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Cato IV - Averting Shutdown

Walking into the school early the next day way ahead of everyone else except the adults, through a unused secret passageway that I had accidentally discovered while looking for Flash the other day, I collected all of my cameras and deposited them into my backpack. Dodging the adults in the building, I may my way back to the secret passage and outside the building to wait for the school day to start. While doing so, I took a little jog around the school to see where the Fall Formal Decorations were and since I decided to bring my custom built camera with 10 - minute wait before snapping photo options built in along with a tripod for it, when I got around to the gym and saw them, I decided to set something up. Noticing a small rise of ground in the hedges close to the road, I set up the tripod on the small rise with the camera setup on top of the tripod, at the exact height I wanted it to be. Then, I wired it up to take at least 20 shots of the gym per every 50 - minute period of the day, from 7:38 am to 2:23 pm, which would be sent to my phone while I was in class, from which a simple swipe of a setting would turn the system off. Sounds complicated, right? Well yeah, but there’s a reason I spent half of my free time in District 2 High in the library while the other half was spent training with swords.

Like the voice recorders setup last night, the camera came in handy when I decided to check the feed three periods in, during lunch. Sure enough, there was two photos of Snips and Snails trashing the decorations, with Sunset watching gleefully. I smirked and chuckled to myself, knowing that Sunset was really underestimating me. Thus, it was a simple task, via hacking, to then connect myself to the library printer so I could then print the photos and place them in my backpack. At least that was the plan until Flash ran into me just as I got out of the library.

“Twilight just got called down to Vice Principal Luna’s office about destroying the Fall Formal Decorations!”

I sighed, and then handed him the photos. He was stunned.

“Cato, how in the world did you get these?”

I told him to hurry on and said, “I’ll explain later.”

Needless to say, when Flash then came running at me after class in the parking lot after I got the camera and tripod picked up and was about to start my motorcycle and head home, what he said to me basically confirmed my suspicions about Twilight.

“Okay, your insane strat saved Twilight, but when they talked about moving Fall Formal to tomorrow, she ran out of there screaming No at the top of her lungs.”

I wasn’t wasting another second, so I told Flash, “Get on the bike, now.”

He did, and in a matter of seconds, we were off, heading for Twilight’s place.