Rocky Raymond //Book Six// - COMPLETED

Chapter 36 - Liberation

MacKenzie's POV

Barry and I are in the pipeline cell together. Barry is pounding on the walls, trying to yell to the security camera above. I sit down with my back against the wall and my knees pulled to my chest, quiet

"Nash! Cecile! Don't listen to her!" Barry yells at the camera. "That's not Iris."

"You know, you can stop playing this game, or rot in there." Iris says. "I don't care. Either way, I'm gonna find my husband and my daughter." She turns the intercom off

Barry pounds on the cell again, hitting it harder. He then stops, putting his back against the wall. "Damn it." He whispers. He looks over at me. "Hey, baby, are you okay?" He asks, rushing over to me and dropping to his knees next to me

"I'm fine." I whisper, tears in my eyes

"What's going on?" Barry asks, my eyes trained on him. "I mean, other than the fact that we're in a cell." He jokes, trying to alleviate some of the tension

I put my head down on my knees, sighing. "She said...she said that if I wanted to go back to her, I easily would have...do you think...I mean, if that really is Iris...do you think that that's how she really feels?" I ask, my voice breaking as I look at Barry

"Sweetie, your mom loves you very much." Barry tells me, wiping away the tear from my cheek. "She would never stop fighting for you. And the fact that she has...that proves that that is not your mom. We're gonna find her. We're gonna get out of here." He tells me. I close my eyes, leaning into him. He puts his arms around me, holding me tightly

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It's hours later when the door to the pipeline cells open and Cecile walks over

"Cecile?" Barry asks from the floor, we're still in the same position

"I don't have all the facts." Cecile says. "And the ones I do have tell me that you two are not who you say you are. You are Barry and MacKenzie. I know it in my heart. And I'm willing to bet my life on it. Now go get Iris back." She tells us, opening the door

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3rd Person POV

"Success is assured." Iris – Fake Iris – says as Barry speeds in with Mack

Barry skids to a stop and Mack jumps off his back. "I wouldn't be so sure about that." Barry tells Fake Iris. "Where's my wife?" He asks and receives no answer. "I'll ask you one more time. Where is my wife?"

Fake Iris turns towards the mirror and throws some kind of liquid on it. The mirror absorbs the liquid

"What was that?" Mack asks. "What are you doing?"

And with that, Fake Iris begins to fight Barry and Mack with...sword like arms. Barry grabs Mack from under her arms, backing up away from Fake Iris who was coming at them

"Stay down." Barry whispers to Mack before he turns and quite literally chucks her over the couch and she fall to the ground on the living room floor. Mack is small for a 16 year old and Barry has never really had upper body strength, but his paternal instincts take over and the adrenaline allows him the strength needed to get his daughter out of the line of danger

Fake Iris continues to fihgt Barry and cuts his arm. "She says you're always gonna be in her way." Fake Iris says. "And now you're too slow to stop me."

"Whose way?" Barry asks. "Who's making you do this?"

Fake Iris and Barry begin fighting again. Fake Iris slices Barry's cheek and blood sprays from his cheek. Barry punches and hits but Fake Iris continues to slice his body when she can get a hit in