Spider Quinn 11 The Huntsmans Part 4
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fardell24The team moved quickly, knocking the Shadow and Ninja Talon aside, and using their moves to avoid SpiderGirl’s webbing. The Spider Sense wasn’t of much use in that respect. Only one of the team members got caught, but some of the others were able to pull her free. ‘This is not good!’ SpiderGirl thought as they headed to the helicopter.
“They’re going to get away!” Ninja Talon said.
“Don’t worry,” the Shadow said.
“There’s lots to worry about,” SpiderGirl said.
“I have placed a tracker on the copter,” the Shadow said quietly.
“A tracker?” Ninja Talon asked.
“Yes, my mentor gave me the device,” the Shadow said.
‘A mentor?’ SpiderGirl asked herself.
“OK,” Ninja Talon said.
“But how are we going to follow if they leave Middlebury?” SpiderGirl asked.
“I have a car,” the Shadow said.
Trent hadn’t been idle while waiting for Jane to come back. He had done some preparations of his own. He had put his own mask on and then opened the trunk to find Jane had packed several tarps from the garage.
The helicopter took off and the three heroes ran around to where Trent was.
SpiderGirl looked at the car. The placement of the tarps seemed rather haphazard and she sure that obscuring the licence plates was illegal, but it had to do.
“Let’s go,” the Shadow’s offsider said.
“Sure,” Ninja Talon said. “But is that car safe?”
“I’m pretty sure,” the offsider said. “But I’m sure we have to hurry.”
SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon got in the back seat, while the Shadow took the front passenger seat.
Meanwhile, Tananda arrived at the Morgendorffers again. She was sure that the questions would pass muster this time. ‘At least Daria’s scrutiny,’ she thought as she rang the doorbell.
Daria answered the door and saw Tananda there. “Come in,” she said.
“I have rewritten my list,” she said as she entered.
“Good, I shall look over it before Mom gets home.”
“Sure.”
Halfway between Middlebury and Lawndale, they turned off onto a side road. “What do you know about this area?” SpiderGirl asked the other two heroes.
“Nothing,” Ninja Talon admitted.
“Not much,” the driver said. “As far as I know. It’s just farmland and forests.”
“And some caves,” the Shadow added. “Wait! It has stopped. It may have landed somewhere.”
“Where?” the driver asked.
“Somewhere along this road.”
Two minutes later, the car turned off and approached a building that looked like a factory.
“This doesn’t look good,” SpiderGirl said. “We have to find a way in.”
“Maybe via the roof?” the Shadow said.
“It’s worth a try,” SpiderGirl said. “But I’ll probably only be able to carry one at a time.”
“I’ll wait in the car,” the driver said.
SpiderGirl brought Ninja Talon to the roof first. “So, you think this can work?” she asked the other.
“Of course,” Ninja Talon responded. “I’m sure we can trust her on this.”
“We don’t know her. But we can on a case by case basis, I suppose.”
“Good.”
“Took long enough,” the Shadow said when SpiderGirl reappeared.
“Let’s go.”
“Of course.”
The three searched the roof for an egress point. It didn’t take them long to get to the heliport. They found the entry door open.
“There may be cameras,” SpiderGirl said.
“True,” Ninja Talon said.
“I can use my stuff to obscure our entry,” the Shadow said.
“Or I could web them up,” SpiderGirl added.
“Or maybe we could do both?” Ninja Talon said.
“Good idea,” SpiderGirl responded. “But I need to see the cameras to shoot the webs at them. We’ll have to do what we’re going to do at the same time.
“I can work with that,” the Shadow decided.
SpiderGirl crept up to the doorway and looked for the tell tale signs of a camera. She saw two on the ceiling on either side of the door outside and one on the wall opposite the door inside. She signalled and webbed up the outside ones first. The Shadow released a cloud as she webbed up the last one. “Now!” They quickly dashed inside.
“What was that?” a security guard asked.
“What’s wrong?”
