The first thing Eniola saw when she woke up was white.

Quick breaths escaped from her chest. She coughed out from her throat which burned with frigid air, gripping the hard floors for support.

Eniola was in an all-white room. It didn't start, it didn't end. Eniola didn't know if she could run in the vast space or be boxed in by something. It was just white.

Was she dead? Was this Heaven or something?

Eniola immediately struck up into the air, as stood on her two feet, as she tried to catch the adrenaline of the underground. But there was nothing. Instead, she stood up and walked around and yelled to the vastness.

"Hello?" she screamed out so that someone could hear her.

No one responded, and Eniola swallowed a gulp as she walked behind her and turned around again. No one.

Eniola was alone. A chill shrivelled down her spine.

"Hello Eniola," a chilling voice filled the air and slid down her spine. Eniola immediately turned back and gasped.

Her parents were looking right at her. Both her mom and dad stood at an angle from each other.

"Mom!" Eniola yelled before she ran up to her.

An invisible force hit Eniola and bounced her so that she flew in the air. At once, she hit the ground with a tremendous thud and a loud groan of pain escaped her. Pain rushed and screamed throughout her body.

Eniola cradled onto all fours before she faced her mom again, whose face had curled into disgust. Eniola's eyes widened.

"Why have you done this Eniola?" her mom asked.

"Done what," she breathed. "What did I do?"

"You've harmed us," two other voices cut in.

Olu and Kol stood side by side as they looked down at her. Goosebumps rippled over her skin. Eniola looked to see her brothers standing side by side, looking down at her. She pushed herself away as she scratched against the goosebumps.

"We are in danger because you betrayed us, sister," they spoke simultaneously.

"Guys," Eniola tried to defend, as she pulled herself close, but not too close just in case the invisible force wanted to throw her again. "Please listen to me. I don't know what you mean. How did I harm you?"

"You're not who we thought you were," a small whisper echoed from the corner.

Eniola clenched her jaw as she turned around. It was May who held a helpless Adeola.

"And now," everyone said as they closed in Eniola with a circle. Her body went limp with fear. Then they stopped and bent down to her level on the ground. "We perish."

Then at once, they all disappeared in cackling strikes of green lightning. A scream tore from her throat. They were dying.

Eniola trembled.

Eniola screamed again as she arched into the air and fell back. But this time the floors were wet, metallic, and cold, and her scream rang out over the walls next to her. It wasn't until her chest rose and fell that she heard sounds of lightning that cackled in the air, and screams and gunshots. He head throbbed heavily, hissing in pain.

Once her vision cleared, she could see right above her was a spooked Lucia.

"Thank God," Lucia sighed. "You're okay."

Lucia immediately dragged her away from the middle of the floor before she moved Eniola back into a corner.

"What happened to your head?" Lucia muttered as she laid a hand on the side of her head. Eniola hissed in pain.

"Sorry," Lucia mumbled under her breath. "What happened?"

For a moment, Eniola was quiet. She said nothing. Instead, her gaze remained stagnant on Lucia. Her family was there.

"Eniola?"

Eniola jumped again. Lucia was talking to her.

"I don't know. I got stuck, and I passed out, but I'm fine," Eniola reassured.

"Why do you say that like it's nothing?" Lucia joked, and Eniola breathed out a chuckle.

"Also, Theo, Jay, Iris, and Zaira have all grouped in the main area," Lucia explained. "No one has seen Paradox yet, but you can't trust anybody."

"We have to go," Eniola said before she pushed herself up with a grunt.

"Are you sure?" Lucia said. "You're hurt!"

"I'm fine," Enola grunted before she wobbled upwards onto her two feet. Her hand caught her head again, which still hissed in pain.

Eniola once again held her gun and pretended to know what to do with it, to at least feel some sort of relief. Lucia ran through the sewers, and so did Eniola. She pretended not to see the bodies laid out in front of her and simply followed until the thick chrome walls disappeared and Eniola stopped.

The sewers were now spread out into a spiral where all 4 wings led until one singular platform in the middle.

Paradox was there.

Eniola froze. It was a while since she'd seen him and not just the threat of him or his green lightning. Paradox was there. He was still in his dark green armour and helmet. At least that hadn't changed. Right now, he had stopped fighting like he waited for someone to challenge him.

"Oh wow," Eniola mumbled.

"Eniola!" someone called, and Eniola swiftly turned to see 4 bodies amid the fighters. It was all of her friends. It was like her feet had a mind of their own because they ran quickly. But then Eniola stopped and fought the urge to smother them with affection.

"Did you think that we'd abandon you?" Iris asked. "Because we didn't."

"I hope you didn't miss us too much," Jay teased.

"We were doing fine," Lucia grumbled. "But let's fight!"

