He drove about twenty minutes away. Into the literal middle of nowhere. "Wow you guys live really far out here." I said. "Yea it's safer this way. I'll give you the code to the front gate." He said pulling up to a huge gate with barbed wire. "Man this is like prison." I said. He laughed. "Just a safety precaution. He said typing some numbers into the key pad. The gate made a grinding sound as it opened. He drove through. Up ahead behind a massive amount of trees sprawled a huge brick house. "Wow this place is pretty sweet." I said getting out of the car. Yea come on i'll introduce you to the guys and give you a tour.

          We walked inside and i saw two guys sitting on a couch playing a video game, in the corner two guys were fighting. "This is Liam and Ethan." He said pointing to the two guys on the couch. "Nice to meet you." I said waving at them. They didn't look up. "Hey you too." Said Liam.

          "And that's Jake and Ryder." Said Caleb. "Hey!" Said Ryder smiling and waving. They stopped fighting and took a seat at the table. "So what does everybody do?" I asked. "Well Liam is our tech guy. Ethan fixes the cars and drives us super fast in chases. Jake takes care of all the guns and makes sure there all good to go he'll help you with some training at the gun range. Ryder is our fighter he'll train you later in some hand to hand combat." Caleb said.

         "I don't recognize these guys..." I nodded to the guys on the couch. "Oh Liam and Ethan go to Ridgeway. Jake's in the academy and Ryder is doing home schooling." Caleb said. "Oh that's cool." I nodded. "Let me give you a tour." Said Caleb leading me around the living room.

          "This is the living room this area is for lounging, this is for fighting the mats are so you don't get to hurt. This is the one bathroom that we all share. But in the back we have more so don't worry. This is the kitchen. In here is the pantry." He pointed. "Wow you guys can cook?" Caleb laughed really hard. "Are you kidding me? We can't cook. You're funny. Last week Liam burnt water. Wait...can you cook?" He asked. I crossed my arms. "Why because i'm a girl?" I asked narrowing my eyes at him.

          "Well, can you or not?" He asked. "I can, and just because of that attitude i'm gonna make a creamy bacon pasta that's gonna knock your stupid socks off." I said walking out of the pantry. "I'm okay with that." He called after me closing the door and hurrying to catch up. He took me down a long hallway with doors on either side. "This is your room." He said pointing to the first door on the left. Then there's Liam's and a storage closet for some of our gear. Then on this side is mine Jake and Ryder's is across from yours." I opened the door to my room and walked inside.

          It had a big bed in the center with a huge closet and it's own bathroom. "This'll do?" He asked. "Yes. Thank you." This room was way better than the room i was just in. He lead me down the hallway and back out. "On this side is where Liam works on his gadgets." He said pointing to a big room on the left. "And over here is our command center where you'll hack." He led me in.

         "What did you want me to hack?" I asked taking a seat in the big leather rolling chair. "Well." He pointed to a sticky note on the bottom of the monitor. "This is where we've been trying to hack." He said. I clicked around on the computer and within minutes the monitors all lit up with surveillance cameras from a sketchy warehouse. "There." I said leaning back. "Woah that was freaking amazing." He said looking at the screens. "What's this for anyways?" I asked. "Well we've been trailing these guys for weeks but we can't get them to make a sale to us. I think they have been talking to other dealers. Word gets out who's narcs and stuff. We just sent Big Ben to jail."

          "Well anything else this little old girl can help you with?" I asked. "No i don't think even you could get Mark to sell to you. But if we can prove they are in fact selling on here we'll know it's cause we were ratted out." I rolled my eyes. "Please i'd have him selling to me in minutes." I said. "Well Mark does like Sexy women...if we got you some different clothes..." "What you don't like my clothes?" I asked huffy. Of course he didn't my clothes were old but it was what i could afford. "Well maybe we just need to go shopping but even then there's no gaurentee you could do it."

          "Please." I walked up to him seductively and pushed him against the wall. I ran my fingers down the side of his face. I wrapped my leg around his and pulled him to me. He was a goner. He leaned down to kiss me and i let him because it had been a while and he was cute and i really liked proving my point. I pulled back and walked out of the room. Caleb came out behind me.

