Anna held her breath, holding on to her phone as tight as she could, taking deep breaths. She could feel a cold breeze sweeping through her spine.

She had first of all spent twenty minutes glaring at the text message on her phone's screen an hour ago asking her to come to what used to be the former underground garage at Trusk before the new parking lot was created and come alone. At first she tried so hard to convince herself not to go but after a while a part of her was dying to know who had sent the text. Who was it and what did they want and that part of her won. Before she knew it, she was into her jeans and shirt, in her car and on her way to Trusk. It look her about thirty minutes to get to the company but she did eventually and boy was she scared.

There were barely any cars in sight. Anna had never been in that part of Trusk in a really long while since the renovation, she could still see how really dusty it was and how there were cub webs on every wall. Anna could hear her own footsteps echoing in the hallway.

You'll be fine Anna. We just need to know who this is.
She kept telling herself.

Good lord, she should have just come with a bodyguard. No matter how hard she tried, she couldn't stop her hands from trembling. Anna walked to the middle of the garage and froze. There was no one in sight. Why? Who had sent her the text then and where were they?

"Hello!"
She called, hoping they could hear her, taking a position to ready herself for a fight in case it was another anti-atian soldier that was trying to corner her again, holding on tightly to her phone with Angelo's number on speed dial. He was the only person she could think of at that moment. If anything bad was going to happen to her, he was the only one she could think of to help her.

She exhaled. There was no one. No one was there. No one was coming. Maybe it was just a prank or a wrong message.

"Hello!"
She had to call one more time just to be sure but no one still came.

Anna scoffed.
That was useless. A total waste of time. She couldn't believe it. She couldn't believe how she had trembled for nothing before. There was literally nothing to be worried or scared of. She shook her head and then turned to go when she heard a footstep.

Anna paused.
There was someone coming being her. She sniffed. She could smell him right where she stood.

Get ready Anna.

She shut her eyes, she could feel her animal spirit at alert, her claws were growing out of her fingers and her fangs too just as they always did whenever she sensed danger. Anna calculated her steps, taking deep breaths and letting her senses do all the thinking and maths. The footsteps were getting really close now. She turned quickly before he could reach for her shoulder.

Anna paused.
She glared at the man that looked a lot like he was in his forties standing in front of her He was wearing a suit and had green spiky hair and a huge tatoo on the right side of his face. He had a pair of green eyes too and his frown was really scary.

"Anna Trusk?"
He asked her.

How did he know her? How did he know her name? It wasn't a surprise that he did, she had been qui the popular after Andre's death. He looked like one of them, and smelt like one of them too. She looked at his wrist just to be sure. He was wearing a mercury bracelet. He was one of them, one of her people.

Who's asking?
Anna was going to ask when she got another scent different from his. He wasn't the only one. He wasn't alone. They were more and they were coming right behind her. She turned quickly to see right before someone shot her.

Anna froze.
She turned to look at her side.

Mecury!

Her eyesight became blurry. She could see some men walking towards her as fast as they could but she could barely grasp a clear view of them. There was no way she was going to let them take her. She was going to go down fighting. She took another step

She felt another shot at her side. She didn't know these people and she had a feeling that whatever it was they wanted from her, they were pretty determined to get it. She was getting weak now but she didn't stop.

She kept on running to them.
One more shot, then another. She stoped running. She tried to move but she was paralyzed. She fell to the ground. The last thing she remembered were the men running to her.

She turned to her phone. She tried to reach for it .

She could see Angelo's name written boldly on the screen. She wanted to call him, to ask him to save her. If only she could reach for her phone.

Anna closed her eyes slowly.

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Anna coughed.

Her lungs felt so rusty, like she hadn't used them in centuries. She could feel how sore her throat was and how hurt her hands were too. Maybe it was because they were tied with a rope in front of her.

Anna tried to open her eyes. She would have if not for the blind fold wrapped around it.

Where was she?
She couldn't remember much of what happened after she collapsed. Anna took a deep breath, trying to see if she could use her sense of smell to find a scent that could mean something or explain where she was but all she got was the scent of molted metal.

"Hello!"
She yelled as her voice echoed around the room.

"I just want to talk!" she went on. "I'm one of you, I'm in your side!" She hoped someone could at least hear her. She was ready to make a negotiation with them, to give them whatever it was that they wanted without a fight. She was too weak to fight. She still had all that mercury in her system, she could feel it and it was making her completely useless. There was nothing she could do but wait for some sort of help.

Anna exhaled. No one came first and then she heard footsteps followed by a rattle on the door. The door opened slowly and the footsteps got closer.

"Hello?" She called when she realized that someone had walked into the room. Hope.

"Untie her."
She heard a woman's voice.

Anna exhaled. Thank God.
She sat still and let the people that walked to her do as they were told. She gently felt the ropes on her hands and legs get loose.She drew her head back when she felt one of them leaning close to her. He slowly reached for her blindfolds and took it off.

Light.

She had never felt so relieved in a long while. It was...refreshing. At first, everything still looked so blurry but with time, her eyes started to adjust with everything.

Anna gasped when she saw the state of the room she was in. There was nothing in sight besides a small window and a metallic table and door. She turned to the figures in front of her, glaring at the men as they walked back to the tall woman that stood in front of her with a smile on her face. There he was, right beside her, the man with spiky green hair, the man that had captured her in the first place, she growled at him.

