I hope you enjoy Chapter 7! I had fun writing this chapter. :)


The team could only watch as every soldier's eyes turned green. Ian pointed to the team. "Destroy them! No one can be in our way when we take over the world!"

The soldiers started to run to the team. The team tried shooting laser spheres, but not enough soldiers were falling.

"What are we going to do?" Bree asked in panic. Chase looked around for something, anything. Then he saw it. The control panel. It was behind the ray, connected to it.

"If I can get to the control panel, then I could pinpoint the soldiers and Ian and put them to sleep, creating a memory they could never get out of. Then we could get everyone's bionics back. Cover me!" Chase yelled as he ran as fast as he could to the ray.

A bionic soldier supersped to Chase and put his arms up to tackle him, but Bree tackled the soldier first. Another tried to hit Chase with his own energy staff. Adam came from Chase's left and grabbed the soldier's legs. He pulled them and swept the soldier to the ground. A third soldier headed straight for Chase and jumped up in the air to kick him. Leo blasted him with the laser gun, making him fly backwards and hitting other bionic soldiers.

"That's how Leo Dooley gets it done!" Leo yelled in excitement.

Chase finally made it to the ray. He programmed a dream for the soldiers and Ian, making them stay in the warehouse in the dream. He programmed the white ray beam to knock them out, green to enter their mind in order to give them the dream, and blue to take back the bionics. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, Ian geo-leaped next to Chase just as he pressed the run button.

"We win." Chase beaded his eyes at Ian.

"No. You lose." Ian smiled evilly. Chase looked at the code he'd inputted. Ian had added the team in! The white ray beam blasted from the Cerebral Entrant and hit the mirror again. This time, the beam was scattered all around the warehouse. Darkness overtook everyone, and they all collapsed.

Chase woke up in the warehouse, along with Bree, Adam, and Leo. Mr. Davenport was not there. The team stood up. The once-bionic soldiers stood up together. They all looked at their hands and each other, realizing what had happened.

"Chase, why are we here too?" Bree turned to Chase. "Wasn't it supposed to be just them in the dream?"

Adam and Leo approached Chase. They all were expectant for an answer.

"Ian was too fast. He changed my code. Now we're stuck here too!" Chase sat down. "How can we get out? I programmed it so that no one can escape, not even us."

"Well, we have to find a way." Adam said.

"We can't just be stuck here." Bree crossed her arms. "Together, we'll find a way." Everyone felt the same way. They knew that if they worked together, there was a chance, if even the slightest chance, that they could escape from their own prison. They all hugged in a group hug. When they let go, they all had smiles on their faces. They were ready for the challenge.

"Is there anything you can tell us about this dream world? Is there maybe, some kind of hack or way to escape?" Leo asked. "After almost beating Revenge of the Pig Zombies, I realized one thing. In any world, there's always some kind of cheat or way to get to the end fast."

"Wait." Chase realized. "If Ian gave us dreams that led us through a level similar to a video game, maybe this is what this is!" Chase paced around the team. "The dreams are actually programmed digital worlds, and we are the players. What were the codes I used?" Chase saw chalk on the ground. He picked it up and began writing on the ground in order to remember the code he'd inputted. He wrote:

/* File: */

#include cerebralentrant.h

Celebral Entrant CE;

double Warehouse = dreamcode;

double energy;

(45);

scanf("%lf",

("white");

(5);

("green");

(5);

("blue");

(Warehouse);

(

Chase paused. "The only thing that matters here is double Warehouse = dreamcode. There's no value for the variable dreamcode mentioned here, which means it's already programmed inside the code. If we can figure out the value of the dreamcode, which represents the dream, then we can use the code as a cheat code and use it to get out. Somehow."

"How are we gonna do that?" Bree exclaimed. "We don't know all your geeky stuff. I don't even know what that means!" Bree gestured to the lines of code Chase had written down.

"You don't need to understand. You just need to do what you do best. Accomplish the mission."

Chase motioned for everyone to come close. Everyone huddled around him.

"We have to go through the warehouse and find the code. It can be anywhere, in any form. When we find it, we come back to this room and right back here, where we woke up. We'll know what to do then."

"All right," Leo said. "Sounds good. The only thing is, what are we looking for, exactly?"

"It's the code for the dream, the very heart of it. If we can get it, bring it back, and destroy it, we may have a chance of getting out. It could look like anything, but more likely something that represents the dream: the ray, a bionic soldier, Ian himself-"

"A pineapple." Adam stared off, serious. Chase paused. He turned to Adam.

"What does a pineapple have to do with anything?"

"I don't know. They're tasty. Just... not the outside."

Chase rolled his eyes.

"But, how will we know?" Leo asked. "I mean, it could be anything."

"We'll know."

The team looked over to the bewildered soldiers and Ian.

"Let's go." Chase and the others ran to the back of the room, where tall doors opened to the next room.

As they were leaving, they could hear Ian say in a cruel voice, "Where are they going? They think they've found their way out?"

In the next room, there were conveyer belts in all different levels carrying barrels.

The room was even bigger than the last.

"Where do the barrels go?" Bree wondered aloud. Adam shrugged.

"Let's find out." He stepped onto the nearest conveyer belt, which took him up high near the ceiling.

"Whoa! This is awesome!" Adam yelled.

"Adam!" Chase hissed. He looked at Bree and Leo. "Great, now we have to get him." He said sarcastically.

"Actually, I think he's got the right thinking." Bree responded with a slight smile.

"What?"

"I agree." Leo stepped forward. "If he's going deeper into the warehouse and therefore the dream, we could find the code quicker."

Chase wasn't happy that Adam's idea seemed better than what he was planning to do. Which didn't matter to Bree and Leo.

Chase gave in. "Fine."

Bree and Leo eagerly stepped on the conveyer belt, with Chase following. The belt went higher, then leveled off. It made 2 lefts before lowering back down and making more random turns.

"It's kinda like a roller coaster." Leo his smile dimmed. "A really slow roller coaster."

After a while of slow conveyer belt movement, it went back up high again. The all saw the next part of the 'ride.'

"Oh no," Chase groaned. Bree and Leo looked at each other apprehensively. Adam whooped as the conveyer belt he was on became slippery metal and sent him down on a slide into the next room.

Then he yelled in fear. "Ahh!"

"Adam!" Leo yelled. They all ran on the belt to get to the slide. They all slid down at the same time into the next room. They wished they hadn't.


What happened to Adam? What room did they land in? I'll tell you in the next chapter. Reviews are greatly appreciated! :D