A couple of minutes after entering the forest, Suzen had led Sharon and Maria to a small metal bunker set up in the middle and looked like an old, abandoned fallout shelter.

"Just what is going on?" asked Connor as he and the others hid behind some trees in the distance. As he said this, the three girls had gone into the bunker, Suzen shutting the door behind them.

"I don't know, but it doesn't look good," said Miranda as they started to move toward it after waiting a few minutes.

"Where did they go?" asked Alden as they opened the door to find no one around.

"Here," said Lizzie who noticed a small hatch in the floor which was slightly stuck open thanks to a rock that had ended up wedged between the floor and the hatch door. Down below the secret staircase, Suzen was in the middle of getting yelled at by a scientist.

"How could you bring these two down here?!" asked the scientist who was the man Suzen had talked to on the radio.

"She deserves to know what happened, and her friend already knew about the braces so why should we keep quiet anymore?" asked Suzen. They were all unaware that the other teens were out in the hall listening.

"Fine," said the scientist as he massaged the bridge of his nose.

"My name is Johnny Sans, owner and lead scientist for Solar Tech, a company who creates gadgets for the government and also works as an off the books secret intelligence company," he said.

"Look, I don't care about any of that, all I want to know is how I got ahold of these braces and if you can remove them," said Sharon.

"Our company was in the middle of creating those braces as a new spy gadget," said Johnny.

"But one of our sister companies makes braces for normal everyday use, and they managed to get sent out to your dentist," he said.

"If they were meant to be a spy gadget then why can't Sharon control them?" asked Maria.

"Those braces are the prototype, they weren't ever tested," said Johnny.

"Hey, what are you kids doing here?!" asked a voice from the hall. This startled Addie, causing her to open the door and everyone to fall in.

"H… hi," said Zack as everyone looked up at the shocked Sharon and the other three.