A Race Against Time! (ThomasxNewt) - Completed!

Chapter 23

Attending meetings was never a fun thing to do, it was meant to be a serious thing amongst a group of individuals who had clue on what they were doing which is why for some reason Samantha wanted some opinions from kids who in reality should be relaxing but instead were in the process of readying themselves for a war against an insane powerful company run by a psycho. 

“If I may interrupt, you want us to do what?” Terrance asked, he was standing beside his father Jasper and Vince, the two gave the young man a look. 

“I want us to go against Niro without hesitation. I want the Skrills to be our first…” 

“That ‘s not happening” Nick spoke up from where he had been watching them all argue, behind him was the alpha of the Skrills, Tark who grumbled at him. Nick was leaning against the alpha who licked his hair in agreement. Nick never said a word, feeling all eyes on him. 

“What do you mean son, this is our best bet. The Skrills are quite capable of distracting the…” 

Nick's eyes flashed behind his sunglasses as his body swayed slightly. The gladers which consisted of Thomas, Gally, Alby, Minho, Teresa, Frypan and Harriett stood beside Vince, Jorge, Brenda and Lisa watched the man with mixed expressions. Casey was back at the house with Newt, he was watching over Dizzy, his sister sleeping. 

“I will only say this once. The Skrills will not be targets for the enemy, they are not mindless creatures before you say anything and as long as I am alive, they will be treated as equals. I may be the protector or the pure blood of the Skrills but I will not let any of you use the skrills for selfish sacrifices of ones you don’t even know. Have any of you thought about the fact that Skrills are actually…” Nick never finished as Tark growled loudly, Nick winced looking at him only to mutter something, Tark growled louder, Nick froze before he stalked out of the room for a minute and reappeared with something in his hand. 

“Use this, the birds from above will help” Nick muttered, leaning further into Tark who wrapped a paw around him. 

“The birds?” Lisa questioned only for Sam to plug the datastick in, she gasped when live feeds of other leaders came into the picture. Sam went to thank Nick when she found him and the skrill had vanished. On the screen were other survivors who once they learned of the situation were sending reinforcements especially when Chuck was shown who his parents were by his brothers, they were on another channel. 

It would seem their plan had come together but at what cost?

Elsewhere…

“Let’s go, I don’t think I can stay here any longer…the pain is getting stronger” Nick muttered, he went to climb on Tark when the skrill shifted away confusing Nick who tilted his head at him. “What? Look I’m sorry, I know I nearly gave out the most important secret but can you blame me, you guys are important to me…we are basically a hidden civilization in disguise…shit ow….” Nick gasped out as pain spread through his chest, he couldn’t help the whimper that escaped his vocal cords as his body slumped into Tarks, the skrill catching him with its teeth. 

“It will get easier, once the transformation is complete” 

Nick never said a word as he heard the message unaware that another was listening from behind a tree, they ran somewhere out of sight with the new information that would be shared momentarily. 

At the house…

Newt frowned watching Sonya and Teresa who had appeared after escaping the meeting perform a few tests. He already knew what was wrong with him but the two girls wanted to double-check everything and Newt wasn’t too happy about a few tests, he refused to do a few for his own dignity and would only do them if Thomas was present and his sister wasn’t in the room. But he allowed the others to be done.