The Barden Guardians

(16) Saving the heroes

Benji was looking around Emily's room for one of her blasters and a mask. He was gonna go try and save his friends. He was rummaging through Emily's closet when Stacie walked in.

"What are you doing in here?" Stacie raised an eyebrow at the boy.

"Nothing, I just need something from Emily's closet." Benji shrugged.

"Let me look for it, Emily rearranged everything in here. What are you looking for?" Stacie smiled as she looked into the closet.

"It's nothing really, I can get it myself."

"Come on dude, if I let you do it you'll mess everything up and Emily worked hard on this place. She'll be pissed when she gets back tomorrow morning." Stacie's smile got bigger and brighter as soon as she thought about Emily coming back in the morning.

"Stacie.....Emily....she....she's not coming back tomorrow." Benji said with teary eyes.

"Then when is she coming back." Stacie's smiled disappeared.

"She's not coming back. She did something that stopped the robots but it...it killed her Stace." Benji finally broke out into tears and Stacie stood there like a statue.

Benji told her everything that happened. He told her about Emily stopping the robots, the Guardians being captured and he told her he was planning on saving them using the blasters that Emily made.

"You said she can also live for two weeks." Stacie pointed out.

"There's a ten percent chance of that happening Stacie, but yeah it's possible."

"I'm going with you. If you're going to save them then I wanna come too."

"You can't come with me. I can't risk you getting hurt."

"You can't get them back alone. I'm helping you and I'm not taking no for an answer. Do the others know about this?"

"No, I was the only one in the base when it all happened so I'm the only one who saw." Benji said.

"We have to tell them. They need to know about this." Stacie said as she grabbed a box from the closet that had the blasters inside.

They called the girls over to Benji's house to tell them what happened. They also told Benji's grandfather who agreed to stay behind as Benji and the girls went to save the Guardians.

"Let's go twig bitches!" Amy yelled as the teens filed into the car.

Benji turned on the GPS so he could track down his friends. They drove off in a hurry to save their friends. They each had a mask, bulletproof vest and a blaster.

They found the convoy at the bottom of the mountain with the Guardians in two of the vehicles.

"Okay we have to be stealthy, we have to go around the-"

"Charge!" Amy yelled getting out the car and cutting Benji off.

"Or we could charge in with no plan what so ever." Benji shrugged as they all ran out the car.

"Chloe, Aubrey and Stacie go get the Guardians out those cars. Go around the convoy though." Benji ordered and the girls did as they were told.

They walked over to the cars. They opened the first one and found Lilly, Cynthia and Flo handcuffed. They then opened the other car and found Jesse and  Beca.

"Where's Emily?" Stacie asked the teens.

"Your dads have her. They went that way." Jesse pointed in the direction of the trees.

"Hey guys." Benji greeted as he walked up to them and unlocked their handcuffs.

"I'm going after Emily, you guys stay here." Beca ordered.

"I'm coming with you. If my dad has her I have to stop him." Stacie said.

"Us too." Chloe said pointing at herself and Aubrey.

"Fine, just stay behind me at all times. While you're wearing those masks you're their enemies not daughters." the girls nodded and followed behind Beca.

They walked for a good minute before they saw their fathers standing above a deep hole. Next to the hole was an unconscious Emily. She looked like she wasn't breathing which broke Stacie's heart.

"Markus just push her in the damn hole so we can go back home." Carlos sighed.

"Or you can give her to me so we can all go home." Beca said startling the three men.

"How did you get free?" Matthew asked.

"Now that is a secret." Beca said as she walked towards the men. She pushed them aside and picked Emily up bridal style.

"You are not going anywhere Phoenix." Matthew glared.

"Actually......she is." Aubrey said pointing her blasters at her father.

"And who or what are you supposed to be?" Matthew asked with his hands in the air.

"Who I am doesn't matter what I want does." Aubrey answered.

"And what do you want?" Carlos asked.

"We want you to move out of the way so we can leave with Volt." Stacie said.

"Fine, you can take the pest, it's dead anyways." Carlos said making Chloe's heart break. She never thought her dad would talk like that about someone.

"Let's go." Beca sighed before they walked back to the car.

"You guys have to get her back here ASAP. I think I can save her." Beca heard Dr Applebaum say through the communicator.

Benji drove as fast as he could back to the base. When they got there Dr Applebaum injected Emily and put her in a capsule.

"Is she gonna be okay?" Stacie asked with teary eyes.

"I don't know. If the light at bottom of the capsule doesn't turn green in two weeks then she's gone."

"That can't be true. I can't lose Em." Stacie's voice broke as she spoke. Chloe enveloped her in a hug.

"You guys go get changed so I can give you check ups to make sure you're okay." Dr Applebaum told the teens as he got his equipment ready.

After their check ups which showed that they all only had a few bruises, they all went to sit next to Emily's capsule.

"You kids have to go back home to your families. I'll keep an eye on her." the Dr offered.

"Emily is my family too, so I'll stay here." Beca said.

"And I don't think we'd wanna go home after today." Aubrey said pointing at herself Chloe and Stacie.

"You can't just stay here. Your moms at least need to know that you're safe. Same goes for your dad Beca. I'll call Emily's mom over." Dr Applebaum sighed before leading the kids out the base.

"What are her chances of survival?" Benji asked his grandfather as soon as everyone was gone.

"Don't worry about that just go get some rest." Benji nodded and went up to his room.

The Dr looked at his tablet that showed Emily's medical information. He sighed in defeat when he saw what the tablet read.

HEART RATE: fading
INJURIES: fatal
SURVIVAL CHANCE: 15%