If you haven't already, you should go back and re-read the last two chapters. They have been redone slightly. So please so that. And it payed off to redo them. It got you this chapter, after all. Anyways. I'm sorry for how long it's been. College stuff and writer's block. But anywho. I hope you like it and please review.

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Chapter 4
Proposition

A week. It had been a week since Cody had come up with a plan. Cody, though she didn't show it to the people around her in that underground base, was very antsy and nervous about the whole plan. Would it work? Would it fail? What's the girl like? Will she agree to what Cody is going to say to her?

Up until the mission the villainous team was kept very busy training, as per usual. However, that one particular Friday in December was different. The team had been waiting for the word from their Master to go on their mission. It was on that Friday that he told them they were to go and get Rich's sister. Conley Corporal, she believed her name was.

What shocked her even more was the fact that they were going to get her at Haly's International Traveling Circus, which was touring the U.S. as of late. Even more shocking, they were planning on capturing her while they were in Happy Harbor.

This mission was going to be very hard on Cody.

After getting the orders and creating a plan with the others, Cody walked around the back of the large circus tent after the performances were down, which Cody had stood outside for, waiting. It was her job to go around the back, go into the tent and the girl. She was relieved when they told her she was the one to do it. That way, she had time to talk to the girl about her proposition.

Cody rounded the corner of the tent and was about to go in, but was bumped into by another person. The woman looked at the smaller teenager before her and almost had her jaw drop.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I wasn't paying much attention to where I was going," the young girl apologized.

Brown hair. Crystal blue eyes. Pale skin. She was average height for a girl her age. She had figure, but she was also muscular from the obvious training she did. However, it was just the fact that this was the girl Cody was looking for. It was the fact that she looked exactly, exactly the same as the girl that haunted her dreams all those years ago.

Cody watched as the girl shifted uncomfortably under her stare. Conley shivered from the cold December air. Cody couldn't blame her. If she hadn't had her higher body temperature, she would have been cold too. However, she hadn't been cold in a long time. Plus, Conley was only wearing a tight fit primarily white with many colored accented uni-tard for her performances.

"Are you lost?" the girl asked.

Cody cleared her throat. She had almost forgot she was there on business. "Are you Conley?" she asked. "Conley Corporal?"

"Yes, may I help you?" the girl asked, with a smile forming on her face.

Oh, you won't be all smiley with the topic I have to discuss with you, Cody thought.

Cody straightened up, hearing footsteps coming from behind Conley. "Hey, Conley!" a familiar voice called out to the young girl. "Should you be on your way to-"

Two people appeared behind Conley. Two people Cody had known very well. It had been a long time since she had seem and talked to them, but she still recognized them, despite the slight aging the years had done to them. Hector and Tony stood behind the young teenage girl, just as shocked to see Cody ad she was to see them.

"Guys?" Conley asked, looking between the two males. "It's not polite to stare."

"Cody?" Hector asked, ignoring the girl's comment.

"Hello, Hector, Tony," Cody greeted with a small, smile. Do the others know they're here? I can't let them find them. "Why don't we take this somewhere private?" she suggested.

"Come inside," Hector motioned. He lead the group into the tent, through several "hallways." He looked back at "Carson's gonna flip."

Cody's green eyes widened and she almost stopped walking. "Carson's here?" I thought he had… The last thing Cody remembered on the subject of her brother was that she hadn't been able to get in contact with him. Yet, she had thought Hector and Tony would have had the same fate as the oldest Conway.

"Well, yeah," Hector scoffed. "Why wouldn't he be?"

Cody shook her head. Of course. If Hector and Tony were alive, Carson had to be alive. Right? "We'll talk about it when we're in private," she said.

The small party entered a makeshift room. There were several vanities placed around the room. It had to have been a dressing room for the circus performers. It had slipped Cody's mind that she was at the circus. Once she laid her eyes on Conley, everything else around her – though Cody was still alert – seemed to no longer matter.

Cody remained at the entrance, looking out into the hallway to make sure nobody was there. She couldn't have the circus people, or her "teammates" there listening in on their conversation. She could let them figure out who was there with Conley. Once she was done looking out there, Cody noticed that the teenage girl sat down next to an older teenage boy by one of the vanities.

The boy had blonde hair and blue eyes. He was tall and very scrawny. He was gangly as well. He was good looking in a "hot nerd" type of way. He wasn't Cody's type, nor was he old enough to be "her type," but he seemed to be good friends with Conley.

