Chapter 18

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EMILY
Wait, James is his brother? Now I really feel bad. But I decide to stick to my plan.
"I don't care wether you are his brother or his dad, you work for him and are giving him our information! Mary, sock it to 'em!" I say.
I can tell Mary is still confused, but is excited that she gets to fight someone. She runs up to him, fist extended. Jack raises his arms in an "x" around his face, and jerks his right leg out randomly, trying to block her.
  "I am not giving any amounts of any information to that... that... Jerk!" He says, face red. Mary gives up on trying to hurt him, he removes his hands from his face, and stops kicking. "Oh my." He says. "I am so sorry for my foul language. He is not a jerk, he just... makes decisions that affect others in a negative way, is all." His face becomes pink, and he plays with his fingers.
"So, you're giving us information, or...." Mary says.
  "Yes, that was indeed the plan, and it shall follow through perfectly this time, I know it! I was going to provide a wonderful speech, but I'm guessing you would just like to ask me questions, no?" He asks.
  "Yeah," says Amanda, who I honestly almost forgot was here. "First, what else were you planning to do here?"
"I wanted to be able to acknowledge everyone here prior to attack that there would be one, I wanted to share his ideas and inventions, his weaknesses and strengths. All of which I shall get to later on." He answers.
"What powers does James have?" I ask.
"Superspeed."
"Oh..." I say.
"...and laser eyes and 0-point energy... and fire hands." Jack adds.
"What? How?" Mary asks, with her arms out and her shoulders up.
"Well, he takes the powers of others and, instead of adding them to the wounded like you do, he injects them to himself. Luckily, he can only have 5 powers at once. The fifth we wanted was still on the way."
"Do you know if he is planning on attacking soon?" Mary asks.
  "No, recently there was a mishap with one of his captured. They broke free along with another and they poisoned their power tubes. They're still trying to find them and get more power from their P.V.s, because that was the fifth power he wanted."
  "Wait, who are those captured people?" I ask.

                     MACKENZIE
"Hurry, hide over here." Emma says, as she holds me up, and I put my arm over her shoulder. We walk over behind the messy desk.
  The doors open. "Hello again, Mackenzie. It's been a whi......" James looks back and forth, then runs to my bed, and looks under the covers, under the bed itself, and behind it. He gasps, and runs over to examine the broken tank. "Dang it!!!!! Dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it dang it!"
Ok, so he didn't really say it that many times, but you get the point.
He grabs a walkie-talkie from his back pocket and says, "Code black. She has escaped. I repeat, code black. She has escaped." All of the lights turn off, except for black and white alarm-like ones. James walks back out the doors and it shuts after him, along with a thick metal door lowering to cover it. The windows are covered with ones too.
   I turn to Emma, who has two of her fingers on her temples.  Blue circles, red, and yellow...
   The doors open. "Hello again, Mackenzie. It's been a whi..." James looks back and forth, then runs to my bed.
  Emma taps me lightly, and I see she has put on a mask. "Come on, we have to go, but quietly." She whispers. We both crawl out from under the desk and go as quietly as we can out the door, while James searches all around my bed.
  When we get out the door, I hear, "Dang it dang it dang it dang it!"
  "Hurry," Emma says, as she gives me a shot of something, something that gave me energy. Lots of energy. "Let's go." We both sprint down to the end of this hall, and out the exit doors. I see that the light coming from their windows has gone out, and that thick metal covers go in front of all the doors and windows, and black and white lights flash everywhere.
  "Don't slow down, keep going." Emma says. Loud booms crash everywhere, and I see that there are guards shooting at us.
   "Emma!" I yell, while covering my ears.
   "Shoot them with electricity balls!" She yells back.
   "I can't! I tried earlier, and..."
   "Well, if that shot is working, you should be able to use your powers for the next hour or two." She keeps running.
   I hold my hands together, and a small, blue, circle forms. It quickly enlarges, and so I turn around and thrust it back at the building. It hits the ground near it, and explodes. The alarms and lights cut off. All of the guards fall to the ground, and drop their guns. "Wait!" Emma says. Emma stops running, and runs back to the guards with superspeed. She grabs  an almost fully loaded gun from one of the guards and puts in her pocket. She runs all the way back to me with her incredible speed.
  "Wait, that's your power?" I ask.
   "One of them. I also can travel back through time and create a force-field, which I why we didn't get hit. You didn't think I learned nothing here, did you?" She says with a smirk smile. "Now, let's get going. There's a ship up ahead, and I can take you back to Gyude."
  "You are freaking amazing, Emma," I say.

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