The Turn: Chapter Thirty-Two

The Turn

Chapter Thirty-Two

~Clash of the Titans – Part 3~

Two Years Before The Turn

Deontay stepped out of the car. He looked around as Vicky walked around the car. Both he and she were at a different airstrip than the ones the others were headed to. It was never really part of the plan to steal a commercial jet. A helicopter would do nicely.

He looked over the edge at the facility below. Deontay looked over at Vicky. She looked a little nervous but she always looked nervous when she was about to do a mission.

“You ready?” Deontay asked.

Vicky smiled, “I guess.”

“Let’s go!” Deontay said as he jumped down.

Vicky followed. She slid down the side of the steep hill. There was a fence around the facility and Vicky brought out a pair of bold cutters from her bag. She cut an opening for the two of them to get though.

Deontay led the way to one of the smaller buildings. They broke in and grabbed basic disguises which included a hat and a jacket with the company’s logo on the front.  They walked out casually with Vicky carrying the duffle bag.

They walked into a hangar. Deontay smiled at the medium sized helicopter.

“This should be about right,” he nodded.

“Go find the car thing. We need to get it out in the open,” Vicky stated.

Deontay looked at her, “Car thing? You sure you know how to fly this thing?”

“Like you know what the car thing is called,” Vicky stated.

“Yeah, but I’m not the one flying the helicopter,” Deontay muttered as he walked away.

While Deontay was away, Vicky walked around the craft going through a checklist in her mind. When he came back with the car they pulled the helicopter out of the hangar. Vicky then hopped in and went through the various checks before they could take to the skys.

“Hey, what are you two doing?” a man asked as he walked toward them.

Deontay climbed into the helicopter, “I think that’s out cue.”

The blades started spinning slowly and the man started running at them. Deontay threw a quarter on the ground. When the quarter struck the ground, it shifted causing the man to lose his balance. Vicky used her wind powers and forced the wind through the blades faster. Eventually they took off.

Deontay smiled, “Let’s go pick up the others.”

Hina crashed through the gate. She crisscrossed through planes trying to slow the vehicle behind them down. Ice suddenly coated the pavement in front of her. With no traction, she quickly felt the jeep slide. The jeep fishtailed and ended up facing the other way.

“Naru!” she looked quickly over her shoulder.

“It isn’t me!” Naru cried.

Hina groaned in frustration and put the car in reverse. Naru melted the ice and they gained traction again. They drove in reverse swerving through the tarmac. Hina’s hand started to glow. She placed it in front of her, palm out. A wave of purple shot forward from her hand.

“Get down!” Fang commanded.

The force hit their car. The wind shield shattered raining glass on those inside. Alister got out one of his automatic weapons and fired on the jeep. Lumin narrowed his eyes.

Ice shot up from the ground and struck the driver’s side of the jeep. The jeep tipped over and flipped onto its hood. Angered, Hina crawled out and got to her feet. Her face was scratched and dirtied. Hina’s arms glowed an ominous purple. She shouted in anger and frustration and struck the ground with her fists.

The wave of energy flipped the car. Penelope suddenly appeared as the car spun in midair. She grabbed Fang and Alister as she touched Blue and Arisa with her feet. In a flash, she teleported them out of the car just before it crashed to the ground and burst into flame.

“Where in da world ‘ave you been?” Alister asked the sprawled Penelope.

“Lying low like any normal human would do after almost dying in a multicar pileup,” Penelope pushed her glasses up her nose.

“Well, her timing couldn’t have been better,” Fang dusted himself off.

Penelope looked at Fang, “Oh, and Shadow told me to tell you that the Tower’s coming soon to clean things up.”

“Let’s get this over with,” Fang muttered, “I’m getting too old for this.”

“You do have a few more white hairs than usual,” Alister observed.

Fang brought out his gun and aimed it at the red head. He glared at Alister, his finger hovering over the trigger.

“But hey! You don’t look a day over forty!” Alister tried to mend the situation.

Fang’s jaw clenched and he narrowed his eyes.

“Thirty?” Alister said seeing that the age didn’t go over well.

Fang tightened his grip on the trigger.

Alister backed away, “Okay, okay, how ‘bout twenty-five? That’s the best I can do! I mean you don’t have any wrinkles! That’s a good thing, right?”

