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21 " Sure enough, there was a foosball table off to one side. Mike raced to it and yelled, “I call red team!” “We’re not here to play foosball,” I told him. Catherine and Erica were now searching the room for clues, so I joined them. “It won’t take long,” Mike said. “Because I’m gonna kick your butt. I rule at foosball.” I ignored this challenge. “We need to see if this is the lair of the Croatoan. "
― Stuart Gibbs , Spy School Revolution (Spy School, #8)
22 " Oh my,” Catherine said, sounding extremely surprised. She had found something in the filing cabinets. “Tell me about it,” Mike agreed, misunderstanding her concern. “We haven’t been able to play a decent game of foosball in weeks.” “She’s not talking about the foosball table, "
23 " Mr. Booth has been completely hoodwinked and truly believes his actions will be perceived as part of the play… he thinks he will be using a prop gun, rather than a real one… insists upon shouting “Sic semper tyrannis” instead of the line we wrote for him. Believes the Latin will make him sound more erudite… "
24 " Mike had forgotten all about foosball and was now leafing through an armload of documents. “Here’s a contract with pirates to raid American settlements in the 1820s. And plans to crash the stock market in 1929. And a scheme to capture a giant gorilla and let it wreak havoc on New York City.…” “That’s the plot of King Kong,” I told him. “I guess not all their plans worked out,” Mike said. “It seems they couldn’t find a giant gorilla. But they did sell the idea to Hollywood for a lot of money. "
25 " Looks like they’re going after the Washington Monument,” Mike observed. “Thank you, Captain Obvious, "
26 " scrunchie "
27 " So we went out the back. The fact that there wasn’t a back door didn’t stop us. "
28 " Fort Ticonderoga "
29 " I had once seen her threaten to disembowel a street busker if he so much as thought about starting another verse of “Seasons of Love. "
30 " However, I had serious concerns. “That’s Plan B? That ought to be Plan C or D at best. The Secret Service and Homeland Security have the museum surrounded. We’re never going to be able to get in there without authorization.” “That’s why we’re not going through the front door,” Catherine said. “We’ll have to parachute onto the roof. The same way the Croatoan probably came in.” “An aerial assault?” Chip exclaimed. “Awesome!” “Oh no,” I said, remembering my last aerial assault; it had taken place over Paris and had not been an enjoyable way to arrive in the city. “That ought to be Plan Z. "
31 " Alexander had recently been given a vintage Russian military helicopter as a gift. It had been owned by an incredibly wealthy British computer programmer named Orion, who couldn’t even remember why he’d bought it in the first place. "
32 " The passenger door opened and someone else got in, holding a gun in one hand and a triple-scoop ice-cream cone in the other. "
33 " When most kids our age go to a bowling alley, they actually bowl. They don’t get held hostage and then have to fend off terrorists with bowling balls. "
34 " It’s the worst ending to a story ever.” “Except for The Wizard of Oz,” Chip said. Jawa looked at him, shocked. “What’s your problem with The Wizard of Oz? "
35 " A mission where I survive,” Chip corrected. “I don’t want to be a farter.” “A martyr?” Jawa asked. “Right. One of those. "
36 " You mean, we would have to give up our lives here, move to a different place, and pretend to be entirely different people?” “Yes,” Alexander said gravely. Mom considered that a moment, then shrugged and said, “I’m cool with that. "
37 " Erica Daisy Hale,” Catherine said, in the stern voice that my own parents had used on me when catching me breaking the rules. “Close that door and sit down right now or you’re grounded.” Mike looked at me, stunned. “Her middle name is ‘Daisy’? "
38 " Erica, if you don’t listen to me, you’re not going on any more missions for a year!” Erica gave Catherine the sort of glare normal teens used on their parents when told they had to skip a party and stay home to mow the lawn. “You never let me do anything!” “I let you overthrow SPYDER last month!” Catherine argued. "
39 " Erica had trained for things like this far more than I had. Before coming to spy school, the most dangerous thing I had ever done was trying to jump my skateboard off Mike’s front steps. (And for the record, I had repeatedly failed at that, resulting in plenty of bumps, bruises, and a fractured arm that needed to be in a cast for six weeks.) "
40 " Agent Durkee looked to her henchman and shouted, “Shoot them, you idiot!” although even now, her voice was so chipper and friendly, it sounded like she was telling him to give us a hug. "