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to find the boys
by pointing at himself again, then mimicked a pair of binoculars in
front of his eyes.
    Wedge rolled his eyes as if to say, “Yeah,
that was real hard.” He then pointed at himself, then at the two
boys, and then out the door, as if to say he was the one who had
found them outside.
    Rocket made the OK sign back with his hands
and rolled his eyes. The boys seemed to be at a stalemate.
    Just then, Rocket got an idea. He swiveled in
his chair and looked at his brother. He pointed at himself, pointed
at the crowd, and pointed again to Wedge. Rocket then stood up, did
a motion of a girl putting on a dress, and sat back down. He called
his brother out and said he would tell everyone back at The
Playground that he had been looking at dresses in the mall.
    Wedge glared at his brother with a look that
almost pierced right through him. Rocket just sat back and smiled.
Wedge shook his head back and forth in defiance. He muttered some
parting words, shook his fist in anger, and started out of the row.
Rocket sat back and waved to his brother.
    Rocket had won.
    Wedge made his way to the edge of the row and
sneaked his way down the aisle. The two boys were about twenty rows
in front of him and were still causing quite a scene. Wedge crept
down the aisle row by row, bent at the waist. He finally made it to
the row behind the two boys and sat about four seats into the row,
almost directly behind the two boys.
    Another scene in the movie saw the villain
once again hacking at a body. The two boys jumped up and down in
excitement and yelled at the screen. As they shot back down into
their seats, Wedge moved up closely to the seat in back of Ace and
slid his hand between the two seats. Cautiously, he reached his
hand up toward the belt holster that held Ace’s phone. Wedge then
paused and waited for the right second.
    As the killer made his next contact, the two
boys leaped up again. Quickly, as the boys started into the air,
Wedge made a grab for Ace’s cell phone. He easily removed the
small, thin phone from its holster. Ace never felt a thing.
    As the two boys flopped back down into their
seats, Wedge seated himself backwards against the backrest of Ace’s
chair. There, he waited patiently for the next kill to make his
exit.
    “Come on. Come on,” Wedge said impatiently as
he waited for another victim to fall prey to the slasher. He
waited. And waited.
    This must be the worst horror movie ever
made. No one’s dying! Wedge thought to himself in disgust. Finally,
his moment came.
    Another loud scream came from the screen,
followed by some screams in the audience. Ace and Tommy jumped up
once again and high-fived each other. Wedge used this time to duck
back out into the aisle. He practically crawled his way up to
Rocket, who was waiting at the door. The two boys sneaked out of
the theater and into the lobby.
    “I wonder what KC has planned,” Wedge said as
they walked through the lobby, looking at the cell phone.
    “Not sure, but let’s get back to The
Playground and find out,” Rocket said to his brother as they walked
out of the theater. “Unless, of course, you want to go shopping
some more?”
    “Shut up, Rocket!”
     
     

Chapter Eight:
    Revelations
    6:00 pm
     
     
    While Rocket and Wedge were out doing
reconnaissance work, the other members of the SOCKs contingent were
spread about town. Samantha was at her home. She was back in her
garage, which she had deserted many weeks ago. She sat there,
desperately trying to figure out how to get the tunnels extended
from RD1 in The Playground to the base of Pepper Creek. She
struggled back and forth in her mind, and it seemed a daunting task
to tunnel hundreds of feet, underground, with just a bunch of kids
as labor.
    Roller was guiding his way toward downtown to
pick up some supplies. He had left The Playground a few minutes
ago, and he needed to pick up some essentials.
    Gears and Kid Combat were the only two
members back at The Playground. Gears was in the main