Fang heard something in the distance. It sounded like the blades of a helicopter. He glared at Alister one last time and walked toward the two kids he came for. Alister breathed a sigh of release.  He wasn’t sure what had distracted Fang but he was very grateful for it.

“You idiot,” Lumin muttered as he walked passed Alister. “Never mention Fang’s age if you have a desire to live.”

Alister looked up at him, “How old is he anyway?”

There was a gunshot and Alister crouched down and darted behind Lumin. Lumin rolled his eyes and looked at Arisa and Penelope.

“Would you keep an eye on her for me?” Lumin asked.

“Sure thing,” Penelope smiled.

Lumin grabbed Alister by his collar and dragged him after Fang, “Come on. Let’s go.”

Fang fired his weapon again at Hina. He wasn’t trying to kill her but to maim her in some way. Hina threw an arm to one side creating a force field that deflected the bullet. Fang fired three more but the result was the same. None of the bullets touched her.

“Alister!” Fang looked over his shoulder.

He paused when he saw Lumin trying to push Alister out of his shadow. Fang sighed and rolled his eyes. Lumin managed it somehow and Alister was left in Fang’s line of sight.

Alister loaded and fired his machine gun that was slung over his shoulder. Hina took a defensive stance. She threw one arm to one side and deflected some bullets then she used her other arm in the same manner. Hina was quick and fluid with her movements.

Fang raised his gun and fired. He watched as she defended against Alister’s attack. Fang saw a small point of weakness. Hina heard the shot but she was caught in deflecting the others. An ice wall suddenly appeared and protected Hina.

Hina looked behind her and saw her brother. She smiled and he smiled back. Naru’s legs collapsed and he fell to the ground. Hina ran over to him. By then the helicopter that Fang heard was upon them.

“Lumin,” Fang stated.

The door to the helicopter opened and Deontay appeared with a machine gun and fired on the opposing team below. A barrier of ice protected the three men.

“That’s not gettin’ through,” Deontay stated before setting down his weapon, “I’m gonna go have some fun.”

Before Vicky could say no, he had already jumped out of the helicopter. Deontay pulled his arm back in preparation of a mighty punch and struck the barrier. Fang jumped backwards as ice shards fell. Deontay hit the ground creating a large crater forty feet in diameter. Lumin fell into the sudden crater while Alister jumped back using his powers of wind to say longer in the air. Hina grabbed her brother and held onto them as they fell in as well.

Fang stood on the edge. The air around him grew hard to move through, like there was a force keeping him from moving. He looked up at the helicopter. Fang looked behind him at Penelope. She looked at scene trying to take everything in. Penelope caught eye of Fang and he looked at the helicopter.

Penelope looked at Arisa, “I’ll be back.”

She disappeared and reappeared inside the helicopter. Penelope covered Vicky’s eyes.

“Get off me!” Vicky shouted.

Fang was freed and looked at Alister, “Take down the chopper!”

Alister nodded as the ground shook under their feet. Spikes shot from the earth. Fang dove out of the way in time.

“Lumin!” Fang yelled.

I know, I know.

Lumin got to his feet and ran at Deontay. Deontay clapped his hand together and the ground opened up in front of Lumin. Unconcerned, Lumin formed an orb in his hand and threw it at Deontay. When the orb struck Deontays arm it turned to ice and spread up to the length of his arm. Lumin jumped over the gap. Water washed up from the gap and washed over Deontay. When the water subsided, Deontay was encased in ice, except for his head.

The wind started to spin in a circle around the helicopter. Alarms were beeping like crazy. Vicky was still trying to get Penelope’s hands off her eyes to see what was happening. Penelope suddenly disappeared and Vicky could see again. She gasped when she saw the ground in a way that one wasn’t supposed to in a helicopter.

Vicky got out of the seat and ran for the opened door. She jumped out moments before the helicopter crashed to the ground. Vicky cried in pain when she landed on her hands and feet. She was about to get up when she heard a click.

“I wouldn’t try anything if I were you,” Alister sated as he aimed a gun at her.

Vicky sighed and raised her hands. She saw the Tower coming in the distance. They failed. Again.