OUTSIDE

"Guys here they come." Annie said.

All of a sudden the doors of almost every place opened and hundreds of people came walking out.

"Um..... excuse me can you tell me where..." Annie asked some lady as she just continued to walk past her.

"Ok, that was weird." Clu said as he stared at the person walking away.

"It's almost as if they don't here anyone." Annie pointed out.

"They're not even talking to eachother." Carey said.

"Hello?" Joey waved his hand in front of someone, but they just kept walking.

"It's almost as if they're..." Emma was saying when all of a sudden someone bumped into her shoulder.

"Are you OK?" Annie asked as suddenly Emma fell to the ground.

"Emma! Emma!" Annie yelled shaking her.

"Guys look at her shoulder!" Carey pointed to it. The shirt was ripped and there was blood dripping from it.

"It's almost as if someone stabbed her with a needle, and she fainted." Clu said.

"Guys bring her into the restaurant." Joey told them holding the door open.

Carey picked her up and brought her into the restaurent lying her down on one of the cushioned benches.

"Emma? Are you Ok?" Jack said rushing to her side.

"Guys she's still breathing, but not responding to anything." Clu told them putting his jacket under her head.

"She was about to say something and then all of a sudden some guy came up and bumped her in the shoulder." Annie told Jack.

"What was she saying?" Jack asked her.

"I think it was 'It's almost as if they're' something, but she didn't get a chance to finish." Annie told him.

"Something strange is definately going on here." Clu said taking a seat.

"Guys, I think she knew what they are, but when she was going to say it, they stopped her." Annie explained.

"Who stopped her?" Jack asked.

"Those 'people' outside." Annie told him pointing to the people outside.

"Guys we need to find out what they are." Joey said.

"Well, what are we going to do?" Carey asked.

"Well, we need to get one of those people alone." Annie said.

"And how exactly are we going to do that?" Jack asked.

"Well there are four of you guys, we can get some sort of net or rope, and get one of them." Annie told them.

"I'm staying here with Emma until she wakes up." Clu told them.

"Fine, we'll do it." Annie told the rest.

"Joey, do you have any rope or something?" Annie asked.

"Yeah, in the back I think." Joey said as he ran to grab it.

"How do you expect to get anyone if no one is outside?" Jack pointed out the window.

"Oh shoot, well what if we went to a store or something?" Annie asked.

"Yeah, but there's probably people around." Jack said.

"Well, what if we called someone's house and while I talked to them, you guys can sneak up behind them." Annie asked.

"It could work." Carey told them.

"What could work?" Joey asked walking up to Annie holding a rope.

"What if we called someones house, and while I was on the phone you guys were at the house and get the person?" Annie asked.

"They don't pick up their phones though." Joey told them."The only people that do are the store owners."

"Then let's go to a store." Annie said.

"Yeah. but what about the people?" Jack reiterated.

"There are no other people in the store, there's only one person there in case someone comes." Joey told them.

"How do you know?" Jack asked.

"Because my dad makes me go to the store if we need anything, and I've always noticed that there is never anyone else there except the person behind the counter." Joey told them.

"Ok then, I guess it's the food store" Annie told them.

"It's the food store down the street, Clu you can call while we go down there." Joey told him.

"That's fine." Clu told him.

"I'll go get the phone." Joey told him as he ran and grabbed the phone. "The number is on speed dial, number 5."

"Ok then, good luck guys." Clu told them as they walked out the back door.