There was a crack in the distance and all of them thought that it was the robbers but they went to check. Jack was afraid of being alone and he didn’t want to go to the robber, but alone was worse for him so he went with Arjun and Nat. Arjun and Nat were checking on either side of them for anything suspicious. Arjun sawJack at the front doing hand gestures, but Arjun knew even Jack didn’t know what he was saying. Nat however didn’t care about Jack’s crappy hand gestures, she was still trying to find out what made that sound.

“Do you think it was just lightning or the weather,” Jack asked. Arjun knew Jack was just trying to stop them from finding the robber, the man from the note said.

“Ok, Jack we will check the outside and if there is nothing there then we will go and find the person,” said Nat. All of them went outside to check the weather but it was fine. Arjun and Nat went back to find the person but Jack came in and told them that their parents were calling them. “Jack, we know that you're lying,” Arjun said to Jack, but Arjun was not sure that he was lying. “We are not leaving over my dead body,” Nat yelled at Jack. Jack was thinking, should he stay or leave. “Ok, I will stay but on one condition,” Jack said. Arjun knew right away what his condition was. “You will be able to hack the security camera’s Jack,”

Arjun said after Jack’s sentence. Jack wanted to hack the security cameras because all he hacked were websites he made or websites nobody knows about, he finally got to hack something and that something was the tightest place in the world (tight meaning has the most security). Jack knew it would take hours just to hack the camera’s but he was up for the challenge. Jack started straight away but Arjun stopped him. “First we have to know where the robbers are and where the person is so we can hack the right places and not waste time hacking areas we are not going to,” Jack thought what Nat said was logical so he went with it. Arjun was feeling tired, he had been searching for an hour. It was almost noon and Arjun just felt like laying down and going to sleep. “BOO,” Nat had yelled. “AHHH,” Arjun had woken up from his dream and started running, he didn’t even stop to realize what happened. “ Now he is the one yelling,” Jack said “Arjun stop yelling, Nat can you pls tell him to shut up,” But before Nat could stop Arjun from yelling somebody had yelled “Go and find out who is that, and please tell him to shut up,” Arjun stopped yelling but that didn’t stop the person from coming. They heard footsteps coming from the hallway. “RUN,”

Carmilo was running trying to see who was screaming. Then he barely got hit by a rubber bullet. “A rubber bullet is that is all you got,” Carmmilo laughed. But this time he got hit by one, it felt like something pierced him in the arm. “Nat I thought you said it would make someone faint,” Carmilo heard someone yell. Carmilo kept running but a metal door was closing in front of him. “Jack, how can you do that in 5 seconds,” Carmilo was looking for a way to open the door. “Arjun, I was hacking that the whole time we were running,” Now the door was opening. He didn’t even look to see who did it, Carmilo was still running after the three kids.

(At least he thought they were three kids). He could see the kids now but something stopped him. The lights turned off. He could hear the kids yelling at the kid named Jack. He could hear the kids yelling and bullets firing.

“Who is shoot---” Carmilo was feeling sleepy and he felt like he could just fall on the floor. Carmilo fainted. BANG, there was a loud sound in the building. “Carm, wake up Carm,”

“What happened,” Andrew asked Carmilo. Carmilo could not remember, all he knew was that something cut him and a few minutes later it went black. “I don’t know,” he responded. He had an ice pack on his head and Barry was looking very mad. “You know we had to send Raskin after you, we would never send Raskin in the dark,” Barry snapped at Carmilo. Carmilo wanted to kill those kids.

“Well, did you get the kids,” he asked Raskin, he was too afraid to ask Barry.

“WHAT DO YOU THINK?” Raskin yelled at him, now he was afraid of Raskin too and nobody was afraid of Raskin. Carmilo got up and was about to leave and find those kids, but Barry said “Oh no no no, where do you think you’re going,”

“ I am going to get those kids,” he responded.

“No, you're not, if you want to get those kids all of us are coming.” At first, Carmilo thought Barry said that, but it was Raskin. He guessed Raskin wanted to prove himself to Barry.

Andrew interrupted the conversation “Barry where is the hacker you told us about?” Barry realized that the hacker hadn’t come yet. Everyone was asking Barry where the hacker was. Then Carmilo remembered something. “Barry, when I was chasing after those kids, a kid named Jack said he was hacking the whole time he was running and he must have hacked the door to close,”

“So?”

“What if he is the hacker?”

“A kid, HAHA I would never recruit a kid,” Barry chuckled.

“Do you know how old the person you hired is?” Raskin asked. Barry just ignored all the questions that Raskin and everyone else was asking. All of the answers to those questions led to the kid could be the hacker, but Barry didn’t want to admit that. Jack, a kid who was escaping them being their hacker, kids ruining his robbery, Raskin 1becoming less afraid of everything. A lot of new things were happening and all of it was confusing Barry. He decided just to get the diamond and get out, he would deal with the kids later.

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Arjun stopped running to catch his breath. “Guys, I think they stopped chasing us.”

“We should still be careful though,” Jack and Nat said at the same time. They regrouped and then Jack remembered something. “OMG, this place holds a diamond or diamonds, police never really said which one I think has more than one diamond, well it holds diamonds worth 10 million dollars,” Jack screamed in excitement. Arjun told Jack “Keep It down Jack, They might be able to hear us. Jack hated when Arjun bossed him around, but he kept quiet for now.

