Angel Monarch

Chapter 59: The Headquarters

Freak was really happy. Yeah she got tortured every day multiple times, but she could actually help others! It was an amazing feeling.

She spent the whole day learning everything about the wall's defences. By night she was even a bit tired, which never happened before. She watched as Faith's shadow moved through the dark streets, hid from patrols and finally arrived at the abandoned house.

They said hi to each other, then they began sharing information. Faith wrote and marked every guard and patrol she reported. It took nearly an hour to note everything she found and after finishing, Faith began asking questions about her own finds.

"I went to the facility they keep the slaves at, and saw that the water they give them is straight from the river. Is there a usable infiltration point near the river?"

She didn't seem to show emotion, but under the surface Freak saw it. She was very angry.

"Well, there is but it's quite small. Two man could fit there at the same time max, also it's under water."

Faith noted everything and asked her next question.

"Who's the fifth Lieutenant? I saw Cat, Tor and heard them talking about a Harold and his lab, but who is the fifth?"

Freak thought about it for a couple of minutes then she remembered.

"Ohh... you probably saw him already, if you went to the pits. He is a bulky man who seems to be always angry. They call him The Bull. It's not a title the Watch gave him, but the people."

She continued a second later.

"As far as I can tell the 4 Lieutenants all have some job. The Bull is responsible for entertainment, Cat is 'taking care' of the slaves, Tor works on the energy grid and Harold. He is the Maddest of them all. He works in his lab, I don't know what he does in there, but judging by the screams, something horrible."

Faith got control again and asked.

"Where is the lab, I would like to check what's in there."

She took control again and sighed.

"You can't, it has multiple security measures. One of them is a room of pure light, no shadow exists there. Even I couldn't get in."

Faith sighed and jumped onto her next question, while she wrote all of it down.

"Why do they make those energy cells in the power station?"

"I don't really know, they have something to do with the plan Nightmare has."

She wrote that down and asked. "Where are they taking them?"

Freak was a bit dejected as she said. "Into the lab."

"Well, shit." Faith began walking around the room, thinking. After about 10 minutes she finally stopped.

"Then we have one job left. We have to infiltrate the headquarters of Nightmare. Is he still there or went home?"

Freak said in a very thin voice. "He... he just finished torturing me... before you arrived, so he should be still here, at his home."

Faith sighed. "I'm so sorry... I promise we will make a plan as fast as possible and rescue you with everyone else!"

"Thank you..." Her voice was very sad.

Faith waited for a couple minutes for Freak to calm down.

"Okay, lets do this shall we?"

She answered with determination. "Yes, lets learn his plan!"

The headquarters was obviously well guarded. The only place more secure was that lab for some reason. This fact bothered Freak very much.

'What could they keep there? Nightmare knows about my powers, and he made it so I can't explore it. What could be a secret so big, he needs to hide it from me?'

Yeah she wasn't the most trustworthy, but he doesn't know she can communicate with others. The whole thing was very weird.

'We will find out soon enough'

Faith sneaked along the dark street. After about 10 minutes they reached the headquarters.

'Now comes the hard part.'

The main problem was, that every person guarding the headquarters is an Evolved. A lot of them with abilities specializing in detection.

'There is at least one person that could even sense me. I have to be careful.'

They waited in the shadows for hours. And only acted when the guards finally moved. Faith crawled along the ground and managed to slip into the building without getting noticed.

Freak began to guide her towards Nightmare's office. There were a lot of guards, but Faith proved to be an excellent spy.

'She could probably be an assassin with this stealth ability.'

Faith moved to another corner of darkness and waited for some regular soldiers to pass her. She never let an Evolved get close to her, instead she took detours and went into empty rooms.

After about half an hour of moving through the building they were finally near the door, there was a small problem though. A guard was standing right in front of the door.

Freak was about to suggest killing the guard, but she dimissed the idea.

'If they find the body, they will be more prepared.'

She couldn't think of a way to get in. The room didn't have any windows, probably because of a situation like this. Luckily Faith had more in her arsenal, then she previously let on.

Faith looked around, then probably checked the shadows around her. After making sure no one was near or coming her way, she molded her shadows into a ball.

Then she proceeded to throw it a bit further away from the guard. But just close enough from him to investigate what it is.

Immediatly after the ball left her hand, Faith turned into a shadow again. She crept behind the guard and into the room. The ball has already dissipated and the guard was very confused by what he saw. He even looked into the office, but there was nothing in it, just darkness.

They waited for about 10 minutes, just to make sure no one would come in. After it Faith became corporeal again.

"Okay, could you please keep watch?" She asked very nicely.

"Sure thing!" She answered cheerfully.

Freak didn't really care about learning the plan, that wasn't her job and she takes her job very seriously. She hid in the wall, in a way so she could watch the hallway.

'I hope she learns what they need to rescue me and the others.'