New Age

Chapter 36 ~ Greg. Explain

Mika’s POV

“We need to get him into the Jeep! I’ll drive him back and you two can stay and catch a lift from someone!” I say as soon as I see Rast on the floor with a wound on his torso.

“How come you get to drive him?” Leo asks as we pick Rast up and lay him down in the Jeep. I hop into the drivers seat and start the car.

“Because I’m faster.” I say out the window and then I speed away leaving the twins with the gravel from under the cars tyres in their eyes.

Lucas’ POV

 “RAGHHHHHHHH!!!!!” I yell as I throw the first thing I can find across the room. Then I pick up more and more, just throwing it. Then as I turn to pick up something else I hear the last thing I threw shatter like glass. I turn and find it’s a photo frame. I go over to it a pick it up. It’s a photo from before, Spencer’s smiling his head off at something and the head that sits on his shoulder laughing as much is hers. Mika’s eyes are shining and she looks so beautiful.

I sink to the floor, not caring about the glass cutting my legs as I cuddle the broken photo frame holding the one most precious memory in this moment. I start to cry, something I have never done since I was a child. I’m so deep in my sorrows I don’t even notice Magna’s entered the room until she pull me up and lies me down on my bed.

I curl into as small a ball as I can and let all these cooped up tears escape whilst Magna strokes my head lovingly.

Mika’s POV

 “Hey idiot.” I smile as Rast’ eyes flicker slowly but surely open.

“Hey.” He whispers. I stand up to get a nurse to say that Rast’s awake but he puts a hand on my arm.

“Don’t, not yet.” Okay, so I sit down again and he still holds my arm.

“Where were you?” He asks.

“What do you mean? I was there with you.”

“Not when I was hit, you wandered off and up to this car, you were looking for something then I got hit.”

“You were looking out for me? Rast, you should know better! You should’ve been watching your own back!”

“I always look out for you.” Rast said. He looks up at me and I see vulnerability in his eyes. I go to say something but then the nurse walks in, I take his hand off my arm and walk away without saying anything to him.

Lucas’ POV

“Now I’m not telling you to just give her up and believe that she’s gone. But I am telling you that you need to,”

“I know Magna.” I interrupt. Magna pats me on the shoulder, gives me a kiss on my head and walks out.

What just happened is not one of my proudest moments, and I can trust in Magna that she will keep it between us. It’s just. Her eyes. They didn’t seem right.

Spencer’s POV

 “Maybe she was fighting against them and only saw you two because she was trying to hide from them?” E suggests. I shake my head.

“It’s a good theory E but it wasn’t that. Mika never hides from a fight and she wasn’t in her normal clothes, I mean they were her style but they’d been ironed. She never irons her clothes, even when Lucas offered to do it for her one time.” 

E sighs and slumps against the back of his chair, crossing his arms and ankles.

“So. So what does this mean then? That she was working with Robo and she’s stopped being a slob with her clothes? So what?” EK says.

“So what EK?” E replies back arrogantly, “Yeah so what she’s kick ass and on the wrong side! She could kill all of us in this room right now without breaking a sweat!” His voice raised so high everyone in the room heard him, and I swear I see Greg the computer guy gulp nervously.

EK rolls her eyes. “Geez, could you turn the paranoia down a tad mate? My ears are ringing.” E’s eyes glare at her but he smiles smugly at her says his comeback. Which is not something to be repeated. Use your imagination.

EK gets up to punch the life out of him so I have to jump up and tell her to go for a walk. She stalks off, glaring at a staring Greg who gulps again once she’s out the room. I turn to E.

“That was unnecessary E.” I sigh as I sit back down and rest my elbows on my knees. He’s smiling smugly, happy to have had the last word.

“She was kinda asking for it.”

“She is at least two years younger then you.” He shrugs.

“Still doesn’t change her attitude towards me does it?” I shake my head, unbelievable! I go to say something to him but am interrupted by Magna coming through the door. So instead I smack him on the head as I go to meet her.

“Ow! Dude!” I hear him exclaim and smile to myself as I reach Magna.

“Are you behaving Spencer?” She asks, looking at E whose patting his head where I hit him. I smile and nod at her.

“How is he?” I ask. The light in her eyes dies down a tiny bit.

“He was very distraught, it was a bit traumatising for me seeing him like that actually, the poor lad was broken into a million pieces.” I look down and try to imagine Lucas so bad it traumatised Magna, but I can’t. Lucas to me is calm, funny and badass in fighting, not broken into a million pieces. Magna senses what I’m thinking and puts a reassuring hand on my shoulder.

“Guys?” E calls over. I look up at Magna who gives me a small smile and we go over to see what E wants.

“Look at this.” We look on the computer screen and see a huge amount of red and purple dots.

“I’m not sure what I’m looking at.” Magna takes the words right out of my mouth.

“Greg. Explain.” E gestures to the screen and stands back, arms folded.

“Uh, well it’s quite simple really,” He glances nervously at Magna who looks at him with an eyebrow raised; I love that woman! He gulps and continues, “The red dots are Robo and the purple are Robo loyalists.”

I point to a big blue blob that’s at the very bottom of the screen and looks cut off.

“What’s that? Is that us?” Greg nods awkwardly and goes to explain more.

“Yes, that’s the White House.”

“Those red and purple dots are awfully close to the big blue one.” Magna says curiously.

“That’s one of the reasons I called you over.” E appears again. I look at him and ask what the other thing was.

“Show them Greg.” Greg gulps and the picture on the screen changes. Not only does it have a LOT of red dots but also it now has a massive black one, and it’s a weird shape. I don’t get what it is but Magna and E do. As soon as Magna sees it she gasps and covers her hands over her mouth.

“What is it?” I ask, Magna looks at me and I see one thing that I have never seen associated with Magna, fear. She walks out and E follows her. I look at Greg who has probably gulped for the fifth time since the thing came on screen.

“Do you know what it is?” I ask him. He nods. Even Greg knows! Gee and I thought I knew at least a bit! Greg doesn’t speak.

“Are you going to tell me what it is then?” He gulps again before telling me.

“Spencer sir. It’s a Robo mothership.” I don’t think I heard him right.

“Robo mothership? As in?”

“As in we’re in deep shit sir.” Now it’s my turn to gulp.