Hello again my peeps! I didn't take super long this time! I am super excited to show you guys this chapter cuz it is the longest chapter yet and I think I did kind good on it! So yeah, have fun reading it!

Disclaimer: all rights go to Ally Carter!

another thing! Thank you sjmango for this awesome idea! I hope that this is as good as you hoped for!

After dinner, we were all sent to our rooms, and that is how I ended up talking to Danielle. At first it was Danielle, Courtney, Anna, Bex, and I, but then Mr. Solomon kicked them out.

I have never really talked to her before, she's been in my class since 7th grade, and somehow I've never really talked to her. Yeah, we say hi when we pass each other in the hallways and communicate during meals because everyone else is talking together, but I've never gotten to know her. So I am taking this trip as a time to get to know my sister.

I sat next to Danielle on the floor of our room looking at the other wall. I heard her let out a little sigh, and when I looked at her she had a dreamy look in her eyes, she was almost in another world. I tapped her shoulder startling her out of her dayish dream.

"Whatcha thinking about?" I questioned her.

"Nothing," she quickly replied before looking away.

"Oh puh-lease. So you get dreamy looks when you think about 'nothing.' Seriously? Is it a boy?" her sheepish grin told me everything I needed to know, "Holy crap! It is a boy! Who is it? I swear on Gillian's sword I won't tell a soul."

Danielle seemed to think for a while before saying, "Fine. Don't laugh though, okay?" she paused before whispering, "It's Zach."

"Zach? As in Zachary Goode?" her head slightly bobbed up and down. I smiled before saying, "You guys would be so cute together."

"Really cuz I don't think he likes me. I heard that he likes someone else. It's just a silly crush. It won't work anyways."

"I'm gonna change that. I will get you your spy in shining armor. I guess that makes enough sense." Danielle laughed as she got up saying she was going to go change.

I also went to go change into my grey sweats and pink tank top. I jumped into my bed and drifted off into sleep thinking about ways to get Zach and Danielle together.

I heard screaming. My eyes shot open. It was 3:28, but I was wide awake now. I shook Danielle awake.

"What the hell Cammie? It's fucking 3:28 in the morning, what could possibly be so important that you needed to wake me up this-" she stopped short. There was more screaming, but this time it was a boy. We shared a look and sprinted out the door waking everyone up.

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Everyone was awake and armed on the ground now. There were two people gone, two people screamed, two people are going to be taken back from their kidnappers. Thomas and Courtney were gone. One from each team, this couldn't possibly be a coincidence could it? I once heard Bex say, "Maybe there are no coincidences," and right now, I think that there really aren't.

We searched every inch of the treehouse thing, but no one found anything. That is until we heard Tina come screaming she found something. She said, "There's a note! It says: Your teammates have been taken by me. No they are not going to get hurt. You have to come find us if you want them back and not to fail. First clue: this leaf," below attached to the paper was a leaf.

Liz snatched up the paper and pulled out the leaf. She instantly said, "Gumbo limbo tree. They grow near the ocean." (a/n yes, the gumbo limbo tree really exists)

"You heard the girl. Split up and search the beaches for the gumbo limbo trees!" bex yelled to everyone.

Everyone was split up and wearing comms for when we find the tree(s). My group was Zach, Anna, Sydney, Chris, and Quinn. We were running towards the beach to find the gumbo limbo trees.

I was leading my group with Zach next to me. We were silently running next to each other, I was thinking of how to start off a conversation that led him to falling in love and he… well he was think of whatever a Zach thinks about.

I took a deep breath and started off with, "Sooooo how's your team?" I know, pretty genius right? Yeah, NO!

He looked at me quizzically before answering, "It's perfectly fine. Better than yours obviously."

"And now, why would that be."

"Well there are many reasons. One, I am on the team. Two, we have the better half of the people on this island. And three, Zachary Goode is on the team. Oh wait, that's me."

I rolled my eyes, "So who are the better people on your team then. 'Cause I think that Bex could whoop your ass any day."

