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Rebecca began to think quickly. She needed some weapons, but those men were in the way. How could she get there without attracting attention to herself? She saw a pathway above them, jumped up to it and reached the weapons closet. She grabbed a few weapons, then threw a grenade around the corner where the men were.
"Grenade!" They shouted before the grenade exploded. Rebecca then heard some gunshots and running. She ran down the stairs and ran straight into Laura.
“What’s going on?!” Rebecca demanded.
“I don’t know! Something with Armaan!” Laura answered, covering one ear from the gunshots.
Then Rebecca spied Caitlin, Jake, and Xarissa behind her, fending off a dozen black-clad agents. “Armaan,” Rebecca spat. She grit her teeth. How much chaos was he going to cause? “I’m going to go find him!” she screamed to Laura, and pushed past the others. She just prayed that he hadn’t been found already.
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“Now’s not a good time!” Earl said into the communications system he’d established with the Head Executive of the GCA. At first, he considered ignoring Bryan’s request, but the HE hadn’t contacted him in years. Now he was trying to keep Bryan on the line while frantically typing commands into the main computer.
“It’s important,” Bryan answered, a strange tone to his voice.
Earl sighed tensely. “I know it is, but I’m preoccupied. You have to understand that.”
There was a pause. “What do you need me to do?”
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Just as Imraan ran out of the room, he met face to face with the HE himself. “Sir! You’re—“
“No time to talk!” the HE answered, and hurried him down the hall. “The HIA needs help!”
Extremely confused, Imraan happened to grab a few disks before he was wisked towards the exit. He didn’t even have time to process what was going on.
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Malyssa’s smile faded as Director Dalton burst through the door. “Enough!” he shouted. The former policeman whipped out his pistol and pointed it dead-straight at her heart. “Call them off!”
“It’s too late!” Malyssa cried, too frightened to smile victoriously.
Dalton advanced quickly. “I’m giving you one last chance!”
“I can’t! I’m not authorized!” As he got closer, she began to plead with him. “You don’t know how much we need this cure! How much I need this cure! Dustin’s one of the five—“
She didn’t have time to say anything else because Director Dalton smacked her hard on the side of the head with the butt of his gun and she blacked out.
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Rebecca was so glad the agents came to the school on Friday, when there wasn’t any school and the agency was training. The only students they had to worry about were the ones taking tests, working on the sets, and doing projects in the various rooms. She could just imagine what would happen if they had come yesterday, with all the frightened students running around in the chaos and innocent kids getting shot. She was grateful that no one was in the way. It would be a lot worse if they’d come during the week.
Finally, she was able to catch up with Katy, Sarah, and Armaan.
Katy turned around, ready to shoot the people following them, when she was surprised to see Rebecca running towards them.
"What is going on?" Rebecca shouted as she caught up to them. "Who are those people?"
Katy needed another agent to come with her, and so did Sarah. The agent they had planned to come with them had been knocked out.
"Come with us. We've been given orders to bail out of here." Katy offered. Rebecca looked horrified. There was no way that she was going to leave Laura, Caitlin, Jake, and Xarissa out in the battlefield of the school on their own. Laura was the best fighter in that group, and they needed someone with them that was just as good as her.
"No, take Caitlin or Jake or something, but I'm staying here. I'll find you later." Rebecca said as she ran off. Two black-clad agents were just around the corner; she could hear them. Rebecca took out her double Taser gun, rounded the corner, and shot both of them under half a second. They crumpled to the floor. Rebecca then dragged both of them to the emergency prisoners shoot, which just happened to be a few feet away. The agents slid down the shoot and hit the pillows softly on the bottom. Rebecca turned, determined to find Laura, Xarissa, Caitlin, and Jake.
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