Cast member, greg was tapping his toe, and glancing at his watch every 5 seconds.

"Where the heck are cast member's, cinde, and J.J.? They are already late by 3 seconds, and nowhere in sight," said cast member, greg wondering aloud.

Had a big blue genie come out of a bottle, and asked, "Cast member, greg, sir, what will your pleasure be?" Of course not, but it sure seemed like magic, for out of the corner of his eye, cast member, greg, could just make out cast member's, cinde, and J.J., coming around the corner, at full pace.

"Hi," yelled cast member, J.J., waving, and grinning. "Hiiiii."

"SSSSHHHHHHHHH!!!! SSSSSSSShhhhhhhhh, not so loud," said cast member, greg. "You want them to hear you?"

"Who hear us?" asked cast member, cinde. "I mean, are we supposed to be on alert for people listening to us?"

"Ssssshhh. Stop talking. Put your ear to this rusty door, cast member, cinde, and listen," said cast member, Greg, while leaning his ear next to the large, rusty, metal door, which was the exit door for the hidden employee only cavern, and mini-monorail.

Cast member, cinde, leaned her ear closer to the door so she could hear better. The rust smeared her right ear a bright orange. Cast member, cinde listened as hard as she could, but still, all she could discern were some low bass sounding thumps, almost on a subsonic level. "HEY, J.J., SEE IF YOU CAN HEAR ANYTHING...OOPS, I FORGOT, YOU CAN'T HEAR VERY WELL. RIGHT, J.J.?" screamed cast member, cinde, so that J.J. could hear.

"I SAID, SSSSSSSSSSSshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" commanded cast member, greg, who after all was the head lead, or something. "All communication among the troops must cease at this instant. From now on we are going into silent mode," commanded cast member, greg, pulling out, and putting on his subatronic headset, which was a communications device built into a pair of ordinary, high standard, but extra strength, safety goggles.

Cast member, cinde pulled out, and put on, her subatronic headset, safety goggles. She could hear a hissy, muzak version of, It's A Small World, playing faintly in the background. Cast member, cinde, gave the AOK sign to cast member, greg. "Headset, on line, and working fine," said cast member, cinde. She turned and looked at J.J.

"What about J.J.? He hasn't been through orientation yet, and doesn't have a pair of headset, safety goggles," said cast member, cinde.

"Lucky i'm always prepared," said cast member, greg, pulling out his extra pair of subatronic headset, safety goggles, and tossing them to J.J.

J.J. placed the subatronic headset, safety goggles, squarely on his head. With earphone, and mike, in place, J.J. turned the volume up full blast on his headset safety goggles. He could now hear cast member's, greg, and cinde, though garbled slightly, in the headset.

"J.J. reporting for duty," said J.J., his voice echoing loudly throughout the cavern, from all three safety goggle headsets.

"SShh. Very good! Very good, J.J., you can hear us better now, good. For a beginner, you seem to be picking up things incredibly quickly around here. I'll have to mention you in my daily report. You'll get at least a half point for your conduct here today," said cast member, greg.

"Don't forget me," protested cast member, cinde, feeling all dejected "don't i get a half point to?"

"Oh, all right, you get a half point too," said cast member, greg. "Now, is everyone set?" greg asked looking around to make sure everything was fine. "Okay, let's go," cast member, greg, commanded.

Taking out a tiny silver key, cast member, greg, unlocked the large, rusty door, turned the handle, and pushed the large imposing door open.

Cast member's, greg, cinde, and J.J., peered past the door, into the darkness. All at once, the three cast member's were blinded by a series of bright flashes. Their ears, even with the subatronic headsets on, were deafened by the barrage of thunderous explosions.

"BOOM!!! KAPOWIE!!! BAAAROOOM!!! WHAMMO!!! POW!!!

"BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!"

Is this the end of our heroes? Oh! I can't stand not knowing!

Be here for the excitement, if you can take it, and find out next time in chapter 14, Run, J.J., Run!

Your pal,
Ed