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Chapter 5 - Gone

Adrien paces around the room in a panic, "Where am I? Did these guys put me here!?" She shouted as she thought to herself, 'I need to get out of here. Who am I kidding! I don't even know where here is!' She panics and laughs hysterically. "Okay Adrien pull yourself together!" She tells herself trying not to pass out. She took a look out the window again and observes outside. 'It's too dark! I can't see anything!' She thinks frustratingly while banging her hands on her head. She walks around the room. 'This room looks technology advanced, I must be in some sort of lab' She shakes her head in disbelief. 'There's no way, Those men in black suits they drugged me. I'm obviously still feeling the affects of the drugs. I'm just hallucinating!' She thinks, reassuring herself. She in such a panic that she doesn't even realize that a greenish-blue light is emitting from her hands. "Oh my gosh!" She says flinging her hands around trying to get the light off. In doing so she knocks over a flask and it shatters into pieces. "I hope that wasn't important." She says. She hears footsteps walking toward the room she's in. "Oh no!" She runs into the nearest locker she can find. She sees a man with black hair in a lab coat, the tag on his coat read 'Tanaka Jiro'. The man walks toward the broken flask to investigate the strange noise he heard. He exclaims when he sees the pod opened and the girl missing. Adrien looks through the locker holes and notices that he left the large metal door open. With the man being distracted, she takes this chance to quietly exit the locker and run out the door. Jiro notices Adrien run out the room. "Hey, stop! Wait don't go out there!" He shouts. Adrien doesn't listen and shuts the door on him. She looks around the room she ran into, seeing an emergency staircase she doesn't waste a second and runs up the stairs. 'An underground lab? The way out must be on a higher level!' She thinks to herself. 'I'm not gonna be a prisoner anymore!'

"CRAP! This is bad!" Jiro says as he makes his way to the emergency switch. As soon as he pulls it the entire headquarters building is blaring red. Adrien is startled by this and starts running even faster, leaving small bruises on her feet. Lucien walks into the Pod retrieval room to see Jiro stumbling and panicking. "JIRO! What is the meaning of this!" He demanded. "Headmaster, she's gone! Adrien is gone!" He shouts " This is my fault, I shouldn't have made you leave her alone!" Jiro says feeling guilty. "Pull yourself together Jiro!" Lucien says while placing his hands on Jiro's shoulders. Lucien rushes over to the buildings intercoms. His voice booms through the entire building, "I need all security personnel down in sector 50 immediately! We have an escaped podling! I repeat, we have an escaped podling!"

Adrien continues to run and run until she runs out of breath and stops on the 20th floor. She hears footsteps coming down the stairs and enters the door. She finds herself face to face with more men in white coats, but this time accompanied with men In white armored suits. "A female!" One of the workers shout. "Stop right there! Hands in the air!"She heard the armored man say as he pointed a gun at her. Adrien gets frightened and her greenish-blue light sparks up from her skin blasting the workers and the armored man into the wall. She looks at her hands terrified at what she just did. "D-did I do that? Was this me?" She said shaking in fear. She heard the workers groan in pain as they tried to get up. "I-I'm sorry, I'm so so sorry" she apologized, and then she ran away. 'I have to get out of here before I hurt anyone else' she though to herself. She looked down below the side of the building and noticed strange vehicles being driven in. 'I need to get out of this building!' She thought while pacing each floor, looking for a way to get down there.