Eniola stood on guard and waited by the walls as all the PSEUDO members surrounded him with their guns. Deadly silence hung in the air as Paradox did nothing but stand there.

What are you waiting for?

The thought came into Eniola's mind so abruptly that she jumped and disrupted the ambient danger the PSEUDO had going on. It was a thought, but it sounded so foreign to her voice and so invasive. The voice was low yet alluring and chilling. Kind of like Keone's.

Wait.

Tell me.

Eniola twitched again. Immediately she made eye contact with Paradox again, whose head titled her way. The PSEUDO members near him shifted his direction.

Hello Eniola.

Her body froze with goosebumps. It couldn't be...

Eniola's hand immediately flew to the side of her head where Paradox had shot her and out of the corner of her eye, a faint green glow came pierced through. Her eyes slid up to Paradox again. His head slightly titled again.

He was inside of her mind.

Then the first gun fired. And chaos broke.

Eniola ducked when Paradox had put out his hand and a strike of lightning hit and burned through the chrome walls. Eniola rolled away from the hiss of smoke before she got up and launched herself forward into any point of action.

Eniola fell flat on her back again. A glitched rippled into the air and technicolour blur painted the landscape an ugly myriad again. Then it stopped. Silence descended into the air.

Eniola pushed herself up again, as she expected to hear the sounds of battle reign in her ears. But everything was quiet because everyone froze.

Eniola's eye widened at the frozen PSEUDO members. It was like someone had paused them mid-game.

Then their bodies glitched. Then all of them, one by one, pixelated like they were nothing but game characters. Goosebumps rippled over Eniola's body. They all receded until few people remained.

Eniola, Lucia and all their friends. And Kain, Josanne, Hyejin, and Sasha remained Weapons trained on the 6 of them.

Look who betrayed you.

Eniola's jaw hung on the floor.

"Shit," Theo mumbled.

A bigger figure tackled Eniola to the floor immediately, as they stifled her screams by her face, contacting the floor. In the quickly flashes of her vision, she spotted Hyejin’s deadly face.

"Sorry it had to end like this," she hissed before she slid out a gun from her holster and pressed it onto Eniola's temple. A tremble shook Eniola's body, and she stretched her face away from the gun. Hyejin only pressed further.

Immediately, Eniola kicked her feet up into Hyejin's legs before she fell over to the side, and Eniola rolled away until she was on both feet. Hyejin stood up with her glare fastened on Eniola.

Hyejin swung her arm out, but Eniola ducked and crawled away. Hyejin immediately turned in surprise. She swung her leg to hit Eniola, but Eniola reached over and caught it before she pulled in under Hyejin and she fell. Eniola wobbled up to standing.

Eniola looked over at the chaos. The PSEUDO members were closing in on Paradox, but he was agile and bulletproof. They clattered against him uselessly as they ran around the place. Eniola's gaze travelled to find her friends, and her heart dropped when she did.

Iris was the last to be thrown to the ground by a PSEUDO fighter alongside the rest of them. Eniola swallowed back a gulp.

"Iris!" Eniola screamed.

Then at once, Eniola was forced to the ground again by her throat. When Eniola hit the grimy floors and a wheeze spluttered out from her. Hyejin had one hand on her throat and the other on the ground.

"You're pathetic," Hyejin spat. "And I am going to end you."

Eniola swallowed back a gulp, and Hyejin pushed further into her and her lips curled into a lethal smirk. Eniola's hands tightened around Hyejin's hands, but she gripped tighter. Hyejin wasn't much taller or bigger than her, but she was fast and had years of experience.

Eniola's head felt light like it was a deflated balloon. And her throat felt hard. She could no longer breathe.

She was going to die.

Survive.

Keone's voice in her head was loud, but maybe that was because she was going to die.

I'm going to die, Eniola thought. She didn't know if Keone could hear her. But even if he could, it wasn't like he could save her. Eniola didn't even think Keone wanted to save her.

No, you're not, he replied.

Then something electrifying lit up Eniola's veins. It wasn't adrenaline, but it was like someone had plugged her body into hot, fiery electricity. At that moment, the pain in her head hissed before it sparked into fiery spots. She could see the hot green light.

Eniola's eyes snapped open as a force launched her into the air. A piercing green light seared across her vision. It blinded her. It burned her.

And it made her feel alive.

Eniola fell onto the ground again once the light had disappeared, but nothing pained her. Instead, the electrifying adrenaline remained in her and longed for her to use it again.

Eniola sat up and the first thing she saw was Hyejin's limp body that lay face down on the floors. She immediately rushed to her like Hyejin didn't almost kill her. Eniola turned her over and grimaced before a dry scream left her.

