Im sorry that it took me a whole two days to make this chapter. I usually post this earlier than you think, but somehow I let it slip. Im sorry. But here's my Chapter.

1745 hours

December 8th

In the air

Ben POV

It was turning night time when we had arrived in New York City. I looked at the sky of the empire and the world trade center. There also were dozens of building from tall ones to short ones. All the windows were lit up. As my dad always says: "New York City never sleeps."

I didn't know where to land the helicopter, as it was illegal to land one in NYC. We needed to get in there, snoop the item in the empire, and get the heck out of here.

Erica had decided that we would land in Long Island and take a walk towards  Brooklyn heights.

And so the plan was made. The helicopter landed on some field that no one mainly owned.

We landed in the field and walked out. I could even see the city, also though it was Miles away. 

"We need to move fast," Erica said. "It's  getting dark."

"Are we gonna infilterate the empire state building at night?" I said.

"Of course, what do you think?" Erica said. "Now we need somewhere to sleep in the city. New York is only five miles so that we can sleep somewhere there."

We nodded and walked about ten minutes until we arrived at the Brooklyn Bridge and crossed it.

We then headed down towards downtown New York City, and crossed times square.

Cyrus had given each of us some money (except for Flapper and Dillian, who had their wallets), and we stayed in a hotel called Hotel express.  This place was junk, with hotel rooms smelling like people had smoked.

Shoot. Now Im going to get a disease, I thought.

Usually, living in NYC hotels weren't the best choice to live in. We had no food or anything, so we just bought some from burger king.

"Remember last time Ben saved the world from blowing the bridges up?" Zoe said. "If we failed to complete that mission, this treasure hunt would be a bust."

"True," Mike pointed out.

There were two queen-sized beds and so we decided that four of us would sleep on the carpet while the other four would sleep in the beds. Simple and easy.

After we ate burger king, we had only one thing left to do: Get supplies for our upcoming hunt for the mysterious item.

We first had to get some weapons, but that. It was impossible to get, so we just went to Target by a taxi to get some gear.

Chip got some cleaning supplies for chemical knock-out, so I think he learned some things from his brother Hank, who used cleaning supplies when we were once infiltrating a coal mine to save the president.

Target had the same weaponry and things like Walmart in West Virginia. (Check out book two of the real spy school to make sense of what's happening)

Erica looked at the spy gear section, and there were stuff but were pricy, like bugs and scopes and tech. But Erica did something unproud: She stole a wallet. I told her this was bad, but she said it was for the "Sake of their country to find the fortune""

But as usual, we didn't take any guns, just pepper spray, hunting knives, and a bow and arrow.

We also got some paint guns as usual. For a second, I didn't know why we were preparing this.

"Wait," I said. "Why are we preparing for battle? Aren't we just going to retrieve an item?"

"SPYDER and SHARK might be involved in the hunt, so we're getting ready," Erica said coldly.

I nodded in understanding and went straight for packing. We soon checked our things out and headed back towards the hotel.

"Ok, so we're gonna infilterate the place," Mike said.

"No, you guys are gonna go scout while Ben and I go investigate," Erica said.

"You and your Ben," Zoe said, rolling her eyes.

"Say that again, and I will chop you into hamburger meat," Erica replied, eyes full of furry. 

Zoe backed down.

"So, what do we do when we have no fun?"

"Im going to bring Zoe and Mike with us. The rest of you do some surveillance in the building before we infiltrate it to see if SPYDER or anyone looking for the item." She then gave each of the five pieces of bugs to Chip, Jawa, Dillian, and Flapper, and told them to put it on the empire state building, like on stairs or bathrooms and elevators"

"So basically, what we're doing is your gonna snoop around in the empire state building, put bugs on the elevators and stairs and stuff, and then return for you to infiltrate and to alert you?" Chip said, disappointed.

"It will give us four a higher chance of surviving if the police or SPYDER shows up, I like to be prepared," Erica said again, annoyed that they still didn't get it.

"Ok," Chip said meekly.

"We need to hurry, leave in about five minutes before it gets too dark to see." 

"NOW?!" Jawa said in shock. "But, we need to rest!"
"Its Friday night, so we need to get out there quickly," Erica replied coldly.
(If you smart enough to see the date and day, you could see what year this story took place when you make calculations with a December 8th and Friday night. But Just search it up on the computer if it's too hard. Hint: it's in the 21st century;))

I felt terrible for Chip, and the others, then noticed why Erica was so angry at him. Was she trying to get glory?

So they left to bug the empire state building. It took them about an hour, and when they came back, they were exhausted.

"The empire is still open till 11 Pm," Jawa said. And we put the bugs in elevators and stairs, including the entrance, we also put it new sewers connected to the bathroom pipelines near the empire, although that experience was nasty."

"Good, now can you go in your rooms and check on your computers," Erica said. 

 Jawa and the others slumped away as we got prepared for infiltration. Although Erica said that we would go at 2000 hours, It was 1805 hours, so we had to wait two more hours.

So since we had two more hours left, I decided to take a little tour of New York City. I had never gone there before, so whereas visit them.

Erica seemed fine with that, and opted even to join me. That was a big surprise. But she said this to protect me if any SPYDER agents were here. But I was sure that she just wanted to "Hang out" With me.

We left the Hotel and then went towards downtown New York.

I decided that we should go to an art museum, while Eria choose to go to the Rockefeller. So we decided we should go to both of them. (This is very unnatural to Erica, but This is my spy school, so yeah)

We decided to go to the Rockefeller Museum, because as the rules say: Ladies first. So we bought tickets and entered the place. It was crazy expensive, but Erica said it would be worth it anyway.

So we got a tour. We even got to see the top of the museum, which was gorgeous. We got to know the layout view of the island of Manhattan. There was a railing, and we leaned on it and looked at the sight.

At some point, Ericas shoulder leaned on me. I grinned. It was a peaceful paradise.

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We later decided that we should go to the art museum. So we left the building to head there. We only had about 40 minutes left.

"So, how are we gonna infiltrate the building?" I said in curiosity while walking towards the art museum.

"We'll talk about this later," Erica said. "We first need to get in the museum."

"I wonder how we'll even know where the item will be," I said.

"Maybe we just need to figure out what the ^) floor means," Erica said.

We were now at the entrance of the museum. I looked at the sign and entered the museum. Then, we got tickets and looked at the paintings and sculps.

We were going through the museum when someone suddenly attacked us.