March 11th, 2027
One thing was clear, that was we needed to get home.
"How is Lucifer on level 20?" Ross asked
Victoria struggled so had to keep her mouth shut, she bit her tongue but she eventually came around to saying : "The king has a short cut. There's transport doors that take you wherever you wanna go."
"Where are they!!!"
"In the water." Victoria cried. We all paused and looked at each other for a second.
"Is that even possible?"
"I would have to assume so." Trace said, "We built this game with my dad, so yes, he could have printed out a cheat code."
"That's how he found us on level 14." Ross said,
"That's also how he was able to retreat from his castle so fast." I said.
Ethan was standing over by a tree near by the horses looking out into the woods. Trace walked up to him and he turned and looked at us.
"You ready for this?" Trace asked.
"Yea," Ethan said, "let's do this."
"Remember, you promised me....." Trace's voice was shaking.
"I know."
"He's still my brother."
"I know man, but for we need to get Sierra and that bitch," he glanced at Victoria. "is going to help us get in."
Trace looked back at Victoria.
"Well the spell is going to wear off soon, after that there's no way she'll help us, not now anyways."
"I'll make her." Ethan held out one of his pistols.
"We can't force her to do anything." Sterling said approaching them.
"He's right, you saw her, she'd rather kill herself before helping us."
"Fuck!" Ethan said.
"All though, we can use that against her." Trace smiled.
"Excuse me?"
"Use what?" Ethan said.
"Her loyalty. All she wants is to prove her she's loyal, right? If your wife wanted you to prove your loyalty, what would you do?"
"Prove it." Ethan said.
"Exactly. I know my brother isn't loyal to Victoria or anyone, we just need to prove it."
"Okay, let's do it." Ethan and Sterling agreed.
"But how?"
"We may have to put her life in danger," Trace started,
"now Ethan that means we need to let her go."
Ethan's eyes got wide and he was quick to object.
"He'll no! No way we're letting her go."
"Now, I know you think I'm crazy but-"
"You are fucking crazy, you son of a bitch. Name one sane thing you've done."
"I agree with him." Sterling said.
"I don't, Ross back me up!" Ethan shouted. Trace tried to come back with a counter claim.
"Look, she's hurt and wounded. If we stage it to look like she had a chance to escape she'll run to Lucifer and we'll follow her."
Ethan didn't seem to convinced by Trace's plan.
"I'm going for a swim."
I followed Ethan to the lake and sat by the sore.
"You're worried aren't you?"
Ethan looked back at me then back at the water.
"Yes, I can't lose you guys."
"We're not gonna lose her, you should know that."
Ethan looked back at me for a second.
"We'll get her back, but first we need to do something." Ethan hopped out of the water and sat on the sore wit me.
"We need an artillery."
"That too, but first, we need to steal a ship."
