supboyyyyy93: Thank you! Hahaha, I guess the blueberries were the most obvious thing after all! I'm excited for upcoming chapters as well, and in this one we get to see what exactly they did with that information, so… Well, I did say that Lily was a savage in that chapter! XD Right now, I'm working on her drawing! :)
This chapter and the next one are based on the episode 'Super Agent Much'?
Lily's POV
It was nearly 10:00 PM in Downtown L.A. We were on a mission to catch a thief. But, I was really tired right now, and I wanted the mission to end already… I mean, seriously, it was nearly bed time!
I flew into Sam and Alex on my hoverboard just as the thief flew in the opposite direction. "Clover," Sam quickly took out her X-Powder. "Head him off; it's Sergei Siberia, the cyber-thief. He's headed right towards you!"
And we flew in the opposite direction, only to see… Clover in a sitting position on a building and shouting at the thief who was flying away. "Clover, you've let him get away!" Alex frowned just as we stopped behind her. "Hey, that was a really important call!" Clover argued, making me roll my eyes. "This secret agent thing is really cutting into my free time!" She stood up with her hands in the air.
Suddenly, I had a feeling like someone was watching us from the distance. I looked up immediately in front of us and in the distance, but there was no one in sight… "What's wrong, Lily?" Alex nudged me, attracting my attention. "It's nothing, I just had a feeling we were watched…" I trailed off with a frown. "Stop being paranoid." Clover told me as if it was no big deal.
Me, paranoid?! That was rich, coming from her! "I'm not." I said calmly before looking away from the distance. "Wait until Jerry hears the news." Sam said sarcastically while we were going back towards the building. "We are so done for…" Alex groaned.
I frowned at those words. "You mean, you three." I couldn't help thinking. Now why was I saying that? Because it was true. If Jerry did decide to give us a piece of his mind, the three would be the victims of it, because again, the man would pretend as if I weren't in the room. Ever since recently, whenever we were in the office, he would say 'you three' while looking at the three of them, until the girls would correct him, saying 'four'.
But it wasn't just that, when the girls asked questions, Jerry would answer them, but when I asked something, there would be no answer until one of them asked the same question, and then he would answer. Whenever looking at all three of them, he avoided making eye contact with me.
Now, I didn't give the slightest fuck about why the man seemed to be pretending I was a ghost, it was good when he was mad after all, but I wanted it to stop. It wasn't that it bothered me that much, but, you know… People pretending you were a ghost and that you practically didn't exist when you were in the room was annoying. It was as if a teacher told Sam, Clover, Alex and me that we were in one group, and he told each of them what to do, but he suddenly forgot that I was a part of the group as well! Now whether it was intentional, or on purpose, I didn't know.
Wait. Who was I kidding here? The man was not dumb, of course it was intentional! But, again, there was no reason for that to bother me. So, I simply flew after the girls, wanting this crap to be over so I could go home and finally get some sleep.
The next morning, I dressed into a sleeveless light blue shirt, dark blue floral skirt and dark blue heeled-shoes before taking my bag and running out of the house. Mother was on yet another business trip, this time in Spain, but Uncle Angus was at home, preparing for work.
By the time I was in front of school, Alex and Sam were waiting for me outside. "Where's Clover?" I asked once I joined them. "Inside, doing something for her clubs." Alex commented. "Anyway," Sam started while we were walking into school. "We've wanted to talk to you about something."
"Yes?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. "Do you have any idea why Jerry's been giving you silent treatment since recently?" She questioned with a frown. I knew the girls must have noticed it because it was obvious as fuck, but why did they have to ask me that question?! "Well, I don't." I said firmly just as we walked to our cupboards.
I quickly took books for English and closed the cupboard while the girls were watching me. "Nor do I care." I added once I looked at them again. "How can you say that?" Alex demanded in disbelief, making me look at her questioningly. "I mean, if someone ignored me and pretended that I didn't exist, I would go mad the same day!" She exclaimed and I rolled my eyes.
"I understand what you're talking about, but honestly, I don't care." I responded simply while looking through my book for class. "Why?" I could hear Alex asking. "Because," I started a bit annoyed and slammed the book shut. "I've learned not to care about people who weren't close to me. It's just not worth it. This silent treatment may be annoying, but I don't give a fuck about it anyway." I explained, trying to sound emotionless.
