The Warning by K.A. Applegate

Author:K.A. Applegate
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

While I spent the evening with my family, Marco had been busy. He’d used the hack-proof program Ax had written for him to go back to the chat room. He told us about it when we trudged out to the woods at the edge of Cassie’s farm. Tobias and Ax could both be themselves out there.

“Most of the same people were there,” Marco explained. “There were some new names, but GoVikes, YrkH8er, Chazz, CKDsweet, YeerKiller, Carlito, MegMom, and Gump8293 were all there. The Gump kid was still talking about his dad. I get the feeling maybe he’s getting ready to confront his father.”

“We can’t let that happen,” Cassie said.

“Gump is a nine-year-old kid,” I reminded everyone. “He lives close enough. Meg, Chazz, and CKDsweet are all from out of town. Some of them way out of town. That leaves us with GoVikes —”

“— an idiot,” Rachel pointed out.

“— YrkH8er, Gump, Chazz and, of course, Fitey777,” I finished.

<YrkH8er is a Controller, right?> Tobias asked. <I mean, that’s what he acts like. Like a Controller trying to pass himself off as an enemy of Yeerks.>

Tobias was in a branch maybe ten feet over our heads. His talons sank deep into loose bark.

Cassie tilted her head back and forth like she wasn’t too sure. “YrkH8er is someone named Edward Cheltingham. What was he? Thirty years old? But you know what? I looked in the phone book this morning and there was no Edward Cheltingham. Only two ‘Cheltinghams’ listed and they were both female.”

“So? He has an unlisted phone number,” Rachel said.

“Maybe so. Or maybe Edward Cheltingham is as phony a name as YrkH8er,” Cassie said. “Isn’t it possible to get a fake ID and a credit card in some name and then open a WAA account?”

Obviously, that had not occurred to anyone except Cassie.

“Oh,” Rachel said. “Great. A new level of difficulty. So this guy could be anyone.”

“We have an address for him,” Cassie said. “We could check it out.” She looked at me. “We also have an address for Gump.”

“Gump isn’t the point,” Marco said. “Fenestre is the person at the middle of all this. He’s the main man. Figure out what’s happening with him, and you figure it all out.”

“Maybe,” Cassie conceded. “But he can wait. Gump may be in trouble right now.”

“Look, Cassie,” Marco said, “it’s Sunday. If we go after Fenestre, it’s probably going to take some time. Which means a weekend, which means today. We can check out Gump any day after school. Monday. Tuesday.”

“Unless Monday is too late. Unless later today that scared little kid talks to his dad and his dad is a Controller, and that’s it for Gump. Gump does a disappearing act. Or else ends up as the new home for some low-level Yeerk.”

The two of them looked to me. I was supposed to decide which was our top priority. Rescue a nine-year-old, or maybe bust open the whole thing with a raid on Fenestre’s mansion.

I looked down at the ground. “Marco, did you happen to do any research on Fenestre’s house?”

“No.

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