Arjun and Jack had wanted to stop those robbers. Arjun was doubting them because he thought what could 3 kids do against, well he didn’t know how many robbers there were. “We have to find a way back. We have to stop those robbers before they steal the diamond,” Nat said. “Diamonds,” Jack corrected. “NOBODY CARES JACK, sorry Jack I just lost my temper. We have to work together if we want to stop these robbers.” Nat responded. Arjun heard something make a boop sound then he realized Jack was calling the police. “Well, is it working Jack? Did they pick up?” Arjun asked Jack. “No, it says there is no internet, maybe the robbers turned it off somehow,” Jack commented. “So we just stall until we can call the police?” Arjun questioned. “I guess so,” Nat uttered.

BANG! They all heard a loud sound and they looked around to find where it was coming from. RUSTLE RUSTLE. They could hear this clearly and it came from the corner of the room. It looked like there was a big green box, then Arjun realized it was a recycling box. “Why do they have a recycling box inside?” Jack asked. “I don’t know, but we have to find why that noise is happening.” Arjun opened up the box and inside it had a raccoon and a hamster. “AWW. We have to keep the hamster, I’ve always wanted one, but my parents won’t let me get a pet.” Arjun said while gazing at the brownish-white hamster.

“At least clean it, AHHHH THE RACOON IT’S ON ME,” Jack screamed. Jack was waving off the raccoon while Arjun cleaned off the hamster with water from his water bottle. Finally, after the raccoon was off Jack kept on looking for a way out. Well everyone except Arjun, kept on holding his new hamster. DUMPSTY! Dumpsty is a good name for him.” Arjun held the hamster tight in his arms. Nobody cared about cute little Dumpsty, all they wanted to do was call the police, but they couldn’t do that.

Arjun remembered that they still hadn’t found his “uncle” and he wanted to find him. Dumptsy lept out of Arjun’s hand and went forward into a dark place into the room. Arjun was looking around for dumpsty. He kept touching the floor and he felt fur and then a door stopper. “A DOOR STOPPER, I FOUND A DOOR COME HERE GUYS!” Arjun was excited. He touched the door no then a little to the side to turn on a switch, it turned on the lights. Arjun opened the door that Jacked hacked when they were running and he went looking for his uncle.

“Where are you going Arjun?” Nat asked.

“To find my uncle,” Arjun replied.

“No you’re not, we are going to stop those robbers.” Jack backed up Nat.

“NO, my uncle might be in danger or even dead, but I have to find him!”Arjun said. “Fine, but what’s your uncle's name?” Nat asked.

“Harshad,” Arjun replied. Everyone kept on saying Harshad hoping he would reply, but nobody would reply. After a while of searching, Jack and Nat gave up.

“Maybe they took him hostage Arjun,” Nat told Arjun.

“Hey don’t say that it’s my uncle.” Arjun was mad.

“We are going to stop those robbers, come or don’t.” Jack was getting annoyed at Arjun. Jack walked in the other direction and Nat followed him. Nat wanted to help Arjun, but stopping the robbers and finding Harshad could be done together.

The only things keeping Arjun happy we're finding his uncle and Dumpsty. He kept searching for his uncle, but still no luck. It was getting late according to Arjun's watch so he decided to sleep. He didn't know where he would, but he was getting so tired that anywhere would be fine. After 15 minutes of searching, he found a desk with a comfy chair, so he put Dumpsty in a glass box he found and went to sleep. BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! Arjun heard a BIG BOOM and he woke up. He wanted to know what was going on, but he had no idea.

“Help, help please help” Jack was terrified. The robbers had got them in ropes and they took all of their weapons and Nat’s knife. Jack hoped Arjun would show up and save them, but he realized Arjun couldn’t take on the two guards keeping an eye on them. One of the guards was Carmilo, Jack remembered him from when he was running. Carmilo was fit but dressed in jeans and a leather jacket, his hair was black and very messy, just like Arjun. “HEY YOU, YOU HACK TO VAULT FOR US OKAY?” Jack was confused why he was saying it like he was asking it, but Jack said yes if they let them go. The robber said yes. Nat wanted to yell at Jack for saying yes, but she guessed he had a plan.

The robbers were very confused when the kid named Jack said yes, they thought he would ask for something. They weren’t confused when he asked to be set free after, they said yes. Carmilo was thinking how a fat kid would hack into the best security in the world.

Jack was still hoping for Arjun to do something and help them get out of here, but he doubted that would happen since Arjun might still be mad. While Jack was about to fall asleep a man with a deep voice woke him up. The man was talking to the people who were guarding them. “Well did you find the other kid, the boy?” the man said with the same deep voice. Jack trying to get his mind off the robbers and fall asleep, but he kept thinking of a stupid question, is that the man’s real voice?

Natalie was afraid but tried not to show it. One thing she learned from training in the military is that “never show your fear or people will take advantage of it”. She was counting on Arjun coming to help since he went to find his “Uncle” who they don’t even know if it is his uncle. In the meantime, she was trying to find something sharp to cut the ropes, but she had no plan to defeat the men guarding them.