Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 41

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Outside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

Puff! Skylar and Jenna appeared in the control station that Skylar found the location of all the kids. Skylar was confused why they were back there, before he could say anything Jenna was over at the computer.
“Why are we here?” asked Skylar, walking over to her.
“We need to find out where Hilary and Jared are,” Jenna replied without looking up.
“We know where they are, their in same area where I was being held.”
“Yes, but we don’t know how many guards there are, where exactly in that block they are, they could be on opposite sides.”
“Okay, but I could easily just blow them away and make it real easy.”
“And waste energy that you will need to fight Dr. Franks. Remember we don’t know what abilities he has, before you think it will be easy.”
“I don’t remember telling you that he has the gene.”
“You didn’t have to, I just read it.”
“What?”
“Yeah it just came up, while I was talking to you. Funny thing I wasn’t even looking for it.”
“That’s impossible, it took me forever to find information when I looking for it. Not me, it comes up really quick, it is as if the computer knows what I am thinking.”
Skylar couldn’t believe it, he knew what Jenna’s secondary ability was, she was a he believed the name is technopath. He had been wondering what her other ability was, since he had developed two and all she had shown was her teleporting.
“I think the reason you are finding things quickly is because the computer does know what you are thinking, ” said Skylar, with a grin.
“That is crazy, how can that be?”
“We you said you weren’t looking up anything on Dr. Franks and it just popped up, it’s because your secondary ability is to communicate with the technology.”
“I don’t believe you.”
“I’ll prove it.”
“How?”
“Stop typing and just put you hand on the monitor, and think of what you are searching for.”
“That is a waste of time.”
“Just humor me will you,” said Skylar grabbing Jenna’s hand and placing it on the monitor.
“Fine,” said Jenna, rolling her eyes. “I’m thinking… I’m thinking.”
“You can look at the monitor as you think.”
Jenna turned looked at the screen to see the information she wanted on the screen. “Holy Shit!”
“I didn’t know shit was holy.”
“Shut up. That is impossible,” said Jenna looking at Skylar shocked.
Skylar just looking at her with his palms up and head bent down and looking out of the top of his eyes, His way of saying duh!
“Shut up.”
“I didn’t say anything.”
“You were thinking it.”
“Fair enough.”
“Anyway, it says that Hilary and Jared are in the same cell, Block C-7 and there is only two guards. Why only two? You had like fifty.”
“I am also a human destruction machine.”
“Why do you think they have them locked there and not with the rest of the kids?”
Skylar did not say anything, he could only think of two reasons why they would do that, while the first he thought was unlikely but possible. The second was clearly the reason if not a second. “Just in case I got out and found where everyone was being held, when I discovered they were not there I would stay around to try to find them, and the last place I would look would be in the area they were holding me.”
“You got a point.”
“I know.”
“Shut up.”
“Shall we go?”
“Sure, but where do you think Dr. Franks is, we need to take care of him as well. How are we going to find him?”
“I am sure he will find us.”
“Ok, let’s go get your girl and best friend.”
Before Skylar could say anything, Jenna grabbed his hand. Puff! In a split second, they were back in the section, not that long ago Skylar was trying to escape from. He was still getting use to teleporting, from going from reality into what seemed like pitch black for a second and then back to reality. Once back on solid ground, Skylar quickly noticed they were outside his cell, which made since that is where Jenna knew in this area. He looked at the door and saw letter B-2.
“Hilary and Jared are in C-7,” said Jenna.
“I know,” said Skylar annoyed with information that was already said. “My question is how many blocks are there in each letter, you didn’t happen to see that did you.”
“No. I didn’t think about that. Wait here.”
“But!”
Puff! Jenna was gone, while Skylar liked that Jenna could get them across distances easily, but he was going to have to get use to her being able jump to somewhere as something pops into her head, which he could see being a problem later in life for her. Puff! She was back, standing before him but holding a tablet in her hand.
“That is for?”
“I thought since I can communicate with computers I might as well grab my tablet I left back at the dojo.”
“You went back to the dojo?”
“Yeah, no one was there.”
“Okay, I thought you were going to the control station.”
“I did, only to make sure there was wireless and there is.”
“But you don’t have access to the network.”
“Not true,” said Jenna, holding up her table to show a map of the section. Two dots appeared on the far left of the screen and another dot appeared a block over and five doors down. “The two dots is us, and that other dot is where block C-7 is.”
“How did you manage to get access?”
“I hacked in, I told my computer to find a way in and I got pass all the passwords by finding them. Shall we go?”
“You going to teleport us there?”
“No, I have never been there.”
“I really think you are under estimating your ability, but whatever. You can work on it after we get out of here. Let’s go.”
The two turned head down the hall the same way Skylar head when he was escaping. When they reached the intersection Jenna headed right so Skylar followed after her, she had the map after all. They continued the hall until they came to another intersection, this time it was only go straight or take the right. Jenna stopped and Skylar came up behind her. They both peered around the corner to see if they could see the guards, they couldn’t the lights in the hall were only half on making it darker and hard to see, and they were pass the point they could. They turned around the corner and faced each other.
“What should we do, if they see us coming before we see them then they might call for backup,” said Jenna.
“See if there is a camera in this hallway.”
“Good idea.”
Jenna pulled up her tablet and a new window opened in a moment the a screen with links to camera feeds showed, the link C-7 turned red and a video player popped up it showed inside the room, Jared was lying on the bed while Hilary was at the door trying to figure out a way to get it to open. Skylar knew how much she hated being stuck in a confined space without a door open. The feed disappeared but before Skylar could say anything C-7-2 turned red and another feed popped up. This feed showed outside the door, two guards with two weapons in hand standing outside the door.
“Well that answers our question,” said Skylar.
“What should we do?” asked Jenna dropping hands to her sides.
“I say walk right down see what they do, if they go to stop us or call for back up you know what to do.”
“What’s that?”
“You know.”
Skylar turned and started down the hall Jenna had to catch up, Skylar was half way to the room when she finally caught up. The closer they got to the room the more he could feel his pulse beating a little faster, not just because he will see Hilary again, but because he knew this was all going to come to an end soon. They passed by C-6 and he could see one of the guards step out to see who was coming, Skylar did not stop and he could tell Jenna wasn’t either.
“Hey,” shouted the guard. “What are you doing down here?”
Skylar and Jenna continued on, the closer they got they could see he was reaching for his radio. He knew if they did not do something quickly, they would have the whole force on them. He kept watching, but was not close enough to do anything, he needed to be closer to use his telekinesis; he began to turn to look at Jenna. Puff! He stopped turned his head forward, just as the guard brought the radio to his mouth. Thud! Jenna hit him in the back of the head with the handle of her sword. The guard still at the door began to raise his weapon, but she threw her elbow right into his face, Skylar could hear the cartilage break. The guard dropped his weapon, and Jenna followed it up with a knee to the gut. He dropped to the floor, and with one last hit, she kicked him in the back of the head to knock him out.
“I thought I was going to have to tell you what to do,” said Skylar, reaching her.
“I had no clue what you wanted until he went for his radio,” said Jenna picking up the guards keycard. She placed it on the scan and the door opened. Skylar pushed open the door, to see Hilary and Jared standing against the far wall. Their expression changed quickly from a look of fear to relief. Skylar couldn’t hold back, he ran into the room right for Hilary was only a few feet before her when something unexpected happened, he hit something. The floodgates of pain surge through his body as his broken nose was squished against some invisible field. Skylar fell back to the floor, only to look up in surprise, he was not sure what happened but then he saw it something unbelievable, some blood was slowly began to roll down towards the floor revealing an field. While his nose throbbed and blood once again was gushing from it, he could not believe that his first thought was right for while she was there. Somehow like Jenna and himself Hilary had figured out how to active her gene and her first ability.

Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 40

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Outside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

Puff! Jenna and Kelly appeared in the woods right where she had left the last group, but it was empty no one was there. She did not think that it was possible for them to get that many kids out of the area so quickly. Her worst fears settled in, they had been discovered. It was at that moment she realized the soldier fired his gun and, she rolled Kelly over to see her soaked in blood. She had been hit, she did not move. Two lives had been lost now in their rescue attempt and it was still not over, Hilary and Jared were still in the facility somewhere. That is when a faint sound caught her ear, it was the sound of crying, she looked around but saw no one, and then she noticed Kelly’s chest moving, the noise came from her. She got down on her knees looked and saw her eyes opened, she was alive, but how? There was too much blood.
“It’s okay Kelly I will get you to a doctor,” said Jenna, “I will make sure you will survive.”
“I am not hurt,” whispered Kelly, slowly sitting up with tears rolling down her cheeks. “It is from my brother Herald.”
That made since she through herself on the Herald, the bullet ripped through his knew like a hot knife through butter. Now wonder why she was soaked, but what made it worst was that that little boy was her brother. She placed her arm on Kelly’s shoulder as she continued to cry. After a few moments, Kelly turned and wrapped her arms around Jenna. She continued to cry, and Jenna could feel her pain, actually feel the pain Kelly was going through. It made her think of how she felt when her dad was killed. Jenna started snivel as well, the emotions she was feeling from Kelly and the hurt and lost of her dad was too much for her, too many lives had bee lost and she broke.
The tears came pouring down her cheeks as if a dam that had been holding the water back had broke. With in moments her shirt was soaked from both her tears and the blood from Kelly’s clothes, as thoughts and worries about that they might have been caught did not matter. The two hugged each other for what felt like hours when only several minutes passed. The two slowly began to calm down, Jenna noticed that she felt different, something inside her was missing, but it was good. She quickly realized that since her dad had died she had not mourned him let her feeling lose accept in the moment of his death. Somehow Kelly’s pain from the lost of her brother as she held her helped her finally release her own.
“You going to be okay?” asked Jenna.
“I think so,” said Kelly as she pulled free from Jenna. “It is weird.”
“What’s weird?”
“I could feel the hurt and pain I was feeling leaving me and entering you, did you do that on purpose?”
“No! I don’t know how I did it, but I could feel your pain. I lost my dad because of this and had yet to really let my pain out.”
“That’s good, how are you feeling.”
“Better, that huge hole in my heart is still there, but the wall that I felt that held back all that emotion is gone.”
“I know what you mean, I thought I still feel said for my brothers lost, but I just can’t cry anymore.”
At that moment bright headlights shot on them, Jenna was nearly blinded by them. She was not expecting this and Kelly did not either, it was then her fears that everyone had been caught returned. Now they had found her and Kelly, she had to do something get away, form another plan to help get them free, but first she needed to get Kelly out of there. She heard one of the doors of the vehicle be slammed shut, and footsteps heading to them. Jenna needed to move and move now. She grabbed Kelly’s shoulders, but nothing was happening, she thought for a moment could this be Dr. Franks and could his ability be to negate her ability? She remembered The Haitian from the TV series Heroes who could do that, and from what she had seen with her abilities and Skylar’s anything was possible.
She kept trying to teleport out of there, but it was not working. The footsteps were getting closer and she could think of what to do. It was then she realized it was her, a place to go was not coming to her that is how it always worked, think of a place hard enough and you went there. She closed her eyes and tried to picture someplace safe. A picture of a room starting to form in her mind something brought great comfort, as it began to swirl in to detail she realized it was her home in Prattsville, she tried to focus harder on it when.
“Jenna!” said a voice.
Jenna’s eyes snapped open, she recognized the voice. “Skylar!”
“Yeah! Jin cut the lights would you.”
The lights turned off and not five feet from her stood Skylar, a relief washed over he mind knowing she was wrong. “WHY IN THE HELL DID YOU TWO SHINE THOSE LIGHTS SO BRIGHTLY AT US!” Bellowed Jenna, as she stood up. “I THOUGHT EVERYONE HAD BEEN CAPTURED AND YOU WERE WITH DR. FRANKS.”
Jenna felt as if steam was coming out of her ears, and could tell her face was bright red, she could feel the heat. She took a breath since Skylar took a step back, which she thought was funny since he was far more dangerous then she was, he trained for months while she only trained a few weeks, though she had to admit it felt good knowing Skylar at that moment was afraid of her.
“You done screaming at us?”
“NO!” Jenna half shouted. “I just don’t have time to continue we have a plan we need to continue with.”
“I was about to ask you about that, and why did you think we were all captured?”
“Well there were fifty of us,” said Kelly who was not standing. “We know two of you were out here, only to come back with no one of them here.”
“I couldn’t have said it any better.”
“We had 3 vans fifteen passenger vans ,” said Jin walking up next to Skylar. “We had some of the older kids drive. We squeezed the remaining three one into each van. They are all-safe not far from here, is this it? I thought you said their were fifty with just her it is forty-nine.”
“Shut up Jin.”
“My brother was killed when Jenna came back for us.”
Jenna could tell that Jin was now looking at Kelly’s shirts, “I am sorry.”
“I am too, but I need to get out of here.”
“Jin will take you,” said Jenna, turning to face Kelly. “Skylar and I have some unfinished business in the facility we have to go get and also Dr. Franks.”
“When you find Dr. Franks beat the shit out of him for my brother as well for your dad.”
“I will.”
Kelly turned took a few steps towards Jin and stopped she turned around walked back threw her arms around Jenna and pulled her close. This caught Jenna off guard, but she quickly wrapped her arms around Kelly. The two held each other, because they had shared an emotional event. A few moments passed, Kelly let go turned and walked over to Jin. Skylar joined Jenna as the two watched her and Jin get into the van.
“Skylar knows where we will be, meet up with us there,” shouted Jin before getting into the car. Both door slammed shut and the van roared to life. Jenna, placed her arm on Skylar’s should waved to Kelly as Jin backup. Puff!

Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 39

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Outside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

Puff! Jenna was back inside the basement just as it was when she left, right next to the door leading to the stair. She walked through it door looked up the stairs to see if she could hear anything, nothing it was silent. Puff! At the top of the stairs, she walked through the doorway back into the hall of the living facility.
“FREEZE!” shouted a voice.
Jenna looked up to see six soldiers standing at the end of the hall with their weapons all pointing at her. She grinned, knowing they were no match for her, she could appear behind them before they even squeeze the triggers to fire. The urge to play with them came over her, she want to mess with their minds.
“You don’t know what you are doing do you?” asked Jenna, smiling.
“Shut up and put your hands up,” said the same soldier who shouted freeze. “If you don’t we will shoot you.”
“No!”
Bang! Puff!
Jenna appeared on the opposite side of the hall a foot or two from where she was. She turned to look at the wall, to see a silver dark embedded into the wall she was too quick. “Wow that was close, on second thought not really.”
“What just happened.”
“Try it again to see what happens.”
“Captain did you see what I saw?”
“Did she just move from where she was to where she is now in a blink of an eye?”
“Yes!”
“Then Yes.”
Jenna just smiled knowing these rent a cops were beginning to realize they were out of their league, that is when she notices a movement behind her, she just caught a glimpse of blonde hair, which made her realizes she needed to find Kelly. Then it clicked they had her, she wanted to continue to play with these men, but she could not risk it with her and that boy that came up here. Puff!
“Where did she go?” asked the man who had been giving her the commands.
Jenna grabbed the soldier behind them who was holding Kelly while he was still stunned that she just appeared in front of him. She threw all of her weight behind her punch that slammed into his face, his grip dropped as he fell to the floor with a thud. Jenna turned to see one of the soldiers turn to see her. Puff! Bam! Ah! the soldier slowly slid to the floor as Jenna stood before him after slamming him into the wall with great speed.
“She’s behind us,” shouted another soldier who turned to see what happened.
Puff! BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!
Jenna appeared behind them, in the wall behind here five darts were stuck in the wall. Knowing they were serious, she could not take any more chances. She grabbed the collars of the to closes soldiers and yanked them backwards. Puff! Dong! The two soldiers head slammed into the steel wall of the box the kids were locked into to die. Puff! Jenna pulled her sword from her back and thrusted it through the chest of the lead soldier chest, the soldier to her right stood up raising up his weapon to strike her with the butt of the gun, Jenna threw her elbow into his gut, not a sound only a gust of air rushing from his lungs rushed by her head moving her air.
Jenna quickly pulled her sword from soldier with a sucking sound as she pulled it from his body. Once free, she spun in a circle slashing the soldier she just knocked the air out and the soldier to her left across the chest, the both drop with the clacking of their weapons as they hit the floor. Jenna stood ready to strike in case someone made a move, once she was sure they were dead, she stood straight and with a quick flick the blood on her blade off.
“Where is Damon?” asked Kelly rounding the corner.
“I don’t know?” said Jenna, sliding her sword back into is sheath.
“Got it,” said a voice at the end of the hall.
Jenna and Kelly turned to see ten-year-old boy come walking out of the sleeping area holding something in his hand. Jenna was glad to see he was okay, but was not sure how he got pass the guards possibly he got up there before they came in and caught Kelly. It did not matter now, because he was okay she could the final two out of there. Kelly was already on her way over to him, when the unthinkable happened. BANG! Jenna just froze, there was nothing she could have done, and she did not even know anyone was behind the door. Blood hit the wall from where the bullet ripped out of his neck, the boy fell to the ground dead. Kelly stopped at the first, but took off to the boy.
“NO!” shouted Jenna, knowing whoever just fired that round would do the same again.
Kelly reached the boy threw herself over him, when Jenna looked up to see the unthinkable a soldier walking through the door with a hand gun in his hand, pointing right at Kelly, she had to get Kelly out now. Puff! Jenna appeared next to her grabbed her arm. BANG! Puff!

Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 38

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Inside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

Puff! Jenna appeared back inside the metal box, she was not happy that she was the only one back in the facility with an army on their way. She knew she had to hurry, if they showed up before she could get them all out, they would probably be killed. She walked to the closest body to her, once next to the young boy easily thirteen; she knelt down and gently started to shake him. A few moments his eyes shot open.
“What happened?” asked the boy sitting up.
“You passed out,” said Jenna standing back up.
“Where did that hole come from? I thought we were going to die.”
“Long story, but my friend and I came to rescue you all.”
“Where is your friend?”
“He got hurt in the process of making that hole and I had to take him outside. I’ll be taking you the same place in a moment, but I need your help to wake everyone else up.”
“What, there is no way out of here without the guards seeing us.”
“Trust me there is, and if you wake up a few people you will see.”
“No. You show me now, because for all I know you are working with Dr. Franks.”
“Whatever!” said Jenna. Puff! She appeared on the other side of the room, she glanced over to see the boys reaction, all she saw was his eyes widen. Jenna turned her attention to another body this a girl, based on her face she was probably closer to her age. Like the boy she shook her gently, the girls eyes slowly opened, unlike the boy she laid there for a moment, before she slowly sat up.
“What is going on?” asked the girl.
“Nothing much,” said Jenna, stand back up. “Just here to rescue you.”
“Really?”
“Yes.”
“How?”
“Ask him,” said Jenna glancing over at the young boy who had wakened two other people and was shaking a third. Jenna looked back at the girl who was looking at the boy. “He will tell you, but we do not have long we need to wake everyone up fast.”
“Okay, but why?”
“Let’s just say I have it on good authority that a army is headed this way.”
“I see,” said the girl as she extended her hand to be helped up, Jenna grabbed her hand and pulled her to her feet. “I am Kelly, who are you?”
“I am Jenna.”
“Nice to me you.”
“Same.”
In a few minutes half the people were awake in some form, Jenna knew she needed to start moving people to the forest, she had just woken the youngest person there a girl who had to be no older then eight years old. This scared Jenna, that Dr. Franks would be willing to kill a child. After helping, the girl to her feet she walked to the center of the room where Kelly was waking up two bodies, and Charles the thirteen-year-old boy she woke up first. Once over to them, she tapped them on the shoulder.
“Yes,” said Kelly.
“I need to start getting them out of here,” said Jenna. “Are you okay staying to help wake the rest up?”
“I am still not sure how you going to get us out of here, but shouldn’t we all go at once, we can’t leave anyone here to anyone who shows up.”
“Trust me, this will be quick.”
“Okay, I’ll stay behind.”
“Can I get you all attention,” said Jenna, looking at everyone in the box who was awake and standing. “I need to get you all to safety, but there are a lot of you, I am going to be able to do this ten at a time not including myself.”
“How are you going to get us out of here?” asked an older girl with black curly hair, who was clearly one of the oldest, probably eighteen or even nineteen.
“You will see, I need ten of you come over here. I promise there is no way that you will get hurt.”
Jenna looked around no one moved closer to her, she knew they were scared since they all most died, but she figured they would be willing trust the person who saved them. She knew that Dr. Frank’s forces were going to be here soon, so she had to prove quickly she meant them no harm. Charles who stood only a foot from her, she reached out placed her hand his shoulder. Puff!
“Where did they go?” said fourteen boys with dark brown hair down to his shoulder.
“Over here,” said Jenna.
Everyone turned to see she and Charles were standing behind them, the moment the saw where she was half of them jaw hit the floor. Just to prove that they were not seeing things, she did it again. Puff! She appeared back where she and Charles were originally standing, the group turned around to see them.
“Now do you see how we are getting out of here?” asked Jenna, but before she could finish speaking they all ran over to her, all wanting to be the first to get out of there. “Hold on. I told you I can only take ten at a time. Charles I need you to stay form groups of ten. You ten will go first.”
Jenna could tell everyone not in the ten she pointed to were disappointed, she walked over to the ten, one being the older girl who asked how she was going to get them out. Before Jenna even could give them what to do, she heard Charles breaking them all into groups, she smiled seeing he was taking command, as an seventeen year old boy was trying to give him a hard time, but he just looked at him and told him that he would be going last and the seventeen year old looked over at her and she just shook her head as she agreed with him. He was not happy and walked over and sulked in the corner.
“I need you all to hold hands,” said Jenna turning her attention to the first group. They did so quickly, once they were all touching she grabbed the eight-year-old girl hand. Puff! They appeared outside in the woods next to the fire. Skylar sat next to the fire drinking something from a bottle, he looked up the moment he heard a the puff.
“Took you long enough,” said Skylar.
“Who is that?” asked the eight year old.
“It is okay, he is the one who put the hole in box so you call would not die.”
“How?” asked the black haired girl.
“Let’s just say I have an ability like her that allowed me to do it,” said Skylar with a smirk.
“Where is Jin?” asked Jenna, looking around for him.
“He went to get the van ready, I will take them to him, while you go back.”
“Okay, but I could use a hand in there.”
“I’ll be back.”
“Okay. Everyone this is Skylar he will take you from here to a man named Jin who is going to get you all out of here.”
“I am scared,” said the eight-year-old girl.
Skylar stood up putting the bottle down, and walked over to her. Upon reaching her and Jenna, he squatted down to her level. “It’s okay, I promise you will be okay.”
Skylar extended his hand, the young girl did not do anything at first she looked up at Jenna, and she shook her head as she agreed like before. The girl looked back at Skylar then at his hand. She slowly reached up and took his hand, Skylar smiled before standing. “Everyone follow me, do not get a head of me.”
Skylar took off heading straight from where he was, the group followed behind him. Jenna could not believe that this was going to work, she wanted to watch them, but knew there were others waiting. Puff! She was back inside this time it was different, there were four well organized groups all waiting for her, Charles looking over them making sure no one from a later group tried to sneak into an earlier one.
“How is everyone?” asked Jenna.
“They are all ready to go,” said Charles with a smile.
“Good, you are in the next group.”
“You said only ten in each group.”
“I did, but I believe one more will not make much difference.”
“Okay.”
“Jenna you might want to hurry, I heard noises upstairs. I think they are here and getting ready to make their move.”
“Okay.”
“How many still need to be wakened up?”
“Just one, but he is not waking even though I have shook him hard.”
“Get him up.”
“I will.”
Jenna looked at the next group, Charles had joined the group, and they were all holding hands ready to leave. Jenna took Charles hands and they were gone. She made three more trips in the next minute and a half, she returned for the final group, when she appeared back in the box, the final group was not there. This was not good, she was not sure if Dr. Frank’s forces had come and taken them or what. Then she heard a noise outside the box, she turned around to see one of the boys left at the edge of the hole. She did not waste time, she ran over to him, as she rounded the corner she saw the rest of the group standing next to the door leading up to the living area.
“What is going on?” Jenna asked, as she appeared next to them.
“The boy who was last to wake, he took off back upstairs,” said the tall seventeen-year-old boy who Charles put in the last box because he was trying to bully him. “He said something about wanting to get something from his room.”
“Where is Kelly?”
“She went after him, then we heard shouting a few moments after she ran up the stairs.”
“What are you going to do?” asked a fourteen-year-old blonde hair pulled back into a ponytail.
“Everyone grab hands.”
“What?” they all said.
“I need to get you all out of here, I will come back for them.”
They did what she said and, she placed her hand on the shoulder of the seventeen-year-old boy shoulder. Puff! They were outside, Skylar was nowhere in sight, she did not like this, she knew if they were captured she was going to have to do this on her own. “Everyone stay here until someone comes for you.”
Puff!

Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 37

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Inside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

Skylar took a deep breath, the cool air flowed into his burning lungs, with each breath slowly began to cool the pain. He had never been gone that long without air, and never wanted to do it again. He swallowed several more breaths, before he slowly got back to his feet, he looked around the box to see everyone was out, even those who were awake when Jenna teleported him in. He quickly turned to see where Jenna, was, he must have turned to quickly then he was ready for, the moment he turned his body moved greatly in the direction he was going, sending Skylar stumbling. He took several steps trying to get his balance under him, he reached the wall of the metal box and quickly placed his hand upon the wall to steady himself.
He could not understand why he was having such a hard time staying up, he had been practicing using his energy over the past two weeks. He could glanced at his watch and could not believe that fifteen minutes had passed, when glanced at his watch right before he started to make the hole, it was ten after nine, now his watch read nine thirty. Soon after he started trying to punch a hole in the wall, five minutes passed when the next thing he remembered was on his knees and breathing in the air and the hole was there. Skylar never remember actually putting the hole in the wall.
The more he thought about it, the more he wondered if he blacked out and his body took over allowing him to do more then he should be able to do, and that is why he was having problems standing. Skylar knew he did not have enough time to figure it out, he needed to check Jenna to make sure she was all right so they can get them out of there. He took a deep breath then took a step as he removed his hand from the wall. No stumble or loss of balance, he took another followed by another after a few more with no problems Skylar moved at normal speed for him over to Jenna. Upon reaching her, he knelt down but his hand over her nose, he felt a slight breeze, and she was breathing.
Skylar quickly rolled her over on her back, and lightly began to shake her, a few shakes and her eyes snapped open. He knew he should have been ready for this, knowing the training Jenna had gone through, being the same he had received, but he was not. Jenna grabbed the back of his head and she brought her head up and slammed her forehead into his face. Skylar fell back on his butt, he quickly grabbed his face, as Jenna jumped to her feet. Skylar too busy from blood pouring from his nose, that had to be broken, even touching it as lightly as he could sent a rush of pain through his body. He did not realize until a few moments later that Jenna had fallen on her ass, after she kicked up. A little too much for nearly suffocating.
“What happened?” asked Jenna, slowly trying to get to her feet.
“YOU BROKE MY NOSE!” Shouted Skylar, tilting his head back trying to stop the bleeding.
“What?”
“I said you broke my nose. Shit, why did you head butt me?”
Jenna did not say anything, she was obviously still trying to figure out what happened. “Sorry. Just reacted, you should have been ready for that anyway.”
“That is no… Shit, you’re right. But still, that hurts.”
“You my head is pounding.”
“Serves you right.”
“You going to tell me what happened?”
“I am not sure.”
“What do you mean?”
“Last I know you passed out, I think I did but my body took over and continued with making the hole.”
“Really? How did it do that?”
“I am not sure. I think I might have blacked out.”
“I see, we need to get these people out of here. They have to be on their way.”
“Why do you say that?”
“Because of that,” said Jenna, pointing at the hole in the metal box.
Skylar was confused by why she thought the hole in the wall would draw people to the area, after a few minutes of looking at the wall, he looked passed it where his beam had slammed into the foundation of the room outside. In the foundation was a six-foot hole going at least teen feet into the ground. It could have been longer, after ten feet in the light stopped. There was no way that the whole facility above them did not shake when his beam hit that wall.
“Oh!”
“Yeah, I would say so. Give me a hand.”
“I can’t, I need to get this bleeding stopped.”
“Stop being a baby and suck it up.”
“Do you really think these kids want me trying to wake them up while bleeding on them. I think not, you wouldn’t want me to do it to you would you?”
“No.”
“Good. Take me out to Jin. Maybe he can stop it and I can come back in and help.”
“Fine.”
Jenna walked over the few steps between them, and put her hand on his head. Puff! The ark dimly lit foundation changed to a dark forest with millions of sparkling stars in the sky. The only other light came from about a thousand yards from where they were. Skylar got to his feet, his face still thriving from Jenna’s head butt. They slowly and carefully walked toward a faint orange glow. As they approached, they saw a small fire but no one around it, Skylar knew Jin heard them coming and was planning his attack.
“Amica” said Skylar, in a firm voice loud enough for only someone in the immediate area could hear. A few moments later, a dark figure emerged from the right, blocking the fire.
“Took you long enough,” said Jin, slowly walking towards them.
“Why are you all the way here instead of where we were before?” asked Jenna, walking toward Jinn.
“The camp fire this far in will not be detectable but it would have been from where we were.”
“Oh.”
“What the hell happened to you?” asked Jin, the moment light from the fire caught Skylar’s face.
“She did!” said Skylar knotting his head toward Jenna. “She head butted me when I tried to wake her up. She broke my nose, what I get for saving her life.”
“Why was she unconscious?”
“Dr. Franks decided to dispose of everyone who did not have an active gene,” said Jenna. “They were sealed inside a metal box so they run out of air, Skylar had to punch a hole in the wall.”
“Why not just teleport them all out of the wall?”
“Too many, and they were spread out, it would have taken too long.”
“How long did it take to make the hole?”
“About fifteen minutes, I think I even blacked out.”
“What!”
“Yeah, I have no memory of stopping, I remember falling to my knees still firing my energy at the wall, then waking up with the hole in the wall. I could hardly walk afterwards, I think my body took over somehow.”
“That would be about right.”
“What!” said Jenna and Skylar together.
“Your mind will do whatever it can to survive, even exceed the limits you are capable of, but to do it, has to wait for you to lose consciousness before the subconscious can take over. I believe that is what happened, but I still don’t see why you did not teleport people out.”
“Jenna passed out before I did, so even if she teleported one or two of those kids at a time, she would have had to rested outside so she wouldn’t have passed out, it would have taken longer.”
“Why not do both?”
Neither said a thing, Skylar never actually thought about doing both, and how he wished he had. His face and nose would being hurting if he did, but what was done was done.
“Not sure, but it is in the pass. In need to get my nose to stop bleeding.”
“Yes you do. I’ll help with that. Jenna go back and start teleporting those kids back here. I have the van parked about a hundred yards from here, once we have enough I will take them a safe distance away.”
“Ok,” said Jenna, Puff! She was gone.
“You come with me, we need to set your nose so it can heal, before we stop that bleeding.”
Skylar and Jin walked back to the fire, he knew Jin needed better lighting before he could do anything. Once back at the fire, Jin took a close look at his nose, before he grabbed a large stick completely peeled.
“Put this in your mouth,” said Jin, handing him the stick.
“Why?” asked Skylar taking the stick.
“This is going to hurt. Make sure you bite down hard.”
Skylar did what he was told, put the stick in his mouth and bite down, the moment after he started to bite down, Jin grabbed his nose between his index, and middle finger squeezed it hard. Pain surged through his body, he felt like he was going to pass out, but that was not all. A second after he pinched his nose Jin snapped his wrist to the right forcing his nose move with it.
“ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Scream Skylar!

Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 36

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Inside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

Puff! Skylar turned to see Jenna standing a few feet from him, he stood up and walked over to her, placing his hands on her shoulders. “Take us back to the compound where they were staying.”
“Why?” asked Jenna.
“I found that they are disposing of them in a metal air tight case below the living area.”
“Okay.”
Puff! Skylar and Jenna appeared back in the main living area, Skylar wasted no time, he pulled his hands off of Jenna’s shoulder took off down the hallway until he came to a stop right in front of a door, Jenna joined him, but he turned facing the joining wall. He searched the wall until he found a crack, where he placed both hands shoulder length apart and planted his feet and pushed. A few moments a loud scraping of metal on concrete came from the wall as it slowly got pushed in. After a few inches, it stopped, Skylar continued to push, but the door would go no further. He stepped back to look at the hidden passage closer, it had only moved in about two feet not enough for them to get by it also there was no really hole to slip through even if they could.
“Maybe you need to slid it to the side,” said Jenna.
“I think you’re right,” said Skylar, as he repositioned himself, he placed both hands on the wall one above the other with only a few inches apart. His left forearm was pressed against the wall, using his legs he pushed off the floor and the door started to move, slowly it began slide to the right with an even louder scratching of rust wheels and metal. After a few inches, Skylar had to stop to rest, the door was heavy, and hard to move. Jenna joined, she got in front of him as Skylar kept his spot. Together they shoved the door until they hear a loud click and the door would not move any more. Stepping back, they saw a passage the size of a door leading to some stairs with just a little light coming up from down below.
Skylar went first and Jenna followed, Skylar wanted to move faster then he was, but was not sure if anyone was going to be down there guarding the door. Once they reached the bottom of the stairs, Skylar saw only one way to go and followed the hall with Jenna near by, the reached a corner, and he crept up on it and peered around to see a large steel box with a door in the middle, he waited to see if anyone came around guarding it, but after a few minutes no one came. Skylar ran right over to the door, once there he grabbed wheel that was on the front and cranked it, then tried to pull it open, but couldn’t. Not sure why the door would not open, Jenna tapped him on the shoulder.
“What?” snapped Skylar, turning to see what Jenna wanted.
“They welded it shut,” said Jenna, pointing line on the door.
“SHIT” said Skylar, not happen, knowing there were kids just like him in there dying. “You need to get us inside.”
“I can’t,” said Jenna, with a sound of surprised in her voice. “I can only go where I have been, not where I haven’t.”
“Yes you can, you just haven’t had the time to practice. Just picture getting inside this box.”
“That is crazy there is no air inside, we will die.”
“No we won’t, I just need to see where everyone is so I don’t hurt them. I can make a hole to get air inside, but cannot risk hurting one of them.”
“Then I will go in and come back to tell you where to make the hole.”
“Deal.”
Puff! Jenna was gone, Skylar waited a few moments, thinking she would be right back. The few moments turned into a minute then a few minutes, which is when he started to get worried. Puff! Jenna appeared right in front of him.
“What took you so long?” asked Skylar, relieved she was all right.
“There are like fifty people in there and only a few are a wake, I had to help them move some away from the wall so you could make the hole. They are ready, left side make it as big as you can.”
“No!”
“What?” asked Jenna, shocked.
“You need to take me inside, because it is going to take a lot of energy to make that hole, and when it punches through anyone in the way will be vaporized. I need to do it from inside to make sure no one gets hurt.”
“You sure? It is hard to breath, I thought I was going to pass out before I teleported out.”
“Yes.”
“Okay,” said Jenna, putting her hand on Skylar’s shoulder. Puff!
They appeared inside a semi lighted room, Skylar could not believe how many people were in there also, how young they were, more then half had to be younger then him around twelve or thirteen. This made him even angrier, how they could just kill people after they did not need them anymore. Skylar quickly turned to see the wall that had no one near by, he took a breath, and began coughing from the lack of air. He knew he had to do this quick. He cupped his hands to the right side spread his legs out in a fighting stance, closed his eyes. He breathed slowly doing his best not to cough, then opened them once he felt his arms starting to shake, in between his cupped hands were a bluish glowing ball of energy that just growing, after a few moments it began pushing Skylar’s hands apart from getting so big.
After a minute Skylar threw his arms forward in front of his chest opening his hands as the energy flew in a long beam. DONG! echoed through the metal box as the energy slammed into the wall, it spread up the wall, several feet as more and more energy came from Skylar’s hands. The metal started to glow bright red, beads of sweat started to form on Skylar’s forehead from the heat coming from the wall. It was taking longer then Skylar thought, he was growing weaker from the lack of air to breath, he dropped to one knee, but he kept his arms in position. Then he heard something he did not want to hear, he looked behind him after a loud thud to see Jenna had passed out. He knew he only had a few seconds before he to would pass out and they would die with everyone inside.
Suddenly a spark in Skylar’s eyes grew, he stood back up his eyes glowing pure blue with no pupils. The energy coming from his hands grew double the size and in seconds, the beam was bigger and a loud cracking sound came from the wall before the beam shot past the wall into the foundation of the room outside. Skylar dropped to his knees as air filled the room, he looked up his eyes were normal, he had done it.

Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 35

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Inside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

Skylar and Jenna ran through the entire holding area, through the halls down to the bathrooms, bedrooms, swimming pool, gym, no one were there. Skylar was not happy about this, how could anyone know what they were going to do. After several minutes of searching, he and Jenna met back in the main lobby.
“Did you find anyone?” asked Skylar, looking at Jenna.
“No,” she replied. “They have to be on to us.”
“How? Only you, Jin and I knew what was going to go down.”
“Maybe, no never mind.”
“What?”
“It was stupid, I don’t even believe it.”
“Spit it out will you.”
“Ok, how much do you trust Jin?”
“What do you mean?”
“Do you trust him?”
“Yes.”
“What if he has been using us this whole time? He is still working with Dr. Franks as to prove he could unlock the gene.”
“No way.”
“I am just throwing the idea out there, but you said it yourself that only the three of us knew about this plan. I have been with you since we got here.”
“Not true, you went back into find this place, for all I know you could have been reporting in.”
“SKYLAR!” shouted Jenna, whose face was starting to be come bright red. “You saved me from these people, why would I turn on you?”
“I am just pointing out that you haven’t been here with me all the time.”
“Okay you have done that, now what?”
Silence, Skylar did not respond right away, he needed to think. He walked over, sat down on one of the couches, crossed his arms, and stared at the floor. He knew Dr. Franks could not have known this plan, since they had not formed it until after the last time he saw him. How could they have known, then it hit him, he had a reason why those who they were looking for were not there.
“Where did you get the information of this location?” Skylar asked.
“Why?”
“Just tell me where.”
“It was in a command office not far from here.”
“Take me there now.”
“Ok.”
PUFF! The two appeared in a dark room; suddenly the lights came on as soon as they began to move. Skylar saw an empty room with several computer terminals, with a PA system next to the door and some hand radios. He quickly walked over grabbed two radios threw one to Jenna who barely had time to react but caught it. He turned it on, before sitting down next to the closest computer. He tried to logon, but he needed a password.
“How did you access the information?” asked Skylar, as the turned in his chair and looked at Jenna.
“I swiped a keycard when I came looking for you,” said Jenna, holding up the card. She walked over and handed it to him.
Skylar quickly took the card slipped it into the card reader and a name appeared in the user name space, but he still needed a password.
“It’s password,” said Jenna, before Skylar could ask.
“Password? What kind of idiot uses the word password for his password?”
“Me. The card was brand new, so when I used it I had to put a password on it. So I just used password so I won’t forget it.”
“Oh.”
Skylar quickly typed the password in and hit enter, in a moment he was in, full access to anything he wanted. He brought up a search window and typed in, test subjects and hit enter. Several folders started to pop up as any file with that name in it. A few minutes past when the search ended, before Skylar could open a file, a crack on the radio and someone spoke.
“Attention all unites the subject in Delta building is on the loose, begin a search of your area, he could be anywhere,” said a voice.
Skylar turned to Jenna. “That’s your Que.”
“I am on it,” said Jenna.
“Stay on channel 3, in case I need to in touch with you.”
“Will do.”
With a puff! She was gone.
Skylar turned back to the computer and started looking through the files, but there were several hundred of them. He stopped after looking through the first five realizing it would take too long. Skylar sat there thinking he could narrow the search, then he remembered what Jin had told him the project names was, he brought up the search window again and typed in Project Morpheus. He hit enter and the search ended instantly with one folder. He clicked it and several folders appeared, again too many to choose from, so he quickly brought up the search window and click search within folder and typed in test subjects, experiments, and hit enter. Three folders remained; the first folder was the first experiment.
Skylar clicked on it and several video files appeared, he clicked on the first one and Windows Media Player loaded. A few moments the video started to play, a man with a lab coat on who Skylar recognized as Dr. Franks, stood before a camera and began to speak.
“This is the first video log based on the attempt to combine human DNA with that of DNA with aliens,” said Dr. Franks. “If we are successful in doing this the first half human half alien being will be born.”
Skylar stopped the video, he could not believe what he just heard, and the very first experiment was to combine human and alien DNA together. Skylar did not care about watching all of the, he closed the video scrolled to the very last video and clicked it. Windows Media Player popped back up and Dr. Franks stood once again in front of the camera.
“The first experiment was successful,” said Dr. Franks, with cuts on his face and damage in the background. “However, the creature we created was uncontrollable and we had to kill it. While we were successful, we realized that we must make this thing more human. The abilities this creature had was amazing and now the goal is to isolate those genes that give creature its abilities and give them to man.”
The video ended, Skylar could was shocked, he, Jenna, and everyone kept here were part of a science experiment to give man powers, using Alien DNA. That is when another crack call came over the radio.
“We are under attack,” said a voice. “The subject is in Beta building attacking us. Send backup.”
“We are on our way.”
Skylar turned back to his computer, glad that their plan to draw them away from where they were was working so far. He closed out of the video files and clicked on the second folder, several documents appeared. One caught his eye that had his name on it. Skylar quickly clicked it and it open; he quickly began to read what it said.
“Now that we have Skylar Grant whose gene is active, we have begun major experiments to turn an inactive gene into a active gene. We know it will take a long time to figure out, Dr. Franks has given the go ahead to start working on an artificial gene that will do the same thing, until we figure out how to make inactive genes active. It is very clear that actual genes when they become active will allow those who have it abilities to be far great then those who have an artificial gene that is active.”
He notice that these were only entries and that first one was dated the first day he arrived about a day after being captured. He jumped down several entries until he saw the words artificial gene complete and began to read again.
“Today we completed developing our first artificial gene, it was truly a great day. Of course, we all knew that Dr. Franks was going to take it, but that is okay, we will make more of these over the next several weeks and we all will be able to have them. Dr. Kiloton has taken the gene to give Dr. Franks the gene therapy so he will have the gene. The kinds of abilities that he will develop will be random and based on his body only time will tell.”
Skylar knew he would get abilities, when he looked at the time of the entry it was today, only minutes before he escaped. Skylar could not figure out why Dr. Franks did not use his abilities against him instead of drugging him. The only thing he could think of was that it takes time for the abilities to appear after the gene has been placed in the body. He scrolled a few more pages, when he came to the last entry that was entered only ten minutes ago.
“Dr. Franks is starting to have his abilities show, we know the gene works. Tomorrow we will start mass production of this gene, now that we know what we are doing, it should only take a few days to create gene instead of two weeks. Dr. Frank as also ordered that all the old lab rats that have the gene be taken care of since we have no use for them anymore. I gave the order to take all of them below their living quarters into a solid metal box where they will die, well all for Hilary Allan, who is being kept in a cell in Delta near her boyfriend.”
Skylar grabbed the radio clicked the dial on the top so it was at three and pressed the long button on the side.
“Jenna get back to the command point NOW!” shouted Skylar.

Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 34

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Inside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

Puff! Skylar and Jenna appeared in a long brightly lit hallway, with on one around. Skylar knew according to plan was for them to teleport into the North West facility and make their way to the area all the other kids were being held. They quickly walked down the hall as fast as they could without making any noise. In moments they were at the far door, Jenna grabbed the knob and turned it but it was locked. A key card was needed to open this door, not wanting to waste anytime, Skylar quickly placed his hand on Jenna’s shoulder. Puff! They were both on the other side of the door. They continued down the hall, until they came to an intersection.
“Which way?” asked Skylar, looking to Jenna.
“Left,” she answered.
They took the left turn and headed down the hall until they came the end where they have two directions to go, left, or right. Before Skylar could say anything Jenna was already heading down hall to their right. He followed her, and they came to a bend and rounded it just as the door at the far end opened. Skylar grabbed Jenna by the sheath for her sword on her back and pulled her back behind the bend. Once she was out of sight he looked got as close as he could to the edge peered around, at the end of the hall two soldiers had entered armed with what looked like weapons, which Skylar could believed was load with the tranquilizer. They held their weapons in the low read position, but they were not pay attention, he could here them talking when they were still near the end of the hall.
“Be ready to take them down,” said Skylar, turned to look at Jenna.
“Won’t that alert them to our location?” asked Jenna.
“That is why we are only going to engage them if we have to. We don’t know when they need to check in again.”
“How shall we do this?”
“When they get close, you teleport behind them, either they will turn when they hear you appear or they won’t. If they don’t they will find me and then you take them down from behind. If they see you I’ll get them while they try to figure out how you got behind them.”
“Okay.”
Skylar turned and peered back around the bend the guards were half way down the hall with no sign of them turning around. They were still talking to each other with no clue what was about to happen to them if they continued this way. Skylar began to feel his heart start to beat a little faster knowing if they take the guards out this could ruin their whole diversion plan. Also, if anything happens to go wrong while taking them out they might draw more guards. Skylar watched as the guards drew closer his heart beating faster, and he could hear the footsteps of the guards echoing through the hall like he was in a movie theatre with surround sound. Beads of sweat started to form on his forehead, and he motioned to Jenna. Puff! He instantly saw her appear behind them, but they did not turn around.
Skylar leaned back against the wall; he wanted them to find him not looking around the corner. He sat there, hearing their footsteps they were only a few seconds from rounding the bend and finding him. He took a deep breath, then another one. His heart felt like it was about to rip through his chest it was beating so hard. He turned to see where they were and he was one of the guards boots appear half around the bend.
“Come in #5 & #6,” cracked a voice over their radio.
“This is #6,” said one of the guards, Skylar could hear him loud in clear. “Go ahead.”
“Where are you?” asked the voice
“We are doing our rounds,” said # 6. “Why what’s up?”
“We need you to join us in the command post, we are about to get a briefing that is extremely important.”
“We are on way.”
Skylar watched as the boot disappeared back around the bend. Puff! Skylar turned to see Jenna standing next to him.
“That was close,” she said, as she wiped a few beads of sweat from her forehead. “I was about to hit them when that radio call came. What do you think is going on?”
“Not sure, but I think they might know I am missing.”
“Don’t you think they would have the alarm go off?”
“Yes, that is what they did last time, but with no one guarding me down, they might realize I have help. They may not want to alert us that they are on to us.”
“Should I go?”
“How close are we to the others?”
“Not far, just down this hall, pass the door and to the left. We head down the stairs and we are there.”
“Then no. I am going to need you to get us in there and get them all out. If we are that close then we have a chance to get them all out before they really even get a chance to search for us.”
“True, let’s move.”
“Hold on!”
Skylar appeared around the bend to see that the guards were at the far end of the hall, a few moments they reached the door and opened. A moment later, they door slamming shout echoed through the hall. Skylar counted to ten quickly before he motioned to Jenna, they rounded the bend and ran for the door. Once they reached it Skylar tried the knob, but like the last one it was locked, he quickly grabbed Jenna’s shoulder. Puff! They appeared on the other side of the door, once making sure no one was near they head down the hall ten feet from the door came to a four way intersection, Skylar put his arm out blocking Jenna from passing, he looked to his right to see the two guards were half way down the hall. They both waited for them to reach a corner at the end, a minute later, they disappeared.
Skylar and Jenna took the left, they moved as fast as they could without making that much noise, the last thing Skylar wanted was for those guards to hear something and decided to come investigate. About a hundred feet from the intersection off to the side was door labeled stairs, Jenna opened the door and enter Skylar watched as he saw he check up the stairs and down. After she did this, she motioned him to enter. He walked into the stairwell placed his hand on her shoulder. Puff! They appeared at the bottom of the stairs, walking down those stairs would take to long if they wanted to make no noise. Jenna opened the door and they walked out into a small hallway, where head left or right.
“We are here,” said Jenna. “They are in there.”
“This would have been so much easier if you could have just teleported us to this point,” said Skylar sarcastically.
“Hey, I only found where they were and how to get here through a map. If I had more experience teleporting I would have been willing to try to teleport to a place I haven’t been yet.”
“I am joking.”
“Sure.”
“Whatever, let’s get inside.”
Skylar once again placed his hand on Jenna’s shoulder. Puff! They appeared on the other side of the wall. It was huge, the area they arrived in had to be a lounge with couches, books, television with a Playstation 3, X-Box 360 and a Nintendo Wii. Skylar saw a sign that read Pool. Whatever they were doing to these kids, they were sure letting them live in comfort. Near the back wall, there were signs that said computers, locker room, gym, and dormitories. They had almost pretty much everything they could ever want, except freedom. Skylar and Jenna searched the room, all this stuff they knew they were in the right place, but they were the only two there, everyone else was gone.

Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 33

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Outside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

