Chapter 1: A New Team
Jack couldn't help but get angry when he saw a bunch of thugs attacking a couple of kids. He strode over to them, "leave the kids alone" he said. The thugs laughed, "What'ch you gonna do?" One of them laughed. "This," Jack said, flipping and kicking a guy in the face. "And this, and this." Soon all the thugs were either groaning in pain or running away. The two kids laughed and ran off. Two men grabbed Jack by the arms and pulled a bag over his head.
Ruby was bored. She found lessons boring simply for the fact she knew it all already. She was about to go into year 10 but had learnt that stuff when she was two. She sighed. Possibly younger. She hated her foster parents for making her have extra classes on the laptop. At the time being she was taking an IQ test. She'd already finished the 100 questions and was busy hacking into NASA. It took her about ten seconds. But just then two men came into her room and handcuffed her, pulling a black sack over her head.
May stuck her tongue out at her pursuer and laughed. She stood on the roof of a house, whilst he stood on the ground. She laughed again and ran off, jumping from roof to roof. She saw a robber running away from the police. 'Ha,' she thought, 'they'll never catch him.' She jumped on to a garage roof and leapt off, rolling over and standing up right in front of the robber. He looked shocked, she gave him a cheeky smile. "Don't judge a book by its cover," she said, smiling sweetly and punching him in the face, knocking him out. She felt her hands being grabbed behind her and a black bag was slipped over her head.
The three kids were shoved in a van and driven to a top secret location. They were sat down in chairs and the bags were pulled of harshly. They found themselves in a high tech room. It looked a lot like a spy base would. "Where are we?" Asked Jack. He had spiky black hair and piercing blue eyes, almost too blue. He was tall and muscular and had a scattering of freckles on his nose. He wore simple jeans and a t-shirt. He looked at the other two. "Yeah, personally, being handcuffed and having a bag shoved over my head is not my idea of a welcome." Said May. She had frizzy brown hair and chocolate brown skin. Her eyes were emerald green and she had a cheeky little smile. She was wearing a pink checkered shirt with a knot so it showed of her belly, and green shorts with sandals. She was tall and slim, but had surprising muscles. "They're M.I.9," sighed the girl at the end. She had straight blonde hair to her shoulders and had dark brown eyes. She wore a black t-shirt with a skull and crossbones on it, dark jeans and chunky black boots with neon green laces. She also had black lipstick on and a nose and lip piercing. "How do you know that?" Asked May. Ruby shrugged. "I know a lot of things," they all turned to look at the man who stood in front of them. "Jack, May, Ruby, welcome to M. ."
"You are currently 240ft beneath St Spirit's School. You have been specially selected for M.I.9s Young spy program, M. . This is due to the extraordinary abilities you have demonstrated. Jack here is an expert in hand to hand combat and can take on several opponents much larger and stronger than himself. He is also a black belt in every martial art you can think of. May is an expert in parkour and fitness, she's also quite an extraordinary fighter and likes to tease her enemies and uses the element of surprise to overcome her opponents. Although I must say safety is not on her priority list." Added Frank looking at May's clothing, which was not the least bit suitable for parkour. "Anyway, Ruby here can fluently speak 49 different languages, knows morse code, sign language and Braille. She has hacked NASA more than once as well as M.I.9 on several occasions. She has also got a university degree in science." The others stared at Ruby, who under all her Gothic make up was an ultimate geek. "What?" She asked. "Nothing," replied May and Jack in unison. 'She may be a total geek,' thought Jack, 'but that girl is dead scary.'
"We have brought you here as a matter of urgency. We need to train you up. I'll tell you more at the start of term. You see, you'll be attending St Spirit's. That way you can get to HQ without too much trouble. Let me make this crystal clear, you are not to tell anyone, no parents, friends or anyone else that you are now M.I.9 spies. Understand?"
"Yes," said Jack,
"Yeah," said May,
"I comprehend," said Ruby. The three fourteen year olds headed off their separate ways. But they would all meet again when the summer holidays ended and they joined year ten.
Four weeks later. At the beginning of term.
