Red, Brown and Blue - Chapter 2
Keri was walking to school that morning when she saw the car that picked Dan up yesterday pull up in front of her. A girl with brown hair climbed out then Dan climbed out then the girl hugged Dan and climbed back in the car. The car sped off and Dan waved at it. Keri jogged over to Dan he turned to face her and gave a half hearted smile, they started walking together towards the school.
"So you going to the dance with anyone." Keri asked twiddling her hair in her fingers. Dan blinked and looked confused. What dance! Think Dan! Think for once, right what was Ben's mission report on yesterday. Oh yeah the weird dance on Friday were you have to dress like a TV our movie character. Dan screamed in his head.
"Maybe, what about you?" Dan asked eventually.
"I am defiantly going I just need a guy to come with me." Keri asked hopefully flicking her hair. "Tom asked Aniesha to go with him yesterday at lunch." She added.
"I'll go with you if you like, but just has friends." Dan said, this was defiantly a Ben emergency he had on his hands, if it wasn't he really didn't know what was. He could always hide in the toilets and help him out were he needs it. Cause to be honest he was only asking her to keep her happy and to keep the other girls doing the same thing to him that Keri was doing. Keri's face practically cracked in two, but then she tried to cover it up.
"Alright I suppose, mate." She added bumping her shoulders, while she was mentally screaming Yes! Yes! A thousand time yes! She'd have to tell Aniesha all bout it later.
The rest of the day was boring until the middle of lunch when their pencils started flashing. Tom groaned as he put down his sandwich and reluctantly follow the others to the broom cupboard. When we arrived at base Tom was the first to speak.
"Frank it's lunch time, I was hungry and it was cake for pudding!" Tom wailed as the other three snickered.
"Well sorry Tom, Korpse aren't overly keen on lunch breaks." Frank said a little annoyed at him.
"Ok so what's the mission?" Dan asked impatiently rubbing his hands together.
"MI9 need you lot to infiltrate this toy making factory." Frank said seriously putting an image of Dr Snuggles Toy Factory on the monitor. You could practically see the excitement drain out of Dan as he looked at the toy factory.
"Seriously?!" Dan asked looking at the factory in disbelief.
"Yes seriously, Mr Snuggles is a robotic expert and his company make robotic toys, but intelligence suggests that he has been making weapons for Korpse." Frank informed them bringing up a man who happened to look a lot like Santa on the screen. Dan groaned.
"If this turns out to be nothing, I am not explaining to my mum why I had to miss another English lesson." Dan threatened looking pointedly at Frank.
"I am sure it won't be, there is a van waiting two blocks away for you. Tom you'll be on coms and you three are going undercover as cleaners, disguises are in the van. Gadget time, Keri laser eye lashes..." Frank paused while Keri squealed and snatched the eyelashes from him "Aniesha a motion detector and knock out pen and Dan these nose plugs can sniff out substances that are needed for weapon construction." Frank said handing them each their gadgets.
"Won't it be obvious I am wearing them." Dan asked throwing Frank an odd look.
"They won't be visible through the moustache you'll be waring." Frank said quickly hoping he wouldn't notice what he'd just said properly. Dan nodded then looked up in alarm.
"What moustache!?" He cried as Frank looked at him pleadingly.
"Ugh this thing is so itchy." Dan complained to the two girls in the van.
"Yeah, but it does make you look older." Aniesha said trying to smother a smile.
"And it makes you look really silly, but hey." Keri grinned laughing.
"Thanks for that." Dan said sarcastically.
"Guys mind on the mission." Tom said through their earpieces as the van stopped and the three of them climbed out.
"You try wearing a moustache." Dan grumbled before leading the way down the drive carrying a mop and bucket.
"Not in my job description." Tom chuckled as Dan mimicked him to the two girls who laughed.
The security guard stopped them when they got to the gate.
"And where do you think your going." He asked.
"Make It Shine Cleaning Company, we are here to make your factory gleam once we've finished cleaning." Aneisha said brightly showing her fake id badge to the security guard.
"Third door on the left, only do in the non restricted areas, alright love." The security guard said passing them visitor passes.
"No problem, we'll have this place spotless in a jiffy don't you worry." Keri said overly happily. With that they grabbed the cleaning stuff and went inside.
"Why don't you spilt up, you'll be able to cover more of the factory then?" Tom suggest "I am gonna try hack into the CCTV now." He added absentmindedly.
