In Ms. Es secret HQ

1300 hours

Erica POV

January 7th

"So, Ben, did you find what my plans were?" Ms. E said. We could have attacked her. But Ashley and Warren came and pointed guns at us. More SPYDER agents came.

"No, we didn't," I said. "Ben's still figuring it out" "That's good because then we can kill you now."

The guards came and pointed their guns at us, civil war rifles. Dane seemed to enjoy this moment. This time it seemed like it was over. Our luck had run out, no falling sofas, distractions, or any other thing that can save us.

But then Ben still clung on to hopes

"I think I have—" He started, but was cut off by Ms. E.

"Stop stalling for time; I know this is a trap. I'm not going to let you get away with this again."

"I just wanna say a few questions before we die," Ben said.

"No—" Ms. E said.

"ok, first of all, how did Joshua get his body parts back?" Joshua growled at this.

"He got some experiment by putting nuclear fission expanding cells into his arms and legs so in a few years he grows the body parts back," Ms. E said quickly.

"And second, how did you get all the candy to feed it to the whole planet?"

"Because We ship it to skittles and they sell it around the world, I see Erica already ate one. In the skittles, there are little devices that will do something to you."

"Now, time for you to die" They crept in closer, aiming guns at us. But I already had a plan. Since Ben distracted Ms. E for a few seconds, I had time to get a smoke bomb out of my utility belt and drop it on the floor. The second before they shot, the thing exploded.

We ran for cover. Bullets tore through the walls. A shot almost got me, but I dodged it at the last second. I heard a yelp as someone got shot. I looked that way where the yelp came from. It was Mike, and he clutched onto his leg.

He seemed to be in much pain, so I quickly grabbed him and put him on my shoulders. Zoe gasped.

"Its ok, only a sedative dart," I said. This was a lie because I didn't want anybody to get worried and losing their guard.  We continued to run through halls as bullets tore past us. 

We soon came to an air duct once again, but this won't be helpful. And we already knew that someone was guarding the entrance.

Put I was prepared with our escape route. I, Cyrus, and my mom had talked about the plan.

I quickly opened the door of a room and locked it. It seemed to be a medical center. 

Carlos got some bandages and pain killers for Mike, while I tried to crack open this wall. I scouted the grounds, and this section of the wall was the thinnest, only about six inches thick. 

I got a dagger from my belt and started to dig through the mortar in the bricks. I heard the sound of a bullet hitting on the door; we didn't have much time.

Zoe looked at Mike and shrieked. 

"You lied to me!" " well, yeah, because I didn't want to scare you," Mike seemed to have passed out. He was In so much pain. Catherine and Cyrus had joined with me. Their daggers were scraping off the mortar of the bricks. 

I heard more gunshots outside, followed by heavy footsteps.

We soon dug through the brick. I then threw the brick; then, we started to take apart the house. We made a small hole enough to fit us all, then told everybody to get out. I was leaving when Ben got a piece of furniture.

"What are you doing? I said, out of my mind.

"We need to cover up the hole, so SPYDER won't think we escaped"

He then got a plush chair and blocked the hole from the inside. We went inside a little sewer line. We continued to run until we saw a ladder, and we climbed up.

I carried Mike.

We soon went up and practically ran towards the road. I felt the cold breeze of Anchorage. Ben said: "Where do we go now?"

Carlos then replied: "The anchorage museum."

"why would we go there?" Ben said.

"Because I'm a museum curator cover-up and Doctor like Catherine," Carlos said, flashing a smile at Catherine.

"O.h, not again," Alexander said. I hadn't even noticed that he was there because we were so stressed and busy.

"We need to get Mike somewhere safe, and he's bleeding a lot" Carlos got six pouches of blood types out of his utility belt. Frankly, he was just as prepared as me.

"What blood type?"

"A," Cyrus said immediately.

"I have a secret room in the museum, and I think we should do surgery there."

"Is he gonna be ok?" Zoe said, worrying.

Carlos checked Mikes's heartbeat. "Yeah, I think so, but we need to move fast" We followed him. I gave Carlos a warm smile. He held Mike as we ran toward the museum. While we were running to the museum, I saw a glimpse of Ben turning red in jealousy.

I sort of felt bad for him, but I had my sights on Carlos a little.

We soon came across the museum. And ran inside the back entrance. We quickly went inside Carlos's "secret room" and started to pump blood into Mikes's leg.

I started to smile at Carlos.

I still hadn't noticed that Ben saw all that.

He seemed so sad that I saw a tear or two. I still looked at Carlos. He was handsome, more handsome than Ben.

Now Ben looked like he was going to cry. "I'm gonna head over to the museum," He said. He then headed toward the door. Catherine followed too.

"oh crap," I said.

"I know what your thinking," Carlos replied. "You like me."

Cyrus spat

"WHAT?"

"I don't know what you're talking about," I said disapprovingly.

"oh stop, I know that look."

I flushed red. I was sort of mad at Carlos, and a bit embarrassed.

Cyrus gave me a cold stare, "You know what happened with Joshua."

Ben POV

I was tearing up. I started to wipe my eyes oh Ben, stop it, your too old to cry for the crush that you like

I then was going to head to the bathroom when Catherine came toward me.

"I'm sorry, Benjamin, I know you like Erica, and I hope you can fix this soon."

"I can't," I said, unsatisfied with what Catherine had said.

"C'mon, let's take a tour of the museum, maybe it will help you get relaxed a bit."

"ok," I said. A free tour of the museum would be excellent. We were technically in the museum, so I got to see ancient boats, Indian artifacts, and more.

I was enjoying it a lot. We were going to the next section of the museum when something shocking occurred to me. I stared in shock. It was a newspaper. One of the topics said: Montanas T-rex bone stolen.

SPYDER, I thought. I gave Catherine a look at the newspaper, and she seemed to be in shock too. I then looked at the other topics: pottery in the British museum stolen for the second time, the Abraham Lincoln hat was stolen.

This was terrible news.

"Spyders keeping all these relics somewhere bigger than the artifact closet that we saw," Catherine said. She was in a fury now, because Catherine was a fan of artifacts.

We soon headed back to where the others were.

"We need to move closer to the enemy so that we can figure Spyders deadly plans," Catherine said to Erica and the others.

I showed the newspaper to everyone, and they seemed concerned.

This time, we were going to confront SPYDER, not running away from them. We were going to go back to their base.