This is a real chapter, I promise.

FastReaderBadWriter: Lol me too. But I wanted the Sandor stuff.

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all i see is sky: Woo! You tell him! iT's So HaRd WhY cAn'T tHeY jUsT kIsS aLrEaDy!? Lol. Thanks, you too!

Cary Swirls: Lol. NO, SEQUEL IS GOOD! Idk what the "sleeee" thing is. Everyone should ship Sokeefe! Lol. That was torture to write though. YES IT IS IF! YOU TELL HER! :/ Thank you!

Thesirensong: :/. If there are a lot of corona'd (that's a word) people in your state, please make sure you're staying safe! Fear not, I SHALL LIVE! *Trips over speck of dust and dies* Lol, but that's a great plan. Hope you do! And yes, that was totally my favorite part. Thanks!

Guest: Indeed.

ArrowOfTheMoonlark: Lol, that's great. Maybe. I would totally read the boy talk sequel! I'm so sorry. Trust me, writing that trash was punishment enough. You did a great job with my Shady Black Belt Protection Squad ™! But no, I'm not emotional strong enough for a kiss. Thanks, you stay safe too! Adios!

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Everyone who reviewed the last chapter: Hehehe that was fun. Torture. But fun. I sound like a masochist.

Crowd: You are a masochist.

Me: What makes you say that?

Crowd: I mean, you bring us here specifically to insult you.

Me: True. Okay, I probably do have a problem.

Crowd: No, you definitely have many problems.

Me: Shut up.

Special announcement! Something very fun concerning the crowd will be coming soon: More details by the end of the chapter!

*Clears throat* Yeah. Okay. Let's just move on.

And let's applaud me for keeping the A/N under 400 words!

Crowd: *Doesn't applaud*

Me: Hey!

Crowd: *Throws rotten fruit again*

Me: Stop!

Crowd: You just passed 400 words.

Me: THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT! SHADY BLACK BELT PROTECTION SQUAD ™! ATTACK!

Okay, now let's move on for real. Enjoy!

"Operation Stealing Caches shall commence!" Dex whisper-yelled. "Okay. So, I've hacked into the security system so that if we're careful, no alarms will be going off. I was able to disable the cameras, but I couldn't view them, so I have no idea what the house looks like. For the bodyguards, if you see Axel or anyone coming, press this button and Sophie and I will know to hide." He handed the bodyguards something that looked very similar to the panic ring Sophie wore.

"Wow. Dex, you did all this?"

"Yeah. Guess what, Technopaths actually can be pretty useful!"

Sophie sighed. "I hate it when you make self-depricating jokes about your ability like that. When will you figure out that you're actually really, really, important?"

Dex shrugged. "I don't know. About when I actually get appreciation, maybe."

Sophie looked down at her feet, suddenly ashamed of herself. "We probably are doing a pretty terrible job of showing you how awesome you are, huh?" Dex nodded, and Sophie added "I'm- well, I'm really sorry, Dex. Even if I accidentally start ignoring you sometimes, I'm always really glad that you decided to be my friend when I first showed up at Foxfire."

Dex grinned, showing Sophie his dimples. "Thanks, Sophie."

"Okay," Lovise interrupted. "This is sweet and all, but we're kind of about to start a robbery-"

"It's not like that!" Sophie protested, cheeks suddenly flaming.

"Yeah!" Dex agreed vehemently. Then his grin grew much more evil- has Keefe been rubbing off on this boy? "Besides, Sophie likes Ke-"

"-Don't say it!-"

"-And Fi-

"Don't say it!" Sophie's face was probably hotter than Everblaze right now.

Sandor raised a gobliny eyebrow. "Two boys, Miss Foster? Seems like Grady and I do need to have another boy talk with you."

"No!" Sophie yelped. Mortified, she grabbed Dex's arm and started walking towards the house. "Come on. As Lovise pointed out, we have a robbery to do- we're just wasting time by talking about my love life!"

Dex laughed as silently as he could. The bodyguards, however, made no attempts to quiet their cackles. Sophie glared at them all. "Dex, what sort of alarm stuff are we going to have to avoid?"

Her obnoxious best friend cleared his throat. "Right. Okay, so first there are lasers. I know you don't exactly have the greatest track record for coordination, so you need to be, like, really, really careful." Dex pulled out some sort of elvin gadget that looked extraordinarily similar to a human smartphone and tapped a few things on it. Previously invisible lines crossing the front yard began to glow red. "Don't touch any of those," Dex warned. "It will set of some sort of alarm and Axel will be here immediately. Also, it will hurt. A lot."

Sophie nodded. Her nerves right before showing up were nothing compared to what the knot in her stomach felt like now.

"Okay, follow me, and don't kill yourself," Dex said.

Somehow, Sophie managed to oblige. She ducked under some lasers and stepped over others, and there was one terrifying moment where she tripped over a blade of grass, but for once in her life, she caught herself. After what seemed like hours of almost-but-not-quite failing at everything, Sophie and Dex had made it to the front door.

