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Gally did as told, he never that Lawrence would just easily say yes since he had always been a very harsh person. Gally placed the ladder down the huge hole on the ground and Asterin tilted her head getting ready.

Jorge stopped her from moving as he grabbed her arm firmly glaring at the hole in front of him, "Be careful, Erin." he spoke with a serious look, she smiled back at him nodding, "I'm always careful." she replied looking over to Newt seeing him staring at his hand who was trembling.

She slowly made her way towards Thomas and nudged his shoulder quite harshly, Thomas looked over at her in confusion, "go tie Newt's shoes, his hands are shaking." she said pushing him towards the second in command, Thomas froze and shot her a death glare in which she only ignored and winked at him.

He slowly made his way towards Newt who sighed heavily and started tying his shoelace, Thomas kneeled in front of the boy softly tying his shoe, and could feel Newt's eyes staring at him, his ears reddened as he tried not to look up and meet his crush's eyes.

As soon as he finished, Thomas got up still not making eye contact with Newt who was staring up at him, a few strands of hair falling in front of his eyes which he pushed back swiftly, "We should go.." said the brown-haired boy looking down at Newt, making straight eye contact.

Thoma looked away with red cheeks and slowly made his way back to Asterin who was trying so hard not to laugh at his awkwardness, "oh wow, that was very awkward-" she whispered trying to keep herself from snorting out loud, Thomas smacked the back of her neck making her stare at him with a raised eyebrow and open mouth

"bitch- you're dead." she said punching him straight to the stomach and then smacking his forehead the same way he did to her, he groaned in pain and clenched his stomach tightly. "that's what you get." she huffed slightly in annoyance and followed Gally who got ready to make his way down.

"Gally, take care of these three." he eyed the trio that was about to follow him down, Gally nodded reassuringly and watched as he eyed Asterin who was talking to Brenda quietly. "especially her." Gally nodded once again before making his way down the ladder.

Brenda handed Asterin one of her special guns that had her name carved on it, Asterin disagreed at first but eventually took it placing it on her belt. "thank you, Brenda." with that she followed Gally down the ladder carefully not to slip due to how dark it was getting.

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Newt scrunched his nose in disgust, "this is gross." he said pointing his flashlight around the sewers. "obviously, it's the sewers." replied Asterin slightly rolling her eyes, her voice muffled by the bandana wrapped around her face to keep it hidden and not smell the shitty place.

The light suddenly turned on around the place and here was Asterin pressed against the rusted walls trying to get as far away from the green and icky water as she could. "stay with me. we got a ways to go." thank god she changed her boots to one that she hated to wear, but oh well, at least it's not the ones she loved.

'But why do they say dumb things? always. of course, we're following you, Gally. who else? your mom?' she thought confused yet irritated as to why boys always have to ask and say stupid things without even giving their minds a minute to think?

"Men." she sighed heavily watching as they soon reached a door, the sound of people talking behind the door made her push the door open and look around the place in awe, she followed Gally through the crowd making sure to keep an eye on the boys behind.

Trying to hide her face from the people around she walked faster until she was by Gally's side, they walked the stairs with her mouth still open and eyes sparkling wonderfully at how beautiful the place was.

Huge buildings surrounded them as the multicolored lights shone in her eyes beautifully as she stared around, it reminded her of that night when she was cuddling Minho while staring at the stars until Thomas woke them up.

 It was a cold night, a lucid moon, heaven's eyes shining in the black as a divine watchful mother, her eyes sparkling like diamonds under the moonlights in a museum, The buildings galloped up to the clouds and they had entire floors dedicated to play, the WICKED Tower blue lights reflecting on her ravishing eyes as she gazed.

She looked around, noticing a picture of her on one of the towers with huge writing in neon red 'WARNING!' it was a very picture of her holding a gun with narrowed eyes and wearing a black WICKED uniform that fitted perfectly around her waist, except she didn't have the mask.

