"WAKE UP", I heard a man scream.

I sat up, with two men looming in front of me. They both had black pistols that were aimed right at me.

"Where's the girl", he asked. The one holding the gun at me looked strong and tuff with a broken lip. He was Josh. His pistol was shiny and clean with one scar on the handle of it. The initials J.M were etched into the side.

The one behind him was Tony who was scrony but equally as scary at the time. Now there just annoying.

Really I don't understand why I was so scared at the time. Even though I'm so short I was still a lot bigger then them. It might have help that they had a gun to my head.

"Who", I asked still groggy.

"Don't act dumb", Tony hissed,"If your here you know who she is, the little brat".

"A name might help", I suggested trying to waste time. Hoping that Tom or the person they were actually after would come.

"Hope", Josh said holding the gun tighter. His knuckles turned white. He was getting mad.

Hope. A picture immodestly formed in my head. The little girl that had the strange fashion sense and a bow on her even though she looked seven or eight.

"I don't know she was supposed to be here they told me-"

"SO YOU DO KNOW HER", Tony yelled.

"Stop, inside voice please"

Josh gritted his teeth,"Where is she".

"Did I say I knew her", I tried to think of something to say,"no Hope..... it doesn't ring a bell, who is Hope".

"Oh gods", Tony complained ,"just knock him out and bring him home Josh"

I started to get scared,"huh". The modstep hit me with the end of his gun.

My head throbbed. My mind ached and my vision was more blurry than it normally was. With a hard pain in my head, I blacked out. The Modsteps smirk etched into my thoughts.

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I woke up in a circular room with brick walls and a cement floor.

I was hanging upside down.

It was hard to put the pictures together. My head hurt really bad, either because the modsteps gun put a bash in my head or the blood rushing to my brain.

Tony was at the far left of the room sharpening a sword that sorta looked like mine. "Where did you get this glass sword".

He had abandoned his pistol, far more interested with the sword.

"Huh", I asked. I didn't know what type of sword it was at that point, but I guess Tony answered my question. I should have put the pieces together. Whatever it was made out of was transparent like glass.

"Did you get it from the optics", he asked swinging it around. I was about to ask him what he was talking about when I finally put the pieces together.

After everything that happened. I felt pain. This was quiet longer then normal dreams were. How do you even fall asleep when your already asleep, unless I wasn't asleep.

"I'm not dreaming", I said more to myself.

"Took you long enough", Tony said sharpening my sword.

I tried to reach the knot that was holding me up ,"ok get me out of here".

The rope was tangled into loop after loop. Something so intricate, it would be a boy scouts worst nightmare.

"Your not going to untie it", he said with a smug look on his face," You have to cut it".

What do you mean I can't untie it, what kind of knot is that?!

"Oh god , no, no ,no, I can't die no, no, no", I started to panic. I tried to untie the knot some more," Where am I!"

Josh walked in with empty beer bottle in his hand.

He put it down and grabbed a knife from a table and started to walk over.

I started to try to rip apart the rope out of options.

I looked up as Josh walked over to me,"hey buddy, friend, pal",I started to panic more,"what are you doing with the knife".

He kneelled down and put the knife to my throat.

"Uhh-"

"SHUT UP", he screamed,"JUST SHUT YOUR MOUTH FOR ONCE". I listened to him hoping for my life.

I heard some screaming male and female. The high pitched noise that felt and sounded like it could brake glass sounded familiar.

The little girl Hope ran out of the room.

A man in a lab coat and another burley man that was in a suit was chasing her.

She shuffled over the table knocking off the beer bottle crashing it in half one tiny shard of glass spreading on the floor after it.

The man in the suit slipped on some of the glass falling on the cement floor, as the man in the lab coat followed after her.

She grabbed an arrow and aimed at me. I closed my eyes, but instead of dieing I dropped to the floor. The arrow had cut the rope.

"RUN", she screamed.

I started to untie the knot that was around my legs.

The man in the lab coat ran towards her. She grabbed the beer bottle off the floor. Within seconds she through it at the doctor's stomach. He landed on the floor yelling in pain.

Tony came up swinging the sword at me. I ducked quickly, backing up to the wall.

Tony started running over to me until

Hope jumped on his back,"GET AWAY FROM HIM". She screamed almost like a war cry. Tiny, loud, and terrifying.

He backed up into the wall trying to squish hope. She tried to choke him with her little arms. It wasn't working to well.

"You little bi-"

And thinking as fast as I ever had I broke the table leg off of the table and hit Tony as hard as I could. Hope jumped off of his back as soon as he started to fall.

Hope, without even giving a glance to tony, dragged me to a curtain at the right side of the room. It was a door.

Hope jiggled the door handle,"Its locked", she yelled. I looked at her confused. She gestured to the door.

"What", I asked in a panic.

"Brake down the door", she screamed.

"Me"

"I can't brake down the door", she explained very loudly.

"I-", she looked at me the way the bullies did in school. I slammed my shoulder in the door.

"Owwww", I screamed. I rolled my sleeve up. The spot was starting to turn black and blue.

"What are you doing!?" She yelled again glancing at the place the doctor and other guy came from.

"Checking my-" I noted she was having none of it and stopped making excuses.

I tried again, making it feel like I dislocating my shoulder. "Ow", I screamed louder.

Josh ran into the room, "Hey!", he starred at us. "HOPE GET OVER HERE RIGHT NOW".

She crossed her arm and stood there," no!"

He started to walk over.

I shook her shoulders," what are you doing".

She stood there crossing her arms. I picked up her arm and started shaking it," DO YOUR NINJA THING", I begged. She stood there glaring at him.

He stopped only a few feet in front of her. "Hope", he gritted his teeth,"one last chance".

"Go kiss your-",

He started charging at us. I swear I could see smoke coming out of his ears.

She grabbed my hand and dragged me over to the side fast enough.

Instead of hitting us he went through the door.

He layed on the floor knocked out. Prices of the door scattered around.

I stepped over him out the door realizing her ingenious plan.

Hope started going through his pockets. She got a bag out of his left coat pocket and walked out the door.

"Lets go newbie", she said to me and I followed.