CHAPTER 2: The Beginning Pt.2
I was at my house, typing up a report due Monday. It was Saturday now , the wonderful weekend. My Mom was downstairs making breakfast.
"Ash! Pancakes!" my mom's young voice rang thorough my room.
I turned off my computer and slid downstairs. "Mm, smells right."
She smiled and handed me a plate and the syrup. "So how was the sleepover with the Grays?" she asked. "Anything weird happen?"
"No more than the usual," I replied, pouring syrup and butter over my pancake. "What time is it now, Mom?"
She looked at her watch. "12:00. Why?"
I pouted at the wall in front of me, putting the syrup down. "Usually the guys would have come over by now." And yes, I don't have breakfast until 12:00 in the afternoon. I wake up early but I don't need the food that fast.
"Maybe they're still asleep. They're boys," my mom siad with an eye roll.
I cracked a smile. "Maybe." Or maybe they were sent on another mission. But this is the weekend. They barely get any missions over the weekend. And if they do, it's during the night so they have the mornings off. See I know how this stuff works.
"You can go over and see them after you're done," Mom said, leaning over my chair. "I know how bored you easily get without those guys."
I smiled. "Yay, thanks Mom." I quickly finished in a few big bites and stormed down the block. Once I turned the corner to the firehouse, I walked in as the door slid shut. I arrived in the living room, seeing it empty. "Hellooo?" I called, hearing my voice echo.
"In here Ashley!" I heard Mr. Gray call from the control room. It was a hidden room only the Grays and me knew about. It was like a techno place with computers for screenings and testings and such, spy stuff. I banged on the wall three times and a secret door appeared in the wall. I walked through and it shut closed behind me.
"Hi Aiden, Mr. G," I said, the dark room filled with numerous lighst from the computers and monitors. "What's going on?"
"Spy stuff," Aiden answered, standing behind the chair of where his dad was sitting.
"You know where the guys are?" I asked, looking around at all of the monitors. "We agreed we'd meet up at my house after they had breakfast."
Mr. Gray nodded. "Yeah. I sent them on a sudden mission right after you left. Sorry."
I made a face. "Talk about bad timing. What's so important about this mission they had to go on a Saturday?"
"Some of my other spies were on a case in Denver, Colorado. Apparently there's been recent reports of missing persons around the area, mostly males."
"What? No female prisoners?"
"Well as we know the normal world, there are reports of missing people in both genders all the time, but in this case, it's males. And I've lost contact with my spies, so I sent my sons, since it was too short notice to send anyone else."
"And?"
"It seems I've lost contact with them as well," Mr. Gray concluded as he turned around in his chair.
My eyes widened. I mean, the guys have went on missions before, but I was never worried. Well, I was worried during the first week I found out the secret, but I came to the idea they were such great spies they never really faced any real danger. But now, I was getting that feeling back. Especially with Nate since he was my best friend.
"Are they okay?" Aiden asked worryingly.
Mr. Gray looked down thinking, his chin in his hand. "I don't know. I've got their location pinned down, but I don't know who to send."
"Send me," I said bluntly. Both starred at me, surprised. "What?" I asked.
"Are you sure about this?" Mr. Gray asked.
I nodded. "Yeah, I've got experience. I can fight. And I'm a quick thinker, as bad as my grades get."
Aiden nodded, looking back at his dad. "It's true. She's smart."
Mr. Gray continued pondering. "After a small test, I'll see where it gets form that."
Aiden and I grinned. "So what's the first test?" I asked.
"Intelligence," he said, pressing a button.
A slot opened up in the ceiling as something fell down. I caught it with an arch of my eyebrows. "A rubix cube?"
He nodded, pressing another button, opening another slot and making a timer rise up from the table. "Let's see how fast you can solve it."
Aiden starred at my hands as I smirked. Mr. Gray started the timer as I got to work.
"Done," I said after a short ammount of time, each color on it's own side.
Aiden's eyes widened, starring at the rubix cube. "Whoa."
"13 seconds flat," Mr. Gray said impressed, starring at the timer in bewilderment.
I smirked. I've always had a knack for puzzles. Now that I passed the intelligence test, now for the psychical test.
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"Hiiyyyaaa!" I said, using my arm and chopping a cardboard paper-towel tube in half, Aiden holding it since he found it in the recycle bin. He grinned as Mr. Gray shook his head embarrassingly.
