"Almost finished," Alex said to no one in particular as she sat back in her chair and stretched her tired wrists. She had been flicking up this file for the past week and wanted nothing more to do with it. Even though she had it memorized in her head, writing it out allowed her to go over every stitch of information. Alex was able to piece the plan out for Lexi's rescue, incorporating the magnetic pole predictor algorithm that Ellie finished. She was almost done.

The door to the lab ...