Hyejin's eyes were burnt out and off so that it was like two holes of black that led into her soul. Burning holes blistered over her charred skin. They ran down her face and into her neck and her burnt black clothes. Her hand flew to her mouth, and she stifled out a whimpered cry.

Eniola killed Hyejin.

Immediately, she snapped her gaze over to Paradox, who faced her direction. The shooting had stopped for now.

You're welcome.

What?

Eniola's heart was beating miles a minute before her throat closed up. She shifted away from Hyejin's body. She never wanted to look at it again.

What did you do to me?

I saved you.

Eniola whipped her head over to Paradox again, who remained emotionless. And then her gaze travelled over to Josanne, who held a gun in her hand. She wanted to beg Josanne to do it, even though the gun would do nothing.

Josanne fired.

Eniola expected the bullet to clatter off Paradox, but in the air, a purple fire coated the bullet and then it hit Paradox.

An enormous blast shook the ground beneath Eniola, which blasted her backwards onto the wall. Eniola slid down from the wall and back onto the ground. She covered her eyes away from the purple explosion of light that burned and blinded her eyes and lit up the entire place.

At once, it receded until all the sewers went dark again and a loud silence hung in the air. Eniola finally removed her hands from her face before she looked up again. Paradox was gone. Below the platform in the middle, a black orb floated in the water.

It was the computer.

"Get it!" Zaira screamed, as she sprung up from the ground and ran over to it but, not until Josanne caught her again and forced her onto the ground with a gun at her neck.

"Fight me and I will kill you," Josanne hissed, without signing. Zaira whimpered before she stood down.

Kain walked from behind Josanne before he stepped into the water. Eniola wanted him to drown. But he didn't. Instead, the murky water came up to Kain's knees, and he waded through them before his hands reached the computer and grabbed it.

Sasha already waited for him, with the other half of the computer in his hands, before Zaira writhed under Josanne, who only pressed the barrel deeper into her neck.

A shaky sigh left Eniola. Eniola wanted to scream, yell, cry, and release the tension in her body. This couldn't be happening.

Kain didn't have a computer. She didn't kill Hyejin. But despite it all, it was real. Her head still hissed and her body screamed in pain after being drained of its energy.

A devious smile curled onto his lips as he brought them close and bumped the two computers together.

"No," Eniola whispered.

A green glow erupted from the joining before it shot up in the air and exploded into green static. Eniola grit her teeth and the defeat sank into her.

When the static had cleared, Kain held one computer instead of two, which simply looked like a bigger version of the two computers. Eniola's heart stopped.

Kain had just created Enigma. And because he created it, he controlled Enigma.

Kain had betrayed them. The PSEUDO weren't their friends. She knew it all the time, but the betrayal tore her up from the inside and wanted to come out as a scream. Tears streamed down her face.

This was her fault. Had she not suggested that they ally with the PSEUDO, this wouldn't have happened. She should've listened to Bee. They weren't just dangerous; they were deadly. The moment Kain had come up to her at the airport, she should've just called the police.

Because of Eniola, the world would now go into chaos.

Suddenly, all the PSEUDO members vanished in a glitch, and they left a wake of deadly silence that hung in the air. Eniola narrowed her eyes and saw the small black box they left in their wake.

"Oh," Jay mumbled.

Eniola stood up from where she sat and wobbled onto her feet, as a violent cough shuddered through her body. And at once, all of Rogue and Zaira crowded around the box. It was sleek and black and had a timer that hovered over it. Her breath hitched.

It was a bomb.

"Oh no," Lucia yelled. "Shit!"

"They're going to blow us up!" Theo yelled. "We need to leave now!"

Immediately, Eniola's gaze flew around the group. Three times she counted five and not six. A violent shudder swelled in the pit of her stomach. It took her a while to find who was missing.

"Iris!" Eniola screamed. "Where is she?"

"Guys!" a voice echoed in the air. Eniola turned her head back to Iris, who faced away from them, crouched down in the murky black waters.

"Iris!" Theo shouted. Eniola jumped into the water, also did all her friends, which created a ripple of splashes in the water. Then she trudged as her knees swam in the water. Eniola once again fought the urge to vomit as she waded closer to Iris.

"What the hell are you doing?" Lucia yelled.

Iris said nothing before she turned to them with horror frozen on her face. Eniola's breath hitched as she spotted the figure that floated in the water next to her.

Keone.

Eniola cursed quietly. Despite how much she wanted to, her eyes never left him. He was naked and his skin was ashen pale and his hair covered his face.

Paradox had been stripped of him now, and now he was Keone again. It never occurred to Eniola what would happen after they took the computers.

"He's alive, but barely," Iris said like she finished what was already on Eniola's mind. Tears streaked down her face. "I checked his vitals, and he's going to die if we leave him here and don't get help."

