19- Don't you think?

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   "Transporters, transport Alexandrea, Dean, Ivy, and Barrett to the man causing all of this chaos..." The Master's voice rings in my mind as my vision becomes fuzzy, "Transport them to Nate Suns."

   My body seems to float for a millisecond before my feet crash in the ground. The real ground.

   Night is still upon us, I note, when my eyes drift around and find the starry night with a moon shining bright. The scene is crazy, everyone locked up inside cages in rows upon rows on the ground, which happens to be a field, organized and angering.

   A few people that are attempting to escape run in between the rows, dashing to try and escape the robots that chase them down to put them right back in their cage as if they are their pets.

   "You guys have a plan?" I ask quietly from the backside of the cage we hide behind, where only a few yards in front of us stands a man with body armor made of metal. The man has black wavy hair that flows down to his shoulders, a few lines of gray in his hair shining in the moonlight. He has lines on his face that nearly count how many years he has been alive, his old eyes glistening with anger and resentment as if the Master was standing right in front of him instead of the rows of his robots that hold a human inside each of them.

   "I have a plan." Barrett whispers after a long pause, his squeaky voice drawing my eyes to his face, "But it's gonna take some gut."

   "Lay it out." I answer him quickly.

   "Okay." Barrett speaks, his voice forcing words into my brain as he continues, "Ivy and I will take on the role of releasing an army... Breaking the cages somehow without getting the guards to notice."

   "Seems unlikely that the guards won't notice you." I counter, feeling responsible for my friends, "I don't want you guys to get captured."

   "Thanks for the thoughtfulness..." Barrett replies in a hurry, "But we don't need it right now. What we need is to save these people."

   "Anyways." Ivy interrupts us, her mint eyes darting from Barrett to the man in the metal armor, "I think it is a good idea to unlock everyone... But what are Dean and Lex going to do?"

   "Dean and Lex will cause a distraction for us." Barrett's plan forms in all of our minds.

   "No!" Dean protests as quietly as he can, "I don't want Lex to be in danger-"

   "Unless he has poison that he can somehow get and shove down my throat," I remind Dean, "I'm good."

   "Let's go then." Ivy whispers, pumping more adrenaline than I already had into my body, "On the count of three."

   "One..." Barrett begins, Ivy's mint hair whipping in the air as she whirls around and prepares herself to open the cages.

"Two..." I say aloud, glancing at Dean who leaps behind the cage next to us, his warm eyes narrowly staring at the man before us.

"Three." Dean finishes the countdown, jumping out from the cage, and catching the man's attention.

I stare at Dean, froze in place, while he smiles mischievously at the older man.

"Get him!!" The man's scratchy voice blares across the rows of cages, his hand pointing straight at Dean, "Lock him up!"

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