Disclaimer: could I ever be creative enough to create Alias? I think not! JJ is though.
A/N: Sorry about that crappy chapter, I'll try to make their time at camp a.s.a.p. (as short as possible). Hang in there.
Chapter 2~ 3's a crowd
***Lauren's POV***
By the time they had finished the course everyone was gasping for breath. "What *breath* does *breath* this *breath* have *breath* to *breath* do *breath* with us *breath* taking *breath* *breath* down *breath* the *breath* Concurrence *breath* *breath* *breath*?
"First of all, Mrs. Vaughn, this is about molding you into perfect physical shape. We need agents that are vigorous and athletic as well as intelligent and inquisitive if we are to take them down. In order to do this, we must have you all well rounded. So, we are separating you guys two groups so that you can get to know the people you hate." Kendal informed them.
"So, then Sydney and Sloane are being paired up?" Lauren questioned.
"No, I said people you hate, not people for whom you have abhorrence, detestation, and revulsion enough to kill the person. They wont last 2 hours together. Marshall and Mrs. Cluberhouden could not be here seeing as how, Marshall is our computer tech and that is all he will be doing with and it is too hazardous to risk with Mrs. Cluberhouden because of her age and inexperience in this type of field. Sloane don't get me started about me because you're more than qualified to be here. What it means is that the women will stay with the other women while the men will stay with the men, understood? Ok, have fun and good luck." he told them. After they started to walk away he added, "You'll sure as hell need it."
"What was that?" Glory asked stopping.
Kendal began to whistle and walk away.
"I suck? I don't think so Miss "I don't understand 'the Godfather'".
***Sydney's POV***
Within an hour everyone had made it to their cabin and unpacked.
Standing in the doorway of the girls room, there were 5 beds to the left and 5 dressers to the right. The dressers were all made of wood and the beds were orange and green. All around the room there were embedded gems of every month. In the center of the room was a green circular table. The walls were white and the doors were baby blue. The bathroom was to the far right. The sinks, toilets (2 of them), and appliances were aqua and the cupboards were all navy blue.
When Sydney sat down on her twin bed (they all had twin beds), she noticed something on the table in the center of the room.
"Whoa." she said, taking off her headphones and disentanglement she got up to investigate.
"What's wrong?" Lauren asked getting up.
***Vaughn's POV***
Slumping down on the twin bed, Vaughn was staring intensely and sadly at a picture of Sydney.
might be classified as a stalker." someone stated.
"Huh?" was his great reply.
"Wow, never mind, that just went completely over your head." Sark said walking back to his bed smirking.
The guys room, furniture wise, was placed in the exact opposite of the girls. With the beds on the right and the dressers on the left, etc. The beds were a dark shade of black stripped with gold. The walls were patented gold and the dressers were black. The doors were either gold trimmed with black or black outlined with gold. The appliances were all black as well as the toilets and sink.
"Hey what's that?" Vaughn asked putting the picture down.
The men slowly walked towards it and Vaughn picked up the piece of paper.
***Sydney's POV***
Walking up to the table Sydney picked up a piece of paper and read it out loud. "Good afternoon ladies…"
And the others began to walk towards her.
***Sark's POV***
He listened as Vaughn rattled on, reading the mysterious letter. "…I hope that by now you have finished unpacking. If you haven't you'd better get going because tonight there's a surprise…"
***Lauren's POV***
By now she was intrigueec about what Sydney was reading. "… you are all going on a mission tonight that will demonstrate your ability to help somebody besides yourself and work together as a team with your peers…"
***Vaughn's POV***
"… and I use that term lightly. Make sure you pack an outfit that you feel will be most useful on this mission and a bathing suit." Vaughn spoke, by now confused at the last part.
***Irina's POOV***
Wow, I didn't know, we came here to go swimming. Irina thought as Sydney continued.
"I shall see you at 2100 hours." Sydney finished.
Staring at each other, they packed in silence, confused about what was going on.
***Sloane's POV***
"Whew!" he said stepping out of the bathroom. "Don't anyone go in there for about an hour."
Everyone just stared at him and prepared to get ready, all while avoiding the bathroom.
~2100 hours~
They stood there outside their cabins waiting for Kendal to appear.
"Where is he?" Vaughn asked.
"Obviously not here." Glory retorted.
Vaughn stared at Glory than at Sark.
"you have been spending way too much time with him." he told her.
They were dressed in usual spy attire, and because of the darkness and only 1 porch light, they could barely see each other.
"This sucks!" one of them yelled.
"Ok, umm, hi, I know this is a surprise, but, I mean, not , not surprise like a birthday party-" Marshall started.
"Marshall!" Sydney yelled going to give him a hug.
