"Weaving through the database of our lead's matches, I thought it would only lead us to one destination since only one red dot appeared but it turns out this person has been everywhere" Catina explained
"And the lead's information?" I asked
"It's protected by a complex mix of codes and I'm still formulating a virus that could pass through without alerting whoever is handling this guy's information" I ran my hands through my hair as I stared at the holographic map filled with red dots. Then an idea came to mind, "Cat, look through the information of each location and print it out for me"
I looked at her, she sighed "That would take me two days" she rubbed her face "Caleb can help you" Meira chirped, we looked at her, she just shrugged her shoulders
"He's not as skillful as you but he did hack through minor programs back at our world, and he has fast hands" I looked at Caleb who seemed to be blushing as he rubbed the back of his neck "Okay, Cat, work with him"
she looked at me "What?! Lydia!"
I crossed my arms across my chest "I know those two days will rid you of your sleep, Cat and you know I don't like it when you don't get enough rest, with Caleb's help, it can be done before you know it" she sighed, looking down, her eyes calculating.
"fine" she grumbled. I nodded and looked at Caleb "you try anything she hates, I swear, no one will stop me from killing you over and over" I seethed, he nods curtly "you have my word, I won't do anything" I nod and dismissed everyone.
Ryker, Mason and the girls went to resume with their training, meanwhile, Leo remained seated beside me. I gave him a look "shouldn't you be training?" I raised a brow at him, he looked at me and smirked "I would rather get to know you, I've finished training a few minutes ago" he said, I shake my head and shuffled through father's journals.
"What are you doing?" he asked, I let out a breath as my eyes scanned through every page, skimming through the cursive words "looking for clues" I mumbled, "in a book?" I gave him a blank look and motioned towards the messy pile "these are not books, these are my father's journals" then I continued skimming through every page.
I paused when I saw him pick up one "what are you doing?" I asked "helping" he muttered not even glancing me a look. I shake my head and let him be, as we looked through father's journals I suddenly felt the ground shake. We both stopped "what was that?" he whispered before I could answer him, the alarms blared
'intruder alert!'
I cursed under my breath as I ran to activate heavy lockdown, the others quickly came out of wherever they were at "what's happening?!" Farren yelled through the chaos happening outside. I started to gather my equipment, my weapons, and my important things
"start packing clothes, they found us!" I started to feel a burning sensation on my back, instinctively, I looked at Leo, he was glaring at the closed metal door, his red eyes glowing, I quickly grabbed his hand, he looked at me "start. packing" I sternly said. He nods and ran to the basement.
I went up to my room and started packing my clothes. I didn't even care if it's organized or not, I hurriedly went down in the basement and saw them running around. I opened a latch on the far right wall and pressed the big red button. the wall opens up revealing my high seat bike and Catina's favorite Rang rover sports.
"fill the car up people!" I yelled and they hurriedly came, we filled the car with everything we need, I made sure to have the journals in. I quickly went back up and remove the holographic map program and placed it in a safe place under my bra. I quickly changed into black denim shorts, thigh high boots and as I was busy wearing my halter top, the front blew into rubble.
"Lydia!" I properly wore my shirt and grabbed my bow and bag of specialized arrows. I ran to the basement, dragging Leo with me, pressing the basement lockdown button. We went to where the car and my bike is, Catina was already behind the wheel "where to cap?"
"somewhere they won't be able to find us" I grumbled and faced Leo "Do you know how to drive a bike?" he smirked holding his palm out "keys" I grabbed it from the shelf and gave it to him. he started the bike at the same time Catina started the car. I closed the wall and went to open up the secret latch that opens up to the surface.
When it opened, Catina went full speed out, leaving puffs of smoke. I quickly hopped on the seat behind Leo "Drive stable. I'm going to shoot them" he nods and drove off. Leo drove just behind the car, the robots followed close by, they started shooting t us. I cursed under my breath and carefully placed my feet on the seat and went into a squatting position. I grabbed and reloaded my bow with explosive arrows.
I stretched the bowstring with one eye closed, aiming at the one closest to us, I fired and successfully hit one. I continued throwing explosive arrows, sometimes missing sometime I got a bull's eye.
'Lyd, do you need help?' Catina's voice came out of the connected speakers "well, I ran out of explosives, we need to get rid of them!" I said as I sat back down, holding on to Leo's shoulder 'Okay, drive front'
Upon instruction, Leo sped up a bit as Catina slowed a fraction, I glanced behind and saw Caleb get out through the window "Catina what is he doing?!" I yelled, 'he wanted to do it! said he can get rid of them' she responds, I looked at Leo for confirmation, he nods "he's powerful but I'm sure he'll run out of energy" I sighed, wearing the bow, comfortably wearing it like a sling bag.
I held onto Leo's waist, as I did so, my back started to burn. The sensation now started to grow familiar, I glanced back and saw Caleb staggering to stay on his feet, but there were just two more and I witnessed it crumble just as Caleb held out both his palm and clenched his fists, his eyes probably glowed.
Once he's done, he fell on his knees "Catina, help him back in!" I yelled through the installed mic. Looking over my shoulder, Ryker already has him inside halfway. I looked at Leo "he'll be okay, right?"
"he'll just need time to recover"
Nodding, I raised a hand, signaling Catina to overtake in which she did "Just follow her, she'll lead us somewhere safe" he let out a breath "at this point on Lydia, I don't think there's any place we're safe at" I wanted to deny his statement but then it's the truth.
And we all know we deny things, because we couldn't accept the harsh truth,