Hector and Tony sat on the other side of the room at identical seats at identical vanities. However, they weren't Cody's main concern. It was the man across from Cody that had her attention.

"Shouldn't you be outside performing, Con-" the man started to ask as he turned around. When his eyes landed on Cody, he froze momentarily "Cody?"

Hearing her brother say her name after almost five years, Cody almost broke down and cried. Carson quickly moved to the girl, wrapping his strong arms around her smaller frame. She, in turn, did the same. Her face buried into his shoulder, for he was taller than her, and she didn't want people to see the tears starting to form in her eyes.

"Carson," she sighed. Her throat seemed so dry, her voice sounded unstable. "Oh my God, you're alive! I thought you were dead!"

Cody could hear the two younger people in the room talking about how confused they were and how they didn't know who she was or why she was there, but she ignored it. She was just happy to be in her brothers arms. She was happy to know he was okay. He was alive!

"Who is she?"

"I have no idea, but this is interesting."

"Got that right. She knows his real name."

"She knew my name too," Conley added.

"She did?" he asked, shocked.

"Yeah, nobody ever knows my name."

Carson pulled away from his sister, but still held one arm around her shoulders, keeping her in place. "Conley, Elliot," Carson said, getting them to look at him. "This is my sister, Cody."

"You have a sister, Sensei?" Conley asked.

Sensei? Cody laughed. She remember he had been teaching before he was found by the Elite Eight, but it was still weird to picture. Sure, he was a fantastic teacher, but it was still odd nonetheless. "It's really weird hearing someone call you that," she admitted

"I told you to stop calling me that," Carson laughed. He turned to Cody and said, "I told her to stop calling me that."

"So, what are you doing here, Cody?" Hector asked.

"Not that it's good to see you, it is, but usually when we do, something bad is about to happen," Tony added.

Cody cleared her throat and moved away from her brother and looked out the door again. She was still worried about her mission. Not the capture, but the one she had personally set out to do. This was far to important to not only her, she realized, but to the capture of the assassins and the good of the people in the nation. She knew that sounded extreme, but when she really thought about it, it was true.

Cody took in a deep breath before turning to her brother and asked, "Have you told them everything?"

"A lot, but not all," he answered.

"Can I tell them everything?" she asked. She had to start from the beginning to get the trust from Conley that she needed. Carson nodded, signaling for his younger sister to continue. "When we were younger, Carson, Tony, Hector and I used to train with a man we know as Master. We were trained to be assassins. A long story short, Carson got away after finding out that's why we were training and left, angry and disappointed in me."

"She didn't know it though," Tony defended for her. "We only continued because we were scared for our lives." He got a small, appreciative smile from Cody.

"Right," Carson said. "That was when I went to Minnesota and started to work there. That's where I met you, Conley." Carson turned to Cody and said, "Conley's that girl I told you about, remember?"

"Really?" Cody asked. She looked at Conley and said, "He talked very highly of," she informed her. "You must be a very good student."

Now I remember, she thought. Rich was the brother he was talking about when he said her brother wasn't good.

"Too good," Carson said.

"Devoted," Conley corrected.

Cody gave an amused huff at the teacher and student. It was refreshing to see such good relationships. She had been stuck with the assassins and Master for far too long. "Anyways, I stayed with them to find out why Carson left. I ended up finding out and they tried to kill me because of it," Cody said. "They killed our parents. I got away, but ended up surviving with amnesia."

"Oh, you poor thing," Elliot said.

"I ended up taking over our family's company secretly," she continued after giving the blonde boy a small smile. "I started to remember things slowly. Eventually I remembered and joined the "Sidekick" team, though really we don't like being called that."

"I was then found by them," Carson said. "That was when I left Minnesota. I was forced to work for them."

"Eventually, I got the three of them out and save in England. Or so I thought. I tried to contact you guys a couple times, but I never got an answer."

"We had to run. They were close to finding us. I tried to contact you back, but never got a response," Carson said. "But that was about the time we ran into you in, Conley. Cody, we've been hiding since then."

That makes sense. "That's because I was kidnapped by them. I've been stuck with them for almost five years," she told them.

"That's present tense," Tony acknowledged.

Cody sighed and nodded her head. "Right," she admitted. She was ashamed.

"Cody!" Hector scolded.

"Listen," Cody begged. "What I'm about to tell all of you can't leave here. And you have to trust me. Understood?"

"I don't know," the blonde boy said. "I don't know you. I know them."