'Warning! if you see this girl anywhere please contact us!' it said along with her name, her age and other information, "god damn, I really am famous everywhere, aren't I? well, what can I say, my beautiful self deserves the fame." she said proudly staring at the huge blue screen in front of her.

The place looked like Cyberpunk 2077 except this was real life, Asterin felt proud to see her picture on a huge screen in a city warning people as if she was a huge assassin (in which she is) who will kill the whole city for looking at her.

Leaning against the railing with a wicked grin she laughed clapping her hands, clearly enjoying the sign and how WICKED feared her. The blue screen clearly boosted her ego to the max and here she was planning a way to completely destroy the tallest tower out of all. 

They really thought that the sign did something when she literally walked past the crowd swiftly and they didn't even notice her, yet here she was standing beside Gally, A shallow smile placed on her lips with deep piercing eyes and an evil mind.

"welp, they want me to be the villain, then I shall be one." she spoke, Gally looked around, "Yeah, we better get off these streets. and I know it's hard, but act like you've seen it before." with that he walked back down the stairs leaving the trio behind stare at each other before following behind.

way too mesmerized by the view.

Watching as the WICKED's black car drove past them, the group walked out of their hiding and emerged from the shadows feeling exposed, running down the streets Gally peered over to the car that drove past them once again. "They've definitely upped security," he said, "I'm guessing you shanks have something to do with that," he said turning to look over to Thomas and Asterin who were well known for doing trouble.

Thomas and Asterin looked at each other before shrugging their shoulders slightly, "All right, let's get outta here." he said running down the streets once again with Asterin by his side.

Gally pressed himself against the wall and crouched down gesturing Newt to go first, "ALL right, Newt. you're up." Newt nodded and climbed up the wall feeling Gally press his leg up carefully, he crouched once again for Thomas to do the same thing but he only shook his head stubbornly. 

"I got it." Thomas jumped and held the wall tightly climbing up easily, Asterin backed up slowly and ran once again jumping up the wall and grabbing hold of Thomas's hand who pulled her up.

"Thanks, Tommy." she said brushing past him with a smile.

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The group ran quietly until they reached what seemed to be the place to see WICKED's building closer, the view from up here was better than when down there. "There it is. if WICKED's got Minho, that's where they'll be keeping him." noted, if that's where they're keeping Minho then it means where works Ava Paige and where she used to train.

Gally pulled out a telescope and place it on the railing, "Lawrence has been trying to find a way for years. the place is crawling with soldiers. They got surveillance everywhere. Scanners on every floor." he said, eyeing the building. 

When Asterin was silent without uttering any word or not even a scoff, that means she was preparing a plan that could get her killed if it doesn't work, but she was well-known for being willing to do any job to save her friends no matter the danger or violence involved.

"Sounds like a bloody fortress." said Newt rubbing his hands from the cold, "Yeah, I thought you said you had a way in." spoke Thomas turning to look at Gally with slight annoyance clear in his eyes, "I might." that wasn't the answer Thomas wanted to hear and his anger only grew as he turned fully to face the guy.

"You might? What the hell do you mean 'might'?" he asked in rage, feeling Newt's hand press on his chest to calm him down, Asterin rolled her eyes at the trio and pushed between them, taking the telescope in her hand and putting her eyes on it.

Looking around her eyes suddenly stopped over at Minho who was asleep in the bed tossing around clearly having a nightmare, her breath hitched as she stared at Minho suddenly jolting awake and looking around in worry and fear, god she had never seen him like that.

He looked so exhausted and tired.

She could feel the tears blurring her vision as she looked around the building once again, her eyes stopping over to Teresa who was writing something, her eyes narrowed with pure hatred as she handed Thomas the telescope rather harshly.

Thomas's eyes also widened as soon as his eyes landed on Teresa, "I said I had a way in. I didn't say you were gonna like it." said Gally looking at Thomas who was also staring at him in disbelief.