Chapter 2
After his therapy appointment, Sportacus and Stephanie headed back to the Mayor's house for brunch. They had skipped breakfast, something that they wouldn't normally do, and now with the appointment ending around ten, their stomachs were rumbling.
"I wish I had remembered to set the alarm," Stephanie said.
"Well we got there on time. That's the most important thing," Sportacus smiled.
"True but I could have grabbed a Pop-Tart or something," the pink one pointed out.
"Not the healthiest thing for breakfast," the hero said.
"Fruit filling, that's good enough," she teased.
"The day fruit filling is a good substitute for sports candy, I'll be out of business," Sportacus chuckled as they reached the front door. The pink one put her key into the lock and turned it. Before she got the chance to open the door the house exploded.
Ziggy heard the crystal going off before he heard the sirens. He took off running and he was soon joined by fire trucks, police cars, and ambulances. One of the police cars slowed and he jumped onto it, his feet on the running boards, his hands holding onto the gumballs on top of the car. The assisting officer then put his petal to the metal and sped off to the site of the fire which people around the neighborhood could now smell.
The swarming emergency vehicles and the fire brought neighbors out of their homes and the scene was quickly controlled by Fire Chief Gallivan. He had the police keep people back and commanded the teams of fire fighters as they battled the blaze.
"Sir! You have to come see this!" One of his men came up to him and shouted over the din caused by people on the scene. Gallivan quickly followed the fire fighter over to an ambulance that was waiting to head for FunTown. Inside it was Sportacus and Stephanie. The hero was lying on the stretcher and she was lying on the bench next to him, both were being attended to by the paramedics.
"We have to roll!" The medic working on Stephanie's burns shouted.
"What happened?" Gallivan asked Stephanie ignoring him.
"I put the key in the lock and the next thing I know, Sportacus is on top of me and there are pieces of the house flying all over the place. Where is my Uncle?" the pink one wanted to know. She hadn't had a chance to speak with him before they rushed out of the house.
"We'll find him," the Chief said before turning to the medic, "Get them to the hospital on the double," he ordered. With that the doors were closed and the ambulance raced off. Ziggy approached the Chief and asked,
"Who was in the ambulance? Are they going to be ok?"
"Just Sportacus and Stephanie were inside. As far as their condition, I don't have a definitive answer. I want you to find the former Mayor. Let us all hope he and Bessie were not inside when she went up," Gallivan said. Ziggy nodded and raced off to the airship. He didn't know where they would be but the best place to start was in the airship. With any luck the facial recognition software and license plate database that Pixel had installed would be his friend and find the two missing people.
The Fire Chief then turned and discovered Police Chief Dooright standing over by the line of police officers keeping the public back. He went over to him and explained what he knew so far.
"I'd round up the usual suspects on this one," Gallivan said.
"The detectives are already on it," Dooright reassured him.
To Be Continued…