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Chapter 35
Emmy POV
I woke up in another isolated room. Mike was there, sprawled on the floor. He was sleeping, and drooling of course.
How in the world did we get here?!
Suddenly, I remembered...
The air filled with a toxic smell and I collapsed. I tried to hold my breath, but it did nothing. The poison tainted air filled my lungs and I shut my eyes.
Someone had poisoned the both of us.
" Mike, Mike wake up! " I yell at him, while frantically shaking him.
I had no idea what the effects of the poison were. Whether they were long term or short term, and if Mike might be in danger.
He wasn't responding.
" C'mon Mike, wake up! "
It wasn't working. No, no this couldn't be happening.
" Please, Mike, " I almost sob.
Suddenly, he got up with a start.
" Who, what, where, when, why? " He stuttered, looking very sleepy.
He focused his eyes on me.
" Why do you look like you saw a ghost, princess?"
Mike was alive.
I punched him in the stomach.
" Owwwww, what was that for?" Mike asked, wincing.
" For worrying me you jerkwad. "
He scratched his head and smiled.
" Yeah well, I'm alive. And is that worry in your tone Emmy? " He teases me, with his classic Mike grin.
As much as I wanted to deny it: yup. I was worried about him.
" Shut up and let me think," I growl at him, with my heart not really in it.
" All right, " he said, and laid back on the floor.
Since that was taken care of, I could focus on the bigger matter at hand.
Where the heck were we? And how did we get here?!
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Ben POV
We were still a bit confused on who that man was.
" Guys, focus on the matter at hand! It's probably a trick set up by SPYDER to distract us," Erica says.
I wasn't so sure, but Mike and Emmy were more important.
Unfortunately, Jawa thought different.
" We have two SPYDER crazies milling around. So, we need to tread carefully. This might as well be a trap. I say we slow down. "
" Are you kidding me? Every second we waste, Mike and Emmy could be dying, " Erica yells back.
I was torn apart: two great spies on two opposing sides.
" What do you think Ben? " Erica asks me with hope in her eyes. She wanted to get my cousin and my best friend back as much as I did.
I take a deep breath, and said something I hoped wouldn't screw up the mission.
" I say we push on! Mike and Emmy could be in danger, and I think we are prepared and ready to handle anything SPYDER throws at us. "
Everyone nods their head, agreeing with me...Except Jawa.
He had his mouth open, aghast.
" Tha-I-It's going to bite us back in the back. Ben, I know you want your friend and family back, but look at this logically and mathematically! This is not something Ben, with all gears turning, would say! It's too risky. "
" Well, all my gears aren't turning, but it's a risk I am willing to take, " I retorted stubbornly.
" Bu-, " Jawa tries to put in.
" The conversation is over Jawa, " Cyrus says.
" Yes, we will and can. We can end this now, " Grandad says with determination in his eyes.
So it was set, we would try to infiltrate the SPYDER base.
Sad that we didn't know Jawa was right, and it would bite us back in the butt.
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Ben's POV
A while later, after we had the argument, we decided on trekking on to the coordinates. We finally reached a modern looking building (yet still in the forest), and quickly hid from where there were bound to be cameras.
"Listen up," Erica whispered.
"We're going to infiltrate SPYDER's headquarters now. I want a clean operation, in and out, rescue Mike and Emmy, with as little fighting and injuries as possible," she stated.
"I want Grandad, Chip, Zoe and Ben inside with me, and the rest of you stay put here for surveillance. Here's the screen showing the hacked into cameras," Erica said once again, handing Jawa a high tech tablet.
"Wait, what about my Grandad? And Sam? They should both go in too," I said quickly.
"Erica knows what she's doing," Cyrus put in.
I looked at Grandad and he conveyed a message to me with just his eyes: let Erica decide who's going where, She must know what she's doing, after all.
Then Cyrus spoke up, "Are we ready?"
I nodded, and the rest of us did too.
"Let's do this," Sam said.
With a nod from Cyrus and Grandad, Erica shot at the cameras with a special gun that messed up all the signals and blurred the cameras. Warren, Jawa, Sam and my Grandad crouched around in the bushes and trees with the tablet. The rest of us, Erica, Zoe, Chip, Cyrus and I, got ready to go straight up to the side entrance we saw.
"One, two, three," Erica mouthed.
Then we ran up to the door with Erica in front, to pick the lock, or shoot it open if needed. She went to touch it, when Zoe pushed against it and it swung wide open.
My eyes narrowed.
"Erica, this can't be good," I whispered.
"Yeah, I know," she replied.
We quietly walked into the building. I held in a gasp. The place looked a bit like headquarters from spy movies, and then maybe a bit more abandoned seeming.
Cyrus put a finger to his lips to signal quiet. Erica stalked over to a computer to start to hack and disable. Meanwhile, I swept my gaze around and thought," This seems too easy..it's too quiet and seemingly empty."
There were papers strewn across a desk, not unlike the big desks at a doctor's office, and the chair pushed back as if someone pushed it back in a rush.
Then, Erica motioned me towards her. She put her mouth close to my ear, and whispered, "I got all the cameras off. I couldn't see a camera watching Emmy or Mike though…" Erica trailed off. I nodded to show my understanding.
"Come on, let's look for Emmy and Mike now," Zoe said.
"Let's split up. Ben and I work on searching one part of the building, and Grandad, Zoe and Chip the other," Erica ordered.
We split up, and went our separate ways.
"Erica, I really don't like the feeling of this. It's too easy. Where're the guards? Or an alarm system maybe?" I said, following her, as she took lead in the hallway.
"Well, it seems deserted; that can't be right. It must be another clever trick...we'll find out what it is, and get past whatever the problem is," she responded.
All of a sudden, a loud, trilling alarm rang through the building.
Erica and I exchanged alarmed glances. We heard pounding footsteps, and immediately broke into a run. We were about to take a sharp turn, but we saw a big, burly man, in what looked like a training suit, standing in front of some door. I looked at Erica, wide eyed.
She mouthed to me, "There'll be more. Be ready to fight your way out of this."
I gave a quick nod, and shifted into a fighting stance. Erica balanced on her toes, and tiptoed into the area the man was.
Then, there was a heavy sound of something-someone-dropping.
Erica strolled back to me, and smirked at my expression.
"That was easy," I said to her.
"Way too easy," Erica said suspiciously.
I was going to voice my agreement, when another screeching noise filled the air. Except this time it sounded like people!
"Ben! We got to see what that was, now," she said in a rush.
We ran to where we thought the source of the noise was.
What we found was Cyrus, Zoe, and Chip, tied to some chairs. I looked around frantically and saw no one but them.
"Are you guys okay?! What happened?" I exclaimed.
"We were tied up," Chip offered.
Erica shot him a glare and he looked away.
"Well come on, Erica, help untie us all," Cyrus said.
We both rushed to help them.
A glinting paper was caught in the corner of my eye.
"Hey, Erica? There's some paper over there," I said.
I bent down and picked it up, it was glinting...with drops of blood!
I took a sharp inhale.
"Erica!"
I quickly read what the note said: Greetings from SPYDER. Well, suppose you found our facility. Too late. We relocated Mike and Emmy. You'll never find them. Good bye! Oh, yes, and that blood? It's theirs.
Erica ran over to me, and I silently handed her the note. She read it, her face growing deeply worried as she did.
"Oh my gosh. What do we do now?"
And done. Impossible did half, and inSPY will help next chapter
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