A/N: In my story the camp was never shut down and they never found the treasure....yet. Zero didn't run away but Twitch is there. Also I'm doing this out of my knowledge of the MOVIE not the BOOK so if some characters that are down played in the movie (Magnet, Squid, etc.) are out of character it's not my fault!
Stanley Yelnats, also known as Caveman, threw another shovel full of dirt out of his hole. He looked up at the sun and whipped his brow. He had been at Camp Green Lake for about 3 months and had gotten pretty use to the daily reunite.
He heard the sound of a car pass by and looked up from his hole to see the same long yellow school bus that had taken him and everyone else to Camp Green Lake.
"Looks like we're getting a new kid." Twitch said from his hole. His hand twitched around his shovel.
"Yeah that's just what this camp needs. Another messed-up dude." Magnet said.
"Yeah well hopefully this dude isn't crazy. Unlike Zigzag here." X-Ray said.
"Hey!" Zigzag said from his hole.
All the guys laughed and got back to digging their holes before their camp consoler showed up.
The yellow school bus stop at the camp and a 16-year-old girl stepped out. She had blond hair with a pink steak on one side and bright blue eyes. The officer that was with her on the bus took her to an office and told her to sit down.
A man with a cowboy hat walked in. She could see that he had a gun in a holster at his side. He sat down on the other side of the desk.
"So," He started, "You must be Miranda Starling. My name is Mr. Sir and you will address me as such."
Miranda snorted a little trying not to laugh at his name.
"Follow me." Mr. Sir said.
Miranda followed Mr. Sir out the door to a little shack filled with shovels. He threw her an orange jumpsuit.
"Those are your work clothes." He said to her, "Laundry is every 3 days. While those are being washed you second pair." He patted the orange jumpsuit on the table, "Will become your work clothes. Any questions?"
Miranda shook her head.
"Good." Mr. Sir pulled out a shovel, "You are to dig one hole every day, your shovel, is your measuring stick. Mr. Pendancstick is your camp consoler and you'll be sleeping in tent D. I'll leave you to get changed." He started to walk out of the shack, "Oh and don't worry about the gun, it's for the yellow spotted lizards, I wouldn't waste a bullet on you." He walked out.
Miranda sighed and started to change.
'Great.' She thought, 'I'm going to be rooming with a bunch of horny teenage boys.'
She removed her blue jeans and her grey sweater and stuffed them in her backpack. She did, however, leave on her black tank-top and slipped on a pair of black track shorts before putting on the orange jumpsuit. Then there was a knock on the door.
"Miranda Starling? Are you ready?"
"Yeah." She called and walked out of the shack.
She was met with a short man with an over sized hat and white suntan lotion on his nose.
"Hello Miranda, I'm Mr. Pendanski. "I will be your camp consoler. Now if you will follow me I will show you around." He walked though the camp, "Over there we have the wreak hall, mess hall, showers and here is where you'll be staying." He said very fast.
He led her inside the tent were she saw all guys sitting on cots.
"Boys this is Miranda, she going to be your new roommate. Miranda this is Rex, Theodore, Alan, Stanley, Brian, Ricky, Jose and Zero."
"The names not Rex it's X-Ray. And this is Armpit, Squid, Caveman, Twitch, Zigzag, Magnet and Zero."
"Yes, yes, they all have their little nicknames but I prefer to call them by the names their parents gave them. The name society will see them by." Mr. Pendanski said, "I'll leave you all to get to know each other." He said walking out of Tent-D.
Miranda looked around the room and saw the empty cot meant for her and the end of the tent. She walked down well aware of the eyes staring at her and dropped her bag on the cot, then turned around to face the guys.
"Go ahead ask whatever you want. I don't give a damn."
They all looked at each other, Alan 'Squid' was the one to speak first, "Okay how come you're at Green Lake? I thought it was for dudes only."
Miranda rolled her eyes, "I got kick out of every other camp like this, for 'troubled' kids." She smirked when she saw the boys' faces. They we're all thinking the same thing 'how could she get kick out of every other camp?'
"What did you do to get in, in the first place?" Theodore 'Armpit' asked.
"Stole multiple cars, robbed some people houses and even a bank once. Never got caught until the bank." Miranda shrugged.
A bell rang though out the camp.
"What was that?" She asked.
"That was the dinner bell chica." Magnet said. Miranda nodded and headed out the tent with the rest of them.
Miranda stood in line with everyone else. She noticed that she was the one and only girl in the camp and everyone, minus her bunkmates, was looking at her weird. She sighed as she was served her tray of...slop...and sat down at Tent-D table.
"So girl since you didn't dig today, you won't mind given up your bread." X-Ray said.
He leaned over to take Miranda bread, but she moved it away from him and slapped his hand away, "Back off. I'm starving."
