Chapter 1

-A week later-

10AM. Racheli took Max for a walk around the neighborhood. "Looks like everything went back to normal," she said as she looked around.

"Yeah, huh?" a voice said from behind. It was Liron.

"Good morning to you too!" she giggled.

"Say, did you see the new neighbors?" he asked.

"What new neighbors? Here?"

"No, not here... A few houses away from the Scheinfelds, there are going to move new people," he told her.

"For real? Let's hope they're not snobs. On the other hand – almost everyone who lives next to the Scheinfelds is a snob," she laughed.

"Nah, I don't think so," he laughed as well.

"Racheli! Liron!" they heard someone shouts.

"Udi? What's up?" Racheli asked.

"You will never gonna believe that, you have to come!" he called them, and they rushed after him to Ilana's hair salon.

"Udi, why did you call us here?" Vicky asked.

"Yeah, and what are your girlfriend and that brother of hers are doing her?" asked Meital.

"Hey, watch your mouth, you 'hoodie girl'," Nimrod told her and she rolled her eyes.

"I called you all here because it has something to do with everyone who was in the treasure thing. I got an e-mail from Warshawsky," Udi told them.

"Okay, and..? He probably just thanks us for bringing him Aaron's rod or something," Lilush said.

"That's the point, he doesn't. He tells us that rod never reached him, but was stolen. Apparently not far from here, the van in which there were soldiers guarding the goal was stopped, the rod was stolen, and the soldiers were unconscious. After testing the car, it was introduced there was some gas had put them so they could snatch the rod," Udi continued.

"What?!" everybody shouted.

"Yes."

"And what, did he say they want our help again?" Racheli asked.

"That's unclear. He said that he will update us."

"Do you think that maybe... The Brigade went back to work?" Vicky asked hesitantly.

"How can they work? My dad went to jail, and as far as I know, he was their brain," Agam said.

"You can never know, they might have replaced him..." Lilush added.

At the secret offices, Warshawsky asked from Eitan to come to his office for a talk.

"Eitan, the rod has been stolen from us. Do you know what that means?" he asked.

"Yes, but you'll probably tell me..."

"That you failed in the mission, Eitan! With all the little screwed thing near the end, we thought you made it, but still the mission has failed," Warshawsky yelled at him.

"What do you want me to do? I already walked away, I had nothing to do with it anymore!" Eitan yelled back at him.

"Listen, from today you're not going for outside missions anymore. You'll be staying here to supervise and work here in the offices. We already find you a replacement who will continue the mission of bringing back the rod instead of you," Warshawsky told him.

"What? Already? Who?"

"You will find out later."

At lunch, Racheli just couldn't stop talking.

"I swear, it could be really cool if The Brigade will get back to work. It was really fun in the past year," Racheli said.

"Really, Racheli? You didn't have enough action this year, so you want more?" Udi asked sarcastically.

"Yes, Udi. Think about it, from all the places in the country, right here, in the godforsaken town of Narkis, these amazing things happened."

"I agree with you that it was an amazing experience, but I wouldn't like to go thought it again," Benda said.

Suddenly somebody knocked on the door.

"Come in!" Vicky shouted.

"Racheli, Udi, we're going to see the new neighbors, come on," Meital said.

"Meital, c'mon, we're in the middle of our lunch, why do you think that..." Benda said, but the three teen were already gone.

The young neighborhood gang walked towards the big, rich houses. They found the house very quickly – it wasn't that hard, though, since it was the only house with a moving truck next to it.

"Wow, they have pretty cool stuff for rich people," Liron said.

"No way! They have an X-Box?!" Matzliach almost couldn't believe his eyes.

"Can I help you kids?" asked a man with a South-American accent.

"Um..."

"Yes! Yes, we're the kids from the neighborhood and we just wanted to come and say welcome to Narkis!" Racheli managed to save the situation.

"Ah, thank you very much, muchas gracias," said the nice man.

"And excuse me for asking, but where is the accent from?" Racheli asked.

"Ah, yes, I'm originally from Argentina," he said with his rolling R, "but I'm in Israel for 30 years and the accent hasn't gone," he laughed and they laughed with him.

"Did you want anything else?" he asked.

"Um, yeah... We wanted to know if you have any children who move in with you. Unless the X-Box is yours," Meital giggled.

The man looked at them for a few seconds. It looked like he tried to find an answer.

"Yes, si, yes. I live here with my niece and nephew. In fact, I think that my older niece is around your age," he said hesitantly.

"Really? Wow, that's so cool! Is she here?" Racheli asked.

"Uh, no, no she isn't. Anyway, it was nice meeting you," the man said with a smile and left back to his home.

"Weird..." Liron said.

For the rest of the day Eitan was sitting next to the computer in attempt to find out who is the new agent who will replace him in the mission in the neighborhood. He couldn't find a hint!

"Eitan, come with me," said Warshawsky.

"What's going on?" Eitan asked.

"Come to greet the new agent girl who will replace you," Warshawsky said.

"Agent girl? Wait, you didn't tell me earlier it was a girl," Eitan girl.

"Dear friends, I want you to greet our new agent, who will help us to get back Aaron's rod – please meet Alba," Warshawsky said and looked at the door.

And then she entered – she wore formal black-and-white outfit, black heels and she was brunette, or in other words – simply gorgeous woman.

Eitan couldn't stop looking at her. He guessed she was around his age, by her appearance, but she transmitted something older.

"Eitan, meet your replacement at the mission.

"Hi, nice to meet you, I'm Alba," Alba smiled and took out her hand.