Defenders Of Tomorrow

III

Leandro P.O.V.

I'm confused. "What do you mean by 'negotiate'?" I question, Akira hopping off the hover and standing by my side.

Pidge pushes her glasses up before speaking. "You want to make a wormholer."

"Teleduv." Akira corrects her.

Pidge sighs. "You want to make a telduv. I can help you build it, for a price of course." I don't completely understand how she found out about our plans for the teleduv, but I'm curious. They say curiosity killed the cat, but I'm no cat, I'm Leandro.

"What price?" Akira steps forward, and I realize how short Pidge is.

Pidge smirks and lifts her head, a devious grin is marked on her face. She could only be up to trouble. "Revenge. On the Holts." I perk up hearing this. The Holts are horrible people, and my is forever changed because of them.

Akira seems pleased with her, as he too wants nothing more than to stick a rod up their asses. I turn to Akira as he does to me and we nod. "Its a deal."

"I'm delighted to be working with you two. Mind if I catch a lift?" I suddenly frown. There's no room on the hover for us all to sit comfortably. Pidge glares at me, its like she's reading my mind! If that's the case I better not think of anything too secretive.

"Sorry Leon, but she's bunking with you for the rest of the ride." Akira says. Wait... what?!

"I disapprove." Pidge doesn't seem bothered in the slightest, which ticks me off even more. She just shrugs and walks over to the hover. "How dare you." I pout at Akira, who only smirks and pats me on the back. I can almost hear him snickering at me, that Mullet-head.

Akira starts up the engine as I push myself on the hover beside Pidge. "Shove over." I grumble.

"Why don't you, fat ass." Oh, so she's a sassy one, eh? Bitch can suck it later.

The whole trip is Pidge and I arguing. "Glad you two are bonding." Akira comments, how mean. Pidge snorts.

At long last we arrive at the base. I'm so relieved, I'm not sure how long I can stand quarrelling with Pidge. "Turn around dwarf." I say as Akira starts to enter the code. The midget turns around and huffs. Dear lord is she getting on my nerves.

"Clear." Akira says. Pidge turns back around to face our long hallway. Its majoritively empty, besides Akira's lovely collection of hidden booby traps, ah do I love saying that. I really want to push the gremlin in blindly, but I'm not that stupid.

"Leon, you're first." Akira states.

"Yeah, Leon." Pidge snickers. I give her a death glare; only Akira calls me Leon! Anyways, I trudge into the hallway, avoiding every tile with a slightly darker tint than the rest. If I stepped on one of those then the floor would sink and open up into a very deep hole. I make sure not to touch the walls, doing that would make a giant butchers knife drop from the ceiling and cut me in half. Last but not least, the hallway is abruptly stopped by a wall covered with every kind of button you can imagine! I push a tiny blue button hardly the size of my pinkie fingernail.

The wall lifts up and I can continue down the hallway trap-free. I reach the end of the hallway and turn to Akira, who's carrying Pidge on his back. "Such an advantage." Pidge mumbles, obviously excited by this new view point. She really is short.

Akira finally puts Pidge down on her own two feet. I mentally measure jee height and she's about the height of my shoulders. Pidge seems to notice me staring so she pulls a face. Damn gremlin.

"So," Akira starts as we walk into the discussion room. "Why do you want revenge on the Holts?" Its a good question and I'm eager to hear her answer. We all take our places in the chairs before Pudge takes a deep breath.

"There are some personal matters between me and Matt." A nickname? Why would she refer to the Holt's son with a nickname?

"Such as..." I question.

"None of your fucking business." She snaps at me. The brat.

"If you expect to work with us then you're going to have to answer our questions." Akira speaks up.

Pidge sighs in defeat. "I'm... I'm not human." What? "I'm a clone. A copy of Matthew Holt. He was like a brother to me. But I was too... independent from him."

Things are starting make a bit more sense now. "So you were tossed away?" Pidge nodded.

"What does this have to do with the Teleduv?"

"I'd use the wormholer-"

"Teleduv." I correct her again.

"I'd use the Teleduv to find Matt and the other Holts. I'd give him a taste of his own medicine. You two can do what you please to Samuel and Colleen Holt." I exchange glances with Akira. He seems sceptical, as am I, but willing to give this a shot.

Akira nods in approval. I suppose we're putting this plan into action then. "We'll need you to help build the Teleduv. I've made some rough blueprints based off of my research but they're not enough." Akira states calmly. Pidge nods.

"I'm willing to do it. Show me what you've got so far." Akira leads Pidge out if the room and leaves me behind. As much as I hate to admit it, I live off of attention, but because of a certain somebody *cough*Pidge*cough* I'm dying alone!

I try waiting for them to come back but I'm starting to get bored. I decide the best thing to do is to go to bed and catch up on my well deserved beauty sleep. Hey, somebody around here's gotta look good. Not that Akira isn't good looking. Heck! He's handsome as fuck! I admit, we are closer than partners, even friends. But we're not in a relationship yet. Honestly, it hurts, but once the Teleduv is complete and Pidge leaves it will be easier for me to make my move.

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