➔ WORD OF THE CHAPTER: charlie

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Charlie starts talking in a funny voice in the mic. "We have your boss, we're a super tough gang of mercenaries... wayyy tougher than you," Charlie speaks through the intercom.

"Meet us downstairs for an exchange...losers."

Berger lowered the man in the chair to the ground. The bad guys come with Lizzie and Berger's brother.

"We give you the Source... and you let us go, right?... all of us," charlie says.

"Abso... yes," the man in the chair says.

"You sure," berger asks us. Charlie slowly nods.

Berger releases the man and he breathes out of relief.

"Okay... now release our friends," charlie says as the man stands up.

"Come on.. just let them go," berger says. The handcuffs opens up and the two pair runs over to our side.

"What are you doing here," berger asks his brother. "I'm.. picking up my date," he says. Berger has his mouth open, in shock. He looks at Lizzie. "Really, Lizzie? This is the older guy? My brother? How could you," berger says. "Oh.. i have no autonomy in my own decisions," lizzie crosses her arms.

"You know what, you both betrayed me," Berger flaps his arms up, walking away from them.

"I didn't know you liked her," his brother says.

Charlie and the man look at each other.

"Charlie.. give me the source," the man reaches his arm out.

Charlie pulls the arm with the orb away. "Oh. Come on... I'm gonna keep it safe, i promise. Hey! Be a hero," the man whispers.

Charlie looks over at me the back at the man.

He looks really hesitant and slowly hands him the ball, but not letting go.

Then the man snatches it. Charlie's face blanks, balling his fists up then putting his arms down, in defeat.

"Thanks buddy," the man smiles and turns to his little gang.

"It's beautiful... lock them up," he says.

"What," one of the dudes say confused.

"Put your hands up!"

Our hands fly up.

"You lied to us," charlie asks.

"Oh yeah.. yeah. yeah. Business man," he turns his head to charlie. "Hey.. let's keep it under the wraps till we get it to the lab," he tells one of his guys.

"You mean after we show the public? Ansel... we are not hiding this anymore," the shaved head man says. "What no no, of course. We're gonna share it to the world," the man says.

Charlie puts a finger down. Counting down.

The men were whispering to each other, not paying attention to us.

Charlie's finger went down to two.

Maya looks at the keypad where earlier when we were messing with it during the 3d printer fiasco happened. When she had pressed the wrong button.

She slowly starts to lean over to it.

"Wait.. what," the man says looking at the orb. "It's a fake," the man says in disbelief.

The orb was falling apart. The man looks back to charlie.

Charlie counts down to zero with his hands still in the air.

"Charlie!!" the man shouts in anger.

He shrugs with a smirk as the lights turned off.

"Emergency shutoff."

Charlie grabs my hand to run, "Just business!"

"Get back here NOW!!"

We all ran in different directions and up the stairs.

The lights then turned on.

"There's only one exit," the man shouts.

"Let's get to the elevator, quick," charlie shouts to us. "don't tell them where we're going," berger yells. We run to the elevator but a grenade lands in front of us.

"Watch out," lizzie screams.

We halt in our steps.

"Grenade!"

It blew up, flying us backwards.

The orb fell out of charlie's hands and it was rolling away.

"Noooo!!" Charlie shouts reaching for it.

Everyone was looking at it as it was falling down. One of the guys caught it.

"Charlie, we're free. Let's go," lizzie says as the elevator was now visible.

Charlie shakes his head out of breath, "Not without the source.."

He gets up.

"Hey, argon," charlie shouts from upstairs.

"Playtime is over kids," he shouts back.

"We're not kids," charlie says.

"We're young adults," Maya finishes.

"and playtime has just begun," berger adds.

We activated our gadgets.

"..yeah," berger's brother says crossing his arms.

"Go get them," argon tells his guys.

We all split up to get the orb. My jacket lights up and i held out my arms showing blue hexagons with maya and lizzie by me.

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Third POV:

Charlie and berger slide down the stairs to go on the lower floor.

Charlie shoots out his lasers out of the bracelet. Making the guys duck down. Berger was aiming his magnet wand everywhere as they were sliding down.

The orb was now on the ground. It was rolling everywhere.

Charlie starts shooting at the guys.

"Shoot them," argon shouts to his guys.

"Nonlethal," his guy says. "Wha- they were shooting at us," argon shouts.

"LIZZIE THE SOURCE," charlie calls to lizzie.

Lizzie looks down and flies to it trying to beat the other guy, who happens to be a woman. The only woman in that group. Before lizzie could fly off, the woman caught lizzie's leg. Then drops the source.

She manages to pick it up and laughs. Lizzie then kicked her in between her legs, making her grunt. "Bon voyage," lizzie hits her down with the backpack, attaching it to her feet. As rhe woman flies off screaming, she drops the orb.

Lizzie catches the orb and looks over to charlie.

"Charlie," lizzie throws the orb to him upstairs.

He barely catches it.

"Hurry up," Lizzie shouts as he starts running off to a direction then quickly turns back around.

"Charlie, run!!"

He goes to the pool table area and jumps over it, hiding.

He hears a gun click.

"Come on out," a guy says.

Charlie looks at his bracelet, beeping. "I said, come out," the man shouts.

Charlie gets up and slams his hand on the pool table making the balls fly up.

He uses his watch to grab the pool stick and he starts aiming a ball at the guy.

It hit him straight in the forehead.

"Nailed it," he whispers to himself, feeling proud.

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I was running away from a guy, fighting him back. I used my shields to knock him over and i see charlie. I started running over there, but a guy gets there before me and I stop and hid behind a rock.

"Give me the ball, little boy," he says.

Charlie tries to punch him, but he grabs his wrist and then laser shoots out hitting a computer.

"Malfunction."

The guy takes his bracelet off throwing it off the second level. "No!"

"I said give me the ball," he sighs.

Charlie looks over at me then smiles very slightly. He slowly falls to the ground, looking at the guy.

"What are you doing," the guys asks him.

"Getting out of the way," he says lying flat on the ground.

"For what," he asks.

I came charging at him with my shield from behind and kick him through the shield and he fell to the ground.

"Her."

I look down at charlie, breathing heavily a bit.

"Let's get to the elevator.." i tell him.

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words: 1220

i may have lied about having the chapters short...😗