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Chapter 2: What's the Situation?
The meeting point was an old abandoned hangar, located in an airfield, just on the outskirts of the city. It was the first time that Will and Vicky were taken to that place, although their friends had already told them about it. Just like everything else in that organization, nothing is what it seems. The hangar was not a simple hangar, but the entrance to an underground base owned by the DCA. Judging by its outer appearance, no one would ever dare to say that that abandoned hangar was more than that.
As their car approached the hangar, the doors opened, revealing people inside; DCA operatives, responsible for the security of that place. There were other cars inside, meaning that some of the other agents had already arrived. They saw Raven, and knew that the rest of her team could not be far from her. Parking the BMW X6, Tiffany turned it off, letting everyone get out. At the same time, another car was arriving, a white Land Rover LRX. Jason, who was on the wheel was the first to get out of the car, followed by Emily, and Mitchell and Moises, who were carrying Miley, who was still wrapped up in the blankets, like if she was a butterfly inside her cocoon. Seeing that scene, Will, Vicky and the So Random Locos looked speechless, not knowing what to say about it.
"Hey, guys! Just give us a second to see if we can let Miley out… she's in a bad mood tonight." –Mitchell yelled out at them.
"Now, Miley, before we let you out, we're going to ask you if you're calm, because we don't want to see you all mad about this, and trying to rip off everyone's throats, while yelling at us. So, are you calm? Can we let you loose?" –Emily asked Miley with a soft and sweet voice.
"Yes." –Miley gritted her teeth, which could only mean that she was still pissed.
"I don't think so." –Jason whispered to Emily's ear.
"Miley, please, 'm begging you. Calm down so we can let you out. It's your best friend that is asking you this. Please, if you're not doing this for the agency then do it for me, okay?" –this time Emily's voice was tender and clearly sincere.
A couple of seconds went by, and Miley did not utter a single word. Everyone that was in the hangar waited for the brunette to say something, as if that was the most important thing in the world right then. Finally, Miley sighed deeply and said.
"Okay… I'm going to do this for you, Emily, but just for you… Now, can I please get out?" –Miley asked her, her voice being muffled by the sheets and the blankets.
Signalling the guys, both Mitchell and Moises began unwrapping her, letting her out. She still looked upset, but you could see in her eyes that she was not angry with her team anymore. All of them thought to themselves that in a matter of minutes, an hour in the max, she would have forgotten about all that, and a smile would appear on her face.
"You're so going to pay me for this." –she looked at them with an upset look in her eyes, which contradict itself, when a huge smile appeared on Miley's face, signalling that she was definitely not angry with them anymore.
"We'll make it up for it, believe us." –Mitchell told her.
The hangar doors opened themselves again to let another car in. This time it was a BMW, although nobody recognized the model, because it looked like it had jumped right from a science-fiction movie, or something. It was white and blue, with shades of grey and black. Its futuristic look made it one of a kind. Its neon lights were so bright that a person's eyes hurt just from looking at them. When the car stopped right in front of the So Random Locos and Will and Vicky, the five persons that came out of it made that scene look like a scene from the Twilight Zone.
Initially, nobody recognized who came out of the car. They looked like they did not belong there; as if they belonged in a movie or a comic book, all because of the way they were dressed. Three guys and two girls… but, who were they? The boys, one of them was dressed like Batman's archenemy The Joker. The second one was dressed like a French mime, and the third one was dressed in a tuxedo with a blue bow, and was wearing sunglasses. As for the girls, one was dressed like a cheerleader, and the other one looked like a geisha, dressed in a white kimono.
"I can't believe we had to leave the party for this!" –the mime said.
"Cole, is that you?" –Doug asked out loud.
It was then that they all recognized them. It was the Sprouse tweebs, and the rest of the Suite Life cast, Brenda, J.C. and Ashley. Their costumes were so perfect that no one recognized them at first sight.
"What are you guys doing? It's too early for Hallowe'en." –Vicky commented.
"We were at a party when we go the call." –Dylan answered her.
"A costume party, to be more precise." –Ashley added.
"I see… well then, who or what are you supposed to be?" –Emily asked them.
"I'm O-Ren Ishii, from Kill Bill." –Brenda said, as she performed the character's pose.
"The name's Bond, James Bond." –J.C. said, as he grabbed the toy gun he had under his jacket and pointed it.
