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Chapter 15: Panic

I started punching the wall in anger. "How did they know she was here!!??" "They must've put a tracking chip in her or something!" The wall I was punching  broke and I shouted in anger. "Every time!!" I held my head and sat down. "This is bad. Really really bad."
"So are we going to save her?" "Yeeesssss. With Dan and Tasha's help. I'll call them." Turns out they were down in the lounge watching Taken again. I filled them in and they panicked for a minute. "Calm down." "Okay, okay we're chill. But dude, where is this 'compound'?" "This is where I'm scared. I can read Deadgates mind, but it hurts. And he can sense my presence if I do that." Tasha spoke up. "Then do it. Just be careful." I focused, and entered the mind of a killer.

Deadgates POV

I felt Delsin poking around in my head and cringing in pain. "He found out." Salmes looked up from the operating table that had Piper strapped to it. "Oh good. I do feel sorry for you. You were quite attached to her. What went wrong? If you don't mind." "She was boring." He shrugged and went back to work. "Are you gonna prepare the trap, ooorr?" "I'm working." I shrugged and head to the containment area. "He's not gonna see this coming."

Delsin's POV

We were heading to the compound by car. I may have stolen the car, but that's not important. "So, what's the plan?" "We go in. Kick everyone's ass. Then leave." Dan just nodded. "Good plan." We pulled up outside a chain link fence. "So how do we get in?" "Blow a hole in the side." Tasha just shrugged. "This is our first rescue." Belle looked at us like we were crazy. "You're bad at making plans." "We don't do this often." I pulled out Daybreak and cut a hole in the fence. "Let's go. And be quiet." "You cut a hole through steel." "But I was quiet." We sprinted across the the Tarmac to a squat, grey concrete warehouse. "Why are we being quiet if we're gonna blow a hole in the side of the wall?" "Because we don't want to die before we reach the wall." We didn't die. But we did get hit by knock out darts. I hit the ground first and watched as the others fell. Belle hit last, and my vision darkened.

*later*

I woke up stiff, cold and cramped. "Agh, that went badly." "Yes. Yes it did." I looked up and saw I was in a cage. Outside of the cage was none other than Deadgate. "t. This really went bad." "Oh get over yourself. You're alive, everyone else is alive, for now. And you can see Belle." I looked to the side, and there was another cage with Belle in it. "Why aren't we dead?!" "Because I don't want to kill you." "You're freaking me out. More than usual." He laughed. "Oh really. And how much do I freak you out usually?" "Well since you've attempted to commit genocide, kidnapped my freinds, tried to kill me and now you're saying you don't want to kill me. Around the same amount since you're unpredictable and insane." Belle finally woke up and looked at me. "Why are you making small talk with Deadgate?" "Because I'm trying to figure out what's going on." He just laughed again. "You two make me laugh." "Please shut up and start making sense."

His expression darkened and the entire room darkened. "Would you like to know what I've been up too?" I got worried, more so, I mean. "What?" "Well, the girl you used as a home, she's dead. That little girl Alex, she's now an orphan. And you're friends, they're about to be 'examined' by Salmes." I struggled against the bars and tried to attack him. Then the front of the cage clicked, and I burst out.

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