"This is useless. Let's go."

Cammie's POV

Bex kicked the vent, and it clattered to the floor, causing everyone in the room to jump. Bex jumped down, Grant following, then me, then Zach, then Tristan, then Macey, and Jonas and Liz stayed up in the air vent plotting our way out.

The Circle members jumped up from their chairs, and pulled out their weapons. I instinctively reached back into my pockets to feet for my Napotine patches, but felt nothing. Crap. I shared a panicked glance with Zach. Now we have to knock them out by ourselves. Not an impossible feat, but still - more time-consuming.

Time that could cost us our lives.

A large man with curly red hair charged at me and kicked me in the stomach. I roundhouse kicked him and punched his face. He crouched down and swept my feet out from under me, and I fell to the ground on my back with a loud thud. I saw his face loom over mine, and he smiled evilly.

I looked around for my friends-everyone had at least two people on them. Bex and Grant were back to back, so were Macey and Tristan. Zach was cornered by five men. Uh oh.

I looked back at the man and saw he pulled out a knife. My eyes widened. I kicked it away from him frantically, but it ended up cutting my face. If this was training and the guy was on my side, I bet he would have laughed at my stupidity. But he didn't. He just growled and pulled out another one.

How many did this guy have? I then kicked his face, making sure to avoid the knife. He flew backwards and I grabbed his head and knocked it on the floor. He slumped, and I made sure he was just unconscious, not dead. I rushed over to Zach, quickly but silently. He already had a cut on his arm and a bruise forming on his cheek. I punched one of the guy's heads, and he slumped to the floor. I then jabbed another guy's pressure point really hard, and he went down. More people were catching on to what was happening, and they saw me. I was the one that they really wanted. They left Macey, Tristan, Grant and Bex and then all of them pressed Zach and I into a wall.

"We have you trapped now." One man with a gruff voice laughed.

Suddenly, something exploded out in the hallway. The Circle agents gasped, and for a split second they were distracted. I laughed. Yea. I know. I could have died in the next five minutes, but I laughed. Oh, I love Jonas and Liz. I bet they were smiling innocently up there in their little stuffy air vent. Macey and Tristan kicked open the window, and started to set up grappling hooks.

"No time!" Bex yelled, and she just jumped.

"BEX, THAT'S EIGHTEEN STORIES!" I screeched, sprinting to the window. I looked out, and she was hanging onto a window sill about three floors down.

"I've got this!" She called back. "Just follow me!" She let go of that window sill, fell for about four stories, and then caught onto another one.

"Jesus!" Grant exclaimed. He jumped out and started copying what Bex did. Macey and Tristan went next. I looked up at Liz and Jonas.

"Twenty!" I yelled up to them.

"Got it." They shouted back. 'Twenty' was spy code for wait twenty minutes, and then escape. We used it for the agents who had not been seen yet and could escape without a fight.

By now, the COC members had realized we were escaping.

"GET HER. GET HER!" A woman shouted. Zach practically pushed me out the window, and I grabbed hold of a window sill.

Bex and Grant were on the floor now, getting ready to catch one of us if we fell. I could see Zach dangling on top of me. Suddenly, a huge burst of wind practically made me let go.

I heard Macey and Tristan land. I let go, and then caught onto another sill. This hurt.

My wrists were complaining, and my head was killing me. But I had to keep going.

"Hurry!" Macey shrieked. The COC members started copying what we did.

"Just let go, we'll catch you!" Grant came up below me and held out his arms. I took a deep breath, and just let go, closing my eyes. Grant caught me with ease.

He grinned. "There. That wasn't so bad, now was it?"

"That," I stated, "Was the scariest moment of my life." He laughed and shook his head. Grant caught Zach, too. Or more like broke his fall. Grant pushed Zach off of him and groaned.

"Sorry, man." Zach smirked.

"No time for smirking! We have to go." Tristan exclaimed.

Suddenly, we heard Liz shriek.