Puff! “I found them,” said Jenna appearing in the dark cell of Skylar’s. “They are on the other side of this facility, they must really want you to keep you away from them.”
“Good,” said Skylar chained back together. “Now can we please get me out of here, I knew it was the right move to come back in here, because someone came in to give me dinner. However, I am already tired of these restraints.”
Jenna pulled out her sword and with a quick slash the cuffs around Skylar’s wrists they fell off him. Skylar quickly rubbed his wrists feeling good once again to be free from his chains. A few moments he grabbed Jenna’s hand and with a quick nod, they were on their way. Puff! A moment later, they appeared back in the woods outside the secret base. Jin was there waiting for them, it had gotten darker outside, Skylar turned to see where the sun was and it was just peeking over the top of the near by mountain. A few minutes later, it was gone. Skylar turned his attention back to Jin and Jenna.
“Did you find them?” asked Jin
“Yes,” answered Jenna. “They are in the north part of the base not heavily guarded, probably because most of their resources are making sure Skylar is contained.”
“This should make getting them out easier.”
“The one problem,” said Skylar, rubbing his hands together. “The moment they realize I am no longer in my cell they are all going to come looking, including Dr. King. Which we want, but if they figure it out to soon, then we are going to be in trouble.”
“You do have a point,” said Jin, putting his hand on his chin as if he were thinking of a solution. Minutes passed and finally Jin spoke. “I think we might need you to sit this one out Skylar.”
“WHAT!” Shouted Skylar, he did not like the sound of this. “I am not going back into that cell.”
“Hear me out would you. If they go in and check on you and you’re not there they will begin to search for you, this means they might protect the others more thinking you might be looking for them. Some point Dr. Franks will show up, Jenna can get you, and the two of you can deal with him.”
“NO!”
“I agree with Jin,” said Jenna. “I can get them and get them all out before they even realize something is going on.”
Skylar was furious about how this was going, he spent the last two weeks in that cell only to go back so Jenna could freely find information, but now they want him to go back again. No way, but what other options did he have. Skylar stood not saying anything for several minutes, he was trying to come up with any other reason they should not split up. Finally it came to him, he had his answer, he looked up at Jin and Jenna who were now standing next to each other talking, the light had grown dimmer since the sun had set.
“We can’t split up,” said Skylar.
“Why?” asked Jenna.
“Because, if Dr. Franks has an ability now, he has the element of surprise. Lets say you get caught before you can get them all out, you try to get away, but he tries to hit you with a huge dose of tranquilizer. Sure, you can teleport, but what if he decides to use his ability. You might not have enough time to get to me, in that case he would have two of whatever we are to study.”
“Skylar has a point,” said Jin, crossing his arms. “We cannot have him have both of you, from what it looks like that either way is going to be risky.”
“Let me save you the trouble. I am not going back into that cell.”
“Then what do you suggest we do if they realize you’re free?” asked Jenna, with her arms crossed and glaring at him.
“I was thinking about that and the only thought I have is if we are in and they alarm goes off, then you should teleport to another part of the base and cause some noise. They will send people there and then you can teleport away. They will think I am there and allow us the chance for me to get to all the others. Once you got them all over on a far different side, you join me and we can get them out of there.”
“What about Dr. Franks?”
“He will show up at some point, with everyone free we can then set a trap and wait for him. Knowing that they have no one to use against us as a hostage we can take him down and his whole operation.”
Jin and Jenna did not respond, Skylar stood there waiting there response. He glanced at where the sun had set, to see amazing palette of colors in the sky from purples, pinks blue, red, orange, and yellow all arranged to make a beautiful scene. All the colors blending at different spots, for the first time since everything had started, Skylar took noticed to how beautiful things were around him. A faint breeze moved through his hair and a crossed his face, made him think of Hilary and one of their first dates. Tears started to form in his eyes, thinking about her, he quickly whipped them away, knowing he could not be thinking that, there would be a time for that once she and Jared were free. Skylar stood at the sky for several minutes when he heard a slight noise movement, a few moments later Jenna and Jin joined him.
“That’s beautiful,” said Jenna.
“It sure is,” said Jin.
“What’s the verdict?” asked Skylar turning to face them.
“We agree with your plan,” said Jin. “However, Jenna will make the call on when come find if she needs to make a diversion somewhere else.”
“That is fine.”
“When do we go in?” asked Jenna.
“Once it is dark,” said Skylar. “They most likely won’t check my cell again until late, so once it is dark we move in.”

Chronicles of Skylar Grant: Ch 32

Written by Tim Greene

(May 10th, Outside Top Secret Base, North Carolina)

“What is the plan?” asked Skylar, looking at Jenna; he saw a new found strength not from having her abilities unlocked but from the lost of her father.
“We can’t go in there just get Hilary and Jared,” said Hilary, turning back to look deeper into the woods. “We will only get on chance, they will soon realize you are missing. Once we are in we have to get them out, but we need to also rescue everyone there. ”
“Very true,” said Jinn crossing his arms. “You will also need to be prepare for anything.”
“Why?” asked Jenna. “We have our abilities they had hard enough time taking one of use down, two will be even harder.”
“Yes,” said Skylar. “That was before they had time to study one of us, they have had two weeks to look at all the samples they took from me. They may have discovered ways to deactivate our abilities to countering them. Even found away to give themselves the gene active.”
“They only had two weeks they couldn’t be that far along,” said Jenna, turning with a glare at Skylar.
“Skylar is right,” said Jin. “Before I left they had a way to give the gene to anyone, however there was tremendous evidence that just giving someone an active gene would give them abilities. This gene would need to be engineered, specifically each individual person. That was five years ago, they could have figured out how to do that and now studying the gene activate have actually engineered it.”
“You mean that someone or multiple people could have an active gene with their own abilities?” asked Jenna.
“Yes. However, it is not like they would be able to pick what abilities each person would get. It will be possible someday, but when I left, it was clear giving someone an engineered gene affects the body and the abilities is how your body works. So, while there could be people with active genes their powers could be something like flight. Also we were never sure that engineered genes abilities would be as strong as the real gene.”
Jenna did not say anything, while Skylar was only paying half attention to what was being said. He was focused on that Jared was also in the facility with Hilary, finally Jenna spoke up. “Nothing you said has made me think that we should not go in and take them down now.”
“You don’t see what is happening do you,” said Skylar.
“What?”
“You are like me.”
“What?”
“That is exactly how I thought. You feel powerful invincible that nothing can hurt you because before they can do anything you will just disappear and appear behind them. I thought the same, I mean I caught darts out of mid air before they even hit their target, I have blown holes in walls with energy inside of me. It was because of this I was caught, while it worked out for us to know who we are dealing with, and where they are, we need to be wise on how we go about it.”

Skylar could tell Jenna was not happy, she was hurting inside over the death of her father. This was clouding her judgment, nothing was going to change it, then he moved, he walked over to her, when he was only a foot away he stopped and placed his right hand on her shoulder.

“I know you are angry over your father’s death,” said Skylar looking into Jenna’s eyes. “You want everyone involved to pay, but if you let this anger control you, you will do something you will regret. I am not saying you should not be angry, you should, hell I am angry. Not just, that they have my best friend and my girlfriend I love, but that your dad died when he was not part of this. However we need to take this anger and let us fuel us, not control us.”

Skylar kept his eyes locked with Jenna, moments she stared back at him as if she heard nothing he said. Then tears slowly began to form and roll down her cheeks. Jenna fell onto him wrapping her arms around him and began to cry, Skylar was not sure what to do, and he did not expect this. A few moments past, he wrapped his arms around her and held her. She cried on his shoulder for ten minutes, he just held her rubbed her back as she wept. Finally, she lifted her head from his shoulder.

“You okay?”
“Yes,” said Jenna, releasing her grip around him and wiping the tears from her eyes. “You’re right, my dad would not want me to be careless. What should we do?”
“First, Jin we need to know about the man with the tie,” said Skylar, dropping his arms, putting them in his pockets, and turning to look at Jin. “Who is he?”
“Man with the tie?” asked Jin as if he was not sure whom Skylar was talking about. “I never knew a guy who wore a tie.”
“He is the one running the program, you mean you know nothing about who runs it?”
“You mean Dr. Frank King? I met him only once, remember I was only a lab tech. However, from what I heard from my supervisors and others who knew him said he is obsessed with this abilities and wants them for himself.”
“That sounds a lot like this guy who I met. Do you know if he has anyone over him or it is him?”
“I believe it is him, he controls it all.”
“Well he needs to be taken down.”
“Yes he does. But I grantee that if anyone in that facility has a ability with the engineered gene it will be him.”
“Then we have to be careful when around him. Jenna did you over hear anything when you were in there about where the others are being held?”
“No, I went in for you.”
“Okay, then the second thing we need is information. Jenna this will be up to you.”