I heard a little, "You got that right!" coming from my comms. It was definitely Bex.

"Well, let's see. There's me -obviously-, Jonas, Nick, Ryan, Danielle, Sydney. Oh and Macey," he finished tauntingly. I punched him for that. And no, it was not in a flirty way!

"Oh my gosh! Danielle is my roommate! Isn't she like the cutest! I absolutely looooove her," I said. I got a weird look from Zach, like I was insane for suddenly becoming some cuckoo girly-girl.

"Umm, I guess she's pretty cool. I mean she pretty hot," he told me awkwardly.

I gasped, "You guys would be like the cutest couple of all time!" I squealed like a little girl but instantly stopped and went back to myself, "But on a serious note, you guys would be cute together. Anyways, I think that's gumbo limbo."

Quinn ran up to the tree and smiled happily, "This is it! Beta team has found the gumbo limbo," she told everyone through her comms.

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Within 10 minutes everyone had arrived at the trees and we were searching through them for some type of clue to lead us to the next place.

Danielle suddenly screamed, "I got it!" Everyone rushed over to her as she held. Her hands a metal box with a key pad.

Sean snatched it out of her hands to inspect it further. "It's a 12 number sequence code. Practically impossible to just guess at, but very easy to hack if you know what your doing. And lucky for us, I do," he informed us all Ina rather show-offy way.

It took 24 minutes, but he got it done. But the whole time Liz was whispering, "I can do it faster if you just let me." While looking at Sean in a very annoyed way. Inside was apiece of paper filled with a bunch of numbers.

"They're coordinates," Liz quickly said as if she needed to prove to everyone that she was smarter than the rest, which most people thought anyways.

Liz and Sydney were leading us through the forest. We took 3 painfully slow steps forward, then took a sharp turn right and another 29 steps forward, only to turn back to the same direction we were going 30 steps ago! It went on like this for about an hour before we arrived at the top of the volcano.

"Seriously? This is a fucking joke. I just walked in the mud, in my favorite workout shoes, got super sticky and sweaty, following this map. When in the end we would have just ran straight to the top of the volcano in less than a quarter of the time it took to get us here in the first place?" Macey whined.

No one answered knowing she was half kidding and half in a totally pissed mood at the moment. We saw a flag on the other side of the volcano. Attached to it was a recording.

We listened to Mr. Solomon say, "if one team would stand on the left side and the other team on the right, that would be highly appreciated," he wasn't asking, he was ordering, he just wanted to sound nice, "now here is your clue: lasers and bullets, falling and darkness, secrets and backstabbing, you will do it all. Now have fun, it starts now."

The solid ground that we were standing on gave way and we shot down a plexiglass tube. I could see the other team next to us and feel the heat of the magma all throughout the plummet. When we landed on the ground we found ourselves ins front of two passages.

On the wall of between the tunnels, there was an engraving that read: this is a maze race. Whoever gets to their teammate first wins. And you DO NOT want to lose. Blake sighed and winked at me before sprinting off down the tunnel in front of him. There was no way I was following him and ending in us losing, so I ran into the other tunnel.

My team was with me and then I stopped abruptly. I heard screams coming faintly through the walls next to me and smiled before running forward again. I let out a little scream as I ran into some invisible lasers.

"Does anyone have some bug spray or perfume or something?" I asked and was handed a can of super strong bug spray by Liz. I quickly sprayed the stuff infront of me revealing faint thin red lasers. I frowned as I saw how close they were together. I didn't realize that Dylan was going through the lasers but but he time he was halfway through he let out a little squeak of pain.

His squeak woke everyone from a trance and we all started spinning and flipping through the lasers. I only got hit once and I was lucky they weren't as high of a level as the ones in the box cuz those one's hurt like a mofo.

Once we were all on the other side of the lasers we sprinted onwards. We got to a fork opinion the tunnels. It took us a second to decide to turn left. We ended up at a room with checkered floors. Bex stepped first, she stepped on a light brown tile and a little bullet-like thing came shooting towards her.

