The Smartest Kids Alive (IN NEED OF REVISING)

Chapter XXVI

JACKSON

Music: Last Enemy from Gradius V

"What the..."

"Who are these people..."

These are just two of the many reactions to what we find in the office room. Two tubes, each with blue glass surrounding them, stand just a few feet in front of us, and inside each tube is a person, roughly around our age. One is male, the other female, and if I had to guess, they're probably fraternal twins. Their bodies are completely limp, but their eyes are still open. However, the eyes themselves do not have pupils on them.

"Brainwashed," Heath mutters, basing his assumption off of what's in front of us.

Him, Eghosa, and I walk up to two plaques, one for each tube, lying on a small desk in front of the tubes. On each plaque is a name.

"Coke and Pepsi McDonald... interesting names," I laugh.

"These must be those two TGF kids Dr. Magdon told us about," Eghosa says to what appears to be herself.

"Huh?" Sam asks.

"Dr. Magdon told us that Dr. Wersaw ended up stopping his killing spree due to two TGF kids gaining the upper hand on him. These must be them," I explain.

"Why would he want to brainwash them, though?" Avery asks.

"They must be special to him in some way..." Skylar mutters in reply.

"Well, I mean, if you've been outsmarted by two teenagers as many times as he probably was, then there's probably something he sees in them that he wants," Luke smirks.

Even though what Luke said was likely a joke, it is a good point. "We need to get them out of here, before Dr. Wersaw does anything worse to them," Mackenzie says, and we all nod.

Heath and I then open up the glass doors, and we each grab one of the McDonald twins carefully, flinging them over our shoulder. They don't move or anything, they just continue to act dead.

As soon as we shut the doors again, however, an alarm goes off.

MACKENZIE

Music: Thunderforce Boss from Parodius Da! PSX/SS

"What the hell?" Avery asks once the alarms being blaring. It sounds pretty similar to a fire alarm, so I'm guessing that's what was used.

"They must have sensors in those things to keep tabs on whether or not there's a person in there," Heath concludes. "We better hurry."

And so we take off, exiting the office room. Luke shoots through the window to allow us to exit the music room, and essentially, the building, but a bunch of robots ambush us. However, I use their laser cannons to my advantage. I stand in front of the door leading into the hallway and let a robot fire a laser at me. I dodge it at the last second, and the laser ends up blasting the door open. Meanwhile, Sam, Luke, Avery, and Skylar work on the robots.

"Let's go!" I urge, moving the team along.

As we're running through the hallways, I notice Heath and Jack beginning to fall behind. This is problematic, as the alarms are still blaring, and now there's a voice on the intercom yelling, "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!"

"Would you two hurry up!?" I yell.

"It's kinda hard to run when you're carrying a person!" Jack retorts.

I sigh, and then a realization comes to my head. It causes me to halt in place, essentially causing Avery to bump into me and fall backwards.

"The satellite! We still have to get to it!" I say.