Inspirational quote: A winner is a dreamer who never gives up.
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Arista's clone stood up to her feet when the CCTV camera wasn't particularly focused on her and Kieran anymore, Kieran's clone just sitting there, still currently hiding behind Diana Valentine's sofa.
"Are you coming or what?" Arista had quietly vociferated at him, at least once she realised that when she was about to make a run for it, Kieran wasn't following her.
Kieran ended up not actually saying anything. Just texting someone.
"For goodness sake ..... Kieran you're wasting our time!"
Arista's clone had also attempted to physically help Kieran up by pulling his right arm, which Kieran screamed at, and then slapped her.
"Who are you texting?!" Arista's clone shouted at Kieran, which technically made Arista a sort of massive hypocrite because she kept on telling everyone to whisper but here she was doing the complete opposite of that right now.
"I'm texting your beloved father, Doctor Kozak." Kieran answered, making Arista's clone annoyed.
"What? Why is he texting you but not texting me?" Arista's clone hissed, releasing Kieran's arm.
"Hmmm..." Kieran trailed off, typing something back to Doctor Kozak in the opposite room. "Never really thought about that, if you want the truth. Oh yeah. He lost service when you texted him and forgot to text you back."
Arista's clone didn't say anything. She couldn't think of a reply. There was no reply anyway.
Kieran (typing away still): He also tells me that we've got ten minutes left to get and get that trophy back from Diana's trophy cupboard.
Arista's clone (is reading the text conversation between Kieran and her father with a very confused look on her face): No we don't. We've only got three, Kieran.
Kieran: Yeah well your father just told me that Cynthia Rose told him that she extended the time in which we have left to get that 125th trophy. She extended it by 7 minutes...
Arista's clone (really confused by now): How though? Cynthia Rose doesn't have Dr Kozak's phone number.
Kieran (still texting Doctor Kozak who was at the opposite room): Cynthia talked to him in person, silly. Just now, apparently.
Arista's clone: So let me get this straight. We've only got ten minutes to get that trophy.
Kieran: Nine now. We keep talking. We need to leave, Arista.
And saying that, again when the CCTV camera wasn't focusing on them, Arista's clone and Kieran silently made a run for it at the other side of the room where Doctor Kozak and an unconscious Esperanza was.
Doctor Kozak was locked up in a room, just finishing talking to Cynthia Rose about something before she left once and for all.
He swore to himself under pressure as he casually dragged Esperanza's unconscious body out of the janitor's closet.
Esperanza hadn't fully recovered yet, she was still lying on the floor still, without a clue on what was going on.
But she was still alive though.
Hopefully ...
Probably ...
Leaving Esperanza's unconscious body on the floor, and hiding it from everyone else, Doctor Kozak stared at his GPS for a while, then screamed his life out when his daughter as well as Kieran banged Diana's door open and magically entered the scene.
"We're here!" Arista's clone yelled really tremendously, as her and Kieran crouched down to where Doctor Kozak was, Doctor Kozak still hyperventilating like crazy.
"What have you guys done?! You didn't have to enter the room like that!" Kozak half screamed, really annoyed at both of them.
Kieran: Aren't you happy to see us though?
Dr Kozak: I am... But Diana's going to kill me once she finds out what you guys have done to her door!
Arista's clone: Why you? I broke it.
Dr Kozak: Yes but she wouldn't believe that, would she?!
Doctor Kozak had a point. Him and his daughter were screaming at each other for a while but then stopped when Kieran brought up a subject on Esperanza.
Kieran (lifts Esperanza's right hand up with Anastasia still lying unconsciously on the floor): Uhm... Sorry to interrupt your conversation, both of you... But what's happened to Esperanza?
Doctor Kozak didn't say anything.
Doctor Kozak: She... Uh .... Collapsed.
Except Doctor Kozak accidentally on purpose left a long pause between the words 'she' and 'collapsed'.
Kieran: *is really not convinced* She *air quotes* "collapsed" ?*air quotes end*
Doctor Kozak: You... you could say that.
That was when his daughter stood up, Doctor Kozak intently watching her as she and Kieran carried Esperanza and placed her on the chair.
Arista's clone: Don't lie dad. You killed her.
Doctor Kozak: No I didn't! *he stares at Esperanza with everyone else as Esperanza steadily opens her eyes and feels like she needs to faint* See? She just opened her eyes.
Everyone was watching Esperanza "come back to life" again, as she murmured something which wasn't particularly in English and sounded a lot like gibberish instead.
Esperanza: (places a hand on her head) Whoa... What's happened to me?
Doctor Kozak: (stares at her and doesn't take his eyes off of Esperanza's face) I laser beamed you. Twice.
Kieran, Arista's clone and Esperanza: *simutaneously* And why the heck would you do something like that?!
Doctor Kozak: Because she laser beamed Cynthia Rose twice. And you were there, Kieran. So you can't say really anything.
Kieran: Since when did you start to care about Cynthia Rose?
Dr Kozak: Since I realised that Cynthia Rose is actually a really nice person and is not out to get me like Diana and maybe Martinez are.
Kieran and Arista's clone: Fair enough.
Then after that all four of them were pretty much hiding under Diana's maroon sofa, the kids watching the CCTV camera whilst Arista and her father were trying to figure out where the trophy was.
"We've only got five minutes left to get it," Dr Kozak explained. "And I've located it. It's right opposite me. Look, can you guys see it?"
He was mainly talking to his daughter even though the rest of them had listened.
"Okay. So what's the plan? The CCTV camera has turned away from us now."
"I want to see..." Dr Kozak stopped abruptly. "I want to see if I can black out that CCTV camera."
Arista's clone: *confused* What do you mean?
Dr Kozak: I want to see if I can somehow get the CCTV camera to stop watching us. And this can be accomplished by breaking it.
Arista's clone: Are you kidding? Diana will be really ticked off at you!
Dr Kozak: (standing up) : Crud. You're right. I absolutely hate when you're right.
Arista's clone: Well get used to it! And where are you going?
Dr K didn't reply, just walked towards the trophy cupboard, telling Arista's clone that he was going to get the trophy.
Dr Kozak didn't realise that a key was needed to open the cupboard so obviously, when Dr Kozak touched the door, a really deafening alarm went off...
That wasn't the only thing that had happened though. The room kept on blinking red lights as everyone in the room screamed their heads off, covering their ears at the sound of it all.
"What have you done, Dr Kozak?" Esperanza shouted at him, really annoyingly.
"I was trying to get the trophy! That was what you wanted, right?"
Although no one replied.
They were all trying to make a run for it before Diana Valentine found out who had possibly let the alarm to go off, although as soon as Kieran was about to open the door for him, Arista's clone, Esperanza and Dr Kozak to leave, that was when Diana, the real Diana Valentine and not just a holographic one appeared with her children in the background.
As quickly as possible, Arista's clone, Kieran and Esperanza hid behind the sofa again. Although as soon Dr Kozak was about to do that, he felt Diana grasp his hand and squeeze it so tightly he was almost in pain....
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Moral of chapter: Every second counts.