"I'm the Joker. And as he would say, wait until they get a load of me." –Dylan said.
"I'm a mime, but that's obvious." –Cole stated.
"And you're a cheerleader." –Brandon told Ashley.
"Not just any cheerleader… I'm THE cheerleader; I'm Claire Bennett from Heroes." –Ashley said, as she closed her left fist and faked a punch into the air.
"Oh, yeah… Save the cheerleader, save the world." –Demi stated.
"You're costumes are wicked cool." –Will exclaimed.
On that exact moment, another car entered the hangar. This time it was a (carro). Selena and the rest of the Wizards cast came out of it, at the same time some kind of futuristic elevator appeared from beneath the floor, not far from where they were standing. Its doors had the agency's logo branded on them. Smoke came out of its interior, as the doors opened, revealing who was inside… Kim Rhodes aka. Carrie Martin, the agency's director of operations. She was wearing a blue business suit, and matching high-heels. She exited the elevator, and had a serious smile on her face.
"Good evening, everyone. I'm really sorry to call you this late in the night, but I wouldn't have done that, if it wasn't really necessary." –K.R. told them.
"What's the problem, mom?" –Dylan asked her. –"Your message only told us that it was an emergency."
"I'll reveal everything to you in a bit. But first, you need to get changed." –she answered him; as she pushed a button in a little remote control she took form her right pocket. This made several similar elevators appear from beneath the ground. –"Suit up, and then meet me in the lab. I'll explain you the situation, with all the details."
Obeying that order, each one of them entered one of the elevators. When the doors closed, they felt the elevator start descending really fast. With the exception of Will and Vicky, who had never been there before, the others were not surprised by that. The sound that these made looked like the beep from sonar beacon. Finally, when the doors opened, they saw themselves in a huge room. The ceiling was white, and the floor was done in clay-red tiles. As for the walls, these were covered with what looked like futuristic lockers. The closet doors had a metal tag with the person's name on it; they were made out of glass, and you could see what was inside them; a high-tech jump suit, similar in many ways to those that characters from the movie Tron wore, all of them branding the colours of the agency, a pair of black boots, a pair of high-tech goggles, and other accessories. All in all, the kind of gear that you would see in a secret agent locker. Each one of them opened their locker, grabbed the suit and everything they felt that they were going to need, and then went through a door, leading to the dressing room.
As they dressed themselves, adrenaline started to rush through their veins. Whatever the reason was for them to be there, it had to do with the fact that they were the only ones who could prevent it from happening. Still, that did not prevent the girls from putting on some make-up, in order to be more presentable.
"Man, I don't have any eye-lasher… Emily, could you lend me yours, please?" –Selena asked the blonde.
"Okay, but remember to gave it back. Last time one of us lend you our make-up, you kept it for yourself." –Emily told her, as she handed over the eye-lasher.
On the boys' locker, they were also trying to look presentable.
"Do you think I should put some more hair-gel?" –Dylan asked his brother, Cole and Brandon, who was near them.
"Nah, you look perfect, man." –Brandon said.
"Brandon's right, if you put on more hair-gel, you will look like a dweeb." –Dylan agreed.
"Don't you mean a tweeb?" –Brandon laughed, to which Dylan wrinkled his brows, showing that he did not think that was funny.
"Come on, you're perfect, prima donna! Now, hurry up, we should be in the laboratory like five minutes ago!" –Jason told them, as he closed his locker.
Finally, they arrived to the laboratory. This was a place that was as busy as busy can get. The huge room itself reminded them of the laboratories they were used to see in science fiction movies and comic books. The walls were white, as well as the ceiling and the floor, giving out a creepy yet enigmatic look to the place. Numerous people were walking around; most of them were scientists carrying out numerous experiments. Some of them looked really simple, while others looked extremely complicated and complex. This was also a special place for all of the agents, because it was right there that some of their weapons and special gadgets were created. The DCA prided itself from having numerous laboratories all over the globe; each one specialized in one knowledge area. One of the specialized itself in the development of weapons of mass destruction, while another specialized in the field of genetics… The one they were in right there specialized itself on the development of combat weapons… lethal weapons, which would be then used by all agents in their missions.
