No-One But You

Chapter 9: An Unlikely Alliance

The Wild Kratts tracked Zach Varmitech's location and flew over to his skyscraper to confront him.
They snuck in and Martin noticed the unusual lack of security. Wouldn't you have more if you were holding someone hostage?
"Hey, Martin, I think he's in here," whispered JZ. Martin nodded and opened the door quietly. Zach was standing there with two others frantically pressing buttons and flicking switches. Who were the others? No matter, they had to get Chris.
"Hey! Zach Varmitech! Give my brother back now!"
Zach and the other two people turned abruptly.
"What the hell are you talking about!?" asked Zach.
"You know what we're saying! Chris had been kidnapped and it's your fault!" snarled Aviva.
"Z, what's up with this lot?" asked the girl. Zach shrugged, but then his eyes went wide.
"Chris!? Kidnapped!? By me!? I didn't do anything! How do you know he was kidnapped? Where is he?" he asked, practically begging for info.
"You...didn't do anything to Chris?" asked JZ, skeptical. Zach shook his head.
"We've been trying to-" one of them started to speak, but was quickly silenced by a glare from the inventor.
"Who are you anyways?"
"I'm Kit, author and close friend of Zachary," said Kit, looking over at their friend. [I CHANGED KIT TO HAVING THEY/THEM PRONOUNS BTW]
"I'm Duchess Francesca, another friend of Zach's."
The Kratts introduced themselves to Kit and Fran before turning to Zach.
"My brother's been kidnapped, but I don't know who did it. If you want your name cleared, then help us find him," demanded Martin. Zach was relieved. At least he wouldn't have to search for Chris at risk of getting found out.
"Fine, if it clears my name," he started. "But on one condition."
"What?"
"Fran and Kit get to come along."
The Wild Kratts agreed simultaneously. If they had any chance of finding Chris Kratt, they'd need all the help they could get.

After re-watching the video that was sent to them a few times, Kit deduced that the captor was holding Chris in Canada.
"Look at the walls of the place. They're metal, and if you zoom in...there! you can see the beginnings of frost. If you were in the Senora Desert an hour or two ago, then the nearest cold place would be Canada or Alaska. But it's winter. At this time of year, in Alaska, the frost would be more obvious already, so it can only be Canada."
The others agreed but then Koki had a question.
"So, if Chris is in Canada, how do we get there in time? It's been at least 6 hours! Goodness knows what's happening to Chris right now. We'd have to engage rocket speed on the Tortuga and even then, we wouldn't be fast enough. Canada's huge, how will we find Chris!?"
Francesca merely smiled.
"That's where I come in. Z? If you please."
Zach nodded. He pressed a button and a secret compartment opened. Inside was a staff and a crown. Francesca grabbed them and placed the crown on her head.
The crown and staff started glowing brighter and brighter until the whole room was enveloped in a bright light. The light faded out as quickly as it came. In Fran's place was an angel with intricate wings, dressed in royal robes of gold and white, with a glowing halo around her crown. She opened her eyes to see the Aviva, Martin, Koki and Jimmy in shock.
"You..." Koki couldn't even find words.
"May call me Evangalia now. I'll go and find out where Chris is." She flew out of an open window at breakneck speed.
"You never told us that your friends had POWERS!"
Zach shrugged.
"You never asked."

After about 10 minutes, Zach received a call. On screen was Evangalia. holding the camera to a base in the frosty woods. She explained that that was where Chris Kratt was being held.
"Shall I send you coordinates?"
"But of course. Come back once you've done so."

|CHRIS POV|
A metal room. I woke up with my head pounding. Where was I?
"Oh, you're awake. Well...looks like we can begin the experiment."
What experiment!? I was scared. I tried to say something, but I'd been gagged. Some robots grabbed me roughly and I yelped.
"Stop being such a baby," said the voice. It sounded female.
The robots dragged me to another, colder room with a table. That table had straps where my arms and legs would be. I struggled against the grip of the robots but one of them smacked me hard. Tears started spilling from my eyes.
"If you keep crying I'll kill you now."
What did that mean? Was my captor going to kill me later? I wasn't going to find out, because I was roughly strapped to the table. Looking up now, I saw numerous contraptions, all pointed at me. I was shaking. What was going to happen?
"Now," said the figure, standing at a desk. "Let's find out how you can use those creature powers..."

|EVANGALIA POV|
As I was flying back, I saw some robots tailing me. Oh no, they didn't. Nobody tails me and gets away with it. I halted my flight and turned back towards the robots. Using my summoning power, I was able to take out two robots at once with the miniature angels. I smirked.
"Who wants a piece of me now!?"
The bots fled back to where they came from.
"That's what I thought!"
I started flying at supersonic speed again. Couldn't risk another spy.

|READER POV|
Back at Varmitech Co. HQ, Zach had just put the finishing touches on a new robot that he and Aviva had worked on.
"Who knew? That we'd be working together, that is," smiled Aviva, trying to lighten the mood. Zach nodded, unable to smile back or meet her gaze. He could almost hear Chris's screams of terror. It was like he could feel Chris's pain. He didn't notice that he was holding a screw so tightly that it had cut into his hand. He opened the hand and saw beads of blood.
"Zach? All good there?"
He looked up. Aviva was staring at him, concerned.
"Er...I'm ok. Just...tired."
A lame excuse, but passable to Aviva, it seemed.
Once they'd finished, Martin and Kit had shared the coordinates with everyone.
"You all have a pager, which will work under any circumstances. Even an electrical field," they explained, to Aviva's fascination.
"I didn't know that you made one of those!" she said, turning to Zach.
"I did...Kit just made it better."
"Well, whoever made it doesn't matter. We've no more time to waste. Let's find Chris and bring him home!"

AUTHOR'S NOTE: Hi everyone! There is a lot of controversy over my fanfic so after this I won't be doing another one for a while, I'll just make an original!
Disclaimer: Any resemblance to real world ppl (names etc.) is purely coincidental!!!!