I studied the bricks in the wall. All of them were rectangles with perfect edges. All but one. I reached out and touched it. The brick was the only one in the wall with one round edge. I stuck my finger in the hole that the rounded edge created, felt a small round button, and pushed it. CLUNK. I stood up and looked around. Kyle looked at me, confusion written all over his face.
"What happened?"
I walked down the tunnel a few feet and found a door.
"Over here!" I called back to him. We walked through the door and found ourselves in another long tunnel.
"We need to hurry. We're going too slowly," I said, quickening my pace to a run.
"Any particular reason we need to move so fast Cameron?" Kyle asked, raising an eyebrow at me.
"Cammie. And I don't want to be here when Zach's mother finds out I beat up all her goons, do you?"
He went silent for a second. "Touché."
We kept running, trying to find the end. I really hoped that this tunnel ended up somewhere outside, not in the middle of a crowded room of Circle agents trying to kill us.
"So… Who's Zach?" Kyle asked, turning to look at me. He was starting to breathe heavily now. Understandable since he hadn't had the spy training I'd had, as far as I knew anyway.
"What?" He caught me off guard.
"You said that the woman whose goons you beat up was 'Zach's mom'," He said, using air quotes.
"Oh, right. Zach is my…uh, my friend." I stuttered slightly. I looked sideways at him, waiting for a response. But Kyle didn't say anything. He looked over and caught me staring at him.
"What?" He asked with a slight grin.
"Nothing!" I quickly looked away. I concentrated on running, searching the tunnel. I felt pressure on my hand. I looked down to see Kyle's hand wrapped around mine. I stared at our hands, looked up at his face, then back down again. And I couldn't help myself. For a few moments, I allowed myself to imagine it was Zach beside me, Zach holding my hand, Zach running alongside me making me mad with that irritating smirk of his. (But I had to admit, after watching his mom smirk at me, his smirk was looking a lot better!) But it wasn't Zach, I reminded myself. Kyle was the one here. And the look on his face was daring me to say something.
"Uhm, Covert Operations procedures and standards, #139! Running while holding hands is 1.787 times slower than running alone!" I stammered, starting to pull my hand away. I sounded like Liz! Smooth Cam, real smooth. He slowly let go of my hand, looking slightly confused. He probably had no idea what Cove-ops was. But before he could say anything, we noticed what was in front of us. The tunnel was opening up into a small cave-like area, with more tunnels leading in every direction possible. I wasn't really sure what it was. It reminded me of the tombs at Blackthorne. We slowed to a stop and just stared. Kyle turned to me, waiting. I make a quick decision and turned to him.
"Let's pick one and look for a way out." He nodded. I started walking around, looking at the entrances to each tunnels. I finally found one that was lit up more than the others. Is that… sunlight? We started running down the lit up tunnel.
"So…," Kyle drew out the word. "You like this Zeke guy?"
"Zach," I corrected.
"Yeah. So who's Zeke?" The irony of him deliberately messing up Zach's name suddenly hit home, and I started laughing.
"ZACH is… hard to explain." I smiled. We came out into another cavernous room in the cave. Although, I'd never seen a giant cave room with large windows. This one looked like something you'd see in a warehouse. There were metal catwalks hung all across the large ceiling, large tan boxes with "Caution: Fragile" stickers on them. I heard a ping. And then the bullets started flying.
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(Kyle POV)
I have to give it to her. She's a really good… spy? Secret agent? Undercover operative? Not sure of the technical term, but no matter what she calls herself, I'm positive about two things:
She's really good at what she does.
She really likes Zeke.
The tunnel finally ended, emptying out into a large room that reminded me of a storehouse. I turned toward Cammie and watched as a look of horror came over her face. She suddenly pivoted on her heel and tackled me, pushing the both of us to the ground a few feet away. Bullets began poking holes in the ground where we were standing a moment ago. There were two guys with guns on either side of the room shooting at us. Dozens of men suddenly started running through doors, ready to take us out where we stood. Cammie jumped up, pulling me with her. We stood back to back, a few dozen men starting to surround us.
"You know how to fight?" She asked through clenched teeth.
"Took Kajukenbo for nine years," I whispered back.
"Really?" Cammie asked in surprise. "I didn't think many civilians knew that."
"Yeah… I'll tell you about it later, after we're not surrounded by goons in black." I grinned.
After that, it was all a blur. Everything blended together. Punch, kick repeat. These guys weren't bad though. They landed a few lucky shots every now and then, catching us off guard. The snipers kept shooting at us, grazing us every now and then. But they worked to our advantage a little bit. Every time they'd shoot, Cammie and I would move behind the guards, so the snipers were pretty much shooting their own men. We were down to three men. All the others were lying in various positions around us. But just when I thought we were in the clear, I heard someone cry out, and turned to see Cammie crumpling to the ground.
A/N: Bad new guys! Went to the doctor today because I've been dizzy for about a week and a half now.. Apparently I have a pretty bad concussion. The doctor said that I have to rest my brain, and that I can't do any reading, writing, puzzles, tv, nothing (No lie!) So I won't be able to update for a few more days. Im sorry if this chapter wasn't the greatest.. I wanted to write SOMETHING for you guys before I start resting and stuff. Not very happy with this doctor at the moment lol But anyway, please read and review! Thanks!
also, Kajukenbo is a real thing... I didn't make it up haha
