Spy School: Operation Golden Hawk

Chapter 14

I'm back! Some people (you know who you are) are doubting Ben's death. Well, read this chapter. I actually would have accepted two answers to the trivia question. The first was a machine that blacks out any electrical record in an area, or any variation of that. The other was  the Gustave Effiel manniquin. I would say enjoy chapter 14, but this isn't a very enjoyable chapter.

Ben. He was gone. I knew it, although I wouldn't acknowledge it. He had always survived, but even Dane Brammage couldn't survive an entire building falling on him. I was just sitting in the rubble, not letting anybody move me. I was hugging Ben's arm, just lost in thought. Mom must have known what I was thinking, and she sat down with me.

"He was the one. I know it." I told her. I leaned onto her shoulder, and she put her arm around me. "I know, dear. He was a great guy, and an even better agent." She said, and we just sat there. The rest of gang acknowledged my emotions and kept there distance. I saw Mike and Zoe sitting down together, Alexander, Chip and Jawa were not in my line of sight. "I know he was everything to you." Mom said, avoiding using Ben's name because I knew I would start crying harder. She was right. Ben was everything to me.

I kept looking around for other parts of Ben, but only found Joshua's body. I tied it around a pole and began pounding it. I let every, punch, every blow, a memory of him. When we first met in his SASCA exam, when we were hiding in the Washington monument. When he saved me from SPYDER at the mine. Our first kiss is Vail and when we defused the bomb. When we cleared his name after he was accused of attempted assassination of the president. When we were in the jungle, then stopped SPYDER from melting Antarctica. When we thwarted SPYDER once and for all.

I continued to beat up Joshua's body, I noticed that his left arm was missing. The arm that I found was also a left arm. My heart sped up, before realizing that Joshua's left arm was metal, not human. I smashed his face in, wanting to believe that Ben was alive  but not being able to. The odds were seriously bad, and I just couldn't think. I focused on pounding Joshua to paste after what he did to me, preventing me from having more time with Ben. After a while, I sat back down next to Mom.

We were silent for a while, just sotting there with her arm around me. Finall, I broke it. "He's not dead." I said, not believing myself. "He's never died before, so he can't have died now." I wanted to believe it, but I couldn't. Mom looked at me and with a hopeful look in her eyes, but obviously not buying it. I wanted to believe it to, but I couldn't. It was just- just impossible. I couldn't bring myself to believe that he was gone. That Ben was gone.

I had stopped searching for Ben after I found his arm. I just couldn't bring myself to see his dead body. We had gone through so much together, and he couldn't have just left me, I knew that much. I allowed Catherine to pull me toward the car we had came in. Everyone piled in, and we all fit. The absence of Ben made the car feel even more crowded then it did when he was actually here with us.

tImE sKiP bEcAuSe I aM pOwErFuL

Nobody said anything the entire ride back to Spy School. The only sounds were some stifled sobs and people failing to confort each other. Apparently Spy School had been on Joshua's list of places to blow up, because everyone was waiting outsidd the building to applaud us. They started when we stepped ou th of the car, but quickly realized that something was wrong. I made my way through the crowd very quickly, and most people cleared a path for me. Catherine tried to fill them in on what happened, but only said "Ben" before people put two and two together and quickly went back to their rooms.

I made it to my room without anyone touching me, mostly because I did my best job of being overly Ice Queen-ish. When I reached my room, I threw myself onto my bed and cried into my pillow. I hugged the cardboard cutout of Ben that I kept under my bed and just sat there, crying. I didn't care what anyone else heard, only about Ben. He was the only thing that mattered to me at the moment.

tImE sKiP bEcAuSe I aM uLtRa PoWeRfUl

Mom came into my room, and just sat with me. "This is a nice cutout you have of him." She said, and I glared at her. "Unless you have something to tell me, get out" I said as coldly as I could. "I have good news and bad news for you." My heart sped up upon hearing her say good news, but the bad news could also have been finding Ben's body. "The good news?" I asked hopefully, but not wanting to get to excited. "Ok. Come in." She said, and my heart sped up even more.

It was Grandpa.

I had never been so disappointed to see my grandfather alive before, and I guess I didn't do a good job of hiding it. I thought he had died, but he must have escaped before the building exploded. I had been much to focused on Ben. I hugged him, but he just awkwardly patted my back. I pulled away. "Then what's the bad news?" I asked probably not wanting the answer. Grandpa sighed, and pulled a document. "We ran a DNA test on the arm you found." He said, and handed the paper. I glanced at it for a second, before it confirmed my worst nightmares.

The arm had a 100% percent match to Ben Ripley.

Happy Birthday to me! Happy birthday to me! Happy birthday dear bericarules, happy birthday to me! I have decided to update and give more than I get. By the way, this is the last trivia question; what is the best ship in Spy School? Bye, I have some cake to eat.