AuthorsNote: So, This one wasn't sent to my beta reader, so if it seems crappy, that's why....sorrys.
Stella had her legs hooked over her bed post and was hanging upside down where the vent in the celling rattled a bit before falling to the floor. Right onto a bunch of pillows she left there. She glanced at it before dropping off the bed frame and going over to look up into the vent.
Skys face was staring back at her, a grin spreading on his face "Ready?" he asked lowering a rope down to her. She grinned back at him. "Give me a sec" she said running to a work bench she kept in a corner and grabbing a bag off of it. She ran back to the rope and climbed up to join Sky in the vent, who was already moving down the way.
For the past year they had taken to crawling around the vents of the house and even leaving the house to go into town.
It had started when Sky who had been practicing wall jumping like he heard his dad used to do, caught the vent grill and pulled it off.
He stared up into the vent before trying again and actually managing to get into the vent, he explored for a bit before finding his way to Stella's room. He tapped on the grate and called her name which gave her quite a shock.
Her sharp mind figured it out quickly though and she went over to the vent to see Sky staring at her. After a few moments of questioning he knocked her grill down, her managing to catch it before it rattled on the ground. Something not good since her parents were next door in their room.
"Coming Stella?" he asked as she stared up at him "How?" He shrugged "Jump?" She frowned at him "I'm not that great at jumping you know that." He shook his head, "Then go find a rope or something" She had nodded and ran to her table that she used as a workbench. She grabbed a rope and tossed it up to Sky he held on to it while she climbed into the vent.
They were quite excited to find a way to get around the house without being detected by their parents security alarms. Although they couldn't do this at night when their parents set the alarms nor could they leave the house, at least until Stella managed to hack the system so she could shut the alarms off whenever she wanted.
After that they had taken to leaving the house and walking down to explore the town. There was only one place that they hadn't gotten a chance to explore. It was a closed off aqua duct type area, with a weird metal track running up it.
When they had first found it, Stella had studied the track with great interest even taking a few scrapings to see if she could find out what it was for. She eventually found out that it was an old Magna-Track, and that you would need Magna-Boots to walk across it.
Neither of them knew where to find Magna-Boots as They had never seen their dad's collection of Gadgets and Gear. So Stella had set out to make her own. It had taken nearly six months of research and collecting things to use, before she managed to attach some plates to the bottom of her and Sky's shoes that she hoped would let them walk across the track.
She crawled as fast as she could to catch up to him, shealmost spoke but then remembered that the vent's carried voices pretty well, they had almost been busted one time because of it. After a few minuets of crawling, Sky stopped in front of a vent grill, he pushed on the corner until it popped off and slid it up on a hinge, something Stella had done when they had started to do this weekly.
Sky dropped down landing on his feet while Stella hung over the edge to get down a little more gently. Finally out of the vent she tapped her brother on the shoulder.
"Should we be doing this, We're already in trouble because of school, what if Mom and Dad check on us?"
Sky turned to face his sister, "Like you really care, you wouldn't have brought that bag if you didn't want to do this."
She scowled at him "I never said I didn't want to do this, I just asked if we should"
He shrugged "It's up to you, I want to see what's in that building we found. Can't do that without you"
Stella glanced up at the vent one last time before turning back to her brother with a grin. She shouldered her bag and headed off towards the path they used to get down. "Race ya" she called as she ran. Sky grinned and ran after her.
After about 20 minuets of running and jumping they had made it to the building. They stopped and stared towards the top. Finnaly Stella dropped her bag on the ground and pulled out two pairs of shoes. She also pulled out an old and beat up looking Swingshot.
Sky gasped "Where did you find that?!" he asked in amazement.
Stella grinned as she put it on her wrist and pretended to aim it."Cool huh, I think it's dads, found it in a box in a closet while looking for spare parts."
Sky blinked "Why would dad leave his old swingshot in a box somewhere, you think he would keep it safe."
Stella shrugged "Who knows? Maybe he just got another newer model or something"
She aimed it again and flexed her wrist, jumping a bit when the hook extended. "Cool. It's fired using you're wrist"
Sky coughed "If you're not to busy, Could we try out you're little magnashoes or whatever"
Stella looked at her brother and sighed "Yeah, lets go, But Im keeping this" she said holding her arm up with the slingshot
"Who knows, Might come in handy" She bent down to put on her makeshift Magna-Boots, as did Sky. They both approached the metal track.
Grabbing each others hands they both stuck their left foot out over the track, only to feel them being instantly pulled down to stick to the track. They grinned at each other and started to walk as fast as they could up the track, after a short thirty seconds they reached the top and slid their feet off the track and dropped to the ground.
"Whoa" Stella said as she looked out into the giant tank that this building appeared to be.
Sky walked up besides her. "Well, While that's impressive how are we supposed to get down?" He walked forward and hung by his toes over the edge.
"Way to far to jump" He looked around the edge and spotted a ladder of sorts. A big ladder.
"We could use that ladder" He said walking over towards it.
Stella followed and dropped to the edge, putting her foot onto the top rung, it cracked and fell off, shattering on the ground. She quickly climbed back up.
"I don't think so." She said shooting the broken rung another look. She glanced around before turning her gaze to the ceiling.
"I wonder..."
Sky followed her gaze "What?" He studied the ceiling for bit before he heard a CH-CHUNK sound. He glanced down to see it was his sister flexing her wrist and ejecting the Swingshots hook again and again. It finnaly dawned on him what she was planning.
"Oh, no way Stella, You don't even know if that will hold us both."
She glanced over at him, "I thought you wanted to explore Sky."
He glared back at her, knowing full well that she was stroking his ego. "Yeah, So let's do it then"
She winked and aimed the slingshot into the ceiling, she flexed her wrist and stumbled back as the hook launched and embedded into the ceiling. She jerked on it twice to make sure it was secure before holding out her other hand to Sky.
"Ready for a leap of faith?"
He nodded and grabbed her hand, she tugged him into a tight hug and jumped over the edge. They dropped about fifteen feet before jerking to a stop. She glanced at her brother, he just glared back
"What now?"
A pebble fell down and tapped Sky on the head, He growled and looked up
"Wha-Oh-No"
Stella followed her brothers gaze to see the hook in the ceiling slipping lose, their combined weight and sudden drop jarring it out.
Her and Sky locked gazes for a moment before the hook slipped out and they fell towards the ground. The last thing either remembered was the rushing of wind, Blurred sight, Each others faces, and an hard impact with something that didn't give.
Ending Note: Whoops....Cliffhanger, sorry, also may extend time between posts again since life is currently overloading now, with my cousin being a major B**** while I'm staying with her, School, and my new job. So consider this now an irregular update warning, you will get them whenever I get time.