The new Trinity were rummaging through history books, looking for some proof to confirm Lyon's suspicions. They carried piles of history books to the table. "What are we searching for again?", Diana asked, leaning onto the huge pile of books and looking at Lyon who was rummaging through a book on Famous Explorers. "Searching for the expeditions of Columbus before he found the new land. Apparently, Menhvik disappeared after the day he pointed to Egypt. He obviously would have gone on Columbus's other journeys 'cause they are best buddies." "Can't we use the internet?", asked Elsa. "Nope. I don't trust them." Diana cocked her eyebrow at him. "Riiiight!"
Lyon glanced over his shoulders to see Elsa, her nose buried in a big book. She gave out a yawn and brushed her messy hair with her pale fingers. It was time they went back, if they weren't back by evening, the people will be out searching for them. "Hey you guys! Look at this!", Elsa suddenly, startling Lyon who was staring at her motionless figure. Diana sprung up from her place and went behind Elsa and Lyon joined. "Christopher Columbus was a famous traveller and voyager.", Elsa read loudly, "His first expeditions were in between Africa and Latin America. He visited San Salvador which he thought was Japan, Hispaniola where he found he gold, Cuba which he thought was China and Egypt where one of his beloved passed away."
"Beloved?", Lyon questioned. Elsa lifted her hand up and continued, "Wait. Karpov Alonzo Menhvik, Columbus' closest friend passed away in the land of the pyramids after a bout of madness and speaking gibberish." "It wasn't gibberish. He was talking about the Trinity. Us......well, the old us.", Diana stated, eyes brightening up at the fact that they were getting somewhere.
"So where do we go next? Where's the book?", asked Lyon. Elsa tapped her chin and slowly said, "Everything points to Egypt............"
"Egypt??!!", Diana exclaimed, "Are you stark raving mad." The other two flinched at the tone of her voice. "We had to steal a car and be stuffed into luggage bags to get to Washington!!! God knows how we are going to go back. How in the world are we going to Egypt?"
Lyon looked at Elsa expectantly. Elsa narrowed her eyes and asked, "What?" "I don't know.", Lyon replied, "You usually come up with a solution. I'm waiting for one." Elsa rolled her eyes while Diana nodded in agreement. "First, we need to get back. Its one pm."
"I hate you.", Diana and Lyon told Elsa. The girl grinned and said, "I thought you said I come up with brilliant plans."
The three of them were sitting in a school bus filled with five year old children. Everyone of them were gawking at the three teenagers who were sitting awkwardly at the back. Apparently, Elsa paid the bus driver to drop them at St. Jude's orphanage before stopping at NYC Kindergartens. They had enough space since only ten children were travelling the long four-hour journey to New York.
One of the girls came to Lyon and tugged at his jeans. Lyon smiled and greeted, "Hey, lil' girl!" The girl gave a toothy grin and asked, "Why is your hair so weird??" Elsa and Diana started snickering and covered their mouths. Lyon elbowed both of them. "I was.....uh.....um..it was...I cut it like that. Its mandatory in school." The girls have him a bewildered expression. "School??", they mouthed. Lyon just shrugged.
"Thanks for the drive!!", Diana thanked the driver as they got off in front of the orphanage. It was 5:30 in the evening. "What's our next move?", Lyon asked the girls once the bus was out of sight. "Well," Diana mused, "Everything leads to Egypt." Elsa wrung her hands. "Well, I guess we need to go to Egypt. But how?" Lyon started laughing. "Egypt????!!! Really? Were do you think I'm going to get that much money? Are you mad?" Diana slowly stepped forward and quietly said, "I think I can help."
Lyon and Elsa blinked at her, utterly confused. Diana became flustered by the attention. "Stop staring at me!", she said. Elsa rolled his eyes. "Yeah, totally. We aren't at all surprised by the fact that you are the daughter of one of the richest couple in the US." "I just realised how poor we are.", Lyon told Elsa who gave the 'I know right!' face.
