Well... I'm thinking of making a schedule. How 'bout every Friday? Anyways, here's the chapter.

Jessica walked in with two bodyguards at each side of her.

"Ben!" Jessica said in shock, "I didn't think you would be the security threat that the guards told me about. Oh no, you're here with the CIA!"

"What… Nah… Why would we? Pfffft, of course not." I tried to sell the lie as hard as I could, although I was in a lot of stress. That along with the obvious fact we were searching through her things made for a difficult lie to tell.

"Well, then why are you here?" Jessica asked, not buying it for a second.

"We… Er… We were…" I said, not able to make up another thing. Erica sighed in disappointment. My heart sank. I was going to get both of us killed.

"Don't even try to lie," Jessica said. The other guards pulled out their guns. I took one last final look at Erica, desperate.

Please tell me you have a plan… I mouthed to Erica. She just stood there, none-moving. Then within a second, she attacked both guards, defeating them. Seeing this, Jessica ran for it.

"Don't try to stop her. She knows this place better than you do, and she'll definitely call up more guards. You got anything?" Erica said.

"No," I replied.

"Well, then we better get out of here." She said, calmly. She walked out in the hallway. "Zoe," She yelled. "We'd better get out of here."

She then stopped in her steps. I followed her out. There was one problem, however. Zoe was gone.

"We've gotta-" I started.

"No, we can't. We don't have enough time and this skyscraper's massive." Erica interrupted to walk down to the stairs. I followed her. Only 20 seconds later, we heard voices from below. Erica immediately turned and started to climb the stairs.

"I think they're this way!" A voice from above said.

Erica looked around. "Here!" She pointed to a hallway and started running.

"So what's the plan?" I asked, following her.

"Get out," Erica replied.

"Well I know that, but how?" I asked her. Hoping she had a real plan.

"That's what I'm trying to figure out," Erica said. Guards emerged from a doorway at the end of the hallway.

"Stop!" They yelled. Erica started to run the other way, yet guards emerged from that end as well. Jessica walked in.

"Really, do you know when to give up?" She asked.

"No," Erica replied.

"Well… Guess this is the end for you guys. Although I do have one question. How? How did you know?" Jessica said. The words hung in the air for a few seconds.

"Well…" Erica sighed, she walked to the glass half of the hallway. "We've always known really." She looked down. Her eyes widening the smallest bit. Any person who hadn't been around Erica wouldn't have noticed it. Erica turned to Jessica and walked by my side. My heartbeat increased tenfold. "But I guess that's a story for another time."

At that, she took my hand and jumped through the window, shattering it. Time slowed to a standstill. I turned my head to Erica. She just kept looking down. I looked around. The skyscrapers slowly rose, the sunset. I then followed Erica's lead, looking down. Then it hit me.

The ground hit me. Or I guess more accurately, I hit the ground. It wasn't as painful as I expected. Erica jumped up. I managed to get up as well. Then, the first shot pinged off the floor beside me.

"Snap out of it, we still need to get out," Erica yelled at me. I took a second to look around. Turns out we had only fallen ten feet. We were still several hundred feet away from the ground. We ran over to an open door on the balcony. We traveled down the staircase once again. Erica pulled out her gun. I did the same.

A sole man appeared across the corner, yelping he ran the other way. We continued to race down the steps, hoping that no other guards would block our way. We made it far… up, or more specifically, down to the lobby. It was there that 2 guards started to shoot at us.

We took cover back behind the receptionist's desk, throwing her out. Erica took a few potshots at the guards, hoping to scare them off, yet they stayed where they were. Not moving an inch. Deciding to push my luck, I lept out of the desk and shot one guard in the leg, causing him to fall down in pain, with the other I didn't have as much luck. Yet I did manage to nip him in the arm. I ran out of the skyscraper, with Erica following me. We hid in an alleyway while the local police force stormed the building.

"So what's the plan now?" I asked her, panting. The adrenaline started to wear off.

"Well…" Erica stalled. She obviously didn't know what to do next.

"Well?" I asked her.

"Let me think for a moment will you?" Erica said.

"I'm just-" I started.

"Just what? You know, how about you try to make up a plan for once? Why don't ya? And while you're at it, why don't you continuously rescue your partner because of his incompetence?" Erica's voice started to rise.

"Come on now… You're stressed-" I said, trying to comfort her.

"I'm stressed?" Erica said… "Yeah, you think? I'm stressed 24/7."

"I understand…"

"Understand? No. You've never experienced what I have to go through on a daily basis. No. It's all just 'gee, I hope I pass that test', or 'wow, I've got the tiniest bit of homework', No."

"Well, what is it that you're stressed about?" I was becoming scared. She was starting to get a bit mad.

"Things like these…" Erica said, "I have to rescue everyone. When anything goes bad, I always get blamed. And when I save everyone's lives, I never get the credit."

"You do get some credit."

"Yeah. I'm always behind you. I never get the credit I deserve. You're always praised for figuring out what SPYDER does and for 'defeting' them."

"Well, I do figure out their plans…" I said. Tensly. I knew this was going to add fuel to the fire, yet I couldn't help myself to point it out.

"You know what? I'm tired of your crap." Erica said in a menacing tone. "If you don't shut the hell up, right now, I'll slit your throat." There was an edge to her voice. She gave me a terrifying stare. I quickly shut my mouth and backed away from her. Seeing this, she became even angrier.

"I just-" Erica started, yet she quickly fell to the ground, silent. A dart was stuck in her arm.

"Guess we meet again." A voice spoke behind me. I turned around. Joshua.