Power

Chapter XIII

"Great, he got knocked out. That would've killed him, again!" Said Charlie as he looked at Cosmo's limp body. He looked at Isaac who seemed fine.

"Yeah, a box isn't the most reliable object to hold on to. Why was there so much shaking?" Asked Isaac.

"Oh that's just some turbulence, it happens," said Dit. The orange alien flew over to Cosmo and started to lift him up. "Hey Det, help me out would you," Dit yelled over to Det. Det hovered over to Cosmo and lifted him also. Then both aliens flew out of the building toward the medical tent.

"So why does the turbulence happen. I don't think we fly during teleportation do we?" Said Isaac confused.

"Well,it only happens if you're low on fluid, otherwise we would've been fine. And that was the last of our fluid, which means no more teleportation to escape the IPSF. If we get found, then we can't run. We'll have to fight through the army," said Charlie a bit worried that some of the EXTs wouldn't be able to fight. He didn't want them to get too badly injured.

"So what do we do now," asked Isaac.

"Well we scout the area. And then we find out exactly where we are," Charlie said.

"Well we're still in a forest," Isaac answered.

"Wow, thanks Sherlock," said Charlie sarcastically.

"You don't have to be so rude about it," siad Isaac offended. Charlie sighed and motioned for Isaac to come with him. Both Isaac and Charlie left the brick building and started to walk toward the edge of camp. The edge of camp was nicely aligned by a barbed fence. Every 80 feet or so was a gate used to get out of the camp. Charlie walked up to a gate and whispered something and then the gate magically opened. Isaac didn't question how it worked he just walked through the gate after Charlie. The gate closed after them.

Isaac and Charlie slowly walked around the camp in a mile wide radius. All there was to see around the camp were trees and a couple of clearings scattered around here and there. There was only one thing worth mentioning, once Charlie and Isaac got close to the south-most edge of the camp, they heard waves crashing against some rocks. Hearing the waves, Charlie and Isaac started sprinting toward the sound. Soon enough they found themselves at a huge cliff and below was a rocky coast where wave after wave crashed into the cliff and rocks, slowly drifting in and out of a little pool of water made by the formation of the rocks. In the pool was a body.

***

The black van slowly made its way down into the valley.

"You think we're getting any closer to the place they fell off of," asked Louie with a sleepy voice. They had been tailing the EXTs for a couple of days without sleep, which was quite normal for them. Drake looked down the road, which was nearing the bottom of the cliffs. The road at the bottom swerved into the forest below.

"Yeah we should be there in a couple of minutes," answered Drake with a yawn. The black van didn't even reach the edge of the forest when there was a strange flash of blue light coming from the woods.

"What was that," asked Louie surprised at the flash of light. Drake stopped the van and both officers got out.

"That might've been a teleport," said Drake with a solemn face.

"A teleport? I thought we got rid of all the fluid, and operational teleport systems," said Louie. Louie was fairly new to the IPSF and all the information he received was that they got rid of all alien technology.

"The trainers didn't tell you? Well then we lied to the public. Alien technology is still out there and is still being used. Our problem is that now only the EXTs have the technology, finding it on humans is easy, but the EXTs know how to use it and they also know how to hide it," said Drake. He stared into the forest gravely.

"What are you looking for Drake," asked Louie.

"Nothing really. We have to go into the forest and find the teleport residue, just to make sure it was a teleport, then we can track it," said Drake. With that the officers entered the forest. They didn't have to go far in when they found a small green blob in a clearing. Drake walked up to it and pulled out a small device. He held the device up to the blob and the device whirred. Soon a reading on the devices screen popped up.

"So where are they now," asked Louie. Drake got up and dusted off his pants. Then he turned to Louie.

"They teleported across the country. They're on the southern tip of Florida," said Drake as he started walking toward the van, Louie followed. Louie couldn't believe the teleport could do that. How could a machine teleport anything across a country. Louie didn't quite understand what mechanics would be used to make such a thing. Soon enough the officers reached the van, climbed in, and drove off toward Florida.