Kingdom Keepers VII Read Online Free PDF

all-American good looks and gymnastic athleticism and gave her a shot at the big time. She’s had several guest appearances on Good Luck Charlie , and there’s talk she may be offered a starring role in a new Disney Channel show. The thought that Charlene could be the next Hannah Montana is a little off-putting to all the Keepers, especially Maybeck, who texts with her constantly and hasn’t been himself since her departure. They’ve all missed her, but for Maybeck it has been agony.
    “This is not an exercise,” Brad continues. “There’s been a breach in security at the Studio Archives.”
    “But wait,” Willa says, “aren’t they in—”
    “Burbank. You’ll be crossed over onto the Disney Legend outdoor terrace between the Team Disney and Frank G. Wells buildings. Finn has the Return.”
    Finn taps his pocket, ensuring that the small fob-size remote device Brad is referring to is where it belongs. Items in pockets cross over; handheld objects are less predictable: sometimes they make it, sometimes not. It’s crucial that the Return crosses over successfully; it’s what enables the Keepers to trigger their emergence from their hologram state. Although the Imagineers could return the DHIs manually, the Keepers have learned through hard experience that initiating their exit themselves is critical to their survival.
    It is not an exact science. Research into the DHI phenomena of crossing over into hologram form is ongoing, and conducted by te very people who created the DHI program in the first place.
    The best explanation the Imagineers have so far offered the Keepers is that crossing over involves each Keeper’s consciousness making a jump “into” his or her hologram at the moment of drifting off to sleep. In that fragile moment between wakefulness and slumber, a kind of portal opens to supercomputers operated by the Disney Imagineers running artificial intelligence software. The Imagineers believe that each DHI operates in a dream state controlled by the sleeping Keeper. This hypothesis is at least partly confirmed by the all-too-real fact that while crossed over, a Keeper can get stuck—in what they call the Sleeping Beauty Syndrome, or SBS. If a DHI is not returned, the sleeping host is trapped in what appears to be a coma while the spark of waking consciousness is unable to make the jump back to the sleeping body.
    “You’re being dropped into a hot zone,” Brad cautions. “Fair warning: this isn’t like crossing over at the Hub in the Magic Kingdom and going off searching for OTs. Tonight, you’ll be dropped into the middle of an active operation. The security breach is a well-organized raid. It’s imperative that it be thwarted. We are Code Jiminy.”
    A collective gasp. On a scale from one to five, Jiminy is code for the second-highest threat level, surpassed only by Tink. Its invocation authorizes the Keepers to use any means necessary to accomplish the specified goal, including “loss of property”—an Imagineer euphemism for the destruction of Disney characters. Tink allows further for the destruction of physical property, attractions, and systems within the park, as well as for the use of “enhancers”—meaning, dark magic and specialized implements of destruction.
    This new military-style regimen is a direct result of the ordeal in Mexico that cost Dillard his life. Since the Imagineers adopted it, the Keepers have never been authorized to go beyond Code Alice, the second of the five levels. By establishing the higher risk level, Brad is warning them that they’re being dumped into a dogfight.
    “Mission objective?” Philby asks. The Professor wants to get the facts straight.
    “Protect assets; restore video surveillance; determine the target or objective of the raid.”
    “Layout?” Philby, again.
    “You will cross over onto the terrace. There’s a Starbucks in the corner of the lobby of the target building. The doors are straight ahead. Inside the lobby, the Archives’