Chapter 20- After the Shadow Games (V)

Rose and Tom have taken ages to reprogram the 'cybernetic bio-forms' and Dan, Aneisha and Keri were getting bored. They have already practised their owns skills (Keri was just watching Dan and Aneisha and then copied them), Aneisha tried to give Dan a makeover which Keri enthusiastically offered to help with, he ran down the street and then sneaked back into the warehouse, he then sat down against some cardboard boxes only to be scared by Keri jumping out behind them and them Dan chased Keri around the block while Aneisha just laughed, completely oblivious as to happened.

Rose and Tom only had one 'cybernetic bio-form' to go and that was Keri's. It was hard to reprogram it because they had to make her learn from everybody else. They only had a few settings to go but Dan, Aneisha and Keri had already fallen asleep from boredom.

"Ok, almost done guy-" Tom looked up to see three sleeping teenagers lying on top of each other. Tom rolled his eyes and Rose giggled a little; she remembered how tired she used to be when she was on the M.I High team. Frank's jazz music had always put her to sleep.

"Just need to moved this wire and…done! We've finally finished after-" Rose looked at her watch. "4 hours! Now I need some sleep." She rubbed her eyes and lay down next to Aneisha who was lying on Keri who was leaning on Dan's shoulder.

"Well that was a great warm up!" Tom smiled and sat down next to some cardboard boxes and continued to defeat the flaming troll.

Sometime around 8:00pm…

"Yes! Finished all of my 20 games in 2 and a half hours! New record!" Tom had never moved so fast since now when he jumped up and started celebrating. Aneisha awoke to find her boyfriend dancing around like a Looney. She giggled and stretched out her arms. Tom saw Aneisha's open eyes and scratched the back of his neck in embarrassment.

"Oh, hey Neish. I was just uh…um…practicing for uh…something I need to do in the near future so yeah…" Aneisha shook her head and smiled. This is one of reasons that she liked him; he was always funny. She pushed herself up so she was now standing and left Rose to lie on Keri. She walked up to him and hugged him.

"I love you Tom." He hugged her back and smiled.

"Love you too Neish." They pulled back in shock because they heard an ear-piercing noise coming from the sleeping teenagers; or were sleeping teenagers.

"SQUEEEEEE! You guys are so cute! Like, almost as cute as Frank and Stella, almost." They turned around to see Keri with wide, sparkling eyes and her teeth flashing towards them. Then they looked on either side to see Dan with wide eyes, but he was glaring at Keri, and so was Rose. Keri didn't notice until Dan coughed intentionally.

"Oh uh… sorry guys. I just woke up to see these two hugging. They're so cute together!" Keri squealed and Dan shot daggers her way.

"Keri!"

"What? It's like 8:15pm so you should've woken up anyway."

"You know Dan I can't believe I'm saying this by Keri has a point."

"Thanks Tom-Hey!" Keri glared at Tom in mock-anger and he shrugged while Rose and Aneisha giggled a little.

"So… I'm guessing you guys finished?" Dan nodded pointedly towards the 'cybernetic bio-forms' and Rose and Tom nodded.

"And when before I said Keri has a point, I meant it because we have to place these things in position." Rose nodded In agreement.

"Ok smart guy, a few questions. One, where are we going to put them? Two, how are we going to go around school without people realising there are two of us? And three, how do we monitor over what they're doing all the time?" Dan folded his arms and raised his eyebrows at Tom, waiting for an answer.

"Ok… one, we are going to carry them down to HQ because it's not too far from here-"

"And when you say 'we', you mean us, right?" Aneisha raised his eyebrows at him.

"Yeah! The answer to your second and third question Dan will take a while."

"Well we've got a while before we have to move these things. And why can't we just activate these things instead of carrying them?"

"Or we could just do that… but anyway, I'm going to write a letter to all your parents saying that you're on a school field trip and won't be back for 4 days. You are all actually going to come and sleep at my house for four days and while we watch over the 'robots' at school."

"Wait….so we don't have to see Mrs King for four days?" Aneisha nudged Keri in the ribs.

"Yeah, basically. I've hacked into the CCTV footage and spy cameras at school so we can see what the robots are doing 24/7. So it's a win-win situation; we don't have to go to school and Frank and Stella get beaten at the Prank War! So, what do you say?" Tom clapped his hands together, waiting for a response.

"Oh yeah, and I've placed video contact lenses on each of them so we can see and hear what they are doing all the time." Rose beamed.

"Let's do this!"

"Oh, heck yeah!"

"Let's kick some ass!" Keri jumped up and fist pumped her hand into the air and everyone cheered. Tom turned towards the doppelgangers and said one word-

"Activate!" the four doppelgangers opened their eyes. The Dan doppelgangers stepped forward towards Tom.

"Hey mate! How's it going? Still loading up on the biscuits yeah?" Dan was astounded by how much it sounded like him, except for a twang of a robotic voice in there.

Aneisha and Keri were the same; totally gobsmacked at how much they sound like themselves. Tom and Rose were proud of themselves and hi-fived each other.

"Alright Dan, Aneisha and Tom, go to St. Hearts underground base." Tom said to them and they nodded. When they walked Rose was amazed at how much better improved these ones were than her genetic copy.

"St. Heart underground base located, 20 minutes until you reach your destination."

"Well then let's go!" Keri's doppelganger dragged Aneisha's doppelganger out of the warehouse and she mimed 'help me!' Everyone laughed at this because it was something Keri would do.

"Right! Let's go prank their asses off!"