I woke at four.
I shimmied out of the thermal warm covers and slipped into my comfortable uniform. The velvet canopy still covered me.
I pulled back the curtain silently and was shocked to see Cannon all ready up.
His shirt was off and he was stretching, showing off an awesome body I'd never seen.
He pulled on his shirt and turned before I could pull back the curtain.
"Good Morning Beautiful, you watchin' me?"
"No."
"Oh, Defensive, I like it."
I hopped down and went to the computer. "Get to work. What are the plans for today."
"Well, Dollface, if we must change to subject from you lusting after me."
"I was not-"
"Yeah, yeah." He smirked and hovered over my shoulder and pointed to the corner of my ten acre stretch map.
"We're going to hit the rock formations. We'll boulder to the top of the mountain. Glory thinks if we get to the top, Maxell might be able to pick up a huge, wide spread map of a couple hundred acres."
I nodded. "Sounds like a plan."
"Thought so."
Cannon blew on my neck lightly before sauntering off to the bathroom.
I fumed and didn't turn around till I heard him shut the door behind him.
"I'm going to drop kick that punk off the mountain." I muttered, standing up.
"Just so long as I get to sock him first." Glory was up too.
I laughed.
"We picked him because he's an amazing agent. He will be a great asset through
challenges. He's just a little, um, girl crazy."
"Normally I can deal with him." I shut Maxell and condensed it to the size and shape of a credit card. "But without Ivy and girls like her to take his edge off, he's gonna be a little unbearable."
Glory picked up his black gadget belt and stuck his gun, JohnKnife, condensed laptop, and Ipod on it. Each dangled in an easy to reach position.
I did the same, stringing all my gadgets neatly on the belt.
"Get up Delta." Glory launched himself into the air and landed with a satisfying whump.
"Ouch!" Delta's legs flew out, padded by the cover, and caught Glory in the chest. Glory flew up and Delta leapt over and they tackled each other between the beds.
"Is this was guys do when they're bored?" I snickered and watched Delta flip Glory on the bed and jump on him.
"Why wasn't I invited?" Cannon asked, coming out of the bathroom. He flipped cleanly and landed on the wrestling Delta and Glory.
"Amateurs." I flipped out my knife and threw it to the canopy that was over the beds.
It wafted down and covered the wrestling guys.
"Hey! That's cheating!" Glory yelled from under the blanket with all the guys laughing.
"Girls rule!" I called back in a sing song grin.
"Let's get her!" Like a gang of eight-year-olds, they all tumbled out of the canopy and started after me.
I threw open the door and leapt out. I grabbed the pillar for the porch roof, twisted up and easily landed on the roof.
The guys, in their pajamas, (Cannon in his uniform pants only.) dashed out and looked to see where I went.
I flipped down and ran into the cabin. I grinned at them from the door. "Cold out there boys?" They all turned, in surprise, to see me, and I shut the door and locked it.
I heard them yelling, and laughing really hard. I died laughing, falling into the chair as they slammed on the door.
I opened the door and leaned against the door jam. "That would be girls 2, boys zero."
"What the heck are you guys doin' over there!" Midnight Sky was leaning against their porch railing with Quickie.
"Morning wake-up call." Delta called back, and we all tramped inside.
Of course, as soon as we shut the door behind us, we began laughing. Howling actually.
"Girls win. I get bathroom first." I waltzed in with a laugh.
I quickly showered and brushed my teeth, then came out and sat down on my bed. I yanked out my brush and quickly and swiped it through my hair.
"I can't believe Midnight Sky saw that." Cannon threw a bouncy ball against the wall.
"Are you kidding? I think that guy was jealous." Glory was wearing his uniform all ready. "What do you think they're doing over there? Strategizing. Bo-o-o-o-ring!"
I laughed. "Our strategy is simple. Run fast. Shoot steady. Win."
"Win. Got it." Cannon pretended to meditate on it.
I picked a piece of lint off my blue uniform. "You guys, it's gonna be a long hike today. So, lets make sure we hook it up."
"Hook it up? Silver's from da hood!" Delta flashed a gang sign and hooted.
"All right, all right. Let's go." Glory grabbed his belt and we bounded out of the cabin chattering.
"Hey, Silver right?" An air board slid next to us. The girl with bright red hair smiled at me. I wonder how she was able to dye it so awesome!
"Yeah. Dusk?" I met fists with her.
Glory, Cannon, and Delta stopped.
"Yeah. I'm from California." She grinned.
"Oh, this is Delta, Glory, and Cannon." I introduced quickly.
Her electric green eyes flashed. "Hi."
Her soft cherry red hair was combed back in short wings, framing her cheeks.
"Love the uniforms, ours look like baby food." Her pants were pale green and her tank top was light pink with the green collar.
"I'll definitely see you around." She grinned at me, a little smile went strait to Cannon and she zoomed off .
Cannon smirked as we headed toward the mess hall. He clicked his tongue. "I still got it."
I glanced back in time to see Delta's brow crease.
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Lightning shoveled half a waffle in his mouth and glowered at Cannon. Cannon simply smirked. I'll have to ask him what is going- I wasn't able to finish the thought when I figured it out.
Lightning glanced at me, then back at his plate. Cannon grinned and emptied his tray.
"Come on you guys, we're off." Glory stood and we all stepped out.
"Good luck. You'll need it." Lightning called.
We walked out into the sun and walked to where transportation was parked. "Let's take the rock skimmer, it'll get us to the base of the rocks the fastest." Cannon decided.
"Hey Silver." Dusk hopped out of the coptor and smiled at me.
"Hey Dusk, what's crackin?" In the table of random tools, I grabbed a few coils
of rope and a rock laser.
"Just adding a few twists to this old junk bucket to get us over the snow ranges. Our team is hitting the mountain first, you guys goin' bouldering?"
"Yeah." Cannon hopped easily from his perch on the rock skimmer and looked over at Dusk.
He flexed a little while grabbing the wrench and moving part way underneath the rock skimmer.
"There's a dud bomb on the other helicopter. I just deactivated it." Glory called.
"How do they know who did all the deactivating and stuff?" Delta stacked some spare tires.
"Cameras, DNA, fingerprints. They planned camp out pretty good." I swung around a pole swiftly. I picked up momentum and brought my feet out of the air, swinging with just my arms attached.
"Come on ego head." Delta called, a little too loudly.
Dusk laughed.
