Disclaimer, quick here before I start: So I'm kinda a dork and I call myself one all the time, and I will reference Hannah Montana in this chapter because I am a dork, so I don't own Hannah Montana.
Shelby and Cyd found out in the weekends following their first attempted escape from GDD that finding good disguises was much more challenging than they thought it would be. They were too scared about anyone being involved in the future lab to tell them of their plans so they didn't even dare to tell Barry or Naldo what they were doing, despite doubting their involvement with it.
They were about a month out from their last un-accidental trip to the future lab and still hadn't found the right disguises, wigs most specifically; nothing they had found so far seemed right for them.
"They made it look so easy on Hannah Montana," Shelby spoke. "Nobody recognized Miley and Lilly as Hannah and Lola. Why can't we find wigs that make us unrecognizable?"
"I dunno," Cyd replied. "Do you think I should do something with bangs, or maybe short hair?"
Shelby shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe I should try something with bangs too," Shelby trailed off, trying to think of what she'd look like with bangs.
Cyd wandered around the store they were at, looking at the wigs a little more. "What about this one?" she asked Shelby. "Light brown hair, bob sort of cut so shorter than your real hair, and it has bangs."
Shelby made her way over to where Cyd was and took the wig from her to see how it looked. After taking a gander with it, she decided it worked; she almost didn't recognize herself. She continued to look around for something that would work for Cyd, it was in vain. They couldn't find anything for her and left with just the wig for Shelby. "Maybe we should try another place," she suggested.
"Yeah," Cyd agreed. "Wait, isn't there that wig place in the mall?"
"Yeah," Shelby replied, a smile forming on her face. The girls stopped at home to drop Shelby's wig off and then headed over to the mall.
When they got to the small shop full of wigs, Cyd and Shelby went off in different directions looking for a wig for Cyd. It was only a few minutes later that Cyd found Shelby after not seeing anything she thought would work well for her. "Any luck?" Cyd asked.
"How do you feel about being a red-head?" Shelby took a wig from the shelf and showed it to Cyd.
"It's perfect," Cyd said, taking it from Shelby to get a better look at it. The wig was long, wavy, and red with bangs so it would give Cyd's face a different look. They bought the wig and decided that they also needed outfits that were a style different from what they typically wore for when they went to the future too. It took a few more stores to get it right, but in the end, they had finally gotten their disguises taken care of.
"When do we want to take out next trip to the future lab to see if this works?" Shelby asked when she and Cyd had gotten back to their room.
"Sometime soon. I mean we've gone a month without finding out anything new about the future lab."
"Yeah," Shelby agreed. "Why don't we just go now? It's not like we can't go back to before we got ready to leave and then it can be like we never even took time out of our day to get ready. Plus, it's the weekend."
"Yeah!" Cyd exclaimed. "Let's do this!"
The girls picked up the stuff they had gotten for their disguises and went over to their bathroom where they changed and helped each other get their wigs on. They could hardly recognize each other when they were all done getting ready; there was no way anyone else was going to be able to recognize them.
"We forgot the scissors!" Cyd exclaimed almost as soon as they had gotten to the future lab. They took a quick second to go back to their room to get them, cut themselves free, and get off the tables.
"So do we go through the air vents again or try the door?" Shelby asked.
"They shouldn't recognize us if we go through the door, but everyone gathers there fairly soon after we go missing so maybe we should just go with the vents again."
"Okay." The girls pried open the cover of the air vent and got in right as the man in the suit entered the room. Again, they moved as quickly as they could down the vents and away from the Pelican Ball Room. The alarms rang out and Janet Smythe's voice dominated the speaker system; they continued on.
Somehow, they managed to make it back to the same area and vent over the deserted room as they had before. They dropped down and headed towards the exit.
They made it outside without any problems until they remembered the cameras that lined the outside of the building. Instead of running and looking suspicious in doing so, they walked as casually as possible along the building, hoping that it would work.
After several minutes, they finally made it past the edge of the building. They got back to town without being recognized. It was then, when they thought they'd be safe, that they made a run for it. They should be safe at their school, then they could find Barry and Naldo and see what the two of them could do to help. They didn't, however, realize how much work it took to keep the wigs on.
While the girls were running, they ended up losing their wigs. They went back to get them, but were too late to not be captured. They got their wigs as the people from GDD got them. They were only a few blocks from their school where, unknown to them, GDD had set up spies to try and catch them, taking the chance of them going back there. When they came to at GDD, Janet Smythe stood over them.
"Where did you get these disguises?" Janet asked, holding the wigs up in her hands, right over the girls.
"The past," Cyd said.
"Which is where we're heading back to." Shelby got the wigs out of Janet's hands and reached out for Cyd's hand. They were instantly back in their room right after they had gotten back from shopping.
"It would have worked," Cyd said.
"We just need to make sure the wigs are more secure."
"Next time," Cyd said.
A/N: I hope everyone had a good Holiday in the past couple days and Happy New Year. I also hope that you enjoyed this chapter and would love to hear what you thought of it or how I could improve. Thanks for taking the time to read it.
-CrazyHayniac