The Risen | ✅

Chapter Five

Evanora cast a worried glance over at me. We were supposed to attack TOMORROW! Not TODAY! I wasn't ready! I'm NOT ready. I blinked and tried to compose myself. I couldn't let this affect me. I shouldn't be letting it affect me.

But it was.

"Ms. Lewis," Mrs. Florence began. I looked up at her, trying to mask my fear and shock. "We're ready to go when you are."

All eyes turned to me and my heart stopped.

'I'm not ready!' I thought. 'I'm not ready! I'm not ready! I'm not ready!'

"I'm ready." I found myself saying calmly.

_ _ _ _

The car stopped a few feet from the building and the driver let us out. I flexed my fingers as the lab came into view.

'I'm not ready! I'm not ready! I'm not ready!'

I silenced my thoughts and turned around. Alex, Evie, Victor, and Skye were all in my group. We had three more trucks coming to drop off the rest of our group. But it was my group's job to make it to the basement and get the power off so that the other three groups had the advantage of the shadows on their side to destroy the building.

"Ready?" I asked. They all nodded. "Then let's go."

We crept along the side of the building, looking for the back entrance, which would most likely be the least guarded seeing as mostly employees used it.

I tried to open the door only to see that it was locked.

"Card clearance only." Victor said, pointing to the scanner by the side of the door.

I nodded towards Alex. He flexed his fingers before his eyes began to glow red and heat began to radiate from his palms. He placed a finger to the scanner and it sparked a bit before the light turned green.

I opened the door a crack and winced as it made a beeping sound.

Heavy footsteps had us all turning our heads towards the corner. Suddenly, a rather beefy man came into view. He looked shocked at first before he frowned.

"I swear, you little vandals had better not be planning to graffiti any shit in here! Don't you cause enough trouble on the front of the building?!"

The gang and I shared a look. He thought that we were graffiti vandals.

Wow...okay...

Suddenly, Skye's eyes glowed a bright aqua blue and she blew into her hand, causing a large puff of smoke to blow into the man's nose and eyes.

He began to hack and cough as I leapt onto his shoulders, wrapping my legs around his throat and slamming my elbow upon his head, knocking him unconscious.

I climbed off of him and sighed.

"That was some Black Widow shit right there." Victor smiled.

I chuckled at him and we continued through the halls. It was going to get really crowded in a few minutes. We were currently on the base floor so the basement was only a few turns away.

"Get close, guys." I said. Focusing all my mental ability on it, I willed myself and everyone else to turn invisible.

"This is never not going to feel weird." Alex said ad we disappeared. Evanora quickly shushed him.

Just as I assumed, the next hall we turned into was bustling with people in lab coats laughing and talking.

The doctors who worked here.