"Iris, listen to me. There's a bomb going to explode," Jay said slowly. "We need to go now."

"We can't just leave him here!" Iris cried. "Despite all he's done, we shouldn't just leave him to die!"

"We have four minutes." Lucia strained before she reached around over to Iris and grabbed onto Keone's feet before they picked him up and hauled him out of the water.

"Come on, Eni!" Jay said, as he grabbed her arm and ran with her.

"We need to cover the bomb and bury it as much as we can, and then we run away and hide. We can't make it out if we run, but if we plan, we can survive," Zaira suddenly said. "Even if we don't know how powerful it is."

"I'll trust you," Theo said. "Jay, we're going to cover the bomb. I want girls to run as far as they can and make their way to a different exit. We'll find you and meet you there."

All the girls responded in silence that paralyzed the air. Eniola swallowed back a gulp. If Zaira wasn't right, then all of them would die.

"Let's go," Iris hissed.

But just before they did, Jay came up to Eniola and grabbed her face suddenly. Eniola's breath hitched.

"If I don't make it back, I love you," he hissed against her, before running back to Theo. Eniola was frozen for the one peaceful moment, suspended in a dangerous time.

"Eniola!" Iris screamed before pulling her back.

Jay loved her.

The girls took off running down the thin corridors before they made their way back to the west side of the sewers, where the doors were still unlocked. Eniola looked back to Keone, held in between Iris and Lucia. He was still unconscious. Fear swelled in her chest with every passing moment.

Eniola's feet shuffled too quickly to stop once she'd gotten to the wall and everyone stopped behind her. Eniola pressed her hand into the wall and bent over as heavy breaths fell out of her chest.

"3 minutes," Iris mumbled. "I made a timer and synced it with the bomb."

3 minutes was plenty of time and no time at all. In 3 minutes, Jay and Theo could run back to the other end of the sewers and make it back in time for them to escape. In 3 minutes, it could blow Jay and Theo to pieces. Every passing second in the air lingered and suffocated Eniola's mind.

Eniola's heartbeat was so fast she thought it could rip out of her chest. Lucia and Iris laid Keone slightly on the ground. She tried her best to avert her gaze away from his naked body again. It made him seem vulnerable at the moment.

Eniola wondered if he could still hear her thoughts. She called out to him in her mind, but all they met her back was internal silence. She huffed.

"Is he still alive?" Eniola asked quietly.

"His pulse is faint, but it's still happening," Iris breathed. "But we have to get him to safety."

"Where do we go after this?" Lucia asked. "We can't go to the hospital. They're going to see us."

"Suspension tanks have unique codes because they used generator power," Iris explained. Suspension tanks were only in hospitals. Right? "And because of that, I've been able to track them. One which is slightly out of Sydney in a house."

Eniola sighed back on the wall and soaked in the loud silence. Her thoughts were so quiet, but so loud at the same time.

"How much time do we have now?" Eniola asked again.

"1 minute. The boys should be back by now," Iris said, with a waver in her voice.

Jay told her he loved her. Did he love her or did he just say that because he thought he didn't make it? He would. Eniola hoped he made it. Suddenly, 9 months didn't seem too long or too short. It was just time they had spent together.

"30 seconds," Lucia said. "Fuck, I'm scared."

"Me too," Eniola replied. The seconds were like infinity, yet burned with every second.

Then a faint blast shook the earth and vibrated the ground. Eniola jumped.

"Oh," Iris whispered.

Eniola forced her eyes shut at each blast that rang in the air. They shook her on the inside. They started as faint, but more and more they became closer and lingered in the air. Eniola bit her lip until it drew blood.

Lucia immediately hopped over the ladder and propped it up, and a faint peak of skylight popped from the open hatch before she climbed to the top and held her hands out.

"Give me Keone!" Lucia shouted, and Zaira and Iris took him in their hands and pushed him up to the ladder before Lucia grabbed him and slipped him up.

Eniola's head turned before another blast shook the ground and she stumbled back as a hiss boomed into the air. The smell of smoke burned through the air before it clouded over to landscape in smoke. A cough shuddered from her body.

"Where are they?" Iris yelled.

"Here," a faint voice came in from the smoke. Eniola sighed in relief when she spotted the two silhouettes that emerged through a crowd of dust. Theo and Jay were back.

"Come on, climb!" Zaira screamed.

Eniola immediately grabbed the ladder and dashed up, and the ground started vibrating underneath her. Lucia grabbed her arms and pulled her up to the surface. Theo and Jay came up from behind.

A rumble took the earth and vibrated the ground. Eniola pushed herself away onto the ground amid the group. It was like something had creaked in the air.

"Oh my God," Jay said. Eniola looked over.

The Sydney arena curved into the earth.