It's Time For "Operation: Hesitation"!

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Twenty buttoned up his signature vest, tightening his bowtie and flinging on his hat. After exiting the bathroom, he saw his laptop on his bed.

He really is going to miss it.

Turning the knob to the door, he chuckled slightly at the sight of Eighteen and Seventeen sleeping on the floor. The former splayed out in all directions and his hand resting ontop of the other's head, the artist didn't seem to mind, he was in more of a fetal position.

He almost felt bad to wake them up.

Almost.

"Rise and shine everyone! I've got good news!"

"What?"

Eighteen was up in an instant, leaping upwards from the pull out mattress on the floor, startling Seventeen awake, "What?" He repeated, sleep and delirium still clouding his mind.

"I've located Fourteen's sister." Twenty held a thumbs-up.

He rubbed his eye and stared at the window, suddenly going to grab Twenty by the shoulders.

"Wh-when? How?"

"I spent all night hacking, and I managed to get her location mapped out before my computer was hit by the blue screen of death." Twenty sighed, "I'll need a new one."

How unfortunate..

Eighteen, fully awake now, threw himself on Seventeen, who was still struggling with the bedsheets, "Ya hear that?! We've got her!"

He ran a hand through his hair and tried to worm his way out of Eighteen's grip, "That's great, I'll tell Fourteen the news."

"Oh yeah...You said 'good news'.." Eighteen quirked an eyebrow, "That means there's.."

Ah, right. He was hoping they wouldn't notice that.

Oh well. No use crying over spilled milk.

"Yes, there's bad news as well...It's not going to be an easy task for me to go in and do all that alone."

He had checked the security around the complex, searching for some point of weakness, but it was completely fortified at all times, Twenty would have to play his cards extremely right and down to a T if he wanted this to even have a chance of working.

Twenty had already taken them into consideration, and he had immediately berated himself for even thinking about putting his friends in harms way.

"We're coming with you!" He shouted, "Why would you take us out of the equation! We're a team, remember?"

"That's what I was getting at.. It's even harder with multiple people who haven't been trained to take this." He hoped this excuse would be satisfactory, as he could come up with little else to deter them.

"Who cares about training?"

Nineteen opened her door, tying her hair back into her usual messy ponytail, "What's going on now?"

"I've found Fifteen." 

Nineteen glanced at him, rolling her eyes, "Oh, so when are we staging a jailbreak, hotshot?"

"That's the issue. I'm not taking you with me.." Twenty hummed, "None of you have had experience with this.."

Eighteen looked offended, but Twenty knew that was only because he was right.

Seventeen shook his head, "We're more capable than you think. Me and Sixteen spent years flying under the radar of detection since we were ten, we've literally erased ourselves from existence to the rest of the world. Plus, if there's any hacking to be done, I could help you with it."

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