Hey! So, this is like my second of three NT inserts. But the third one's not out quite yet so…ya. Um, this is what it'd be like if my friend and I got sucked into NT and stuff. I think it'd be Uber funny! Disclaimer! Except I do own myself, and I got permission to own Whitney. R&R! =)
OMG where are we?
My name's Lexi. Yes, I spell it that way so SHUT UP! Anyways I'm at my friends house. Her name's Maddie, so we decided to watch a movie tonight. Yeah…not our best idea. I know your probably all like 'What the crap? How's that a bad idea?' weeeeelllll, oh how do I describe this? Ok, so we picked up a TV from this garage sale and then we asked why the price was so low, and the person's (who had an eye-patch) like "Oh-ho it didn't look good in the living room. Here ya go, a ho-ho-ho!" Okay…now maybe I exaggerated about the Oh-ho parts but…that's not the point! Anyways, what was I saying? Oh yeah! So we spin our movie wheel (to see what movie we're going to watch, and yes we did make one!) and whatever one it lands on we watch in her new TV (I said we should watch it at my house where I sleep in the basement bedroom, so we'd have the huge plasma screen to ourselves but, no! We just have to use her new TV! Though it's not much of a difference…). Maddie was jumping up and down to watch Valentines Day, while I was praying to watch Grown Ups. The movie were two of our choices, and one that we didn't feel like watching. My two were Grown Ups, and Rush Hour, her two were Valentines Day and Ballet Shoes. My one that I didn't feel like watching was National Treasure, hers was Ice Age. Spinning….jumping…praying…landing. "WHAT THE HELL?" Maddie screamed. I fell over laughing and hitting my legs. It was National Treasure. I didn't like it, but her reaction was hilarious. "Well, how'd you expect me to react?" She demanded. "Scream with glee? No. Neither of us want to watch it, so lets just-" She tried to spin the wheel. "No. We made a pact." I gasped out. "Come on." I said. I was in my blue long sweatpants, my tie-dye camp counselor in training (CIT) shirt on, and put my hair in a bun. She wore the same shirt, and black athletic shorts. We popped in the movie and nestled into her couch. The TV did nothing. "Told you it wouldn't work." I muttered. As she opened her mouth to protest, we were suddenly falling. We both screamed until we passed out, during the endless fall.
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I was awake, but my eyes were still closed. "I wonder if I could get a shot, with one of them, before anyone else in America had the chance to." Someone muttered. I had to resist the urge to burst out laughing. "I wonder how they got all the way out here." A thick British accent purred, ignoring the other man's voice. "Help me get them to the trucks." Another man said. A pair of arms suddenly picked me up, off the ground. I was trying to remember the movie, I hadn't seen in five years…yeah I was eleven when I last saw it. One was named Ben, the other was Riley, and…the rest was a huge blur. Suddenly I felt the motion of falling. Someone dropped me. "Riley! Just let Ian get her." Ben scolded. I figured out I had been in Riley's arms, and now was picked up once more, by stronger arms, that seemed warmer. Ian's arms. When we were set down on something I could feel him putting a blanket around my shoulders. I just realized how cold I was, I was shaking fiercely and I could hear Maddie's teeth chattering. My eyelids slowly stuttered open. "Are you alright?" the first voice I heard Riley's I think asked me. "Huh?" I asked. I decided to play innocent while figuring out a story. "Are you okay?" Ian asked. I finally made out the shapes before me. Ben, a strong man was on the far left, Ian the Brit was in the middle, and the youngest Riley was on the right. "I don't…know." I whispered. Finally Maddie decided to come back to the land of the living. "Where are we?" She whispered, a blanket around her too. "The arctic circle…do you remember anything?" Ben asked. "Who