Hey Guys! Here's Chapter 23, enjoy!

The Find

Jetpack Guy returns to the group after ensuring that Gary was safety on the helicopter. Agent Lake Blue and Rookie stayed behind to keep an eye on Gary. Jetpack Guy and Joe rushes off to go free the rest of the Elite Penguin Force. Dot is left with Rebecca as they search for Alex.

"I'm not going to lose him again," Rebecca stammers to herself.

They start to view the camera footage, trying to follow Micheal's previous steps. After a while, Rebecca starts to get discouraged.

"This footage is useless!" She exclaims.

"Why don't we look at the live feed for now," Dot suggests. "Maybe Micheal will lead us to him."

"I don't think it will help. The cameras won't show where Alex is!"

"But it might show the approximate vicinity where he could be."

They both watch the feed as penguins walk through the halls. Most of the TAG agents had been arrested and locked away so the halls were fairly clear.

"Well, well what do we have here," Dot exclaims.

Rebecca glances over at the screen that Dot is watched and sees a penguin walking down the hall with a huge stack of papers in his hands.

"It's a TAG agent!" Rebecca almost shouts. "But I thought Joe and Jetpack Guy got them all!"

"Well they missed one," Dot half smiled. "Let's track where they're going."

They watch as the penguin hops from one screen to the next. Then he disappears from them all. He reappears a few minutes later on a later screen. Dot scrambles to a drawer where the blueprints are held and marks where the cameras are and where the penguin was last seen and then reappeared. Satisfied, Dot smiles.

"Let's go," she exclaims.

Marcus's POV

As promised a penguin arrived with all the files and research dealing with the machine. I read through the first file and am impressed by what I've see. So Club Penguin is it's own world! I grimaced. How can I possibly get back! I look over and see Micheal watching me.

"You know...I bet if we put our brains together, we might find the answer faster." I suggest.

"And why would I do that?" Micheal stammers. "Besides we have a deal."

"You're just as stuck here as I am," I counter. "Don't you want to go home too?"

Micheal turns his gaze, avoiding my question. I sigh. I just want to go home too. As I continue to read over more files, I begin to think about how I ended up here in the first place.

Flashback begins*

"I hate doing class presentations!" Complains one of my close friends, Richard.

I smile and look at him.

"It's not that bad," I encourage.

"Says the guy who's only job is changing the slide!" Richard mocks.

I punch him lightly in the shoulder, jokingly.

"Aw man, I bruise!" He exaggerates.

I laugh, quietly.

"Richard, Marcus" the economics teacher announces. "You're presentation please."

Richard and I got up to the front of the room. I head over to the computer and enter in my account. Then I opened up the sideshow as Richard talks about how the market works and it's current progress. While that happened, I noticed the light from the screen getting increasingly bright. I frown. What in the world? Suddenly it becomes blinding, I shield my eyes from the light but they feel glued to my side. The moment I wake up, I find myself strapped to a chair with something heavy on my head. Wait...am I...a penguin? I look up to see a penguin standing over me.

Flashback ends*

Okay, so I've finished reading most of the files. I glance over to see Micheal still watching me. Think Marcus think. A way back.

"Are you sure that these are all the files?" I ask thoroughly.

He nods, "it should be."

"Should?" I catch.

Micheal looks at me skeptically.

"Mr. PoodleX450 tells me almost everything. I'm his second-in-command."

"Almost everything," I pry.

"There are files that are for the Director's eyes only," he reveals.

"I need those files," I stress. "It's possible that he's keeping stuff from you about this project."

"I doubt he would do that," Micheal stammers.

"Are you sure?" I prompt.

I see hesitation in his eyes and dare to go further.

"Just like he kept the fact that you were from the other world for...four years until you found out?"

I watch as his eyes suddenly widen. BINGO! I got him! Micheal looks back at me.

"I'll go..find the Director's files," he responds finally. "Don't leave here! Or you'll never get home. I'll make sure of that!"

