Chapter 17- After the Shadow Games (II)

Sorry it took so long to update! But thanks for the extra reviews everyone! Only 1 person guessed as to whom might the team see in this chapter and just to let you know, you were close, but not right. Please keep reading to find out who it might be! Hope you enjoy this chapter!
Jasmine xoxo

"Well then, let's go!" Keri jumped up and ran to the lift followed by the others. Little did they know who they were going to run into there…

The team arrived at the warehouse that was bolted up with a lock made of titanium. Dan frowned and turned to Tom.

"How are you going to override this lock? I don't think the spy-pod is good enough." Tom pulled something out of his pocket that looked like a cotton bud. Dan, Aneisha and Keri looked confused as to what he was implying.

"I sort of took this from HQ; it's one of Frank's old gadgets, when you place the cotton bud into the hole like so…" Tom placed the cotton bud carefully into the lock.

"You might want to stand back for this bit because when you twist it, it makes a loud BANG! And could potentially explode and we could get injured." He signalled for the team to stand back and twisted the cotton bud. They could only hear three beeps before they heard a loud explosion from the lock. Tom turned around to see the before titanium, polished lock on the warehouse door to being old, rusted and covered in ash, including most of the door. As ash went flying everywhere, they started to cough loudly.

"Alright, let's get inside." Dan instructed and they followed him in to see large cardboard boxes everywhere. They looked to their right to see a female figure with her back turned to them. She was wearing black clothes, as if she just came out of the M.I High lift, with her hair straight and cascading down her back. Because Aneisha could see her at a side view, she could see a fringe cut straight across perfectly and just above her eyebrows. She had dark brown skin but a little lighter than Aneisha's. Lots of mascara was worn on her eyelashes and dark green eye shadow, to compliment her eyes. She looked in her early twenties and when she saw a bit of Aneisha's face with her peripheral vision, she quickly jumped 180 degrees and into a fighting stance.

"Who are you?" She asked and Tom recognised her immediately from the M.I.9 folders.

"Hang on…are you Rose Gupta?" He asked and her face softened a little but shot a questioned look their way.

"How do you know my name? Who are you?" She repeated and Tom sighed with relief.

"My name is Thomas Tupper; this is Aneisha Jones, Keri Summers and Daniel Morgan. We're the new team of M.I. High."

"No way! Are you the Thomas Tupper that hacked into the NASA satellite?" Rose asked him and he grinned.

"The one and only!" She turned to Aneisha.

"OMG! Your Aneisha Jones; the one that had a front row seat at the royal wedding!"

"I try." Then Rose turned to Dan.

"You do the best parkour I've ever seen!"

"I'm starting to like this chic!" Keri frowned at him but Rose turned to her.

"You definitely look familiar; I just can't put my finger on it…"

"Gee thanks! Everyone else gets compliments and I get nothing." Keri was waving her arms everywhere when Rose spotted a glowing green mark on her arm. She grabbed Keri's arm which made her freeze on the spot.

"'J.4.5.K.3.R.1' you're the vessel! You're the perfect clone of the mastermind that everyone has been talking about! And you can learn really quickly from what I've been told."

"Hey, you're right Dan! She's kinda cool!"

"Wait, can you show me something?" Rose asked Keri.

"Umm…what?"

"I'm going to do something and I want to see if you can copy it!"

"Ok…" Rose crept up behind Dan and pressed her fingers into his back; the Five Finger Freeze. Keri giggled at Dan's expression; wide eyes and his jaw had dropped open with his nose scrunched up like he's about to shout.

"Yeah, I can do that." Keri tip-toed behind Aneisha and moved his fingers in the same formation that Rose did, causing Aneisha to freeze on the spot like Dan. Rose stared at Keri in astonishment.

"Wow! That is so cool!" She was gobsmacked.

"Hang on… I still don't know who you are!" She turned to Tom for an explanation.

"Oh, right… this is Rose Gupta; she was the technical genius of the past two M.I. High teams. Her track record was amazing!" Rose blushed and mumbled a thanks to him.

"Oh cool! So you're like the girl version of Tom!" Keri exclaimed and now it was Tom's turn to blush.

"Um… I don't think so Keri. Unlike me, Rose can work on the field too and doesn't sit around in a comfy chair eating biscuits." Tom explained and Keri stared at Rose astounded.

"So you're like Tom, Dan and female all rolled into one?!" Rose and Tom just laughed at Keri comment and she gave them a puzzled look.

"What's so funny? It was a genuine question!" Keri frowned and them in mock-anger but she couldn't help but giggle at the laughing state Rose and Tom were in.

When they had calmed down, they saw Aneisha and Dan frowning at Rose and Keri ad they looked down at the floor feeling sheepish.

"Why on earth would you want to do that to us?!" Aneisha was almost yelling and Keri and Rose mumbled a sorry. Aneisha smiled and gave them both a big hug.

"It's ok; I can never stay mad at anyone for long, except for Tom!" She whispered the last bit but Tom still heard her.

"Hey! I heard that!" Everyone started to laugh which earned Aneisha a glare from Tom. But he could never stay angry at his girlfriend, so he started to laugh a little too. He hugged her and everyone wolf-whistled.

"Shut up!" Aneisha shouted into Tom's jacket and everyone tried to stifle their giggles. Once everyone had calmed down (again) there was an awkward silence between them until Rose broke it with a question that had been troubling her for a while now:

"What are you guys doing here?"