"Xavier. So who are you two?"
"I'm Rosie," She motions her hand to her friend, "And this Tony." Xavier nods slowly, retaining this information then a loud bang echo's through the room, making everybody flinch.
"I bet this is the thing Boss wanted us to deal with," Tony mutters a little to loudly.
Xavier moves in a flash. He grabs Rosie in a headlock from behind, pulling her flush against his stomach. Tony pulls out his knife and points it at Xavier but that was the wrong move. Xavier's grip around Rosie's' neck tightens, making her gasp for breaths.
"How the hell do you know the Boss?" Xavier's voice held dominance, leading no room for other questions to be thrown his way.
"We work with U.S.M," Tony says carefully, keeping his eyes on Rosie the whole time.
"Let," Rosie squirms in his arms. "ME GO!" She whips her head back so fast it connects with Xavier's jaw. He immediately releases Rosie, dropping her from his death grip.
Ro lands on her hands and knees as Xavier steadies himself. Tony charges at Xavier, but Xavier was quicker. He grabs T by his wrist and elbow and tosses him clean over his shoulder, letting Tony fall on his back with a loud thud. Xavier reaches for his back pocket, pulling out a small revolver and aiming it at Tony.
"NO!" Xavier eyes flash to the girl who stands by the entrance of the classroom, giving time for Rosie to come up with a plan. Emily's voice clearly heard over the still blaring sirens. She runs over to Tony to assist him. The pouring water that rains from the roof now ends as they move out of harms way.
Rosie gets up and lunges onto Xavier's back, knocking them both to the ground. The gun that was originally in the boys hand has now skidded across the floor. Their eyes meet before they both charge for it. Rosie kicks her leg out, making Xavier yet again fall to the ground as she snatches the discarded gun, pointing it at the boy.
They are both panting heavily before Xavier raises his hands in defeat. Tony and Emily both seem to have engaged battle with a girl with bright blonde hair. Rosie directs her attention to her friends, forgetting about the boy in front of her. Rookie move. Before she could react, Xavier is on top of her, pinning her to the ground, holding her at gun point.
"Wow, you get distracted easily." He smirks down at her and looks over at the girl who has knocked Tony unconscious and is currently tying Emily up.
"Huh, that was easier than I thought that'd be." The girl with platinum blonde hair makes her way over to us, cracking her knuckles. Rosie gulps.
"One last time," Xavier starts. "How do you know Boss?" His grip on her wrist have tightened, making her squirm under him.
"Undercover Secret Mission," Right when those words leave her mouth, Xavier releases his grip on her as if her skin burned him.
"Shit! Lucy these are the others!" He turns back to Rosie who is cradling her wrist to her chest. "Am I right?"
"Wait hold up." The pieces start to fall into place. Xavier's quick movements to protect her from the bomb. Him knowing about Boss, to having a gun and a man who can most certainly fight. "You guys are Lu and X?"
Xavier lets out a very dragged out groan as Lucy keeps a scowl on her face. X walks over to Emily and rips the duck tape off her mouth and she yelps in response to the pain.
"Emily for Em." She nods as he walks over to Tony's unconscious body, pointing at it. "So this must be T correct?" Emily lets out a weak yes as she works on undoing the tape around her ankles.
His gaze meets Rosie's yet again. A very pissed off look rest upon her face, now permanently reserved for him.
"That leads you to be Rose, aka Ro."
"It's Rosie."
"Rose."
"Rosie. Ro-sie." She sounds it out to him.
"Still calling you Rose," He shrugs before turning his attention back to Em.
"Do you guys have a friend named Jer?"
"No." Came her soft reply a second later. "I do know a high schooler named Jeremy though." Rosie scrunches her eyebrows in confusion.
"You mean the one that poured apple ju-"
"YES THAT ONE!" Em gives a annoyed look as Rosie lets a giggle escape her mouth, then stops it when Lucy glares at her.
"Explains how you know Boss, but how did you three receive the message?" Lucy's eyes lock onto Ro's and she points to T.
"On his wrist is a D.S watch. The back of it lets us get in touch with U.S.M." The sirens that were once going off now come to a stop. The four of them stop in their tracks when they hear footsteps down the hall. Shouts can be heard coming closer to the five of them.