"There's absolutely no need for that."

The woman told her. Anna turned to her.
"I'm really sorry for how you were brought in. Sometimes, Richard gets into his feelings and role too much. The instruction was to bring you here unharmed but Richard isn't good with following instructions."
She pointed at the man with spiky hair.

Anna didn't move a muscle. She had a lot of questions to ask. Like Why she was there? What did they want from her?

"I know you have a lot of questions Anna. "The lady walked to her. It was almost like she was reading her mind.
But how did she know her name?

"Questions like how I know your name?"

Anna frowned.
She looked around looking for a way to again, she needed to find a way, a way to escape. There was only one exit and she couldnt get to it without a fight.

Think Anna, think.

"There's absolutely no need to fight Anna, you're not a prisoner."

Anna blinked.
How exactly did she know what she was thinking?

"You can hear me?"
The woman smiled.

"Your thoughts to be exact. Telepathy." She tapped the side of her head with her finger.

Anna thought for a while.
"The ability to read minds." she whispered to herself. She turned to The woman. "H-how is it possible?" she noticed she still had her bracelet on.

"You're not the only one that has the ability to temporarily deactivate your bracelet Anna." She heard a voice in her head.

"We all do."
She looked at the woman. It wasn't her talking. That wasn't her voice. Then she turned at the other three men and two women standing close to her.

"We've been waiting for you Anna."
Anna gulped in shock as she turned behind her trying to follow the voice. There was no one there.

"We've been waiting for the savior."
Anna held her breath as someone appeared on the table in front of her with her legs crossed.

"Oh my God."
She shot up from her chair and cringed back in shock as she stared at the girl on the chair. Anna almost fell to the ground when she stopped cringing but she felt something stop her, more like a force. She slowly lowered her gaze to the ground. She was sitting on air.

Telekinesis.

She turned quickly to the man beside her who was smirking at her with his hands stretched to her. Was it him? Was he the one that had stopped her from falling?

Anna couldn't believe it. Her heart was racing. She'd turned to the rest.

"Who are you?" She asked them.

"You know who we are Anna. You've been looking for us for years. You sent for us."

"Sent for you-" Anna didn't understand. She thought hard for a short while and then gasped as her eyes widened.

Oh her God!

"You're the G unit." She finally realized it. It was them, the group Caesar had asked her to find, the help she had been trying to look for, the other half of her plan. The people that were supposed to help her bring her people to victory.

The woman scoffed.

"Is that what you call us out there?"

"I've waited and looked everywhere." Anna walked closer to her. "My brother, he asked me to find you. He said you knew a way to deactivate the mercury bracelet. That you could help me prepare for the war, for the second coming."

Anna heard one of them scoff.

"Yeah like it's so easy."
Anna frowned. She didn't understand

"You don't know how to deactivate the bracelet?" she asked when she noticed how quiet they all were.

"Of course we know how Anna. The bigger question is where."

"Huh?"

"This journey is not as easy as you thought it would be Anna. I don't know if you know this but getting rid of the bracelet is an information that the humans have kept under high security for years. The humans have a base, a base where they make these bracelets and control it. It's called the black city,"

"We've been trying to find it for years but they've hidden it pretty well." Anna turned to the other man beside her. "We are guessing it's underground. Underground a bigger organization, with a different name."

"A different name? "

"Yes, an organization you're familiar with."
Anna turned back to the woman

"Trusk Industries."

Silence. Anna scoffed.

"What?" She folded her hands on her chest and blinked. She didn't understand a thing they were trying to say.

"She doesn't know." Another girl said. She turned to the rest. "How on earth is she supposed to lead us when she has no idea what's going on."

"I- I don't understand, lead you? I'm - I'm not a leader. I can't lead anyone."
The woman smiled.

"You're more than you think. I've been watching you Anna, long enough, longer than you think. How do you think you got involved with the Trusk family in the first place?"

That wasn't them. Anna thought.
She got to where she was on her own after she found out André was from an influential family. She knew she needed one to achieve all she had planned and André came along.

"Yeah but how did you meet Andre? "

Anna turned to the woman. She was reading her mind again. How did she meet Andre?

Anna tried to remember

It was after her college graduation. At the after party. When she accidentally spilled her glass of vodka all over him. That was an accident.

"Do you think it was really an accident you bumped into André and got vodka all over him? You didn't even know who he was back then."
Anna turned to the woman.

"That was all Lorenzo."

The man that had stopped her from falling earlier stepped forward.

"And of course you didn't think Nathaniel Trusk handed you his company because he was fond of you, did he?"

Anna furrowed her brows at the woman.
That was them too? Anna scoffed. She knew there was something wrong with the will in the first place but she had never imagined the G unit had a hand in it. How?

"There's a lot of things you don't know Anna. But it's time you knew them. Time you learnt them. There's a reason you were chosen. There's a reason we chose you."

"Trusk industries is one of the pillars of the world's government. That's why it's so prosperous. It has records of helping the government in its fight against our kind records of the location of everything we've been looking for, the black city and you're in it to find those records. You have to find the black city."

Anna exhaled. She was trying so hard to understand everything they were saying. How on earth was she going to find this black city?

Anna looked at them one after the other.

"We have a lot to do Anna." The lady told her. "So much to do with such little time."

"Tick-Tock says the clock."