Spy School X

Planning

Conference Room

CIA Academy of Espionage

Washington, DC

July 1

0030

"Do you have any idea what time it is?" Mike groaned. Me and Cyrus Hale were standing outside his room at midnight. "Yes, I know exactly what time it is Brenezki now get your butt moving before I forcibly move it for you." Said an irritated Cyrus. I have never seen Mike move so fast.

When Chip, Jawa, Mike, Erica, and I all arrived and were seated Cyrus began. "Welcome to Operation Phoenix" My friends perked up at the name of the operation. "Wow we actually got a cool name," Mike whispered. "Didn't you already know? It was on the document we were given yesterday." Mike looked at me confused. "What document?" He asked puzzled. "Ripely, Brenzki you done yapping?" Cyrus asked annoyed. "Forget it" I whispered as we returned to the rest of the group.

"Now we have Mrs.Shang, Leo Shang, Dane Brigmage, Joshua-" Erica stiffened at the sound of Joshua's name. I held her hand and she gave me a half-hearted smile back. "-Ashley Sparks, Warren Reeves, and Mrs. E."

"Now we have no idea where they could be located or what their plans are, that's where you guys come in," Cyrus said looking in our direction. "Today you will be listing the possible locations they could be hiding. You know them better than anyone at the CIA." I sighed. "Something to say, Ripley?" Cyrus asked. "Yes, isn't there a more efficient way to locate them instead of guessing?" Cyrus rolled his eyes. "There is except we haven't been able to due to the CIA being in chaos with the MI6." Erica perked up and asked, "Why are they in trouble with the MI6?" "Because the MI6 blames the CIA for not acting faster and causing Catherine death." Erica tightened her grip on my hand. "How dare they blame the CIA for my mother's death." And with that, she stood up and ran out the door. "Did my granddaughter seriously just get upset because people are fighting over her mother's death?" The four of us looked at him dumbfounded. "Ummm Cyrus that is a very good reason for someone to get upset-" I didn't hear what Jawa said because I was running out the door to find Erica.

I found her in her dorm room. I knew this because I saw lights on inside. "Erica, can I come in?" No response. I opened the door slowly and found Erica's room in a mess and Erica lying on her bed crying. "Go away Ben," she said through tears. "Never, I'm your..." We weren't dating yet so I said "I'm your friend." I walked slowly toward her and hugged her. She tried to resist but eventually gave in. She sat down and said, "Your so stubborn you know that?" I smiled "Don't you love that about me?" I asked. Her sadness slowly shifted to happiness. "Yes, I do." She gave me a quick kiss on the forehead and stood up. "Come on Ben we got to get to work."

We rejoined the others and began discussing potential locations for where Leo Shang could be. Erica had sat down next to me and would pretend to look at the computer while resting her head on mine. "It has to be either in China or America," Chip said. Erica rolled her eyes. "That's too obvious Leo Shang isn't an idiot he knows we'd look there. Therefore he would hide somewhere in Europe" "Why Europe?" Jawa asked. "Because if you actually read you would know Leo Shang owns a large real estate business in Europe. He could easily hide in one of those houses." Erica finished. We stared at her amazed. "What?" She said. "You're just so amazing" I whispered. Erica smiled and gave me a quick peck when no one was looking.

Next was Mrs.Shang who we suspected was in China due to Mike discovering she owned a large oil industry there. Then we moved to Dane. "Dane is a tricky one, we don't know much about him," I said. "We looked up everything we could on him but found nothing. The guys good at covering his tracks," Chip said. Erica once again rolled her eyes. "If covering your tracks means falling off the Eiffel Tower and chasing kids on an ATV in front of people then okay." Chip said down defeated. I smiled at Erica and she winked at me. We decided to put a hold on Dane.

Next was Warren who we determined must be in North Carolina due to the fact that his parents were located there and Warren being as incompetent as he is would have to go there due to the fact that he could not live by himself.

Ashley we found had recently booked a hotel under her actual name in California. "How dumb can you get?" I asked. "In Ashley's case, a lot dumber," Mike said.

Mrs.E we had no idea and decided to leave that up to Cyrus.

The final one was Joshua. I gripped Erica's hand tight as we discussed Joshua's whereabouts. We found news reports of a one-eyed man in a book nearby a local coffee shop in Russia. "Russia?! What could Joshua be doing there?" Jawa asked. "Lots of communists there who might want to help him take down America?" Mike suggested.

With our work done we handed our papers to Cyrus who left to bring it to the CIA for investigation. I went back to my dorm and lied awake when I was attacked by one of the shadows in my room. "Hey, Er-" I started to say when I realized it wasn't Erica.....

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