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Animorphs: Generation 2: Book 1: The Next
Chapter 1: Back to the Construction Site
It all started one Saturday night.
I was hanging out at the mall with my buds: Diablo, Jayhedge and Axel.
Jayhedge is a weird name, so I just call him Jay.
So where was I? Oh yes, I was hanging out at the mall with Diablo, Jay and Axel. We went to the arcade. We watched a movie. Did normal stuff.
We kind of bumped into Rina and June. They had these big paper bags piled with clothes, shoes, magazines, make-up; you name it.
Actually, Rina was the one who had the paper bags. She was having a shopping spree and June was just accompanying her.
So, I thought that we could have some snacks at the usual Mickey D's, and we did. After getting our tummies filled, it just so happened that I looked at my watch and saw the time.
"Great! I'm supposed to be back home by 9.30! I'm gonna get grounded for a week!" And I took off.
My friends slowly caught up to me and told me that they just remembered that they all had curfews too. At 9.30.
Talk about a coincidence.
When we blew out of the mall, we were about to head for pathway leading to the main street when I said, "Hey, maybe we should cut through the construction site. It'd be faster this way!"
You might have an idea of which construction site I'm talking about.
So, there we were, running through the construction site.
June, the shy one.
Jay, the guy with loads of friends.
Axel, the computer whiz.
Diablo, always sarcastic and obnoxious.
Rina, trying to catch up with her paper bags.
And me, the one who's always called "the toughest guy in the school".
Don't ask me why I'm called "the toughest guy in the school". Maybe it's something about my physique, I don't know.
Then, I noticed something. It was something I couldn't take my eyes off. I stopped running and picked it up. The others noticed me and stopped running too. We were all fascinated by what I had found. It was no bigger than a pea and it was pale blue. It had all these wires running around it and when I looked at it closely I could see some foreign language around it. I think it's Greek.
"It looks like some kind of chip." Jay said.
"Yeah. I think it's a computer chip of some kind." I said.
"Hey, maybe we can bring it to my house and I can plug it into my computer's motherboard. Then we can see what kind of info it has in there." Axel suggested.
"I think we should ask our parents first. Let's meet up at Axel's house later." I said.
So we all rushed to our homes and begged our parents to let us to Axel's house. Luckily, they all agreed and said that we had to be back by 10.30.
Fortunately, Axel's house wasn't far away from mine and I when I reached his room I saw that all of the others had already arrived.
I took a chair and sat beside Axel, who was already beginning to plug it into his computer's motherboard. After he screwed back the screws and turned on his computer, I saw a note pop out at the bottom-right hand corner of the screen.
"See that? That means that the chip we found is successfully plugged into the motherboard. Now I'm going to search for any info hidden inside there." Axel announced.
He then opened up a software and began typing all these codes and we saw notes popping out saying that we've broken a firewall.
"Uh… Axel, aren't we hacking into the system?" Rina asked.
"No," but then after an afterthought he added, "Yes."
Finally, after ten minutes, Axel successfully hacked into the system.
"Okay, now let's see if we can find something…"Axel said.
"There it is!" I said.
There was a video icon and I said, "Click it!"
After Axel double-clicked his mouse on that icon, the video program opened up and began loading the video. After a minute, it finally loaded up and started the video.
I couldn't believe my eyes. I think the others couldn't either.
"Marco…"
Next chapter - Chapter 2: The Video