Note: This story has NO relationship to Hannah from "Hannah's Chronicles".

Special Thanks: I give a VERY special thanks to the author GBG and her story "Italy for Leo" for helping gather ideas and coming up with a European adventure of my own! Also want to thank Gamekirby for getting me hooked on writing stories like this one! You guys are the best!

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So, can you ever picture the Little Einsteins as spies? Ones who might just actually help save an entire city? Well maybe you can and maybe you can't, but that doesn't change the fact that it as happened before! Yes, the story is quite interesting. It tells of allies, enemies, romance, deception, and a whole lot more, but here is the story for you to read for yourself!

The Little Spies of Venice

The Boy in Black

June slowly tapped the window pane as water drizzled down the other side of it. She sighed as the whole team yawned and did nothing but watch the rain fall slowly, slowly down the side of the Rocket Room window. It had been raining for almost a day straight now, and the kids wanted to get out and do something outdoors! Annie looked at her watch and it showed her that it was already 10:30 in the morning! The had been doing practically nothing for almost two hours! Quincy sat writing down music on lined sheets of paper. Although nobody knew what he was composing, it was oh too obviously that he was in fact; composing. Leo, the oldest member of the team, sat in a corner of the room near is little sister Annie. He had been trying to adjust his baton to light up and play a little chime once at every hour. June then looked at the team, then outside at the rain again. She sighed as she plopped down next to Annie. A bolt of lightning struck, causing the whole team to jump and shout, and Quincy and Annie to hide under a near by blanket! The team all laughed and giggled. Now that something had made them laugh a little, the team really wanted to have more fun now! But how?

June stood up with a spin, "Let's go somewhere!" she bursted out excitedly. She seemed to be jumpier then anybody else, which she really was.

Leo's expression was all it took to show that June's idea was great! "Yeah!" Leo answered standing up with her!

Quincy scratched his head, "As a mission or just as a trip?" He asked confused. His voice told everybody that he would really just like to go somewhere for the sake of traveling, although the last mission the team went on was over a week ago!

"Where should we go?" Annie asked hopping in joy. "We should go somewhere really fun," she burst, although this was very clear already.

Leo walked closer to Annie, "We should go somewhere we've gone to before in a mission and explore for a while!" he suggested. The team all agreed.

"We've been to Egypt!" Quincy pointed out,

June stepped in, "and Australia too!"

"Alaska and Germany!" Annie added

"And even outer space!" Leo pointed out, which the team was surprised to hear.

The team thought up of every place they had been in a mission and wrote down all of the names of the places on tiny slips of paper. Once they had them all, there were about fifteen or sixteen small torn up pieces of paper. Quincy took off his baseball cap as Annie put all of the slips of paper in the hat. "Okay Rocket, pick a piece of paper!" Leo said. Rocket reached in to the small baseball cap with one of his grab nabbers while making a few musical sounds. Although it took a little while for Rocket to grab just one piece of paper, he finally got one! He dropped in front of June. June picked it up as the team gathered around her to see it. Scribbled out on the little piece of paper was "Australia." The team all looked at one another excitedly! "You guys want to go to Australia?" Leo asked the rest of them. They all nodded and replied with one great big "Yeah!".

"Let's go!" Annie shouted as the whole team ran to Rocket. While running to Rocket, Leo stopped Annie.

"Annie," he started, "you should fly Rocket!" Annie jumped back at this offer. Quincy and June were surprised too! "We're just going for fun, you should fly this one!" Annie face got brighter and brighter.

"Are you sure Leo?" She asked cautiously, "Can I?" Leo nodded with a friendly, brotherly smile. "Thank you Leo!" Annie shouted as she through her arms around Leo's shoulders. Annie ran in front of the team and was the first to get inside Rocket. The team followed her in only to find her already seated and buckled up. The rest of the kids hurried up with Annie, Leo taking Annie's usual spot in the back. Soon the whole team was ready for blast off! "Ready guys?" Annie asked turning around. The team nodded as they all began patting their small legs all in unison to the rhythm and beat of Rocket's blast off song. The team patted and patted, patted some more! "We need more power!" Annie exclaimed. The team began to pat faster. Not long after, "Raise your arms, "Annie said, " as high as you can, and say blast off"

"Blast off!" They all cried out as Rocket picked up air beneath him and soared right of the Rocket Room doors. Rocket flew higher and higher and up into the clouds! "Hold on tight because here we go!" June yelled out as Rocket continued to fly away from the Rocket Room. It took a few moments, but Annie quickly got Rocket flying steady.

