The Razgriz Legacies [Book 6]

Condemned

Getting inspired by the National Treasure soundtrack so y'all get a new and exciting chapter :)

Chapter Quote:
"Being alive means running. Running from something, running to something or someone. And no matter how fast you are, there are some things you can't outrun. Some things always catch up with you."
~Barry Allen, The Flash
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Chapter 10: Condemned

Percy

It'd been over seven months since I'd 'borrowed' the information on the Gray Men from my dad's computer. Allison and I were stationed nearby. All I had to do was drive an hour over the Osean-Belkan border and I'd be at her base. It was certainly handy whenever we had topics to discuss on the Gray Men. We'd made quite a bit of headway in determining who was in the Gray Men currently, who had been in the past, and what they were after. Allison and I had decided that whoever was behind all this was definitely attempting to get vengeance on my family. There was a vendetta against them. Problem was that the Gray Men had all but disappeared. No terrorist attacks, no breaches to my parents' computer security except for Allison who was simply checking to make sure no one else was that wasn't supposed to be, and no more new information. My family, plus Allison and I, had hit a dead end. That didn't mean I'd stopped working on it though. Admittedly it'd been more difficult to work on the Gray Men information being stationed in Northern Osea. I'd been sent on more hops than I'd ever been on in my life. We were never informed why we were being sent up but we were always armed to the last bullet, something that struck me as strange when these were called 'practice hops' for our nuggets. Something was going on that we weren't being told. According to Allison, the same thing was going on at her base in Southern Belka. I could tell she was being curious and more times than once I had to convince her not to hack into her Base Commander's computer to figure out what was happening.

I still hadn't told any of my family about what Allison and I were doing. Until I knew what I knew what I was actually doing and getting myself into, I decided to keep quiet. That didn't stop me from being paranoid that the wrong people might find out what I was doing so I made sure I'd found a method for only my family to find out my research. Hopefully it wouldn't come to that but I had to be prepared.

My guess was my parents had played a part in this. Not only were all military bases on alert, but so were the airports. It was discreet but effective, something my family was extremely good at. My family also knew that if the extra security in the nation was noted by the civilians, it would be noticed by other governments, most importantly the Gray Men. I figured my parents were trying to lure the Gray Men into a false sense of security after they were able to detain one survivor from the hospital explosion. Blaze had been able to get information out of him. Apparently it'd only taken a day to for her to get information from the guy which seriously impressed me and seriously terrified me. Their suspect had been a guy that was six-foot-five, taller than anyone in our entire family, and a girl who was nearly a foot shorter than him was able to break him in less than twenty-four hours? Again, impressed or terrified, I don't know.

I'd talked to Shiloh on the phone earlier. She'd been trying to cheer me up because let's face it, being an adult is a lot more difficult than it seems. I guess not having family around me after being surrounded by them for twenty-two years was finally taking its toll.

It was eight in the evening and I'd finally arrived home from base. I was exhausted from being up at zero-four hundred and going non-stop. I had a day off tomorrow which I was looking forward to. I'd just showered and changed into my pajamas and was trying to figure out what I was going to eat for dinner when my phone rang.