SpyCam: The Android Attack

By Zoe Wynns

Fourteen-year-old Cam thinks she’ll get a break after preventing the villain Shardstorm’s plot to kill the President. But soon after she settles in at the headquarters of the Spies That Protect Our World, they’re attacked. Shardstorm leaves a mysterious message that sends Cam into a spiraling turn of events. She accepts a daring mission to go undercover in the heart of enemy territory. But Cam doesn’t expect to learn a deeply buried secret... a secret about her friends... her enemies... herself... that will make her question everything she’s ever fought for.
Zoe Wynns has been called, “a talented young writer,” and her books have been called, “entertaining and well-paced,” “chair-gripping page-turners,” and “the rare, wonderful kind that will touch your heart and stay there forever.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zoe Wynns
• Release date: Aug 31, 2017
• ISBN: 9781370699384

Zoe Wynns

UNC student who occasionally writes novels.Thanks to everyone who's checked out my work! You can contact me at [e-mail] for any inquiries.

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SpyCam:

The Android Attack

By Zoe Wynns

Stop Right Here! This book is the second in a series. If you haven’t read the first book, SpyCam: The President Plot, you can download it from this link: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/734413

Or search the name on the iBook store. It will be made free once this book is published, for your pleasure and understanding. This book will make more sense and be more enjoyable if you’ve already read the first.

Praise for Zoe Wynns

Zoe Wynns is a talented young writer who is off to a terrific start with SpyCam: The President Plot.  This is an entertaining and well-paced read, driven by spirited 14-year-old Cam and her plucky BFF, Stella. Zoe's novel has suspense, adventure and a lot of heart — a combination that will leave readers eager to take more fictional journeys with Cam and crew!

—Tracie Fellers (fiction and nonfiction author with work in Long Story Short:  Flash Fiction by Sixty-Five of North Carolina's Finest Writers, and 27 Views of Raleigh)

Zoe Wynns is an amazing author. Her first two books were well written and interesting. I have read Journey to the End five times. Her book, Flicker, Fade, Soar, that I recently just finished, was awesome. This new book is obviously another masterpiece. Keep going Zoe!

-Caleb McLamb (CEO of M-Tech)

Zoe Wynns has done it again. Her SpyCam books are the sort of chair-gripping page-turners that grab you at the prologue and continue to hold on after the final page has been read. But it’s not only the 394 unexpected plot twists that make her writing impossible to put down; her characters, too, are unforgettable. Whether it’s selfless Cam, spunky Stella, or power-crazed Shardstorm, Zoe’s characters don’t just come alive off the page -- they jump out at you with every witty remark or infamous almost-kiss, throwing confetti into the air (or in Shardstorm’s case, bombs). In short? Zoe’s novels are the rare, wonderful kind that will touch your heart and stay there forever.

-Luna Hou, winner of Wake County’s annual Teen Poetry Contest

This version of SpyCam has been updated in 2019, but I have left the original message to readers below.

I am fourteen years old. SpyCam: The Android Attack is my fourth self-published book. Feel free to send me feedback if you find a mistake in the book, but know that I tried my best, worked very hard on the book, and I am very proud of the final novel. Thank you for downloading or purchasing this book.

If you enjoy this book, feel free to download my three other self-published books. Journey to the End is available on Kindle, iBooks, and Smashwords. Flicker, Fade, Soar is available on iBooks and Smashwords. SpyCam: The President Plot is available on iBooks and Smashwords as well.

Now, in 2019, I’m sixteen years old! I’ve published the rest of the SpyCam series, and another book called Awaken Illusionia. Feel free to check them out on Smashwords or the iBooks store!

Please rate this book or write a quick review if you enjoy it! Thanks in advance!

I hope you enjoy SpyCam: The Android Attack!

This is a work of fiction. While some businesses and places do exist that I’ve mentioned, any interactions inside those places or any descriptions of those places are purely fictional. All persons are fictional, and any resemblance to any persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

This book is published by Smashwords. No part of this book may be copied or reproduced without the consent of Zoe Wynns. All questions to [e-mail].

Summary: Tensions rise as fourteen-year-old Cam learns of a mysterious object that the supervillain Shardstorm is obsessed with getting.

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Copyright 2017 Zoe Wynns.

Prologue

Nobody suspected that he would grow up to be a supervillain.

An engineer, yes. A doctor, maybe. Even the small chance that he would grow up to be some sort of mad scientist that lived on the edge of civilization and dabbled in obscure branches of research seemed to be more likely than the even smaller chance that he could go as horribly wrong as he did.

For a while, the people that believed in him, his mother, his father, his best friends in high school, thought he was right on the track to success.