Alex walked to me, her hand on my shoulder. "But Jerry's our friend, and friends don't do that!" She pointed out. "You mean, your friend. You've said it yourself; friends don't do that to each other." I reminded the black-haired girl who opened her mouth to say something, but Sam beat her to it.
"Are you sure you don't have any idea why?" "100 percent sure. I didn't say anything bad, apart from a few swears." I stated firmly. "You think that's his way of getting back at you for swearing in his office?" Alex suggested.
I frowned at that statement and Sam shook her head. "Jerry's not that type of person." "The last time I swore before the treatment started wasn't in his office." "Then maybe swearing in front of him in general?" Alex argued and I shook my head in denial. "The man explicitly said, and I quote, 'I would appreciate if you didn't use that sort of language in my office'."
"You nailed his accent." Sam commented in awe and I couldn't help smiling. "Well, accents have always been sort of my thing." I explained. "You said it, fine, but he still scolded you back at our place for swearing!" Alex commented.
Sam looked at two of us curiously. "What exactly happened that day?" She asked. "As you remember, Clover and I asked Lily and Jerry to come so they could translate Guillaume's words to us." Alex started. "And we did so. We told them their French boy only cared about pools." I continued.
"At one point, Lily mentioned Myrna, calling her Cuntbottom." Alex said, hesitating at the 'Cuntbottom' part. "And then the man scolded me, to which I responded that Myrna was a pain in the arse after all…" "And then he asked Clover and me whether she was like that with her family as well. Lily began impersonating her mother, and that was when Jerry told us he had to go." Alex finished.
Sam frowned with a finger on her chin. "Then it's not because of swearing…" She trailed off. That was when the bell rang for the beginning of class, and I pushed both of the girls inside before they could continue with the useless conversation.
After English ended, we walked to Clover who was in front of her cupboard and talking to a phone about one of her clubs. "Is it my imagination, or is Clover in like, gazillion clubs?" Alex commented in disbelief. "A gazillion and one!" Arnold stated while coming towards Clover in between Alex and me, saying how she founded a new club.
I rolled my eyes at Arnold's words. How did Clover manage to stay sane with so many clubs?! "Clover, your popularity numbers are through the roof!" The guy was showing the blonde-haired girl the popularity statistics.
"Clover, this is getting out of control." Sam said once Arnold was out of sight. "It is not, I'm just doing what comes natural, being popular!" She argued. "But you're totally flaking in our missions!" Sam pointed out. "And you haven't even been to the mall in weeks!" Alex added. "How you're staying sane with all those club meetings is beyond me." I told the girl truthfully.
Clover rolled her eyes. "By committing all my time to it, that's how!" She retorted. "But we miss you! What do you say, this afternoon it is shop-till-you-drop?" Sam suggested with a wink. "Sorry guys, I can't. I've got five club meetings right after Maths! See you!" Clover took her books, closed the cupboard and ran away.
"I've never thought I'd see the day when Clover lost the will to shop…" Alex said and I couldn't help agreeing. Not shopping was so unlike her…
It was a lunch break and right now, I was in front of the coffee machine, looking at what to drink. Finally, I opted for Cappuccino. "Lily, how do I look?" Clover asked while next to an opened window. I put my cup of coffee next to hers and looked at the girl.
"I don't understand what you're aiming at." I told her. "Do I look normal? No messy hair, clothes?" She explained. "You look great." I smiled. "Thanks!" She grinned and took her cup before walking away. I took mine, and was about to drink some coffee when…
I noticed there was something blue in it. An insect must have flown into the drink, and died immediately because of how hot it was… "Fuck this." I muttered and threw the coffee into a bin before running away to prepare for science.
"One-part chlorine, to two-parts benzene." Alex said while trying to do the science experiment. Sam then said how she thought different, but then, Clover quickly did the experiment correctly! I raised an eyebrow at the blonde-haired girl. I never liked science that much, neither did Clover… Which was what we had in common. Alex didn't mind it that much, and Sam adored it.
So seeing her suddenly doing the experiment as if it was the easiest thing in the world was really weird. "Clover, are you okay?" Sam asked. "Of course, I'm great! I just love science, don't you?" She told us while lifting glasses up.
"You, love science?" I asked her in disbelief. "Yes!" She chirped happily. "Clover, you and I swore the subject for one hour after the professor had given us F's." I reminded her and she frowned. "Swearing is impolite!"
