(The woods song is pretty catchy, play it while you read it, but if you can't focus, just don't turn the music off)

0700 hours

Dorm

October 7th

Ben POV

I woke up in my bed. It had been two weeks since I had been shot. I carefully changed into my clothes and tried not to hurt my chest. And headed out into the woods. I just wanted a nice sunshine breeze. This was my daily routine after I got shot.

I saw the birds chirping in the sky, then all of a sudden thought about Erica. I couldn't believe I betrayed her. My crush. I hadn't seen her in two weeks.

 I headed deeper into the woods. I then saw another building. It was strange, why another building? It was relatively close to spy school and looked exactly like one.

about ten minutes later I started to turn back when a figure appeared to me. I suddenly smelled the scent of lilacs and gun powder. Erica. Again.

"Erica?" I said, in shock and fear. "What are you doing here?" Erica shoved me into the bushes. She then jumped beside me.

"What's going on?" I said. She covered my mouth, then whispered: "five enemy agents," I suddenly froze.

What was going on? I thought. Was SPYDER launching an attack? But I knew I couldn't ask questions now.  Then, I saw these people with guns on their hands scanning the area.

When the enemy agents were done patroling and were well out of sight, We went back out of the bushes.

I had one simple question to ask. "Who was that?" 

"Its the enemy spy school"

I was now confused. "Excuse me?" 

"Oh yeah, you don't know," Erica said, rolling her eyes. "Let me start from the beginning: first, there's another spy school out there."

I was shocked. Another spy school? What did she mean?

"You mean, there's a third spy school?" I said in complete disappointment and surprise. "Yes," Erica said. "And it's powered by the CIA, the building you saw over there in the woods was the other school building. There was some rebellion also going on in that school, and the students are corrupted,
 they made a rebellion for some reason, and imprisoned the teachers. Now they're going to attack us for no reason."

"Was this why you were distracted and meant to me?" I said.

"No, I was faking it," Erica said.

"Oh"

"Did the Evil school then set Jawa up by planted the gun into the other guns?" I said. "Or was it SPYDER?"

"No, and no, and I did that," Erica replied coldly.

"YOU SET ME UP BY PLANNING FOR JAWA TO SHOOT ME?" I said in anger.

"No, I did set you up, it was for your protection. I heard the news that after the trench warfare, the spy school kids in the woods would come and harm you when you come back to your dorm. That's why I had to plant the gun for Jawa to shoot you so you would end up in the medical bay, not the dorm."

"So the spy school kids in the woods wants to hurt me, why?" I said.

"I still don't know, but maybe because they were jealous or something, those Wood kids never stand a chance, they use rubber bullets for their weapons, nothing to kill, but really harmful, and the reason why I was investigating is that SPYDER might be holed up there"

The last time I had seen SPYDER was when an island blew up by a missile blast back in our last mission, which was in Alaska. They also had a partner team, which was the S.H.A.R.K organization. Carlos, Ericas other Ex-boyfriend, had betrayed Erica while on the mission. And he was part of the SHARK.

"Huh, wood kids, maybe we should call them the third spy school," I said. "Or maybe wood school"

"Enough with the names, these people out there are dangerous"I took a deep breath, someone was gonna join the war, and they were using weapons. Not real weapons, just ones that don't kill, but still harmful.  If Erica said that the other mysterious school on the other side was dangerous, she was right.

There was another spy school out there, if there was, why didn't the CIA ever tell us about this?

"And I need to tell you one more thing," Erica said.

I turned to Erica.

"Tell the others, and RUN"

I dashed away as more of these "Other spy school students" Came over the bushes and attacked Erica. She fought while I ran away. My chest was hurting, but I couldn't let them catch up to me.

So lets clear things up. My mind was boggling. first, Erica said that there was another spy school out there, that the CIA hadn't told us. And second, they were trying to hurt me. Only me. That was suspicious. Why wouldn't they just kill me instead of not hurting me?

And third, they were in the woods, about a mile away from spy school.

Then I thought about SPYDER. Were they really connected to this other spy school in the woods?

I headed towards the seige campus, and went to Dillians tent.  He was sleeping.

I woke him up. "What is it?" He said, rubbing his eyes. When he saw me, he practically pounced me. There was pain through my chest.

"YOUR ALIVE!" He said, giving me a bear hug.

"I gotta tell you something," I said in a panic. "Another side gonna join the war, and they want to harm me and maybe kill me. They're also gonna sneak attack right now. Ericas defending most of them, but we need to hurry"
"What the heck?" Diliman said.

"Erica said so, apparently, shes neutral"

"We need to tell the Rebels!" Dillian said. We all stormed off to find our teammates and woke them up. I wonder where the teachers were. There were nowhere to be seen.

"So, does the wood school shoot real weapons or fake weapons?" Flapper said after I told her the story. Mike and Chip were shocked.
"They shoot real, in fact, they tried to harm me once, but it was blocked when Erica set Jawa up to shoot me, although Jawa didn't know"

"Erica did WHAT?" Dillian and Flapper yelled simultaneously.