“Three of the screens are blank, like the cameras are covered in something.”
“It must be a glitch,” the second one said.
“It isn’t a glitch!”
Alarms started blaring.
“Uh oh!” SpiderGirl said. “They know something’s up.”
“We need to find something then,” the Shadow said. She took something out of her cloak. “Look away! Fire in the hole!”
The other two looked away and then there was an explosion.
“What was that?” Ninja Talon asked as she looked afterwards.
“Something,” the Shadow said enigmatically.
SpiderGirl looked and saw that a hole had been blasted through the wall. There was also a splattering of paint around the hole. “Quite creative,” she commented.
“Thanks,” the Shadow responded. She then lead them through the hole.
“This looks like a locker room,” Ninja Talon said. It looked quite like the ones at Lawndale High.
“It does indeed,” the Shadow said.
“The Huntsmans need somewhere to train, afterall,” Ninja Talon said.
“We need to look further,” SpiderGirl said.
“Ms. Hunter!”
‘Ms. Hunter,’ turned from where her downed team member was still repeating the same two words over and over again. “What?”
“We have intruders!”
“How did they get in?”
“Through the Heliport door,” the security officer answered.
“Who left it open?”
“Um…”
“Don’t answer that!” ‘Ms. Hunter’ said. She picked up a handset. “Team! There are intruders! Keep a lookout. Hunter out.”
After the locker room, the three heroes found a room that look like an ordinary high school gymnasium.
“This is uncanny!” Ninja Talon commented.
“I agree,” SpiderGirl added. “Creepy.”
“We need to keep looking,” the Shadow said.
“Of course,” SpiderGirl said.
They looked around the gymnasium for a few minutes, but could find any clues, other than that it showed signs of recent use. “We need to keep looking,” SpiderGirl said.
“Of course,” Ninja Talon said.
But before they could exit the gym, the team entered at the opposite end. “There they are!” the leader said.
“Talon?” SpiderGirl asked.
“Right!” Ninja Talon said. “You take point while Shadow and I come up from behind.”
“Got it,” SpiderGirl said. She lead the team forward, for that was what it was, a team. At that moment it didn’t matter that she and Ninja Talon didn’t know who the Shadow was.
The three moved forward as the Huntsmans also moved forward. “Capture them!” the leader said.
“Like before?” SpiderGirl asked.
“We were leaving before,” the leader said in a monotone voice.
‘Not like Daria’s,’ SpiderGirl thought. Daria’s voice had a lot more emotion, even when she was trying to hide it.
“Right,” Ninja Talon said.
The team rushed at the heroes and SpiderGirl tried to web them up one at a time. However, as before, there were too many.
“We may need to retreat,” Ninja Talon said.
“I agree,” SpiderGirl added.
“I’ll cover,” the Shadow said as the other two rushed to the door. She then released a fog and followed them.
The fog didn’t stop the leader of the Huntsmans. She just continued through.
“There has to be more here,” SpiderGirl said.
“Of course. But is it more of a school environment?” the Shadow asked.
“I hope not,” Ninja Talon said with a shudder.
They heard the team from behind. “Uh oh!” SpiderGirl said.
“Keep going!” Ninja Talon said.
They came to a corridor intersection.
Ninja Talon pointed right and signalled to the Shadow. Another cloud was released as they headed right.
“I should note that I’m running low on dry ice,” the Shadow said.
“Is that what that is?” SpiderGirl asked. “Like in concerts?”
“Exactly,” the Shadow said. “Of course I do have other stuff, but we can’t keep disappearing into clouds.”
“We need to find something, fast,” SpiderGirl said.
“They’re eluding us, but we will catch them,” the team leader said.
“They’re three girls, only one of which has powers. They should be easy to catch!” ‘Ms. Hunter.’ said.
“Aye!”
They came to the end of a corridor. “Locked!” Ninja Talon said.
“I still have more of those paint bombs,” the Shadow said.