I then quickly caught a vial flying towards Clover and me with my right hand. "Thanks, I needed that." Clover quickly took it out of my hand and started sipping the liquid when… It exploded, sending us into the tunnel.
"Why are you screaming?! We've done this like a hundred times!" Clover shouted and I quickly looked up to see the girl on her feet as we were going down the tunnel. "Because it's always the same feeling!" I shouted to her. "You want to be WOOHP-ed?!" Sam asked. "What about your club meetings?!" Alex demanded.
But, Clover seemed to give zero fucks. "Who cares about school clubs?! I'm a spy!" She was sliding through the tunnel, making the three of us look at each other in confusion. WHAT. THE. FUCK. Clover I knew would always complain about WOOHP-ing, and missing club meetings would be the end of the world for her!
"Agent Clover reporting for duty, sir!" Clover declared once she landed on her feet in Jerry's office. Alex fell on the sofa, I fell on her, and Sam fell behind the sofa. "Sergei Siberia is at it again!" The man said before GLADIS revealed the pathway behind the desk. "Oh, that's right; someone let him get away last time!" Sam reminded.
Clover didn't say anything, which was weird. By now I expected her to tell Sam 'it was a very important call' or something like that. "He's robbing Beverly Hills Bank as we speak!" We ran to the pathway. "Here are your gadgets." GLADIS said as we changed to suits with X-Powders.
"How about a Multi Function Charm Bracelet for the charming Clover?" GLADIS gave her the bracelet. "Alex will be able to snag her favorite bowl, with new Tangled Bombs, stored conveniently in her belt! For the lovely Sam, the new Facial Exofoilater 5000." The machine gave the girls their gadgets. "And for the sweet Lily, the Net Throwing Extendable Rod Mascara, which you will find useful in…"
"Just get on with it." I could hear Jerry saying, making me turn around to look at the man with a frown. But, I didn't say anything. We came to the end of the pathway, and the floor under our feet disappeared. So, we fell through it while screaming.
We fell out of bins, right in front of the bank. I got on my feet just as I could see a man in black running away with a bag over his shoulder. "There he is, he's getting away!" We started running after him through a small street.
"We can't use our Jetpacks, it's too narrow!" Alex exclaimed while I jumped over a crate. "I don't need a Jetpack." I could hear Clover saying and suddenly, she started running at incredibly fast speed, she even smashed directly through some crates in her way!
Sam, Alex and I looked at now destroyed car Clover had jumped on with full force while we were still running after them. We finally stopped in front of the girl who held her foot on a box which was on the thief's head. "Good job, Clover!" Alex said.
I looked at Clover who was smirking by now. She's been acting really strange… Suddenly, I could feel someone watching me again, so I looked up, but there was no one in sight.
The next day, it was a lunch break again. To my surprise, the cafeteria had a sushi bar now! And right now, Alex, Sam and I were discussing how great this was while eating sushi for lunch. "You know, Clover's totally into sushi. Where is she anyway?" Sam asked while I took another piece of the food.
Clover then appeared and sat in between Sam and me with a paper in her hands. She then started explaining something with all those weird numbers, but I didn't understand what she was talking about. She was talking way too fast after all! But I did understand one thing though. She apparently calculated a way to improve our spy efficiency.
I was gaping at her by now. Since when was she good with numbers?! "Sushi?" Alex offered while we were looking at her and blinking in confusion. "Never touched this stuff!" Clover frowned. "Excuse me; you love sushi the most out of all of us!" I told her a bit annoyed.
She opened her mouth to tell me something, but never got a chance to because Mandy appeared behind her. "Hi, Clover! Did you notice something different about me?" She smirked. She was wearing new glasses… "Anything would be an improvement." Sam muttered and Mandy frowned.
"My new, sun-ray shades! Aren't you jealous?!" She asked Clover smugly. "Two sheets of translusive polyethylene surrounded by molded plastic? No, why would I be?" I looked up in shock at hearing the girl's answer. What the fuck was wrong with Clover?!
