Dan walked down the corridor and saw Keri. On her phone as normal. School was still easy. Weekends still commenced of too easy homework and boredom. So he actually looked forward to school. Well the mission parts. As he leant on the locker, like her, he saw she was texting. Again.
"Who are you texting?" Dan asked.
"Nobody." Keri replied.
"Wheres Tom?"
"Somewhere." She said not looking up.
"Anesia?"
"Not at school yet, probably." She replied. Was it really this hard to have a proper conversation with the girl! He suddenly lunged forward and grabbed her phone holding it in the air.
"Hey!" Keri yelled, jumping to try and retrieve it. Dan laughed holding it higher.
"DANIEL MORGAN!" Mrs Kings voice rang through the school.
"Give me that!" She said again. Dan handed the phone over and Keri looked at him with frustration written all over her face.
"We have parents looking around the school today so i suggest that if you two do not want
detention you behave." She then walked down the corridor as if she was the queen. Keri glared at Dan before kicking his shin.
"You are so dead!" She hissed before walking towards her locker and pulling out books. Just as the bell went her pencil's rubber lit up. Dan grabbed his bag and ran to the caretakers cupboard and pulled on the mop. The lift sped down into blackness.
The lift doors opened and Tom and Anesia were sitting by some computers, thinking.
"Wheres Frank?" Keri asked.
"Care taking. He'll be down in a minute." Tom said still staring at the screen.
"Sooo…Why are we down here?" Keri broke the silence.
"I've intercepted a robbery organisation to infiltrate a limo of MPs." Tom replied. "They're serious people."
"I say we get to the limo before them!" Anesia said. Dan nodded as the lift doors opened. Frank stepped out.
"I got your message." Frank said to Tom.
"And?" Tom asked.
"Be careful! Take these stunners. They may look like guns but are nowhere near as dangerous. Electric shock pulsars. Touch any part of the body. Use the dial to set how much electricity you want transferred to the person." Frank handed over what looked like small handguns and patches of fabric.
"Cool." Keri said. As they went into the lift she touched Dan on the shoulder. He froze still and he squeaked. Frank turned around and glared at keri.
"Just testing!" She joked before whispering to Dan, "Next time don't get my phone confiscated!"
Dan shook his head at her rubbing his shoulder. Sometimes she was too annoying.
Anesia was set to stop traffic around the place the robbers were going to intercept the MPs. Dan and Keri were hiding behind a wall ready with their weapons. Tom meanwhile was instructing the whole operation sitting in a nearby coffee shop. So far the queues Anesia was making were stretching as far as the eye can see.
"Neish! Its too long!" Tom said into his microphone. "Stop holding everyone up! Just check that the MPs are not there and move on!" Tom instructed.
"Do you wanna bet which car it is?" Dan asked Keri from behind the wall. She didn't reply.
"Oh come on its just a phone!" Dan exclaimed. "Look I will get it back for you! Happy?"
"Fine." Keri replied. Dan sat back. Girls were impossible sometimes!
Anesia stopped another car and quickly told the driver of the car the lie about weapons being smuggled in and could she just X-Ray the car quickly. The driver held out a wallet with a badge in it. Anesia took one look at it. The MPs.
Out the corner of her eye she saw people in black gear leave a car a few metres away. She then saw Keri and Dan climb over the wall. Tom then said into her ear, "Get ready." BANG! Smoke, People. Anesia could only watch as about four men wrestled the MPs out their limo and started searching them.
But then Dan ran over kicking a man in the back. The man fell over but then leaped back up. Another man came over and threw a punch to Dans head. Dan blocked by raising his arm to his forehead. The other man kicked straight out to the knee which would have broken it if Keri hadn't used the pulsar to knock the man out. Dan then span around and, using a roundhouse kick to the head, knocked the last man out.
"Why didn't you use your weapons?" Keri asked. Dan shrugged but didn't say that he liked the adrenaline of fighting.
When they got back to school Mrs King was giving a maths class.
"Anyone want to write the answer on the bored?" she said. Dan put his hand up and Mrs King looked surprised. Dan never took part at school. Dan walked up to the front the wrote the answer on the bored. It was a few numbers out. M.I.9 made it clear that they could not be known as the clever ones and had to blend in.
As he sat back down Dan slipped Keri her phone. She smiled at him as Mrs King explained the answer. The four spies sat back. They knew all that. It was easy really! At the end of the day instead of going home Keri went to the base with Dan. Tom was on the computer and Anesia was going home with her aunt.
"Frank is this going to take long?" Keri wined. Frank sighed and said,
"The people who we arrested earlier had communicators on them. Tom is trying to track down where the main signal came from so we can locate them." Dan nodded and watched as Tom typed in a load of stuff.
"If I just reload that….cancel this….connect this to that….then….bingo!" Tom brought up a map and it showed them that the robbers base was around a mile away from the crime scene. Frank called someone and then said,
"I've sent in a swat team!" Dan replied to that by saying,
"shouldn't we go too?!" Frank shook his head.
"Its too dangerous. Leave it to them." Dan sighed as he walked to the lift with Keri. They left the caretakers cupboard and walked past Mr Flatly's office. He was watching the news.
"An organisation known as Z.O.T.R.E.N. has been uncovered and arrested by M.I.9. Earlier today they attempted to kidnap some MPs but a swat team rescued them and followed the criminals to the base before making the arrest." A short clip of seven agents shaking hands with the prime minister was shown. Dan was tense. Keri dragged him down the corridor and outside.
"What was that!" He exclaimed! "Thats not what happened! If it wasn't for us then.." Dan sighed. Keri touched his arm and said,
"Its fine. Because we know the truth!" Dan smiled a little. "Come on. I'm going to miss my dinner over wise"
As Keri walked home she could swear she was being followed. So she moved her legs faster and kept checking behind her. When she got in her mum called to her and said, "Keri, hurry up you're late! Can you lay the table?" Keri walked into the kitchen and nodded. "Good day at school?" Her mum asked.
"Fine." She lied. She lay the table for three and sat down as her mum gave her some spaghetti. Her dad came down the stairs. He ruffled her hair and smiled. She sometimes woke up thinking she was back at K.O.R.P.S. But then after looking around realises she isn't. She is with her parents. Well foster parents. But she could never think of them as anything less than parents.
While her parents talked about mundane things Keri thought back to the news. Why did they lie. Why did they make up such a big lie. Of course they couldn't have been mentioned but then why didn't they just pretend it didn't happen.
"Keri? Keri?" Her dad snapped her out of her daydream. "I said what did you do at school today?"
"Oh well first we did Maths then history….." Keri talked away to her parents about what they expected to happen. She didn't mention the fight. The arrest. None of it. They wouldn't believe it. They would tell her to stop being silly. What was the point.