         "What were you guys just doing?" Liam asked eyeing Caleb and then me. "Oh i was just showing Caleb that he needed to stop underestimating me." I said walking into the living room. "She..well...i...i think we found our buyer." He said shrugging. "Really? You're gonna send her in there? But she could get hurt. She's new and she hasn't had any training." Liam said. "I know that. but let me tell you she is more than ready." "She kissed you didn't she?" Liam asked raising his eyebrows. "Oh yea...boy did she ever, hey why don't you go tell her you don't think she's ready." Liam rolled his eyes. "You're a sucker." Liam sat patting Caleb on the arm and walking away.

         "Okay, let's go outside." Caleb said. "Sure." He led me out a back door. "This is the gun range where all of our guns are locked up. This is where Jake cleans them and keeps all of the ammo. Then down here is the garage." "It's huge!" I said. "Well we have a ton of cars in there. Ethan fixes them up and he makes them as bullet proof as possible." "Does getting shot at happen a lot?" I asked. "Only if we get caught." Caleb said.

        "Yea i got shot in the leg and it shattered my bones and i had to stay here and do recon for a few months it was terrible." Said Jake walking out to the gun range. "Dang that sucks." I said. "Yea i was miserable that whole time. Hey Caleb says you're gonna make dinner, let me just say i am so glad you are here." Jake said opening the door. "Uh-huh i'll call you when it's ready." I said waving as he headed back inside. "Over here is the gym." Caleb said walking out the back door. He opened up a steel door and we walked inside. There were tons of equipment and weights most of which i had no idea what to do with. "Okay, well that's it for the tour." Said Caleb. "Thank you." I said as we walked out and back inside.

          "Hey Sydney Caleb tells me you're going on this big mission. I'm not sure your're ready." I rolled my eyes. "What? Is this a joke?" I asked. "What? No of course not. I was just going to show you some moves that might help." He said. "But i thought we'd just have guns and you know shoot people before they shoot us." "Yes but what if a guy comes up to you with a gun right now and you can't get to yours fast enough??" He asked. "Oh well i don't know." I said shrugging. "here hold your hand out like a gun." He instructed. So i did. He gently did a spin move into a high kick. "That was amazing." "Yea and totally effective." He said.

          "And what if you are facing away from me and i come up behind you?" He asked. "I'm dead?" I asked. "Here come up behind me." I wrapped my arms around his muscular frame. In one swift move he lifted me over his shoulder and onto the mat gently. "Woah." I said. "Think you can do that?" He asked. "Uhm no, you are to big." I said. "Well those guys coming up behind you aren't going to take it easy." He said. "Okay fine give it a try." I said turning around. He came up behind me and i lifted with everything i had. But he just weighed to much. I crumpled to the floor.

          "Ow." I said as i crumpled into a ball next to Ryder who did the same. "What the heck are you made of brick?" I asked. He lifted his shirt chuckling "What this?" "Uhm yea." I said running my hand down his abs. "What are you guys doing?" Ethan asked laughing. "Dying...were dying." I said. "Yea? Well Ryder in fact doesn't look like he's dying." Ethan said laughing. I rolled over, sitting up. "You'll be fine we just have to work out in the gym and you'll get in shape. Want to try again?" He asked. "Maybe in a minute but first. How long have you been in the society?" I asked.

          "Since tenth grade, i'm a senior now." He said. "How did you end up here?" I asked. "Well one day Caleb contacted me after i had gotten thrown out of my last school for fighting. He said he could help me turn over a new leaf and finish high school and no other school in the area would take me so i figured i'd better jump on it." He said smiling. "Hey, i'm glad you did that." "Hey i'm still a bad boy." He said winking at me. "Yea okay bad boy." I said rolling my eyes and smiling.

          "Where your parents sad to see you go?" I asked. "No, my parents where happy to be rid of me." He said bitterly. "My mom remarried some jerk and he came with two step daughters. Plastic barbies. I don't know. My mom wanted them to like her. And so..." "They didn't like you?" I asked. "Like is an understatement. The oldest Brooke kind of had this crush on me? I don't know guess those stories about a sexy step brother. Just creepy. So i wasn't upset to leave." He shrugged. "Well i'm glad you got out. let's practice some more." I said standing up. After a few hours i was getting better.