"I should have guess." Sloane muttered.
Vaughn smiled at Marshall, Kendra waved and Sark gave a nod in his direction. Irina sat in the back, watching the encounter happen while Lauren made sure to avoid Glory and Kendra. Jack sat beside Irina, throwing quick glances at her.
"So, anyways, let's get out of here, whilst I explain the mission. Weiss, first of all, will be helping me. Ok, so, we have to split you up into groups of 3, since there are 9 of you. Sydney, Vaughn, and Sark, group number one. Lauren, Glory, and Kendra, group number 2. Sloane, Jack, Irina, group number 3. Each group will have to work together to complete their section of the mission. Each section helps in complete ling the whole mission. Remember, watch out for unexpected delays. Work around them. Ok, go!" Marshal told them. They had now reached a tall black building. He handed them a piece of paper and each group took off in 3 different directions.
***Group #1***
"Ok, ok, it says we must unlock the code and bypass lasers then use the code to open the door. " Vaughn explained.
"Ok, where do we have to go?" Sark asked.
"Wait, it's a riddle. 'Two convicts are locked in a cell. There is an unbarred window high up in the cell. No matter if they stand on the bed or one on top of the other they can't reach the window to escape. They then decide to tunnel out. However, they give up with the tunneling because it will take too long. Finally one of the convicts figures out how to escape from the cell. What is his plan?' Uh, I don't know. We must think outside the box." Vaughn read and theorized. "What could it be?"
***Group #2***
"Ok, where do we go?"
"It's a question. Who was the United State's of America first World Chess Champion? Hint, he beat the Russians." Lauren read out loud. "I don't know, I don't play chess."
"ooo, I know" Glory screamed, jumping up and down. "It was Bobby Fisher!"
"How do you know that? You don't know anything?" Lauren asked.
"We saw a movie, and sometimes they would bring up info on him during the movie." Kendra informed the blonde.
"So, uh, it's a movie. So then, we must have to search for either a movie or something of entertainment value." Glory conjectured.
"Umm…look! It's a door! And it's shaped just like the chess piece 'King'." Kendra yelled. They scrambled inside of the door, happy, they had started this mission successfully, unlike some other teams.
***Group 3***
"It's a statement. 'Think of words ending in -GRY. Angry and hungry are two of them. There are only three words in the English language. What is the third word? The word is something that everyone uses every day. If you have listened carefully, I have already told you what it is.' Oh I know what it is." Irina told them.
"What?" Jack and Sloane asked.
"It's the word language." find something to do with language. " Irina instructed them.
Searching around they found a letter.
"could this be it?" Sloane asked. "If this letter is not meant for you tenth even tea knee t hour exile slept epee start opt here Lee feet."
"Let me see." Irina ordered him and grabbed the letter.
***Group #1***
"I know!" Sark yelled. "His plan is to dig the tunnel and pile up the dirt to climb up to the window to escape. So, we just need to find either a window or a shovel.
"Well, there's the shovel." Vaughn told them and went to pick it up. Except when he did however he noticed something on the ground. It was an arrow pointing towards the wall.
Sydney walked up towards the wall and began to push it. As son as she did this the wall started to move. Taking a quick peek inside, she motioned them to follow.
Inside, they were surprised at what they saw.
***Group 2***
Stopping dad in their tracks, Glory, Kendra, and Lauren realized that there was a huge hole in the floor. "We're going to have to help each other cross, by giving someone a boost and then having the last person jump to the other two people and have them catch her." Kendra told them.
"No way, you'll drop me." Lauren argued.
"Fine, then you can stay here and fail this mission." Glory told her and prepared to be boosted by Kendra.
***Group 3***
"It says down at the bottom, 'If this letter is not meant for you then take three steps to the left.' One two three." Irina told them standing right in front of a door. Opening it, she found herself staring at a dark passageway with descending stairs. "So, I guess, we go down." She told them. And they hurried after her.
***Group 1***
They found themselves in the middle of a party and standing out abruptly. Everyone was in bathing suits. Darting towards the bathroom, Sydney quickly changed into her red bikini. Seeing her come back Sark looked at Vaughn and they changed too. Walking towards the only other door in the room, they pushed in a thin key card, that looked like the kind you use for hotel rooms. The door opened and they found themselves looking at a brightly lit hallway. There were nothing on the plain white walls and they floors were tiled blue. The only thing besides the walls, ceiling, floor and the other door was another door at the opposite end.
"I don't have a good feeling about this." Sydney commented before opening the door. When it opened the quickly stepped inside and jumped down-- to find themselves waist deep in water and lasers everywhere. Vaughn began to climb out when Sark stopped him, "Wait, we're supposed to be here. we just have to get around the lasers."