Quincy clapped his hands once, "great take off Annie!" He hadn't flown with Annie yet, neither had June, and they were both very taken by her flying skills. The team soared up, up and higher.

"Whoa!" Leo whispered wide-eyed. "He knew that his sister could fly, but he didn't know she could take off so smoothly! Annie giggled.

Quincy pointed ahead, "Look! It's the musical roller-coaster!" Quincy pointed through a window covered in rain to point out the luminous, bright white roller coaster of the sky.

"Yay!" June cried out, "Annie take it!" she said nudging Annie's left shoulder.

"You got it June," Annie said confidently as she flew Rocket steadily onto the Roller Coaster, speeding them up quite a bit! Annie now sat back to enjoy the ride! Rocket went up and down and all around, over bumps and through loop-ti-loops! The team laughed and giggled the whole way on the musical theme park like ride. All of a sudden there was a small soft chime coming form inside Rocket! Then another, and another, all following about a second after the last one. The team looked around. After maybe 11 chimes, they finally stopped. "What was that? Quincy asked.

Leo hit his forehead. "I forgot, it was my baton!" I set it to go off at the hour!" Annie looked at her wrist watch.

"Yup," she nodded," It's eleven right now!" Leo baton worked! It made eleven chimes at eleven-o-clock! Leo was happy about this. Not before long, Rocket came to end of the Roller Coaster. The team groaned, as they were having a lot of fun! June looked at the ground and land scape.

"I think we're above Europe," she said scratching her ear. Leo looked around too and nodded in agreement with her.

"The we have to pick up speed!" Annie said as she reached down to push one of the buttons that would bring out Rocket's backup-booster and get them to Australia faster! Annie pressed a bright yellow button to bring it out. Unfortunately, Annie had pressed the wrong button! Rocket was spinning around and around, making the team very dizzy inside. "Guys," Quincy said after not to long of the spinning, "I don't feel too great!" Annie took note of this and looked for a place to quickly land Rocket and get Quincy some air. To her it didn't matter; anywhere would be fine. Annie brought Rocket down to the ground closer and closer and landed in a city and what looked like maybe a market place or something close to that. Quincy was the first to run outside Rocket to get some air. He never got sick, the fresh air was all he needed. The team followed him to make sure that he would be okay.

"You sure your okay?" Leo asked concerned

With one hand on his belly Quincy replied, "Yeah, don't worry about me." They laughed.

The team looked around. "Where are we?" June and Annie asked in unison. All they could see from where they were, were several vendors and tall, massive stone buildings. The team followed a small path that brought them to the very center of this market-like district. Leo noticed Annie was acting very suspicious at this point. He knelt down beside her. "Is everything okay?' Leo asked with a strong pain of worry in his heart.

"I don't know," she replied revealing the worried expression on her face , "I think somebody is already following us!" She pointed to a small figure sitting on a nearby bench. The person could be no older then 10, and was wearing all black. This frightened Annie and Leo. But what really worried them was that he or she was had both eyes fixed right on them, not blinking not moving. For a while, Leo and the cloaked figure both made direct eye contact from a ways away, and when the figure cracked a smile Leo turned away with Annie's hand wrapped in his.

Quincy and June walked up to them unaware of the nearby follower and without missing a beat Quincy spoke up "We're in Venice Italy!" Leo and Annie were surprised.

"How can you tell?" Annie asked keeping her voice quieter, just to make sure that the child watching them.

"Well," June said as she walked over onto a large stone circle in the ground, "when you stand right in the middle of the circle on the ground, you can see twelve canals of water going in all different directions away from here. It is similar to a clock, twelve canals, twelve numbers on a clock!" June was very right. The area was actually supposed to resemble a clock! If you were to stand high above the area, you would most likely mistake it for a large clock, without hands, too! And June was also right about being in Venice. The canals really gave it away. Quincy and June were right on target, and the area they were in was the very heart and center of the water-based city! Annie and Leo were very impressed with their observations. Although Annie congratulated them on their discovery, she really wasn't in any position to care right now! Annie could actually tell that the cloaked figure was a small boy, because when she turned around, the figure in the black clothes was now walking straight towards her!