I smacked my head. (smh204)) 

"I'll explain later, we first need to alert the Yankees," I said.

"We can't," Flapper said. "We can't just help the Yankees"

"But they're our brothers and sisters," I said. "We need to fight against the wood school, they're dangerous, and they can cause harm, we need teamwork"

"So we work together with the Rebels? what kind of teamwork is that? We can't work together with them Ben, we need to preserve the Confederatetsy"

"So it's a three-sided war?" I said in confusion.

"Yep, we ain't helping the Yankees," Dillian said in a southern accent.

"But this is a real war, after today, it will be real. The last few days were just small battles, this is a real one, people can get killed"
"Again I refuse," Dillian said, shaking his head.

"How about we stop the war for like a week and then solve this crisis?" I said.

"I don't know, we can't help the Rebels, they're ruthless," one of the kids said.

"Well, we gotta do something, the wood school is very dangerous, and is in large numbers, and Erica said she had her suspicions on it, that spyder might be holed up there"
"Wow, really?" Dillan said in awe.

"yes, and we need as much help as we can," I said.

"Ok, but after this, we're gonna still go to war"

"But how do we attack the wood school by making a decisive attack successfully?" Mike said."leave that to me," I said, grinning.

Zoe POV

The seige had lasted for 2 weeks, and it was going in complete disaster. The Rebels had got us with multiple surprise attacks, plus, they cut off our supply line, and we were starving. We managed to make a secret passage where the Yankees didn't know and then headed towards a place where there's food.

We had been starved and were alerted when the Rebels came again. Most of the professors in this school had left for some reasons, I couldn't see any of the professors, as the war was getting busy.

The Rebels had come in the place. We fought back by shooting paintballs, but the Rebels didn't shoot back.

"Hey HEy! chill out!" Dillian said. He and his friends (Ben, Flapper, Chip, and Jawa) were also with him. They entered our school hall.

"What's the problem?" Jawa said. Then he was surprised when Ben was there.

Ben POV

We then told the story about another dangerous spy school that may be powered by SPYDER. And Zoe sort of got confused.

"So there's another spy school in the woods," She said.

"Yes, and they're gonna attack spy school," I said.

"This is literally confusing"

"Ok, the point is, someones gonna attack, and we need to get prepared"

"Ok then, but why us?" Zoe said, her voice rising.

"You betrayded us!"

"No I didn't I said calmly. "Erica made the first step, but it doesn't matter. It was only an act"

"So the war was never meant to be a war?" Dillian now said.

"Well, sort of," I said.

"Wel, we need to combine our army," Flapper said.

"Of course not!" Joel said, who happened to be next to her.

"Why?"

"Because you guys are making this up and trying to cheat on us" "Is this true?" Zoe said, her voice rising.
"No, she's lying!" I said.
"I still don't trust you, Ben," Zoe said, gritting her teeth.

"Well, if you get killed, wish you luck" Then Chip headed out.
"Wait! we need to do something"

"No, and your trying to trick us," Joel said again.

I groaned, when was she gonna ever stop listening?

"We need to reunite!" Dillian said, begging.

"Yankees! Attack!" Zoe demanded.

The Yankees came out of a door and poured out, about to crash onto us. But that's right when the Rebels entered the building and attacked. This held our guard for a while.

"Were telling the truth!" I said.

"I don't believe you" Then Zoe pointed a foam gun and shot me in the leg. I winced. That's when Dilian attacked, shoving Zoe to the side. Mike and Chip joined the fight, although it was sort of awkward fighting against each other. But they seemed mad that Zoe had shot me.

CHip tackled Jawa, who winced when they crashed down into the cafeteria.

The fight lasted for fifteen minutes, but was stopped when we heard a scream.

"Its the messenger signal!" Zoe siad. She headed out into the camp where Rebel camps were there.

Then, a student cam dashing through the forest. Gladly, he was a Yankee, not a wood kid.

"What is it, Conner?" Zoe said.

"They captured her!"

"Captured who?"

"Captured ERICA!"

My blood vessels went cold. Erica was captured, again.

"What are we gonna do?" Joel said.

"We need to rescue Erica, duh" Dillian replied.

"This is serious! our best men out of the game!" Zoe said in panic.

"Your mean best woman," Dillian said.

"SHUT UP!" 

Dillan shrunk in fear.

"What in the Sniper are we gonna do now?" Joel replied.

"The wood kids captured her, we need to rescue her"

"I know, but we first need to make an attack on the wood school!" I exclaimed. I shouted a little too big, because some rebels were looking at me like I was a teacher who had anger issues.

I was just fed up on Erica because she had been captured twice in a row. (Once in our last mission)

"Then let's go save her!" Zoe said in panic.

We all headed towards the weapon storage room, and Dillan reorginized his troops for battle.

"Hey! CATCH!" Someone in the bushes threw something at me.

I caught it.

It was a grenade. A live one.

I was in deep trouble.