Spy School Oneshot Collection

Capture the Flag

"Ok," Jawa said, crouched next to Chip in the bushes. "You provide the diversion, and I'll run up there and steal the flag."

"Why should I provide the diversion?" Chip asked, looking over the leaves and up at where the rival team's flag was located. "Why don't you provide the distraction and I go get the flag?"

"You're bigger," Jawa said.

"So?"

"So you'd attract more attention, which would be perfect for the distraction."

"What if I don't want to provide the distraction?" Chip asked.

"How about we flip a coin?" Jawa suggested. "Heads I go after the flag and tails you provide the distraction."

"Do you really think I would fall for something like that?" Chip asked, slightly insulted. "I'm not that stupid... That was a trick, right?"

Jawa rolled his eyes. "The longer we argue about this, the less of a chance we have of getting to that flag first."

"Well, why does one of us even have to be a distraction?" Chip asked.

"So they don't notice the other one of us grabbing the flag," Jawa said. "How is that not obvious?"

"I'm not saying we don't need a distraction," Chip said. "I'm just saying it doesn't need to be one of us."

"Who's going to agree to do this?" Jawa asked.

Chip pointed over to the edge of the woods, where Alexander Hale was walking by, having just left a meeting.

Jawa smiled. "What should we tell him?"

"How about we tell him that those are SPYDER agents instead of students and that he needs to go over there and stop them."

"There's no way he's going to fall for that," Jawa said.

As it turns out, there was.

While Alexander went over to attack the students, Chip and Jawa snuck around and grabbed the flag, escaping a good twenty seconds before the flag's guards noticed it was missing, and giving Chip and Jawa a good enough head start to win the game.

There was a chance that Alexander would be mad at them later, but he had been knocked unconscious so quickly that Chip and Jawa both figured the odds of him remembering what happened were pretty low. And besides, manipulating someone as high-ranking as Alexander Hale to do your dirty work for you was bound to be worth a pretty high grade.