Tied Together 1
So hello Everyone! Thank you for continuing on to Part 2. If you have not read Secrets I highly recommend reading that first before you read this because this book will not make sense. So I hope you enjoy!
There are loud sirens going off in the distance since of course it is Los Angeles, when is there not. Just a regular night besides the fact that I, Austin Moon are being hung upside down over the top of a window in a tall window by a strong, tall, man. "Before you do anything rash, I think you should know that I have the Cipher." I say holding it in my hands.
"Hand it over right now." The man says.
"Don't you think we should discuss terms first?" The man grabs my shirt and pulls me up so I'm still able to fall. He's only holding me up by the tie I am wearing no from my job. I work at Techies and Technology as a computer fixer.
"Now...who are you?"
"You know what? You probably wouldn't believe me." The man slides down my tie a little bit since that's what he's holding on to, to keep me from falling. "Oh! Oh!"
"Last chance. Who are you?"
"Austin."
"Okay. Now, tell me everything, Austin."
There is no way he's going to believe me. And I don't blame him. I mean, who would believe that the government put their secrets into one supercomputer-The Intersect. And all those secrets got downloaded into my brain. Of course, I can't tell this guy that. "Okay. "Okay. The thing is that I kind of sort of work for the CIA and the NSA in my off hours when I'm not working at the store. It's kind of like a second job for me. And though I don't look it-having good coordination- you should probably know that I'm probably the most important intelligence asset," Austin gasps a few times, "in the world."
"That is the single dumbest story I have ever heard."
"That very well may be, but...if you drop me, there are a couple of people who are going to be very, very upset."
"Hmm." Suddenly gunshots fire through the backdoors behind the man. Meet Ally and Trish. They're here to protect me. Sarah has the ombré hair. She works for the CIA. Believe me, I know she's probably the most gorgeous woman I've laid eyes on. And then there is Trish. She works for the NSA. She's really mean at depending moments.
"Let the geek go!" Trish yells holding her gun.
"Wait!" Ally says. "Not out the window."
"Aren't we picky."
The man tosses me back and Trish catches me. "Nice hands, Trish." The man slides down the side of the building
"Why didn't you stay in the car?" Ally says.
"You know what? It's never safe in the car."
"Well, did you get it?" Trish asks. I look at Trish confused. "Tell me you got it."
"Yeah, I got it." I hold out the Cipher." Trish takes it from my hands. "'Course I got it. It's me."
No Ones POV
"Excellent work, Ally and Trish." Graham says. "Our transporters will be taking the Cipher out of Los Angeles."
"General, what exactly is the Cipher?" Ally asks. "I mean, mercenaries break into the NSA lab, and it's the only thing they take?"
"The Cipher is the artificial brain for the new Intersect computer." It looks like a disk. General Beckman says.
Austin looks up, "The new Intersect?"
"We've been working on a new one ever since the original Intersect was destroyed." Graham says. "The Cipher is the final piece."
"Uh, wait, time out just for a second here. What happens to me, the old Intersect?"
"Tomorrow, the new computer will be online, the Operation Moon officially comes to an end." Ally and Trish turn around to face Austin. "You'll be done with us. No more briefings, no more missions, no more spies. Enjoy the rest of your life, Austin."
Austin walks out of Trish's apartment with Ally. "Are you okay, Austin?" Ally asks.
"Huh? Yeah, I'm, uh, I mean, I don't believe it, but-but, uh, I think I'm great!"
"You're going to get your old life back."
"Yeah, I was starting to think that you and Trish were going to be my spy protectors forever. Or, whatever the adult version of forever is."
"Don't tell me you're going to miss all of this."
"No. No, of course not. I don't really think I'm really cut out for a job where you disarm a bomb, steal a diamond, and then jump off a building."
"Well, you could have fooled me."
"That very kind of you to say, but I'm pretty sure my girlish screams in the face of danger give me away."
Ally smiles. "So, what happens now? You're almost free. What are you going to do next?"
"Well, you know I got Techies and Technologies..."
Ally smiles, "Austin, can I tell you something?"
"Of course."
"You can do anything. I've seen you in action. And I'm not just talking about the bomb defusing, or the diamond stealing. I mean, anything you wanted, you could have." Austin smiles.
