"CODE BLACK CODE BLACK CODE BLACK"
At that moment, Zach and I broke apart from each other. Men in black suits and masks came up from behind the teachers and slapped Napotine patches on them. This time, we could all tell it wasn't some test…
More men in the same gear came bursting through doors, vents, and every other possible place you could hide. Behind Zach, a man had slithered out from under a table, and he had done it so quietly that Zach hadn't noticed. The man was approaching Zach to slap a Napotine patch on him, so I spun Zach around the moment before he would've slapped it on and roundhouse kicked him. Ow! These guys must be pretty well built cause my foot really hurts! And I have pretty strong roundhouse kicks! While he was on the ground, I took the Napotine patch he would've slapped on Zach and slapped it on him instead.
"Not bad Gallagher Girl," Zach said, smirking. Great, the annoying, cocky Zach was back (note: sarcasm). I glared at him, but then a look of panic crossed his face as he screamed, "Look out!"
He did the exact same thing I had to him except he side-kicked the man in the stomach before slapping a Napotine patch he had taken from the man on him. He turned to me and smirked again. More men were starting to come towards us so we stood back to back in a fighting stance before they pounced.
While we were fighting them off, I cried, "Copycat! Get your own moves!" referring to what he had done earlier. It may have been hard to understand though since we were breathing heavily from the fighting. I knew now that these guys were no amateurs and that they knew what they were doing. Man! Were these guys made of steel or something?
Zach grunted as he punched a guy in the face. Then he sighed and asked, "Can we talk later? Right now we kind of have our hands full!" He took a pouch that contained a bunch of Napotine patches from an unconscious man and started slapping them at anyone who tried to attack him.
Around us, some students had been slapped with Napotine patches while those who were still conscious were trying to fight the men that were coming at them. The teachers were still down too. It was total chaos!
All of a sudden, a man appeared at the doorway and yelled, "We've got it!" Got it? What have they got???? The man pulled out something that looked like a remote and hit a button. Right after, all the the men we were fighting, including the unconcious ones, dissappeared. I was frozen for a few seconds because of the shock of what just happened and how it had happened so fast when Zach came running up to me panting slightly.
"Hey Gallagher Girl, you ok?" Zach asked.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Oh, and now it's later, so where were we? Oh yeah, you stole my move!" I yelled at him. I knew this wasn't exactly the best time and wasn't really that important, but there was no way I was letting Zach off that easily.
I must have looked pretty whiny saying that because then he chuckled and said, "Hey, I didn't copy you, I side-kicked the guy while you roundhouse kicked him. Besides, I'm sure there're plenty of other people who've done something like that in the past, so technically, you're the copycat." I glared at him as if I was still angry, but on the inside, I knew he had beaten me. In 8th grade, our entire class had learned that move and ones similar to that. My silence must have told him he won because now he was giving me a victorious smirk.
I heard a groan and saw that Professor Buckingham had woken up. I ran over to where my mom was and shook her. Her eyes slowly opened and she looked up at me.
"Mom? Are you ok?" I asked. She sat up holding her head and replied, "I'm fine." She looked around at the mess and the unconscious students and asked, "What happened in here?"
Most of the teachers had already awakened by now and were crowding around us. I decided that I would let some juniors or seniors explain what happened since they're older. I walked over to where Zach, Bex, Grant, and Macey were standing. Beneath them, Liz and Jonas laid unconscious because of Napotine patches.
"Are they badly hurt?" I asked. Bex shook her head from side to side while saying, "No, I think one of those guys just snuck up on them and stuck Napotine patches on them. I don't think they did much fighting before that."
I heard I groan coming from Jonas as he slowly sat up. Zach knelt down by him and asked, "Hey, you ok?"
Jonas answered by nodding. He looked to his side and noticed that Liz was unconscious too. His face immediately turned to an expression of worry and he went over to kneel down by Liz. When Bex explained to him that Liz was perfectly fine, he relaxed a little. Moments later, Liz's eyes fluttered open to see Jonas staring down at her and she smiled. I could tell Jonas was extremely relieved that Liz had finally woken up, but he simply smiled back.
"Aww, aren't they cute?" I asked. Zach chuckled while Grant answered, "Yeah…it makes me wanna gag." I slapped him in the arm hard. "OW!!!" Grant cried. Zach was standing next to me just watching and laughing in amusement.
"Students may I have your attention please?" my mom asked. She was standing where the podium should've been, instead with a microphone in hand. "Until we can find out what those men have got their hands on, we must ask that the Blackthorne students stay at the hotel nearby." None of us were really surprised by this action. It only makes sense for the guys to stay nearby until they figure things out. Everyone knew that the party couldn't continue, so we all started to leave.
I was pacing back and forth in my room, thinking about who those guys could've been and what they had gotten. We had already changed into our pajamas. It had been silent in our room ever since we stepped foot in it.
"Cam, come on, we should get to bed," Bex said. I was surprised that none of them were asking questions or contemplating theories about this.
"I agree, it's been a long day," Liz added. Macey didn't say anything since she was lying in her bed staring up at the ceiling. I sighed in defeat and reluctantly got into bed.
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The next morning, I got up in a groggy and grumpy mood. I'd barely gotten any sleep last night because my mind was swarmed with thoughts of last night's happenings. For breakfast, tables were added so the Blackthorne boys could come eat with us. I saw Zach, Grant, and Jonas walk into the cafeteria with some other guys, just talking. They then parted ways with them and walked towards us. We were sitting on one side of the table, and the guys sat directly across from us.
"Hey" we all greeted, just not in synch. "Hey Gallagher Girl. Have trouble sleeping last night?" Zach asked me.
"Uhh…how did you-"
"Spy," Zach said while pointing to himself. He was giving me that smirk again.
I sighed. "Should've guessed," I told him while rolling my eyes. His smirk simply grew wider.
While we ate, we all had a casual chat about things such as how we've been, new happenings, even though they'd only left a few days ago, and sometimes random things that Grant would bring up, getting him some slaps on the arm from Bex. I'll belt his arm is badly bruised by now.
All of a sudden, the doors of the Grand Hall burst open with a wide-eyed Professor Buckingham, gasping for breath. All heads turned towards her, including the teachers.
"What is it?" my mom asked. They were on opposite sides of the room, so everyone heard it when she frantically screamed, "The Gallagher Academy alumni list is gone!"
