Three Hearts Left Intact

Chapter 16: Group of Heros

"M, calm down." Alex tried defusing the situation before it could get worst, but that only aggravated Mallix more.

"Calm down?! You want me, to calm down?! Real funny! Although I don't see anyone laughing! How dare you tell me to calm down?! My wife! My girl! Are stuck in a mad house ran by psychos with money! Tell me how am I suppose to calm down in a situation like this?!" He screamed at Alex who was both hurt and in sorrow for his friend as he tried focusing on the road.

"I know it's terrible but all I'm saying is yelling isn't going to get us anywhere right now!" Alex shouted back trying to get his point across. "There are more important matters we should be discussing instead! We need to address how we're going to get them out of there and what we're going to do after we do rescue them!"

"Get them back! We have to wait another three days before we'll even be able to get our hands on a layout of the building! Meaning we have three days of waiting around while my wife gets who knows what done to her! And my girl is having to deal with who knows what too! I want them out already! I want them safe!" His voice cracked towards the end. For the past few days of doing nothing but sitting around and waiting for plans and meetings to be made, Mallix has had nothing else cross his mind. No matter where he was or what he did, the same thought kept reappearing. 'I am getting them back! I don't care what it takes!'

"I know we have to wait for the blueprints, but it doesn't mean we can't start developing a new plan." Alex tried leveling out his head not wanting to get into a full blown argument with his best friend.

"How can we start developing anything?! We can't do anything without those blueprints! If we start now we won't know what we'll need, our plan of action isn't going to be completed..."

"I never said it had to be completed or a full plan but it'll be something we can start with right now." Alex defended with hope of his friend easing down a bit.

"We can start with making a route of where to go and how to get my girls back! But we can't make a route til we have the blueprints!"

"Oh get over the blueprints M, did you not just hear what you said? We can plan the how, leave the where for later. But if we can think of a way as to how we're going to approach the situation then that's a start while we wait."

"And I presume you have an idea behind that." Mallix raised his eyebrow waiting impatiently for Alex to make eye contact with him to begin his thought process.

"Actually yes I have," just as Mallix predicted the second Alex peered over his way he was off beginning to speak what's going on in his mind. "Look I've been thinking, the Fendly's have an army at their disposal. Why not fight fire with fire!" He looked at his contemplating friend besides him looking out the window.

Turning back slowly Mallix curiously approached the situation. "What are you suggesting?" He asked.

"We make an army of our own. One strong enough to take down the Fendly name and everything and everyone associated with them. Their thief's with brains, they know how the system works and the loopholes around them. But that's it, if we can beat them at their own game we can get ahead of them..."

"...and take them down." Mallix finished off, more calmly than before. His face turned to realization once Alex started. If they could build a team, an army, of individuals willing to help them then they'll have all the firepower they'll need to confront the Fendly's.

Alex sighed mentally when the rest of the ride home, Mallix was too focused on his suggestion that he was either quiet or simply constantly doing research on his phone.

"What if we didn't make an army, instead it was just got an elite group of people who specialize in different areas!" He shouted, not with anger, but with excitement.

"That works too, and probably be easier to formulate. We're going to become a league of hero's." He laughed feeling like he was apart of something greater.

"Hero's who are trained and know about certain things. You know the Cave inside and out, and have resources we can turn to for more knowledge about it if we need it. We'll need someone who knows about maybe disguises, we'll need them for sure. And, how about someone who's good with being stealthy? Stealthy, is that an option we have to look at? Or what about..."

Mallix trailed off more talking out loud than to Alex. He was just more than happy that they were finally getting somewhere with getting his girls back. It was only a start but doing something productive towards getting them back made Mallix more happy than before.

"Your not even thinking about what we need, your just thinking about what we have with us currently. We both know Nina specialized in costume design in college and still as shocking as it was for me to find out, Zander is a natural when it comes to snooping around." Alex teased.

"Hey, it means we won't be needing to search for people outside of the group who don't know everything. It's just easier, and safer, if it's just us anyways. We'll be our own group of heros."

Mallix argued the danger of bringing in new people, which he was happy to see Alex nodded in agreement. This would all be simpler if this group were made of people they knew and trusted. "Ok fine then that works out. Wait a second," Mallix shot his head towards Alex, "M you never said what you'd be good with."

Rolling his eyes as he turned away Mallix tried thinking to himself what he could be good at, what he could contribute to the team. When he spent the next fifteen seconds blanking out and not thinking of a single area, his face fell grey. He wanted to help, and he knew he was going to, but with what?
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Let me know what you think. Thanks Lexx signing off