Inspirational quote: There is no elevator to success. You have to take the stairs.

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They didn't do it.

They didn't do it.

As in, they didn't not ace the mission!

In other words... Dr K, Kieran and Esperanza had pretty much passed the entire mission, with Diana's 125th trophy that was originally Dr Kozak's in which Diana stole.

By the time that the timer had hit zero seconds left, that was when the three of them had teleported from DIE ANNA INCORPORATED, with the trophy, back to KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS.

They would have basically failed the mission however it didn't say anywhere at all in Dr Kozak's rule book that if one had happened to get what one needed for the mission and arrive back to where you had started with one or zero seconds left then they had pretty much failed the mission.

So... Kieran, Esperanza and Dr Kozak had practically aced the mission.

As soon as Dr Kozak's purple teleporter had taken them back to KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS, the door of the teleporter had opened automatically, all three of them crying tears of joy, hugging each other at the same time until Dr Kozak sat back down in his blue spinning laboratory chair.

"Guys! We did it!" Esperanza screamed, literally fist bumping the air with Diana's trophy in her right hand as she was so happy.

"With just one millisecond left," Dr Kozak added, spinning around once in his spinning chair, logging onto his computer, typing away really quickly on his computer.

"Well.. Technically we failed the mission..." Kieran corrected them, handing Dr Kozak his phone back. "Because when the timer hit zero, we had arrived here so..."

Dr Kozak and Esperanza just looked at him quite angrily in return.

"Don't rain on our parade, Kieran." They both told him, pretty much yelling at him. Kieran just rolled his eyes in disbelief as a "reply" to what they had said.

"Let's see shall we...." Dr Kozak continued, still typing away on his computer. Then he commanded his computer to do something.

"Okay. Estelle, did we ace or fail the mission?"

"Who's Estelle?" Esperanza and Kieran asked Dr Kozak.

"She's the person that voices my sat nav in my car. She's also in charge of the missions. She doesn't work here though.... She's also the Anna in DIE ANNA INCORPORATED but she changed her name to her middle name because she didn't like the name Anna anymore."

Esperanza and Kieran didn't reply. They couldn't anyway, because by then, this so called Estelle answered Dr Kozak's question.

Dr Kozak's first name popped up on the screen in light blue calligraphic writing.

Demetrius...

"Yeah..." Dr Kozak trailed off, all of them waiting for Estelle's reply.

I'm really sorry to say this but...

Dr Kozak frowned.
It was inevitable.
He knew what Estelle was going to say next.

You didn't ace the mission. Therefore, you Esperanza and Kieran will all have to die.

Dr Kozak and Esperanza screamed when they read that, Kieran just kind of smiling.

He obviously hadn't read the "will all have to die" bit, that was probably why.

"Ha." Kieran told them, boastfully folding his arms. "See, I told you guys that we didn't ace the mission."

He then shrank back from the dirty looks he received from both Esperanza and Dr Kozak at exactly the same time.

"Wait wait wait. Hang on," Dr Kozak replied, smiling then laughing as he read something on his computer in which Estelle had typed back.

"Estelle just sent me something. Read this."

So they read it, of course.

Joking, Demetrius!
You guys aced the mission, with just one millisecond remaining!
Well done! All three of you!

-Estelle.

Then after that was about thirty seconds of happy dancing before Kieran finally said something, Dr Kozak switching off his computer making Estelle go away completely.

"Dr Kozak..." Kieran uttered, coming up closer to him. He then span Dr K round and round in his spinning chair, so hard that Dr K suddenly felt dizzy.

"Yes, kid..."

"What happens when you have gotten all 125 trophies?" Kieran wanted to know, Dr Kozak just grinning when he had heard that.

"Stay here, both of you," he ushered, standing up with the 125th trophy, reaching for his light purple sleeveless hoodie, before pretty much exiting his laboratory.

"Wait... Where are you going?" Kieran and Esperanza had both demanded at the same time.

But Dr Kozak didn't say anything. He had replied by staring at both of them in the eyes, then left.

If that had counted as a reply, anyway.

Kozak wasn't so sure about that.

"I want to show you guys what happens when you've gotten all 125 trophies," he echoed, before he was about to leave, and soon after, he was gone.

Esperanza had just stared at Kieran blankly, with Kieran just shrugging his shoulders and looking away.

Before they knew it, Dr Kozak was back, without the trophy this time, a gargantuan smile plastered all over his face.

"I'm confused. What happens?"

This was coming from Esperanza. Dr Kozak didn't reply again, because instead, he had just casually and nonchalantly blew up a bubble with the pink bubblegum he was currently chewing, before slouching down on his blue spinning chair again.

