Tony opened his eyes and saw McGee's face a few inches away from his. He shoved his hand into McGee's face and pushed him away as he sat up. He groaned. The wack to the head was not helping his earlier headache.
"How are you feeling?" The girl, he heard Morgan call her JJ, asked. She was crouched down next to him.
"About as good as I can feel when McGeek's face is the first thing I see, but much better when I have a hot girl like you looking after me." Tony flirted.
Gibbs rolled his eyes. "Yup, he's fine."
"How's Morgan?" Tony asked, getting serious.
"He hasn't woke up yet but we think he should be fine." JJ said.
"Any word about Kate or Emily?" Tony asked.
JJ shook her head, just as Morgan let out a groan.
Tony shot up and tried to run over to him but only made it a few steps before dizziness hit him. He almost fell over but Gibbs quickly grabbed him.
"Thanks Boss," Tony said before walking over to Morgan.
They just stood him up when the voice spoke again. "Glad to see you are all awake. It is time for your first test. Choose two people from each team to participate.
"I'm going." Tony and Morgan said at the same time.
"The hell you are!" Hotch exclaimed. "You two might have a concussion! I say Gibbs, McGee, Reid, and I will go. The test might need muscle or smarts so I say we take both."
Gibbs nodded in agreement.
"Do you have your two people?" The voice asked.
"Yes," Gibbs answered, ignoring Tony and Morgan's arguments.
Two doors appeared in the wall.
"Stand in front of those doors." The voice commanded. "When you walk through the door you will be in a maze. In the maze you will come across three puzzles. Solve the puzzles and you will get a key. Take the keys and find you way out of the maze. You will have to figure out the rest on your own. Keep the keys you find because at the end of this first game, you will see your agents in cages. Unlock the cage and find your way back. The first team to make it back will be safe. The second team will be punished. The test starts now."
The doors opened and Gibbs, McGee, Reid, and Hotch sprinted through the doors. Morgan and Tony ran after them but the doors slammed shut. They banged on them, but they wouldn't open. Morgan kicked the door in frustration. They had no choice but to wait and see who returned first.
Hotch and Reid sprinted through the maze, making turn after turn until they found the first puzzle. Hotch stepped aside so Reid could get a look first. There was a very tall podium, almost as tall as Reid himself, with square on the top. In the square were different sized pieces, one was red. Reid easily moved the pieces around so that the red one could slip out of the hole on the side of the square. Inside the red box was a key.
"Lets go," Hotch said, about to take off again.
"Wait!" Reid cried. He moved the podium against the wall. "Climb up on top of this."
Hotch did as he was told. Up there he looked up and saw a small flag on top of the wall where the podium was originally. Then he understood where Reid was going with this. He stood up and reached his hand down to Reid, pulling the kid up and helped him so that he was standing on Hotch's shoulders. Reid's head barely peeked over the top of the wall but he could still see two other flags and the routs they needed to take to get there. He quickly climbed back down and as soon as his feet touched the ground he sprinted away, knowing Hotch would be right on his tail. Hopefully McGee hadn't figured out the flags yet.
Gibbs and McGee ran out of the maze with all three keys. Suddenly Gibbs slammed to a stop, making McGee crash into him. McGee peered around his boss and saw a large tank of water in the floor. It was at least five yards wide. Inside the tank were snakes. McGee gulped. He did not like snakes.
Then Gibbs started creeping along the wall. There was only about 4 inches of floor space for him to walk. A few feet away from Gibbs was a rope. McGee crossed his fingers that Gibbs would be able to bring the rope back.
A minute later McGee moved out of the way so Gibbs could get a run in head start. Gibbs sprinted towards the tank and jumped. He easily made it to the other side and hopped off the rope but still held it in his hands. He took the key that was taped to the rope and swung the rope back to McGee.
McGee grabbed the rope but hesitated. After taking a deep breath, he backed down the hall a little bit before running.
Hotch stood at the other side of the tank as Reid swung across. Hotch grabbed the younger man to make sure he made it. When Reid was safely across, the ran through an open door.
They entered a room with another large gap in the floor but they could walk a few feet into the room before they came to the hole. Above their heads were monkey bars going from the wall behind them to the wall on the other side of the gap. The tricky part was that directly over the gap in the floor there were no middle bars where you would normally place your hands. So either they had to move their hands to one of the poles on the outside of bars or... Hotch had an idea.
Hotch jumped up and grabbed a bar. Then he pulled himself up through the empty space between the bar he was holding onto and the bar behind that one so he was on top of the monkey bars. He dropped his hand down and helped Reid up too. They crawled along the bars until they got to the gap. Hotch straddled one of the the outer poles, placing one hand in front of him and the other hand on the other pole, then began to scoot across. Reid copied him and followed. Hotch stopped in the middle of the gap to grab the key that was taped to the bottom of the pole before moving again.
They made it across the gap and started crawled a little farther before dropping through the bars again. Hotch was sprinting as fast as he could, with Reid right behind him, when they turned a corner and ran right into Gibbs and McGee.
