing around... I thought to myself as I took in what I was seeing. ...and I'm outnumbered... I darted my eyes to the left side of the room, seeing the pile of my clothes I left behind when I was transforming while lunging in the air at the beginning of the fight, lying on the tile flooring. ...and he'll most likely take me to Pierre himself, so I might know more about his plans and how to defeat him... I turned back to my captive friends. ...and maybe even find Toosk, since he was suppose to save me and there's no sign of him. I letted out a whimper since I couldn't sigh. Okay, I surrender for now. I then sat down on my hind legs, hoping that he'll get the message that I gave up.
"Oh, good boy," Lace told me with a chuckle as he scratched my neck a bit.
A low growl came out from me, notifying him that I wasn't like him doing that; I felt him pulling his hand away immediately.
I then heard him say from behind me: "Hackel, Lance, take Mitty away to, hm, you know where; Andrew and Cole, do the same."
So those are their names... I thought to myself as I saw them escorting my friends down the right side of the hallway.
I then sensed Lace leaning closer towards my back. "And you are coming with me." He walked to the left side of the room, also walking into my vision; he halted in front of the pile of clothes and picked them up. He then gazed at me again. "Come on, let's go!" He nodded towards the right side.
Another whimpering sound went through me as I got back on my four paws and began trotting over to him. Just do as you're told for now...