Chapter 16

(10:28pm)

Bonnie and Ashley A were in the former's bedroom. They had swapped their pajamas for black shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, black eye masks, and a beanie. They also had flashlights.

Of course, they weren't going to steal anything. They were going to make Kim and Ron fools of themselves in front of a crowd of people.

Bonnie looked at her cell phone for the time.

"Now...we swipe the skeleton key!" she said quietly.

"Do you know where your mom keeps it?" Ashley A asked.

"Of course I do!" Bonnie said, "I'm not that stupid! Let's put Operation Dueling Families in action now."

Ashley A nodded her head as the two girls snuck out of the room. They headed toward the master bedroom, tiptoeing on their way.

"Where's your pit bull?" Ashley A asked with a bit of concern. She was speaking of Queenie, the Rockwallers' pit bull that was notorious for making Ron's khakis his personal chew toy and has chased Rufus on a number of occasions in the Rockwallers' backyard. But Rufus always outsmarted the dog.

"Oh, he's asleep in the kennel, AA." Bonnie replied quietly, "Our main focus is that key!"

Ashley A opened the door to the master bedroom slowly as the Rockwaller parents continued to snore on the bed. They were still under the effects of the sleeping powder. Donald's gun belt was wrapped on the bedpost on his side of the bed.

Bonnie simply pointed to the skeleton key located on the knob of the top drawer of Veronica's nightstand.

"There it is!" Bonnie whispered.

"I'm on it!" Ashley A replied quietly as she tiptoed her way on the carpet while not making a sound that would wake them up.

Donald, while snoring, passed gas and belched very loudly in bed.

Ashley A was tempted to say something but did not. She held her breath, took the key and put it on her neck, and went back to Bonnie.

Bonnie quickly closed the door so as not to disturb her parents further.

"Alright, B. I got it!" Ashley A grinned while touching the metal of the key. "And can you ask your dad next time to cut it on the chili cheese dogs?"

"Good, now call up Ashley Q to bring that security cam device of hers to Mad Dog Park." Bonnie insisted, "We need to do that swap as planned now! I'm gonna get my sneakers on!"

"I'll get the car warmed up!" Ashley A cackled, twirling her car keys.
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(30 minutes later)

The cars that had the Ashleys in them, as well as Hope, Sarah and Bonnie, arrived at Mad Dog Park. It was a medium-sized park with four playgrounds on-site as well as a picnic area and a half-mile walking track and, to the benefit of the girls, it also has some large trees as well. It was across from the school right next to the football stadium.

They all assembled at a clearing where they were about 200 yards from the stadium. The clearing connected a pathway to Mad Dog Stadium. The stadium itself usually was fenced off and locked after 8pm.

All of the girls in Bonnie's group had dark warmups, shirts and ski masks as well to conceal their identities.

"AQ, have you brought the device like I asked?" Bonnie questioned.

Ashley Q brought along a device that was shaped like a video camcorder from the early 1990s.

"It's a little bulky, but it should do the trick." she explained.

"So what are the specs of it?" Bonnie asked.

"It can knock out not only security cameras but also alarm systems as well within a 5-mile radius." Ashley Q explained about the machine, "But there's one flaw to this."

"Oh great!" Bonnie complained, "What flaw are we talking about?"

"The effects of the machine will last for only 25 minutes." Ashley Q explained, "After that, the systems will come back online."

"In other words, we have to break in the school, get to G-Hall, make the switch on the Romeo and Juliet casting sheet, and get out before the timer hits 0." Bonnie replied, summarizing their plan.

"That's the general gist of it, yes." Ashley Q replied. "Once that timer starts, there's no turning back."

"You still got the skeleton key, AA?" Bonnie then asked, turning to Ashley A.

Ashley A grinned, twirling the skeleton key. "One MUSD skeleton key accounted for!"

"Good. Now once we unlock the gates, we need to lock them back." Bonnie insisted to her girls, "So that no trace of us is left behind or ANYTHING that Possible can pick up!"

The other girls nodded their heads in agreement with Bonnie.

Ashley Q set the device for 25 minutes.

"Ready...set..."

The girls all put on their ski masks with holes cut open for their eyes, nose, and mouth.

"GO!"

The timer started to count down from 30 minutes as the device shut off all the security cameras of not only the school but also within a 5-mile radius. Included in that radius was the Middleton Space Center.

(25:00...24:59...24:58...24:57...)

Bonnie and the girls went along the pathway and first rushed up to the locked gate of the football field.

"AA...now would be the time for me to have that skeleton key!" Bonnie insisted, holding out her hand.

"Gotcha, B!" Ashley A replied quickly, handing Bonnie the key. True to its meaning, the skeleton key unlocked the lock to the gate. The girls lined up in single file with the Ashleys in the front, followed by Bonnie, Hope, and Sarah. They all snuck across the track that was on the South end zone to the gate connecting to the field house. Again, Ashley A used the skeleton key to unlock that gate.

(23:34...23:33...23:32...)

The girls snuck across the parking lot that led to the west end of the school when they came to the locked door leading into A-Hall. Ashley A used the key once again and the door was unlocked. The girls all went in and turned on their flashlights, for everything was turned off.

They could feel the prize getting closer and closer, but they only had a finite amount of time before the security camers would come back on.

"So where is G-Hall anyways?" Sarah asked.

(21:31...21:30...21:29)

"On the east end of the school. Where I-Hall and J-Hall intersect." Bonnie replied in a whisper.

"Wait, what happened to H-Hall?" Sarah then questioned.

"That's the detention wing, duh!" Bonnie snarked, "We cheerleaders don't do detention! And that's what we're trying to avoid."

"Ugh...this is going to wear out the soles of my shoes." Ashley T complained. "Curse the people who constructed this school!"

"I'd rather curse the population boom of Middleton." Bonnie retorted, "Now come on, girls. Let's get to that list!"

(15:14...15:13...15:12)

The girls finally made their way to the east end of the school and to G-Hall at the intersection of I-Hall and J-Hall. The array of flashlights from the girls were all over the place.

"B, do you know where that list is?" Ashley B asked.

"AB, I've been up and down this school multiple times." Bonnie boasted, "It should be at Miss Tudor's room, G211."

"Let's get there!" Ashley A insisted.

The other girls nodded their heads and went up the stairwell to the classroom on the other side of the hall.

(13:04...13:03...13:02)

Bonnie shone on her flashlight onto room G-211 and right next to it was the goal she had been looking for.

"There it is! The Romeo and Juliet cast list!" Bonnie insisted. The flashlight shone on a piece of paper of the cast and crew for Romeo and Juliet in pencil.

"Girls, do you have any pencils on hand?" Bonnie asked the other girls in her group.

"I have a few in my purse here!" Ashley Q replied, giving Bonnie two pencils.

"Alright...lemme make the appropriate changes!" Bonnie grinned, grabbing the pencils. She started to make the two most important changes on the sheet. She also erased and replaced a couple more names in certain roles.

"There! That should do the trick!" Bonnie said. "Now, let's get out of here before the security cameras come back on!"

After they had executed that part of the plan, the girls got out of the school in the same manner they came in, all the while locking the doors and locks to the gates of the football field.

They came back to the clearing where Ashley Q had set the device earlier.

"So how are we on time?" Bonnie asked.

Ashley Q stopped the device.

"We made it with 45 seconds to spare!"

"Perfect!" Bonnie cackled in glee, "Now let's see how Possible and Stoppable will react!"

*AN: PDVI - Pan Dimensional Vortex Inducer