Leading the way was Miley, who was now a little less grumpy. She looked around, looking to where K.R. could be, and after a while, she saw her. She was talking with one of the scientists that worked in the lab. Everyone recognized the scientist, as being Ryan "The Alien" Ripley, head-scientist, in charge of the laboratory. He was a short man, probably in his mid-forties. He had a pale complexion, brown hair, brown eyes and people were always saying that he looked like Bill Murray. He had won the nickname "The Alien" because of his last name, being the same as the heroin of the Alien saga, Ellen Ripley, portrayed by Sigourney Weaver. Everyone on the team loved Ryan, because he provided them with all sorts of weaponry, as well as the newest gadgets, which most of the times, he himself helped design, not to mention that they loved his jokes. All that and more, contributed to the fact that they if they ever got into trouble, he would be glad to help them, without hesitating.
"Ah, my favourite team! Hope you are all in a good mood, because you guys are in for something big this time." –Ryan exclaimed, as they approached them.
"So, what gadgets and gizmos you got for us this time, Ryan?" –Jake asked him.
"All in due time, boys, all in due time. First… the director wants to talk with you about your mission."
For a few seconds, no one spoke a word. The director's facial expression spoke for itself. Whatever was the reason she had called them, it had to be extremely serious. It was then that silence was broken.
"Alright, everyone. You're probably thinking why I called you here in the middle of the night, am I right?" –K.R. asked them, to which they nodded affirmatively. –"The reason why I called you here is because we have picked up some strange activity in our satellites, somewhere in the Persian Gulf, to be more precise, in Saudi Arabia's desert. The energy signature belongs to one of the most dangerous Disney villains of all time. I'm talking about… Jafar."
Jafar, the evil grand-vizier of the Sultan of the kingdom of Agrabah, from the movie Aladdin… a villain who could only be described as being a sarcastic, deranged psychopath with zero empathy, and a sick and twisted sense of humour. A villain so powerful that he could almost rival against Maleficent on everyday of the week. From the whole team, only Cole and Dylan, as well as the rest of the Suite Life stars had fought against that madman before, and they knew that if he was behind what was going on, then that could only mean trouble… big trouble for all of them.
"That crazy maniac? What is he up to this time, mom?" –Dylan asked K.R.
"We're not entirely sure, sweetie… but our top experts suspect that he is probably looking for Gravinah." –K.R. told him.
"Gravinah? What is Gravinah?" –Ryan asked, not even knowing if he was spelling the name correctly.
"Gravinah is the name of a city that was designed for the Aladdin's TV series, but was never used." –Mitchell answered him. Mitchell was one of the few who knew that, not only because he had read every file regarding Disney's Aladdin, but also because he was one of the five persons in the team, who had specialized himself in the department of unused characters, set and ideas. The others were J.C., Tiffany, Raven and Jennifer, all of them.
"Not only that, but it's also a city which was built by dark evil wizards, who collected dark magic from the four corners of the world, and gathered all that knowledge in a library called The Shadow Library." –Raven added. –"A really nasty place if you ask me, boys and girls."
"That still doesn't explain why Jafar is looking for it." –Demi stated.
"That's the best part in all this. You see, Jafar is a psychopath and don't forget that he's also a powerful wizard, thanks to his second wish… thank God that we asked Genie to cancel his third wish, or otherwise we would be dealing with an all powerful Genie, and not a crazy wizard." –Jennifer said. –"Anyway, the Shadow Library has all sorts of dark spells, incantations, curses, and magical objects associated to dark magic. If he gets his hands on just a small fragment of what's inside that place, he'll be unstoppable."
"Okay, that's extremely bad." –Miley said. –"That is definitely the last thing we want to happen."
"But, I do have a question regarding the city. Where is it located, and how come Jafar can't find it?" –Will asked Jennifer.
"That's the trouble. You see, the city of Gravinah was like the dark wizards version of Disneyland. But or some unknown reason, the whole city disappeared from the face of the Earth, and no one knows where exactly is located, except for the part that it is somewhere located in the region of the desert that is Saudi Arabia." –J.C. answered her, helping out Jennifer.
All of what they said, looked to the remaining team members like something taken out of a fairy tale, but having in account that they were used to se all kinds of things, it did not surprise them. Seeing that they were all more or less informed about what was going on, K.R. decided to take it from there.
"I know that you are all thinking about the kind of dangers you're going to face on this mission, and you're right about it. Having in account that we really do not know what you're going up against, I must tell you that it will not be a walk in the park. Still, the mission is rather easy; you need to find a way to stop Jafar and whoever is with him from putting his hands on whatever content exists in that library. Furthermore, you have to, if you can, capture him, so we can trap him in our prison facilities." –K.R. declared.