Xavier runs over to Tony's dead like body and heaves him over his shoulder before exiting the building. He motions for everyone to follow him, and they do. Lucy takes behind, holding a gun that points to the ground, ready to shoot at any given time. Emily holds onto Rosie's upper arm in fright as they trail behind X. Still having no idea where they are going, they continue to follow the pair that managed to take them down in minutes.
Gun shots were fired from behind us making Emily let out a squeal in surprise. Rosie covered her mouth with her hand and pulled her flush against the wall where Xavier pointed. Lucy rounds the corner, venom dripping from her words.
"Get them to the car, there's more coming." She tosses to keys to X who nods in response.
"Do you know how to fire a gun?" X ask over his shoulder to Rosie.
"Just because I'm a girl doesn't mean I am incapable of firing a gun." He rolls his eyes as he passes his revolver to her.
"Be my eyes." Ro gives him a sharp nod as he crosses the street with Tony still knocked out. Emily looks behind, waiting for Lucy to come back. When X makes it to a black Camaro, He motions for us to come.
"Emily your cue, go!" Ro gives Emily a push from behind, letting her cross the street first.
Rosie watches as her friend makes it to the car, X aiding her to get in the back when a hand grabs Rosie by the upper arm. Rosie's quick response is to roundhouse kick her capture. The man falls to the ground, dropping his gun in the process. She snatches the other gun and looks up to meet Lucy's stare.
"Your turn," Rosie runs across the now crowding street. She slides into the back seat next to Emily who now is squished in the middle. Lucy jumps into the car, slamming the door before she smashes her foot on the petal, sending the car flying forward.
As the five of them make their exit, two more cars pull out after them. Lucy curses under her breath before turning onto the highway. Xavier unclips his seatbelt to get a better look behind, noticing them gaining up on us.
"We're going to die," Emily whispers into Rosie's ear.
"Very optimistic of you, but we are not going to die." Comes her flat reply as Xavier interrupts them.
"Gun." He holds his hand out to Ro who passes him the shotgun she got from the man she knocked out.
Xavier opens the sun roof and stands, aiming his gun at the enemy cars that are still trailing us. Gunshots are ricocheting off the car, but then they loose a tire. Lucy slams her hand on the wheel as she yet again curses. Xavier ducks back into the car as more shots are fired. The backseat window shatters, everyone ducks now as stray bullets fly through the vehicle.
"I can't drive like this X! Stop them!" Lucy shouts.
"Move." Xavier's voice shocked Rosie by its authoritative tone and traded seats. Her now in the front, him in the back. The car swerves to the left as Lu dodges the cars on the road.
"Stop the car." Rosie says quickly.
"Are you out of your damn mind? No!"
"Stop the car!" Rosie says again.
"NO!" Rosie looks up to the rear view mirror to see the vehicles that were once behind them are now on both sides of the car.
Rosie acts without thinking.
Rosie leans over Lucy and pushes her foot onto the gas, making the car jerk forward and spin to the right. She grabs the wheel and spins them around, making them face on coming traffic. Lucy takes over, yet again dodging cars that are now coming at her.
"Where the hell did you learn that?" Lucy questions as she continues to move out of traffics way.
"Not important." Lucy drops it.
Xavier checks his gun to make sure its still usable before tossing it to his feet. During this time, Tony finally awakes.
"OW!" Tony places a hand to his forehead and winces. "Where the Fu-" Emily slaps her hand over Tony's mouth, halting his next words.
"Language- OH EWW!" She retracts her hand, whipping it on his shirt. "He licked me!"
Lucy laughs.
"That's what you get girlfriend! Now where the fudge are we going?"
"Headquarters. Boss requested us to all meet by sundown." At Lucy's statement, Rosie looks out the window, watching the sun slowly set behind the trees.
"Uhm." Em pauses, "Isn't base that way?" She jerks her thumb behind her and Lu shakes her head.
"That is a public base. Anybody can go in. Even people who are not associated with the U.S.M."
"So where is the actual headquarters located?" Tony makes finger quotes at the word headquarters. The tires make a loud squeaky noise as they pull into an alleyway.
"Right here."