Disclaimer: I dont own H2O or Maximum ride.
A/N: In regards to the spelling of Zane's name, i apologize for spelling it wrong in previous chapters it should be spelt Zane.
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The room was quite plain but really nice. There was a double bed facing a giant window that looked out over the coast. In one corner was a good sized desk and on the other wall was a door that must have led to the bathroom. Fang immediately went to the desk and started rummaging around.
"What exactly are we looking for?" He asked "Max!"
"What?" I turned my head from where I was peaking into the bathroom.
"I don't think she'd keep anything we're looking for in there. Come here and help me search."
"I just wanted a look." I defended myself. Jeez, can't a girl just check out the bathroom in a hotel. What if we wanted to stay there? I didn't want to stay somewhere with crap bathrooms.
"It was nice by the way." I told Fang
"What was?"
"The bathroom." He just gave me an exasperated look and returned to trying to break the password on the laptop.
"It's just a bunch of research on corals and fish." I said sitting down on the bed, after having gone through ALL the paper on the desk. And let me tell you, for a scientist this woman doesn't file well. There were HUNDREDS of bits of paper.
"Nothing here either." Fang muttered as he scrolled through the files on the laptop. Suddenly there was a tap on the door. Fang and I looked at each other before leaping into action. I hastily put the papers back on the desk. She probably wouldn't notice if a few bits were out of place. Fang switched the laptop off and shut the lid. Then we jumped out the window, snapping our wings out and soaring straight up and onto the roof.
Rikki, Gazzy, Emma and Nudge slipped onto the boat while Zane kept guard. The four of them quickly started looking around the little boat, everyone keeping an ear out for Zane's warning call. Rikki disappeared below deck to check out the area underneath them. Gazzy started riffling through papers, after all this time on the run from Itex he knew the sort of stuff he was looking for; anything that mentioned hybrids or mermaids would send red lights going in his head.
Emma had switched on the shiny silver laptop that rested on one of the work surfaces. Nudge was peering over her shoulder as she tried to hack in.
"Mind if I try?" Nudge asked.
"Be my guest." Emma stepped back and let Nudge have a go at getting in. Within a second Nudge had hacked in and had access to all the files. Together they went through the files, looking for anything suspicious.
"There's just stuff about marine biology on here." Nudge said "Nothing about mermaids or us." She frowned "Wait a minute." She clicked on a file and several pictures came up on the screen. All of them were photos of the mermaids.
Emma dismissed them, "She took those last year. They're nothing new."
Nudge closed the file and kept looking. Emma handed her something. "Portable hard drive. We can copy all her files, incase we missed anything."
"Cool." Nudge said, as Emma plugged it in. Nudge set the files to copying as she continued searching through them.
"Guys, I think I might have found something." Rikki's voice came up the stairs.
Everyone turned towards her as she made her way up the stairs. "There were some sheets of paper with what looked liked DNA references on them. There are the words aquatic and avian."
"Oh my god." Nudge was staring at the computer.
"What?"
"There are emails to Dr Denman from Itex. She's working with them." She looked up and found 3 worried faces staring at her with the same expression she imagined she had.
Zane's whistled pierced the air and everyone was suddenly jolted back to reality. They sprang into action. Emma and Rikki dived over the side into the water. Gazzy and Nudge followed them, swimming just far enough so that they wouldn't be seen, before launching themselves into the air and going straight up until they were hidden by the clouds.
