The path was uneven and every now and then it was blocked completely by boulders that the girls had to scramble over. Sometimes they hit jump mode on their shoes and jumped over them but they were worried they might miss one of the objects if they did it too often. All the same, the trainers were...
Her mum was already up so EJ quickly changed into the safari clothes A1 had given her. She looked out over the savannah as the sun was rising and saw the brightly coloured hot air balloons that took tourists across the reserve for animal spotting. The bright stripes and colours of the large ballo...
‘No, I have only had it with tomato. I hope to try carrot soon.’ ‘Yes,’ came the voice behind the bananas, ‘you must.’ The sequence had been completed exactly. ‘Agent CC12?’ whispered EJ. ‘Is that you?’ ‘Affirmative, Agent EJ12.’ EJ moved a box of bananas to one side and t...
EJ was still in the dressing room. She would very much like to have stayed there but knew she had to go on stage. She had to deliver the message, she just didn’t know how she was going to be able to. What if she just froze, like she did in the Kinder concert? Or forgot the words—that would be a d...
‘Okay, girls,’ cried Ms Sipes, the karate instructor. ‘Take your starting positions, and remember, karate is about defence, not attack. It is a peaceful art.’ Someone should have told mean-girl Nema that. Emma stood on the karate mat facing Nema. She bowed down in the traditional display of respe...
Indeed, A1 seemed to know a lot of things EJ didn’t expect her to and she often seemed to know what EJ was thinking, which could be disconcerting. Sometimes, however, it could also be comforting. This was one of those times. ‘EJ, you will be fine. You just need to take the...
Emma had gone with her mum to Grandma’s house for some final planning for Christmas lunch. Emma loved her grandma and grandpa and, while she loved the big family dinners, she also loved spending time with them alone, having them all to herself. Sometimes she would sit in her grandpa’s study and h...
She quickly changed into the clothes, which were, as always, a perfect fit, and came back into the Operations Room and up to A1, who was standing behind a high workbench. ‘Right, EJ, we think you might need to add these to your charm bracelet for this mission.’ EJ saw four...
The noise of the hand-dryers would be important in hiding the noise of what was going to happen next. Emma did often wonder why she had to report in to SHINE in the girls’ toilets. It was not really what she had imagined during her secret-agent training. She was sure there...
Most of Emma’s clothes were on the bed and a whole bag of Elle’s clothes were scattered over the floor. The girls were furiously trying things on, taking things off, trying them on again. ‘There are some cool things here!’ cried Elle. ‘We can swap things around, and then you do your thing and we’...
‘Hey,’ cried a voice from behind the toilet door. ‘I’m in here!’ ‘Oh sorry,’ replied Emma. ‘No problem, take your time.’ Emma waited, feeling slightly fidgety. She needed to get to the Mission Tube—quickly. The Mission Tube was the secret network that took SHINE agents to the Code Room and then o...
A1’s name was Aurora? Adriana was her evil twin sister? Adriana had been a SHINE agent but was now working for SHADOW? All because she was jealous? And what was her invention? ‘Brilliant invention?’ asked EJ. ‘Yes, you midget, I suppose it can’t hur...
The agents who were trying to take the flies off Trojan mentioned a destruct button, remembered EJ. It’s like the SHINE Eco-Deco. This fly is self-destructing. Sparks jumped from the fly and it became hot, too hot for EJ to hold. She dropped the flower on the ground as the bug sparked again, then...