DISCLAIMER! I forgot to put one in last time...whoops! I don't own nothing except for Alexis and 1/1000 of the plot because of Alexis. So whoop!

STORY!

Walking into the main viewing circular room, Riley said, "If it's any consolation, you had me convinced."

"Anymore consolation, not only did I tell the Big Foot hating lady off but Riley knows a big word." Ben chuckled at Lexi's word and Lexi smirked at Riley triumphantly. "I got him to smile! Whooshah!" Riley smacked her upside the head and she pouted as Ben looked at the Declaration of Independence.

He surveyed the old piece of calligraphered parchment with longing eyes. Lexi put a hand on his shoulder. "You okay?"

"Yeah." He said. Behind them Riley was blabbering about the internet and reputations. "180 years of searching and I'm right there." He said still staring at the Declaration. Lexi started looking over it. It's rough surface held fifty something signatures and pretty much every right she has. Why would her brother try to steal it, then probably destroy it?

Lexi walked out of the building and sat on the stone steps. Riley's eyes watched her as Ben quoted something from the Declaration.

Shaw came up to her on the steps. "Your brother would like to see you now." He said. "He knew if you were alive you would be with Gates." Lexi scoffed.

"Like I'm goin' with you guys? YOU ALMOST BLEW ME UP!"

"We didn't know."

"True, but jesus. Did you notice Ben and Riley in there? I KNOW YOU DID! You almost shot both of them! Lit a historical ship on fire. Planning on stealing a fucking historical document. Ben treats history like it's fragile glass. Not wanting to break it and not wanting to harm it. You and Ian? DON'T GET ME STARTED!" Shaw's green eyes lit up with surprise.

"You'd rather stay with Gates than us!" He yelled at her.

"Better than staying with a bunch of friggen fools." Shaw slapped her across the face and walked away taking out his cell phone.

"What was that about?" Riley asked as he and Ben came out of the building.

"Moron." She said holding her cheek and sat down. "So, what's goin' on with the Declaration?" She asked letting her hand fall to her lap.

"We are going to steal it." Ben said if it was the easiest thing in the world.

"Can you say, "Prison?"! Lexi almost shouted. Ben shrugged.

"You are going to go to prison, you know that?" Riley asked. Lexi thought about it.

"No. We are going to prison. Riley! We got to help him." Riley just looked down.

"Ian's gonna try to steal it. If he succeeds, then he wins. If he wins, no more treasure for he will steal it and he won't ever give up until he does steal it." Ben reasoned. "The only way to protect the Declaration is to steal it."

"I don't get that." Lexi said.

"If we don't steal the declaration, then Ian will, and it will be ruined. Since no one believes us, we must take matters into our own hands. We won't ruin it..."

"Hopefully." Riley interrupted Ben.

"Hopefully...and we will stop Ian from getting the treasure and spending it on ridiculous things instead of sharing the historic reasources that are probably hidden there."

"I get it now." Lexi said nodding. "He's right, Riley. We gotta do it."

"It's like stealing a national monument though." Riley said standing up as Ben sat down. "It's impossible. Absurd. Insane."

"Any more words brainiac?" Lexi interrupted this time.

"It CAN'T be done." He said glaring at Lexi. "Not that it shouldn't but it can't. Impossible. I'll show you." And with that they took a taxi to the Library of Congress.

Lexi gasped in amusement at the ginormous dome building. Ancient design on the inside with little probe lights lining where the wall met the ceiling. There was millions of books and a center study area. Riley gather some plans and books and they sat at a table.

"There are twenty million books. And they're all saying the same thing: Listen to Riley." Riley said.

"Really? I can't hear them speak? Are you? Are you a book whisperer?" She asked gasping melodramatically.

"Shuddup. THIS is an entire layout of the archives." He said unfolding some blueprints of the building. "When the declaration is on display, it's surrounded by guards, video monitors, even heat motion sensors. No possible way to get it from the outside. When it's NOT in display, it's lowered into a four-foot-thick concrete, steel-plated vault."

"You know, Thomas Edison tried and failed nearly 2,000 times trying to make the lightbulb? When asked about it, he said, "I didn't fail, I found out 2,000 ways how not to make a light bulb."

"How does this relate to it?" Lexi asked Ben. He shrugged.

"He only needed one way, to make it work." And with that, he took out some other blueprints.

Lexi pondered while Ben looked at it. "What about when it's not in storage or display. How does it keep so neat?" Riley groaned. But, something clicked in Ben's head.

"The Preservation Room. They clean, repair, and maintain all the documents and other items. There is no code to enter that room and it won't be in a four-feet-thick concrete vault with electric lock." Ben said mainly to Riley.

"Best time to steal it would be..." Lexi started.

Ben finished, "During the gala. For either us or Ian. So we gotta do this fast. Gala is this weekend. Guards are distracted by VIPs. One one or two are actually down there. So, it's an eaiser journey to the Preservation Room."

"Perfecto." Lexi said. Riley, on the other hand, mumbled as he tried to find a way out, but terribley failed to do so. "Do shut up!" Lexi said smacking the papers down.

"This might be possible." Riley said that smacked Lexi upside the head again.

"That's getting old."

"Not as old as you."

"I'm 21 thank you very much. You are 24. So, you're MUCH older than me butthead."

"Butthead? That's really old."

"Not as old as you are."

"GUYS!" Ben said. They hushed and looked at him. "Riley, you take care of all technology problems, like the video cameras. Don't want security seeing me waltzing down there." Riley nodded. "Lexi, you are going to distract Dr. Chase. And with that, look out for Ian or Shaw." Lexi groaned.

"I gotta hang out with Big Foot hating lady?" Ben laughed and nodded. "God, I bet she hates the Easter bunny also. Man does she have..."

"While I take care of getting the Declaration." Lexi nodded ignoring the fact Ben interrupted her. Riley smirked at her behind her back while she flipped him the birdie.