Irish Fly and Betrayal
Azalea's P.O.V.
We hid behind the Mayan temple while Willa cleaned and patch up Maybeck's wound which was not as bad as we feared it was. "I have some bad news," Finn replied, "we couldn't get the fob, we'll have to try again in the morning."
"So we're trapped," I sighed, thinking of how my dad and grandmother would react to me not waking up in the morning. My grandmother would probably have a heart attack while my dad would call the whole army, navy, coast guard, air force, etc. until I woke up.
"Well if we're going to be trapped, might as well make the most of it. Our guardians won't let us out of there sight when we don't wake up tomorrow morning. So, let's make the most of it while we still can," Charlene stated.
"Did she hit her head while you guys were in France?" I asked Jess. Charlene rolled her eyes at us.
"This is all wrong," Philby said.
"Well excuse me for trying to make the best out of a bad situation," Charlene retorted.
"No not you Charlie, it's the sword. It should be Norwegian but it's Irish. It has a fly and a shamrock on it, not the coin design of Norwegian swords."
"So, Irish fly?" I asked.
"How about just fly like the Fly?" Willa stated.
"Well then there's movies, magazines, a U2 song . . ."
"Hold up, there's no way Wayne would have any idea of who U2 are or about the movies or poems or whatever," Maybeck interrupted.
"Maybeck's right, let's just focus on the fly portion. In Epcot you fly in Soarin' we should check it out. And there's also Test Track and Mission Space," I said.
"All three locations have significant temperature drops," Philby reported.
"All right, here's the plan: there's eight of us. Jess will stay on the top of the Mayan temple so that she's not kidnapped and someone will stay with her to help as lookout. The rest of us split into three groups of two," Finn stated.
"I'll stay with Jess," Amanda stepped forward. We all nodded and split up. I was with Willa and we headed towards Soarin'.
"I wish they would have put it boy-girl so that each girl had a boy to protect the girl," Willa whispered as we walked to Soarin'.
"Personally, I feel like those boys are danger prone, either them or I get hurt whenever we are together on these things." We walked into the Soarin' pavilion and I couldn't help but feel that I was being watched. We hurried onto the ride just in time. I tucked my legs in so that the workers would not be able to see me.
The ride started up seeing as they were doing maintenance on the ride. The screen came to life except instead of the California landscape I was expecting, I found myself flying through New York City. The ride started to dive when suddenly the man shut it down. The sudden stop caused me to fall forward. I quickly grabbed the seat belt, holding back a scream.
Willa tried to help me up, afraid that they would see a teenage girl hanging from the ride. I gulped as the ride restarted. Willa was able to pull me back up into the seat when they shut down the ride completely. We descended to the ground, quickly exiting the ride before the workers saw us. "Well, there was nothing there," I sighed.
We quickly ran up maintenance stairs, passing the projection room on the way out. "Hold up, we should check this out," Willa said.
"Why?" I asked, pulling her into the shadows.
"That's an IMAX projector, those are always put in cool rooms and are highly temperature monitored." I nodded and carefully opened the door. I pulled Willa inside once I was sure it was clear. The room was very organized and clean. "He's not here."
"But she once was, and we have to find out why," I stated looking around the room.
"Maybe it has to do with the New York movie, or maybe Wayne knew what they were up to and they captured him so that he couldn't let us know what was going on?" Willa wondered.
"Yeah but they got Wayne when we were in Animal Kingdom. Those logs are recent. They must be looking for something, and Wayne is the key to finding it," I deduced.
"Which means that they're still looking for it!" Willa exclaimed.
"Where would Wayne hide something?"
"In the film, if I'm right, one added strip would be just a flicker, nothing major that someone would notice." After grabbing the gloves on the wall, we unwound the film, inspecting each slide. I grabbed one slide that was dark, contrary to the clearness of the slides in front of it and behind it.
"I think I found something," I whispered. "Quick, rewound the film." The film flickered. I quickly looked down at the maintenance crew and saw them pointing to the booth. "We've been seen!"
"What's on the slide?" Willa said quickly, putting the film back into its canister.
"A seat belt sign," I stated.
"I got it! In the maintenance log, there was something about seat belts."
I quickly ran to the log and opened it to the last entry. "The last entry was three weeks ago, when Wayne went missing. It says that the seat belts weren't opening."
"He's coming, we got to go," Willa replied, opening the back door before running out it, me right on her tail. The catwalk led to a dead end.
"There's a ladder," I whispered, climbing quickly down to the other catwalk, Willa right behind me. The man came out of the booth. As we ran along, I noticed that my arm disappeared beneath a pipe. "A shadow," I said motioning towards the pipe. Willa and I huddled under the pipe as the man walked onto the catwalk.
The pipe in which we were beneath and forced to cling to, started to descend, pulling Willa and I with it. We were almost to the ground level when we suddenly reappeared. The man saw us. I quickly let go of the pipe and sprinted to the fire exit, causing the fire alarm to go off. Willa was right behind me as we sprinted out into the night air.
Meeting at the rendezvous point, I noticed that Finn, Philby, and Charlene were missing shoes. I shrugged it off as we talked quietly in the deserted lounge. Amanda and Jess updated us first. "We saw the drawbridge raise and lower twice. The globe left the lake twice as well. The dummies were constantly patrolling."
I filled them in on the seat belt problems and new film at Soarin'. Finn and Philby had had a run in with Maleficent, managed to crash a car, and both got bad sunburn which was apparent. Maybeck and Charlene's experience however stole the show.
"Wayne had a message for us. He said that there will be a deception of the worst kind . . . beware our friends and know our enemies . . . Norway holds the answer . . . we stand under it to get out of the rain but it's still in our brains."
"Deception of the worst kind is betrayal," Philby stated.
"You mean to tell me after all we've been through together . . ." Maybeck sighed somberly.
"I for one do not believe that. If someone was going to betray the group, they would have done it a long time ago. I trust all of you guys, you've all saved my butt and I've saved yours too," I stated.
"It doesn't matter, there will be a betrayal," Finn sighed.
"Let's just move on," Charlene stated. "A hat will keep you out of the rain. They sell all sorts of hats."
"Well we've got to look in the stores for them," Philby said.
"You mean to tell me you want to leave," Willa exclaimed. "Now hold up, just because I disagree doesn't mean I'm the traitor. Who knows, maybe Philby is the traitor waiting to lead us into a trap."
"Nice try," Philby responded dryly. "Trying to make me look like the bad guy, huh?"
"Hey, Willa does have a point. We shouldn't all go look for hats together, there's too many of us. We have to stay in pairs so that the traitor can't contact anyone. I say we send out a search party for the hats and nominate Finn, Philby, and Charlene," Maybeck stated, trying to calm the situation.
"The traitor would like nothing more than to get rid of Finn the leader, Philby the brains, and Charlene the jock," Charlene pointed out. Everyone turned to look at Maybeck suspiciously.
"Hey! What's wrong with you guys? Don't you see what's happening? We're falling apart! No one can do this alone, that's why Wayne put together this team! When we work together, we can do anything but you guys are throwing away that loyalty and friendship by playing the blame game. Wayne wrecked it," I stated, breaking up the fight that was brewing.
"Azalea's right, Wayne wrecked it but he did it for a reason. He operates like that. Let's just pull three names out of a hat for the search party," Finn said, calming the situation further. Amanda wrote all of our names on slips and Jess picked three.
"Finn, Philby, and Charlene," Jess called.
"Fate," Philby retorted.
"I am the man," Maybeck smirked, which made me push him out of his chair.