Trish sets the Cipher in the end table and then Beckman pops up on her screen. "Thought you might call." Trish says.
"Agent De La Rosa, you understand the situation? We can't have another Intersect wandering around Los Angeles getting into trouble."
"General, Austin may be a novice spy, but the results speak for themselves. Surely we can find another exit strategy."
"You have your orders, Trish. Tomorrow night, eliminate Austin Moon." The call ends. Trish loads her gun and it clicks.
"I used to like the sound of that."
Austin wakes up at seven and smiles. He turns up the radio and jumps out of bed. He grabs his work cloths and starts jumping around on his bed. He starts dancing to the bathroom and looks in the mirror. He wipes the mirror and sees Amanda and Matt in the shower. "Ah!" Austin yells.
"Morning, Austin." Matt says.
Austin slaps his hands over his eyes, "My eyes!" He walks out. "My eyes! Oh, I'm blind! I'm blind!"
...
Austin, Matt, and Amanda are sitting at the table eating breakfast. It's very quite and awkward. Austin breaks the silence, "Okay, first if all, congratulations, Matt on what- whatever God gave you there. Second of all, the door was not locked so I am not a complete pervert. And third of all, this is just another reminder of why I need my own place."
"There's no rush, Austin." Amanda says. "It's great having you here."
"So, Amanda, I've been, I've been thinking a lot about stuff, you know, like, my life and job."
"Unburden yourself, Austin, where's that head of yours?" Matt says.
"I don't know, I just think you guys are right, you know? I shouldn't be working at T and T. I should have a real job with a real future."
Amanda has a surprised face expression, "What happened?"
"You know when you meet someone and they kind of, you know, they flip you on your head, just shake things up, a little bit?"
"You're talking about a Mr. Tony Robbins." Matt says.
"So close."
"Uh-huh." Mart gets up.
"Yet so far away. Honestly." Austin looks at his watch. "Oh! I got to go. In sorry. We'll talk about it later." Austin gets up.
Amanda stops him, "No, no. Talk to me, Austin. I need to know if this is a good thing or a bad thing."
"No, no, it's a good thing. It's a very-it's not a Tony Robbins cult thing. I want this."
"Okay, great, well, then I'm really happy for you. I'm, like, super excited right now, I'm just trying to keep it in."
"Of course. Which is healthier, I think."
"I'm proud of you."
"Thank you."
Amanda hugs Austin, "I'm so proud of you!" Austin laughs.
"Okay, I love you. See Ya." Austin walks out the door.
Austin arrives at the store and looks around and smiles. He looks over to see Dez waving for him to go over where he is. "Austin, come here." Austin walks over there.
"Hey. What's up, buddy?
"Large Mart goons, they could be anywhere I don't want them to see this." Dez says holing a large rolled up paper.
"What Is this?"
Dez rolls of our on the table in front of them. "Compound level from Call of Duty. After our last battle with those Large Mart douches, I started to work on this. Planning on how we could take them all out. All right, listen up. Here are the specs, are you ready? 23 infantry troopers, 16 snipers, seven heavy gunners, four demolitions experts, and enough ammunition to orbit Arnold Schwarzenegger. 50 gamers, one call, all ready for battle. With this team assembled, and my plan, I think we can beat them."
"Dez, you are my new hero."
"I know."
Austin looks up to see Trish, "Hey can I talk to you about this later?"
"Yeah, oh and Big Mike was looking for you. I told him I would send you his way as soon as you arrived."
"Message delivered." Austin walks away towards Trish. "Hey, Trish. Do you have a second?"
"Not right now, there's a muscular male heading towards the Beast Master."
"It's just a quick second, I promise."
"What is it?"
"Just wanted to say thank you."
"I'm leaving."
"No. Hey, hey. Wait." Austin grabs Trish's arm.
Trish looks down, "Hand."
"Sorry. I just want to say I'm going to miss you. You know, and thank you for showing me how to do things that I never thought were possible, and, and you know what? You were always there to catch me when I fell, which sounds horribly cheesy now that I'm saying it out loud."
"Really. Forget it." Trish turns around and walks away.
"Moon!" Big Mike calls him from outside his office. Austin goes in and sits down. "Moon, Moon, Moon."
