Chapter 104 - Trapped (Step 3)

"Is that the elevator?" Von asked while flying just right behind Petunia.

"Yes," Petunia said, giving Fily a knowing glance after gaining back her consciousness.

"I told you they're not traitors," Von whispered to Lei which Fily and Petunia both heard unintentionally, making their hearts sink even more for planning to betray them again for the last time.

"Just how did you guys manage to escape those goons?" Fily asked as a distraction while getting ready for the real destruction she and Petunia had been planning just by looking at each other.

"I'm sorry Von and Lei, but you guys really need to get captured again." Fily thought to herself while hearing Von's answer.

"We made our own little tunnel right in time when you sent us the map of this unfamiliar tunnel system." Von laughed in relief after hearing Fily and Petunia's voices again.

"It's still on!" Fily cheered after seeing the bright elevator lights not far from them..

"Are we going to ride that back to the castle?" Von asked, which was suddenly interrupted when Petunia used a portion of her gummy cloud to stick onto Von's face, and soon to Lei's face too, which made him and Fily both tumble on the soft ground.

"Now!" Fily said while choking from the dirt on her face that she accidentally collected from tumbling on the ground with Lei.

"Okay!" Petunia said and hammered a nice active oxymedized glass from the wall which caused another mild earthquake that should give them both more time to ride on the elevator and let Von and Lei get captured by the Crones on their backs again.

"Come on, Fily!" Petunia shouted after being the first one to get inside the elevator, pressing the open button so hard to give time for the limping Fily to catch up to her.

"Coming!" Fily grunted while doing her best to run despite the slight scratches on her elbow and knees.

"Come on…" Petunia whispered and threw the last bottle of healing potion she could fill from her gummy stash to Fily which she then used to make their operation even faster.

"Gahhh!! Traitors! Get this off! You won't get away with this! I swear to tell mom and dad about what you've done!" Von said while struggling to get the sticky gummies off his face.

"I told you we shouldn't trust them!" Lei said while also trying to get the gummy off his face but to no avail.

"Sorry boys, we've got to follow destiny's rules," Petunia said lastly before closing the elevator doors and going back to the castle with Fily.

"I wish we could just tell them about the whole plan instead of looking like pitiful dorks down there," Petunia murmured which Fily heard.

"I thought you're enjoying this." 

"What? No!" Petunia denied but immediately followed with, "Just a little bit."

"You're heartless." Fily laughed and went back to serious mode once again when the elevator doors opened to nighttime on the surface, reminding them of a more difficult level of job they had to complete once the clock strikes seven.

"Are we ready for this?" Fily asked anxiously.

"Definitely." Petunia replied confidently, "But first, let me gather more resources from my room." She said and went ahead to her room before the moment of truth really happens.

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[Venedette: Update?]

[Team 1: We're on standby, waiting for more orders, over.]

[Team 2: In position, over.]

"Do you think this is the right place?" Venedette asked Sir Grand worriedly after seeing no signs of the Crones in this village since sunset.

"Should we send more teams to other villages?" Sir Grand said in response after having almost the same dilemma as Venedette.

"They should have been here minutes ago," Venedette complained, referring to the Crones and the boys after spotting a foreign vehicle on the hidden beach under Gamora's village which Venedette assumes as the vehicle that their enemies will use to deliver Von and Lei back to their headquarters along with the Crones that was still also nowhere to be found at the moment.

"Do you recognize those people?" Venedette asked while watching what she would assume was the Crone's customer or bosses that ordered them to kidnap Von and Lei.

For what reason? Who knows? Maybe it was because of their exceptional talents or supergenes. But no matter what their reasons could be, Venedette wouldn't let these people get away with their crimes. Not under her watch.

"I don't. Maybe if I could get a sample from their vehicle I could run a test and make a guess about where they might have come from."

"Would the whole spaceship do?" Venedette said and almost stood up to kick those people's assess off her island if only Sir Grand did not stop her.

"Later, let's wait first for Von and Lei in the village."

"Okay," Venedette said and paid more attention to what those people were saying behind their backs.

"They're late!" one respectable-looking guy in a white lab coat raged while looking problematically at his expensive-looking watch.

"Hacker said they caught the children back and are now on their way." A guy who looks like the other guy's assistant in all black said while swiping away at the air in front of him, which was probably his stat-hut but definitely outdated based on the old-school swiping method that they still use amidst being in the 40th century already.

"These people look like the type of people who thought getting supergenes from royals are much better than investing in their own potion-making department, huh?" Venedette said shamelessly after realizing the fact that her senses are far more superior than theirs in terms of scope and distance.

"Are they ready yet?" Venedette changed the topic and flew back to the village reluctantly while still holding Sir Grand's hand with her.

"Very." Sir Grand replied as they both watched the pyro show that they specifically prepared just to attract more innocent people in this small village as the 'Cameras' to their paint the picture with the pyro show as the 'Havoc' being shown in the background of the picture along with the boys beside a filthy Crone in front of this shabby store near the edge of the island.