"Count to thirty, both of you," he commanded.

"Why?" Kieran and Esperanza stuttered, seriously looking at him.

"Don't ask me any questions, Kieran and Esperanza. Just do it. Listen to what I say. Both of you."

Esperanza rolled her eyes once she heard that, Kieran just staring at Dr Kozak with an expressionless look on his face.

Half heartedly, both Kieran and Esperanza counted to thirty, and when they hit thirty, something extremely amazing had happened.

Firstly, Dr Kozak's laboratory had turned the colour gold, as in completely. Everything was gold, Dr Kozak's computer, his spinning chair, his whole laboratory, for goodness sake.

And the rest of KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS had turned the colour gold too.

Secondly, to match with the golden KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS, everybody's clothes had turned gold too. This also happened to the 37K people that were at KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS.

Thirdly, Dr Kozak's laboratory became a bouncy house, literally. The blue, tiled floor of his laboratory soon pretty much became the floor of a bouncy castle, Kieran and Esperanza uncontrollably bouncing up and down. This happened to every room in KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS, once again.

And lastly, the corridors of the place soon became a roller skating rink, as in people could roller skate down the corridors as disco music played, with a shining disco ball located in the middle of every corridor.

"This place is sick!" Kieran cried, still jumping up and down from the floor- it was hard to control himself.

"Yeah," Esperanza agreed. "Although is every room like this?"

Dr Kozak just smiled, winking at them, before shaking his hands to indicate 'kind of' to Esperanza.

"Test rooms aren't like this. Well, when a test is taking place. But yeah, every room is like this."

No one said anything.

"Also..." Dr Kozak added, editing something. "I can now change who can see KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS from the outside and who can't."

And saying that, Dr Kozak removed names such as Diana Valentine (who had her name added on Diana Valentine's Day- aka Valentine's Day), his non identical twin brother Laurence, and many many others.

Esperanza, Kieran and Dr Kozak were celebrating, although Dr Kozak had stopped celebrating once he sort of realised something.

"Hey guys... Guys. Stop," he ordered, both Esperanza and Kieran looking at him rather confusingly.

"What?"

Dr Kozak: I just realised something.

Esperanza: *blinking confusingly like mad* Yeah. I've realised it too. Something is missing.

Kieran: What?

Dr Kozak: No. Wait. Someone is missing, actually. Where's my daughter Arista?

Kieran didn't say anything, his smile fell. The same thing had happened to Esperanza, and they were both giving him that stare as if he was a crazy person.

Dr Kozak realised this, but didn't like it.

Dr Kozak: You guys are both kinda giving me that stare like you both know something that I don't.

Kieran: Maybe we do.

Dr Kozak: *is confused* What? Do you guys know where my daughter is or not?

Kieran: Oh. We do. Trust me. We really do.

Esperanza: *is finishing off for Kieran* But it's not pleasant.

Dr Kozak: *doesn't smile, but doesn't frown. He is staring at both of them emotionlessly: Esperanza is sitting on the table because she hurt herself* What happened to her?

Kieran stared at Esperanza, both of them not remembering that Dr Kozak could read both of their minds.

Do you want to tell him or should I?

You tell him, Kieran.

They weren't thinking these things of course. They were whispering it. To Dr Kozak it seemed like they were thinking these things because from his perspective, their mouths weren't really moving.

Dr Kozak was becoming impatient by now, as he furiously jabbed a pencil through the table, making it blunt instantaneously.

Dr Kozak: Hello? Guys, I can read your mind... I'm a mind reader.... Remember?

Neither Kieran or Esperanza replied. They just kept on thinking stuff (not to each other, as they didn't have telepathy though), forgetting the fact completely that Dr Kozak was there, nonchalantly reading both of their minds.

"Hello? Guys.. Please don't ignore me."

Although they still did anyway.
Dr Kozak was fed up by now completely. Okay so talking to them wouldn't work, so what would?

When neither of them were looking, he headed outside of the room, then came back again two minutes later with something rather enormous in size.

Cymbals.

He bashed them three times into Kieran and Esperanza's ear, making both of them scream and yell 'what the heck', 'what was that for' and 'what is your problem?' to Dr Kozak.

Kozak: Guys. Tell me what happened to my daughter otherwise your death will be today.

Kieran: Fine. *takes a deep breath, Kozak is just staring at him in the eyes non stop* We're really sorry to say this doctor Kozak but your daughter Arista got killed in action...

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Moral of chapter: Success is 10% brain and 90% hard work. Hard work will pay off eventually, trust me! It always does! :)