CHAPTER FIVE
Over the next week, all anyone on campus could talk about was Tsunami’s prison break from Ultimate Max. Whether at meal times or in class, it seemed to Switch like she couldn’t escape the rumors and gossip being spread about it. She even overheard some of the teachers talking about it, though by and large they didn’t seem to discuss it, at least in public, perhaps because they didn’t want to scare the students. It didn’t help that Plutarch was forced to leave the Academy far sooner than he originally planned, going directly to the White House in order to hold a press conference regarding this mass prison break, the worst one in American history.
The initial reports of the prison break were confusing, because it seemed like everyone had their own version of what happened. But
