"Okay, you're telling me Denmark Tanny decided to hide the cross here?" JJ asked in disbelief as they entered the old, abandoned church.

Joey stood in the door way, poking her head in, looking around weary.

"Everybody, just spread out." Kie encouraged. "Joey, come on."

"Okay, well, if I was a cross and wanted to be hidden in an old church, where would I hide?" John B spoke out loud in questioning, waving Joey into the church as she hesitantly walked in.

"Are you sure that Denmark hid the cross here, Pope?" JJ spoke up in questioning, "Like, are we at the right church?"

"It's gotta be here somewhere, guys." Pope shook his head, standing at the alter.

"What if we have to push a secret button or, like, okay, like a..a certain chord, and then all of a sudden, the ground beneath us reveals the catacombs or something on which we stand?" JJ spoke up as he looked down at the ground, standing near the piano.

"It's not an escape room." Kie rolled her eyes.

"It's gotta be in here!" Pope snapped suddenly.

"Sorry. I'm sorry." JJ rose his hands in defense.

"I can't see where they'd hide a giant cross here." John B said, taking note of the lack of hiding spots around them.

"How old is this place?" Joey spoke out loud as her eyes darted around. "It's likely there hasn't been a health inspection in years. Decades."

"There's no way he would set us up on a freaking goose chase that would lead us to a church that has nothing." Pope stressed as he threw his arms around, eyes wide.

"Yes, I get it. I don't know what to tell you, man." John B shook his head.

"The clues led us here. The cross is in this church." Pope repeated as if he was talking to a three-year-old.

"Pope, it'll be all right." John B stated as Pope threw himself onto one of the benches, "We've had setbacks in the past, and we figured it out."

"Hang on." Joey took her backpack off, digging inside for a bottle. "Let's all take one."

"You're giving us drugs?" JJ rose his eyebrows.

"Vitamins." she corrected him, handing one out. "Will help protect our immune system and give all of us a little bit of a breather."

"We've just gotta think about this logically, all right?" John B took on his role as calming them downs, swallowing the vitamin, "Where else would you hide a seven-foot-tall cross made of gold?"

Pope lowered the eyeglass, staring up at the ceiling.

"What?" JJ asked as Pope stood up.

They followed his gaze to, what appeared to just be part of the wood built on the ceiling. With a harder look, it had been clear it was shaped like crosses.

"Oh my god. Look at that." Kie gapped.

Pope began to climb up on the side of the wall.

"Hey, no!" JJ shouted at him.

"Now Pope's climbing the wall." John B voiced.

"Yo! This church's got to be at least two hundred years old." JJ called as Pope crawled to the top.

"Two hundred years?" Joey yelled out in a panic.

"He's right, Pope. It's too dangerous." John B added in.

"Pope!" Kie yelled out.

"All right, this ones solid wood." Pope said as he hit one of the ceiling posts, "I'm gonna try the other beam."

"Pope, that's rotten as shit right there, okay?" JJ spoke up.

Pope knocked on the next post.

"Pope, I hate to break it to you, but that's wood." JJ scratched the back of his neck.

"It has to be here. I know it." Pope spoke as he rose to his feet on the beam. He walked around the post in the middle.

"Imagine his fingers nails when he gets down." Joey cringed.

"Bro, just watch out for that giant wasp nest right above your head," JJ called out to him, taking notice.

"Just move slow, all right? Nice and easy." John B added in.

Pope stumbled, the girls gasped on sync.

"Woah, hey!" JJ hollered out.

"God!" Sarah huffed.

"Look." Pope gasped as he looked at the post, "It's hallow. Go get me a crowbar!"

"What are you gonna do, Pope?" JJ asked as Sarah hurried toward the twinkie, "I don't want this entire church to collapse on top of us."

"Hey. Pope." Sarah called as she walked back in with it.

"Throw it." he encouraged.

"Everybody watch your head." John B said as they all back up, he pulled Joey back some as they both looked up.

"Nice throw." Joey complimented Sarah with a nod.

"Pope, there's the wasp nest right up there, okay?" John B pointed by Pope's head, "Just move slow, all right?"

Pope began hitting the wood with the crowbar, wood falling down toward them.

"What is that?" Sarah questioned as they noticed something was inside of the wood. "It's here!"

"You did it, bubby." JJ grinned up at him.

"What is that?" Sarah laughed.

"Holy shit!" Kie cheered with a laugh of her own.

"Yeah, Pope!" Joey cheered for him with a wide smile.

"We did it!" JJ yelled as he wrapped his arms around John B and Joey.

