OK – I decided to go ahead and do Chapter 2. Please R&R – oh, apologies for anything stupid that comes up in the "guy" chat between Gary and Juni – I'm not a guy, so am clueless with this stuff.

Disclaimer: Don't own any of the characters, creations etc.

Chapter 2: Pick your Poison

As the door opened, Carmen and Juni turned round to face their new trainees.

"Hi, I'm Gary Giggles" said the boy. He was tall for 13 – about 5' 9" – with dirty blond hair that fell in all the right places. He looked Carmen up and down, and let out a stream of air through his teeth. "You must be Carmen? And this, I presume…" here he paused, giving Juni a cursory glance before looking back at Carmen "…is Juni".

"OUT of the way, Big Brother" snapped the short blond girl besides him. "Hi, I'm Gerti Giggles" she said, extending her hand to Carmen.

"Carmen Cortez. How's your dad? Were there any side effects after the de-flooping?"

"Nah, he's fine. He spent a week recovering, and he's back at work now. By the way, thanks for taking the time to train us." Upon hearing his little sister say this, Gary Giggles rolled his eyes at Carmen, trying to attract her attention. But she was still chatting to Gerti, so he turned to Juni and tried to engage him in conversation.

"So squirt, what engine has your ride got?" Juni looked at him with his eyebrows raised

"My ride? I'm 11. Listen, if you want to learn how to be a spy, you're gonna have to watch closely. Carmen and I have an urgent mission that we need to go on. Why don't you accompany us? There's room in our DragonSpy for an extra two people, as long as you don't mind squishing up" As Juni finished his sentence, Gary looked over at Carmen and winked: As she caught his eyes, and grin slowly spread across her face. Before either of them could say anything, Gerti broke in.

"Yeah, that would be fine, thank you Juni. Come on big brother, pick your jaw up off the floor and lets let the Cortez's get to work. What time do you have to leave for your mission?"

"1700 hours, from the docking port…if you meet us here at 1630, we'll show you the way. See you later guys."

"Welcome to DragonSpy 4" intoned an automated voice as the quartet entered their mode of transport: Juni first, then Gerti, followed by Carmen, who was followed by Gary.

"So this is our DragonSpy guys. Would you like a drink before we get going?" asked Carmen.

"You've got drinks on this thing? I thought this was just a way of getting from A to B" Gerti said incredulously.

"Yeah, we've got drinks, food, sleeping areas, and a whole lot more…so, Pick Your Poison" said Carmen, speaking more to Gary than the rest of the group.

"I'll just have whatever you're having…Carmen" drawled Gary in a smooth voice that neither Carmen nor Juni had heard before, but Gerti was very familiar with.

"LOOK Gary, stop trying to hit on Carmen…at least wait until this mission has been completed, because we don't want anything to affect our training" Gerti said to her brother, who replied merely by frowning at her, a true sign that he was annoyed. Before anything else could happen, however, the lights flickered, went out, and they heard a loud bang towards the back of the ship.

Well…Chapter 2 finished…please don't be too harsh in your reviews…its my first time