“Do it!” SpiderGirl said.
The Shadow placed a ‘paint bomb’ on the door lock. “Fire in the hole!”
When the smoke cleared, they looked inside, where they saw many teenage girls linked to machines.
“Do we know what the missing team looked like?” the Shadow asked.
“Maybe,” Ninja Talon answered as she looked at the nearest girl.
“Look around,” SpiderGirl said quietly.
“Sure,” Ninja Talon said.
“Do you know how many people were in the missing team?” the Shadow asked.
“Not sure,” SpiderGirl answered.
“Sixteen, I think,” Ninja Talon added. “There are eight here.”
“And eight at the competition,” the Shadow observed.
“And there were seven after us earlier,” SpiderGirl said.
“Here!” Ninja Talon said in alarm.
“What?” SpiderGirl asked.
“I know this one, in passing,” Ninja Talon said next to a short haired brunette. “Sarah Robyn Brown.”
SpiderGirl looked at the girl in question. She looked to be asleep, and seemed to be murmuring something. She also seemed to be moving slightly, as if having a nightmare. She also saw that she was hooked up to an IV nearby. All of them were. “I think they’ve been sedated.”
“We could try unhooking them,” the Shadow suggested.
“Maybe, but one at a time,” SpiderGirl said.
Ninja Talon took band aids out of a pocket on her costume. “We should use these too.”
“Of course,” the Shadow said.
They unhooked all eight girls from the IVs quickly. “We need to call the police,” Ninja Talon said.
“And an ambulance. No telling what they’ve been through,” SpiderGirl added.
“I see you have found some of my secret,” ‘Ms. Hunter’ said over the intercom.
“You won’t get away with this!” SpiderGirl said.
“There are limited ways out of that room, and I’m sure that your colleague has a limited amount of explosives.”
“We’ll escape, but not before notifying the authorities,” SpiderGirl said. She turned to Ninja Talon. “We can’t take all of them.”
“I’ll take Sarah Robyn,” Ninja Talon said.
“Sure,” SpiderGirl said.
Ninja Talon took the girl in her arms and the trio left the room by another door. “We need to find a phone,” SpiderGirl said. “Have you seen one?”
“No,” the Shadow answered.
“But we haven’t been looking for one,” Ninja Talon said.
“There has to be one somewhere,” SpiderGirl said.
They soon came to an open office and saw a phone there. SpiderGirl lifted the hook and heard a dialtone. She quickly dialed 911…
SpiderGirl quickly explained everything to the dispatcher, in case the line got cut. The line did get cut, but she managed to get everything across including what they found and where the place was in relation to Middlebury and Lawndale.
“Now we need to escape,” she said after the line got cut.
“Now!” the Shadow said. “I have a few more capsules of dry ice. That should be enough.”
“Good!” Ninja Talon said.
They left that room and continued down the corridor and found a window, which the Shadow blew open with a paint bomb. They then saw that they weren’t far from the car they had arrived in. “We have to run,” SpiderGirl said.
“Yes!” Ninja Talon said. “But not with Sarah Robyn in my arms!”
“I’ll take her,” SpiderGirl said.
SpiderGirl took the still unconscious cheerleader in her arms and followed the other two the car.
Trent had struggled to stay awake as he waited for Janie and the other two vigilantes. He listened to Lawndale State’s student station as he waited. He then saw them coming, SpiderGirl carrying someone in her hands.
“Start the engine,” Janie-Shadow said as she came up to the car.
He started the engine. “Where to?”
“Back to Middlebury first, to drop me off,” Ninja Talon said.
“Then we can go back to Lawndale,” SpiderGirl added as she placed the unconscious girl in her seat.
“I see.”
“The authorities should be here soon,” the Shadow said as she sat in the passenger seat.
The disguised Plymouth left the grounds of the mysterious building a minute before a number of Sherif Department vehicles arrived at the building.
However, a stand off began.
