I'm baaaaaack! Sorry to keep you wondering about the fate of Katie (hopefully you weren't wondering about the fate of the guards). Anyways, Chaptuar tweve!

or a moment we all just stood there and stared at each other. This was not part of the plan. After a few seconds, we look at Valjean. He's the big, muscled guy here!

"Take them down," I hiss. He gives me a seriously-they'll-capture-me-and-arrest-me look.

"We'll back you up!" It doesn't seem like he takes much comfort in this.

"Just do it!" Terisa again. "We only have like, 11 hours left! GO!"

"Valjean," I whisper, trying to reason with him. "You won't get arrested. We just broke you out, we're not completely useless! We'll help you take down the guards, they just need to be focused on you. Come on, they're way taller than us girls, and you're probably way better at fighting than us." Alyssa starts to object and I kick her in the shins. Valjean considers it, then rushes forward.

We rush in after him. I punch every bit of blue uniform I can find until all the guards are out cold. Alyssa brushes off her hands.

"Good job, Valjean my friend. I have finally met someone who is my fighting equal."

"And to you, Co-Master Ninja." There was silence for a moment, then we all collapsed into nervous giggles.

I never would have guessed that you laugh when you're nervous, but we did. After we calmed down, the seven of us took off the way we came. This however, turned out to be a mistake.

There were four guards there, one of them being Javert.

"RUN!" I screamed, and we took off in the opposite direction. I must have not been paying attention, because there was a fork in the corridor and all of a sudden it was just Katie and me.

Hey, at least there weren't any guards chasing us!

I stopped. "Hey, Katie? Where'd everybody go?" Katie turned around and looked behind us, apparently unaware of the lack of people.

"Oh God… I dunno… do you think the guards got them?"

That is a possibility as well. I make up my mind to try and call Alyssa - if her phone has service mine should too! I punch in her number and call. Her phone rings for a minute and she answers.

However, all I hear is the sound of a scuffle and a few agitated yells before the phone hangs up.

Looks like we'll get nothing from Alyssa. I look up at Katie.

"I think they went down the other path and have been captured by the guards," I tell her. Her eyes widen, and she starts to whimper.

"What's the big deal?" I ask. "There are only like, 4! We can take 'em down!"

"Yes, but then more will come! Selina, do you not realize how outnumbered we are?! There are probably hundreds of guards and only seven of us, nine if Bernard and Eleanora help! We'll never be able to make it out of the prison now that other guards have been alerted!" This is true. We'll never make it out. Not without modern technology that is! An idea begins to form in my brain.

It's a crazy plan, I know, but it might actually work.

"Katie," I tell her. "I have a plan. We're going to split up. You were the one who drove your dad's car around the parking lot, right?" When we were 12 we decided it was a good idea to drive Katie's dad's care while our parents while waiting for all of our parents who were in the bar. We were supposed to hang out in the playground, but we decided that driving Katie's dad's car would be more fun. We got in a lot of trouble for that. But, Katie might now a little bit how to drive!

"Yeah," she replies uncertainly.

"I need you to run back to the campsite and drive someone's car into the woods. I'll get everyone into the outside and you can come pick us up. Everyone will be to confused and mystified to attack us!" For a moment, Katie looked at me like I was crazy, but then a smile began to spread across her face.

"I'll go get the car." She dashes off. Okay. So now I have to find the others and somehow help them take down the guards and get them outside. This is going to be difficult!

I sprint until I see the fork in the path and go the other way, the way everyone else went.

They hadn't gotten very far, probably because once the guards had caught up with them they couldn't run. They were all handcuffed besides Alyssa, who by the looks of it had unlocked her handcuffs with a bobby pin. At least I'd have some help.

It looks like the best way would be to attack from behind and hope Alyssa comes and help.

I run forward and take them down so that Javert fell on his head and was knocked unconscious.

"RUN!" I scream. "To the outside! Trust me!" They take of, but no one gets a chance to chase them because they're attacking Alyssa and me. Soon, of course, all four of the guards are lying in awkward positions on the ground.

"Nice work," I pant. She runs a hand through her hair.

"You too. So, um, why outside so fast?"
"Katie's getting a car and we're gonna escape in style!"
"AWESOME!" We then dash after the rest of the group. They are huddled in an exit, cleverly out of sight.

"So," Terisa hisses. "Exactly how are we going to get out of here?! There are guards with guns who will see us! They've probably been notified and will be more alert! Oh, and can someone PLEASE get these handcuffs off?!"

"Katie's driving one of the cars over here and that's how we're going to escape," I explain as Alyssa unlocks everyone's handcuffs. Everyone is, of course, psyched about the idea and takes a moment to do a kind of happy/victory dance.

We hear the honk of a car. Katie, in the car, wearing some cool sunglasses speeds across the grass ad 100 miles and stops in front of us.

"Pile in!" We throw ourselves into the car and she drives across the grass and towards the forest. Terisa whispers something, and Katie opens the sunroof. Terisa stands up. She does a peace sign.

"Later losers!" She screams, and we then speed into the woods, hearing gunshots in the distance.

We drive for some time, in and out of the portal so that we dodge the wall. After many miles, we let Valjean out.

"So I guess this is it," I say, looking at him. "Need anything?" Valjean shakes his head and smiles, the first real smile I've ever seen on him.

"We'll come back, at some point," I tell him. "However, it might be several years if we have to wait till we're allowed to drive." I slap the side of the car.

"Thanks," Valjean tells me, and waves as he walks away.

I know, I know, the chapter should end here so that it would be the average chapter length. However, I'm doing this book in parts, and I really want to finish part one, so I'm writing a really lengthy chapter! Deal with it!

We watch him leave for a few minutes before Irina screams.

"GUYS! It's almost five! We have to get the car back before anyone wakes up!" Katie steps on the pedal and off we go.

We reach camp in about 20 minutes. I can't believe no one woke up, but they didn't.

Of courses, we had to come up with a story for where Alex was. It wasn't a very good one. He said that he was walking on his way to the bathroom when he got hit over his head (which is halfway true, he did get over his head, except he was running for his life in a field of grass) and that when he woke up, he was lying on his sleeping bag.

When I got back to the house, there was news waiting for me.

"Guess what Selina!" My mom says. "Since seventh grade ends in a few days, we're planning to go the the beach next month. Your friends are going to be there too!

Who knows? Maybe all my friends and I will have to do lie on the beach and soak up the rays.

Or, we might have to do something a little more difficult.

Dis is da end of part one! I'm writing part two as this goes up! Sorry people in the story, you do not get a break! Soak up the rays, I'm not going to be that easy on you!