Rebooted

Chapter 4

    Daniel sprinted away and I ran into the other room, finding Douglas talking to Mr. Davenport and Chase. I was just about to tell them what happened, when Bree ran in from another room, looking just as distressed as I did.

"Mr. Davenport, we have a problem. I can't find my students anywhere."

"Are you sure they're not just avoiding your training session? I mean, I've sat through your class. We all think you could use a little pizzazz."

"All the students in the training area just vanished," I informed them.

"What?" Leo and Daniel had followed in after me.

"Bob's gone too," Adam panted. "And I can't lose my Bob. We have an eight-am tee time." I groaned.

"That's not important right now, Adam!"

"All right, everybody calm down. There has to be a logical explanation." The students around us vanished the same way the last ones had. "Or not." The rest in the room disappeared, along with Daniel.

"Daniel!"

"Everybody's gone! What are we gonna do?" I began pacing and running my fingers through my hair. It was my first day back, and things were already going wrong.

"What do you mean 'we?' I'm retired."

"Yeah? Well it's time to come back out, Adam. This is serious!" Chase grabbed onto me to keep me from pacing, and I glared at him until he let go. Bree raced off to look for the students, but came back in only a few seconds.

"I double-checked the whole academy. All the students are gone."

"The new upgrade must've caused a glitch that made them geo-leap away."

"Daniel disappeared and we didn't give him the upgrade.'

"Technically, that is correct. You did not give him the upgrade," The boy tried to walk away.

"Leo!"

"That kid was impossible to train. And trust me, I happen to know a thing or two about slow learners."

"I specifically told you not to give him that upgrade."

"Don't blame me. You built the software that made everyone disappear."

"For the record, Donnie had just as much to do with this as I did. If not more. A lot more. In fact, this whole thing was his idea."

"It was not!"

"Was too."

"No, it wasn't."

"Stop arguing!" I cried, and silence fell. "We have to find them."

"Although with them gone, we are top dog again." I glared at Chase with crazy eyes and he silenced.

"Do something!"

"Okay, I'll pull up their GPS locators, and find out where they are." Chase typed in a bunch of commands, but they all came up with red 'error' warnings."

"Nothing's coming up. Their signals must have been deactivated."

"Great. So now our brother and the entire student body are missing, and we have no idea where they are. They could be anywhere in the world!" I began pacing again. Something about this... seemed so familiar. Douglas began mashing his fingers against the keyboard hastily, but nothing happened.