"Fine! I'll tell you the clues, just don't hurt them!"
Isabel's smile got even wider, "Sinead dear, you know that I know most of the clues so if you're lying… Let's just hope you don't. Lower the knifes." She barked at the henchmen. They did as they were told almost instantly. Then she made eye contact with Ned and nodded, and mouthed twenty. This was an old last minute resort from the clue hunt, if one of them were surrounded the other two would find a way to get put in the same area, and they would attack by surprise. No one expected it, so it almost always worked. Ned whispered the word twenty loud enough so only Ted and their guards could hear it. Sinead hoped it would work even though they were twenty feet away.
Then they did it, Ted and Ned both kicked their captors in their knees and yanked the knives out of their captors hands. The captors fell flat on their backs and groaned as they struggled to regain their balance. Ned and Ted bolted toward her and bashed all the henchmen surrounding her on the head with the butts of their knives before they even realized what was going on. She had never seen them move that fast in her life. Now they stood on either side of her and as she lifted up her leg and pushed a button concealed on the bottom of her shoe that revealed a knife. She pulled it out and looked up to see the shock on the twin Vespers faces.
"Never thought to check me did you?" said Sinead with a grin on her face that seemed to have come out of nowhere.
"There are three of us and two of you, or could you not count that high?" antagonized Ned.
Isabel's shock soon turned into anger, "There may be more of you, but did you forget that we were trained?" All of the sudden they both pulled out two pistols and aimed them at the Starlings.
"Now!" screamed Sinead as Ned and Ted bolted forward and bashed Isabel and Ilisa on the head. They were momentarily stunned and during that time Sinead found some rope in the front of the helicopter and tossed it to Ned and Ted. They tied up Ilisa's wrists, but Isabel was too quick. She tried to kick Ted but he moved out of the way before she could dig her heel into his shin.
"You actually thought you could defeat us? Single handedly?" and then she burst out laughing, until she saw what had just came out of the elevator. The others! How they escaped, she had no clue. The Holt twins ran up to Isabel and head butted her at the same time. Isabel crumbled to the ground almost instantly. Amy bashed Ilisa on the head with the butt of Isabel's gun. Then Hamilton dragged then both over to the elevator and shoved them in as the door closed behind them.
Amy rushed over to Sinead and grabbed her shoulders, "Are you okay? We realized that you guys hadn't come behind us, and Hamilton bashed every single Vesper in there on the head in less than twenty seconds. Then we went into one of the rooms and found a phone, we called Nellie and she's coming right now, they should be here in about fifteen minutes. I wish I knew how she rented a jet though."
Sinead looked Amy in the eye, and they both knew the answer almost instantly. "The Kabra's private jet!" they said in unison before they started laughing. After they stopped laughing, Hamilton came over.
"How did you guys tie up Ilisa?"
"Plan twenty from the clue hunt." She said as she smiled.
"Really? Can you explain this plan to me."
She explained plan twenty to Hamilton, and his eyes seemed to get wider with every word.
"You came up with that?"
"Yeah."
"Pretty slick, Ekat."
"Thanks Tomas."
Then they heard the jet and it came into view. On the side was the Cahill C, so they didn't have to worry about it being another sneak attack. When it landed the wind knocked her straight over again, but Hamilton caught her.
"Thanks." She said as she regained her footing.
"No problem."
After the jet landed and the engine stopped, Nellie ran out and nearly squeezed the life out of Amy and Dan. Then she slowly examined every Cahill to make sure they had all their limbs and shoved them into the helicopter. She examined Amy's shoulder and Dan's gash on his forehead, but determined they were only cuts. When she came to Sinead her jaw dropped and she rushed over and helped her limp into the jet. When Sinead looked around the jet she couldn't believe what she was seeing. The chairs were made of leather and the carpet was soft and thick, it was like a mansion that could fly. While Nellie bandaged up her knee Sinead watched the states fly by.
When they arrived at the Cahill mansion Sinead was told she had to get some rest, so she brought most of her lab supplies into her bedroom. Luckily she had only sprained her knee, so she was allowed to hop around her room without her crouches. Amy and her brothers almost lived in her room they spent so much time with her. So when Hamilton dropped by it was completely unexpected.
"Hey."
"What are you doing down here?" she said without even looking up because she was messing with some wires and microchips.
"Just wanted to make a deal with you."
This made Sinead look up, "What kind of deal?"
"I know for generations it has always been Tomas VS Ekatrinas, but why do we fight so much? I mean I'm no rocket scientist but wouldn't Tomas and Ekatrinas make a good team?"
"Probably. Because we have brains and you guys have strength we would probably be unstoppable."
"So is it a deal then? No more fighting for no reason?" he extended his hand.
"Deal." Said Sinead as she shook his hand and for the first time smiled at him for a good reason.
And this was how branch peace between Tomas and Ekatrinas started.