Chapter 4

You know those rich kids in school that are friends with everyone and everyone loves them and wants to be them? Yea, me neither. However, William may be the closest aspect to that exact description. He has spent his whole life in front of people that would do anything to please him and earn favor with him and his family. Kylian and Louis are some of the only people who didn't try to be nice to him and even called him out when he did wrong. Or so he thought.

William had never had someone outside of royalty or high political status call him out, as much as boss him around! You can only imagine how dumbfounded he was that a kid from school with retrocognition was running around his room and bossing him around. It's probably because Brandon has no filter and does whatever he feels like doing.

William, still a bit confused, asks: "What exactly is the plan?" The others all turned to Brandon with "what he said" expressions on their faces. Brandon laid out a giant sheet of paper on William's desk and knocked a few things over in the process, which he apologized for. I did mention that he has a good heart, right? Oops (hehe).

Anyway, Brandon explained that he could cover the school's whole database in approximately 18 minutes 36 seconds. He wanted to make 6 separate accounts to enter the school's system, the first two to do reconnaissance, the second group to find the right data, and the last one to extract information and replace it with fake data. Everyone was still a bit confused, but not Halley. She repeated everything he said but in computer language, which reminded everyone how smart these twins really were.

After the plan was broken down into simpler terms, William questioned how everyone else would be of use to them. Brandon then started speaking in a strange language. "Esrever ni gnikaeps m'I. Gniyas m'I tahw raeh ot dnim ym daer." He couldn't identify which language he was speaking, but Rebecca, Halley, Kiara, and Britney could. Kylian stared at Halley's lips as she spoke and then realized that William had to read their minds, which he signed to him. William's eyes began to turn to a jungle green from his usual piercing blue.

William could now hear what the others were saying, which weren't too nice words regarding how long it took for him to realize what they were saying. Kiara asked them to not make fun of him, and he, once again, just brushed her away, which made Brandon try to swing at him, but Kiara held him back and cooled him down. Yea, so I may or may not have made William a total tool towards only Kiara, but it's with reason I promise. William asked why he was reading their minds since they weren't really telling him anything useful.

Brandon proceeded to tell William how they couldn't trust anyone outside of the people in the room. The explosions were obviously inside jobs. That's the only plausible explanation to how they snuck EXPLOSIVES into one of the most prestigious schools on the planet. The people behind the attack could still be listening. He also explained their language, which they named Egaugnal. It's just English backwards. They made it 6 years ago, while playing a spy game, and Kiara joined their friend group, they taught it to her too.

Brandon then suddenly said in English, "You can get out of my head now," which made William stop using his ability and turned his eyes back to their usual baby blue. Alright, it was then time for Brandon and Halley to carry out his plan and he gave the rest one instruction: don't let anyone find out. Easy, right? Yea, for them it should've been. Let's just say things didn't turn out as well as they hoped.

Brandon and Halley successfully completed the first part of the mission: reconnaissance. They then had to go back in and locate the appropriate information regarding the attack. In case either of them forgot where to go, they wrote down all their important information on pieces of paper and labeled them: Data Collection Info. They recorded extremely important information that could not be seen by eyes outside of that room in perfect English on pieces of paper lying around them, and no one had thought to at least try to hide them. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, it started with William's little brother, Baptiste, a four-year-old who has a knack for showing up at the worst times and accidentally ruining everything. The group was busy monitoring Brandon and Halley and keeping the space they were in safe and unbothered. They were so relaxed about it, that at one point, William and Louis started playing catch. They were passing the ball back and forth, joking around all the while, until something scared all of them out of their skin.

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Kiara had told Louis and William to be a bit more serious with the matter at hand than they were being. They ignored her, as per usual, and karma came back and she was a bitch. The knock on the door scared away all the so-called manliness they had inside them. Britney and Michael were busy hiding all the written data, while Rebecca and Kylian were moving Halley and Brandon to William's bed. Kiara went to open the door when everything was in place, but William questioned her sanity last minute. Kiara was used to him being mean to her, so she just agreed with him and opened the door.

Kiara looked straight, left, right and didn't see anyone, so she went to close the door, when she heard a little meek. "Down heea." Kiara smiled from ear to ear as she picked up little Baptiste and swung him around. He was also excited to see his older brother, but he preferred Kiara. That's probably why he rejected William for her and made him say, "Fine. You can keep her. I don't want her." Kiara apologized to HIM for what HE said! I think I made her a little too nice. (sorry 'bout that.)

In an attempt to get rid of Baptiste for the time being, Kiara asked him to go get him ice cream from the kitchen. You know. The little ones in the cups with chocolate syrup in them. Sorry I'm drooling a bit. Anywho, this works. Baptiste sprints down the halls to the kitchen yelling "Ice Cream with Chocowet for Kyawa!" and her timing couldn't have been better since Halley and Brandon got up with the largest grins on their faces.

The two danced around the room while singing "We figured it out!" to the theme of Dora the Explorer. When their song ended, they looked at the clueless group of kids who eagerly wanted to know the exciting news as well. Brandon and Halley looked at each other and squealed before they turned the others and said, "We figured out how they did it and who they work for!" Brandon's explanation was cut short by the sound of a grown man in the room asking, "How who did what?"

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Everyone went pale as they slowly turned around to see Prince Crispus, who is Crown Prince and Heir to the throne of the North Kingdom, or simply: William's older brother. Crispus is a bit taller than William and they have the same piercing blue eyes and golden blonde hair, but Crispus's hair's a bit longer and held in a small pony.

As William was asking why he was there, Baptiste ran out from behind Crispus with 12 cups of ice cream in his arm. He was headed straight for Brandon's computer. Everyone held their breath as he was about to hit the computer and expose their operations. Just in the knick of time, Kiara picked up Baptiste and took him back to the door. The little kid just giggled all the while.

She walked with him to the door and began talking to Crispus. "What brings you here?" she said in a cheerful, excited tone. Imagine a puppy that hadn't seen its owner in a while could speak fluent French. That is the best analogy I could ever use to describe Kiara as a person. Just don't forget to occasionally change the language. "What special occasion must it be for me to come see my future sister-in-law?" was the reply that made Kiara blush a bit, and made William say, "Well then brother, your future and my future are anything but the same."

Crispus's warm smile disappeared with this comment and he went to reprimand William, however right before he could, Kiara stopped him and eased his nerves. In addition, she told Crispus that they were planning a very special surprise for Baptiste, since his birthday was right around the corner. She managed to get the both of them to leave, got 10 cups of chocolate drizzled vanilla ice cream, and a birthday present for little Baptiste all in one sentence.

After a few servants coming in with more snacks, they all checking the room 3 times over for bugs left behind (courtesy of Rebecca), and a snack break, Brandon finally managed to tell the group about the lead they found. The sub-gang that's apart of The Saviours (a well known terrorist group), and responsible for the attacks at AMA, put a symbol on the back of the suicide bomber to scare the authorities off the case. He and Halley managed to find out the name of the sub-gang: Dragontooth. A name that Britney recognized.