The table went silent and waited for X-Ray reaction; no one had ever refused to give up their bread before, they after all were new and intimidated.
To their surprise X-Ray just nodded and said, "You got guts girl. I respect that."
Miranda nodded her head and smiled.
"So listen girl, we have a little tradition in Tent-D which you might have already guessed. We give everyone in our tent a nickname. So we need to find you one." X-Ray said.
Miranda raised an eyebrow, "Fine but nothing stupid agreed?"
They all nodded, "Agreed chica." Magnet said.
"Are you always going to call me that?"
Magnet shrugged.
The table fell into easy dinner conversation which even Miranda was able to take part in. She noticed though that the kid sitting next to her, Zero, didn't talk at all.
Miranda elbowed him slightly, "What's up little man? Something wrong?"
"Don't even try. Zero here doesn't talk to anyone expect Caveman." Armpit said.
Miranda turned to Stanley 'Caveman', "How come?"
Caveman shrugged, "I don't know, just does."
Miranda nodded. She wouldn't make Zero talk to her if he didn't want to. But she would try to get him to. He seemed like a nice kid.
After dinner the camp members got free time to themselves. Miranda walked around the campus thinking to herself. She saw Zero sitting on the steps outside their tent.
Miranda sat next to him, "Hey little man."
Zero nodded in acknowledgment.
"Hey listen you don't have to talk to me if you don't want but do you mind the company?"
Zero shook his head and Miranda took that as an invitation to stay.
After a couple of moments Miranda was shocked when Zero spoke, "You know other kids will say that I don't talk because I'm stupid. I'm not stupid. I just don't like to answer stupid questions."
Miranda nodded, "I hear you little man." She said and ruffled his hair a little bit.
Zero smiled, "You always going to call me that?"
Miranda smiled back, "Probably."
Back at the wreak room the other members of Tent-D were crowded around one of the pool tables.
"Guys you'll never guess what I saw walking over here." Squid said.
"What you see Squid?" Armpit asked.
"Zero and the new girl—Miranda?—were sitting outside the steps to our tent and Zero was talking to her."
X-Ray looked disbelieving, "Yeah right, Zero never talked to anyone but Caveman here."
"I swear that's what I saw."
"Dude too much in one day. First they let a girl in and now Zero talking to someone other than Caveman? Too much, man, too much." Zigzag stated.
"Got that right Zig." Magnet said.
X-Ray looked at Caveman, "What about you Caveman? What do you think about all of this?"
Caveman looked confused, "What do you mean?"
"What do you think about the new girl and Zero talking to someone other than you?"
Caveman shrugged, "Zero can talk to whoever he wants. And Miranda...she seems pretty cool."
Armpit smirked, "Looks like Caveman got a little crush."
A chorus of 'oh' sounded and some guys nudged him and ruffled his hair. (A/N: You know in the 'guy way')
"Nah, no way dude."
Squid slug an arm over Caveman shoulder, "Good. Then you won't mind if I go after her? That girls a babe."
Everyone laughed and Caveman rolled his shoulder back to get Squid arm off.
"Yo X-Ray, what nickname we going to give the girl?" Caveman asked.
X-Ray thought for a moment, "I don't know guys for once I'm stumped on what to give her a nickname. Don't know much about her to think up a name."
The guys nodded in agreement. None of them knew a lot about Miranda other then what she did to get in here.
"Well then why don't we find out? She can't be a part of Tent-D if she don't got a nickname." Caveman suggested.
They guys all shrugged and walked out the door towards their tent. They told her and Zero to go inside because they had some tent business to take care of. They all sat on their cots and X-Ray was the first to speak.
"Ok girl." He said addressing Miranda, "Seeing as we need to give you a nickname. Tell us about you."
"What do you want to know?"
"Lets' start with the bank robbery. How in the world did you do that?" Magnet asked.
"Simple."
FLASHBACK
Miranda stood in front of one of the banks many computers. She didn't have to worry about the employees because around her neck hung a fake bank ID card she had forged using her computer. She plugged one side of the USB cable into her little pocket MAC-Book and the other side in the big computer.
She type in a series of numbers and waited for the bank codes to be transferred to her MAC-Book. She looked around nervously, afraid of being caught.
The computer had finished transferring and she quickly stashed the MAC-Book and USB cord in her shoulder bag.
She quickly walked through the halls, nodding to anyone who nodded to her as to not look suspicious.
She finally came to the door she as looking for, the shredding room, were they shredded old bills. Everyone was at lunch so the halls way were empty. She rounded the corner where she couldn't be seen from the security cameras.
She took out her screw driver and undid the control panel door. She quickly pulled up the hall way security camera shoot she had recorded earlier that week when the hall was were empty and uploaded it to the live feed the camera TV were picking up she did the same thing with the shredding room.