"Yes, Big Mike?" Austin says.
"The assistant managership. The number two spot here at Techies and Technologies, my right hand man, the captain of the ship when I'm not around, which, as we both know, is often."
"Uh-huh."
"Here's he thing- cooperate is on my ass to fill the spot, but I really don't want to interview those characters out there."
"Your employees?"
"Exactly, they scare me, Austin. So...want the job?" Austin doesn't say anything. "Well, Austin, do you?"
...
Austin walks out of the office and Dez starts talking, "All hail the once and future assistant manager- Austin Moon! Huh? The sleeper has awoken!"
"Dez..." Austin says.
"Behold the dawn of a new age here at Techies and Technologies. I, as your lieutenant, will institute policies that we've always wanted. Right, team?"
"Hurrah." Lester says nonchalant as well as Jeff and Anna.
"Uh huh."
"Dez, I didn't take the job." Austin says.
"What? Why, oh, why, oh, why, Austin?"
"I'm also here to inform you that Big Mike had ordered me to interview and choose the new assistant store manager as my punishment."
"References go to you, Austin?" Lester says.
"Or Dez!"
"I got a resume to mail." Jeff says waking away.
"If j get the job, you should quiver in fear." Anna says and then walks to the Nerd Herd desk.
"Listen to me, Austin." Dez says. "You being the A.M. And me bring right hand hand to the A.M. Was what we always dreamed of."
"I'm not completely convinced that T and T is where I want to work forever, you know."
"Got it. Where would we work then?"
"Where would... where would we... we? Uh. I don't know. Wherever."
"It's Ally, right? She's finally done it."
"No, what, done what?"
"You know, it makes perfect sense, too, come to think of it. I mean, if you were going to choose someone over me and all that we've built, it should be her. I mean, she is- ironically speaking-awesome."
Austin walks over to no, not the Weinerlicous, but the Orange Orange. Austin looks around the new area. He walks up to the counter where Ally is. "Hey."
"Hey." Ally says.
"So can I be completely honest?"
"Yeah."
"I miss the Wienerlicous." Ally smiles. "I mean, the Bavarian charm and the toxic nacho cheese that you guys had there."
"My clothes smelled like sausage."
"Nostalgia completely gone." They don't say anything.
"So what's up?"
"You want to go on a date sometime? I mean a date without aliases and spy head and a mission?"
Ally smiles, "Like a real date?"
"Yeah."
"Austin..." Ally clears her throat. She says lowly so no one can overhear. "I'm still a CIA agent, and there are a hundred reasons why I shouldn't do that."
"What do you have to lose? In a week, you're going to be undercover in some place like Jakarta in a knife fight with some evil-doer, and in that exact moment, you're going to wish that you would've spent on last...night of fun with me."
Ally takes a deep breath, "Okay."
"Really?"
"Mm-hmm." Ally nods her head.
"Tonight. Our first real date."
"Or our second date."
"No gunfight, I promise."
"Okay." Austin walks out leaving Ally smiling and excited.
Later that night Austin is getting ready for the date. He's got his shirt tied up. Ally is at her apartment getting ready, putting on some make up. And sadly, little do both of them know, Trish is getting ready for the "illumination." Ally opens the door and sees her gun on the end table.
Austin walks into the living room where Amanda and Matt are. "Hey, date tonight?" Amanda asks.
"Yeah, we're going to go grab some Chinese food and then maybe hit The Echo after that." Austin says. Amanda walks up to him.
"Did you hear that, Matt? Do you recognize the sound of a proper date when you hear it?"
"The tanks empty, babe." Matt says lying on the couch out of energy.
"That's my future husband."
"Hey, just like that song." Austin says.
"Right. So, what about you? Any revelations? Any ideas about what you're going to do next?"
"Um, yeah. A few."
"If you say 'pilot the Millennium Falcon' I will hit you."
"I- why would I say that? That's absurd. I'm going to be a ninja assassin."
"No, try again."
"Olympic..."
"Unh-uh."
There is a brief pause for a second or two. "Secret Agent."
"This is what happens when you sit in front of the TV too long. Seriously, what are you going to do?"
