Just wait, everything gets a little better...

Chapter 2: Rue

"WAIT!" Screamed a small voice. Green squinted and groaned when he saw who it was.

"Oh, great. Note to self, fire nurses," Green grumbled as the short figure in a pink hospital gown and a long, spiky red ponytail with one huge bang raced up to the stage and leaped on.

"Phew! I made it just in time! No one sent me an wrist-vataion!" Rue said out of breath, pointing to her watch, where all students sent wrist-mail and called each other. Green sighed.

"You were never planned to be sent a wrist-vataion, Rue. Where are your nurses?" Green asked tiredly.

"Oh, well when they tried to keep me inside my hospital bed, I had to tie them up and hook them to the ceiling!" Rue said happily. That drew a gasp from the crowd. Green looked at her in a mix of disbelief and admiration.

Rue was one of the most interesting little girls he'd ever seen. She was good, if not the best in her grade at all skills, battle, weapons, stealth, and hiding. Rue even had a power not many agents could posses, she could shapeshift. Rue's one flaw was that she was half of the time crazy, not remembering manners, basic rules, and sometimes she forgot who was friend or foe. Whenever that happened, you could tell because her normally dark black-brown eyes turned a bloody crimson. The only reason Green kept her was for testing, really. He needed to know what her condition was, and also why she was so good at everything. That is why she lived in the hospital ever since her parents had sent her here, fearing their own lives as three year old Rue beat up a burgler about to rob their house.

"You tied them to the CEILING?" Green asked in disbelief. Rue gave him a toothy grin of triumph.

"Yes, and I'll be accepting my mission now!" Rue said with her arms outstreached as if accepting a present. Green looks uncomfterably at the teachers in the audience. They didn't move. Best not get in Rue's way.

"The assigning is over, Rue," Green said finally.

"But you can't send HER on a mission and not me!" Rue gestured to Pim, who just looked sadly down.

"Rue... why don't you go back to you quarters, and we'll send you in a nice warm slice of pumpkin pie..." Green tried to bribe her with her favorite food.

"But I'm of age! Don't I get a special mission too?" Rue asked sweetly. Green looked around nervously.

"Well..."

Rue stared at him and started to hyperventalate. Her eyes started glowing that dreaded crimson. "BUT... then the cows... THE COWS!" She screamed, not making any sence whatsoever.

Green looked at her with fear. "RUE ALARM! THIS IS NOT A DRILL! EVERYONE OUT!" Green screamed and ran for it out the doors, followed by the screaming students and teachers. Now, everyone has a fear. Spiders, death, but everyone in this school had only one fear: Rue.

In five seconds time, the theater was empty. Rue blinked and her eyes were back to their normal dark shade. She looked around, everyone gone. Except Pim. Pim was standing on the other side of the stage, scared stiff. She gave a nervous huge smile, and zoomed out into the sky, snatching her pack.

Rue looked around again, suddenly sad. Why was everyone so scared of her? They never treated her nicely. Was it because they didn't think she could handle it? Rue stuck her bottom lip out and crossed her arms. Suddenly, a screen was rolling down from the back of the stage. Rue stared at it as an image of Headmaster Green came on.

"Hello, Rue, we shall continue this conversation now, just for my own safety reasons, using this two way screen," Green said with slight fright in his voice.

"Fine, then! And I will still argue that I should become a real agent! Agent's blood marches through my veins! Just like some type of rubber pants, of the radioactive sort! It's like the pants comand me! Do not ignore my veins!" Rue rambled on, her eyes still a redish glow. Green just stared at her, half confused. A teacher walked up to him and whispered something to him, his face slowly brightening.

"I see now that you are truly deserving of a mission, Rue," Green said, chuckling a little.

"Yes, yes I am," Rue said excitedly.

"You will have a mission so top secret, no agent has ever been there before, it's name unknown to most!" Green said mysteriously. Rue's eye got huge.

"What's it's name?" She dared ask.

"Uh... actually, I don't know," He said akwardly.

"Then where is it?" She asked. Green looked nervous.

"Erm... uh... he turned around in his chair and wrote on a peice of paper quickly, then held it up. It was a crudely drawn map of the United States, marked with an X. Rue looked excited.

"A secret mission..." She said quietly to herself.

"Happy now?" Green asked, happy to finally be rid of the maniac. This much skill wasn't worth the insanity.

"Yes," She said with her eyes twiching a crimson shade slightly. Green flinched.

"One of our janitors have left a backpack up there just for you, Rue. Good luck, and don't come back. Please," Green said and the screen went blank. Rue grinned hugely and bit her lip with excitement. She flew up to the backpacks.

"There has to be one left!" Rue said as she searched through the empty racks of backpack hangers. Then, lo and behold, glory to God! Rue spotted a backpack in the very back of the hangers. She flew up to it. It was torn, but still in pretty good condition, just a little dusty is all. Rue opened it and pulled out the mission card that was in every backpack.

"Secret mission: Alien sightings. 100% true. Please, don't come back until you capture a real alien or artifact. EVER." Read the card. It didn't look like a normal card... it had weird writing, and it was a deep shade of blue, not the regular lavender. But this was a secret mission!

Rue grinned. Just what she needed, a secret mission! Just think of all the praise she would get from her peers as she dragged an alien into the acadamy! Rue squeeled and put the card back.

"Ouch!" She excalimed and drew her finger from the backpack quickly, bringing it to her mouth. "What the-?" Rue pulled out a rose from the backpack. She gave a little gasp of surprise. They didn't give anything but the esentials to Agents. Why would a rose be in here? And not just any rose, but one with petals of blue, like nothing she'd ever seen. It was tied with a small black bow, and Rue seemed bonded to it for some odd reason.

Confused but excited, Rue put the rose and the note back in, pulling out a small dress with a black top and a tu-tu like magenta skirt part. She slipped out of her hospital gown and into it, then zoomed out the skylight, following her implanted GPS to her secret mission...

Just keep on going until the next chapter! Believe me, the randomness is overwhelming!

Best wishes, Aktress.