"Easier said than done." –Moises said out loud.
"True… but don't worry, because you will be given all kinds of artillery and gadgets, in order to complete this mission. Ryan, if you please…" –K.R. said, giving the word to the chief scientist.
"Okay, everyone, what do we have today?" –he asked rhetorically, as he took a remote control from his lab coat, and pressed a couple of buttons, making an image appear on one of the many plasma screens. –"You will be given the software upgrade to your suits in the form of a microchip; this time it will enable you to control your body temperature, given the fact that you're going to be sweating like pigs, pardon me the expression, while on the desert. Then, you'll be given each one, your usual laser revolver, night-goggles version 3.0., this time these babies are upgraded with thermal vision and x-ray vision, grappling hooks and customized gloves, which will allow you to crawl any kind of surface just as if you were Spider-Man yourself, and my newest creation… the Windfire 3000, a powerful wind cannon, which is compatible with your laser revolvers. Oh, and by the way, you will also have an upgraded version of your vehicles, specially equipped to ride on the desert. The weapons and gizmos are all inside the vehicles." –Ryan told them, all proud of himself, while they talked among themselves. Every time they were given new things to try on missions, they would spend a couple of minutes talking about, exchanging opinions, and of course, making plans on how they were going to use those things.
"As always, Ryan, you're the Man, man!" –J.C. pointed out. –"With you around, we always know that we will have enough weapons, gadgets and vehicles to go on against the U.S. Army."
"Thank you, although I only did my job." –Ryan told him.
"You always say that, yet, I'm the one comes up with the designs for many of the weapons and gizmos that you create." –someone exclaimed.
Entering the room, came one of Pixar's most eccentric characters, who was loved by so many, thanks to her creativity, and also hate by so many, thanks to her ego. Fashion diva, one of the greatest designers to ever been created for an animated movie, and a genius in her own way, these were all attributes that classified this character… Edna Mode.
"That is so not true!" –Ryan argued with her.
"It is so. From all the people that I've worked in this agency, you are certainly the worst! Why didn't I stay in France? At least in Paris, the people understood me!" –Edna told him, as he turned to the team. –"Hello darlings, how are you? I do hope that you like the upgrade in your uniforms that I put in that chip."
"We certainly will, Edna." –Annelise told her, a little uneasy, because she knew better to not argue or discuss anything with Edna.
It was amazing how fast her attitude changed. One minute she could be arguing with you about anything, and in the next, she was complimenting you on your abilities and your hobbies.
"What do you mean I'm the worst? If you think I'm going to take those insults of yours, than you better get back to Paris on the double, because I'm not going to take those insults, you hear me?"
"Your ego is so swollen with pride, that you can't even see that from the two of us, I'm the real genius! I design costumes, weapons and upgrades for Gods!" –Edna shot back at him.
The two of them kept on arguing with each other, as the team went on, following K.R. As they walked, Demi and Tiffany talked with each other about Ryan and Edna.
"Those two are always bickering on each other." –Tiffany giggled.
"They remind me of you and me, when we're on the show portraying Sonny and Tawni." –Demi agreed.
"Yeah, but we usually don't use bazookas and laser guns in order to blow each other up." –Tiffany laughed.
"They don't use those things either." –Demi told her.
"Well, the way they yell at each other, it almost looks like they are using those weapons." –the blonde told her, making Demi laugh like crazy.
It was then that they noticed there was something missing. Miley was the first to notice that that the team was not complete… the Jonas were missing. She even felt ashamed that she did not notice it before, being the three of them her friends and fellow colleagues. Still, the fact that when she arrived at the base she was still upset for being awaken by Emily and the rest of her gang in the middle of the night, contributed to that.
"Hey, where are the Jonas?" –Miley asked out loud to K.R.
"Yeah, they're not here… Where are they?" –Orlando asked.
"Those three are on a special mission, which is vital for the sake of the rest of your mission." –K.R. answered them. –"Everything will be explained to you, when you're aboard the plane, including the reason why Kevin, Nick and Joe are absent."
"Plane? You mean that…" –Ashley began saying.
"Yes, you're taking the Phantom with you on this mission." –K.R. completed.
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