Prologue

"Cheers!" Chimes several people, upstairs in the Club Penguin Times Newsroom.

The Coffee Shop is closed for the evening but Aunt Arctic is still upstairs hosting a small celebration with her news staff.

"Christmas is so close!" Exclaims one penguin, taking a slice of banana bread.

"Whose turn is it to host the Christmas Eve party?" Asks another, diving into a delicious piece of cake.

"Are we going to have Secret Santa again or just a gift exchange?" Questions a yellow penguin.

"Oooh! Secret Santa! I love doing Secret Santa!" Yells a lime green penguin with a propeller hat..

Another penguin rolls their eyes and takes a brownie from the tray sitting on the table.

"You can never keep a secret, Rookie." She comments, before taking a bite of the brownie.

"Hey! That's not true!" Rookie exclaims, taking offense to that notion. "Remember how I kept that secret about how you hate meat!"

The whole room gets silent. Macey490 shakes her head and sighs in exasperation, as if proving her point.

"You're a Vegan?" Exclaims the yellow penguin, in surprise.

"No I'm a vegetarian," Macey490 corrects.

"Same thing. What's the difference?" Ash128 comments.

"There is a difference," Macey490 snaps. "A Vegan is someone who doesn't eat anything related to animals because they disapprove of animal abuse that's used for manufacturing food products. Vegetarians are people who go on a healthy sort of diet where we don't eat meat and use other substitutes to get protein."

"It's still the same to me," she replies.

Macey490 gives a low growl before deciding to drop the conversation.

"Hey Ashley, this banana bread is delicious." States one of the reporters, taking yet another slice of banana bread. "How did you make this?"

"Oh you know, it's just a family recipe." Ash128 informs, casually.

"It's really good!" Can I have the recipe?" Asks MCarter13.

Ash128 shakes her head with a smile.

"No I can't. There's a secret ingredient in it," she explains,

"Let me guess..." MCarter13 suggests, taking a slow bite of the bread. "It's Bananas."

Ash128 giggles. MCarter13 takes a bow.

"It's Vanilla extract. Isn't it?" A voice in the corner asks, quietly.

Everyone in the room goes silent again and all stare at the purple penguin in the corner, eating a piece of cake.

"How did you do that?" Ash128 admonishes.

"Am I right?" She asks, dismissing Ash128's question. "I guess I am."

MCarter13 smiles, amused.

"Wow! Rebecca, you're amazing!" He state, "how did you figure that out?"

Rebecca shrugs. "It's a gift."

"You just take one bite of food and know what ingredients are used?!" MCarter13, wearing a baseball cap, walks over towards the dessert table.

The he walks back with a snicker doodle and hands it to Rebecca.

"What's in this?" He asks, curious.

Rebecca looks at the cookie before replying, "1/2 cup of butter, 1 cup and 2 tablespoons of sugar, 1 egg, ? teaspoons of vanilla extract, 1 cup of all-purpose flour, ? teaspoons of baking soda, ? teaspoons of cream of tartar, and 1 teaspoon of ground cinnamon."

"Holy Smokes!" You did that without even tasting it!" MCarter13 announces, amazed.

Rebecca finally begins to smile.

"Actually...I made these." She confesses, pointing to the label on the bin of snicker doodles.

"Oh," he realizes.

Everyone laughs.

"But seriously though, whose turn is it to host the Christmas party?" Rebecca asks.

"How about Macey? She hasn't gone in awhile," suggest Aunt Arctic who hadn't talked during the whole conversation.

"What? Why me?" Macey490 complains, "isn't it MCarter's turn?"

"No I did it two years ago," he informs.

"How about Ashley or Rookie?" Macey490 suggests.

"No I did last year's." Ash128 answers.

"And I did mine...uh...I don't know," Rookie states, scratching his head.

"Three years ago," Rebecca reminds him. "You did the Secret Santa thing and dressed up as a reindeer."

"Oh Yeah! I did!" He exclaims.

"Hosting parties are fun!" Mcarter13 announces.

"What? Do you not like Christmas?"

Macey490 shakes her head, "no it's not that."

"Well then it's settled. Macey is going to host this year's Christmas party," Aunt Arctic nods.

Everyone resumes their conversations and the party continues. However Macey490 looks on silently before sneaking downstairs and out the shop.


MCarter13 watches as Macey490 sneaks out of the room. He looks around and notices that no one else has acknowledged it. Rookie is over cleaning up the spilled punch. Ash128 is surveying the goodies still available on the table. Rebecca and Aunt Arctic are conversing with each other about some cookie recipe.

Ash128 is the second to notice that Macey490 is missing. "Hey, where is Macey?"

Then everyone else realizes that she is gone.

"She went to get some air." MCarter13 quickly fills in. "She said that it felt to crowded and stuffy in here."

"She's claustrophobic also?" Ash128 states in shock.

MCarter13 nods.

"Boy, the things you learn about at a party," she remarks.

Macey490 didn't return to the party which ended at eleven. She didn't answer the door when MCarter13 came to check on her. Macey490 didn't come to work the next day and she wasn't home when the police finally broke in. The innocent question from the night before, continued to echo in the minds of the New Staff. Where is Macey490?


Hey guys, I'm sorry that I have been away from this for sometime. Within the Radar is being suspended for now because I've been stuck on how to keep the story going. It was going to be sort of like a Prequel to this Story. That being said, I've decided to publish this story now because this may very well be my last story. Time sure flies and I've had a lot of fun writing about Club Penguin but I've been getting very busy lately and so I've decided to end the waiting. What will happen about your other two stories? Well I haven't thought about what to do with them yet. It's possible that once I'm finished with this Story that I may gain some inspiration and motivation to continue with writing here. Until then, Enjoy! I guarantee that this story will be full of mystery, suspense, adventure, and excitement. You won't want to miss any chapter of this! ^-^