"I don't know. I got a bunch of ideas, you know? A bunch of things to think about and choose from. I mean, I want to go finish collage. I mean, I think that's important. And I want to travel and... I don't know. I want to learn an obscure language that, you know, only really cool people know. Oddly enough, not one of my dreams includes working at T and T for another week."
"Huh? Well, looks who's growing up." Suddenly the bell rings.
"That'll be Ally." Austin answers the door but is not yet Dez.
"What's up, dude?" Dez says. "I know you have a date. Not gonna get in the way. Just wondering if you have five to forty five minute to test out a new Call of Duty strategy?"
"Austin..." Amanda says.
"Baby steps, sis." Austin says. "Baby steps."
Trish's bell rings. She puts in a code to see who is outside the door. "Yeah?"
"Messenger." The camera scans him and says NO WEAPONS. Trish answers the door. "Pickup call places by one G. Beckman."
"Verification code?"
"Morning glory."
"Hmm." Trish goes over to the table and grabs the Cipher and gives it to the man. "Who's your backup?" Suddenly the man covers his face and sprays some poison on Trish. She starts coughing and gagging. She falls onto the floor.
The man walks away, "It's done. I got the Cipher."
"Go to the second location." The man who was dangling Austin from the building a while ago. "We have two more targets." He holds a picture of Ally and Austin.
Austin arrives at Ally's apartment and they both smile. "Ready to go?"
"Yeah." They arrive at the restaurant and order food. It arrives and they eat. "Wow, this food is good." Ally says. "So how'd you hear about this place, anyway?"
"Dez, as a matter of fact. The man has a black belt in dumplings. I trust any recommendation he gives me for food items less than ten dollars."
"So out first date is a Dez recommendation?"
"Wow, no faith for the colourful red headed man." Ally smiles. "Okay. I think you should know he's always been supportive of our fake relationship. And he's never found a remotely unbelievable that a guy like me could be dating, um... You know."
"What?"
"Um... You know, you."
"What about me?" She eats more of her food with chopsticks.
Austin chuckles, "You're really going to make me say it, aren't you?" Ally tilts her head back and forth a couple times. "You-wow, okay. Fine. All right, we'll play it your way. A girl like you. Or more appropriately, a woman like you. Considering the fact that you could probably kick the ass of everyone in this joint. And a...a smart one at that. Not to mention cool and... extremely beautiful. And, and you can stop me anytime with the compliments if they're becoming, you know..."
Ally smiles and looks up, "No. No, that was very sweet."
"Sweet? Golly gee, that's for making me feel like I'm eight."
Ally laughs. "Well, you're not so bad yourself."
"Please. I'm fantastic." Austin laughs
Ally looks up again from her food, "Yeah. You are." They both smile at each other for a moment.
"What would Trish think if he knew we were doing this right now?"
"It would probably kill her."
Trish is still in her apartment gasping for air. Bleeding from her mouth, creaking to a picture frame. She grabs it and smashes it on the floor. She grabs the needle looking thing and clicks a button and water starts coming down on her. She stabs the needle in her chest.
Ally opens up her fortune cookie. Austin says, "So does it say where you're going next? Your new mission?"
"Actually it does."
"Really?"
Ally smirks, "No, not really. Besides it doesn't work that way. They'll probably give me a new cover, and move me as far away from here as possible."
"What if they didn't?"
"Austin, a CIA officer doesn't get to choose."
"You know, I still have an awful lot of secrets in my head." Austin leans. Little bit closer per word. "The Lindbergh baby, the formulas for New Coke..."
"What are you saying, Austin?"
"What I've always wanted to say, Ally." There faces get closer and closer and kiss. It wasn't like the last time the had kissed. It was different. Not like before. They release the kiss and Austin looks over to a group of people and flashes. He looks over to the left and flashes again. He flashes on the waiter as well. And then the chef.
"Austin, what is it?"
"We're surrounded." Everyone in the room pulls out there gun. "Ally, you have your gun, right?"
"Nope"
"What? Why not?"
"You don't bring a gun on a real date."
And there you have it. Part 2 and first chapter. I hope you enjoyed it. And the cliffhanger I left you off with. Don't forget this is based off of something already except for some main ideas. So leave a review. And I have one question. Since Ally Dawson is just her cover name. What should her real name be? Just for the future of the series. Thank you. Have a good night!