"She's dead," the man in the black suite said. "Happily, I shot her myself." Colt couldn't believe his ears. But when he finally did come to believe it, he jumped at the man. "I'm going to kill you with my bare hands!" he yelled. A well aimed kick contacted with the man's head. Rocky let the first blow go. But when the men pointed machine guns at them, he reached out, grabbed Colt's tunic and pulled him back. Mr. Anderson regained his composure. "Get comfortable," he said. "Until I can figure out what to do to you." He left the room, leaving two machine gun wielding Ninjas. "What was that about, Rocky?" Colt said. "Use your head for once, Colt," Tum Tum said. "They've got guns, and there's three of us." "That's never stopped us before," Colt said. "We could be out of here in a matter of minutes." "Stop fighting," Robin's voice came silently. Colt stopped in his tracks and glanced around the room. "Stop looking around. You'll give me away. I'm supposed to be dead. Put the hoods on so I can get rid of the guards." The boys pulled up the hoods and face masks. Two marbles jumped into the room and rolled under the two ninjas feet. A gas came from it and clouded around the men. They dropped to the ground, asleep. Robin, in her purple outfit, jumped down from the shadows of the rafters. Colt ran up to her. His eyes widened at the sight of the red stain on the purple suit. Robin caught his glance. "It's only a squib. Actors use them. And stop looking at my chest." She took off her backpack and opened it. "Who wants what?" she asked. The backpack opened to show a set of nun chucks, a dozen throwing stars, marbles, pellets, a miniscule sword, a pair of tri-pronged daggers, Robin's folding metal bow, and a pack of arrows. Robin grabbed the quiver and bow and slung the quiver around her back. Tum Tum grabbed the nun chucks and some marbles. Colt grabbed the daggers and some pellets. Rocky got the sword and him and Colt split the throwing stars. "How did you get away if they think your dead?" Rocky said. Robin pointed up. "There's furniture in Mr. Anderson's office. I was able to get high enough to get onto the rafters. And this is how we are going to get out here, without being noticed." She unfolded her bow and pulled out an arrow. The arrow had some complex box on the end. Robin fitted the arrow on the bow, after handing an end of rope to Rocky. "Hold on tight," she said. She shot the arrow into the ceiling. "Wait a second, or do any of you want to go first?" Robin said. "You know what you're doing," Rocky said. "OK, when I say, grab onto the rope, one at a time." Robin grabbed the rope and scrambled up to the rafters before anyone could catch a glimpse. At the top, she gave Tum Tum the go ahead. When he grabbed on, Robin pushed the button one the arrow's box. He shot upward. The rope was carefully sent down and Colt came up next. The door flew open as Rocky grabbed onto the rope. He went flying up as Mr. Anderson ran into the room. "Go get them!" he yelled. Ropes were thrown into the rafters. Robin passed out ropes to the boys and took a bungee cord for herself. They separated though the building. "Let's have some fun guys!" Robin said. She secured the bungee on the rafter she was on and attached them to the harness she put around her waist. "Just like Lara Croft," she said as she jumped into the huge room. She kicked a man near her and went back up. Down again, slashing a rope to the rafter as she went. Rocky, Colt, and Tum Tum were jumping from rope to rope, fighting men as they went. Then they jumped to the floor and stood their ground, knocking people out left and right. Robin back flipped to land on her rafter. It was covered with ninja men. Robin fought them and knocked most to the ground. She unhooked one of her bungee and clipped it to one of the men. She threw him into another guy and they both went tumbling to the ground, except one of them came back up. Robin jumped down again. She flew sideways in response to the one cord. She slashed two more ropes before she heard laughing up near the rafters. Looking up, Robin saw a group of men at the base of her bungee. "Crud," she said. One of the men held a dagger and started cutting at her bungee.

Robin landed in Colt's arms. "Thanks," she said. "Nothing to it," Colt said. He set her down and Robin worked out of the bungee harness. "How are we going to get out of this?" "If my timing is good, and I'm sure it is, we'll get an opportunity soon enough," Robin said. "And I can always make an opportunity." "That sounds reassuring," Tum Tum said. "If one of ya'll could get outside and help us figure out where you are," Mr. Douglass's voice came through. "We've got a bit of trouble," Rocky said. The clicks of hundreds of guns caused all of them to freeze where they were. A laugh rang through the place. "You almost fooled me," Mr. Anderson said. He came though the crowd of armed men. This inspired Robin. "Mr. Douglass," she said, barely making a sound and moving her mouth under the mask. "Look for somewhere owned by an Anderson. If there's one, that's were we are." "Why don't you give up?" Anderson asked. "You haven't a chance." "Wait, Wait, wait, waitwaitwaitwait, Wait!" Robin said. "I've got one more chance!" "What's that?" Anderson asked. "This," Robin said simply. She reached into her tunic and pulled out her control pad. She pressed a button on it. Smoke filled the room. "Guy's," Robin said privately, "close your eyes when the smoke clears. Oh yeah! Run for it!" The jumped up and started running on the men's shoulders and heads, going towards a rope left leading to the rafters. But the time they were half ways up, the smoke cleared. "Close your eyes," Robin said. She pushed another button on the control pad. A blinding light filled the room. The four ninjas got to the rafters. Robin cut the rope after them and she and the boys went and cut all the ropes leading up to them. "What an escape!" Robin said. "This is so much fun!" The sliding door on one wall flew open. "The building is surrounded!" Mr. Douglass's voice came over the loud speaker. "Drop your weapons and come out slowly." Robin jumped up. "Or you'll have to go another round with me!" she yelled. She hit the flash button again. The blinding light went through the warehouse again. The boys grabbed her arms. "That's enough Robin," they said. Once the light cleared and the blindness faded. Robin looked onto the ninja army to see them all go out of the building, handing over their guns and put their hands behind their heads. "Where's Mr. Anderson and Shawn?" Robin asked. She ran around on the rafters, not worrying once of her balance. She found them at the back of the warehouse, fighting to go through the back door. "Hey!" she yelled and jumped down. "You're not getting away. I'm tired of this." She did a front walkover and kicked Shawn in the face. She turned to Mr. Anderson. She held out another gun. "Don't you ever run out of those?" she asked. She kicked out at him and knocked the gun from his hand. Then she kicked him in the stomach and on the side of his head. The man dropped. When Mr. Douglass found her, Robin was in angry tears, kicking the unconscious man on the ground. "Now you have to leave me alone!" she yelled. "Come on," Mr. Douglass said. He came up behind her. Robin turned and kicked high. The man ducked. "Let us," Colt said. "Robin, leave him alone." He dodged a kick and a punch and put a hand on Robin's arm. "He won't bother you again." Robin turned to face him. Her mask and hood and fallen. "Colt, I never want to see him again." She took a deep breath and hugged Colt. "Oh, yeah, I forgot. I like you too." She kissed him on the cheek.