The agents had been quiet the whole time they were going to the lab. None of them wanted to talk. Keri wanted to but knew she would just get snapped at if she did. They finally arrived at the lab where the scientists had disappeared. The old team went in first pushing through.
"Well excuse me!" Dan said under his breath.
The team ignored him. Aneshia and Tom followed Dan into the lab with Keri going in last.
The lab was a mess like the last time the team had seen it. Papers laid across the floor with test tubes broken on the lab desks. Whoever had taken the scientists were obviously professionals at this.
"There must be a clue here somewhere." Oscar said looking around with Rose looking at the different chemicals.
"Give us a chance will you!" Tom said to Rose, doing the same job as her.
"I look at chemicals! Leave me to do this!" Rose pushed him out of the way.
Dan and Oscar weren't doing much better. Carrie and Aneshia were checking over any papers that could still be made out. Keri looked at the pictures lining the wall. Most of them were either rockets or atoms. It looked like the team who had taken the scientists weren't interested in them.
Oscar's communicator buzzed. The whole team turned around making sure they were all involved in what was about to be said.
"Frank." Oscar said.
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"How's it going out there?" Frank asked sat down at the computer desk back in HQ.
Edward was looking around the HQ. He hadn't seen the new HQ since taking his team away from school. Most of it was made up of gadgets which he wasn't surprised by. Frank seemed to love anything to do with gadgets or gizmos.
"Looks like they haven't come back. No one's moved anything." Oscar answered.
"Is there anything there that could tell us why they've been taken?" Frank asked, sighing.
"Not at the moment but we'll keep looking."
"Alright. Keep in contact." Frank ended the call.
Frank sighed even more loudly. It was bad enough that the two teams didn't get along and there was a chance that Stark might fire them because they haven't found anything! Edward chuckled as he walked back to Frank.
"Doesn't sound good." Edward sat down.
"They haven't found anything and Stark is about to call any minute now." Frank shrugged.
"I'll deal with Stark. He's a big softie really." Edward punched Franks arm.
"Really?! Never seen that side of him!" Frank smirked.
"He doesn't show it but I know how to get around him." Edward smiled, getting his phone and ringing Stark.
Frank watched Edward. No wonder his old team talked about him so much! He was a lot more together and a lot more organised than he was. Maybe he should take a leaf out of his book.
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Keri had finally found something. She looked around and just saw everyone either shouting or ignoring each other. There was no use, even after being told to work with each other they still angered each other so much they couldn't concentrate!
"I've found something." Keri said in a quiet voice.
No one listened to her. They just kept talking. Keri had finally had enough. If they didn't listen soon they wouldn't get any recognition for their work on the mission.
"I've found something!" Keri shouted to them.
Everyone suddenly stopped. They looked towards Keri, surprised she shouted so loud! They then saw what she was holding in her hand. Everyone straightened their spy outfits and went to join her. Once they had Keri laid the blueprint out in front of them.
"What on earth is that?!" Dan said what they were all thinking.
"It looks like a rocket. Maybe the scientists were building something." Rose said, actually answering Dan for once without shouting.
"Do you think that's why they were kidnapped?" Carrie mentioned.
"I doubt it. It's not common knowledge about this rocket." Rose shook her head.
"Maybe you missed something." Tom hissed.
"Guys!" Keri hissed back.
Rose and Tom shook their shoulders at each other. Then turned their attention back to the rocket.
"Whatever it is, we need to take it back to HQ." Oscar gathered it up in his arms.
"There's no we. We'll take it." Dan snatched it off of Oscar.
"Hey!" Oscar slapped Dan.
Dan managed to dodge the slap and caught Oscar's hand. The whole team tutted and rolled their eyes at this fight between the boys.
A crash then turned everyone's attention towards the door.
"What was that?" Carrie whispered.
"I don't know and I don't really want to find out." Aneshia said, looking for the nearest exit.
Before the teams could find an exit or hide, the door burst open. Three very imposing men stood on the other side. Carrie, Rose and Oscar recognised them from the last mission they had had together from being on Edward's team. This wasn't going to be easy! Keri quickly turned on her communicator to record everything that was going to happen.
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Frank's communicator suddenly came to life again once Edward had finished his conversation with Stark. Both of them rushed to answer it. Frank easily got there first however, as Edward was still getting over his injuries from the last mission.
"Ha." Frank just said.
Edward was a little confused as to why Frank had said this. It wasn't a competition between the two spymasters.
"Sorry. Must have got the fighting fever off the teams." Frank apologised once he saw the look on Edward's face.
Frank turned on his communicator. No one answered but he could still hear voices from the other side. Frank and Edward leaned in closer to try and hear what they were exactly saying.
"What are you kids doing here?" A strange voice came over the communicator.
"Doing a lot better than you are." Keri's voice could be heard.
"Are you sure about that?" Another man's voice said.
"What on earth are they still doing there?" Edward said in a hushed voice.
They then heard coughing coming from the other side of the communicator coming from their team. The communicator then went dead and only a crackle could be heard. The two spymasters stared at each other and then ran to where their agents said they were heading.