The Cyber Age

Chapter 19: The Dinner Party (Part 1)

"But Braden said stay here!" Kendall said in a worried voice. "But we need an escape. And we may find that craugnazium." Said Tristan.
Kendall felt the defeat.
"Fine. I'll come. Just as long as we can come back for Brent." Said Kendall. "Alright! What about you, Jared?" Tristan asked. "Alright. My conditions match Kendall's though." Said Jared.
"Ok. Let's get moving then." Said Tristan. And then they were off.

This was it.
Braden was face to face with his enemy.
Timothy.
"Thanks for having me." Said Braden.
"It's my pleasure." Said Tim.
Braden could feel the rage welling up inside him.
"You know, it would have been something if you never found out.
If we could have been business partners just a bit longer." Said Tim.
"In fact, I had already planned some other--" Tim was cut off by Braden hurling a chair at his head.
Tim duck, but the feet of the chair got his shoulder.
"Ah. So that's how this is gonna be." Said Tim, as he knelt down, and placed his right hand on the floor, sucking in thousands of volts. Braden did the same. "Oh, and one more thing. I have invited one more guest." Said Tim.
"RuPERT!"

Kendall only heard distant crashes coming from the dinner deck.
What is going on up there? She thought. Tristan gave her a look of worry.
She knew what he meant.
Braden could die up there, so they had to act fast.
The three of them ran through the maze as they worked their way to the ship's tail.
"Come on! That craugnazium could have a timer on it! Plus we only agreed to this if we could get back to Brent in time!" Said Jared.
Kendall was losing her breath. Try hadn't even been running that long.
Although it felt like forever, since they didn't have a clue what was going on at the dinner deck.
Kendall couldn't take it anymore. She bolted back in the opposite direction.
"Where the heck are you going?" Tristan yelled. "I have to help Braden! Just go about your plan! I'll be right back!" Kendall yelled in reply.
But she had to hurry.
This night was getting scarier by the minute.

It was already 11:56 at night.
Four minutes to midnight.
Braden knelt down and absorbed thousands of volts.
This was getting to be too much.
Both Timothy and RuPERT attacking him at the same time.
Braden released the electricity with great force, hitting RuPERT in the head and Tim in the hand, whereas Tim just absorbed it and used it against Braden.
All at once, Tim exerted the electricity at Braden, which Braden absorbed, and RuPERT smashed his hand down on Braden, who didn't even have time to move.
That was it.
That was the moment when Braden realized that when he's holding electricity, he becomes much more strong, because when RuPERT smashed his hand down on Braden, Braden was able to push it off.
RuPERT fell back a few yards, and Braden gave Tim a look of fury.
"I see you discovered a new ability. Well, watch this." Said Tim, as he absorbed thousands of volts, and sent a type of grappling hook at Braden.
The electric chain looked almost beautiful as it flew at him. Braden tried to react, but once the chain hit him, it wrapped around him at ten different places.
The next thing Braden knew, he was being pulled at Tim with enormous force.
Once he reached Tim, tim grabbed Braden, and held him over the edge of the mothership.
"Hey!" Kendall yelled.
Timothy looked back.
"I heard you were having a dinner party!" She yelled.
"I hope I'm not too late."

Jared was most hopeful when he opened the large steel door that separated them from the tail section.
"I hope we can find something in here." Said Jared. "Same here." Tristan replied.
Jared pushed the door open.
What lay behind their eyes was astonishing.
The room was giant. On the right wall was an endless supply of parachute-packs, and on the left wall were various tools. Jared and Tristan searched desperately, trying to find the craugnazium. "Why again did we choose the tail to search?" Tristan asked. Jared turned to look at Tristan.
"Timothy VanBuran was a fugitive because of something a pulled during World War V. You see, he always found his way into a U.S. plane, and he would plant a craugnazium cherry bomb in the tail. He would get out before it the plane took off, of course. But he would kill countless Americans. Day by day by day." Said Jared. Tristan nodded. "So I figured, if he would do that continuously, why not check the tail first." Said Jared. "Oh." Tristan said.
The two of them went in separate corners of the room.
It was almost . . . nice. The quiet.
In a time like this, the best thing to calm them could be quiet.
But that wasn't the only result of quietness. "What's that noise?" Tristan asked. Jared perked his ears up, noticing what Tristan was talking about.
Somewhere in that room, was a quiet beeping noise. "I . . . I don't know." Said Jared.
The two of them tried to play hot and cold with the beep, and with a minute they made their way to the very back of the tail.
Tristan and Jared were shocked by what they found.
A small, metal box, with a timer.
On this box was the initials CR.
"Jared, what's CR short for?" Tristan asked. Jared's reply came in a whisper,
"Craugnazium."

Timothy lifted Braden back onto the ship behind him. "Please! The more the merrier." Said Tim.
Braden placed his hands on the railing, absorbing thousands of volts, once again.
As he felt the electricity running through himself, Braden placed both hands on Tim and sent the electricity straight through him.
Tim let out a cry of pain, and fell to the ground.
Then, all at once, RuPERT started to chase Kendall, and Kendall ran towards Braden as fast as she could.
Braden looked at Kendall's eyes, and her look told him exactly what to do.
The next few seconds were such a blur.
RuPERT charged at the two of them, who were gripping the very edge of the ship.
Once RuPERT got within ten feet, the ran straight between his legs.
RuPERT's weight was too much for the edge of the ship.
As RuPERT struggled to get his footing, half of the dinner deck completely eroded off of the ship, taking RuPERT and Tim to a hard death on the ground below.
But it wasn't over yet.
In fact, they had just completed the easy part.
The rest of this mission was going to be a much greater challenge.