Rogue

Chapter 13

Janae frowned at the sudden attention and went completely quiet.

"Janae... what is it?." Andy asked carefully

"I-I think he's trying to do a power transfer..."

"What do mean..."

"Um... the formulas..." Janae reached into her little shoulder bag and pulled out a large textbook, little tabs and post-its were sticking out from the pages at the side. She nervously flipped through the pages, everyone watching her closely.

"H-here it is..." She pushed the book over to Messi and Tessa. "Right here... these are formulas on how to use blood to create potions... and these formulas." Janae pointed at the page. "These match the pictures on the screen."

Tessa studied the book, "she's right..."

"This one is a power transfer... the potion mixed with the blood of someone with powers, it would create a potion that holds the power. If Jake made one and then injected into himself... he'd have the power all to himself."

"...he's gonna do the experiment on me, isn't he?" Icy asked with a frown.

Janae nodded. "...the blood required for the potion is normally about 4 liters.... which is way more than the body can handle losing. "

"So Jake captures Icy.... she's basically dead." Janae nodded.

Icy shrugged and glared at Messi, "At least it won't say 'death by fork' on my tombstone-" Messi grabbed a cushion off the couch and threw it at a laughing Icy, who caught it.

"At least 'death by fork' wouldn't be as painful as slowly bleeding out."

"It'd be just as bad! I'd have a million little tiny stab wounds and I'd still slowly bleed out!"

"At least you'd get to see my beautiful face as you bleed to de-" Messi cut off as a pillow hit him in the face.

"That 'beautiful' face gives me nightmares..."

"...aw! Hear that everyone? She dreams about me!"

Icy threw the closest thing she could grab- a mug, and Messi caught it inches from his face.

"See that? She does love me." He grinned at Icy and placed the mug back down on the coffee table.

Icy ignored Messi and changed the picture displayed on the screen. The group continued looking at the evidence until Tris paused at one in particular.

"Wait... look." She pointed at a fancy invitation pinned to a wall.

"Grand opening gala of the new sculpture exhibition at the downtown art gallery... gala held to honor the donors of the exhibition." To the left of the invitation, there were blueprints of the museum, scattered with little notes.

"This... this is where he's gonna attack next," Tris muttered.

"Then we'll catch him there. Lock him up, so he won't get the chance to experiment on Icy."

"It's next month... 5 weeks from now on Thursday, at 9 pm. That's when we can strike..."

"Wait..." Janae swiped the holographic screen and another photo showed up... this time, blueprints of a fancy Italian restaurant."

Aj read the restaurant name and frowned. "That's the place Jay was talking about... there's a meeting there, EDG's sending one of their high ranked to seal a deal with Jake... he didn't exactly tell me what the deal is. But they're going to expand this 'partnership' with Jake."

"Shit." Andy muttered, "it's the same night as the gala... 9 o'clock as well."

Tris shook her head, "he can't go to both... we should stop the meeting with EDG. For all, we know the gala could just be something he was invited to and declined..."

"That's true..." Pink muttered. "But we might catch him by then..."

"If not, we'll be ready to stop the meeting."