The Awake

Lucas Hollow

We rode in silence for about another hour before The base was in sight.

"Everybody ready? You guys remember the plan?" Peter asked us from the front seat. We all nodded and prepared ourselves for our entry. The base was huge. It was a prison. Literally.

"Hey how do Prisoners keep in touch? With their CELL-PHONES." Ben said as we got closer to the massive compound. He pulled up to the front gate where a guard stopped us.

"State your squad." He said after Ben rolled down his window.

"Squad J, sir." Ben answered to the guard. The guard returned to his little guard house and disappeared inside. The gate in front of the truck slid open and the man waved us inside. Ben drove us inside the Prison walls.

"Hannah, we're in the base. We haven't been detected." Ben said quietly into his earpiece.

"Copy. You should be approaching the main entrance. Ben, drop the others off and park the truck in the J parking space and wait. After you guys are inside, you need to go straight until you get to an elevator. Go up to the third floor. I'll tell you what to do once you're there." Hannah explained. Ben pulled up in front of the entrance and all of us besides Ben, got out and walked towards the door. Ben left my sight when we stepped through the door. There were Guards everywhere. There were too many to count. There was an elevator directly in front of us, like Hannah had said. We all stepped in front of it and Zach pressed the up arrow. My heart was pounding, as we waited for the elevator. There was a loud ding, and the elevator opened. There was no one inside, so we all stepped inside. There were three buttons to choose from, the main floor, the prison cells, and the science ward. I pushed the top button and the elevator doors slid shut.

"Hannah, we're in the elevator on the way to the top floor. What does this guy look like?" Zach said into his earpiece.

"He's bald, has glasses, about 5'1, has a bushy, grey mustache, and two different colored eyes. It might be difficult finding his location." Hannah described.

"Imma get this guy, then Imma crush em" Big Ben said to Hannah. Big Ben is what we called the other group's Ben so we don't get confused.

"Hold off until you're clear of the compound." Hannah said to Big Ben. The elevator stopped at the top floor. When the doors opened, there was a man in a lab coat standing in front of the exit. The man was bald, had glasses, was about 5'1, had a big, grey, bushy mustache, and his left eye was green, when his right eye was blue. We had just run into Lucas Hollow.

"Excuse me, gentlemen." He said entering the elevator. He sounded british. He was carrying a large, metal suitcase. I had realized that we hadn't figured out what we were going to say, to convince him into leaving with us. Just then Zach opened his mouth.

"Sir, we were sent to escort you to speak with the boss. Would you please come with us?" Zach asked the scientist.

"I was on my way to Washington D.C. to deliver this package to him with a different squad. His personal bodyguards will be here shortly. Has something changed?" He asked Zach.

"Yes, sir. He has informed us to escort you to the vehicle. If you would please come with us." Zach replied.

"Well... I suppose." He said pressing the main floor button. The elevator doors shut and it slowly made it's way down.

"Nice move, slick." Hannah said to Zach, who had secretly turned on his microphone. I could see that Zach was smiling. The elevator had stopped and opened when we were at the bottom floor. We walked towards the exit and Lucas Hollow was in the center of our group. We walked along the side of the building with Hollow, until we came up to the truck, Ben was sitting in. Big Ben opened the back seat and Hollow approached the door to climb in. I motioned to Zach to start step three. Knockout. Zach threw a bag over Hollow's head and Peter and Big Ben constricted his arms. His yells were muffled because of the bag. I pulled out Aaron's Taser and turned it on. Electricity flickered between the two points. I then thrusted the taser into his chest. He yelled then stopped resisting. Peter and Big Ben had also been shocked because they were holding his arms. It hurt but they didn't get shocked enough to get knocked out. The case Hollow was holding sat on the ground next to the truck. Zach went to see what was inside but I told him to wait. We put the case in the trunk and Peter and I shoved the unconscious scientist onto the floor in front of the seat so he wouldn't be seen.

"Guys, Squad J's next shift begins in five minutes. Have you secured Hollow?" Hannah said over all the commotion.

"The package is secured, Baby. Returning to our blockade to ditch the truck." Zach said into his mic. I just rolled my eyes.

"Copy that, Baby" Hannah replied to Zach giggling. Zach turned off his mic and then sighed as we got into the truck.

"She wants me." Zach said once everyone was in the truck and Ben was pulling out of the parking space. He drove around the parking lot and approached the gate. The same man stepped out into the way. He walked over to Ben's window and looked at the clipboard he was holding.

"Your shift doesn't start for another two minutes. You sure you want to head out, now?" He asked Ben through the window.

"Yes, sir. There was some activity near the end of our last shift. We would like to get back and clean up the mess." Ben answered.

"Mess?" The man asked, curiously.

"Yes, sir we hit a deer, going down the road. We wanted to clean the carcass off the road." Ben explained to the guard.

"Oh, alright. Just do it fast and get moving, so the Boss doesn't send another truck out after ya." He said to Ben, turning towards his little building. Ben thanked him and we waited for the gate to open. The gate slowly opened to show that a convoy was driving towards their position.

"That must be the Head Bodyguards. You better get moving" The guard said as he speed walked out of his building. Ben started driving and we passed a five truck convoy. There was two trucks in front, two trucks in back, a bullet proof limo in the middle, and an attack helicopter circling above. We tried not to make any eye contact with the passing trucks. When we were at a far distance, we started celebrating. We did it.

"Mission complete, boys!!!" Peter yelled. We all felt the relief. Just then the someone on the truck's radio, A man's voice silenced our celebration.

"Attention all Squads. Lucas Hollow has gone missing. Emergency. All Squads return to base." The voice said. Peter grabbed the radio and cut its cord.

"I think we could use a truck like this." He said looking around the truck. Big Ben agreed.

"If you want to keep it, you need to get rid of the tracker." Ben said, concentrating on the road.

"Where's the tracker?"

"Under the hood." Zach said from the backseat.

"Pull over and I'll take it off." I said to Ben. He did as I told and pulled over. I hopped out and went to the front of the truck. I heard a pop then I lifted the hood. There was a small cube that was flashing red, attached to the top of the Hood. I reached up and pulled at it. It popped off and I threw it off the road. Then I shut the hood and got back into the truck.

"All yours." I said to Peter. Peter smiled back at me and then looked forward at the road. Now step 4 was under way. Interrogating.