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"Hmm, they do look a bit shifty," or at least they looked spotty. One of them had a full eruption of pimples and that, in Maddy's book, was as good as being shifty.

But they were a good ways by, and there was no way to come closer and listen in on their conversation without drawing attention to themselves. "We need a distraction, so we can get closer and spy on them," Maddy turned determined eyes on Kaimi, "or they'll see us coming from a mile away."

"But.." she frowned, thoughtful, "There's not a lot here to distract them with." Well, there were butterflies and plants, and had they been a bit stronger they could've possibly thrown one of the strategically placed stones at them - but that wouldn't have worked in any case.

Yeah, and being captured was not a good thing. Maddy was pretty sure that they needed to keep the element of surprise to be able to defeat their leader; he was obviously a powerful man - or monster, or thing - and to make things worse the whole place was full of minions.
No, capture was not a good idea. But the butterflies.. She tried to purse her lips in the same way she'd seen her mom do, and think.

The butterflies had been odd. But they'd liked both her and Kaimi, which was why they were in this mess to begin with, so perhaps they would help.
"Maybe.." her voice was hesitant, "Maybe if we ask the butterflies to distract them long enough to get us closer."
There were lots of butterflies swirling around them still, but luckily neither of the two teenagers were noticing. If they asked them to help, they might.

"We ask them," her hand reached out and caught one of the smaller butterflies, careful not to hurt the wings, "like this."
Carefully she opened her hands a little, just wide enough for there to be a small hole so she could see the fluttering wings, but not wide enough for the butterfly to fly away.
"Please distract the evil minions of kidnapping so we can get closer," she whispered carefully down to the creature before opening her hands and letting it fly away again. It would tell the other butterflies for them, surely.
"Now you try," Maddy was sure that this needed to be a team effort, or the butterflies might not realise the seriousness of the situation.

Maddy didn't even get time to open her mouth before all the butterflies in the area had started to move towards the two teenagers. Forming a rather massive and colourful swarm, they determinedly settled around the two minions, succesfully obstructing their vision and freaking them out.

The butterfly girl grinned triumphantly at the younger girl beside her, before making a 'follow me' hand motion and crawling as fast as she could toward a small, but thick tree near the other two.
Settling in behind the tree, she waited for Kaimi to join her while listening intently to the two boys who were swearing like there was no tomorrow.

s**t? Maddy furrowed her brow, thinking that the word sounded familiar. Ah yes, of course!
She turned to the younger girl, a wide smile and an excited whisper on her lips.
"It might be!" she snuck a quick glance to the boys, to make sure they hadn't heard her, before she continued, "I heard mom say that once when she was talking on the phone to her friend. She was talking about her job, and then she said that, and looked at me really oddly."
In fact, she'd looked guilty. Perhaps it was a term for bosses that kids weren't meant to hear?
"Anyway, I think it's some sort of boss-title. Maybe that means they'll start talking about their boss soon!"

"It must've been!" she matched Kaimi's triumphant grin, "Now we need to get ready to confront the boss."
Yeah, they needed to be ready for anything; you never knew with evil overlords with tendencies to kidnap others.
"Okay. We need.. weapons."
Maddy turned to search the ground for a suitable stone, and grinned again when she found it. The perfect fist-sized rock was quickly picked up by the butterfly girl before she tried to crawl silently back to the tree and the other girl.
Now all they needed was the boss.

In the time it took Kaimi to get back to Maddy's side, the overseer of the butterfly exhibtion had arrived. She - a brownhaired woman with glasses too large for her face - was currently gaping at the swarm of butterflies in a mix of awe and terror. All their hard work, and now the damn butterflies had gone insane!

Maddy scrutinized the newcomers from the safety of the tree. The overseer had brought along a few employees, but they were all in a uniform resembling the one the teenagers were wearing. All except for the overseer, who had come directly from a meeting and was wearing an expensive business suit.
They had the leader, obviously.
"You see that one, with the glasses? That must be the boss," she discreetly pointed to the person in question.
"We'll attack on the count of three," a deep breath, "One.. Two.. THREE! YAARRGH!"
She threw herself out from behind the tree with her best roar, closed her eyes and threw the stone in the general direction of the poor overseer.

The two girls flung their stones at the enemies, and by sheer coincidence, actually managed to hit something. Maddy's rock had caught one of the newcomers behind the overseer in the crotch, and he was currently doubled over, groaning in pain and wishing he'd become a baker instead of working at the museum.
Meanwhile, several of Kaimi's pebbles had made small, but significant impacts on the overseer's large glasses; a large crack had been made in one of the lenses, and the woman was currently shrieking and flailing her arms.

Unfortunately at least one of the employees had retained their sanity in the chaos, and she now made a grab for the butterfly girl.

Maddy squealed as she was caught by a female employee and lifted into the air.
"Run, Kaimi! They've got me, save yourself!" She screamed to her friend, desperately trying to get free of the restricting arms around her torso and warn the younger girl in time, "Ruuuuuun!"
It was too late for her, but at least one of them would survive and tell the world about the evil people and their conspiracy of butterflies.