The Plymouth arrived at the southern edge of Middlebury and Ninja Talon got out. “See ya!” she said to SpiderGirl
“So, back to Lawndale?” The driver asked.
“Yes. Straight to the police station.”
“Sure.”
Meanwhile. The deputy in charge at the building picked up a bullhorn. “We have you surrounded. Surrender, or we may be forced to call in the FBI or SHIELD.”
There was no response.
“We’ll give you half an hour.”
The Plymouth pulled up at Cedars of Lawndale after SpiderGirl had decided that Sarah Robyn needed medical attention after what she had been through. She decided to wait for Peterson to arrive.
Back at the Morgendorffer’s, Helen arrived home and saw Tananda in the lounge room. “Have you rewritten the questions?” she asked.
“Yes,” Tananda answered.
“Good, then we can do it in the kitchen in ten minutes.”
“Sure.”
Peterson arrived at the Hospital and found SpiderGirl in the waiting room. “So, what did you find?” she asked.
SpiderGirl began explaining what they had found.
Brittany returned to the hotel room to find that Donna and Angie had been worried about her. “Sorry, I was looking at Middlebury,” she said, as an excuse.
“You should have told us,” Donna said.
“Next time I will,” Brittany responded. “But what about Ms. Morris?”
“We managed to ruin interference with her,” Angie said.
“Thanks,” Brittany said.
“We are also heading back to Lawndale in the morning,” Donna said.
Back at the Morgendorffers, Tananda was anxious as Helen read through the revised questions.
“These are acceptable,” she finally said.
“Thanks,” Tananda responded with a sigh of relief.”
Daria entered the kitchen and sat down. “I’m ready,” she said.
Tananda nodded. “How was the decision to leave Highland made?”
As SpiderGirl finished her explanation, Doctor Philipps entered the room. “SpiderGirl? Officer Peterson?” he asked.
“What’s happened?” SpiderGirl asked.
“She’s awake, but she hasn’t said anything.”
“Oh!”
“We have called her parents, but there was only their answering machine.”
“And a message was left?” Peterson asked.
“Of course,” Philipps said. “But you both can see her.”
SpiderGirl nodded. “Thanks.”
“They’re going to get away!” Ninja Talon said.
“Don’t worry,” the Shadow said.
“There’s lots to worry about,” SpiderGirl said.
“I have placed a tracker on the copter,” the Shadow said quietly.
“A tracker?” Ninja Talon asked.
“Yes, my mentor gave me the device,” the Shadow said.
‘A mentor?’ SpiderGirl asked herself.
“OK,” Ninja Talon said.
“But how are we going to follow if they leave Middlebury?” SpiderGirl asked.
“I have a car,” the Shadow said.
Trent hadn’t been idle while waiting for Jane to come back. He had done some preparations of his own. He had put his own mask on and then opened the trunk to find Jane had packed several tarps from the garage.
The helicopter took off and the three heroes ran around to where Trent was.
SpiderGirl looked at the car. The placement of the tarps seemed rather haphazard and she sure that obscuring the licence plates was illegal, but it had to do.
“Let’s go,” the Shadow’s offsider said.
“Sure,” Ninja Talon said. “But is that car safe?”
“I’m pretty sure,” the offsider said. “But I’m sure we have to hurry.”
SpiderGirl and Ninja Talon got in the back seat, while the Shadow took the front passenger seat.
Meanwhile, Tananda arrived at the Morgendorffers again. She was sure that the questions would pass muster this time. ‘At least Daria’s scrutiny,’ she thought as she rang the doorbell.
Daria answered the door and saw Tananda there. “Come in,” she said.
“I have rewritten my list,” she said as she entered.
“Good, I shall look over it before Mom gets home.”
“Sure.”
Halfway between Middlebury and Lawndale, they turned off onto a side road. “What do you know about this area?” SpiderGirl asked the other two heroes.
“Nothing,” Ninja Talon admitted.
