An Average Life: Resort

Part 14

Nothing happened. Dexter looked at the remote, confused. He pressed it again.

"FORGETTING SOMETHING?" Called Rocky.

Dexter looked over. Rocky was holding the remote's battery in her hand.

"YOU BITCH!" Screamed Dexter.

Rocky aimed her taser and shot the helicopter's steering wheel. The surge of energy made it lose power. The propellors stopped spinning, and it made a rather rough landing. Dexter rubbed his temples, looking more annoyed than angry. Skylar walked up to the open helicopter door, and peeked in.

"You wanna step out?" She asked.

"Nah." Replied Dexter.

"You need a minute to calm down?~"

"No. I'm just waiting for my minions to come."

There was a rumble. Two protogens rushed over to Dexter, grabbed him by the arms, and began hovering away with him. Skylar immediately took aim. She pulled the trigger and hit one protogen. The other continued carrying Dexter away by his arm. Skylar tried to shoot again but her gun jammed.

"Damn.."

"What?" Said Emma. "Go after him!"

Rocky turned to Servo.

"Fly after him! Go!" She said.

"I'm out of fuel." Replied Servo.

"Wh.. WHY?"

"I haven't refueled since.. well, since I don't remember when."

"Then shoot him." Said Chris.

"He's too far away!" Replied Skylar. "We'll get him eventually. We have multiple smashed protos, the remote and an entire helicopter we can use to track him."

Everyone was silent. Then Citrus walked up.

"Oh my. Looks like I'm too late to save the day." She said.

"What took you so long?" Asked Rocky.

"Sorry I'm not as fast as you are."

"Look, let's just be thankful he didn't get the crystals." Said Servo. "We just need to find out where he's going and what his plan is."

"Oh yeah, that reminds me." Said Sienna. "Rocky, you're in SO much trouble."

"Why?"

"You should've told me what you were doing! What if you had gotten hurt? What if someone did something awful to you and I never found out about it."

"I'm sorry.." Said Rocky.

"Miss, she was only doing her job." Said Skylar. "If anything you should be mad at us. We told her that she couldn't tell anyone about us, because.. we didn't want word about anything we do getting out."

"And what do you do?"

Citrus and Skylar looked at each other.

"Let's go down to Grace first." Said Servo. "Then we'll talk more about it."

A few minutes had passed. The group had made their way down to the lobby where they met Grace.

"Where were you?" She asked.

"On the roof." Replied Servo. "It's a long story but basically the bad guy got away."

Grace sighed.

"How?" She said calmly.

"Screwed up." Replied Skylar.

"God damn right you screwed up. This whole mission was a disaster. Mira and Ripple are hurt, I got hit with a rock, You all-"