Anchorage, Alaska

around 1200 hours

January 7th

Ben POV

I hadn't eaten since yesterday. Even though you had to fill up your stomach when you're going to infiltrate some evil person's compounds, desperate times need for desperate measures. 

Catherine had the same feeling as I had because she came down and put a hand on my shoulder. "I know you haven't eaten anything since yesterday Benjamin, I feel that too, but this SPYDER were following, and we can't lose Ms. E."

Up ahead, gunfire started to ring out. "Everybody move!" Erica said. We ducked into positions

while bullets zoomed past us. We continued to run. I saw a glimpse of Ms. E, running away to the city.

I saw the bullets, and they looked old. I then looked at the guards. They were using civil war rifles.

That was suspicious.

"We need to follow Ms. E!" Erica said. We continued to chase after Ms. E, who was running faster than I expected.

We soon lost the agents and slowly stuck to tourists. I looked at Ms. E. We quickly hid behind the building and looked.

They were gone.

We all headed towards the place where they had been in. There was nothing. "Wait," Erica said.

"far than more meets the eye" She then took touched the grass. I touched it too. It was fake, plastic grass.

We both knew what that meant. We tossed the grass. Then I found a sewer cap.

"NOPE, I am not going there," Mike said. "I think since Ms. E came here, maybe its a sewer passage," Catherine said.

"Ok, fine," Mike said. We all hopped in. It was sort of disgusting. It turned out; SPYDER had cleaned most of the gunk off of the place. And there was clean water streaming down, instead of nasty fluid.

We soon came across a door. It didn't seem fancy, but when Erica creaked opened it, I saw Joshua, Ashley, Warren, Dane, and Murray.

When Murray saw us, he didn't alert us. He didn't want to join the bad guys, but he was blackmailed.

He gave me a wink and then returned to business.

I mouthed Murray. And they seemed to put 2 and 2 together.  I heard the chattering of Ms. E and the others.

"Are you ready for operation, Medieval? Ms. E said. Somehow, they got along together. "Yep, and we got all the missiles ready too."

I was stunned. Missile? Another missile? I saw the walls of the room. There was an ancient Chinese pottery (As always), and there were a civil war rifle and other artifacts.

"Let's go to the storage room to check on the artifacts," Ms. E said. They all followed her. Now there were only the Spyder agents in this room. The others were gone.

This was the perfect time to knock all the guards out. Before any agent could even shout or fuss security, Erica and Catherine unleashed some devastating karate kicks. And all the guards were out in less than 10 seconds.

"We can't stay out in the open as this," Cyrus said. He then looked at a ventilation duct and pried it open without a sound. He then motioned us to crawl inside carefully and quietly. We followed him and tried not to make a bunch of sounds. It was pretty hollow and big for an air duct.

We soon found we vent some holes we could peek through. I couldn't see it, but I heard some sounds.

"Wow, look at these artifacts, I'm pretty sure it's gonna end soon," said Ms. E. I still wondered why they used medieval guns and other old weapons.

We continued to crawl through the place.

"Man, that Ben Reply. We need to kill him before he finds about our plans" "Agreed, I'm pretty sure your men are scouting the place," Joshua said. I saw a glimpse of Murray as we crawled through.

He already knew we were there and decided not to tell SPYDER. He didn't make any eye contact with us, as feared that Ms. E will spot us.

We continued to scout until I found something suspicious. It was a Declaration of independence and American artifacts. I had no idea what SPYDER was doing, but It seemed like it had to do something with artifacts.

Speaking of artifacts, one rolled onto the duct. Warren must have sort of checked the artifacts (a bronze decorative ball). And it rolled near the duct. He went to pick it up. Sadly, when he picked it, he saw us. 

He screamed.

"The spy gang is in the air duct! He then ran away like a chicken. Joshua was surprised and sort of confused. Dane, on the other hand, knew what was going on. He got a submachine gun and headed toward the duct. I froze.

Dane checked the grating, then saw that it was dark. "I don't see anyone here, and I think Warrens gone cuckoo."

"Just check," Ms. E said. This time I quickly scrambled away without a sound. We quickly made it to the corner without getting noticed.

"I don't see anything," Dane said, annoyed.

"I promise! I saw it!" Warren whined. "It's true! I saw Bens face and then—oof!" He was whacked in the face by Joshua and fell unconscious.

"He's a bit out of shape sometimes," Joshua said. Then I started to speak something else. We had almost gotten caught.

We soon rounded another corner to the right and headed toward the empty room. I then saw more artifacts in the rooms. We al continued until the gratings started to loop around and started to go the opposite way. We slowly and quietly went out of the grating. We were in some room, and no guards were here.

"I wonder why SPYDER's keeps all these stolen things," Catherine whispered sadly. "And how did Ms. E get the declaration of independence? It's so hard to steal it."

"Maybe she copied the scheme in national treasure," Mike said. "Wait... hey... Bens the main character in the movie!"

"Be quiet," I said. "Before SPYDER knows were here" "Let's take a look around," Erica said. We looked around the room. It turns out to be the kitchen. But it was some science experiments kitchen. There were some blue chemicals. I looked at them. 

There was a piece of paper next to it. 

Steps of making HME-4 candy

1. pour R-S4 chemical

2. get voltaic-3r2

3. stir them together

4.microwave 5 minutes. 

5. Put it into a skittle mixture.

6. enjoy! JK!

I then had a bad feeling.

"uhh Erica, you know the candy that you just ate? Well, it's not the original skittles" I showed her the recipe, and she gasped in shock. It was a small gasp. There was a monitor next to the kitchen. There were numbers and graphs. There was the main number, though, in the top right corner: 7,456,038,034.

That was the average amount of the human population. "Looking for clues, huh?" Someone said. I already knew that voice the second I heard it.

Ms. E had spotted us.