Another chapter, hope you guys enjoy it, and excuse me for any spelling mistakes there might be.
Disclaimer: I don't own the GG series or any of the characters, Ally Carter does.
Which Wire To Cut?
Zach and I took turns in keeping watch, but our time was running out. Any moment now, whatever it was that was going to happen was going to well… happen. And we couldn't afford something like that, not if we wanted to save the students and if we wanted to pass our exams. So while I mingled around, Zach went to have a look around the school. "Cammie, where's your boyfriend?"Josh asked me. I pretended to look around, "Oh, he went to the bathroom. He should be back soon." I told him. I felt bad for lying to him, what with all the lying I'd done the last semester, but unfortunately lying is part of a spy's life.
I kept looking around the gym looking for any suspects and lucky me, I found one. It was one of the chaperones in the gym, I saw him raise his arm and … there he had a gun hidden underneath his jacket. I walked towards him, not making it very obvious, because by now he'd probably figured out that one of his colleagues was missing. So I had to go the long way around. I came up behind him and grabbed him in a choke hold before he could react. I dragged him to the shadows of the gym and knocked him out with a well landed round-house kick. I hid him in the janitor's closet, before somebody noticed a body lying around and got freaked out.
Finally, Zach came back and told me everything he saw. "The school has some air vents that I was able to crawl through. I checked out every class room in the school and there was nothing wrong with them." "Are you sure you checked out the whole school though? Because some schools have basements." I reminded him.
"I did not think of that." He said. I tried really hard to not roll my eyes, and succeeded. "Jonas, Liz can you guys get us some blue prints of the place?" Zach asked through his comms. "Yeah." They both answered at the same time. About two minutes later, we were making our way to the school's basement. "Damn, it's dark down here." Zach was complaining. "Stop complaining, this gives us the prefect cover in case somebody comes down here to investigate … or something along those lines." I told him. "I know that, I'm just saying that this makes it harder to look for whatever we're looking…" his voice trailed off as a beeping sound came from his watch. We looked at each other horrified. It couldn't be. Zach's watch had a small device that detected any nuclear weapon near a hundred mile radius of where we were standing. I swallowed and asked him, "Do you know how to deactivate a bomb?" he nodded and I sighed. "We're going to need some equipment." He said as he took some tools out of his jacket. "Yeah but first we're going to need to find the bomb." I pointed out.
And that's how I found myself walking around the basement in the dark, looking for a hidden bomb. Zach's watch didn't help much either, it could only detect nuclear weapons not find them, which if you asked me, sucked. My foot bumped into something hard and I cursed, I heard Zach laugh in the background. I glared in the direction his voice was coming from, and I was startled to find him right beside me. I must be getting a bit rusty if I didn't hear him coming. 'Note to self, work on hearing senses.' I thought to myself.
"Well, I think I found it." I told him. He shone his flashlight on the bomb. "It's not very big." He said. "Umm, I don't think it's supposed to be." I shrugged. He rolled his eyes at my sarcasm. I shook my head and proceeded to examine the bomb. "Liz, what do we do now?" I asked her. "You need to find the control panel and see when the bomb is due to go off. Then we'll see how long you guys have to deactivate the bomb."
"Chameleon, you are so lucky if you're getting to deactivate a bomb." I heard Bex say through her comms. We started looking for the control panel. Finally I found it off to the side. "Great!" I exclaimed once I saw how much time was left before the bomb went off. "What?" Zach felt compelled to ask. "There's five minutes left before the bomb goes off." I gave him the bad news. "I can work around that." He said, coming to stand beside me to look at the control panel. There was a bunch of glowing buttons and other stuff that I didn't quite understand. Luckily Zach did and he went to work, opening the side of the bomb.
Wires tumbled out of the opening. Zach started untangling them from each other. He took out some clippers from his tools kit and started snapping some of them, while I shone the flashlight on the bomb. Finally two wires were left and we only had two minutes left as well. I saw Zach hesitate, while looking at the wires. I heard him mutter, "Blue or Red?" over and over again. Time was ticking and still Zach didn't cut either of the wires. I was starting to get worried. We'd been gone a long time; people would suspect we'd been gone. We needed to hurry up and yet… Zach wouldn't cut the damn wire.
"Hurry up Zach." I whispered to him, not wanting to pressure him, but not wanting to get blown up into tiny pieces. Of course I could only hope…
It was a little longer than the last one… I think. I hope you guys enjoyed it. Will Zach cut the right wire in time? Or will the bomb go off? Sorry I don't know much about bombs or anything to do with that subject but I did my best. And I apologize for any mistakes I might've made. Please Review?