"Okay, so, we need a password. Four letters. We have three chances to guess. And I'm assuming it's Axel," Dex told her. Sophie tried it, and they both heard the "click" of a door unlocking.

"Hey, look at that! It worked!" Sophie cheered softly. "Is there anything inside we need to be worried about?"

"Well..." Dex started. This can't be good. "There are motion detectors that I couldn't disable. That's the bad news. But the good news is that I was able to mess with the volume of the alarms we're going to set off. They're too quiet to be heard. So, I basically disabled it."

Sophie smiled. "Great." Before she could chicken out, (Because, to be honest with herself, she had a bit of a tendency to do so,) she swung the door open. The interior of the house was surprisingly normal looking- though Sophie didn't know what she was expecting. Nothing about the place screamed Hey, an evil genius lives here! He works as the Neverseen's Technopath and just so happens to be in possession of a few caches that the Moonlark is going to try to steal along with her Technopathic best friend, Dex! Instead of stairs, Axel had escalators leading to all of the different floors, because apparently, geniuses are incredibly lazy. His kitchen had tons of crazy gadgets that Sophie couldn't begin to understand, but that's okay, because she wasn't trying to. Otherwise, though, it looked a lot like the inside of Havenfield- which was strangely disconcerting.

"Do you want to split up to go look?" Dex asked.

Irrationally, Sophie really really really didn't. Splitting up was always how people died in horror movies- and honestly, as they grew closer and closer to pulling this off, Sophie grew more and more scared. Rationally, though, she knew it would go way faster this way- and they would get it over with sooner. "Sure," she answered reluctantly.

Dex smiled, almost like he was reading her mind. "You'll be fine. Here-" He handed her two different gadgets. "The one in your left hand is an obscurer, and the one in your right hand is the gadget that will notify you if any of the bodyguards see someone. The button on the side of that- press that one if you find the caches and it'll let me know. And vice versa. That one allows us to talk, so I'll say something like 'Sophie, I found it!' and you'll be able to tell the difference between that and 'Sophie you need to hide!' Any questions?"

"Obscurer," Sophie repeated, holding it up to make sure she'd gotten everything. Lifting up the other device, she added "If this goes off, I need to hide because someone's coming. The button on the left will let me talk to you, and we'll use it if we find the caches."

"Exactly," Dex confirmed. "Even if you don't find anything, we're meeting back here in two hours. If you need a password to anything, it'll also be 'Axel.' Ready?"

No, not really. Contrary to her thoughts, Sophie nodded.

"Great. Good luck." With that, Sophie and Dex went to go search the house.

Despite the terror of the robbery, after an hour and a half of finding nothing, it was incredibly boring. Every singly drawer, cupboard, or secret compartment in the wall (there were a lot of those) had to be checked. Very tedious. Sophie only had one room left to comb through- finally- when the small device Dex gave her started blinking. As Sophie scrambled to turn on the obscurer and hide, she said some words that Grady and Edaline would probably flay her alive for, had they heard Sophie. She waited like that for who knows how long (probably about five minutes) before the gadget lit up and Sandor's squeaky voice said "False alarm. You're safe now." Exhaling for what seemed like the first time in an eternity, Sophie continued looking. Each square inch of the wall had to be meticulously examined to determine whether or not it contained any sort of secret compartment and- Holy mallowmelt, I found one! All of the last, oh, fifteen or twenty she had found had been letdowns- but Sophie was sure the caches were there in the house, so she couldn't help but get a little excited every time. Sophie punched in A-X-E-L and waited.

Nothing.

Sophie pressed down on the button that would let her call Dex. "Sophie!" he whispered. "Did you find anything?"

"Maybe," Sophie answered. "This one compartment has a different password than the others."

Sophie could almost hear the gears in Dex's mind starting to turn. "Okay," he said finally. "Swipe left for a numerical keyboard, and then type in-" he recited a list of numbers that Sophie's photographic memory had no trouble catching. She followed his directions and held her breath as she heard the "click" of it unlocking. The hidden door opened, and-

"Found them."

IT FINALLY HAPPENED! YAY! They broke into Axel's house and found the caches! You may rejoice!

I feel like this chapter is kind of bad... Idk, I'm not good with action scenes.

Anyway, time for a special announcement! IStillHopeForSophex, who is also writing a book nine prediction (go check his account out!), has created a character similar to the crowd called "GTAtemp guy," or GT. Since the crowd and GT are so similar, we are working on a collaborative story about the two of them! *Confetti cannon* *Sokeefe canon. Haha. Get it?*

Crowd: You are so lame.

Me: Yeah! That's the kind of thing you're gonna get to say all the time in our story!

Anyway, hopefully you will go read that once it's published!

I hope to have next update up by Friday! :)

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