DHI

Azalea's P.O.V.

It was Friday and the whole gang, minus Maybeck who was holding up the rest of the girls at Mrs. Nash's so they wouldn't tattle tale on Amanda and Jess. Wanda led us into a costume storage room. "Find something from the High School Musical street show, and put it on, quickly."

"Do we have to?" Finn whined looking at the basketball outfit that he had donned in disgust.

"Yes, and hurry up, we don't have much time." I browsed through the costumes. The only outfit in my size was a cheerleader outfit. I scrunched my nose as I changed and looked in the mirror. I'll just leave the cheerleading to Charlene. Anyways, we split up into two groups: Philby, Jess, and I were one group while Willa, Finn, Charlene, and Amanda formed the other. Wanda went solo to scout out the Soundstage.

We made our way there without incident, unlike Finn who almost had to beat up a kid and almost blew our cover. Philby worked the computer while Finn and I guarded the door. "Red Alert!" came Wanda's warning. We all sprang into action, looking to make it seem like we had never been here. Two security guards appeared.

They searched around. From my vantage point behind some crates, I could see Finn peeking out from behind the plywood. A crash came from my left as one of the guys started to jump around frantically. They decided to just leave the "spooky room" as one guy put it. As soon as the closed the door, I checked the time. We were going to be late.

"We have to go!" I whispered. Willa quickly turned the lights back on.

"We'll be late!" Jess wailed

"Get Maybeck to delay the other girls, so that if they arrive at around the same time," Finn replied.

"But Jeanine will tell on us anyways," Amanda sighed.

"Bride her with anything possible," Finn nodded.

"Anything?" Jess giggled. The rest of us felt left out of the joke until Finn asked why they were laughing. "Because, her most prized possession is a poster of your DHI, Finn."

"You think we could get you to meet her?" Amanda asked.

"That's not a bribe, more of a penalty, really," Philby smirked. Finn rolled his eyes and we ran out of the Soundstage, making sure to text Maybeck to stall the girls first. We returned again on Sunday and Philby completed the creation of their DHI's though, there's wouldn't be as sophisticated as the rest of ours because Philby had scrapped their DHI's together in a total of about four hours.

That night we all crossed over, although the sisters DHI's were still being uploaded to the system and they were therefore not there. We all met at the apartment above the fire station and it was agreed upon that Philby, Finn, and I would update the server by giving us full access to who crossed over and where they crossed over to whenever we fell asleep.

After dodging park security, we made it to the Utilidor, the underground cast members only area that housed the server. We arrived at the door. Philby started to list problems that would arise if there were still people in the room, which I doubted at this hour. "What if they shut down the server, huh? Then the Return button won't work, we will all be stuck in SBS for eternity!" Philby whispered.

"Forget about the risks, what about getting Wayne back? What about saving the parks, huh?" Finn replied.

"You're right," Philby sighed.

"I know I'm right."

"Then why aren't you going through the door?" I pointed out.

"Cause Professor over here just freaked me out with the whole doom and gloom pep talk of the century," Finn retorted.

"Just do it, before someone comes by!" I ordered. Finn sighed and after a few moments, passed through the door. After about a minute, Finn finally opened the door.

"Jeez, what took you so long, grandma?" Philby replied, quickly entering the room. Philby started to do his geek thing while Finn went on VMN (virtual maintenance network) to check the records which might lead to finding Wayne. I stood guard at the door, if anyone walked in, I would knock them out with a chair.

Everything was going smoothly until someone found Finn on VMN. Philby started freaking me out by saying that they could track our location, if Finn didn't get out quickly enough. Which with our luck, became reality. "Go without me, I got to finish covering our tracks," Finn shouted.

"We're not leaving without you, what if an OT comes-"I started.

"Go! I'll catch up." Before I could retort farther, Philby dragged me out the door and out the Utilidor and back to the apartment.

"Where's Whitman?" Maybeck asked when we arrived.

"Right behind them," Finn replied, standing right behind me. We all held hands and Maybeck hit the button. I woke up in my bed, out of breath and all sweaty. The next day at school, at lunch Finn, Amanda, and I all met up.

"Jess crossed over last night into Epcot," Amanda stated, biting into her cheese and ham sandwich.

"Did you?" I asked.

"No, I don't think so," Amanda replied. The bell rang which signaled the end of lunch. I threw out my trash, bid Finn and Amanda goodbye, and headed for my locker. I rode my bike to the Frozen Marble, Philby already sitting at a table in the corner. I grabbed a vanilla small with gummy bears, Oreo crumble, and other assorted toppings. I sat next to Philby as Finn and Amanda filed in. Philby then presented us with the cryptogram found in Jess' drawing (MKPFP IFP TDIEPR VKPFP CQW'M JFQV HT 2736/2730) Philby started speaking gibberish in which only his fellow geeks could speak as well.

However, he got a date out of it: October 14th, two days from today. After that we attempted to decode the rest of the cryptogram. "The M has to stand for either t or s," I stated. Philby then pointed out possible vowels when Finn complained about how we had to find Wayne now.

"Why are we wasting time decoding this, when we could be out looking for him? I thought the reason we even went to the server was to find temperature drops." Finn whispered.

"Then you should look in the Engineer Base," Wanda stated. Finn whipped around, it was obvious that he still didn't fully trust her. Wanda explained about how we should be looking in the Engineer Base, since it had feed from the other three parks and about how we should focus our efforts in Epcot, where Wayne was most likely located.