I watch as he leaves the room. My mind begins to race for an escape route. Sure I want to go home but if my hunch is correct and I'm really in Club Penguin...then the Penguin Secret Agency is still here which means I can still find the good guys. I grin, I've always wanted to meet those agents like Jet Pack Guy, Rookie, and Gary the gadget guy. My mind began to formulate a plan.

Rebecca's POV

Dot and I rush into the hallways that aren't caught on camera.

"They really are just hallways!" Dot muses.

"I wouldn't be surprised to find some type of hidden door though," I insist.

They start to search the walls for any cracks in the wall that would form a door. A few minutes of nothing, we hear footsteps behind us. We turn and find Micheal standing behind us.

"Follow me," he says firmly, not surprised at all for seeing us.

"Where?" I ask, "why should we?"

Micheal sighs, "you want your brother back, don't you?"\ He began to walk down the hall, without checking to see if we were following. Micheal takes us to the Director's office and shuts the door.

"It's a trap!" Dot points out.

Micheal just shakes his head and then begins to rummage through some files.

"Help me find a code labeled DF." He says.

"DF?" I ask but he doesn't bother to answer.

I look at Dot and she shrugs. We both began to look through the room. I look at the bookshelf, staring at anything that looked out of place. Ohh the latest cookbook with recipes from Mar! I pull the cookbook from the shelf but as I do, a piece of paper falls out and I pick it up.

"Oh, I found the code!" I state.

Micheal hurries over and snatches the paper out my hand and then turns toward the Director's desk. Seconds later, a secret door opens and he tells us to follow as he walks down the stairs. He walks down to a room, full of files.

"We need to find files on Mission: Takeover" he informs, calmly.

"Why?" I ask, confused. "What's Mission: Takeover?"

"Answers," Micheal finally replies.

It feels like we searched for hours but came up with nothing. Micheal seemed satisfied that no files were found and we head back upstairs.

"Why are you still carrying that?" Micheal asks, looking down at my hands.

"What?" I exclaims, and then I notice that I'm still holding the cookbook. "I wasn't going to steal it! Just going to glance at the recipes, that's all!"

"Rebecca is a great cook," Dot informs.

Micheal takes the book from my hands and offhandedly comments, "Mr. PoodleX450 doesn't cook."

He walks over to the desk and opens the cookbook. He doesn't seem happy when he sees the file Mission: Takeover lying inside.

"Liar," Micheal whispers under his breath as reads the file to it's current progress. "I'm going to kill him!"

"I sincerely hope you meant figuratively!" I exclaim.

Micheal looks up at us and then runs out of the office, leaving the file behind. Dot picks up the file and puts it in her bag.

"We'll read it later, right now...let's go find Alex." Dot nods.

Marcus's POV

"Alex!" Exclaims a purple penguin rushes over to me.

She hugs me before realizing that I didn't hug her back. The sparkle in her eyes dims.

"Oh...right...you're not...Alex." She remembers, "my name is Rebecca and this is Dot."

"Marcus," I introduce. "Are you guys with the PSA?"

Rebecca blinks, confused for a moment.

"The Penguin Secret Agency was decommissioned years ago." She informs.

"Hang on! What happened?" I ask.

"A popcorn bomb made by Herbert exploded in the agency and the EPF took over," Dot explains.

"EPF?"

"Elite Penguin Force," Rebecca replies.

"Alex...are you like his girlfriend?"

"Girlfriend!" Rebecca practically yells, "no I'm his sister."

Rebecca looks into my face as if trying to find Alex.

"Listen I'm working on finding a way back," I say trying to lessen her worry. "Micheal was supposed to find me a file and..."

"You mean this?" Dot exclaims, taking a file out of her bag.

She hands me the file and I immediately begin to read it. I smile.

"Yeah, this is the one," I confirm.

Wow, The EPF headquarters has been returned back to normal, TAG is apprehended, and Alex has been found...well Alex's user that is. So the way back to our world has been found. Cool! What's going to happen next? Where did Michael run off too? What's going to happen to Agent Z? What has happened in our world with the other penguins who transferred? Find out May 6th.