"Hey guys. We brought some more-" Maddie dropped the box of toys in her hands. All the kids, Travis, and Zack were gone.

"Whoa. What happened in here?" Angie said as she put Maddie's dog, Scamp, down and Esteban, Cody, Max, Ryan, Liam, and Darryl walked in.

"Esteban!" Maddie said.

"I'm sorry. I left the daycare in the hands of Travis and Zack." Esteban said.

"Uh-oh." Darryl said.

"No big. We'll just call him." Angie said. She pulled out her phone and pressed 2.

"You have my boyfriend on your speed dial?" Maddie said.

"What? He was my boyfriend until last week. And he is one of my best friends." Angie said. They all sat in silence until they heard the sound of 'One Wish' coming from the play house. They all looked over there to find Travis's Treo on the ground.

"It must have fallen off his belt loop when they pulled Esteban out the play house." Maddie said.

"Esteban-" Angie began.

"Don't ask." Esteban said. They all stood there for a moment in silence, then there was a muffled sound.

"Did you say something?" all of them said simultaneously. "No."

"Then who did?" Max asked. They heard the muffling sound again and paid close attention to it. They all separated and walked around the room. They heard the mumbling noise again.

"It's not over here." Cody said.

"Not here either." Darryl said.

"I heard it over here." Maddie said. She walked over to the closet she was close to. She opened it and found a tied up Travis and Zack. "Guys!" Maddie bent down and took a tie from around Travis's mouth.

"That kid should be locked up somewhere!" Travis said as Angie untied his wrists and Maddie untied his legs.

"What kid?" Maddie asked.

"Randall. And I thought he was on my side." Zack said as Darryl untied him.

"Why would he do this?" Maddie asked.

"He's mad, because you and Travis are going out."

"What? What is he, like seven? Maddie's sixteen." Travis said as he picked up Scamp.

"Oh, so she never told you that the little seven year-old gave her a love letter. We found it in the lobby. He considers coming to daycare as a date with Maddie." Zack said looking at Travis.

"What!" Travis said looking back up at Maddie.

"Hmm. So where do you think they went?" Maddie asked.

"Hold on. Don't try to change the subject." Travis said jumping up to look her face to face (not really, he's taller than her).

"Look. If we don't find them, Moseby's going to fire us."

"True. Good point. But this isn't over."

"OK. We'll team up. Travis and I. Esteban and Cody. Max and Zack. Angie and Darryl. Ryan and Liam stay here. Let's move out."

"How will we communicate?" Darryl asked.

"For once, Darryl asks a good question." Angie said.

"I've got just the thing. C'mon." Travis said. He began to run to the elevator the others following behind him.

"Here. Take these headsets. They're walkie-talkies. I designed them myself. This technology way beyond what we have now. So, keep it on the down low. I've only got enough for one person in each group." Travis said as he pulled out a box. He passed out a one of them to one member of their team and put one on. Then, they grabbed some handcuffs and ropes.

"Travis and I will check the top floors. You guys separate around the hotel. Watch out for Moseby." Maddie said. They all walked outside, leaving Scamp inside the suite, and split up.

"Got him!" Zack said. "You know. This is much easier than last time." Max grabbed a rope and tied it around the child's wrists.

"Come on. I think I saw one turn around when they saw us." Max said. They ran with the three kids they'd captured. They ran for ten minutes before they stopped.

"Are you sure you saw kid?" Zack asked.

"Yeah, I'm sure." Max said looking around.

"Well, since we're just standing here. Max, I was wondering- hey!" A net had just fallen on Zack and Max.

"Who did this?" Max asked.

"Haha." Zack heard from behind him. He and Max turned to find Randall. He was untying the kids and letting them run through the hotel.

"Hey! Only we can roam through the hotel at will." Zack said. After untying the last kid, Randall ran off. After he was out of earshot, Zack sent out a distress signal.

"Alert! Alert! The kids we have captured have escaped with the help of Randall. They were on the seventh floor the last time we saw them." Angie overheard on her headset.

"Level seven. That's four floors above! Darryl we need to head 'em off." Angie said.

"Stairs or elevators?"

"I'll take elevators. You take stairs." Angie said.

"No! We shouldn't split up. There are a lot kids. We could get jumped. Even if they are seven and younger. You saw what they did to Zack and Travis." Darryl said.

"True. Think logically. Kids wouldn't want to walk down stairs. They're too lazy. So, elevators." Angie said. The two of them ran to the elevators. They pressed the buttons until the kids' elevator appeared.

"Boo!" Darryl said. The kids all screamed. Darryl held back the six kids as Angie closed the elevator doors. Until the elevator came to the lobby, they tied up the kids. When they came to the lobby, they sneaked as quietly as they could back to the daycare and stayed with the kids so they wouldn't escape again.

"Ange and Darryl have made it to the daycare with six kids. It's up to you guys to get the rest." Cody overheard Angie say over the headset.

"That leaves twenty four kids. So we should get three more kids." Cody said.

'OK. Three more little peoples to find. Gotcha." Esteban said. The two ran down the halls until Cody came to a halt.

"Esteban, you have the teddy bear?" Cody asked.

"Yeah but why do you need it? And why are we whispering?" Esteban said.

"Don't worry about that." Cody said. Esteban passed the bear to Cody. Cody took a black marker from his pocket. "Emily. Oh, Emily." Emily turned toward Cody, although she could only see his hands. In them was the teddy bear. "Come slowly, or the bear gets the mustache."

"No!" Emily shouted. She started toward him. When she got to him, Esteban put handcuffs on her and tied a rope inside the chain. She then began to walk with them and the five other kids.

"Six down, two more to go." Cody said.

"Oh my gosh. I can't believe you're jealous of a seven year-old." Maddie whispered to Travis.

"I am not." Travis whispered.

"You so are."

"I so am not."

"You so are.You should know you're the only one for me. OK?" Maddie kissed him. The kids they'd captured groaned in disgust.

"You'll understand when you're older." Travis said. "Hey. Listen." Maddie heard the sound of footsteps running toward them. "Get ready, Maddie." The two stood still in silence. The footsteps got closer and closer, until the kid was in Maddie and Travis's arm.

"Gotcha." Maddie said. They handcuffed the kid to another one and called everyone on the headset.

"How many have you guys locked up?" Travis said over the headset.

"We lost six and captured four." Travis heard Zack say.

"We have six in the daycare." Angie said.

"We've got nine." Cody said into his headset.

"Well we've got ten." Maddie said into Travis's mike.

"That leaves one." Angie said.

"Any of you guys catch Randall?" Travis asked.

"No." Angie said.

"Nope." Cody said.

"He'd be dead if I had." Zack said.

"You guys meet up at the daycare. Zack and I will go after the little dem- I mean angel." Travis said.

"You're the boss." Angie said.

"Over and out." Travis said.

"Peace." Angie said.

"I'm out." Zack said.

"To the daycare." Cody said.

Zack and Travis met up in the lobby.

"Where do we look first?" Travis asked.

"I don't know. This kid's good." Zack said.

"Hey look. There's a note." The two ran over to a table where there was a piece of paper. Travis opened up the folded paper and read aloud.

Dear Maddie,

I wrote your name in the sky,
but the wind blew it away.
I wrote your name in the sand,
but the waves washed it away.
I wrote your name in my heart,
and forever it will stay.

Til we meet again

Your love,

Randall

Travis ripped up the paper.

"What are you doing?" Zack asked.

"Zack, ten bucks says this note was never sent." Travis said.

"Deal." Zack said as he shook Travis's hand.

"Let's go."

"I know a good way to find Randall. I just remembered."

"How?"

"The vents. But we can't let Moseby know." Zack said in a low voice.

" Obviously." Zack ran to where their mother rehearsed with Travis right behind him. Zack removed the grate from in front of vent and had Travis give him a boost. Travis climbed in after him. Hopefully no one would find the grate. Travis and Zack began to crawl through and listen for voices. At one point, they heard their mom arguing with the band's drummer. They continued to crawl through the vent looking through grates as they went.

"Zack. Did you see that?"

"See what?"

"Those crayons on the ground. Follow me." Travis said. Travis continued to go straight and then turned left. Right below him now was Randall. "What did he capture you with?"

"This net." Zack answered he pulled the net out his backpack. Travis took it from him and carefully removed the grate. He picked up the net and dropped it on top of Randall. Randall panicked. Travis dropped through the empty space in the vent careful not to land on Randall. He picked up Randall as Zack landed.

"Gotcha you monster." Travis said. Travis and Zack began to run. They then got to the lobby, where Mr. Moseby was. They continued to run through the lobby, which caught Mr. Moseby's eye. He began to run after them. "Crap! I think Mr. Moseby saw us."

"Keep running." Zack said. They ran through the door of the daycare in relief.

"Hurry up and take off the net. Moseby's onto us." Travis said. All of the teens got up and took the net off. They then threw it in the closet right before Mr. Moseby came in.

"Ah ha! You guys haven't left here?" Mr. Moseby said confused. He was sure he had caught them.

"Of course not. I mean some of us had to leave, but some held down the fort." Travis said.

"OK. Keep up the good work." Mr. Moseby said. He left the room leaving the teens and kids alone. An hour later the parents came and the "counselors" went up to Travis's suite and relaxed and played with Scamp.

"Another day of trouble." Travis said.

"But we got away with it this time." Maddie said.