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"Run run run run run run!" I said to myself as I ran down the long hallway, behind me a giant boulder, gaining speed.
Aiden and Mr. Gray watched from the railings.
"She does know that the boulder's plastic, right?" Aiden said.
Mr. Gray laughed and wrote things down in a clipboard as he continued watching me run, seeing my speed.
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"Hiiiyaa!" I said as my hand crashed down on a wooden board that Mr. Gray was holding. He smiled as Aiden gave me a thumbs up with a grin.
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"Come on Ash!" Aiden cheered as I swung from swing to swing, dozens of feet in the air. It was like being an acrobat, without the net at the bottom. Well, it was there invisibly, but I wasn't supposed to know that, so that I would experience what it was like to actually be this high without protection.
"Ah!" I said, almost missing the swing. "Keep hold, keep hold."
"Phew," Aiden said, leaning back, only for his back to press a button.
My eyes widened as I heard repetitive beeping. And before I knew it, a large fan came from the wall and blew. It was like a hurricane!
Mr. Gray turned around at Aiden. He looked behind him and saw the large red button saying 'FAN'. Aiden laughed nervously and scratched his head. "Hehe, sorry."
"TURN! IT! OFF!" I shouted, holding on for dear life with my hands.
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"HIIYYA!" I shouted, breaking a metal pipe in half.
Aiden jumped as water started leaking out of the pipe. We heard a cough in the back round and saw Mr. Gray, tapping his foot. We were in the bathroom, and I had broken one of the pipes. We both grinned nervously. "Hehe."
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I ran through the room, jumping and leaning, dodging the red laser beams. They'd set of the alarm if I touched one. And there were a lot.
"Almost there, Ashley," Mr. Gray said over the loud speaker.
"Good," I whispered as I made a flip, landing in an odd position to make sure I didn't touch the red beam under my back. Suddenly, my cellphone started ringing, which was loud since there was udder silence in the entire room. I screamed and lost balance, falling on the red beam. A small red siren went off as Aiden slapped his forehead.
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"HIIIIIYYYYYAAAAA!" I shouted and I put all of my strength into my first, my next target being a picture of the school's head cheerleader, Sharmane Prally. So this got my energy flowing, since Aiden was holding it right in front of me.
Aiden shut his eyes as he made that grin, the sound of my punch landing on the glass covering the photo.
Mr. Gray starred in bewilderment. Not because Aiden's idea worked, but because my fist went right through the marble floor I was standing on. Forget the photo.
I blinked, my hand stuck inside.
"Uhhh..." Aiden said, holding a piece of the broken photo frame.
Mr. Gray smiled. "Ashley, I think you're ready for your first mission."
"And, ugh, what would, ugh, that be?" I asked, holding my wrist and trying to pry it out of the ground.
He wrote some stuff down on his clipboard. "You're gonna go save my sons."
I was looking myself in the mirror. I had on tight black pants, knee high black boots that were high heeled, and a tight black shirt. As for accessories, I had black fingerless gloves and a black vest over my shirt. My utility belt had all of my gadgets.
"Alright, you all set, Ashley?" Mr. Gray said, walking into the room.
I saluted. "Yup. Got all my gadgets."
He nodded. "Ok, the jet's up on the roof."
"Ok," I answered simply, ready for my mission. "What about my mom?""
"Eh she'll be fine," Mr. Gray said with a laugh. "Got your communicator earrings?"
I clicked on my earring, hearing it beep. "Check."
"Jet powered heels?"
I tapped my left foot. "Check."
"Navigation watch?"
I looked at my left wrist, seeing the time: 3:00PM. "Check."
"Belt?"
I looked at my waist, seeing my silver utility belt. "And check."
"You're all set."
I pressed a button on my watch as my outfit disappeared, own clothes returning. I still didn't know how a simple watch could change your outfit, but I didn't have time to worry about that. "You'll be in the control room, right?" I asked.
He shook his head. "Unfortunately, I have another parent conference with Ms. Autumn about the boys' absences."
"Oh," Aiden and I said with a face. It was like a little kid having to go to their parents after getting into trouble.
He smiled. "You just worry about finding the boys, Ashely. Aiden will be in the control room in my place."
"Good luck Ash!" Aiden said as I went into the elevator.
I smiled as the door closed, taking me to the roof of the fire house where I'd find a jet to fly me off. I was going to Denver Colorado, to rescue my best friends from who knows what. Finally something exciting.
