Jeff and Scott ran inside the house. Jeff went to his desk and called John. "What is it, Dad?" John asked, his holo-image projecting from his photo. He looked concerned as he had seen the alarm.
"We have an intruder on the premises. I need you to locate where the alarm sensors on the island went on and you also need to pinpoint the exact location of the person," Jeff ordered, switching to commander mode.
"F-A-B," John said.
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"EOS," John called to the helpful AI. It turned towards him and it's light glowed white, meaning a question.
"Yes, Johnny?" EOS asked, it's lights turning a light pink, meaning a half-smile.
John scowled. "You shouldn't spend so much time around Gordon. It's not healthy," he said. "Anyway, I want you to hack into Tracy Island's security cameras for me. There's an intruder on the premises."
"Of course...star dust," EOS agreed and swiftly began hacking into the cameras.
John stared at it. How the blickin' heck did EOS know about that? he silently wondered. 'Star dust' was a nickname his brothers had given him when he was ten after he was convinced he had found some star dust while on a hike up a mountain on a school expedition. He had theorised that a star had entered earth's atmosphere, but had somehow been turned into dust and scattered over the mountain. His teacher, to his embarrassment, had proven it was nothing of the sort and since then Scott and Virgil called him 'star dust' as a form of their teasing. They rarely called that now, but sometimes they still did.
"Who told you about that?" he demanded.
It's light turned a bright concoction of pink and yellow, meaning EOS knew everything and found it very amusing. "Oh, I'm afraid I have taken an oath of confidentiality on the subject," it replied with a chuckle in it's voice. "I have accessed the security cameras, John," EOS informed him.
TRACY ISLAND
"They are all on the way, Dad," Scott reported. He and Kayo had organised everybody else, apart from Jeff and themselves, and had just finished teleporting everyone else to Mateo Island's emergency bunker.
"Excellent," Jeff said. They all heard a beeping! noise and John's holographic image appeared.
"Dad," John said urgently, "I have detected a life sign on the eastern perimeter of the island. And, I have also detected that the person is heavily-armed and is heading for the house as we speak."
"F-A-B," Kayo acknowledged and, grabbing her helmet, ran down the stairs and outside. "Location, please, John," she whispered, so as not to alert the intruder.
"Still on the east side, heading your way," John informed her over the radio built into the helmet that she had put on.
"Perfect," she murmured and silently crept along the house, keeping to the shadows, stopping to listen for any sound from her target.
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Scott suppressed a smile at Kayo's sudden actions as he turned to John. "You're a lucky man," he commented straight faced.
John simply looked at him. "Yes. Lucky that I'm up here and not down there on the receiving end of her interrogation techniques," he said tersely and hung up. Jeff looked momentarily confused before realizing what it all meant and grinned.
"You mean he's in love with..." and he trailed off, Scott knowing what he meant. Scott nodded and grinned back.
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Dangerous Secrets
Mystery / ThrillerA girl and her mother wash up on Tracy Island. In the deceased mother's belongings, they discover a USB device with photographs and a copy of a heavily encoded message which sends them on an adventure. And I do own the character Rae Levy.