Bex let out a blood curdling scream as she hit the floor. Everyone was she'll shocked before we went to help her. She had a bullet shaped thing with 2 spikes that were sticking into her skin, on her. We ripped it out of her arm and Liz inspected it. She said it was tipped with a syrup that made you feel like you've just been shot(a/n NOT my idea. Obviously Divergent's).

We were stuck, I don't know how we were going to get across. "It must be some kind of puzzle," I said accidentally voicing my opinion. I started at the tiles before us and saw a white tile that was slightly whiter than the others, I first thought it was a mess up when they were placing the tiles but while I looked at more of them, there were others with slightly different shades too.

I hoped I was right as I stepped onto the first tile. I tightly shut my eyes, bracing myself for the bullet, but when it didn't come I opened them with a grin. "Step on every tile I step on. Do not step on any other tiles. Got it?"

I was jumping and stepping onto new tiles and we got to the end without anyone else being shot. Luckily Bex has a pretty high pain capacity so she was only slightly wincing from the pain. I don't even want to think about what would have happened if Liz were the one to get shot.

"Is it just me that has realized the pattern?" Brad asked. When we looked at him very confused he simply stated, "Lasers and Bullets, falling and darkness, secrets and backstabbing, you will do it all..." he finished trailing off, "We've had lasers and bullets as obstacles, Mr. Solomon actually told us straight what we would be doing. Well, kinda of strait forward I guess." Everyone suddenly had a firework go off in their head as they registered what he was saying.

"Soooo. That means that the next thing we will be doing is falling. And darkness?" questioned Devon.

"Exactly, what we need to figure out when the falling will co-" he was cut off by the feeling of your stomach churning and rising to your throat.

We were going downwards in a hole for about 27 seconds but it felt like 7 minutes. We hit the ground with a thud. Sadly, I'm not a cat so I landed on my hip and twisted by wrist. I looked around to find nothing but pitch black darkness.

"So this is what he meant by falling and darkness. Now, how are we gonna get outta here?" said, well, I'm not sure.

I stood up and walked forward with my hands in front of me. I reached a wall that was very rocky and jagged. Great, this makes it much harder. I ran my hand along the perimeter of the room and when I got nothing but cuts and scratches on my hand, I stopped looking for secret passageways momentarily.

I heard someone stand towards the other side of the room and a few seconds later a thud followed by an, "Oopsie daisy."

"Tell me you didn't just trip on air Liz," Bex said warningly.

"No," Liz quickly replied defending herself, "it was a rock I think and even you would have tripped on it."

Just as she finished speaking, a wall behind her started to lift upwards. Light shone into the room revealing that what Liz tripped on wasn't a rock, in fact it was a lever. She must have hit it, causing the wall to rise.

"Liz, for once your clumsyness has saved us all," Bex said jokingly.

I rolled my eyes and ran out of the room to more tunnels. We took random tunnels to unknown destinations which isn't the best tactic for a spy, but it seemed to be working for us. We only found ourselves at three dead ends the whole time.

I kept thinking what secrets and backstabbing would mean, but I could find no solutions. After 20 minutes of running like chickens without their heads, we arrived at a thin rock bridge that went across a deep chasm that lead to a door.

The "bridge" was so thin it could only fit one person on it lengthwise at a time. We all stared in awe at the unsafety of it all. There were two bridges in the chasm and I don't think anyone registered what it was for until we heard someone say, "Holy shit." And it didn't come from anyone on my teams mouths.

At the entrance of the other bridge stood Blake's team. That got us going, my team was running across the bridge in no time. We were all standing on a pressure plate when the door opened revealing a lie detector and a chair.

On the chair was a note that read: Here's where trust comes into the equation. You must each tell a secret of someone else's to everyone else while attached to this lie detector. May I remind you that this is the most advanced lie detector in the world, so if you lie I will know and you won't be able to go on.

While I was hooking myself into the lie detector, I told everyone in a deathly serious tone, "If any of these secrets are leaked to anyone I will personally kill you. I don't care what your reasoning is, if we are going to tell each other's secrets then it will be kept a secret got it?" I got quick nods from everyone and then started with my secret.