are you?" Maddie asked before I could answer. I was a little thankful because though I did come up with a story but I needed details. "I'm Ben, this is Ian and Riley." He answered her. "What do you remember?" He asked. Maddie looked at me expectantly. "We got lost, and went to an Inuit village, somewhere and were mugged and so we left and probably froze somewhere around here." I replied. "Oh, I'm Lexi, and this is Maddie." I introduced. "Nice to meet you." Riley sounded a little too sincere. I resisted the urge to smirk. Maddie giggled, "Nice to meet you too." I said slowly. "So, now that we told you why we're out here what are you out here for exactly?" I asked. "Well, we're researching a treasure of the Templar Knights, and it could be on a ship called the Charlotte which Riley's computer told us wound up right around here." He answered, I nodded. "Why don't you stick with us until we figure out where you're from." Ian suggested. "Ok…" Maddie trailed. We stalked out of the snow-mobile thing following the others. "Did we just get sucked into the movie?" Maddie hissed. "Yeah. Cool, scary, and weird." I said. "We should've watched twilight." She muttered. I rolled my eyes. "Whatever." I said . "Do you remember this movie at all?" She asked. "Um…no." I said. "Ugh. Isn't that just peachy?" She hissed angrily. "Pretend like you don't remember anything and we'll make it through maybe I'll remember something along the way. Just follow me okay?" I whispered. She nodded in agreement. "I found something!" Ben called out. I smiled and nodded. After an hour of indescribable boredom the ship was dug out. Maddie and Ben were starting a conversation, and Riley stalked his way over to me. "So…what's camp Birch trails?" He asked, noticing my shirt. I grinned, "Only the best camp ever. Maddie and I are training to be counslers there. To be specific we're counslers in training or CITs." I said. He nodded. "What do you do for a living?" I asked. "Um…" He trailed. "Tech support?" I guessed. "I used to." He said. I laughed, I couldn't resist. "I'm not one to hold a job either." I reassured him. "I was an intern for a while. Until my boss got fed up with my lack of enthusiasm and let me go. It was funny actually." I said. He nodded, and opened his mouth to say something when we heard "Ready to go in everybody!" Someone shouted. "Well here we go." I whispered. "Yup." Riley muttered, clearly disappointed our conversation was interrupted. We went into a cabin, inside the ship. We took a look around. "Ah, jeez!" Riley shouted stumbling backwards, and falling, seeing a corpse in a hammock. "You handled that well." Ben said. Maddie gave him two thumbs up from across the room. I grinned, as he blushed slightly. "This is it!" Ben hollered. "It's a cargo hold." He said. "Mhm…" Maddie muttered. We stepped into the cargo hold, only to see a big butt load of barrels. "You think it's in the barrels?" Riley wondered aloud. I shrugged. We checked the barrels just in case. "Come over here!" Ben said to all of us. We crowded around him to see what was up. "Do you know what this is?" Ben asked us. "Is it a pipe?" Maddie asked pretending to be excited knowing she was right. I smiled. "Is it a billion dollar pipe?" Riley asked. "It's a meerschaum pipe." Ian said taking it. "Look at the detail on the scroll." Ben pointed out. "Is it a million dollar pipe?" Riley whispered. I laughed, at how he kept pressing on this idea. "No. It's a clue." Ben said. "Ben, I thought you said the treasure would be on the Charlotte." Ian said slightly annoyed. "No. I said it could be here." Ben replied distracted. He stabbed his thumb into a knife wanting blood to come out of his thumb. I winced and took Riley's hand. I could feel myself blushing, but he didn't say anything. "Ew…blood." I whispered, shutting my eyes. Blood was something I couldn't bare. At all. When it was over, I dropped Riley's hand.
"The legend writ
The stain effected
The key in silence undetected
Fifty-five in iron pen
Mr. Mattlack can't offend."