Ruby was bored. So far the school day hadn't been impressive and she'd only been there four minutes and thirty nine seconds. She stood in the playground wearing her skull t-shirt and school tie with a leather jacket and trousers as well as her favourite chunky boots with their bright green laces. She was wearing black lipstick and eyeshadow with mascara too. The tips of her blonde hair were dyed dark purple and she had a black bag slung over her shoulder. She looked around and noticed May's frizzy hair immediately, it was hard to miss. She was wearing a school blouse and skirt, as well as her tie. She wore several pink and gold bangles and black slip on shoes. The only make up she had on was some lip gloss. She had a black fake leather backpack on. Jack was walking with her. He was just wearing normal school uniform, except for his trainers and the fact his green jumper was tied round his waist.
The headmaster came out to greet the three new students. "Hello children, I'm Mr McNab the headmaster." He took in their appearances. "I must say I was hoping you would set a better example with regards to your uniform, but obviously not. Follow me." They followed him to a class room which would apparently be their form room, for registration and such like. They entered the room and where introduced to their new form teacher, Mr Lewis. "Who's da vampire?" Called out a boy, who was wearing chains and all sorts over his uniform. "Now, now Robert, be nice." Mr Lewis told him. "Yo, Mr Loser, how many times, it's Snazz, not 'Robert'" Ruby raised her eyebrows, and sat down at a desk. They were meant for two but she sat on her own meaning that Jack and May had to sit next to each other. "As you can see we have three new students to our class. Ruby Ferne, May Vixen and Jack Smith. I'd like you to give them a great big welcome!" Mr Lewis said enthusiastically. Some of the class murmured a 'Hi'. "Yo dudes," said Robert or 'Snazz', "So we got a vampire, a goblin and a pretty little fairy, what is this? A fairytale innit?" The class laughed. "Come here and say that." Said Jack, May and Ruby.
During maths the spies pencils began to flash. Jack and May sighed in relief, Ruby sighed in exasperation. 'This class can't even do 2+2!' She thought. She put up her hand. "Yes, Ruby?" Said Mr Lewis. "Well Sir, Jack, May and I have a school tour now, as we're new. So may we be excused?" She asked and Mr Leeus nodded. "Yes, yes of course."
"Oh and Sir," said Ruby, "The circumference is radius multiplied by diameter, not radius squared. And you need to turn on the computer to use it." She walked off towards the caretaker's cupboard, moved aside the light switch, scanned her thumb and went inside. Jack and May followed and pulled the broom. The high speed, high tech lift changed them into their spy gear and when they stepped into HQ they looked totally different.
May was wearing an open leather jacket with three quarter length sleeves and black vest top with black tight trousers. A sliver of her belly showing. She wore black fingerless gloves and soft leather ankle boots. Whilst Jack wore baggy leather trousers and a loose leather jacket with a black t-shirt and trainers. Ruby was just as intimidating as usual with tight black leather trousers and jacket done right up to her neck, she wore soft leather gloves and her same boots and her blonde hair was tied in a menacing ponytail. "Not bad, good excuse Ruby. Clever using the first day thing to your advantage. Come with me." Frank greeted them warmly, they'd seen each other a lot whilst training. "So, what's the mission?" Asked May. "Yes, well you see, M.I.9 have new enemy now. KORPS and SKUL have been defeated but EVIL is rising."
"We have Intel that a new criminal organisation, Evil Villains International League or EVIL are trying to bring down M.I.9. One of their crazier genius villains is currently placing bombs all around London. It is your job to defuse them and bring down this villain. Right, gadgets. Hmm, let's see, laser pen, invisibility headband, X-Ray glasses, hairpins." Frank said. "Who wants what?"
"Ooh! Invisibility headband! Please?!" Begged May. Frank handed it to her and she put it on. May pressed a button and vanished, pressed it again and reappeared. "That is awesome!" She squealed.
Jack took the glasses and Ruby took the pen. "What are the hairpins for, Frank?" Asked Jack. But before Frank could answer Ruby interrupted. "Breaking prevention mechanisms," the others stared at her blankly. She sighed, "Picking locks,"
"Oh, why didn't you just say?" Asked May.
"I did, I just said it, 7.81 seconds ago."
"Geek,"
"Don't you dare call me that, I'm just, just, highly intelligent!"
"Nerd!"
"Shut up!" Growled Ruby.
"Ok, ok, calm down, Dracula."
"What did you just call me?!"
"Dracula,"
"Better than geek," Ruby sighed, she was used to this kind of teasing, she'd need to work on talking normally or well less sophisticated. 'And there I go again,' she thought.