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Chapter Thirty

Leon

“I’m in!” AJ shouted and went to work on his laptop. I watched him work for a few seconds before turning my eyes toward the gate. We needed it open now. We’d heard gunfire for the past three minutes, and I had to make sure Lilith was okay.

She loved me.

Her whisper was like a shout in my head. I didn’t know what to think about it, honestly, but what I did know is that I wanted to kiss the crazy out of her.

“AJ, what’s going on?” Draco asked calmly.

I felt anything but calm right now.

“She’s locked herself in a jail cell,” he said, staring at his computer with a weird look on his face. Jail cell?

“Okay, the gate is opening,” he alerted us and then Draco gunned the speed on the boat. Thank God we were ready for it, otherwise someone could have flown out the back.

“Outside defenses are down for now, but the ones on the second floor of the building I can’t crack right now. I need some more time. Lilith is in the last cell in the fourth room of the first floor. Medical lab is the whole second floor. Still lots of bad guys around, some with powers and some without, as far as I can see from the live video feed,” AJ instructed.

Draco was driving us up to the beach instead of the dock next to Emanuel’s boat.

“Is he there?” Phillip asked, and AJ nodded.

“Second floor. But it looks like they are packing up stuff to abandon ship again. So you need to hurry,” he added as we closed in on the island.

“Plan?” I looked at all of them, feeling anxious to go get Lilith out of the jail cell she locked herself in.

“Take down Emanuel; try not to kill people if it can be avoided?” Rose broke the silence with a question, but Draco answered both of us.

“Leon, run fast, take down as many as you can, and get Lilith out of the cell so she can help fight. Rose, making another person help us would be good. Phillip, you do what you do that makes this turn out for the best, AJ, you are our eyes and ears. Communicate and let us know what you think we need to know. I’m heading for Emanuel. I’m the only one equipped to handle him. Gotta atone for the past.”The last bit he said more for himself than for us, but his directions were solid.

“You’re not alone anymore, Draco.” Rose put her hand on his shoulder, and he nodded.

I grabbed Lilith’s bag, so she could change. I had already gotten into my gear as soon as I was out of the water.

The hull made a soft rubbing sound as the bow glided into the sand.

Go time.

“Let’s go, team.” AJ raised his fist to the air, with his eyes glued to his laptop.

I jumped off the boat and ran to the fort wall. The main gate wasn’t open so I gave it a kick and it fell down with a loud thud. Hopefully we had a Hero Society fund to fix the things we break.  Gunfire and what looked like lightning came flying toward me. The guy that Lilith attacked on my boat must still be around, if the electricity is being thrown at us.  My body was on the move instantly, dodging the bullets, and bursting through the door to the building. There were a few men yelling in the back. That must be where Lilith was holed up.  I was there in seconds. Four men were trying to open what looked like a giant safe beside old jail cells. Maybe that was where they held people with powers.

“I’m going to need you guys to move out of my way,” I told them, and they all came at me. None of them had powers, as far as I could tell. Until one of the men disappeared. Clothes and all. Well, shit.

Using the training I had learned, I was able to use my speed to deflect the three men I could see.  Pain shot up into my temples as the invisible man landed a punch to my head. I started swinging in the direction I thought he was, but then he got me with a big blow to my right side.

“Honey bun! I can help if you let me out.” Lilith was looking at us from a little window in the metal door.

She waved at me, and I shook my head at her calmness in the situation. Dropping down, I spun my leg around to kick the others off their feet, then moved over to Lilith. Gripping the handle, I pulled it with enough strength to get it off the hinges, but not lose control and knock out the wall behind me.

“Thanks, Star.” Lilith kissed my cheek as she slid out from the cell and immediately blocked a knife that was inches from my face.

“That’s not very nice,” she tsked to the invisible man with the knife.

“Man, screw this.” One of the men that stood behind the others went for his gun and held it up. They weren’t fucking around at all.  I was done with this.  Before they could even blink, I dropped the door and had put each one in a chokehold to knock them out. Lilith patted air by her knee close to the wall.