Apocalyptic Rebirth: With a repairman system space, she rises again.-Chapter 543: Kids Squad, move in!

Ala pulled on Ariel’s gloved hand and repeated those words.

Ariel turned around, his face serious. "Ala, are you getting that feeling again like when they were in the forest last time?"

Ala nodded strongly. "But this one is bad." 𝐟𝕣𝕖𝐞𝐰𝕖𝚋𝐧𝗼𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝗰𝐨𝐦

"Men I wish I could tell when my mom was in trouble." Earl said.

Carola who had awakened super intelligence could tell what they were thinking already. "Ala, the order is to get everyone to the bunker. We have to go home. Uncle Hades said_"

"I don’t care what anyone said!" Ala snapped, her eyes flashing with that red light that the children had seen before, especially when she was angry. "I can feel the forest. I can feel the mutants. My mom is out there, and she cannot even move. Leah is out there and she’s dying. I’m not going to sit in a hole and wait for the adults to fix something which I am not sure they can even fix."

Emmy blinked surprised. "Wait....you call you mom by her name? Mine would pinch my ear until it turned red."

"Not the point Emmy. I am going to save my mom." Ala shouted again as she turned to walk away, they all knew she was going outside and there was no debating about it.

"Ala, you can’t go alone," Pico said, stepping forward. He looked at his own small exo-suit, which he spent most of his time polishing. "If you go, the ’Kid squad’ goes. That’s the rule. We’re a team, right?"

He had heard all about their trip to the forest. All the other kids envied the four that had gone out and fought a real crocodylus. If there was a new mission, they were going too.

Lyra nodded firmly, her pigtails bouncing. "I’m not staying behind. Like my mother, I have super strength, you need me."

Mickey scratched her head, pouting a little. "Oh man... my dad is going to kill me. Like, literally. He’s going to ground me until forever."

"Everyone’s parents are going to be mad," Ariel said, looking at the group. He saw the fear in their eyes, but he also saw the fire. "But Ala is right. If it was my mom or your dad out there, we’d want someone to help. We have the gear. We have the training. And we have Ala and the weapons that she gave to us. Those who are afraid should stay back and continue with what we are doing."

"So, you do the cool missions, and we just wave glow sticks!" Pico frowned. "I am the oldest here, I will lead the mission." His dad would be proud if it was a success.

Jen Gooding, the thirteen-year-old who worked with Earl as a medic on the kid’s squad was appalled. "Are you all crazy? There is real danger out there. You are just children. We should leave this to the adults."

"Then you stay." Earl snapped at her.

Ariel looked at Ala. "We are going with you." Gear up and arm yourselves. Each of you has an automatic protective bubble provided by my mom. If you are scared, activate and stay inside. Nothing will get to you in there. I heard over the radio that it is pitch black out there. We should use the PitchEbonSight Lens googles Ala gave us."

The kids geared up, confusing the adults that were still outside. But the kids were often in SWAT gear, so everyone assumed it was just that.

"Ready?" Ariel asked her.

Ala nodded, her hands beginning to glow with the hazy blue, a light attached to her teleportation powers. "Grab onto me or each other. All of you. And don’t let go, or you might end up in the middle of a tree."

"Wait, wait!" Mickey shouted, grabbing Pico’s hand. "If I puke during the teleport, I am so sorry like last time!"

"Three... two... one!" Ala counted in a stiff voice.

The air around them folded. The sounds of the Fortress_ the bells, the shouting, the clatter of boots_ vanished in a heartbeat.

Rori shrieked.

One second, the kids were in the midst of the street and the next, they were dropped into the freezing, pitch-black nightmare of the Northern Westbrook.

The smell hit them first_ the rot of the forest plus everything in it and the ozone of laser fire.

"Oh, gross!" Pico yelled, nearly stepping on a severed mutant mandible. "Where are we?"

"Look!" Ariel pointed toward a clearing about fifty yards away.

It was a scene of total carnage. Leah was on her knees, her wind-powers flickering weakly. A man was standing over her, his Dragonoid gun hissing with small fire and steam, while a dozen of the "mutants " circled them, their chests vibrating with that soul-crushing hum.

"They’re doing the hum thing!" Ala said shouted, pulling out her tablet. "It’s draining their willpower!

The rest of the kids stared at her.

"What do you mean?"

"Yeah, how do you know?"

"I just do," Ala said, her voice sounding much older than she was. She looked at her friends. "Mickey, go left. Pico, go right. Ariel, take the center. Lyra, lets jam that frequency with this!"

She handed them devices that she took out of her space. "Wait for my signal."

"Wait, how do I jam a frequency?" Lyra asked.

"Figure it out! You’re the genius!" Ariel yelled, drawing her twin daggers.

Earl pointed at the big green button. "I guess you press that."

The kids scrambled through the bushes, reaching the exact spots Ala had pointed at. They looked like tiny fireflies in the dark, clutching their orange-tipped frequency wands. On Ala’s signal, they all pressed the activation buttons at once.

There was no bang, no flash, not even a buzzing in their ears. But to the mutants, it was as if someone had sucked all the air out of the area. They opened their split jaws, their chests vibrating violently to release the soul-draining hum_ but the sound simply vanished. The "devices" in the kids’ hands were creating a silent wall that canceled out the monsters’ psychic attack.

The mutants paused, their jaws clicking in total confusion. They looked at their claws, then at each other, wondering why the humans weren’t collapsing into piles of shivering jelly.

"Wait," Arwin panted, shaking his head. "The ringing... it stopped? I can think again!"

"Something is happening to the mutants," Phillip said "They cannot use their voodoo."

"Something is jamming the signal!" Leah said. "We should not waste time. Hurry and kill them while luck is still on our side."

Realizing their prey was no longer defenseless, the mutants let out a frustrated snarl. Some started retreating back into the shadows as if they sensed a new kind of danger. But the advantage had shifted, it was too late for the some of the mutants to escape. With their senses sharp and their willpower back, the squad gripped their weapons with renewed fury.

Suddenly a small sound came from the bushes. "Kids squad! ATTACK!"