Alex helped cut all the bars and they all finally broke out of their cells.
"Okay, what now." Alex asked pushing the blade back into her pocket. Scarlet just gave a single look at her without saying anything and moved to the metallic door that was at the entrance to the bunker and their only exit. With her cuffed hands she held the handle and began to pull as she slammed her shoulder hoping it breaks open.
"Umm have you forgotten…no super strength you cant push that alone." Alex pointed it out.
"Then help me." said Scarlet giving Alex a sarcastic stare.
"Okay." Alex moved forward and pushed Scarlet out of her way then simply kicked the door off the walls.
Scarlet looked at her in shock, "I thought no powers."
"Of course am not using my powers am half lord of order remember this is my normal energy." she explained to Scarlet. Scarlet then turned to Jack who was still quiet, "You knew?",
"Of course, I did shes my sister." he said.
"You telling me you could have left by breaking the bars but….."
"We can't kill your self-esteem." he laughed
Scarlet looked at the door that had flown from its metal hold through a wall.
"Well this is dumb they will now know we escaped,"
"Of course, they will know that's why we leave now." said Alex as they all ran out of the bunker heading back to the base.
On reaching the top. The entire place place was quiet Scarlet wasn't sure how long it had been ever since they were put in those cells probably an hour or two but it was then nightfall and it was still night. Without her powers she had to be cautious about everything because she vulnerable.
So they slowly crept to the small buildings that were nearest to the base where they last saw Argus being taken,
"Why is it so quiet?" Alex whispered
"Maybe they are asleep."
"No, they are there." Jack pointed to a room where it seemed all the soldiers had packed themselves in. The difference now was that they were all in dark green shirts and army printed trousers. It looked like they were in some sort of meeting with someone.
"I wonder what is going on in there,"
"Well, it's nothing we need to find Argus and get out of here." Scarlet whispered, " and I think I might know where the lab is." she pointed at what looked like a school laboratory.
"Then let's move quickly before any of them figures out that we are gone," Alex said and all ran off heading for the school laboratory.
Scarlet led them to the lab but it felt too easy. The door had a padlock that Alex broke with one hit. On opening the disgusting the stench of rotting meat immediately touched there noses. It was too dark to see but they walked in anyway, each splitting on their own sides in order to cover more ground. Scarlet moving forward, Jack taking left and Alex taking right.
Scarlet continued moving in the creepy lab that was quiet too big for a school lab to her perspective "Pst…..Argus are you here." she called, "we cant see anything. Am going to ask you to make a sound." she continued moving forward wishing she could see in the dam dark, there were strange noises of falling lab instruments every time she accidentally knocked into them. She began to feel scared about this place, her heart rate racing as if she knew she wasn't supposed to be in this specific place.
Then something began to move from behind with its feet making a loud sound with each movement. She rushed under a lab table as the thing started making screeching noises the closer it approached, she couldn't see but she could feel its eight legs move on the ground Scarlet then closed her eyes and remained as quiet as she could because of her terrible luck the power finally returned turning all the lab's lights on making it easier for it to see. If it even had eyes. It crawled onto her table and continued screeching like it knew she was there.
There was a huge explosion outside that took its attention making it screech even louder and quickly jumping out to attack the source, that was her Que to run away so she crawled out from under the table stood up and ran for the exit out the lab. She stepped into the hallway of the school with Alex on her back,
"what the hell was that?" Scarlet asked trying to catch her breath,
"Its a big spider. Jack made a distraction to help with our escape. Now come." Alex grabbed her by the hand and ran for the exit. Scarlet felt something and suddenly stopped and looked around.
'What's wrong?'
"Argus, his here I can feel him follow me." she ran off to the other side of the school. Alex real didn't want to follow but it looked like she had no choice but to.
Scarlet ran faster till she finally stopped on a door that led to what seemed to be the teacher's louche she noticed the handle was red hot meaning Argus was inside.
"Argus.'' she yelled kicking the door open and to her surprise, Argus was holding Dr Lin in his arms with the whole room burned down to crisp apart from them.
"Dr Lin wants to help us but--but----we need to get her to a hospital she's badly injured." he cried. Scarlet looked at the doctor and realized she had a deep cut on her stomach and she was losing blood.
"Oh no… we need to stop the bleeding. But first I need to get these cuffs off."
Argus first placed the doctor on the floor to rest his hands and release the restraints on Scarlet's hands. He first froze the cuffs then burnt them to ash with fire magic.
The moment he was done, Scarlet felt her connection with magic return she felt powerful once more, "Put her on a table or any raised surface quickly am going to try to heal her that will keep her alive well long enough before help arrives."
He saw a table that he immediately cooled with an ice breeze he blew from his mouth, then carried Dr Lin and placed her on top, "Now go help release Alex so that we may be able to protect ourselves in case."
He nodded to show he had understood what she meant, we have to save Dr. Lin she is the only one who can help us." he said then ran off to meet with Alex. Scarlet started the healing spell and the wounds began to close up. But before completing the wall in front of her exploded and huge spider creature crawled in and screeched loudly at her. It was three times bigger than the one in the lab, it had a huge mouth that was dripping of blood and all eight eyes were looking at Dr Lin.
Scarlet formed her sword and came in between the creature and Dr.Lin, if anyone tires to get in our way it will die she swore turning her eyes red instantly and the sword changed producing a red flow of energy around it. The spider jumped for Dr. Lin but Scarlet put herself in the way and punched it with a great force that threw it outside to the compound of the school through a statue of the school founder. Scarlet saw theat the beast could no longer move meaning there was no more harm ahead, she had no idea where all that strength had come from.
Suddenly Dr. Lin moved, she forced her eyes to open and noticed Scarlet who was still healing her.
'We have to stop them,.....we have to.'