Secrets Chapter 7
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STANFORD UNIVERSITY
Austin is walking down the pathway with Ally surrounded with college students, "This is really freaking me out. It's like nothing has changed."
"Is that good or bad?" Ally asks.
"It's, uh, it's, uh, you know, yeah."
Awesome comes around the corner and picks up Amanda and spins her around then sets her back on the ground, "So excited about the game tonight. its like the best flashback ever."
"Uh, so want to meet us at the stadium? I think we're probably gonna hang out here until the game starts." Amanda says.
"Yeah, im gonna take Ally for the Austin Moon memorial tour. So call me if any rabid Stanford fans decide to put Awesome in the hospital."
"Ah. Bye." Amanda walks away.
A guy comes up to Trish, "Plant a Stanford tree. Create a renewable resource for your children's future."
"Oh, you want to save our environment huh?" She takes the paper from his hands and complies it up. "Take a shower, hippie." She throws it back at him and walks towards Austin and Ally.
"Nice job blending in with the crowd. who you rooting for, death?" Austin asks.
"Leave the quips to me."
"The library is this way, across the quad." They start walking. Austin stops walking.
"What is it?" Ally asks.
"I don't know. I mean, I figured this would be tough, but this place is just a lot to take in, you know? I used to have so much fun here, and then…"
"And then?"
"It was the worst day of my life… getting kicked out of here. Having to hear Amanda's voice when I told her I was coming home. Packing up all my stuff and leaving as Bryce just stood there. Said I brought it on myself."
"Why do you think that Bryce betrayed you?"
"I don't know. He's had four years to call and set the record straight. Now that he's gone… you know what? Forget it. Bryce has betrayed a lot of people, hasn't he?" Austin continues walking.
"Hmm. Roger that." Trish says.
They get to the sidewalk beside
"Alright we have to play this really cool." Austin whispers. "Magnus has the library book number."
"He could have beaten us here." Trish whispers.
"You think he's in there?"
"Look, maybe you should stay here." Ally says.
"Yeah, 'cause that always works out well. Anyway, you can't find the book without me. I'm going in." They enter the building. They turn to see that they need an University ID card to get in. "Oh, no."
"Looking for this." Trish pulls out is old ID.
"You stole it?"
"I borrowed it to reactivate it. Sorry I couldn't wipe the idiot grin off your face with Photoshop." Austin mumbles and then they all enter the library.
The librarian looks at his computer showing that Austin had just entered the library. "We have a situation." He says into his walkee talkee.
Austin finds the aisle. "Right here." The notice the scattered books on the floor.
"We're too late." Trish says. "Magnus beat us here. He's got the book."
"Hold on a second." Austin slides his hand on the top of the row. He opens a secrets spot and there slides out the CD. "Gotchya" Austin holds up the disk.
"The intel." Trish says.
"The book number was just a way to mark the spot for the professor."
"Okay, well, let's get out of here before Magnus realizes that book he has is worthless."
A man comes up to them, "Hey, you, don't move! Austin Moon…" Trish stops him. "You still owe the library $294.68 in late fees."
"Do you… do you take credit cards?" Austin says.
"This isn't funny."
Ally sees Magnus with a couple guys, "Austin, run." Austin runs away. "Austin, run for the back door."
Austin runs while one of Magnus' guys runs after him. Austin starts crawling through the crowd of people and then stops when a guy picks him up by her shirt. Not a guy, Trish. "There you are."
"Hey, you, freeze!" A man says. Trish sticks her arm out and knocks the guy out.
"They followed us out here. Okay, you have to go." Ally says.
Austin says, "I swear this school has it in for me."
"Come on." Ally grabs Austin hand and starts running. They run through a building and head up the stairs. They enter the professors room and check behind them if they were followed. "We're safe for now."
"I need to see what's on this disk." Austin says walking over to the computer.
"Hey, Austin, that is top secret." Ally says walking over to Austin.
"Yeah, well, so am I and there could be answers on this disk about why I'm in the Intersect." Austin inserts the disk to the computer.
"That's testing data."
"And video taped interviews. These are all just students."
"Exactly. Students that were recruited into the CIA by Fleming. Ten years worth. It's all their current information."
"No wonder Magnus wanted it so badly. Foreign governments pay a fortune for that."
"Look at this right here. Bryce Larkin. Bryce joined the CIA our junior year?"
"That's enough. Now we know what he's after."
"No, wait, wait, wait! That's me. That's me! I'm in here, too."
"Don't click it." Ally says.
"Click it." Trish says.
"I never applied with he CIA." Austin says. Suddenly the door opens.
Ally says, "Austin, get down!" Gun shots go off. The men enter the room. Ally and Trish start firing their guns at the men.
"Don't you think this would be a good time for me to be waiting in the car?" Austin asks. Trish fires at them. Ally ejects the disk. "I have an idea. Get me out of here!"
"Austin, when I say go, run out the side door. Protect the disk." Ally gives him the disk. "We'll cover you. Go!" Austin starts to run. Ally fires at the guys above and they are moving from seat to seat. Austin enters a room and starts crawling through the chairs. He's in a computer room.
