The Rescue:

The building was trembling, shaking like never before. People were everywhere. Screaming, running, trying to get out alive, and there was Zach Goode & Josh Abrams right in the middle of it all with no way to escape.

Goode:

"What do we do?" Josh asked, his voice trembling.

"I don't know." I answered slowly. For once in my life, I had no idea what to do and it terrified me to no end.

"Good thing I'm here then," A very familiar, very British accent said.

"Bex Baxter," I said excitedly, "I don't think I've been happier to see anyone in my entire life."

"Don't let Cammie hear you say that," Bex said jokingly as she opened the lock to our cell.

"Cammie's here?" I asked confused.

"Of course she is. You think she'd miss out on something like this. We've been working on taking down the circle for ages.

"Here," She said handing Josh and I comms units, "put these in your ears."

"Miss me?" I asked.

I heard a chuckle on the line. "Nice to hear your voice too, Zach" I heard Jonas say, "How was prison?"

"Let's just say, some bail money would have been appreciated."

"Guys you might want to get out of there soon, unless, you know, you want to die." Liz chimed in.

"I agree with whoever that girl was, let's get the heck out of here," Josh said.

And then we ran for our lives.

"Here," Bex said handing us both waters, "The meeting point should be coming up."

I looked behind me and watched as the building I just spent the few days locked up in crumpled to the ground.

"How'd you do it?" I asked Bex.

"I'll explain it when we get there, let's just keep moving."

So we walked on.

"Did you pick the farthest meeting place possible?" Josh asked and as much as I hated the guy, I couldn't help but agree with him.

"Yes."

"Why?" he complained.

"Because of that," Bex answered pointing to the plane that flew over as straight for the Circle base.

As we turned back to start walking again, we could hear the giant explosion from the bomb that was just dropped on the base.

"wh-" But I couldn't finish my sentenced because up ahead stood two helicopters waiting for our arrival and when I looked around I could see the one person I'd been wishing to see for weeks.

"You guys took forever," Macey said as we approached them.

"You look horrible," Cammie said, smiling at me.

"Thank," I answered, "That's exactly what I wanted to hear."

And then she laughed and it was the best sound in the universe.

Then she hugged me, pecked me on the cheek, and turned to Josh.

"I'm sorry that you got caught up in this," Cammie apologized.

"It's fine. Can we go home now?" he asked looking back to the helicopters.

"Sure," Grant said leading him to the first helicopter with Liz and Jonas trailing behind.

Bex, Macey, Cammie, and I boarded the second. Somehow I wasn't surprised when I heard Solomon in the front seat say, "Well, I'm glad you're not dead."

Cammie held my hand the whole ride through.

"Is someone going to tell me how you did it?" I asked about halfway through.

"Well," Cammie started, "It wasn't as hard as we thought it would be."

I gave her a look, "I'm joking," Cammie smiled, "Well actually I'm not."

"The real problem was stealing the explosives." Macey started.

"There was a lot of security," Liz explained, "But we managed it."

"How?" I asked

"Well while you were stuck in a cell with Josh, (I groaned) Cammie finally came to her senses and called us." Bex continued.

…

"The explosives are made in high-tech lab near Death Valley," Liz pointed to the map that lay in front of the group.

"Well that sounds cheery," Grant pointed out.

"Zach is being held here," Macey pointed to empty desert area in New Mexico, "And we need to get to him as soon as possible. Who knows what they're doing to him."

"So what's the plan?" Bex asked.

"Liz," Cammie asked, "Can you hack into the lab from New Mexico?"

"Only of you give me access. You have to plug this into the server room and that is going to be heavily guarded. After that I can have access to the cameras and elevators."

"So how do we get in?" Macey asked.

"Journalist exclusive?" Bex asked.

"Only if we can get them to believe that," Cammie clarified.

"Worth a try," Macey said.

"How do we get in to the server room?" Grant asked.

"Take out the guards?" Bex asked.

"By take out, you mean-"Cammie started.

"Knock out, not kill," Bex said unamused.

"According to my resources, there's a shipment of explosives we could use going out tomorrow, we take out the security detail and we get the explosives."
…

"So you stole the explosives?" I asked.

"Well yeah, but our plan didn't exactly go as planned." Cammie said.

"Why not?" I wondered.

"Well no high tech lab wanted a journalist snooping around." Bex explained.

"So what'd you do?"

"We hot-wired the truck at a gas station; I planted some explosives on the left side of the Circle building, away from the cell, and then came and saved your butt." Macey stated.

"Well my butt thanks you," Cammie hit my arm, "No, but seriously thank you."

Bex grinned, "You're welcome."

"But why didn't you guys infiltrate and arrest these people?" I asked, "Now some are going to get away and the Circle is not destroyed."

"We were a little busy at the moment," Cammie answered, "But we'll get there."

After we landed and Josh and I were treated for our injuries, Cammie and I made our way to the roof. She set a picnic blanket down along with a basket.

"Are you going to be okay?

I pointed at myself, "Spy."

She laughed and grabbed my hand, "I'll take that as a yes."

For once, in what seemed like forever, I actually felt like maybe everything was going to be okay.

Wow, that was really cheesy.

Author's note: Thanks for sticking around guys. I'm sorry it took me over a year to finish these. I wanted to finish this before the next book came out, but that obviously didn't happen. Thanks for all the support and advice. Let me know what you thought(: