Inspirational quote: Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?

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Arista's clone could not believe what she had just heard.

She wouldn't.

It was almost way too surreal for her to do so.

"You just booby trapped my father?" She repeated, staring at Martinez who was now visible via the CCTV camera located at the top of the door.

Martinez smiled impishly, not looking at Arista's clone once and not taking his feet off of his table either.

"Yes I did. Why? You have a problem?" He asked her, staring at her and then smirking.

Arista's clone just shot him a dirty look, which Martinez saw however decided to ignore because he was enjoying this too much.

And by "enjoying this", he meant that he was happy that those working for KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS were all currently suffering.

"Why would you do that, you imbecile?" Arista's clone screeched at him through the microphone, where Martinez just blew a bubblegum and then laughed at her.

"Because I've got to stick to the sign, stupid," he answered. "Don't you realise that my mother is Dr Kozak's arch nemesis ? We aren't friends, silly!"

Arista's clone rolled her eyes in disbelief as she watched Martinez fake smile at her, blowing some more bubblegum.

"You should at least be grateful, Arista. At least I didn't booby trap you, did I? So stop being a massive idiot, sort your life together and stop complaining."

Arista had had enough. Just because Martinez was older than her by just over half a decade now did not necessarily mean that she was going to treat him with respect.

"You know what? I'm fed up of you. I'm going in whether you like it or not."

"Funny little thing isn't it? Because that was exactly the same thing that your father said to me before I booby trapped him. Do you want me to do the same thing to you, Arista?" Martinez asked her, staring at her evilly.

Arista's clone didn't say anything. She was thinking of how to get inside DIE ANNA INCORPORATED without possibly being booby trapped along the way.

"This isn't over, Martinez!" She screamed at him, banging open the door by kicking it.

It took Martinez a while to realise what she was doing, because he was on his phone texting his sister Cynthia Rose, and once he found out what she was doing, he screamed at the top of his lungs.

"What are you doing to my mother's door? She's going to kill me if she finds out what you're doing!"

"You know... Maybe you deserve to be killed, Martinez!" Arista remarked back, still trying to get inside DIE ANNA INCORPORATED by kicking open the door.

Strangest thing was... It was actually working! Arista's clone was halfway through getting through the door.

Martinez had tried to booby trap her but for some reason it wasn't working, which Martinez wasn't sure on why. Arista's clone didn't even realise this at all.

About twenty seconds later, Arista's clone was in DIE ANNA INCORPORATED for good, and this was accomplished by slamming open the door.

The first thing that Arista had done once she had arrived there was to find Martinez in person, who literally turned out to be in the first room that she had checked.

"How the hell did you get in there?!" Martinez proclaimed, absolutely flabbergasted once he saw her smash open his room door.

The room used when he had to voice the doorbell, obviously. Not Martinez's actual room, that was way too far away.

Arista's clone didn't reply. This was mainly because she was looking around the room for a gun, or something that she could kill Martinez with for not opening the door for her and for pretty much booby trapping her father.

She eventually found a gun located on Martinez's wall, and so therefore pointed it at him, but didn't actually shoot it yet.

"Whoa. You're not going to kill me, are you?" He wanted to know, standing up and heading outside the room.

Unfortunately for Martinez, Arista's clone had beaten him to it, and so therefore locked the door, the gun still targeted at Martinez.

"What? No. Of course not."

Martinez sighed a sigh of relief before saying anything else.

"Good."

Arista's clone lied.

She shot Martinez, of course.

When she had done that, she slammed open the door, heading for the room in which Diana Valentine had so maliciously booby trapped Kieran and Esperanza.

Although as soon as she was about to open the door to enter that room, someone tripped her up by placing their foot right in front of her.

"Aha. Got you, Arista."

Arista's clone looked up really slowly, not saying anything as this unknown person that had somehow happened to know her name took her gun.

One would have thought that it was Diana Valentine or Cynthia Rose but it wasn't.

It couldn't have been Cynthia Rose.

Cynthia Rose was way too nice, and was against Diana trying to kill those that worked for KOZAHKISTAN HEADQUARTERS completely.

It was...

"Martinez?" Arista's clone shouted, standing up to her feet. "I thought that I had just killed you?"

"Yeah, well, you might have thought you did but you actually didn't. The gunshot was my mother's oven, not you shooting me."

Arista didn't even ask the guy why his mother's oven had made a gunshot sound when something had finished cooking: she didn't really have any time for that.

Instead, she had just focused on trying to rescue Kieran, Esperanza and possibly her dad as well as getting the trophy before it was too late for them to do so.

And when Arista's clone was least expecting it, Martinez had slapped her.

There was a massive fight after that between Arista and Martinez.

The fight ended by Arista majestically beating Martinez up and doing some crazy Kung Fu on him, making Martinez do a massive backflip and land head first on the floor.

Strangest thing was, Martinez was still alive, although Arista's clone didn't stay long enough to find that out.

Really rapidly, Arista's clone had opened the door in which Kieran and Esperanza were booby trapped, and as soon as they saw her, they screamed with relief immediately.

"Arista!"

Arista smiled, then told Kieran and Esperanza to calm down in case Diana was secretly watching this, then stopped the countdown that Diana had given them.

"Hey. Just noticed. Where's Dr Kozak?" This was coming from Esperanza.

"Does it matter? It's better without him around," Kieran muttered lividly to himself, still really annoyed about what happened with him and Dr Kozak earlier.

"Oh Dr Kozak? He's.. Uhm... In hell."

"What? He died?" Esperanza and Kieran shouted to Arista's clone at the same time.

Arista's clone then gave herself a face palm mainly due to what she said.

"Oh. Wait. No. Sorry, I said that wrong. Let me rephrase that. He's not dead, don't worry. He's just been... Booby trapped. He's at Diana's underground basement. Which is basically in hell."

No one said anything as Arista very quickly saw scissors somewhere, using it to rescue both Esperanza and Kieran.

This took an awful amount of time, of course.

She was only about 97% away from rescuing them, that was until she stopped once she saw someone on the floor.

"Oh my gosh. Who is that?"

Neither Kieran or Esperanza said anything, then once Esperanza found out who Arista's clone was talking about, she rolled her eyes.

"Oh. That's Cynthia Rose."

"Esperanza laser beamed her twice."

Arista's clone gasped and nearly felt like crying as soon as she saw Cynthia Rose.

"Are you guys crazy? Why would you do that, Esperanza? Realise Cynthia and I are actually really good friends."

Esperanza didn't reply, just rolled her eyes once again as Cynthia Rose very slowly got up, not doing or saying anything.

Cynthia Rose blinked just once before saying anything and once she found out who was staring at her, she screamed and smiled at the person that was right opposite her.

"Arista? Is that you?"

"Cynthia Rose!" Arista's clone echoed back, hugging her.

She then asked Cynthia Rose if she could help rescue Kieran and Esperanza which Cynthia agreed to, but only managed halfway before her mother came storming in.

"What in tarnation is going on?" Diana Valentine protested, presumably stealing that quote off of Dr Kozak or the other way around.

No one said anything, that was until Diana asked Arista's clone who she was.

Obviously, Arista's clone didn't say anything. Soon after, her and Diana were arguing, at least once Diana realised that Arista was her arch nemesis's daughter.

The argument soon turned into another fight, even more harder than before, and sadly for Kieran and Esperanza, Arista lost.

By the time everything was over, Diana had put Arista in a deep sleep, so that when she opened her eyes, she was trapped in a transparent box.

Neither Diana or Cynthia were there when Arista had opened her eyes either.

"Wow. She does really know every trick in the book. At first I thought that Kozak was just lying about that but I don't think he is anymore." Esperanza told Kieran and Arista, who just kept on screaming because there was a massive tarantula in her box that she couldn't really do anything about.

In the meantime, Cynthia Rose was just casually walking around DIE ANNA INCORPORATED, trying to look for her 22 year old brother Martinez (who was still somehow miraculously alive), eventually finding him where he voiced the doorbell.

"Hey. I just got your text," he told her, his feet still nonchalantly leaning back on the table. "What do you want?"

"I really need to talk to you."

Martinez: *Slowly spins around in his spinning chair, legs still on the table, Cynthia just cholerically watching him* Okay? About what?

Cynthia Rose: Where is Dr Kozak? His daughter is here.

Martinez: *rolls his eyes in disbelief* Dr Kozak has been booby trapped by me, Cynthia. He's in mum's basement.

Cynthia Rose: What? Why?

Martinez: What do you mean, 'why'? Dr Kozak is our enemy, Cynthia. You can't be nice to him.

Cynthia: You seemed to be against mum killing him, why have you changed your mind?

Martinez: Eh. I'm on and off really.

Cynthia Rose: Well, take me to the basement. I have to rescue Dr Kozak. And you can't just do that, bro. You need to make up your mind. Mum hates ambivalence and you know that. Don't push her limits.

Martinez: *blinks at his sister once with an annoyed look on his face* Are you crazy? Why do you want to rescue him? Do you love him?

Cynthia: No. I've just always wanted to meet him in person. He seems legit.

Martinez: Well. Now's not the time, sis.

Cynthia: Well, I'm going to the basement whether you like it or not.

Martinez: No, you're not.

Cynthia: Want to play hard to get? *strangles her brother, Martinez can't breathe* If you don't take me down there, I'll tell mum that you snuck off to that party last Saturday at midnight when you were supposed to be studying.

Martinez just stared at her, scanning her eyes up and down, then rolled his eyes before saying anything else.

Martinez: You're good. Fine. I'll take you there. Stand outside.

Cynthia: Good. Bye, idiot.

Martinez didn't say anything.

When Cynthia Rose was standing on the welcome mat that led to the booby trap, and she gave a thumbs up to him, that was when he pressed the button that led her to the basement.

And soon Cynthia Rose found herself going down...

Down...

Quicker than her grades at school were falling.

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Moral of chapter: Sometimes your family members can be smarter than you think so don't underestimate or mess with them at all.