Elcon City (ON HOLD, Rewriting)

Chapter Eleven

"You know what, Andrew? We've been here for almost eight hours now. If we stay and wait for her much longer we'd probably get caught again. We can't risk it." Dan had warned.

"Andrew, Trisha knows what she's doing. We should just leave her to it. Or at least let's get back to REX first, and then we'll request permission to go and catch up on her." Kat told him.

"Hey, Andrew, these people are getting anxious of being caught by S.C.A.R.S again, should we be heading to REX now?" Jared asked him.

But none of those warnings and words and questions he had listened to. He didn't want to lose any more team member, and Trisha was his team member. So there is no way he's leaving her. What the hell was she about to do anyway? What was so important that she would risk not seeing her best friend ever again? Andrew bit his lip nervously as he looked upon the facility's gate from the tree branch he had sat on for the past three hours. No sign of movement, nothing.

"Brother dear, I think we need to move. Besides, Trisha told us not to wait for her. And as much as I want her to be here with us, I think we should go. We're lucky we got away. Thanks to Jar." Kat whispered.

Andrew sighed. It's true that the longer they stay there, the more chances it was that they get caught again. After everything they've been through, there was no way he's risking the life of the people he just saved for one girl. But she wasn't just a girl. She's Trisha Greene; the girl who risked her life to save other people even though she just lost her parents. But the risk of losing more people is too big. And he couldn't take it.

"Fine, alright. You all go ahead. I'm staying. I don't want to lose anyone." He said.

"Whoa, if you're staying, then I am staying." Kat replied.

"No, you go back with the others. It's too dangerous." He whisper-yelled at his sister.

Kat rolled her eyes in response and said, "Our life is already dangerous, I think I can handle a little more of it."

Andrew thought about it for a second and finally sighed in defeat. His sister was too stubborn. Even if he said no, she'd stay anyway. So why bother?

"Stay out of sight." He warned before climbing down from the tree to tell the others to continue moving, and Kat grinned happily in reply.

Andrew approached Jared and Dan to tell them to move and instructed them to get the imps out of Elcon and they obeyed him. After thirty minutes, Andrew and Kat are officially the only ones left right there. Andrew climbed back to the tree after making sure the people are all out of sight and on their way back to Elcon.

They had sat on the tree branch for about two hours when Andrew heard a faint rustling from the bush below them. He looked down cautiously and then turned to Kat. He put his pointer finger in front of his lips so that Kat knew that she should stay quiet. Andrew climbed down from the tree quietly and approached the source of the sound.

He was careful with his steps, and then he looked behind the bush.

***

"What are you doing here?" he barked angrily at the two people in front of him.

"I couldn't leave without Trisha, okay?" Rosa replied.

"And I couldn't leave without Rosa." Fred added.

Andrew sighed exasperatedly. Kat had climbed down from the tree and stood next to him. But she looked pleased to see Rosa and Fred. She had been so bored only sitting there with her brother. Another company would be nice.

"I don't even know if Trisha is still in there." Andrew said.

"Well, I don't think she is. I think she heard something and she's out searching information about it." Fred told him.

"Any idea of what she might've heard?" asked Kat.

Rosa looked like she just realized something and had murmured, "Um, well..."

Andrew turned to face Rosa to wait for her next words. And when nothing came out he asked her, "Well what?"

Rosa bit her lip as if trying to remember exactly what she knew. She didn't quite remember the whole information, but she knew some of it.

"When I was still held in the cell, I heard some guards talking about the Rebels?" her answer came out more like a question.

Fred frowned. All his life he has never heard of the Rebels. Who's rebelling against whom?

"I don't know what that is. I just remember that they were trying so hard to eliminate the Rebels and that the Rebels HQ is south from here." she continued before any questions are asked.

Andrew thought to himself. If S.C.A.R.S is trying so hard to eliminate the Rebels, then they must be rebelling against S.C.A.R.S. But who might they be? It was confirmed that every human who's still alive are brought back to REX, so how come there are people left out there?

"Big bro, I think we should head south." Kat said.

Rosa and Fred nodded in agreement to Kat. But Andrew was still unsure.

"Look, even if Trisha is not there at the Rebels HQ, I think that we still need to go there. I mean, Trisha did say we need to get imps out of Elcon and that means S.C.A.R.S is planning something. And that also means that we need more people to fight with us. And these Rebels, whoever they might be, they might be able to help us, man." Fred added.

Andrew took a few seconds to think about it fully. He needed to be sure Trisha was also heading south. And if she wasn't, then he hoped she could take care of herself and get back safely to REX, because now, he had made up his mind. He was sure where they needed to go to.

"Alright, then, south it is."