Opposites Attract

He Can Fly

Running back to the vent, we told Zach and Magenta what was happening.

"So we need to get to the anti-gravity room, right?" Magenta said.

"Where is that?" Zach asked.

Everyone looked at each other cluelessly before I got an idea.

"Wait here," I said, sprinting off down the corridor.

Hearing feet behind me, a part of me thought either Lash or Speed had got free, but when Warren started running along beside me, I relaxed.

"Where we going?" he panted.

"Historic school, Warren. It's got to have its own blueprints, right?"

"God you're the full package," he breathed.

I grinned and sped up, smashing open the doors to the library. Warren began racing between bookshelves blindly while I skidded to a halt in front of the library computer.

"Now's not the time to update your status," Warren chastised.

"Shut up," I muttered, fingers tapping away at the keyboard to bring the library records up.

A couple of clicks and a bit more typing and I'd found what I was looking for.

"Archived Manuscripts, SH19.54!" I yelled.

Warren and I both stood still, scanning the overhead signs in a panic.

"There!" I pointed to a small section near the back of the library.

The two of us raced over and saw at least 15 filing cabinets.

"How the hell are we supposed to find anything in all this?" Warren grunted.

I crouched down and started scanning the fronts of the drawers.

"D... JA... L... S!" I murmured, yanking open the drawers and rubbing my finger across the labelled blueprints, "SA... SC... SH! 12... 17... 19! Aha! 19.54!" 

I pulled out the roll triumphantly, grabbing Warren's hand and dashing back down the corridor towards the vent.

Layla was pacing in a panic, while the others tried their best to stay calm.

"Blueprints!" I yelled, waving the roll in the air.

"Yeaaaa Rose!" Zach punched the air, before reaching to take the blueprints from me.

I watched as he unrolled them onto the floor, eyes scanning across them to find what he was looking for.

"Okay so the anti-gravity room is here," he jabbed at the page.

"But Royal Pain closed off all the exits," I reminded him.

"So what about this conduit?" he asked.

"Yeah right," Ethan scoffed, "You'd have to be like a rat to fit in there."

Slowly, all heads turned to Magenta.

"Oh great," she said, stopping chewing her gum for only a moment.

"Like Will said, it's going to take all of us," I reasoned.

She rolled her eyes, but agreed to go to the anti-gravity room in guinea-pig form.

"Amazing!" I praised, "You guys handle this, I need to go and find Will."

"I'm coming with you," Layla said.

"And me," Warren added.

I nodded, waving at the other three, before running off in the direction Will had gone about ten minutes ago.