AAOOOSC! #10

Chapter 22: "Dang, I'd Be Hungry By Then."

Taking an hour or more steps back, the GHP are staring at the open window Sidney, Nathan, Jonathan, and "Galchenyuk-in-Zadorov" flew right through.

"Well, that's one way to get rid of 'em," Carter points out.

"Yeah..." Pekka turns to him and the others. "But where are they now?"

Antti shakes his head with a frown. "I have no idea where they would've gone..." He turns to the others with a worried look. "Would anyone care to check outside and see if they landed out there?"

Carter opens his mouth to say something, but before he could, Pekka volunteers.

"I will." Pekka crosses the main room and into the hallway where the entrance is located.

Carter has his eyes locked on the open window. "I never knew force fields could be so powerful...!"

"Same here." Jonas anxiously pulls out a bag of chips, opens them, and starts munching from them.

Antti sighs. "I hope they're out there..."

They stare at the window with hopeful looks and crunching sounds in the air.

Pekka ambles back over to them with a frown. "No." He shakes his head with a pitied look. "They're out of sight."

"Oh no..." Antti covers his face with his hands. "Where could they've gone?"

"We can ask Ari!" Jonas suggests.

"Yeah, that flyin' tablet!" Carter exclaims, pointing at Antti enthusiastically.

Antti tilts his head from side to side. "I'll go consult Ari. It's charging right now, so I'll be back in a moment." He turns around and whisks back into the hallway.

Carter turns to Pekka. "So they're nowhere to be found around here?"

"No where," Pekka answers. "Couldn't see 'em-- Hard to miss 'em in the location the headquarters are in."

"Aw, if only John was here!" Jonas yammers from beside them; they face him with inquiring looks while he continues talking: "He could make some tracker that can track 'em down..., manipulate the weather--something!"

"Ummm..., I'm here." Carter places his hand on his chest, looking like his pride got poked at.

"You can track 'em down?" Jonas gazes at him with hopeful eyes.

Carter thinks for a moment. "Eh, yeah, but it'd take days...weeks...months..." He frowns. "Dang, I'd be hungry by then."

Jonas shakes his head with disappointment as Pekka gives Carter a frown.

Antti struts back over to them from the end of the hallway. "Ari can't track them down," he tells them with anguish. "It says that they're too far for it."

Carter turns to Pekka. "How about your orb?"

"Tatu?" Pekka shakes his head. "Tatu can't fly that far. Besides, it needs to stay here as our security guard. I think some of us are gonna have to track them down."

"This is such a setback to our plan..." Antti mutters with his eyes casted down.

"Hey, at least Galchenyuk-in-Zadorov is set back as well to get us all!" Carter points out.

"But we gotta get Sid, Nathan, and Jonathan before Jimmy comes here with John's machine and Toews's powers!" Pekka points out harshly.

Jonas peers at Antti with hopefully, pleading eyes. "We gotta go to John! He can make a tracking device for us! He can help us out! We need more people..."