Chapter 4: I Think More Than Three Minutes Pass, But the Police Appear
Pay did not lower me into the room.
Instead, he decided to give me the experience of bungee jumping. Rather than lowering me inside, slowly, he just pushed me into the room, holding the other end of the rope.
How was it? It was actually pretty fun!
So there I was, falling face-first to the ground. "Hey Lemonhead!" I called Trivia.
She paused to look at me falling from the sky, along with the night-shift workers. There was an awkward silence: just everyone staring at me as I continued to fall, my face getting closer and closer to the floor.
When I was five inches away from getting flattened like a pancake, the rope stopped. The rope jumped up a little, and I was bobbing in the air from the rope. Everyone watched me, with an expression of confusion on their face.
Lemonhead was the first to recover from the side-effects of watching me bungee jump. Running over to the night-shift workers, who were standing side-by-side, she got out her phone. Holding it up, she pointed the camera towards them and said "say cheese".
A selfie was taken of the three of them.
"Trivia, I think you forgot to turn off the flash," I pointed out. I was a few inches off the ground, kind of like I was levitating.
"Wow, really? I didn't notice that bright light coming out of my phone. Thanks Target," she got out her perfume bottle.
"No problem!"
Using this time, she held up her perfume to the shadow people. They seemed to be groggy, constantly blinking and rubbing their eyes, and squinting at their surroundings.
"Trivia, now is not the time to be doing makeup," Pay growled from above, apparently watching us.
"Who said this was for me?" she held up the bottle to the guards faces. Lemonhead squirted the mist on their faces, leading the two workers to effectively pass out.
"There. With those two out of the way, we can finally get out of here," Trivia put back the bottle.
I unhooked the wire from myself. I walked over to the pile of bodies (pair of bodies) and poked their arms with my foot. "How long will they remain passed out?"
"Why does it matter? And who cares? Let's just get out of here."
I shrugged. "Okay. I guess I'll just go back up. See you on the roof." I hooked on the wire back onto my waist, tugged on the wire, and I started to ascend.
Trivia followed me, after she put the wire on herself and connected it to a pulley system. Then the two of us made our way back up.
When we were mid air, Lemonhead had her phone out and was doing whatever she usually did on her phone. Except it slipped out of her hand. Like a fish out of water or a stick of butter.
Then the empty room turned into one where Trivia was screaming. And saying a few no-no words. I wonder how the shadow-people didn't wake up from all that noise.
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On the roof Pay was nowhere to be seen. So was the elephant.
I don't know how that was possible. He was here watching us just a minute ago. Unless... he teleported! How come he had two superpowers now?
"That little... " Trivia growled. Like her, I came to the conclusion of Pay elephant-napping the statue.
"At least we don't have to carry the elephant," I pointed out.
"Yeah. We don't have to carry the elephant. That's so much better than Pay getting all the credit for our work!"
"You don't have to get so grumpy, Lemonhead. Plus, I'm sure Pay will give us credit. I think..."
Trivia rolled her eyes. "He's a thief, Target. How do you expect him not to steal? Also, stop calling me Lemonhead."
Okay, start calling Trivia "Lemonhead" tomorrow. Noted.
"We'll escape, like always. Main characters always escape from trouble and evil," I reminded her. "And we're the main characters. Which means..."
"Have you been paying attention, or has this not registered in your brain yet?" Trivia asked. "We're the evil ones."
"Oh yeah. I completely forgot about that."
In the distance, a helicopter started to approach in our direction, its lights shining brightly. Several police cars on the ground were also approaching or parked around the building.
"Oh, so now the police come," I said. "Where were they five minutes ago?"
"Target, who's side are you on?" Trivia looked at me like I was crazy.
"I'm on our side. Whose side would I be on if I weren't on my side?" I asked her. "Anyways, if the police officers are this slow, no wonder they can't catch criminals. I mean, come on. What took them so long to get here? The road is empty, and it should only take them three minutes to get here."
Lemonhead threw me a pair of clothes, shirt and pants. I couldn't tell the color, (it was dark, that's probably why). "If you don't want to escape, fine by me. If you value your freedom, then put this on."
Trivia already had her clothes on. Instead of her stealth suit, which was black with metal like Pay's, she now wore a cop outfit. Basically a navy blue suit and tactical pants, topped with a navy blue hat. Her hair wasn't tied up- it was just blond with streaks of green everywhere, which reminded me of a lemon. She crossed her arms and her blue eyes looked elsewhere as I changed.
I did as she said, putting on the clothes. Managing to take off my hoodie, I put on the police's uniform shirt. The navy blue sleeves of the uniform went all the way up to the wrist of my light brown skin. I put on the police hat, like the one Trivia has, over my messy auburn-red braid. The rim of it cast a shadow over my saturated green eyes.
Just when I was planning to put on my pants, the police surrounded our roof.
Everyone on the rooftop froze. The police had their guns pointing out, in all directions. When their eyes landed on us, their stance wavered a bit, guns lowering about an inch.
Taking this as a sign, I walked over to greet them.
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A/N:
Nothing else seems like a good idea other than greeting the people who are trying to arrest you, right?
Trivia also dropped her phone, which may or may not have important information on there. Hopefully, it died when she dropped, it. If not, then it's probably going to come back to haunt her in the future. (It may also be later in the series :)
Next chapter, I guess we're going to find out whether Target and Trivia get caught and escaped. By the way, where exactly is Pay?
Have an amazing day/night!
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