In the slums of the commonwealth, two boys on a rooftop eyed a small abandoned store across the street from them. The altitude they were at would make most people uneasy, but both of them didn't show the slightest hint of nervousness as one pulled out a small telescope.
"Do you think the defector will come through here?" One said to the other.
"Not sure, but if they do we will sure as hell see them." The other replied. A flickering in the distance caught the first boys eyes and he quickly focused on it.
"March says they're on the way." The second boy nodded and slid down the other side of the roof. The sun was setting, and lampposts were beginning to light up all across the city. Though the area they were in was still very much in darkness. The boy closed his telescope and put it back in its resting spot on the roof under some of the roof panels. He peeked inside and, to his dismay, found the chocolate he had stashed was missing.
"Damn you Isaac." He muttered, eyeing the direction his comrade had just gone. More flickering in the distances prompted him to pull the telescope back out.
"Miles….be...careful….potential...trap" He said as he read the code. He scowled as he once again put the telescope back. He pulled out a small piece of cavorite in a flask and signaled back.
"I...will….be." He made a mental note to remind March later to not use names when signaling. It was a waste of time, time that he knew she could be using better. His train of thought was interrupted when he saw a small shadow dart out an alley and began heading towards the store. It was small, and the supposed defector was supposed to be an elderly man. Miles eyed the figure as they moved closer to store. He knew whoever was trying to trap him was confident, otherwise they would've tried harder to look like the wore a long brown cloak covering their entire body and obscuring their face. Miles put on his bowler hat and pulled up his face mask as the figure entered the shop. He pulled up his shirt sleeves to reveal two clockwork apparatus' on his wrists. They seemed tame enough, but on closer inspection it was clear that they sunk unnaturally into his skin. He flicked a few tiny switches and they let off a soft green glow. He pulled his sleeves back down as his eyes began glowing a similar green.
"Mission start." He said as he deftly leapt off the side of the building.
Miles opened the stores front door, making little effort to enter quietly. If it was a trap, there was no point trying to hide his intention to trip it. His green tinted vision made things slightly easier to see despite the pitch blackness of the area. He stood at the entrance and looked around. The store was barren, but there was slight shuffling on the other side of a door behind the counter, and candlelight was seeping from beneath it. Miles walked around the counter and stood in front of the door. He knew the layout of the building, and that most likely the enemy would be waiting right around the corner with a gun. Would they shoot him first, or try to get information out of him? It was a gamble to just enter nonchalantly, but if he could get information out of them if they went with the latter. He took a deep breath and opened the door.
"Don't move." He had barely taken his first step before a pistol was put against his head. He glanced to the right to find that the one holding a pistol was….a masked girl? He looked at her as he instinctively put his hands up. Her outfit was rather bizarre. Skin tight top, with a ruffled skirt and a top hat. She motioned the gun and he took a few more steps forward as she shut the door behind them.
"So uh, I'm guessing you're not the defector?" Miles asked.
"No, just a passing extra terrestrial."
"Terrawhat?"
"I'm from the black lizard planet." Miles was rather dumbfounded. Black lizard planet? What was that? A codename? An alias?
"So uh-"
"And you…" She said, putting the barrel of her gun against the back of his head. "Are from the white lizard planet." The way she said it made Miles swallow hard, it was obviously no compliment. Then he got it.
"Oh, your a commonwealth spy." She didn't respond but Miles chuckled. "I didn't know they recruited kids."
"You aren't much older than me are you?" She said, slightly agitated.
"Nah, can't you tell, I'm in my late twenties." Miles said, turning his head ever so slightly to look back at her. She showed no signs of putting down the gun, but he wasn't focused on the gun. Hopefully it would happen soon…
"Liar." She said, the earlier agitation already gone.
"We're both spies. It's our jo-" At that moment the stores front door opened.
"Miles you done here?" Isaac called out. The girl turned around rapidly and Miles grabbed her arm and threw her over his shoulder. The entire back wall of the store gave away as the girl crashed through it. Isaac burst through the door as the dust settled. To Miles' surprise, the girl was standing upright, perfectly fine in the debris left from the wall.
"How di-" Before he could finish his sentence, the girl pulled something from behind her back. A small round metal ball. She began glowing green, and before Isaac or Miles could react, she jumped onto the building behind her and took off.
"Cavorite?" Isaac said, dumbfounded.
"I'm going after her!" Miles yelled as the green glow in his eyes began to intensify. He felt the weightlessness take hold, and he jumped after the girl before Isaac could object.