Ben read aloud. We all frowned. I could tell Ben was deep in thought. I knew the answer lead to the Declaration of Independence, but I didn't know quite how. Mr. Mattlack…he was the official scribe of the Continental Congress. Fifty-five men, signed the declaration, in iron pen…now this was the argument. Literally. The iron pen part was the current argument. "Because it's a prison." I heard the man called Shaw muttered. "No. It-it really isn't." Maddie told him. I bit my tongue to keep from bursting out laughing. I remembered the last time we'd watched this movie five years ago saying things back to the characters and laughing up a storm over it. He glared at her, and she looked away still grinning. "It was firm it was adamant it was resolved. It was resolved." Ben finished, without noticing me never paying any attention. "Mr. Mattlack can't offend. Timothy Matlack was the official scribe of the Continental Congress. And to make sure he could not offend the map it was put on the back of a resolution. A resolution that he transcribed a resolution that 55 men signed." Dramatic pause. Wow, leave it to National Treasure, to have the dramatic pauses at the worst time. "The Declaration of Independence." He finished. I knew it! Yes! So some was coming back to me! "That makes sense." Maddie said. Ian gave her a look that said, I was just going to say that…weird. She grinned in return. "Come on, there's no invisible map on the Declaration of Independence!" Riley cried. I smiled. "Of course there is Riley." I said. He rolled his eyes, and I laughed at his reaction. "That's quite clever really. A document of that importance ensuring the map's survival. And you said several masons signed it, yeah?" Ian seemed interested. I leaned into my blanket, wishing that the Charlotte could've wound up in Hawaii or something. Riley looked like he was thinking hard all of a sudden too. "Nine for sure." Ben interrupted my thoughts. He still seemed distracted. "So, what now?" I asked. "We arrange a way to examine it." Ian said slowly. "Huh? This is the Declaration of Independence we're talking about here." I said in a duh-tone. "Not some game of hangman on a random piece of paper. Real American history. They're not just going to let us run chemical tests on it!" I cried. He glared at me, and gave me a malicious look. "Then what do you propose we do, Ben?" He asked trying to ignore my logic. "I don't know!" Ben cried. We waited in silence, for a few minutes. Until Ian spoke up. "We could borrow it." He mumbled. "Steal it?" Maddie asked incredulously. "I don't think so." Ben said immediately after Maddie. "No way." I said, nudging Riley who then shook his head. "Look, Ben. I understand your bitterness. I really do. You've spent your whole life searching for this treasure only to have the respected historical community treat you and your family with mockery and contempt!" Ian exclaimed. "You should be able to rub this treasure in their arrogant faces. I want you to have the chance to do that." Ian explained. Ben locked eyes with Maddie who shook her head no fiercely. Shaw stepped up and put a hand on her shoulder. "Don't interferre or else." I heard him mutter. "Keep your dirty filthy germy hand away me, put it in your pocket and keep it there." She muttered. I grinned. Way to go sister! Tell him off! This was really funny! He seemed taken back by the threat, but did as told. "How?" Ben wondered. "We all have our areas of expertise. You don't think mine's limited to writing checks do you?" Ian joked. This was NO joking matter! "In another life…I've arranged a number of opperations of…questionable legality." He chose his words carefully. I avverted my eyes. "I'd take his word for it." Shaw's voice took a cold turn. "Don't worry." Ian 'assured' us. "I'll make all the arrangements." He finished. "No." Ben's voice was firm. "I really need your help here." Ian's voice gave off a coaxing tone. "Ian…I'm not going to let you steal the Declaration of Independence!" Ben cried. "Well…" Ian looked to Shaw, who grabbed me and put a gun at my head. "Ben, unless you'd like her to die I'd suggest you help me out here." Ian said. Ben looked thrown off completely here, almost as much as me. My eyes were bulging out of my sockets and I was shaking from freezing and fear. Maddie gawked at the scene in front of her, as did Riley. Forget what I said about funny! This is awful! I suddenly got a visit from the idea fairy. I elbowed Shaw in the chest while stomping on his foot. He was so shocked he dropped the gun which I quickly kicked away. And right towards Ian, who pointed it at Ben. I ran far away from Shaw and over by Riley and Maddie. "Why don't you help me now, Ben?" Ian asked. "You're going to shoot me now? Well, you can't shoot me. I have more information to the riddle. Some that you don't." Ben said. "You're bluffing." Ian pointed out . "We play poker together Ian. You know I can't bluff." Ben said. "Tell me what I need to know or I'll shoot your friends. Starting with her." Ian pointed the gun over to me (directly) and Maddie and Riley. "Why always me?" I asked. "Quiet!" Ian commanded. "Did you just-"
"Lexi!" Riley hissed. Maddie, just laughed and I glared at her. Ben quickly struck a flare. "You shoot us, I drop this we all go up." Ben said. My mouth dropped, as did Maddie's, and Riley's. "What happens when the flare burns down?" Ian quizzed. "Tell me what I need to know, Ben." He finished. "You need to know…the shock and catch!" He said. I flinched, actually all three of us did until Riley tugged on my arm. "Oh." I whispered. Ian caught it, "Nice try, Ben." Ian said when his arm caught fire. Him and Shaw left, leaving Riley, Ben, Maddie and I to crawl through the smugglers hold and hope for the best. We ended up walking nine miles to a village, and flew back to the states.