Edilio was pacing, waiting for Brianna to return. Katie was looking at him with a concerned expression.
"You seem tense," she said with a small half smile. Edilio continued pacing. Katie stood up, which got everyone's attention.
"You guys are all too young to be suffering through this sort of stress. I mean, honestly, you just got out of something very close to what I would expect hell to be like. And you're still not allowed to go back to a normal life," she started ranting.
"We couldn't even go back to normal if we wanted to. You can't just get over what we witnessed in there," Diana said. Astrid frowned at her and motioned something. Diana shook her head and mouthed not yet. Edilio decided to just let that go.
"You should still be able to live peacefully, without having evil overlords capturing your friends," Katie said. Edilio shrugged.
Edilio felt a breeze and heard a familiar, cocky voice.
"Yo, I'm back!" Brianna said. "Jack's talking to the General right now. And I got us some food and water, too."
Brianna handed a water bottle and piece a fruit to everyone. Edilio didn't realize he was thirsty until seeing his bottle of water.
"Okay, now it's on to FAYZ 2 of the plan," Astrid said with a sly smile.
"And what is that, again, exactly?" Brianna asked. Astrid sighed and re-explained the plan. Brianna nodded once Astrid finished.
"I'm not feeling too good about this," Quinn said. "But it is brilliant!" he added after Astrid glared at him.
Edilio agreed, it was a brilliant plan. But there were many places it could go wrong.
"Here's your earpieces. It can pick up whispering, but only things you are saying. The only one who doesn't have an earpiece is Jack because the General would have noticed it," Astrid explained as she handed out small, high-tech earpieces to everyone. Edilio stuck his in his ear and heard a faint static sound when he turned it on.
"Okay, you all know the plan?" Astrid asked again. Brianna groaned dramatically.
"Yes, you explained it a bajillion times," she complained. Katie interuppted before Astrid could snap back at Brianna.
"Let me get these handcuffs on you three, then," she said. The three handcuffs in her hand clanked as she rocked them back and forth.
Since the General tried to make his "CIA" as much like the real CIA, he had the same uniforms and ID cards as the real one. Unfortunately for the General, Katie worked for the real CIA, and therefore had the same uniform and ID cards.
Once Katie had the three moofs handcuffed with their hands behind their back, the four of them started walking towards the General's location.
"Do you think it'll work? The plan, I mean," Edilio asked Astrid once he finished watching the four kids walk out of sight.
"Of course it will work, because I'm The Breeze," Edilio heard in his ear. He forgot about the earpieces, even though he just put it in.
"He was talking to Astrid, moron," Edilio heard Lana say.
"Stop fighting, children," an exasperated Diana said. Edilio felt weird, listening to their conversation without being around them. Like he was intruding on something private.
"And Edilio, I believe it could go either way. There are a lot of places it could go wrong, but you never know," Astrid said. She was hunched over the makeshift table Quinn had set up. What she was scribbling on that paper, Edilio didn't know. He didn't care to ask.
"We're at the front of the building, now," Edilio heard Katie say.
"Okay, now stop talking to us and I hope you're good at acting," Astrid said.
All Edilio could do was sit and wait.