Our Planet has Crashed [COMPLETE]

sixty six - KOTLC

Fitz POV:

"YES!" Dex pumped his fist in the air, doing a funny dance kind of thing. 

"We aren't sure, but—" one of the humans started.

"No matter!" Dex said happily. "We'll be there tomorrow!"

"And Wren, where is she—"

"Oh, she's fine, right here with us in Jerboa's hut. Anyways. We'll see you at dawn!" Dex hung up the Imparter, and spun to the rest of the elves, grinning from ear to ear. "They found it!"

Linh looked up from her map of San Diego, gasping. "Really?"

Dex sobered a bit, "Well, two days ago I showed them what a DNA sensor looks like, and today they said they found something like it in the dirt or something behind a mansion near Sophie's and Mr. Forkle's old houses," Dex said, "but I'm pretty sure that it's really it. These humans sure are better than the ones at home,"

"EXCUSE ME?" Wren shouted from where she was perched on Sky, gazing—or, perhaps, glaring—at them. 

"IT'S A COMPLIMENT!" Dex protested.

Wren rolled her eyes and went back to the book she stole from who knew where. She was grumpy the elves wouldn't let her go join her friends in the other planet, claiming she could help, but having already sent eleven humans that didn't belong, they didn't want even more of them that may or may not mess up the mission. Fitz snapped back to attention when Dex began pointing out where the mansion might be.

"Mansion!" Linh gasped. "Marella said she and that Charger leaped from a human mansion!"

"At least the pieces are fitting together," Fitz grumbled. They had been sitting there for nearly a week with lame and useless reports every night from the humans with no luck, until today. They were finally getting some information as to where the hideout everyone was, and Fitz could not be patient anymore. He was going to charge in there and rescue Sop—everyone. Yes, everyone. And Sophie. Of course.

"Any luck transmitting, Wonderboy?" Dex asked. "If we're going to find Sophie and Keefe—"

"—and everyone else," Linh corrected with a stern look.

Dex blushed. "Yeah, and everyone—"

"Except Marella said not to," Jensi reasoned. "She said it was too dangerous since they were still controlled."

"Still, we have to try," Linh said, but everyone else shook their heads. Linh pouted and went back to the map. "Well, then, only mansion in the neighborhood is the one across the street from where Sophie and Mr. Forkle used to live. Dex, can you see—"

"I did," said Dex, pulling out a gadget. "So according to this, there's an old woman named Marie who lives all alone in the mansion, and her husband died two years ago. She had one child, but he moved to Europe and never visits. She goes to a belly-dancing group, but lately dropped out. It seems that she has no more relatives other than her son, and seems depressed." Dex looked up at them. "Would be easy to just kill the old woman, tell everyone it was from old age. . . or tell no one at all, because she has no friends or family other than her son, who ignores her."

Everyone shuddered. Poor Marie.

"The Neverseen probably use it as a hideout . . . but it can't fit all those prodigies and Sophie and Keefe and all the actual Neverseen members there. It's not that big of a mansion. So maybe it's just a façade." Dex mused.

"That makes sense. But then why could you see the prodigies moving around the city before their crystals were broken? And why would the Neverseen let them wander around? And before they were fully mind controlled?" Jensi asked.