Teen Team Crafted

It's A Trap

A's POV

I'm in the front of the crowd, practically paralyzed at the fact that Ty is right there. He's right there.

I knew him for a little bit, so it's crazy for me, even worse for the Team, and worst of all for Sky.

The other recruits know who he is, of course. Everyone is eventually told the story of Deadlox. Most learn about why the General seems bent on getting to the squids base about their second day.

I'm standing next to Impy and Mr. Crafter, and the rest of my friends are around the front of the crowd.

The army is so silent, you can hear a pin drop.

Suddenly, Sky bursts through the crowd. "What's going o-"

And then he sees Ty.

I don't think he notices that it's Ty at first, but then I see his eyes go wide. "....Ty." He whispers.

Unlike everyone else when they first saw Ty, Sky doesn't stand there. "Where's the doctors?" He asks, and he doesn't even have to yell.

Nobody moves.

Sky starts to look a little agitated. "Where are the doctors, guys? He's almost dead!" His voice sounds a little frantic.

Thank god, the doctors of the army (who had been standing as paralyzed as the rest of us), finally run forward with a stretcher, and take him away, with the Team following them.

When they're gone, everyone starts breathing again.

Sky's POV

I'm.

Freaking.

Out.

Ty is right here, he's safe, it'll be okay. The doctors said he'll be okay, so it's all okay.

Still, it's going to take a while. Just a little while, they said.

But when I asked them how long a little while was, I got an answer I didn't want.

Three weeks.

After seven years of living with guilt, I still have to wait three more weeks. I don't want to wait three more weeks. I've missed my little brother.

I wonder if the headphones I gave him are back with the squids. We didn't bring them inside, and Rose told me that they had been washed away. (A/N: OH NOES NOW STUFF'S GONNA GO DOWN)

Where am I, you ask?

In my room, on my bed, staring at the ceiling.

Where else would I be?

After Ty had been put in the hospital, and I had been told to leave, I came back here and screamed into my pillow for what felt like hours. It probably wasn't hours, but when I stopped my throat was sore.

After my scream session, I threw stuff. That made me feel a bit better. I basically smashed my clock against the wall, a few item frames, and a old iron boot that I never wear anymore.

Now I'm putting in a few hours of extreme sulking.

Maybe I should work on my coping mechanisms.

Meh.

Not even Mitch and Jerome have said anything. Ty coming back was supposed to be a happy thing, but instead it's really depressing.

Probably because he's in THE FREAKING HOSPITAL.

"Calm down, me." I say to myself.

Oh great. Now I'm talking to myself. I might as well stamp the words "I belong in a mental asylum" across my forehead.

Maybe I do. I mean, I've been obsessing over the same thing for seven years, I talk to myself, I throw things at a wall to make myself feel better...

No. This is not the time to question my own sanity. Not with Ty in the hospital and an impending doom for some players, aka the war that we all know is going to happen someday.

I wonder if I'm headed to an impending doom myself.

What really scares me is that I'm not sure if I really care.....

Jason's POV (haven't done one of these in a while)

I've been hanging out with Rose for a little while. She's cool, and easy to talk to. Unlike some people here in the army, she's got a kind side, a side that doesn't want to ruthlessly kill everything in sight.

Anyways, we were walking through the grounds, just talking about stuff. And today, "stuff" was Ty.

"I just can't believe it! I mean, we've been searching for him for seven years, and suddenly he just appears on the beach out of nowhere?" Rose questions.

"I know." I say. "It seems weird, almost like the squids purposely made it so he was back with us."

"But why would they do that?" She asks. "There doesn't seem to be any good reason for it, unless the squids are just being nice."

"And being nice is not the squids style." I say, and she nods in agreement.

I think it over. What reason could they have? They're not being nice, so that's out. It may be because he was almost dead....no. They wouldn't have just handed him over to be possibly healed. There's only one option left, and I'm coming to the conclusion at the same time Rose is.

"It's a trap." We both say at the same time.