"All right, computers. Here we go." Austin stands up and looks around. He quickly inserts the disk on the computer. A woman pops up on the screen and Austin calls her. The woman answers. "Hello?"
"Hi. Hi. Uh, is this Glenda Mitchell? We're in the Science building lecture hall. It's an emergency. Bring lots of big guns."
"I'm sorry. Whoever this is, you've got the wrong number."
"Crap, there's a code phrase. Are you coming to the toga party?" She hangs up the phone and starts running. Austin calls another person on the list, and many others. "Listen we have a situation right now. Bring any ammunition and/or equipment you might have for killing bad guys. Are you coming to the toga party?" They all stop what they are doing. Austin takes out the disk. Austin hears footsteps enter the room. "Oh, no." Austin ducks at the same time Magnus shoots his crossbow. The computer blows up.
Ally and Trish shoot at the bad guys and then duck for cover. Trish says, "I only got two rounds left."
Ally says, "I got have a mag."
A man yells, "Drop your weapons and stand up! Hands where I can see them!"
"I'm gonna go for it. You in?"
"You bet." Trish says. "i hate long good byes." They both stands up and see a whole bunch of people hold up there guns.
"Actually, why don't you drop your weapons." Glenda says. They bad guys put there weapons down.
"Looks like someone called the cavalry." Trish says.
"Good. 'Cause I only had one shot left." Ally says. Trish sighs.
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Magnus walks up to where Austin is Austin looks up that he is aiming the crossbow at him ,"Please don't. Please don't, please don't, please don't, please don't." Austin puts his hands up. Magnus grabs the disk from his hands. He aims his crossbow at Austin.
"Don't a woman says. She kicks Magnus onto the ground. "You must be Austin Moon. I just got your message. Are you okay?"
"I'm just glad you check your voice mail." Austin looks down and quickly grabs the disk from the ground.
Austin gets home and goes onto his computer. He inserts the disk.
"You didn't think we'd let you keep that, did you?" Ally says leaning on the door of his room.
"I need to know, Ally."
"Okay, Austin." Ally walks over to him. Austin clicks on his name and sees his professor in video.
He says, "Test subject 0326. Moon. This will be his first interview." He turns around and then turns on his phone, "Send Austin in." Bryce walks through the door. "Bryce… this isn't a good time. I'm waiting for another student."
"Austin Moon?" Bryce says. "He never got your message."
"What are you talking about?"
"You put Austin on the CIA recruitment track."
"It's not up to me, Bryce. They want him for the Omaha Project."
"But that's a military operation. They'll turn Austin into…"
"I'm required to send all the top test results to the agency."
"I want my friend out of this."
"He's a perfect in his essay responses correlate to 98% of the subliminal images in the exam."
"You don't get it. Austin's a good person. He's got too much heart for this kind of work. He's no operative. You can't put him out in the field. He won't survive."
"The agency is not gonna let go of a recruit this promising. The amount of information he can retain?"
"They're not gonna give him a choice?"
"He's in no matter what."
Bryce sighs, "If he cheated on the exam, copied all the answers…. then it would invalidate the results, would't it?"
"Yes."
"Good. Now you're going to help me, Professor." The video ends.
Ally puts her hand on Austin's shoulder. Austin says, "Bryce framed me for cheating… to save me. Why didn't he just tell me that to begin with?"
"He couldn't." Ally says. "They had already recruited him."
"Well, if he had a good reason for getting me kicked out, maybe he had a good reason to break into the Intersect, too."
"Maybe he had a good reason for sending it to you."
"I just wish I could talk to him. It must have tore him up to not being able to tell me."
"No one can know about this." Ally takes the disk out. "For your own safely, okay?"
"Sure. No one would believe me anyway." Ally leaves and starts crying. Austin goes out to the garbage and grabs his box. He finds the picture he threw away with him and Bryce. He takes the picture out of the broken frame.
Flashback
STANFORD UNIVERSITY FRESHMAN YEAR
"Hey, are you in double-E 131?" Bryce asks. "It's pretty brutal, huh?"
"oh, yeah." Austin says. "Yeah, I… The only reason i signed up is 'cause I'm building my own version of, uh… It's kind of embarrassing actually."
"What?"
"You don't remeber that old game, Zork, do you?"
"You were likely to be eaten by a true." Bryce smiles.
Austin laughs, "Holy crap, you do remember Zork."
"I love that game. I mean I haven't thought about it in a while."
"Oh, it's probably a good thing."
"I disagree."
"But still, text-based computer games don't exactly play with the chicks."
"This girl Jill on my floor is nuts about EverQuest."
"Are you serious?"
"If you want, you can meet her."
"Really? Right now?"
"Yeah. She's over in the quad." Austin starts packing up his stuff.
"Yeah, I would very much like to meet her. I'm Austin by the way."
"Bryce, nice to me you."
"Yeah, nice to meet you, too."
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