Niagara on the Lake, Canada

MAX

A day and a half later, we had crossed the border, laughing as we saw the huge lines of cars going through security checkpoints. We certainly didn't have to worry about that! We had decided to take the scenic route and had crossed at Niagara Falls. The American side had some big drops where the water would cascade down, but the Canadian's Niagara falls were ENORMOUS! I mean seriously, I don't know how there was enough water in all of North America to keep it going for more then fifteen minutes. The noise alone was enough to make me want to go to the nearest store and buy industrial sized earplugs! They would be good to have around Nudge too. Angel and Nudge spotted a bunch of boats that took people on rides towards the bottom of the falls, and begged me to let them go, but I braved the Bambi eyes and kept my answer at a firm no. There was no way I was letting any member of my flock have even the slightest chance of drowning in that water. I didn't think that Angel's water breathing and fish talking abilities would save her if she went under there.

We decided to treat ourselves and slept at the Niagara branch of the Hilton. It is really fancy there! Gazzy had a blast ordering junk food from room service in the voice of this really snooty English guy, while Fang, Iggy, and I brought out Fang's laptop and started looking up stuff about the disappearances that we had come to investigate.

"So what do we know?"

"Well, the kids that went missing at first were mostly small cases, like a little kid going missing here and there, with there dead body showing up anytime from weeks to a couple months later. Extremely sad and horrifying, but nothing that seemed beyond normal for these kinds of cases." He turned to me, looking very serious. "Then about six month's ago, in mid May, teenagers in high school started disappearing. The police got very concerned about this, seeing as the teens were being taken in pairs, often couples or best friends, and two teens are a lot harder to grab then an eight year-old. Then in the first week of June, a record of seven teenage boys went missing after school in the city of Mississauga, which is about a half hour drive from downtown Toronto."

Iggy whistled. "Wow, seven guys in one go. I bet the police really freaked out about that."

"Yep, and no bodies of the teenagers that have been taken have ever been found."

I thought about it. "It sounds like Itex was behind all the teenage kidnappings. They must have been using the sets of pairs as tests, to see of their methods of DNA splicing were effective on teenagers. I bet that the group snatch was the batch that would start making their fighting force."

Fang looked back at the screen. "You could be right, seeing as the information says that six of the boys were all members of the track and football teams. Seems like Itex wanted more muscle to start of with, rather then adding lots of extra chemicals to get them strong."

"So where are we going? To Mississauga or will we go and look around Toronto first."

"Hate to tell ya Ig, but you're not going to be looking around anywhere, unless there is a freak snowstorm," I joked. "But anyway, Mississauga is on the way to Toronto, so we will take a look around there first and see if we can find out any information about how the kidnappings happened."

"Pizza and hot dogs are here!"

With that call from the others, we leapt up and grabbed our orders from the very surprised busboy. As the guy turned to leave, he heard something that only confused him more.

"Wait but a moment my good sir; you wouldn't want to forget your tip."

After that, he laughed at seeing the Gasman's mimicry talent and gladly accepted the large tip that he was offered.