“Not much,” the driver said. “As far as I know. It’s just farmland and forests.”
“And some caves,” the Shadow added. “Wait! It has stopped. It may have landed somewhere.”
“Where?” the driver asked.
“Somewhere along this road.”
Two minutes later, the car turned off and approached a building that looked like a factory.
“This doesn’t look good,” SpiderGirl said. “We have to find a way in.”
“Maybe via the roof?” the Shadow said.
“It’s worth a try,” SpiderGirl said. “But I’ll probably only be able to carry one at a time.”
“I’ll wait in the car,” the driver said.
SpiderGirl brought Ninja Talon to the roof first. “So, you think this can work?” she asked the other.
“Of course,” Ninja Talon responded. “I’m sure we can trust her on this.”
“We don’t know her. But we can on a case by case basis, I suppose.”
“Good.”
“Took long enough,” the Shadow said when SpiderGirl reappeared.
“Let’s go.”
“Of course.”
The three searched the roof for an egress point. It didn’t take them long to get to the heliport. They found the entry door open.
“There may be cameras,” SpiderGirl said.
“True,” Ninja Talon said.
“I can use my stuff to obscure our entry,” the Shadow said.
“Or I could web them up,” SpiderGirl added.
“Or maybe we could do both?” Ninja Talon said.
“Good idea,” SpiderGirl responded. “But I need to see the cameras to shoot the webs at them. We’ll have to do what we’re going to do at the same time.
“I can work with that,” the Shadow decided.
SpiderGirl crept up to the doorway and looked for the tell tale signs of a camera. She saw two on the ceiling on either side of the door outside and one on the wall opposite the door inside. She signalled and webbed up the outside ones first. The Shadow released a cloud as she webbed up the last one. “Now!” They quickly dashed inside.
“What was that?” a security guard asked.
“What’s wrong?”
“Three of the screens are blank, like the cameras are covered in something.”
“It must be a glitch,” the second one said.
“It isn’t a glitch!”
Alarms started blaring.
“Uh oh!” SpiderGirl said. “They know something’s up.”
“We need to find something then,” the Shadow said. She took something out of her cloak. “Look away! Fire in the hole!”
The other two looked away and then there was an explosion.
“What was that?” Ninja Talon asked as she looked afterwards.
“Something,” the Shadow said enigmatically.
SpiderGirl looked and saw that a hole had been blasted through the wall. There was also a splattering of paint around the hole. “Quite creative,” she commented.
“Thanks,” the Shadow responded. She then lead them through the hole.
“This looks like a locker room,” Ninja Talon said. It looked quite like the ones at Lawndale High.
“It does indeed,” the Shadow said.
“The Huntsmans need somewhere to train, afterall,” Ninja Talon said.
“We need to look further,” SpiderGirl said.
“Ms. Hunter!”
‘Ms. Hunter,’ turned from where her downed team member was still repeating the same two words over and over again. “What?”
“We have intruders!”
“How did they get in?”
“Through the Heliport door,” the security officer answered.
“Who left it open?”
“Um…”
“Don’t answer that!” ‘Ms. Hunter’ said. She picked up a handset. “Team! There are intruders! Keep a lookout. Hunter out.”
After the locker room, the three heroes found a room that look like an ordinary high school gymnasium.
“This is uncanny!” Ninja Talon commented.
“I agree,” SpiderGirl added. “Creepy.”
“We need to keep looking,” the Shadow said.
“Of course,” SpiderGirl said.
They looked around the gymnasium for a few minutes, but could find any clues, other than that it showed signs of recent use. “We need to keep looking,” SpiderGirl said.
“Of course,” Ninja Talon said.
But before they could exit the gym, the team entered at the opposite end. “There they are!” the leader said.
“Talon?” SpiderGirl asked.
“Right!” Ninja Talon said. “You take point while Shadow and I come up from behind.”
“Got it,” SpiderGirl said. She lead the team forward, for that was what it was, a team. At that moment it didn’t matter that she and Ninja Talon didn’t know who the Shadow was.