The first thing Dash S. Tempest did when he graduated from college with a major in genetic engineering was apply for an internship at Life Science Research Center and Lab, a small but not unknown facility just outside the city Dash lived in. It was a rather long internship, but it was recommended Dash stay in the dorms there to fully immerse himself in the Life Science world.

So, Dash set off, with nothing more than a suitcase in his hand and dreams bubbling up in his mind. He would revolutionize the universe of engineering and change the way people thought about the world.

A month after his internship started, there was an explosion at the Life Science Research Center and Lab. The building collapsed onto itself. Survivors suspected internal damage to the structure.

Dash survived, unharmed, and took a quick trip back inside the ruined facility to collect his remaining materials. Nobody thought anything of it.

The Life Science employees decided not to rebuild. They would take what had survived the explosion and join with a nearby research center that had been wanting to expand. Dash accepted the offer to finish his internship there.

A week after the collapse of the building, a one-year-old girl crawled out of the wreckage. She was not noticed for many days, until a small crew was sent to the site where Life Science stood to collect any salvageable materials.

It was raining that day, and a young woman screamed when she poked her head in one of the only upright rooms to find a tiny pair of dark brown eyes staring back at her.

They took the girl, whom they dubbed Miracle, back to the new Life Science building with questions whizzing through their minds. How could a baby so small have survived for over a week on her own? Or more amazingly yet, how had she survived the explosion in the first place?

And what was she doing at the old Life Science Research Center and Lab?

After doing some tests, the Life Science employees found their answer. Miracle was not a baby girl at all.

She was an android.

A very, very lifelike android that had been programmed to grow at an average pace for an African American girl (the Life Science employees put her appearance and programming in their database and that was the race that the program suggested). Miracle didn’t have to eat, but she could. She didn’t need to sleep, but she could. She was immune to all poisons and medicines, really no substance affected her. Even her hair always stayed smooth!

The Life Science employees were amazed. They consented to take Miracle apart to find out how she worked. Because in their tests they could see something different. A virus, maybe. An unusual piece of code. They wanted to get to the bottom of what Miracle was made for. To serve a master? To complete a difficult task? To be a companion?

They left Miracle in a well-protected test room overnight.

In the morning, she was gone.

The employees working on Miracle rushed to check all the other workers rooms for signs of her, but they didn’t find anything until they came to the last room. Dash’s room.

Dash wasn’t there. None of his belongings were, either. The only thing left to show that Dash had ever been an intern at the Life Science Research Center was a small notepad that seemed to have writing on the first page. The worker nervously approached the page and read it.

It was a note. It said,

Her name isn’t Miracle. Her name is...

The name written seemed insignificant—boring, even. The worker forgot it immediately.

Later, when he would be asked to recount the name, all he would remember is that it was an unusual name. Simple, but unusual.

Thirteen years later when he heard the same name on the news, talking about some kind of kidnapping, he looked into the deep brown eyes of the girl he would always know as Miracle and felt a tug at his memory.

Chapter One

BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!

The shrill cries of my alarm clock roused me from a deep sleep. I had been having a dream about something… something important, but I couldn’t remember it now.

I rolled over with a small groan and forced open my chocolate-brown eyes. My short, light brown hair whipped into my face and I swiped it away, my sea of freckles shifting angrily. I smashed my hand down onto the snooze button on my alarm clock, and it went silent, though its red numbers proclaiming it was 7:00am still glared at me.

I pulled up my covers off the floor where they had fallen in the night. I wrapped them around myself and curled up into a tiny ball. I was freezing, someone must have turned up the air conditioning to the point where this little room had become the Arctic.

But my covers were warm, and the sun was barely out, and I really, really didn’t want to get up yet…

The door to my room burst open and three little whirlwinds ran in and jumped on my bed.

Cam! Cam, get up! Cammy, you PROMISED you’d play with me today! Cam, it’s 7:00! CAM. Cam! CAM!

Go away, I groaned, but I couldn’t stop a smile from forming on my face. Zoey, didn’t I tell you I’d play with you if you let me sleep an extra half hour? Angie, girl, you’re getting too big for this jumping-on-the-poor-unsuspecting-Cam thing. And Vince, I looked into his innocent brown eyes, your training doesn’t even start until ten!

Zoey peered at me with her huge green eyes. Her bright red hair shone in the new daylight. I know, but I decided I wanted to get you up instead!

Angie gave me an adorable shrug. Her short blonde hair bobbed up and down and her blue eyes sparked with laughter. I’m only eight years old. And Mama says I’m small for my age.

Vince looked at me with mock scorn. His curly hair that matched his brown eyes bounced. I need to train for my training, right?

I looked over at the door to the amused faces of three teens.

Marlee, who was thirteen years old, gave