"Yes. The next morning she was gone. I knew that something had happened to her. They must have realized someone had left the garage last night. They checked the bikes and found that her prints were fresh. Without a thought, they would truth serum and ask her about it...just to be safe. It wouldn't be hard to know she knew. A truth serum buzz would be all it took." I felt sick.
"So, were could she be."
"It this is as big as I think it is...she's gone forever." Cannon swallowed.
"Do you think you're safe/ That she dold?" Midnight Sky asked ,e.
"I doubt she told. They probably didn't think to ask that she told someone. They most likely think she went out to investigate."
I nodded. "If she'd said anything about me, they wouldn't even experiment for me, they'd knock me off right away. Chances are they killed her before thorough questioning..." The words lumped in my thoat and I looked away.
"Most likely." Cannon handed me a paper bag.
I took it and looked inside. "You got an extra dart gun?"
"Designed to look like a dart gun. We just finished them in the workroom. It's real."
I twirled it arund my finger, it was lightweight, exactly like a dart gun.
"What do you think they're planning to do? All the best SITs in America...all inone place?"
"All they have to do is blow it up, crim with have free reign in ten years." Midnight Sky blew out a breath.
"Impossible. They would have done it by now!"
"All I know, is that is not Agent One. I have an idea though." Cannon leaned forward. "What if this really was supposed to be a ten star soy war?" But Agent One got replaced by a bogey. All the people who have seen him were replaced with look-alikes. Agents high up never let anyone take their picture, it's easy enough."
"But what do they want to do with us?" I whispered.
"I don't know. That's the scary part. I have no idea." Cannon murmured ominously.
I checked Maxell. "What if we got behind the office building and used Maxell to get some idea. Any?"
"I thought Maxell only did computer stuff." Midnight Sky said, puzzled.
I quickly explained the upgrade.
He gave a low whistle. "Neat. Could you find Dusk's body on that thing?"
"Not without some type of DNA to go off of."
"We got to compete in this Spy War. We have to make sure everyone thinks that the only think important to us this month is this contest. But free times, we have to find out what's going on." I took a deep breath. "There still might be time to save Dusk."
"We can only hope." Cannon checked Maxell. "We've only got fifteen minutes till dinner. But we can check it out after tomorrow's challenge, all right?"
We nodded in agreement.
"Notihng about this till then. Not even a glace, even a look. Not a squeezed hand or a note." Midnight Sky searched both of our faces. "This is bigger than us."
I lay down, looking at the water spot on the ceiling above my bed with a grimace.
"GO TO BED CANNON!" There was a thump of Delta throwing a pillow at Cannon.
"HA! Got your pillow!" Cannon shot back.
"Give it back!"
"You threw it at me! Don't you want me to have it?" He called back sweetly.
There was the thumping of the two wrestling between the bed. Cannon was half joking, but Delta sounded steamed.
"Shut up you two!" Glory joined the fight.
I smiled and turned to afce the other wall.
I froze and reached for something on my uniform.
A bright, satin red hair was caught around the sleeve of my jade green tank!
I turned on my penlight and checked it out. It was definitely Dusk's hair. I quickly darted my hand through the curtain and grabbed Maxell, which was resting on my trunk. I booted it up and hit a few buttons.
"Whatcha doin' in there Silver?" Glory called.
"Go to sleep!" One of the agents knocked on our door.
"Yes sir!" The three sang out.
I hit a few keys and a tiny test tube popped out of the right side of Maxell. I snapped the hair in half, keeping one half for later, but slipping it in my locket. I put the hair in the tupe and pulled anoter chemical out from a teeny test tube in my jacket pocket.
The chemical ate the hair and turned a magenta shade, before dissolving into the tupbe, and into the computer.
I pulled up the map. My heart was beating rapidly.
All the blips were in their bunks. All the agens were in their dorms. "Agent One" was in his office.
I pulled up a window, "Make Dusk blip green." I typed it in.
A blip pulled up.
A green dot blinked merrily on the map in a face in the rainforest. It was the storage cave. Off limits to SITs.
I zoomed in on the screen, trying to get a shape. I could see her form laying on the rocks. Is she dead or sleeping?
She wasn't tied up, but there could be an electric forcefield or something.
I looked out of the corner of the curtain. I should wail till I could go with Cannon and Midnight Sky, but tomorrow could be too late. If she's alive they could kill her at any time.
I slipped on my gear belt and Maxell quickly.
I rolled out of bed and made sure all three were asleep, then tucked out the door.
"Silver?" Midnight Sky stood on the porch with a gun airmed at my chest
