The Girl of Colours (Book TWO)

Hi Clani

"Kill, kill."

"They're going to kill us." Sky wept as I held her closer, ready to scream, if only to get her out, but the creatures stopped me in my tracks.

The leader grabbed Luke, pointing to the door. "You must escape. Run."

I was just a little confused. "What? What?" Then Sky pulled free of me, and grabbed a control lever. "Sky, what are you doing?"

Serf started to leap around and gibber in the meeting room, and Sarah Jane managed to avoid being hit by the laser before security ran in. But then he grabbed his pen, and activated controls on it. "What are you doing down there? Level five, punish!"

The creatures collars glowed, and they screamed with pain, making Sky stare in horror, thinking it was her who caused it. "Mum, Luke, make it stop. Make it stop."

"We can't." Luke told her, holding us both as the device was turned off, and the screams and electricity through their collars stopped. If I'd have tried to stop them, I could have either made the charge lethal, or I could have caused it to detonate inside and take their heads off.

"Work, work." The leader one told them, and they all scrabbled to get back into place, and Serf got back to normal.

"I'm sorry I must have blunked out there for a second." He smiled, and I gritted my teeth at the smarmy orange and blue. "My goadness, what's happening?" 

Harrison sighed, tuning the telly in to view us. "Plark, forget it. It's too late now." And then he saw us. "What are they doing in there?"

Sarah Jane stared in horror, realising it was us. "Oh, no."

"Emergency. Intruders in Light Chamber."

"Luke, Callie, Sky, get out of there!"

And the creatures agreed. "Run, run."

"Come on."  Luke told us, and we went to run, but security ran in.

"Everyone cover your ears!" I shouted, my voice already resonating in a frequency that could rattle windows. Luke and Sky did as I said, and I screamed, a few computers fizzing before one of the security slapped me across the face, knocking me to the ground.

"Mum!" Sky cried, grabbing me as each of our phones started to ring. 

They grabbed them all from us, the brand new one that dad had finally sent me in replacement of the one he took apart to fix his machine, and stamped on them each. "That's my phone." Sky complained as I got to my feet, a bruise already forming across my face. I healed quickly, but I didn't half bruise and scar easily. 

Luke sighed, fussing over me. "Welcome to the club. I've had seven phones in the last two years, Callie's probably had more." Too true.

"Sarah Jane!" Sky shouted as she was brought into the room.

"Mum." We both sighed in relief, hugging her.

She was relieved herself, being the next one to fuss over my cheek. "Oh, thank goodness you're all right."

"Bizarre." Harrison commented. "I expected high-class industrial spies, not Mumsnet. That's two mums here, one with a hypersonic voice." I prefer the term badass Banshee, actually. I liked Alliteration.

I glared at him, my eyes changing the colours of the sounds around us through the Roxxia, before looking at Sarah Jane. "Sarah, the hologram."

Sky interrupted me, standing between her father and I. "There are aliens working it. They're slaves."

"Coming, Master." The leader, who must have been Plark said, scrabbling to where we were.

"Plark." He bowed his head, before looking up again. "You let these human children roam free."