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"Ca, or what Dr Steve's planning to do with that list, but…" Zach trailed off His gaze lefton some distant

constellation "… I think I kno he's getting there" He turnedcloser

"Guys," I whispered through my coot a change of plans"

We were outnuroan as it started down, and saw the silhouettes ofThis was not the time for a careful assault

Bex ju out and knocked a second one off his feet in one smooth motion "They're here!" the man yelled out as he fell But it was too late

The buzz of rappel-a-cord through pulleys filled the air For a her Girls All around me fists flew, kicks landed Zach touched the earpiece he'd stolen frouys are coo!" And in a flash, they were off

Liz had taken refuge in the cab of a forklift

"Cammie, I need a weapon!" she called to round and was struggling with a Napotine patch, but still ht," she said, and started looking for keys or a control switch--anything to h, because the next ti on the back of a guard who had been chasing Eva The ine what had happened, and Liz squeezed tighter

The plane touched down at the end of the runway Through the rain, I saw the man in the blue jacket

I otten evenshook her free, and she went flying through the air, flattening the le punch

All around Dr Steve the guards fell, one by one To o after Liz, but Zach lurched between the a fist to the side of his face He stuht estured to Dr Steve with the other

"Go!" he screamed, and I ran

The plane had reached the end of the runway; its propellers still spinning, a blur of water and light as the boys-teacher--our traitor--dashed through deep puddles and dahtest possible course toward the waiting aircraft--toward freedo stohts that filled my head I just put one foot in front of the other and ran until I stood just feet away fro plane I could tell by the look on his face that nothing about that moot sos to us," I said My voice was steady and calht of Bex inching along the ground, crawling through the tall weeds that rimmed the tarmac, until she was poised by the plane's back wheel "You're not leaving with that disc," I said, feeling h my blood

"Oh," Dr Steve said, as behind hian to descend "I believe you're just a little…" He panted "…too…" He drew another deep breath

"Late" But this time Dr Steve didn't speak--he couldn't speak--because, take it from someone who has been the recipient of Rebecca Baxter's choke holds, breathing is hard enough

Dr Steve cruround, and Bex ith hirabbed it "You're not taking that anywhere" For the first ti on that plane"

And then a voice behind an, he's not" And I knew so But the one thing that was certain was that nothing hat it seeet out of the way because he was there with an elite special forces unit frorab the disc and fly it away to safety Instead he stepped lightly out of the plane and said, "Are you okay, Dr Sanders?"

"You," I said, barely recognizing my own voice "You did this?"

"Well," Joe Solomon said, "I had some help"

And then my mother came to join him

I looked at the two of the inside of me as my mother smiled at us and said, "Good job, everyone"

Even Dr Steve uy in serious agony can rip (She didn't totally let go, though)

Mr Solomon looked at his watch "Forty-two minutes," he said "Not bad" He turned and called into the darkness "What do you think, Harvey?"

Mr Mosckowitz stepped into the plane's open doorway-- Mr Mosckoho had worn a fake le-handedly tricked into untyingmy midterm final last fall; Mr Mosckowitz, as her Academy staff, sirls," he said brightly "How'd I do?"

Oh My Gosh

The rain grew lighter around us The pounding of an to slow, and I felt et replaced by an emotion that I couldn't quite name

"It …" I stuet you ready for tests, Ms Morgan," Mr Soloet you ready for life"