"Kasai, you almost ready!" Katalina says while stretching. "Yeah just give me a sec!" He shouts back. While in the dressing room, Kasai notices Katalina's phone going off like crazy. He looks at the caller I.D. "Tanaka Jiro? What does that guy want it's Katalina's day off." He said annoyance. He answers the phone call only to receive a bunch of unintelligible shouts from the other side. "Katalina! She's gone, I'm in such major trouble! This is all my fault!" Jiro shouts into the phone, unbeknownst to who he's actually talking to. "Woah woah! Calm down man, did you drink too much coffee again?" Kasai said smugly. Jiro recognized the smug voice coming from the other side of the phone. "Kasai!? What are you doing with Katalina's phone? Never mind, I need to talk to her NOW!" He said demandingly. Kasai was getting even more annoyed. "No way. It's Katalina's day off, you have a bunch of staff at headquarters. Get one of them to help you!" He says. "No you don't underst—" Kasai hangs up on him. "Oi, are you done back here!" Katalina says as she peaks her head into the nearby locker room. She sees Kasai holding her phone. "Hey! Give me back my phone!" Katalina says as she snatches it from his hands. "37 missed calls!" She exclaims. "Yeah, so what. Come on we gotta start training." Kasai says nonchalantly. Katalina's phone rings again. "I'm sorry Kasai, but I have to take this, it could be an emergency" Katalina says as she turns around to take the call. "Jiro, what is it! It's my day off, why are you callin-" Katalina's voice is cut off by Jiro's panicked screams. She stops to listen to Jiro's explanation for calling her. Kasai sees her eyes go wide with fear. "SHE'S WHAT!!" Katalina shouts. "I'll be there in a few minutes!" She says while running to change into her uniform. "Kat! Where are you going!?" Kasai asks, angry at the fact that Jiro was interfering with the one thing that he was looking forward to this week. Katalina steps out of the locker rooms with her Lieutenant uniform on. "Sorry Kasai. Don't worry I'll make it up to yo-" she says trying to reach for his shoulder, but in doing so he jerks away from her hand in anger. He scoffs, "Yeah right." He says angrily and runs out of the arena to blow off some steam. Katalina doesn't have anytime to waste and starts running toward headquarters. "This day just got ten times worse!" She says in frustration.

Adrien eventually makes it down to the loading dock where they keep all the vehicles. The only problem was that she didn't know how to drive a cruiser. She didn't even know what type of vehicle it was. She notices people walking around in the area. She hides behind some of the bigger vehicles in the back of the loading dock, so she wouldn't be spotted. 'I just need to use one of those things to get out of this building. But where am I gonna go after I escape?' She thought to herself. 'Doesn't matter, as long as I get away from here!' She takes this opportunity to walk closer to the cruiser and climb inside. When she climbs inside the whole vehicle starts glowing from the inside out. "What kind of vehicle is this!?" She exclaims. She hears a robot voice speak. "Welcome aboard the Nexus Island cruiser! To activate please use your aura!" It says. "M-my aura!?" She says confused. One of the workers outside notices someone trying to steal one of there Island cruisers. "Hey! Hey! Stop!" She hears one of the workers yell. "Oh my gosh! How do I make this thing go!" She shouts and in doing so the light coming off her body spikes up even more and the vehicle starts running. "Woah!!" She says as she falls back into one of the seats. She looks out the windows to notice a bunch of palm trees. "Well at least I'm not in the building anymore." It took her a while to notice the cruiser was going to fast. "Oh no! How do I stop this thing!" She panics and in doing so her energy spikes up, making the cruiser go faster and faster. At this rate the cruiser would only stop if she calmed down or if she crashes into something.

Kasai storms off to a secluded area with of the island. So caught up in his anger and frustration he doesn't even notice how far away he walked. He continues to tread deeper and deeper into the palm trees. He wasn't concerned about getting lost, because he had been raised on this island and knew the way back to his dorm room. 'Why did she have to leave!? That idiot could've gotten anyone to help him and he chose Katalina of all days!' He thought to himself as he kicked everything in his path. He stops in his tracks when he hears a strange banging noise up ahead of him. He looks up ahead and sees a Nexus Island cruiser driving out of control. "What genius is driving that thing?" He says sarcastically. 'If this guy keeps driving like this he's gonna crash into someone.' He thinks to himself. He sees that the cruiser is coming at him fast, he dives out of the way before he gets hit. The cruiser finally crashes into a nearby palm tree, flipping the cruiser on its side. Kasai gets up and runs toward the cruiser. "Hey! Are you trying to kill someone!" He says knocking on the side of the cruiser. He sees that no one is answering and tries to pry the door open and see if the person was okay. "Hey! Are you dead?" He enters the cruiser and sees a body face down. He turns the body around to look at their face. Kasai's eyes go wide with shock and confusion, "What the-"