A/N: Okay I updated this first chapter again. 9/30/04 unless I find some sort of mistake, or some people have other ideas on how to make this chapter better, or something, then this will be the VERY last time I'm gonna update it.

Chapter 1

It was just a normal day at Safety Patrol HQ. Tehama was at her desk typing up some sort of report on her computer. She stops to take a bite out of her favorite candy bar from time to time while she's working. O'Farrell puts some more paperwork on her desk, making Tehama look up from her report.

"Hey! What are these?" she asks, making O'Farrell jump out of his skin.

"More paperwork, what else" O'Farrell answers. He watches as Tehama sighs exasperatedly. She'd been working her tail off with all this paperwork the entire day and there was more to be done?

"When you think you have it all done, more arrives" She mutters, taking the top paper from the stack and starting on it. She sounds really annoyed by this time. She had other things to do and she was tired of sitting here doing this.

She looked towards Vallejo's office. She hadn't seen him doing any paperwork! He was dumping all this important paperwork on the rest of the Safety Patrol. If you asked her, Vallejo should be helping out with this paperwork too.

The only thing she'd seen him do all day was sit on his butt in his office. Vallejo seemed like he was getting lazier every single day.

"Yeah, I'm up to my neck in paperwork too! What's up with this Vallejo?" Anza asked, as more stacks of paperwork is set onto his desk. Anza had just finished a pile that had taken him all morning and now he had more to do. Where was it all coming from?

"It's necessary paperwork that Principal Folsom wants done immediately" Vallejo said, sipping his hot cocoa. He turns towards Fillmore's desk to find it empty. On Fillmore's desk are eight stacks of paperwork waiting to be done.

"Third! Have you seen Fillmore? He hasn't been seen in a week." Vallejo said. He didn't really like the sight of all that paperwork just sitting there not getting done.

Ingrid looks up from typing and shakes her head. "I haven't seen or heard from him all week." She answered. Ingrid was starting to get very worried about her partner. She'd even called his house.

Ingrid had tried his house every day after school, but his parents always answered the phone. His parents told her that he was out or busy. When she asked if they knew where he was, they answered that they didn't.

"Where the heck is Fillmore?" Vallejo asked, starting to get aggravated.

Ingrid shrugged. Ingrid knew her partner. She knew that Fillmore hardly ever missed a day at school and was at the Safety Patrol every day.

Ingrid was starting to get a little excited about the situation. She didn't like this, everyone knew that if they knew they weren't going to be able to be here, they always called in to tell someone. Fillmore hadn't called in at all.

"Ingrid! Calm down. I'm sure there's a logical explanation for Fillmore not being here. When he gets back, I'm sure he will tell us what was going on" Anza said.

"I bet I know what happened to Fillmore." O'Farrell said, walking up to Ingrid's desk.

Ingrid and Vallejo stare at O'Farrell.

"I bet aliens kidnapped Fillmore and took him up to his spaceship. I bettcha they are experimenting on his body as we speak" O'Farrell yelled.

Ingrid and Vallejo rolled their eyes. They were going to have to sit through one of O'Farrell's crazy ideas once again. It was obvious that he'd been watching way too many science fiction movies!

"I talked to his parents last night and they're worried sick about him. They've filed a missing persons report but the police haven't come up with anything," Ingrid replies.

"Ingrid, try Fillmore on the Talky." Vallejo said.

Ingrid picked up her talky, pushed a button and put the talky up to her mouth "Fillmore. Come in! Please answer" She said. She let go of the button and listened for a second. However all they got was static.

"Fillmore must have his Talky off right now." Ingrid said, looking up at Vallejo. At this moment Vallejo looked even more concerned than before.

"I'm telling you that the aliens are kidnapping kids and when they come back they aren't the same people" O'Farrell said. He starts talking in a little bit of an eerie tone. Did he really think that aliens were doing this to people? Or was this another one of his jokes?

Sometimes it was very difficult to tell whether O'Farrell was joking around with them or not. Ingrid and Vallejo weren't exactly sure if he was serious or not. They wished they could tell, so if he was joking, they could joke around with him.

The office had been way too quiet and serious lately, everyone needed a good joke and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to do that. Everyone was obviously sick of all this paperwork Principal Folsom was giving them, but there wasn't anything he could do.

"Come on Vallejo! Haven't you seen the aliens around lately?"

Vallejo shakes his head. "O'Farrell, why don't you just go back to working on all the stacks of paperwork that are sitting on your desk!"

O'Farrell looks upset. How come no one ever listened to him? It wasn't fair! His ideas weren't completely far-fetched. Sometimes he could be the most serious person in the world.

"Did you hear me O'Farrell? Go do it now!"

O'Farrell reluctantly turns, makes his way towards the desk, sits and once again begins working on all the paperwork. "I hate paper work! I hate paperwork! I hate paperwork," He mutters as he fills it out.

Vallejo turns back towards Ingrid. "Anyway...there's a letter here that's addressed to you. Here you go!" He says handing it to her. Vallejo watches as Ingrid opens the letter.

"Who's it from and what is it?"

"It's about Fillmore!" She says as she continues reading the rest of it.

Anza and Tehama, upon hearing this, join Vallejo and Ingrid to see exactly what's going on. They are very interested in discovering what the heck this letter has to say about Fillmore. Did it tell them where he was? Was it a ransom?

"What's it say Ingrid?"

"It's signed anonymous and the letters have been cut out of a magazine or paper or something," She says in a half horrified and astonished tone of voice.

Tehama and Anza lean forward with interest. "What else?" Tehama asks.

"The letter states that Fillmore's been kidnapped!"

"WHAT?" Vallejo, Tehama and Anza ask at the exact same time.

Everyone exchanged glances! He was kidnapped? Who took Fillmore? What the heck did they want with him and would they ever see him again? Would they injure him? Maybe they would kill him. They might never see Fillmore alive again.

"Fillmore." Ingrid says in a worried tone.

TO Be Continued