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Chapter 12: Unseen Escape

Senkina looked up at him. She could see his fear was paralyzing. She finished the person she was working on and walked over to him to calm him down.
Some of the other people started to wake up. They all looked over to Leon Oskaur and Senkina. They look curiously at them. Then realized who was actually there.
"Leon Oskaur is that you?" A boy, that couldn't have been more then 10, asked.
"Yes it is me. Tante you're alive. So is everyone else." Leon Oskaur practically cried. His hair blazed a bright pink.
"Where are we?" Tante further questioned, looking around the bright room.
Leon Oskaur in this moment became serious. "We are in Our Leader's castle. So I need to help us get everyone out of these machines. All you have to do is flip this switch and open the glass." Leon Oskaur commanded.
Tante nodded his head in understanding. He stood still for a minute, then split into 10 versions of himself. They each went to work, each going to a different unit. Senkina and Leon Oskaur went back to work. Senkina knew it wasn't the time to ask questions. With twelve people setting people free, they were done in a couple minutes.
As everyone woke up, Senkina looked for an exit. She found one on the edge of the room. She peeked out to see if the coast was clear. It wasn't.
Two guards were roaming the walkway. One of the guards was the guard that they had encountered when trying to find Jickallyn.
The guard looked towards Senkina. She ducked back in. She was mentally pleading that he didn't see her. As if he could hear her, he walked past the entrance to the room.
Senkina was relieved. She started back to the group. Tante was now only one and the group all looked to Leon Oskaur for council. Leon Oskaur looked to Senkina, his hair turning from orange to green.
Senkina walked up to Leon Oskaur to get the group's attention. "Hi I'm don't know how you all ended up here but I wanted to help you. Do any of you know the way out?" Senkina shouted the little crowd below.
One little hand raised above the heads of the crowd. Senkina gestured for the little hand to come up. The little hand was connected to a younger boy, around 12. His navy blue hair was pretty long for a boy.
"How do we get out of here?" Senkina quietly asked.
"You go down that hallway until you see the guards' room. There will be portals to everywhere on the planet. We can take one of those to a place near a very hidden base." The little boy proudly proclaimed.
"Did you hear a guard say that?" Senkina questioned, curious about how he knew.
"No I've been walking around the castle for days." The boy continued to proudly remark.
"How could you do that without the guards noticing?" Senkina continued to question.
"They don't notice what they can't see. My powers are invisibility." The boy continued, almost bragging.
"Can you make other people invisible?" Senkina continued to question.
"I can, but only 5 other people." The boy responded, slightly deflated.
Senkina's wheels were turning. She was thinking about how the boy could help them escape.
Senkina turned to the boy, a smile on her face. "What's your name?" Senkina sweetly asked.
"Jache." The boy answered.
"Well, Jache. You are going to be the person to help us escape. You and anyone else that can turn invisible." Senkina remarked, turning to the crowd.
The crowd looked at each other and two more people stepped forward. A boy with dark green hair and a girl with curly lavender hair. Senkina looked to the crowd.
"Here's the plan: in groups you will become invisible and go to the portal. We will then go to the secret base. The people that can be invisible come back and get the next group. I'll be part of the last group so that I can make sure everyone makes it." Senkina explained.
The crowd all nodded in understanding. Jache took the hand of the person at the front of the line. The whole group disappeared, but Senkina knew they hadn't moved.
Senkina went to the hallway. The coast was clear. She gestured for the group. She felt six people shuffle past her. She walk back in to see if all the group was made. She, then, sectioned off the people that didn't decide their groups.
She saw three more groups leave. There was two more groups left. Senkina realized she didn't include herself in the count. She knew this meant that one more trip had to be made. Senkina knew the more trips they made the more risky this was.
She decided that she would go after the last group left. But she would leave without protection. When everyone else was gone, she turned to the containment units.
She knew that the person to check on them would raise the alarms. She wished that no one noticed they were gone, but what was done was done.
She turned and entered the walk way and silently walked to the guards' room.
She meet no one on the way over, but the guards' room was swarmed with guards. She slumped down the make sure she couldn't be spotted. She really wished they would all leave.
As if they were puppets on strings they all ran out of the room. They didn't run in the direction of the room the group was captive in. So, Senkina felt safe knowing they didn't know yet.
She slithered into the room like a snake. She looked at all the portals and realized she didn't know which one to go into. She stuck her hand into a coral portal and felt a tree.
She pulled her hand out and put her hand in a ocean blue portal. She felt liquid cool and calming but wrong. She felt through all the portals until a hand pulled her through.