Shadows

Chapter #1

I'm scared. No, scratch that I'm terrified.
Just remember the plan , Sam's calm words edging their way out of the pure chaos that is my mind. Okay, when Peter hits the lights all hell is gonna break lose. That's where we come in. Take everyone that's left to the sanctuary when your done. Remember, this is our only option unless we want to steal from the people back home.
Gee, thanks, I retorted.
Jeremy, I heard that. Sam shot back.
Shut up you two! Peter interrupted.
I was about to respond but Peter decided that unless he wanted to be telepathically yelled at (Which is about 10 times as loud), now would be the time to set the plan in motion.
Just look like a maniac with a gun, Sam reminded me.
It's what they think we are anyway, I said sadly.
It's the truth. At a young age every last one of us had a device implanted in our brain, it's the reason we're able to communicate telepathically and are rediculously strong and fast at times. These abilities, though they were meant to help us in life, made us outcasts in society and feared by everyone who didn't have "the Chip." Eventually, some radicalists decided to leave the cities and created the "Sanctuaries." Some people started a terrorist movement and now everyone thinks we're all terrorists who went crazy with the power of the chip.
J! Snap out of it! Move, move,move! Yells Sam. God, she's such a control freak. But this time she does have a point, I'm standing here when we only have 1-2 minutes before the emergency lights kick in and the Storm shows up.
Run, damn it! Peter screams.
Right, sorry! I say, already running. This gun is making me nervous even if it is just a laser tag gun.
"Get on the floor!" I hear Peter yell over the commotion. Most people were already out of the speedway tunnel, the ones who weren't were being corralled by us. There's about 10 in all, most people are old, young, or the parents of the young. None are resisting us but all of them look terrified and some of the teens have hatred in their eyes. Which, considering the stories they grew up with, is understandable. I hear the Storm alarm signaling that we have little time left before they arrive.
"Take her down J!"Sam screams but I can't tell if it's in my head or out loud. Where is she? Now I see her. She's a girl around my age with short black hair with a purple tint that hangs over her eyes.
Wait! What am I doing?! She's making a run for it!
Dude, what's wrong with you? I'll just get her! Peter says exhausted with my incompetence at catching her already. She's on the 3rd step when he catches her. She gets a few punches in before his shockwaves kick in and knock her out. Her head hits the steps as she falls and I can tell that the damage is so much worse than Peter's shockwave would have been.The blood is already pooled around her head.
All the other captives are already walking to the convoy waiting outside. I pick her up and hold her small frame to my chest, carrying her out to the hovercar.
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"Dude! Nice catch, you got dibs yet?"
If stares could kill, David would be way dead by now because everyone in this hovercar looks like they want to strangle him.
Sam most of all so she prepares to slap him and says"He does not have dibs! She's unconscious you-"
"Woah there little filly!" Peter interrupts, holding her back. "There are children in this hovercar!" He releases Sam and she backs down but still glowers at David.
David turns to me and asks, "In all seriousness though, yes or no?" His green eyes and slanted smirk would suggest that he's kidding to anyone who didn't know him.
"No, just no." I shake my head knowing what he'll say next.
" So what your saying is she's available." He says as he wiggles his eyebrows at me. "She's a hot, unconscious girl, man. Do you know what we could do?" Man, I hate it when he asks rhetorical questions like that.
"David, no." I hope I was clear enough with him.The girl moaned in my arms and buried her face in my chest.
"Come on man! Please?" He was pretending to beg because he knew it wouldn't work now.
"Guys shut it." Peter finally cuts in.
"Almost there now," the pilot says.
"Can we sit in silence before I strangle David?" Sam asks finally breaking her stony silence. Her blue, grey eyes filled with hatred and her tall angular face curled into a snarl.
"Sure thing Blondie," David answers with a wink and Sam's lips curve into a smile because even she can't stay mad with David.
We all jerk out of our seats because the hovercar is landing at the sanctuary now. After the last of the noise of the engine dies down we stand up and start to enter the tall, curved interior of the loading dock. All of the captives are looking around in fear and amazement at the vast, pristine Sanctuary as if they're wondering how the Storm hasn't found a space this large.
"You just gonna stand there or are you gonna take her to emerg?" Peter asks.
"Or are you taking her to my room?" David asks with a greatly exaggerated wink.
"We're taking her to emerg." Peter says with finality and, satisfied, begins to walk away.
"Fine then!" David says with a huff as he turns away and tosses his white, blond surfer hair.
As I follow Peter I see the top of the tattoo that identities him as a member of the Warpers and I shiver. With his warm smile and no tolerance for violence, I can't even imagine that he was part of the terrorism movement that wanted all of the people without the Chip to suffer for what they put us through.
The nurse who greets us looks confused at the girl who is still bleeding but doesn't question Peter's or my authority. She leads us to a cot and I put down the girl as the nurse starts to cleanse her wound. The girl looks like an angel and something about her makes me sit down and refuse to leave because I feel responsible for what happened.
"Do you know her?" The nurse asks, looking puzzled at my desision to stay.
"Yes" I say because it feels like I have for a very long time.
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A.N.
Okay guys just in case you were wondering this is a dystopian. Also the vocabulary is a little weird so here's a list of words and what they mean=
Telepathy- Kind of obvious but for those who don't know the ability to talk inside of your head to other people. Whenever this is occurring I'll put it in letters like this so you can tell the difference.
The Chip- A device implanted in most of the characters at an early age giving them special abilities. ( See telepathy)
Sanctuary- A place where people with the Chip can live safely, hidden from the government.
The Storm- Sort of the cops or military who deal specifically with Implanters.
Implanters- A group of people who have the Chip and are in hiding from the government.
Shockwaves-The ability to send waves of electricity down your body to temporaraly stun whatever you touch. Peter got it from the Chip.
Hovercar-Basically what it sounds like, a car that hovers.
Emerg-Sort of the infirmary for the Sanctuary.
Warpers-An terrorist group made up of Implanters.
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