The three moved forward as the Huntsmans also moved forward. “Capture them!” the leader said.
“Like before?” SpiderGirl asked.
“We were leaving before,” the leader said in a monotone voice.
‘Not like Daria’s,’ SpiderGirl thought. Daria’s voice had a lot more emotion, even when she was trying to hide it.
“Right,” Ninja Talon said.
The team rushed at the heroes and SpiderGirl tried to web them up one at a time. However, as before, there were too many.
“We may need to retreat,” Ninja Talon said.
“I agree,” SpiderGirl added.
“I’ll cover,” the Shadow said as the other two rushed to the door. She then released a fog and followed them.
The fog didn’t stop the leader of the Huntsmans. She just continued through.
“There has to be more here,” SpiderGirl said.
“Of course. But is it more of a school environment?” the Shadow asked.
“I hope not,” Ninja Talon said with a shudder.
They heard the team from behind. “Uh oh!” SpiderGirl said.
“Keep going!” Ninja Talon said.
They came to a corridor intersection.
Ninja Talon pointed right and signalled to the Shadow. Another cloud was released as they headed right.
“I should note that I’m running low on dry ice,” the Shadow said.
“Is that what that is?” SpiderGirl asked. “Like in concerts?”
“Exactly,” the Shadow said. “Of course I do have other stuff, but we can’t keep disappearing into clouds.”
“We need to find something, fast,” SpiderGirl said.
“They’re eluding us, but we will catch them,” the team leader said.
“They’re three girls, only one of which has powers. They should be easy to catch!” ‘Ms. Hunter.’ said.
“Aye!”
They came to the end of a corridor. “Locked!” Ninja Talon said.
“I still have more of those paint bombs,” the Shadow said.
“Do it!” SpiderGirl said.
The Shadow placed a ‘paint bomb’ on the door lock. “Fire in the hole!”
When the smoke cleared, they looked inside, where they saw many teenage girls linked to machines.
“Do we know what the missing team looked like?” the Shadow asked.
“Maybe,” Ninja Talon answered as she looked at the nearest girl.
“Look around,” SpiderGirl said quietly.
“Sure,” Ninja Talon said.
“Do you know how many people were in the missing team?” the Shadow asked.
“Not sure,” SpiderGirl answered.
“Sixteen, I think,” Ninja Talon added. “There are eight here.”
“And eight at the competition,” the Shadow observed.
“And there were seven after us earlier,” SpiderGirl said.
“Here!” Ninja Talon said in alarm.
“What?” SpiderGirl asked.
“I know this one, in passing,” Ninja Talon said next to a short haired brunette. “Sarah Robyn Brown.”
SpiderGirl looked at the girl in question. She looked to be asleep, and seemed to be murmuring something. She also seemed to be moving slightly, as if having a nightmare. She also saw that she was hooked up to an IV nearby. All of them were. “I think they’ve been sedated.”
“We could try unhooking them,” the Shadow suggested.
“Maybe, but one at a time,” SpiderGirl said.
Ninja Talon took band aids out of a pocket on her costume. “We should use these too.”
“Of course,” the Shadow said.
They unhooked all eight girls from the IVs quickly. “We need to call the police,” Ninja Talon said.
“And an ambulance. No telling what they’ve been through,” SpiderGirl added.
“I see you have found some of my secret,” ‘Ms. Hunter’ said over the intercom.
“You won’t get away with this!” SpiderGirl said.
“There are limited ways out of that room, and I’m sure that your colleague has a limited amount of explosives.”
“We’ll escape, but not before notifying the authorities,” SpiderGirl said. She turned to Ninja Talon. “We can’t take all of them.”
“I’ll take Sarah Robyn,” Ninja Talon said.
“Sure,” SpiderGirl said.
Ninja Talon took the girl in her arms and the trio left the room by another door. “We need to find a phone,” SpiderGirl said. “Have you seen one?”
