Ashley stood in front of the stained glass window, looking out from her tower bedroom onto the city. She had a meeting with the war council today, and she was praying she wouldn't screw up. Her uncle, Ohm, would be there with her, but that didn't settle her nerves.
This, after all, was her first meeting without her mothers.
She had met with the council before, but her mothers were always there with her. Telling the members what she meant if her words stumbled. Correcting slight flaws in her strategies. She had relied on them for so long, and having them on the front for two months had made it inevitable.
The door opened, and she whipped around, only to see Kat and Charlie there. "Jesus, Ash, chill!" Kat holds her hands out in front of her, a gold chain with an onyx on it glittering as it shifts in the light. "It's only us!"
Charlie just leans against the wall, eyes on her friends. "I thought you were my uncle! I'm not ready yet." She scratches her arm, sitting on her desk chair. Sighing, she glances out the window, the buildings and people below her filling a void with controlled chaos.
"C'mon, now or never, Ash! After all, you only live once!" She groaned, turning in her chair.
"Kat, yolo isn't a thing."
"I'm bringing it back!"
Charlie shifts on the wall before speaking. "Kat, no."
She speaks with a gleam in her eye. "Kat, yes!"
"No." They bicker back and forth for a few minutes.
"Guys. GUYS!" They both stare at her, eyes wide like deer in the headlights. "Could you not!?"
They both say a quick no before the door opens, revealing her masked uncle. "Am I interupting something?"
"No, you're not Ohm. We were just leaving." Kat begins to speak before Charlie punches her and drags her out by the arm.
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"Charlie, what the hell! That hurt!" Kat rubs her arm, face in a scowl. A bruise was beginning to form where her skin was exposed under her rolled up sleeve. She sighed, rolling her sleeve down a tad to cover the bruise, mimicking it on the other.
Charlie laughs and walks to the council room, pausing outside the door. They were going to be there for moral support, as well as Kat having the magic rock that could send and recieve messages. That would be how they would get the messages to the front.
They stepped inside the room, taking their seats at the middle of the table with the council. All the generals not at the warfront were there, Chilled and Yamimash in the seats across from them, and Dlive, Entoan, Sinow, and Doxy where spread out at the table.
Ashley and Ohm walked in, taking their seats at the head of the table. "Would someone give us the report?"
Chilled's voice rises up. "The attack on their forces is currently underway, as led by the Queen and her regiment." Kat closes her eyes. Both of her fathers were in the queen's regiment, as well as Lord Pewdiepie and Ken, Brandon's father. She sits there, barely moving until Charlie touches her shoulder.
"They'll be alright. Don't worry, they can take care of themselves." She relaxes a little, messing with a button on her sleeve.
"We have been planning attacks on all of their major outposts, including one inside Morpha." Morpha was the city that Mad and Virus had founded after they were defeated the first time. "The first attack is taking place as we speak. The others are scheduled for the week ahead."
Ashley nods her head. "Cont-"
"Regiment defeated. Queens taken. Pewds dead. Don't reply. We're being captured." Kat pales as her father's words go through the onyx gem.
"Fuck..." Ash gets up from her chair, Kat following suit. "Meeting adjourned. Dismissed." The members leave, and she stops Chilled.
"Tell Tori, Brandon, Marzia, and Tyler to meet in the library." He nods and slips out the door.
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"I have called you all here on urgent news. We recieved a message from Mark during a meeting with the war council. Lord Pewdiepie is dead, Sir Mark, Jack, and Ken captured as well as the Queens taken hostage by Mad and Virus."
"I'm going after them." Kat says, standing straighter. "I'm not staying here doing nothing."
"B-But it's impossible! How are you going to get to them?" Tyler has shock plainly written on his face.
"The impossible is possible until proved not. And I never said I was going to be alone."
"Who are you going to take with you?"
"I'll go. These are my dads to!" Tori.
"As will I. My mothers are counting on us." Ashley.
"This is crazy. I'm in." Charlie.
"Dad's all I have left. If you think I'm staying, you're wrong." Brandon.
"I'm staying. My mom needs me right now." Tyler says, looking at his crying mother. They nod, and Kat hugs Marzia.
"It's settled. We leave tomorrow."
"Agreed."
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