"Okay, so here's my secret. Liz, Bex was the one that dumped the coffee on your COW report that was worth 34% of your grade." The look Bex sent me was so deathly that it made me want to kill myself.

"What?! Do you know how much extra credit I had to do to get my grade back up to a 100%? Well, it was over 3 weeks worth by the way!" Liz shrieked. As she ran straight at Bex and started hitting her. I felt bad for Bex for telling her secret and bad for Liz because her hitting Bex was doing absolutely nothing to her.

"Okay my turn, hook me up to this bloody thing," Bex ordered. She sent me a devilishly devious face before saying, "Cammie fell in love with a civilian."

"Seriously? We all already know that," protested Tina.

"You didn't let me finish. And she still loves him."

"I do not!"

"Then why do you say his name in your sleep? Huh?" She quickly unhooked herself and let someone else take the stage. My face was all red and I barely said a word until Tina came to the "spotlight."

"Oh this will be interesting," Bex whispered to me. I let out a tiny giggle but then remembered that I was mad at her and instantly stopped.

"Hmm, where shall I start. Oh! I know! Okay, so I once caught Mr. Solomon checking out-" she didn't have time to finish because the door flung open on the other side of the room. Apparently someone doesn't want everyone to know his secret.

I grabbed Tina's hand and we ran out of the room to our final destination. "I can't believe you seriously told Liz that. That was like totally breaking the BFF code. Bex is obviously not happy about it," Tina said.

"Well, she told everyone about Josh so I guess were even then."

"Actually not really. She did that in defense, you started it. I guess you can say she was just sending a knife your way after you just stabbed her."

I paused in my tracks. Tina had just opened up a whole new light to me. I would have to deal with it later though because we were out of the maze by now.

Mr. Solomon was waiting for us at the exit holding two pieces of paper. Mr. Solomon said for me to pick one and so I did when I opened the note it read: here's your last and final clue to unlock your teammate's cell: and that was it.

I looked at him quizzically but he just nodded in response. We ran towards a door with a label that read Courtney on it. There was a keyboard attached to the lock of the door. I quickly typed in the letters " and b." At first nothing happened and I thought it can't seriously be this easy. And I was proved right as the keyboard started flashing red beams of light.

Footsteps echoed throughout the room as Blake and his team emerged from their tunnel. Mr. Solomon handed them their envelope and sent them to their door.

"They're already here? See Blake I told you. Why couldn't you just fucking tell us your damn secret, now they are ahead!" Danielle complained.

I handed the R&D people the code and let them work out their magic. They tried out so many different theories; the words MAJIC BELLS, hacking into the lock, and even ripping out the cords, but they would come out, so that didn't work.

We are all sitting on the floor writing out different ways to unlock the door. I was totally stumped and Liz was on the verge of crying, she has never not solved a code and this was going to drive her crazy.

Cooper gave up and whipped out his super teched-up iPhone. Liz gasped and snatched his phone out of his hands.

"Why? I didn't do anything!" Cooper protested. Liz just ignored him and walked slowly towards the keyboard. Her hands were shaking as she typed in the following numbers: 2.

Everyone was totally confused, but we heard the click of the lock and opened the door. Courtney was sitting there in her PJs eating popcorn and watching "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

"Are you bloody kidding me? Why couldn't I have been kidnapped? I love this movie!"

Courtney ran over to us and said, "Well, did we win? Please tell me I wasn't stuck in this box for no reason!"

"Are you bloody kidding me Courtney? You were watching a Buffy marathon and you're complaining!"

We all laughed and told her we did win. Next to us, the other team opened up their door and Thomas was cluelessly sitting there. He looked quite bored, I guess he wasn't interested in his x-box anymore.

We made our way back to camp to go eat dinner. I had yet another victory on my shoulder and we were crushing Blake. It may have taken a wild goose chase, but I crushed my fellow pavement artist and I will continue to do it, no matter what it takes.

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