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Zac double-clicked. The screen filled with diagrams. On the left, Zac saw a picture of a movie camera. A bunch of wavy lines labelled Thought Waves wiggled towards it. Labels and arrows pointed in all directions.
Zacâs brain hurt trying to understand it all. He needed Leonâs help. He plugged his SpyPad into the laptop, uploaded the diagrams then punched in Leonâs number.
He glanced at his watch. 7.47am â Leon would be up by now. But when Zac tried to call, there was no signal!
Gotta get outside, Zac thought. He ran in the direction of the stairs, but then changed his mind. The android might have rebooted his system by now , he thought.
During his GIB Spy Academy training, Zac had learnt heaps of tricky escapes. Now was the time to try one out!
Zac jumped onto a chair and punched out a skylight overhead. He was going to attempt a Multi-Storey Roof Jump, an escape reserved for the bravest of spies.
Zac wriggled through the skylight and onto the roof. As he looked over the edge, he heard a noise on the staircase inside. The android was back! Good thing I didnât take the stairs , Zac thought.
If he took a big run-up and timed it perfectlyâ¦yes, he probably could jump off the building and land on the roof of the moving golf cart below. No android guard would think of looking for him there!
The golf cart was in the perfect position. It was now or never!
He sped towards the edge of the building. He took a deep breath and... JUMPED!
He was in free fallâ¦and then⦠THUNK!
Zac landed squarely on the cartâs roof. âWhat was that?â came a girlâs voice from inside the cart.
Zac froze. He knew that voiceâ¦
An image flashed into his mind of the enormous silver trailer that heâd seen earlier. He remembered the name âCarolineâ written on the doorâ¦
Caz is short for Caroline! Zac realised with a shock.
Caz was an enemy spy for the enemy organisation BIG. And if Caz was here at Cinemania, that meant the two were somehow linked. But how?
Zac was racking his brains when he felt a text message come through on his SpyPad. Lucky heâd set it to vibrate mode!
Now wasnât the time for spy industry gossip! Zac needed proper help from Leon, like an online search to work out how BIG and Cinemania were related.
But I canât call Leon from here! Caz will hear every word! thought Zac.
There was only one thing to do.
He flung himself sideways, rolling off the cart and landing heavily in the gutter with a muffled âurgh!â
Just as he had planned, the cart kept on driving. He didnât think anyone had seen him jump off.
Right, now to call Leon , Zac thought, dusting off his T-shirt and digging out his SpyPad.
Then he heard a booming voice. âThere you are!â
Oh no, the android guards! Zac panicked.
âYouâre needed on set, Grave,â continued the voice, which belonged to a beefy man wearing a âFilm Crewâ T-shirt. His name was stitched on the back â Brutus.
Brutus grabbed Zacâs arm. There was no getting away. Brutus gripped like an angry pit-bull.
âYouâre ready for your big stunt scene, right?â said Brutus.
CHAPTER SIX
Stunt scene? Zacâs brain whirred.
There was a child star called Dave âGraveâ Danger â the most extreme stuntman ever. He was twelve, Zacâs age. Brutus must have seen Zacâs commando roll and mistaken him for Grave!
âIn here,â said Brutus, steering Zac into a film studio as big as an aircraft hanger. On the door, a sign read:
Action/blockbuster: Short Fuse
CAUTION
Filming in progress
Zac looked around. The studio was crawling with people wheeling cameras and shouting into megaphones. Straight away, someone rushed towards Zac and fluffed his hair. His nose was dabbed with make-up.
The make-up part was weird. Zac had hated it when enemy agents had given him a make-over as revenge, and