"Come on, Lexi!" Shaw shouted to Ian's younger sister. She hopped down the staircases to the bottom floor of the hotel, her sandy blonde hair waving around.

"Jeeze, Shaw!" She joked. And she joined him into the black car with the other buddies, including Ian, and set her bag on her lap.

"Hey Skittles." Ian said. She stuck her tounge out at him. Her grey eyes flashing with excitement.

"So, Ben really found the Charolette?" Lexi asked. They all nodded. "Well, that's sweet. Now, move it!"

And that was the beginning of Alexis' journey with Ian and Ben. Now, they are in the tundra riding towards the Charlette.

"I was thinking about Henson and Peary...crossing this kind of terrain with nothing more than dog sleds and on foot." Ben said driving the vehicle. Lexi got stuck with him, Riley, and of course, Ian. Ben wore black sunglasses to sheild his eyes from the glare of the sun and his brown hair had a thin layer of moisture. They were all wrapped up in fur coats. Riley worked WITH Ben and his blue eyes watched the laptop in front of him. Brown hair had the same moisture along with Ian's blonde hair. Ian too wore sunglasses. Lexi wore a navy winter coat and black thermal pants with black boots. She had nothing to sheild her eyes. "can you imangine?"

Lexi laughed a little at Ben. He truely was obssessed with History. Ian answered sarcastically, "It's extraodinary."

Riley's computer started beeping. "Are we closer?" Ian asked.

"Assuming Ben's theory's correct and my tracking model's accurate," Riley began, "we should be getting VERY close." Lexi rolled her eyes for Riley was 'passionate' about his computers. Lexi stole his red had and looked at it.

"Gosh, this is boring."

"How could you say that Skittles? We are this close," Ben indicated with his two fingers, "to finding a ship. That's excitment. Not boredom."

"Still." She returned Riley's hat who GLADLY took it.

"Don't go by me-" He continued "-I broke a shoelace this morning." The two guys looked at him and Lexi just roared with laughter. "It's...it's a bad omen." Lexi laughed harder.

"Shall we turn around and go home?" Ian asked. Lexi groaned.

"Or we could pull over and just throw him out there." They laughed and Riley just mimicked them.

"We COULD just freeze him leave him in the damn ship that's hiding on us and then heat him up AFTER we find the ship and treasure." Ben and Ian nodded and Riley smacked her upside the head. "WHAT?" She asked.

"Riley, you're not missing that little windowless cubicle we found you in?"

"Imangine if it was ice." Lexi muttered so only Riley could here and he elbowed her.

"No, no. Absolutely not." He said laughing a little. His computer beeped faster.

"FINALLY!" Lexi shouted. The tractor thing stopped and the other stopped in suit.

"Why are we stopping? I thought we were looking for a ship." Shaw asked. He always was the dim witted one.

"I don't see any ship." A Russian dude observed.

"Well duh. It's ice." Lexi said looking out ACTUALLY KNOWING it was under it.

"Exactly let's get a move on!"

"She's out there." Ben said taking in the scenery. They broke out with the metal dectectors and started looking around. Lexi went around the back of the vehicles and found some gun powder. She glanced at it. Riley came up behind her.

"What's that?" He asked.

"Gunpowder." He nodded and she looked more to find some old metal plates. "What's all this? There HAS to be a ship around here." Riley nodded and they went over to Ben who was kneeling down looking at the wood of the Charlotte.

"Schweet!" Lexi shouted pumping her fist into the air. Shaw stared at her. He has a teeny crush on her.

After two hours, the gang finally got half the boat uncovered. It was small and had of course, a woman statue at the front. Lexi scowled at that. Heading inside before the guys did.

Stumbling into a room with cots and skeletons, she closed the door and looked around. She stumbled across a trap door. Not knowing where it led she went down and heard the guys come in. She peeked through and saw them coming down through the trap door.

She almost bursted out laughing when she saw Riley spaze at the skeleton thing. "You handled that well." Ben said. She almost laughed again. She saw Ben finding the cargo hold. She closed the trap door and went to the next which she found to be in the cargo hold. She felt a tiny pang of disappointment when they found it was empty.

They started opening barrels and found nothing but gunpowder.

"Why would the captain be guarding this barrel?" Ben asked himself. Lexi looked his way and instead of someone else. After pouring out the gunpowder, discovering box, cutting thumb, figuring clue, she payed attention more for they were fighting.

She saw Shaw pull out a gun and her breath caught. "Hey!" Riley exclaimed. Lexi almost cried. HOW COULD HER FUCKING BROTHER DO THIS?

"What are you gonna do? Are you gonna shoot me, Shaw?" Shaw just looked at him, gun still pointed. If they ever kill him she will kill herself. "Well, you can't shoot me. There's more to the riddle." He protested.

"Point." Lexi thought.

"Information you don't have. I do."

"Point again." Lexi thought.

"I'm the only one who can figure it out, and you know that."

"Too true." Lexi thought.

"He's bluffing." Shaw muttered.

"We played poker together, Ian. You know I can't bluff."

"Actually, he just does it to seem like it. So he acutally can." Lexi thought to herself.

"Tell me what I need to know, Ben." Ian said. "Or, I'll shoot your friend." Then Shaw pointed it to Riley.

"NO! FUCKING MORONS. First you want to kill one man, now two. AND SHAW WILL SHOOT HIM NOT YOU!" Lexi screamed in her head.

Riley hid behind ropes and shouted "Hey" again. Lexi slapped her head.

"Quiet Riley! Your job's finished here." Ian said.

Ben lit a spark. Lexi's breath was caught again. She'd be trapped in an exploding ship!

"Look where you're standing. All that gunpowder." Ben told the two twits. "You shoot me, I drop this, we all go up." ("Including me" Lexi thought)

"Ben..." Riley warned.

"What happens when the flare burns down?" Ian asked. "Tell me what I need to know, Ben." Lexi groaned and smacked her head again.

"You need to know..."Ben paused "if Shaw can catch."

"SLOW LIKE REFELXES!" Lexi shouted in her head. But, Ian caught it. "Cat like reflexes." She thought.

"Nice try though." He said WAVING the spark around. Lexi shook her head when his sleeve caught on fire. "Stupid...stupid like reflexes." She whispered.

The gunpowder caught on fire and Lexi was close to revealing her hiding spot. Shaw started FIRING and the two ducked. "GET OUT SHAW!" Ian shouted like they were lovers or something. Ian took one last look at Ben and slammed the door.

"Riley! Ben!" Lexi said lifting the thingy open.

"Lexi?" Riley asked.

"You guys are dumb. Didn't hear me smack my head. For one, Riley never hide behind Rope. Two...never mind...hurry up."

"What is this?" Riley asked.

"Smuggler's hold. Get in!" They went in and the three crawled and ducked as the ship exploded faintly hearing Ian scream "Alexis."

"Guess he found out I was a stole away?" Lexi suggested. Riley hit her upside the head and she stuck her tongue out at him. They climbed out. "Now...two, Shaw was going to shoot Riley not Ian like he said, three, Ian has stupid like reflexes, four, Ben, you have a poker face, get over it, and five, you made three points back there." They laughed and Riley patted her on the shoulder.

"Next time, voice your opinions and don't tell us afterward." She kicked him in the shin causing him to fall forward.

"Next time, voice your stupidity and not use it." She mimicked. He groaned and stood up.

"Dummie."

"GUYS!" Ben exclaimed. He had to admit. They had their amusing moments. But Ian was going to steal the Declaration and they had to stop him...somehow...