"Carson," Conley said. "What do you say? I say, that what you say, is what I say."

"I trust her with my life," Carson admitted.

"Okay," Conley said, turning to Cody with a smile.

"If Conley says okay, I guess I do too," Blondie said.

"When they first took me in, they tortured me. After a while, they experimented on me, like they did with the rest of the guys." The girl raised her hand and snapped her fingers. A flame appeared as if her fingers were a lighter. "I'm Pyrokinetic now. By that time, it had already been about two years. I stayed with them so I could get my powers under control and to try and to gain their trust. That way, I can feed my old team intel."

"So, you're a spy?" Blondie asked. "007?"

"My project name is P-07," she huffed. "Anyway, that's kind of why I'm here."

Conley's face paled in realization. She was smarter than the others told her. "Wait," the youngest said. "Is that how you knew my name?"

Cody looked at the girl with sad eyes and nodded. "Our assignment is to capture you so you become the next."

"What?" Blondie yelled, jumping up.

"Calm down, Elliot," Carson said. "Let her explain."

It was physically obvious that Conley was terrified. Cody knew this wasn't going to be easy. Now, she realized seeing everybody else there, it was going to be even harder. "Listen," Cody said. She walked over to the young girl and knelt before her, looking into her blue eyes. "I'm not going to let what happened to me, happen to you. Got it?"

Conley slowly nodded her head.

Cody looked down, biting her lip. There was something she really needed Conley to know. "You're brother's here," Cody admitted.

It was Conley's turn to jump up and yell, "What? Rich? He's here? No, no, no. You can't let him get me. Please! I beg you!"

"Conley," Carson hushed. "Calm down. It's okay. Look at me, breathe."

Conley was starting to hyperventilate. Carson sat next to her and breathed with her, calming her down a little. However, the tears kept falling down her face. Carson rubbed circles into her back.

"The thing is, I need your help, Conley," Cody admitted. "I have a plan, but I can only follow through with it if you agree. Otherwise, the work I've been doing all these year would have been for nothing. Please, hear me out."

Everyone looked at the blue eyed girl. She was staring into the green eyes of the woman before her. "Okay, go on."

"I have to take you with me," Cody said. "But listen! Once we get you there, I'm going to give you a flash drive and a detailed plan for your escape. Once you escape, you'll take the information to someone on my old team." Cody paused. She seemed hesitant with what she was going to say. "Have you ever considered becoming a hero?"

"Why?" Conley asked, after a long moment of silent, intense thought.

"In order for the plan to completely work, you'd have to leave the circus. After you escape, you'll go to an old friend of mine, like I said, but you'll give them a proposition. You'll become a hero, go on missions with them. One said missions, if it involves Master and us; I'll be there to slip you information. You'll then give the information to the team. You'll be the middleman, so to speak."

"And if I say no?"

"Then," Cody sighed. She had thought about that, but not in great detail. Everything was riding on her saying yes. "I'm out of luck. I'll be punished for not retrieving you, but I'll live and you'll get away with these guys. You'll, hopefully, never have to see me again."

"What if she agrees?" Carson asked. "What about us?" He was thinking ahead of everybody. He needed to know everything before he let Conley make up her own mind.

"I can give you the location of some friends of mine," Cody said. "You can figure out some things from there."

Her attention was completely on her brother now. She had thought about this long and hard. If she had ever met up with her brother again, imagined having that conversation with him. She had done hours of research and eavesdropping on Master and the assassins.

Cody stood up and said, "Carson, they're not looking for you anymore. They have no need, no desire to have you guys back. If you were to come back out publically, they wouldn't come after you."

"What are you getting at, Cody?" Carson asked.

"You can take the company over," Cody suggested. "You can come out of hiding. You can do whatever you want."

"Really?" he asked.

"Yeah," she answered.

While Cody and Carson were having their conversation, it was obvious that Conley was deep in thought, though still paying great intention to what was being said. It almost shocked them when she spoke up, breaking the conversation.

"Okay," she said. "I'll do it."

"You will?" everyone in the room asked.

"Yes," she answered. "We have a lot to talk about, but yes. I'll do it."

"Are you sure about this, Conley?" Carson asked. "You don't have to."

"He's right," Cody said. She had to make sure she wasn't pushing the girl. "You can do whatever you want."

"No," protested. "I-I want to do this."

It was a great relief to Cody to hear that. But that was just step one. "All right," Cody said. "Let's get down to business, shall we?"