Inside the woods, during the early morning, the cultists were having a meeting, discussing their stay and how far they had gotten to know the campers.

"Alright everybody, settle down. I have an announcement." Micheal lifted himself on a large tree stump and cleared his voice. At once, the children stopped talking and focused their attention on their leader.

"As you may have heard, Bella here has made a...mistake. A costly one at that." The kids, all except Micheal and Bella were looking at her, with confused expressions oh their faces.

"What did she do?"

"Did she do something stupid?"

"Lemme guess, Bella tried to kill someone?" That came from Nathan, who wasn't surprised. It wasn't rare that Bella tried to attack someone, whether it was too early or unprovoked.

"Exactly! She trapped that girl Nikki in a pit and chased after her." Micheal was still angry with the girl and gave her a hard stare.

Everyone looked at her and started clamoring about the attack and started to worry about the mission. Before it could get out of hand, Micheal clapped his hands and put his left hand in a 'shh' pose.

"Quiet everyone. We don't want to wake anyone up." Once again, the kids stopped their discussion and looked up to the brown-haired boy.

"Much better. Now, has anyone done an exploration of this place? Find anything suspicious or interesting?"

No one spoked for a while, only glances and expressions were showed and traded. At last, Priss raised his hand.

"Yes, Priss?"

"I've found nothing. Seems like a normal summer camp, albeit much worse. Only thing worth noting is that creepy old guy and his place."

"A bit disappointing, to say the least. Anyway, how has everyone been with their counterparts? Anything worth mentioning about them?"

"Exactly how Daniel mentioned them. They're exactly like us and our personalities are just like them."

"Well then, that's good to know. Priss, I assume you and the others have gotten their trust?"

"We have gotten to know them well, but the kids haven't trusted us completely yet. Nicole and Astro Kid-"

Astro Kid butted in and stated that "My name is Galileo Jr!"

"Right. Anyway, Nicole and him have their counterparts' trust, and I'm pretty sure that Harold and Nathan have made progress. Rest of us are working on that."

Micheal grinned. He could practically see the victory, as if it was right in front of him. All he and his group needed to do was to stall for a bit longer while Daniel delivered the weapons.

"Excellent. Now, let's get back to our tents and act like this didn't happen." With that, the children strolled back to their tents.

For most of the kids, the day was just starting, them getting up and drowsily walking to the mess hall. Except, of course, the cultists and Max and Nikki, who were wide awake and always on the alert by the white clad children.

Max scooted over to Nikki and gently nudged her. She seemed to be half-asleep and was picking at her food and was surprised by the act of her friend.

"Max, what is it?"

Max wasn't sure why Nikki was like this, but he didn't like it. Actual Nikki would be gobbling all the food she had regardless where it came from or if it was served by Quartermaster.

"Look, I know these kids are carbon copies of us, and your still scared by that girl, but you need to get her to be your friend."

That caused Nikki to leer at Max and to scoot away from him.

"What do you mean?"

"Trust me, if you get her to become friends with you, she'll most likely get her guard down. We need to do this for everyone."

"I can do that. What about Neil?"

Max looked over at the right of him and saw him and Nathan laughing and discussing chemicals and elements and whatnot.

Max, at first, felt sadness, then it turned to hatred and loathing at Nathan.

"Stupid traitor. Can't believe he replaced me for some damn clone of him."

Just then, David and Gwen walked by, the two also distressed by yesterday's events. Max got up and walked over to them while also dragging Nikki with him.

"Hey Gwen, I need to see something."

The woman groaned, not wishing to deal with whatever Max had come up with. "I'm not dealing with any of your bullshit Max."

"I need the paperwork."

"Wait, what?"

"You heard me. I need the paperwork for the new kids."

The adults looked at each other, and then back at Max. Gwen shrugged and went inside the counselors cabin to get the papers.

In a minute, Gwen had gotten the papers and handed them to Max. The boy hoped he could get something out of them.

As it turned out, he couldn't. All of the signatures were different and all were written from sloppy to very neatly. Max cursed under his breath and threw the wad down.

"God fucking damnit! These-"

David stepped in and put his hand over Max's mouth.

"Quiet. We don't need the kids to hear us," David whispered.

When Max had calmed down, David clapped his hands and ordered everyone to go outside. The campers obliged and walked out of the mess hall.

Outside, the kids stood in a group with the adults in front of them while David stood outside with a smile. He pulled out a clipboard and was about to read from it when Elizabeth casually strolled to him.

"Don't worry, I can handle this. I'm used to dealing with kids."

This shocked David. No one ever really took care of something and here he was with a girl who was willing to help him.

"I'm sorry Elizabeth, but this is-"

Suddenly, Elizabeth pulled on his arm and got him down to her face.

"Do not worry. As I've said, I have worked with children before, and I'll report to you if something goes amiss."

"But you will check in on us hourly. Is that a problem?"

"Not at all." With that, she grabbed the clipboard shoved the two inside the mess hall. With a grin, she read out the activities for today and told everybody to go. Except for Max and Nikki.

She turned around and looked at the two. "I know what you two brats are doing."

The duo put on their best smiles and tried to look as innocent as they could. This didn't faze the teenager and she pulled out a small whip out of a jacket pocket.

"I won't be afraid to use this to keep you or the others in line. Will that be a problem?"

Max froze and looked at the whip. It was bringing back bad memories, mostly of his mother hitting him with it as a form of punishment. He had a permanent scar from it on his right leg.

Fortunately, he snapped out of it and told Elizabeth that nothing was wrong. He tugged Nikki on the arm and the friends sped into the activities field.

Max grinned. It was time for the plan to commence.