The abandoned building located in South Bridge Alley was being thoroughly checked by Hector's units. Sergeant Garfeild, along with Captain Harlord, decided to tag along with Hector on this search.
They were divided into three groups: group A, checking the front and walking ahead, group B is the defense mode operators who stand on the side and back, and group C, who took their search outside the premises.
Hector, along with his unit, stopped at the sight of a broken computer. Harlord came close and gently placed his hand on the cracked screen.
"It's lightly warm", he said after a second or two.
Hector's gaze studied the laptop, and very slowly, he leaned and signalled Garfield in his direction.
"What's wrong, Sargent?" Garfield asked with stiffness.
Hector pointed at something, something that shone when a small light from the side reflected off the dull lamps.
"Do you see that?". Hector didn't avert his gaze, "I think that's a lens".
Garfield looked at Hector and then gazed at the small shiny glass. "Do you think it's some sort of security camera?".
"Something like that". Then Hector stood firm and scanned the walls. Almost all of them were covered with dried blood, holes, and for God knows whose claws.
"There, " he then pointed at a small junction of torn wires. Harlord brings in a small piece of metal and carefully places a rubber coating around it. He brings the metal closer to the junction and waits for a minute and two.
He brings the metal closer into his fingers and reports, "This one's warm as well".
Harlord brings the metal to Hector, who also feels the warmth of the metal. "Safe to guess that they assaulted the camera by throwing a laptop", said Garfield.
"But why insert a camera here? There wasn't a single one when we entered this building." Replied Hector.
"None of the base unit members were allowed to enter this building until now. We have received orders not to engage in any sort of action to distort the building". Harlord informed.
"So it wasn't our men who inserted the camera", Garfield walked towards the crushed laptop. "This building is old and crowded with rats. There hasn't been any sign of development in the architecture, yet we found a crushed security camera".
Hector took a moment to think of the situation. No matter how he looked at it from a different angle, it didn't make any sense to him. Harlord looked at him with the exact same thought, but then something came to his mind.
"What if the girl isn't the only one who escaped?", Harlord asked, breaking the one-minute silence. "What if she had help from someone, to you know, teleport?".
Garfield frowned at the certain assumption. "What are you trying to say, that there was someone who had an urge to break the camera, but somehow couldn't get control of himself due to some uncertain circumstances, and made a portal for the girl since he needed her?". He said with pace.
Hector and Harlord both looked at each other, shocked. "That could make sense if there was such a thing as portal teleportation". Garfield completed.
Both men agreed to Garfield's assumptions, but still, Harlord couldn't forget how he lost Orette at the cliff. Her stunt of jumping from it almost took his life.
The three men continued their walk when one of the members of group B came rushing towards them. He stopped and saluted Garfield and said, "Sir, I think you should come and see this".
Hector and Harlord again exchanged looks. Little did they know that this was the last time they would refuse to believe that there is no such thing as portal teleportation. Since the view in front of them was questioning what kind of kids they were trusted with.
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The very same kids they were trusted with were just barely hanging on to the edge of a huge sewage pipe, which, like a waterfall, spews the dirty sewage water.
"LET GO, BRAT!".
Orette shouts with all her might. Rosa averted her eyes from Orette to her grip at the edge of the pipe. She looked back at Orette, who yelled again.
"BELIEVE ME AND LET GO!".
"STOP!". Both girls turned towards a boy between them.
"WHERE WILL WE END UP?" Kace shouted back, uncertainty creeping into his voice.
"ANYWHERE BUT HERE!" Orette insisted, her voice firm despite the chaos around them.
Kace faces towards Rosa with panic. "What if it doesn't work? What if we—"
"TRUST US!" Orette yelled, cutting him off. It was a command laced with desperation.
Kace, now more uncertain, doesn't take his gaze away from Rosa.
"It's going to be okay", she said with ease. "It's going to work, trust me".
"Cousin", Kace's eyes glowed purple. "Please don't get pregnant because of your powers".
"Wha_".
The dirty water was flowing with too much pressure that it made Rosa slip her grip and fall onto the ground. Orette holds on to Kace and pushes him before she shouts, "PORTAL! NOW!".
Kace's body flinches, and he turns to find the nearest ground. All of a sudden, his eyes flashed purple, and something black appeared in the air. It formed anymous, weird shapes like a liquid until it took the form of a circle. Purple forms inside it, creating a view of grass, shrubs, trees, and ground.
Orette and Kace tumbled through the portal, a whirlwind of sensations hitting them all at once until, with a jarring thud, they landed on a hard surface.
Rosa, next to them, teleported and landed on her feet. Goaning, Orette stood up and scanned the surroundings until the rotten smell of sewer got her. She covers her mouth and nose and runs towards the dense forest.
Rosa tends to Kace and gestures to him to run behind Orette until they get away from the odor.
All three of them rested near a bent trunk of tree roots. They were wet and sweaty from the pipe water, that they smell bad like the sewers. Rosa took the guts to smell her hair, but reacted with disgust that vomit was crawling from her throat.
Orette leaned against the large roots and slowly began to close her eyes. "Don't you dare sleep on us, Orette Jambari!" Rosa's warning made Orette's eyes open wide. "We have a lot to discuss".
"Like what? That we were all forced by the so-called third generation into becoming abnormal, monstrous, and inhumane", Orette remarked sarcastically, "Or that we were all trapped by an INSANE idea of prison, tortured painfully because of the syrium, and had to walk through the sewers because some military people know about us".
She breathed heavily and went back to rest after closing her eyes and leaning back on the roots. Rosa faces Kace, who was checking the USB drive for any damage. "What's this thing about the military?" she asked. "Are they involved with the third generation?".
"That's what we believe to know. The military had its men check on us while we were imprisoned. You were more occupied by them because Orette caught Hank and manipulated him to drive the military out of my school".
"School?". Rosa looked more confused.
"Orette and I were imprisoned at our respective schools; it's quite complicated but true".
"And what about this Hank guy? Was he the guy who used to drug us when we were kids?".
"Yep, that's him. Not sure what's happening to him, but rest assured, the military has taken care of him".
"Now I'm more concerned". Rosa then faces Orette. At a sudden thought she looked back at Kace. "When we were about to fall, why did you say to me, 'not to get pregnant because of my powers'?".
Kace looked dumbfounded, his expression concerned, and he quickly turned to Rosa and blurted out. "Answer my questions, yes or no only". He said with pace.
"Wha_".
"Are you suffering from any headaches?"
"No_wait, what?".
"Do you have the urge to vomit?"
"Yes, but not now".
"Are you suffering from fever, hysterics?".
"No, I'm perfectly fine".
"Okay, that's good." Kace sighed in relief, but held his thoughts when he again faced Rosa with a frightening face.
"Are you pregnant?". He asked slowly.
"KACE, WTH, I'M FRICKIN SIXTEEN!".