Pope yelled as his shock and excitement.

"We did it! We did it!" Pope called down to them with a huge smile across his face, "Okay, they're stringing now. Ow!"

The crowbar came down, slapping at the wasp stings on his neck. Pope suddenly lost his balance, falling over the side and holding onto the wood for dear life.

"Oh my god." Joey gave a gap of fear.

"Hold on, Pope!" Kie yelled in fear.

"Cushions!" Sarah yelled as they all spread out, moving things and grabbing all the cushions.

"I can't hold on!" Pope called.

Joey let out a yell when the dust from the cushion bounced back into her face, gagging as she tossed the cushion with the others, rubbing her face for any relief.

"I'm slipping!" Pope hollered as they stacked the cushions under him, his hand letting go as he plummeted down onto the cushions.

"Pope, are you okay?" Kie asked as they all hurried to help him up.

Pope's eyes went wide as he stared directly above him, rolling over quickly as they all backed up. The golden cross fell down, hitting the cushions suddenly as they all barely got out of the way.

"Pope, are you okay?" Kie repeated as JJ went to his side.

"Yeah, I'm good. Just give me, like, one second to, like, catch my breath." Pope breathed heavily on the floor.

"You're not gonna have much of a breath on that filthy ground." Joey looked down at him with a swallow.

"You did it, Pope." John B gushed as they all looked mesmerized by the cross.

"Pope, she's beautiful." JJ gasped as he looked over it.

"I've never seen anything like it." Sarah laughed.

"Well, here's why Limbrey wanted that key so bad." John B said as he looked at the keyhole.

"How much you think she's worth? Like, if we melted her old bones down, dude, I'm talking like high billions." JJ spoke quickly as his excitement got the very best of him.

"No, this belongs in a museum." John B stopped him.

"So no one sees her?" JJ asked John B in disbelief.

"In a museum where everybody sees it." John B shook his head.

"Are you kidding?" JJ asked.

"Hey! It's my ancestors' cross." Pope cut them both short.

"Right, okay. All right, all right." JJ nodded.

"This is bigger than money, and the worlds gotta know the truth." Pope breathed heavily as he gripped the base of the bench.

"Yes. And if we don't get this shit out of here before Limbrey gets here, nobody's gonna know. So saddle up." John B announced.

JJ nodded as they all grabbed different sides of the cross, "John B, you're gonna pull, all right? Pull down."

"All right." Joey whipped down her part of the cross with the Clorox wipe from her bag, yanking on some gloves. "Ready."

"I'm gonna pull down. You guys pull up. Ready? One, two, three." John B spoke as the six all attempted to move the cross, lifting and pulling as hard as they could.

"Who's not lifting right now?" JJ spoke up as they all carried a heavyweight, moving it a few feet forward.

"Okay, guys. I can't, I can't." Pope said quickly as he began to lower.

"No, no, no, no!"

"Pope! Hang in there! No, no, no."

They all dropped it when Pope let his side go, the cross falling back on the floor. Joey tumbled onto John B slightly as she held her chest.

"Damn it, yo! You almost dropped it on my foot!" JJ shouted at Sarah suddenly.

"Cause I'm the only one lifting it!" Sarah defended herself.

"Okay, okay, okay! Listen, we'll make like a sling, like a little-" John B began trying to reason.

"Yeah, and then we put it on the tail hitch." JJ nodded alongside him.

"Guys! I'm not okay. I'm not okay." Pope announced as he clutched his chest.

Pope sat down, looking up with swollen eyes and cheeks.

"Allergic reaction." the Cameron girl gapped.

"Oh god." Joeys eyes widened in a panic.

"You don't look too good bro." JJ said as they crowded him in a panic.

"I can't-" Pope began gasping for air.

"Sarah's right, it's an allergic reaction." Kie panicked

Pope suddenly collapsed.

"Elevate his feet!" Sarah called. "Joey, do you have anything?"

"I don't- No, no." she rummaged through her bag. "He needs an EpiPen!"

"JJ, try and hide it." John B said, referring to the cross as they all lifted Pope off the ground.

"JJ! We gotta go!" Kie called out as JJ ran out of the church.

"Pope, what do you need, buddy?" JJ called out to him in a panic. Pope began hitting his arm.

"I know, we have to go to a hospital!" Joey called as she held Popes head, calling out of the truck.

"I know where to go! Give me the keys!" JJ yelled toward the back

"They're in the ignition!" Kie answered as JJ jumped in.

"Hang on, Pope! We're going!" JJ called as he stepped on the gas.

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kylie speaks

not to excited y'all but we
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