“No,” the Shadow answered.
“But we haven’t been looking for one,” Ninja Talon said.
“There has to be one somewhere,” SpiderGirl said.
They soon came to an open office and saw a phone there. SpiderGirl lifted the hook and heard a dialtone. She quickly dialed 911…
SpiderGirl quickly explained everything to the dispatcher, in case the line got cut. The line did get cut, but she managed to get everything across including what they found and where the place was in relation to Middlebury and Lawndale.
“Now we need to escape,” she said after the line got cut.
“Now!” the Shadow said. “I have a few more capsules of dry ice. That should be enough.”
“Good!” Ninja Talon said.
They left that room and continued down the corridor and found a window, which the Shadow blew open with a paint bomb. They then saw that they weren’t far from the car they had arrived in. “We have to run,” SpiderGirl said.
“Yes!” Ninja Talon said. “But not with Sarah Robyn in my arms!”
“I’ll take her,” SpiderGirl said.
SpiderGirl took the still unconscious cheerleader in her arms and followed the other two the car.
Trent had struggled to stay awake as he waited for Janie and the other two vigilantes. He listened to Lawndale State’s student station as he waited. He then saw them coming, SpiderGirl carrying someone in her hands.
“Start the engine,” Janie-Shadow said as she came up to the car.
He started the engine. “Where to?”
“Back to Middlebury first, to drop me off,” Ninja Talon said.
“Then we can go back to Lawndale,” SpiderGirl added as she placed the unconscious girl in her seat.
“I see.”
“The authorities should be here soon,” the Shadow said as she sat in the passenger seat.
The disguised Plymouth left the grounds of the mysterious building a minute before a number of Sherif Department vehicles arrived at the building.
However, a stand off began.
The Plymouth arrived at the southern edge of Middlebury and Ninja Talon got out. “See ya!” she said to SpiderGirl
“So, back to Lawndale?” The driver asked.
“Yes. Straight to the police station.”
“Sure.”
Meanwhile. The deputy in charge at the building picked up a bullhorn. “We have you surrounded. Surrender, or we may be forced to call in the FBI or SHIELD.”
There was no response.
“We’ll give you half an hour.”
The Plymouth pulled up at Cedars of Lawndale after SpiderGirl had decided that Sarah Robyn needed medical attention after what she had been through. She decided to wait for Peterson to arrive.
Back at the Morgendorffer’s, Helen arrived home and saw Tananda in the lounge room. “Have you rewritten the questions?” she asked.
“Yes,” Tananda answered.
“Good, then we can do it in the kitchen in ten minutes.”
“Sure.”
Peterson arrived at the Hospital and found SpiderGirl in the waiting room. “So, what did you find?” she asked.
SpiderGirl began explaining what they had found.
Brittany returned to the hotel room to find that Donna and Angie had been worried about her. “Sorry, I was looking at Middlebury,” she said, as an excuse.
“You should have told us,” Donna said.
“Next time I will,” Brittany responded. “But what about Ms. Morris?”
“We managed to ruin interference with her,” Angie said.
“Thanks,” Brittany said.
“We are also heading back to Lawndale in the morning,” Donna said.
Back at the Morgendorffers, Tananda was anxious as Helen read through the revised questions.
“These are acceptable,” she finally said.
“Thanks,” Tananda responded with a sigh of relief.”
Daria entered the kitchen and sat down. “I’m ready,” she said.
Tananda nodded. “How was the decision to leave Highland made?”
As SpiderGirl finished her explanation, Doctor Philipps entered the room. “SpiderGirl? Officer Peterson?” he asked.
“What’s happened?” SpiderGirl asked.
“She’s awake, but she hasn’t said anything.”
“Oh!”
“We have called her parents, but there was only their answering machine.”
“And a message was left?” Peterson asked.
“Of course,” Philipps said. “But you both can see her.”
SpiderGirl nodded. “Thanks.”