"Alright, I will take the top floor, Keri, Neish you two do this floor, but different parts that way it'll be quicker." Dan said walking over to the staircase. He got to the top floor and opened the door and went into the first room. It was empty, he looked around pretending to clean, but every room he found was empty.
"Guys all the rooms upstairs are empty completely, what about downstairs?" Dan asked suspicious.
"Nope down here is just what you'd expect a toy factory to be like, it's just missing one factor." Aniesha said.
"What?" Dan asked making his way towards the staircase.
"The people." Keri and Aniesha said unison.
"Wait Keri, Neish check your permitter I am picking up a heat signature." Tom said through coms.
"Wha uh..." Keri said sleepily before her line crackled into silence.
"Hmm what's going on, DAN HELP!" Aniesha screamed before here line two went silent.
"Dan get to them now they were with each other just get there now." Frank ordered panic rising in his voice.
"I am going." Dan said. He jumped from the stairs landing in a neat forward role before sprinting onto the factory floor jumping and flipping over various machines that blocked his path. The air started to get thicker it was gas. A simple one, he reached into his pocket and put his balaclava on. It would in able to him to breathe for a little longer, but not much he needed to find the girls and quick. He raced through the factory until he found both the girls lying on the ground unconscious with a man in a Korpse outfit standing over them.
Dan ran up to him and punched him hard in the stomach. The man stood up straight, he was a giant. He batted all Dan's punches and kicks away like flies. He kicked Dan hard in stomach six times then kicked his legs from under him he was about to stamp on Dan's head when Dan rolled out the way. Almost like a miracle Dan found Aniesha's knock out pen and zapped the guy with it before he had the chance to attack him again. Dan clutched his stomach and stumbled over to a bin a couple feet away and threw up.
"Dan are you alright?" Came Tom's concerned voice through coms, Dan was wearing a head cam so he had probably just watched him through up.
"Fine, just give me a sec." Dan said before he threw up again, this what he gets for eating his mums pancakes and have one of schools wretched meals then go on a mission he thought. Before he was sick one final time. He stumbled over to Keri and Aniesha to check them over.
"The girls should be coming around in the next minute it was just a simple knock out gas." Dan explained.
"Ok, are you sure your alright." Tom asked concerned for his friend.
"Yeah he just kicked really hard, and I had a school meal before hand." Dan mumbled wiping some vomit off his mouth. When Keri and Aniesha came around Dan was feeling a little better, but could still taste sick.
"Alright team get out of there." Frank instructed. Keri sniffed the air.
"Can you guys smell vomit?" She asked sniffing the air around her.
"Yeah I can." Aniesha agreed also sniffing the air.
"I'll explain later." Tom said through coms as Dan turned to look the other way a small blush on his cheeks. With that Dan lead the two girls quick your of the factory and they got in the van to go back to base.
"Ok so can someone fill us in on what happened while we were unconscious?" Keri asked annoyed Tom and Frank kept glancing at Dan nervously.
"Well Dan rushed to you, but a massive Korpse agent was there so he was forced to fight him even though he was about 7ft tall, he kicked Dan in the stomach quite a few times then Dan found Aneisha's knock out pen and knocked him out. Then Dan was sick in the bin a couple of times then you guys came to." Tom explained quickly not glancing away from the computer screen.
"Are you alright Dan?" Aniesha asked looking at him, he was leaning against one of the pillars with his shoulder and looked a little paler than usual.
"Yeah fine." Dan said although he did still feel a bit off.
"Well if you don't feel well while your at home then just get your mum to check you out." Frank said looking Dan over.
"Why your mum?" Keri asked.
"She is a nurse and she works at the MI9 hospital. I can't I am at dad's tonight." Dan stated.
"Alright then, well tell him then, I am sure he'll help. You are dismissed." Frank said. They all went upstairs and school had finished so they went to the park for a bit.
"I didn't know your parents were divorced, Dan." Keri said while they were walking. Dan stiffened, Tom and Aniesha glanced at each other, Dan's parents had gotten the divorce six months before the three of them had been kidnapped by Stella and they had started training at the MI9 camp. From the little things that Dan had told them about the divorce though, it wasn't a nice one.
"Yeah, almost a year and a two yearsago." Dan said simply Keri was about to ask more when Tom signalled for her not to go any further from the other side of Dan so she wouldn't see. They didn't really fancy a blood bath on their hands.
After an hour or two spent in the park the four spies parted ways and went home, well Tom and Dan did Keri and Aneisha went shopping together.
