The Secret Life of Carli Cyborg

Chapter Eighteen

Finally! How long did it take Simon and Derek to realize we were trapped, and then for Simon to unspell lock the door? And how long is it going to take dimbo over there to realize his mate is unconscious because of the evil witch Mila? God, guys can be so stupid sometimes! And they say women are the stupid ones.

Mila wasn't knocked out, just had blood running from her head. But I doubted that was going to stop her from trying to kill us all. Except maybe Chloe and Derek. Chloe for torture, Derek for fun. Well, I suppose torture would also be fun in Mila's mind, but you can never be sure with that psychopath. Or sociopath, since she seems to like hurting people.

"You boys don't know when to leave a woman to her devices, do you?" She growled, and it gave Derek's growl a run for its money. I tried to fire a knockback spell at Mila while she was distracted, but she ended up blocking it. Stupid witch.

Derek lunged at Mila, and the two of them wrestled, Mila being exceptionally strong, stronger than I thought. I took Chloe out of the room, knowing Mila would use her as a leverage against Derek. Then I took Carli out of the room, because people could trip over her. Lila, Joey, Aiden, and Aurora were working on getting all the knocked out kids out of the room too, so they wouldn't get hurt. Then Lila took a look at Carli.

"Stupid microchip. I'm taking it out of her and crushing it. It's causing us a world of troubles, and Carli's a valuable fighter. She has a machine gun arm." And Lila did just that, crushing the microchip to pieces. Carli woke up, shaking her head to clear off the fog in her mind.

"What's going on?" Carli asked, looking at the crushed microchip on the ground.

"You were knocked out, so Lila took out your microchip and crushed it." Aurora explained in a "duh" voice. She could be a sweet little five year old, but she could be a smart alec sometimes. Aiden looked at her with softness in his eyes. I could sense a relationship blossoming, even if they were way too young. But that didn't matter to me. I just wanted my son to be happy.

"Oh." Then she looked at me and stated, "Oh, it's you." The greetings she gives people these days! Man, she even greets her sisters that way! I mean, it's kind of rude.

There was a scream from the living room, and I ran in there. Penelope had Mila in headlock, but Mila's neck was twisted all wrong. And her eyes were empty of all emotion, more so than normal.

Mila Andrews was dead. Everyone awake just stared at the dead body, not doing anything. She was gone. We didn't have to worry about her anymore. Sure, there were going to be more people after us, but Mila was gone. One more obstacle we overcame.

We stayed there for hours, nobody knowing what to do. Chloe and the rest of the knocked out people woke up, and followed our pattern. Sitting there, not knowing what to do, because we were all brain damaged. Then everybody fell asleep, only to wake up still not knowing what to do.

"Naze kanojo o maisō shite sore o owarasenai no?" Enna finally asked. Peter translated, saying something about burying Mila. The rest agreed, and finally Derek and Austin went to work. Chloe got as far away from the body as she could, not wanting to accidentally raise Mila. That wouldn't be pretty for her, even if she could control Mila. But her worst fear was that Mila would find her and haunt her if she was raised. Not that Mila couldn't find her now, but if Mila was raised, she would be able to find Chloe easier. From the corner of my eye, I saw Carli approach me.

"Hey, um, Reese...?" She started nervously. "What do we do now? I mean, we've always been busy trying to avoid Mila, or fight to save our kidnapped friends. But now, we're not in any trouble. So, what's our next thing we gotta do?" It took me a minute to think. There was always going to be people out there who wanted us dead.

"People will always want us dead, Carli. But I say we find separate houses close to each other, and enjoy life. Be as normal as we can be." Carli nodded, and that's what we all planned to do.