"Hey Miss, that's my seat actually." Sat said to Lucy. Lucy just stared at him with empty eyes for a second and left her seat and sat behind with others of her team. And as soon as Sat sat on the seat (pun intended), the interior of the van started to change. It started expanding on every side and white LEDs started appearing everywhere.
[Klang] [klung] Some sounds were coming from insides of the van but nobody could see the source. In a moment, the old van transformed into a half size luxury bus.
"Man there sure isn't a limit to surprises..." Alex murmured.
"Hmm you can't even imagine how much the sentence means to me boy, anyway there is plenty of room so sit cosy everyone." Sat said as he started the van. With a low screeching sound, the vehicle started going on the road.
For a few moments everyone was silent. Only the sound of the van could be heard.
"I know I should have asked this earlier but can I still ask questions?" Alex carefully asked Sat and Cécile.
"Wow scaredy cat, still think we're kidnapping you? Of course you can ask." Cécile said without even looking at Alex.
"You heard her." Sat said smiling.
"So apparently we had another guy with us till last night. I think he is happened to be on the list too. So what's the government doing to protect him?"
"I thought you'd never ask, so you guys do think things that are outside syllabus. Actually according to our investigation, he's happened to be missing from hotel. I would have asked you about him if I didn't get any Intel and now I realised I forgot to check my messages and I..." He paused as he scrolled through his phone while driving at speed. "And no I got this."
"Sir do you have a driving licence?" Rick asked while watching how fast things outside were moving.
"Yes, and I don't care about accidents, this van can even withstand nuclear missiles." And he slowed the car.
"The package" And Sat looked at Cécile, he pulled out a long package with black cover under the seat and handed it to Sat. The van has already stopped.
They were outside a big ragged house, more like an old villa. It was almost night with little sunlight remaining of the twilight.
"Let's finish this fast, and kids listen carefully. Nothing is gonna happen, bit imagine in case anything happens to us, this car will automatically drive you to safety. And if that happens don't press anything inside the car. I'm going out with a mic so you can hear everything from here. And don't do anything stupid."
"What? What's gonna happen to you?" Emma asked panicking.
"More importantly what's gonna happen to us?" Rick asked.
"Listen if you kids don't stop whining I'm gonna blow this car up, I'm also pretty good with explosives." Cécile snapped and got out of van and closed the door with a thud. They just watched them go into the house in silence.
"Damm she's harsh..."Lucy said flipping her lips.
"Well who cares, I have a good plan." Rick said and pulled a bag from the side of Sat's seat.
"Let's see what little mechanics the MAGIC BALL holds!" Rick grinned.
"Are you outta your mind? That thing could be dangerous you know. Nobody wants that, Rick." Alex snapped.
"Right guys?" Alex looked at everyone with scared eyes.
"Not gonna lie, I wanna see what's inside too...kinda." Lucy nervously smiled.
"Well kinda..." Emma said in a low voice.
"Woah! That's the spirit girls!" Rick was surprised.
"My God... I'm surely doomed..." Alex murmured.
"WHO ARE YOU? TELL YOUR NAME!" The speaker inside van spoke up.
"Oh, so we are going to hear it live with the live unboxing here!" Rick said as he opened the bag.
[For clarity, voice from the mic would be inside curly braces or {} ]
{"Delivery from the wolf" } said Sat.
{"Hey you were at the tournament, don't lie.}
{Duh, when did I say I wasn't there!"}
{Tell the password, why are you wasting time...} Cécile said annoyed.
{The night sky falls through.} Sat screamed.
{So what they hell were you doing before that? You could have said it earlier dammit. Now come on.} The unknown voice on the other side sounded pretty annoyed.
{"You forgot didn't you?"} Cécile taunted.
{No of course not, I'm not that careless!"}
"Doesn't it feel like they are couple?" Lucy asked everyone.
"WHAT?" Rick's surprise was surprising to everyone.
"No... it's weird, they are too close, but somehow I feel they are not couple." Emma said in her typical low voice.
"Well if you say so, you got pretty good instincts." Lucy said.
While they are talking, Rick already found the ball and took it out.
"Ta-da, stay in the line, everyone will get a chance to hold it." Rick said proudly.
He then handed it to Lucy. Her forehead glowed like before. "I am the Goddess everyone HAHAHA, it's pretty funny toy." She then handed it to Emma.
She carefully and slowly took the ball and started examining it. But from the outside it was nothing more than a glowing yellow ball. As expected her forehead glowed.
"So Alex what do you say? Give it a try? Rick asked.
Alex stared at the ball for a few moments and said, "N-no thanks."
Emma returned the ball to Rick.
{"What a surprise! Even you are into the job! Welcome fellow wolf."} This voice surprised everyone inside van. It was of a member of team SABER.
"Wait, Sat is with them? Didn't he say they are with terrorist wolves?" Lucy screamed in lower case.
"So double agent...but that doesn't add up..." Emma mumbled.
"So there is still a chance we're hostages..." Alex was a little terrified.
{"Perfect! Same as ordered. Thanks for the fast delivery. With these, we're gonna destroy the government from root, welcome to new world fellow wolves!"}
{"No need for thanks, it's just my job, now for the payment..."}
{"You're a good man, I won't lie, we are going to eat half of the normal for the payment, but we're not sheeps, you'll get payment in full.}
{"Well that aside, what's that thing twitching under the blanket?"} Sat said in suspicioun.
{"That's a tragic story, we hired him for the tournament...but we couldn't really use him well enough, now he's of no use. It's tough to feed an extra stomach, see, such a handsome boy, he'll sell in quite a good price.}
"My hatred for the Sat guy is growing in every second..." Lucy muttered.
{"What about we make a deal? As payment, I want this kid, no cash needed."}