(A/N: Every see National Treasure? Okay same thing like Riley did with the hall way with the elevator in it.)
She slipped on a pair of rubber gloves and pressed in the code she saw on her computer screen. The door open and she stepped inside.
She grabbed the set of keys to the glass boxes of money and opened up one of them. She took as much as she could and stashed them in her bag. She locked the box up and walked outside them room.
She quickly walked through the halls and opened the back door, where two big cops were waiting for her outside the door. They grabbed her arms before she even had a chance to run.
"So close." She muttered as she was dragged out of the bank to the waiting police car.
(A/N: Okay I think I just put National Treasure, Mad Money and ICarly into one flashback. National Treasure security camera, Mad Money shredding room and ICarly fake ID. Though the ICarly thing was probably done in other movie and shows to. ANWAY back to the story.)
END FLASHBACK
Miranda sat back on her cot while she let the boys process what she just said. They all looked at her in amazement that she could get that far only to be caught in the last minute.
"Wow." They all said. Miranda just nodded her head.
Twitch looked at her, "You must be pretty cleaver with computers."
Miranda again nodded.
"And cunning to think that up all by yourself." Armpit added.
Miranda again nodded.
Caveman chuckled, "Cleaver and cunning. Just like a Fox."
X-Ray smiled, "That's it. That's what will call you...Fox."
Miranda raised an eyebrow, "Fox?"
X-Ray nodded, "Your cleaver and cunning. And it works because according to Squid here you're foxy."
All the guys laughed and Squid took an old empty water bottle from his backpack and chucked it at X-Ray, who just dogged it and laughed.
"YO guys time for moms' 'group talk'." Magnet said
All the guys groaned as they filed out of the tent. Miranda stayed near the back where Squid was and nudged him with her shoulder.
"What's this group talk thing?" She asked.
"Basically mom, Mr. Pendanski, gets the tent together once a week and makes us talk about why we're here and stuff. It's really stupid." Squid answered.
Miranda, now Fox, was silent for a moment before saying, "So I'm foxy am I?" She smirked.
Squid blushed red and rubbed the back of his neck, "Umm...well..."
Fox gave him a playful push, "No worries. I'm just messing with you dude."
The members of Tent-D gathered in a circle of chairs with Mr. Pendanski there as well. Miranda was seated next to Squid and Caveman.
"So who wants to go first?" Mr. Pendanski asked all cheerful. When no one answered he said, "Fine lets' start with Miranda."
Miranda glared at him, "It's Fox now." She quiet liked the nickname.
"So you got yourself a nickname then eh Fox? Well I'm still going to call you by the name your mamma gave you Missy. So what do you like to do Miranda?"
Fox gave Squid a look that said 'is this guy for real?' to which Squid nodded.
Fox shrugged, "I don't know. I'm good with computers."
"Ah yes, isn't that the reason your here in the first place?" Mr. Pendanski asked.
"I'm going to tell you what I told the judge, I only took that money because I had to. They were going to shred it anyway so it's not like they needed it."
"Really and why did you have to take that money? To buy a new computer? Or something else you wanted?"
Fox was getting mad now; she started yelling, "I didn't take that money to buy something stupid and selfish!" She stood up, "I took it because it was the only why I could get the money to pay for my moms' surgery! Without it she could die!"
The whole room feel silent. Hot tears pricked Miranda face and threaten to fall. She turned on her heel and kicked the chair she was sitting on out of the way. She walked out of the room as calmly as she could; ignoring the calls for 'Fox' from her tent mates and 'Ms. Starling' from Mr. Pendanski.
She walked all the way back to her tent and lied down on her stomach on her cot. Hot tears fell down as she thought about her mother, all alone on the hospital bed with all those tubes attached to her, ready to die at any given moment without that sugary.
She heard her tent mates come back and turned her head to face the back of the tent. She heard them all go quite as they entered the tent. She could hear the mumbled whispers of them telling each other that someone should go talk to her and the arguing of who should talk to her. Finally she heard them stop talking and the sound of footsteps coming towards her.
The person came over to the side of her bed that she had her front facing. The person moved her legs a little bit so he could sit down on the bed.
She heard the mumble of conversations. She smiled; at least the guys were trying not to listen.
"You want to talk Fox?" The voice of Caveman came from the end of her cot.
She shook her head, hoping he wouldn't push the subject.
"Okay." He said, "But I'm here if you want to."
Miranda nodded, thankful that he didn't push the subject and that he cared so much about her.
Caveman patted her arm, "Get some rest. I'm not going to lie; it's going to be a long, hard first day for you."
Fox nodded as she felt him get up from her bed and walk over to his. She closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep.
Okay frist chapter is 9 PAGES! I have never written that much EVER
You know something this story is finished all the chapters are just waiting to be posted.
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