I stood on the top of the mountain, surveying the view. I checked the coordinates. "According to this little paper we found, there is something, under that rock."
"It could be a lead bomb." Cannon warned.
Glory looked to me.
"Well, Maxell is picking up recent activity up here. But no metal, and even if it's lead, which Maxell can't pick up, it's worth a shot.
Glory took his johnknife out and we all stood back. He cut the rock through the middle and pulled out a lead box.
"No friggin way? We won on the first day?" Cannon walked up.
Glory opened the lid, slitting the lock with his knife.
A piece of cloth was in it, wrapped around something.
He undid the dirty white cloth and showed a small, rusty diary-like key.
"What the heck?"
I took the key.
"Throw that piece of trash away. Come on, let's do something interesting." Delta flipped onto another ledge and took in the spectacular birds eye view.
Cannon took it from me and took out a little spray bottle.
"What is that?"
"My hair spray."
"What?" I grinned.
"Hairspray, my own special recipe." He drew out a gentle mist over the key. It ate
away at the rust and the key was shiny and silver.
Glory looked at it under a microscope.
"200 points." He murmured.
"Really?" I took the key. "Awesome!"
"It's not the gold key, just some points."
"Points are good." Delta called from where he stood.
"All right, surprisingly, I got the whole place in one map scan." I shrunk the map
on Maxell so the 3D image had all 2000 acres in a neat 8 1/2 by 11 map. Because it was shrunk down so small, people turned into little flashing lights. Red blips moved around it.
I pointed to where we were. There was a neat purple blip for each of us. "We're purple. We can always tell where all of us are, we can always find our way back."
"This is us." Glory studied the map.
"I can set anyone in a color so we can specifically tell where we are."
"I want Nebraska. Always." Cannon demanded.
I toyed with the buttons. I had a hair from Quickie, and put it in to get the DNA formula and tell which dots were his team's. Four yellow dots appeared.
We all gasped.
Somehow they hadn't been red before! The four were only a few rocks away down the mountain, out of site.
Wordlessly we all rolled to safety behind rocks.
"How did they escape Silver, talk to me." Glory asked, low and sharp.
"I don't know. They don't even know they're being buzzed!" I hissed. "They're behind the rock crevices, They can't see us yet."
"Let's paint em." Cannon murmured.
"We are allowed too." Delta shrugged a shoulder.
"I know, but if they're mad-mad at us, they can paint us back no prob tomorrow."
"Let's just hide, let them come up here, then sneak back the rock crevice." I decided. "They won't know where we went."
"Fine." Delta agreed.
"Good idea." Glory put his gun on his holster.
"Good on one condition."
"What?" I pushed back a lock of hair.
"We leave a note of their windshield saying we missed them on top of the mountain."
I grinned. "How about, 'thanks for not following us.'?"
"Good. Let's get out of here."
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I scribbled the note with the Johnknife on a rock and set it on the hood of their
rock skimmer, then we scrambled to ours.
"Think they realized we saw them?" Cannon pulled into the drivers seat and I sat next to him.
"I don't understand how they were able to escape Maxell. Do think it was an
accident, or he truly realizes the upgrade I have?"
"What can hoodwink Maxell?"
"Theoretically, nothing. It picks up heat, motion, DNA, life form, and the metal from their guns. It's so sensitive it can pick up a silver tooth."
Cannon drummed his fingers on the steering wheel. "So, heat suits can get the first?"
"Yes."
"DNA wasn't a problem for them till you put Quickie's hair it in. Life form?"
"Mmm." I paused. "If they're heat suits emitted an icy cool breeze like, Maxell could ignore if it wasn't specially looking for it. Remember, this is my first time trying out Maxell in this kind of situation."
"Metal?"
"That, I don't know what they did."
Cannon paused grimly. "They don't have any metal on them."
"Huh?"
"Lightning! I'd forgotten."
"About what?"
"Lightning's invention is biodegradable guns and ammunition. They're probably all using that."
I sighed. "Duh."
"Anything else would be too small for Maxell to pick up without trying to look for it right? A tooth filling would be thought of like iron in the rocks right?"
"So, they didn't escape Maxell on purpose besides the heat suits. And they probably thought we only had a heat radar right?"
Cannon nodded. "Most likely. As long as we have DNA tabs on them, it shouldn't be a problem any more."
He swung a 360, made a twirl, and zoomed up next to Glory and Delta.
Quickly we explained what we had figured out.
Glory nodded in agreement. "They don't even know about Maxell."
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Midnight sat on top of the mountain. He was mad.
First of all, those bazooka men, after they knocked them with truth serem in the
apple, had told them there was a 200 point key up here that would help them get the real
key. But those stupid Washington's had all ready relieved the rock of its prize.
Second, how the heck had the team realized they were around?
He leaned back and tried to think of their team.
Glory. Ah. The pretty boy with a Crest Whites grin and superman powers. He
would be tough, but he'd never break a rule.
Delta. A computer whiz with brawn. No problem. Find a girl he likes and he'll be
out of the game mentally. Tulip, that one blonde. When Midnight had finished with her,
he'd make sure Delta had her enough so his mind would never be concentrated.
Cannon. Midnight had to smirk. It was almost like looking at a picture of him
when he was 16! Cannon did have one thing he didn't. Cannon was pure ladies man,
while he had to work up a reputation first. Cannon would have to be taken out simply by
brute force or giving him too much overconfidence.
Silver...He chewed his bottom lip meditatively. She didn't have a weakness thus
far. Obviously she wasn't chummy enough with any of her team to be their girlfriend,
and he didn't think she had one back home. She was one of those free spirit, perfect girls.
Cannon was probably pursuing her. Lightning said something about that. But. Ah. If he
got to her first, it would knock Cannon out, and her if he pumped her for information. She
would probably be cake. She wouldn't know what hit her when he came around.
"Midnight!" Quickie bounded down the rocks.
"What? It's your fault we lost them anyway! How did they know we were
following?"
"I thought they had a life form heat scan. How else could they have seen the
bazooka guys? Obviously they have a good one, saw right through our heat suits and
knew we were following the whole time. They played their cards right."
Comet pushed back his lazily blonde hair. "I agree. That group isn't to be messed
with. We have to disqualify them or stay out of their way."
"Or cheat." Lightning smirked.
Midnight laughed. It was supposed to be some goody-goody ten-stars from
Nebraska that came to Spy Wars. He'd messed up their computers though. Only
Midnight and Quickie were getting a 10 in a certain class. Ninja. He made sure to talk to
Agent Green too. She gave the others people who would have made it, 9.5 stars. Agent
Green was a sucker when it came to Midnight Sky. She was only 21 and he's 18.
Midnight and Quickie chose Lightning and Comet. Personally he didn't want to
take Quickie. He could be a good boy when he wanted too. But there was no kicking out
one of the best SITs in the compound. He was a good asset, and he would be easily to ply
when they needed to take...desperate measures.
His mind bounced back to Silver.
"Well," He thought, "This will be a fun agent to mess with."
