Chapter Nine:

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(Charlie's POV)

Skully chuckled and snapped his fingers. I dropped the books I was holding onto a shelf, and held up my fists. A group of Barrel guards came out from behind the bookshelves and surrounded me.

"Very nice of you to make this easy for us, Mr. Chair." I glared at him.

"Yeah, you're welcome" My arms were pulled behind my back.

"What are you doing here anyway?" Skully asked me as my hands were tied.

"Research." I replied vaguely. Skully's face darkened.

"Oh? You always were so clever, Mr. Chair." I laughed with out humor and continued to glare at him as I was dragged away. Then I turned to the hallways… which were heading towards the Inner Sanctum.

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(Stephanie's POV)

"Our first order of business is the library. If we take it, we have access and control of all the castle's information." I told my team as we exited the Portal.

"Nice. The library is down a hallway to the right." Toby said through my headphones.

"Thanks." I murmured and headed off down the passage. Alice tapped my shoulder as we ran and whispered,

"Steph, what is we can't find Charlie?" I furrowed my eyebrows and responded,

"We'll cross that bridge when we get there." We entered the library slowly, and it was dead silent.

"Spread out, check the room and every corner." I quickly headed to the second floor of the library, calling softly,

"Charlie! It's me, it's Stephanie." But there was no answer. I met the others at the doors.

"Nothing. But we did find these two books. And knowing Mr. Chair, if they weren't the ones he needed, he would've put them back." Alice told me. I took the books, and read the titles; Creating a Barrier and Yotube and Castle Brennenburg. I pressed them close to my chest and said,

"We have to get these home and study them. Jamey, Darcey, I want you to barricade the doors to the library. Ange and Alice, I need you two to come home with me, and get another team together to hold down the library." Alice was distracted, listening to her headphones.

"Yes, we know. But can you get past the firewall?" Pause.

"Ok. We'll stand by." And she turned towards me.

"Apparently the Barrels have figured out a way to firewall the library to Youtube Portals. Clever, but Toby thinks he can get past it." A few moments later, a portal opened. Alice, Ange and I went through, landing on the carpet of the living room. Ange immediately ran outside to begin gathering a group, while Alice gave Toby a run down.

"No matter what, we have to hold the library. Until I can figure out how to break the Barrier, we can go after Charlie. The Bro Army will. Not. Be. Defeated."

A/N: Hey Stepharmy! How ya'll liking it? And here reappears our favorite traitor…. Lol. Anyway, I have to make this quick, so I luv yo all, and

PEACE TO THE COOKIES!

-d.t.i.d