Team Work (Zoom Fanfiction): Chapter 3

After fixing the ship, the couple spent an enjoyable afternoon in the mountains, followed by a nice dinner at Summer's favourite restaurant. When they returned to the base Dylan and Summer found everything in a disarray.

“Why are the alarms going off?” Summer asked as she ran to the hanger door with Dylan hot on her heels. He just shook his head in response.

The corridor was completely empty when the entered it. Everything was dark except for the red flashing lights on the walls. Nothing could be heard over the loud buzzer that kept going and going. Dylan grabbed Summer's shoulder and indicated for her to head towards the kitchen, then pointed at himself immediately followed by directing his hand in the direction of their bedrooms. Summer shook her head, yelling something inaudible and then pointed at her head. He stared at her for a moment and then sat down against the wall. His eyes become unfocused as he used his mind-sight. Slowly he made his way down the hall in his mind as Summer crouched down in front of him. A sharp pain flashed through the front of his head and then it turned into a dull ache that he gradually grew. He searched the entire base and found that it was completely empty. Jack, Marsha, Connor, Tucker and Cindy were no where to be found. He started heading outside to look but stopped as the pain became too great. He closed his eyes and let his head fall into his hands for support. He took slow breaths to try and soothe the pain.

Summer looked at her boyfriend concerned, even without her empathy she could tell that he was in a lot of pain. She tried to ask him what was wrong but gave up as it was more than obvious that he could not hear her. She stood up and pulled at his arm. He stood up at let her lead him through the halls as he stumbled every so often. At one point he reached up and touched face and realized that his nose was bleeding again.

Before long, Dylan realized that Summer had lead them back into the hanger where she started the ship up again and they took off out the base. Dylan sat on the floor trying to keep his headache under raps as Summer drove and tried to contact Jack or any other member of their team to no avail. She looked back at Dylan and saw that his form had slumped over. Her breath quickened as she tried to remember where the nearest hospital was. She softly landed the ship in the middle of her high football field and hurried over to Dylan. She stuck her hand in front of his face and felt a rush of air on her skin. She sighed and put two of her fingers to her neck, there was a slight pulse.

Summer decided to try her communicator again before taking off again. At first she received nothing. But suddenly the very frightened voice of Cindy came through. It was cutting in and out, and Summer had a difficult time deciphering what she was saying.

“...Tucker said that...psssh...and Jack didn't...psssh...Summer where are...psssh...”

And then it went dead again.

This is not a Cinderella Story

"No Regrets" is my potential title for my novel for Nanowrimo. It is most likely to change before the end of the month but I figure that it needs a name at least right now it does.
Anyway, here is the excerpt from the novel:

Hours later, Areli still found herself staring at the box that she had not opened in the last three hundred years or so. She could not bring herself to search through it. It would been mean going back. Going back to her old self, to her old life and to the society. She had made a rather loud exit last time she attended one of the meetings and she did not know how she could possibly go back now.

A sigh escaped her lips and deciding finally that she had built up enough courage stuck her hand in the chest. It took only a second for her fingers curl gently around an incredibly delicately thin object. She pulled out the perfectly pointed white stick. Immediately her entire appearance began to change. Her dull brown hair gained a luscious red sheen to it. Her dead grey eyes became a vibrate chocolate. Her light skin gained a literal magical glow. She could no longer go completely unnoticed by the world, she did not look human anymore. Her ears curled into a point and her eyes gained a slight slant. She could feel her wings trying to make their appearance, luckily, she had enough control to keep them under raps.

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