They were in a small rectangular room. It was only about 2 feet taller than Sark and about 20 feet long and 5 feet wide. The walls were white and past the lasers they could spot the door.
"Okay, 2347, that's the code, remember that." Sydney instructed.
"But, how do we bypass the lasers?" Vaughn thought out loud.
"Like this, "Sark said pulling out a mirror and attempting to reflect the lasers.
"no! You're doing it wrong!" Vaughn yelled grabbing the mirror.
"No I'm not! I know what I'm doing!" Sark argued pulling it back.
"Back off you stupid Brit!" Vaughn yelled pushing Sark… straight into Sydney who them fell into one of the lasers and the alarm immediately went off.
"Well, that's not good." Vaughn said.
***Group 2***
"Wait!" Lauren yelled. Glory was now on the other side of the hole. Kendra rolled her eyes and reluctantly gave Lauren a boost. She jumped and Kendra winced when she herd a loud thud. After a minute a voice called "I'm ok!."
With that Kendra said that she was ready and Glory and Lauren reached out and caught Kendra as she jumped. Turning around they found themselves staring at a bookcase. After pushing it for about 5 minutes and it didn't do anything, they concluded that it didn't move.
"find the anomaly (A/N: hehe, SAT word)!" Glory yelled. They scrutinized (A/N: I am on a roll) the books and thoughts about the similarities. They were all blue and a set of reference books, except for…
"I found it!" Lauren yelled, pulling out a book of fables and opened it. The book was a fake, one with the pages glued/stuck together and a whole in the middle where the pages should be. Amongst all the things was a necklace with a key attached to it. It also had the number "47" engraved in the key.
"We got what we came for." Kendra told them and turned around to head back.
***Group 3***
They finally came to a stop at the bottom of the stairs. But instead of a door or a hallway they came to dead-end.
"What kind of shit is this?" Arvin complained.
"Shut it Sloane!" Irina told him and bean examining the walls.
***Group 1***
Sydney was pulled down about foot farther in the water thanks to some rope that had appeared out of nowhere. The more she struggled to get out of it, the tighter the ropes seemed to become
"Hey, uh, guys, it is just, uh, me or are the walls closing in around us?" Sydney asked still struggling against the rope.
"Yeah, you're right. Agent Vaughn, you go push the code into the door while I save Sydney." Sark ordered Vaughn making his way towards Sydney.
Sydney seemed to be being pulled deeper into the water as now the water was about halfway up her neck.
"I don't think so!" Vaughn yelled tackling Sark down into the water.
"Uh, guys, I don't care which one of you guys save me as long as I get saved." Sydney told them, but they couldn't hear her seeing as how they were fighting underwater.
The ceiling had dropped 1 foot, the space between each wall was only 3 feet, and the room was now only 15 feet long.
Sark's head burst through the surface and spotted Sydney tied to the wall and being pulled down semi-slowly.
"3 is a crowd Michael," Sark said emphasizing on the word 'Michael'. By now the water was up to Sydney lips and the rope seemed like it was going to choke out whatever oxygen was still left inside her.
"The *inhale* door *exhale* you *inhale* assholes. Someone *inhale* get the *exhale* fucking door *inhale*. " Sydney ordered them taking breaths as she went along.
"how, could you be that insensitive, I'll get the door Syd," Vaughn told her swimming towards the door.
"Oh no you don't!" Sark yelled swimming towards the door also. He stopped when he remembered Sydney however and ran back to untie her.
The ceiling was now only centimeters from Sark's head and the walls were barely 2 feet apart, not to mention the hallway was only 8 feet long now.
"I can't get this untied!" Sark yelled referring to the ropes.
"Hey Sark, what was the code again?" Vaughn asked.
"Hey, look at it this way, we can either drown, suffocate, or get squished. It's not like we're gonna get blown up or burned or something.
"And, that makes this better *inhale* how *exhale*?" Sydney asked struggling to keep her nose above the water and her lips also, to speak and breathe.
"What is the code?" Vaughn yelled.
"I don't remember!" Sark yelled back.
We're so screwed, Sydney thought.
A/N: So, kinda long, but what did you think of this chapter? Was it better than the last chapter? Are Vaughn and Sark gonna pull together in time to save both themselves and Sydney? Will you ever find out who ran into the Ops center? The next chapter will finish up their time at camp because we've got to hurry things along. Well, at least that's the plan. But, my plans don't always work out, for example, my story 'Temptation' was supposed to be a one parter and now it's a story. Review/reply and tell me what you thought. Yay! 5 pages! The longest chapter I have written since my previous stories.
~Mel~Lilspy~