Locker 2375 Chapter 10

Posted on | March 28, 2009 | No Comments

Locker 2375 c10

Snot-talkie.

Seconds before the entire school seemed to explode into a flurry of chaos, Omar stuck something that looked like a shriveled booger into his ear.

“Men, catch”, Omar said in an uncharacteristically loud voice.

Omar flicked what looked like a booger at Sam and I.

When I got the thing in my hand I realized that this was not a booger at all, but some sort of earpiece.

“What you are holding in your hands are the smallest walky-talkies ever made and we did it here in secret in the DT/science/ICT and Arabic labs”, from the look on Omar’s face it was pretty clear that he was proud of these high-tech marvels and that he was willing to make our lives miserable if we did not follow his every instruction.

“We call them snot-talk”, Omar waited for one of us to laugh but with faces like stone we kept our eyes on Omar and waited for further instructions.

“Squeeze the snot-talk as hard as you can between your thumb and index finger and then stick it as far into your ear as you can”, I looked at Omar with a worried scrunched up face.

“Don’t worry we tested the idea on our brothers, sisters and sleeping parents. After a lot of failures we came up with these fantastic prototypes that simply dissolve into harmless ear wax after 24 hours exactly”, WOW Omar had a whole other life just like Kevin and Ana.

“And Yes Max I know you are thinking that Kevin and Ana are also up to some pretty cool stuff and yes we are part of the same covert ops student group.”

Sam had a look on his face that said he wanted to know what Omar was talking about but that he realized this was not the time or place to ask. I could see him making a mental note to come back to this conversation later.

“Men get ready”, Omar said with his eyes fixed on Mr. Smith.

The foyer of the school was chaos.

Students were running holding their noses.

The team of gas distracters, in unison, pulled snot-talk’s from their pockets, pinched them between their thumbs and index fingers and stuffed them deep into their ears.

Sarah saw the booger like things being pushed into the ears of the boys and had to run for a garbage can as her lunch was well on its way up from its resting place in her stomach.

Ana and Kevin had taken up strategic posts.

Ana was standing at the top of the stairs with a clear sightline between the front corner of the foyer and the detention cave door.

Kevin had strategically placed himself in front of the double think reinforced doors, with what looked like a combination lock tumbler in the middle, as you might see on bank vaults in old movies.

I had always wondered why the curriculum coordinators, principals and faculty lounges were located behind what appeared to be a blast proof door that could stop anything!

As the school seemed to descend into madness a flashing red light went on above the administration’s vault door.

Nathaniel and his team were too busy giving each other high fives to see the school security team coming out of every nook and crevice and they had their sights trained on Nathaniel.

The front left corner of the school foyer is the site of the schools environmental security system, something that intrigued and excited students form the moment it appeared 5 weeks ago.

The big question on most student’s minds was why do we need an environmental security system at all?

Students could be seen looking quizzically at the environmental security system at all times of the day but nobody seemed to think much about it and I suspect figured that we needed this system because of the science labs on level one of the school.

A handful of students, all who had to have been part of the covert ops student group, had been looking at the gas detection system with particular interest and scheming about how to use it for their own purposes.

Only now do I know that for weeks in science class members of the covert ops student group had been using Google, proquest and a series of science websites to find out everything they could about the environmental security system.

And what the covert ops student group discovered was that there was a major flaw in the system.

The flaw was that the gas detection and sensitivity could be momentarily changed from the factory settings using a Jawbone blue tooth mobile phone headset and a Blackberry and iPhone hooked up in series and simultaneously calling a control site in Brazil.

When the whole system was in place and the reset code was sent for the jawbone headset the environmental security system, for 6 minutes, could be set to detect any gas you asked it to look for.

In this case the gas detector was set for high levels of methane gas.

And on cue with Nathaniel and the boys letting their gas rip, and Ms. Shelley walking into the foyer, the deed was done!

As soon as the gas detection system was tripped a school wide alarm was activated and automatically all doors in the school opened.

The entire school was wired so even if Mr. Smith had wanted to keep the door of the detention cave closed to investigate what was going on he had no power to.

As Charles the security guard jumped ran up the front steps of the school Ana got on her snot-talk and screamed, “Charles 12:00 Nathaniel.”

Without looking Nathaniel held up his right hand with the thumbs up signal.

Nathaniel then pulled his harm down into the all right I won again gesture and signaled to his team to disperse.

As if Nathaniel was directing a jet to land he made rapid Frisbee like throwing gestures with his right and left arms.

And into chaotic crowd they vanished.

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