The Clover I knew would probably start up a fight with this bitch over the shades, not be unimpressed! "Okay…" Mandy was speechless for once so she walked away rather quickly. That was when some kids from one of Clover's clubs came to us, but Clover told them that she was busy. Again, hearing that coming from her was just wrong…
She would usually stop everything she was doing just to hear what the club had to say! Suddenly, I could sense something beginning to fell off a nearby shelf. I quickly stood up to help Arnold get out of the way, but Clover beat me to it, pushing the guy out of the way at incredibly fast speed.
Bottles fell to the floor, broken. "Clover, you saved my life, you're a hero!" Arnold hugged her. Everyone was soon either taking photos of her or trying to ask her to join their clubs. And then, Clover went in a full bitch mode.
She took a microphone and stood up on the table, making everyone look at her. "NOW, HEAR THIS! I OFFICIALLY QUIT EVERY SILLY CLUB I BELONG TO! AND I DON'T WANT TO JOIN ANYMORE, SO JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!" Clover finished her hell of a speech and marched out of the cafeteria.
"This is gonna be a murder on her popularity numbers!" Arnold exclaimed from next to me. "Really?" I asked him and he nodded. At that moment, I knew what I had to do. I quickly ran to the table Clover had been standing on. I knew I shouldn't have been doing this, but right now, I didn't even care. I only knew I had to stop Clover from making a big mistake.
I climbed on it and took the microphone. "Listen people," I started before anyone could try to get out of the room. "Don't listen to Clover's words, she hasn't been feeling well ever since yesterday… She just needs to take a little break." I said calmly while looking at everyone. "Which means she doesn't quit any of the clubs." I finished.
One of guys glared at me. "She said she quit loud and clear!" He argued and soon everyone started shouting. "I DID SAY," I started shouting. "THAT SHE HASN'T BEEN FEELING WELL," I was louder than all of them. "BUT IT LOOKS LIKE I HAVE TO GET IT THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULLS THE OTHER WAY. IF ANYONE OF YOU TAKES CLOVER'S WORDS SERIOUSLY, THEY WILL SUFFER FROM GETTING BEATEN THE HELL OUT OF THEM BY ME! AND TRUST ME, WHEN THEY ASK ME TO, I CAN BE REALLY BAD!" I was roaring in Scottish by now.
"But she said…" "DO I MAKE MYSELF FUCKING CLEAR?!" I shouted the most loudly I could, and praying I wouldn't lose my voice because of that. All of people quickly nodded with frightened expressions. "Thank you. Have a good day." I smiled and got off the table, putting the microphone on it. "Miss Chase, that's worth two hours of detention." The science professor told me. "Fine." I said simply.
Alex and Sam ran to me. "Why did you do that?" Alex asked me. "The real Clover would be devastated if she heard this would kill her popularity numbers, so I wanted to prevent that from happening." I explained.
"Speaking of Clover, how about going through her room later today?" Sam suggested. "But you know Clover doesn't like us snooping through her stuff!" Alex pointed out. "But she's our friend; we just want to help her!" Sam argued. "I agree." I finally said. "Alright." Alex finally gave in.
Later that day, Alex, Sam and I were at the door of Clover's room. "It looks fine to me, now let's go!" Alex exclaimed but Sam and I went in instead. "We haven't even checked it properly!" I pointed out just as Sam opened Clover's wardrobe.
As soon as she did so, all of us gasped. Because, instead of clothes, some gadgets were in her wardrobe! And not just any gadgets, but high-tech gadgets… "Way to accessorize!" Alex commented just as she and I got closer.
"Alex, these are high-tech weapons!" Sam stated and took out some sort of a glove, putting it on her hand. And soon after, she activated what seemed to be blades on it! "What the fuck is that?" I asked in shock while pointing at the claw on Sam's hand.
And she waved with it, but accidentally broke Clover's lamp in process! "Why would Jerry give her all this stuff without telling us?" She questioned. But something told me it wasn't the man who gave her this…
Alex took out another gadget from Clover's wardrobe, and activated it. It started shooting out some sort of a liquid! Sam and I yelped and jumped out of the way just as it hit Clover's chair and some other things in the room, freezing them in process! "It's hair gel!" Alex commented in surprise.
I walked to Clover's table and saw some papers with drawings and what seemed to be… Clover's handwriting? There were some things which weren't even in the wardrobe, which looked like drafts of those weapons… And the writings explained perfectly how those things could be made, and what their effects were…
"It wasn't Jerry who gave her this," I started while still looking at the papers. "She made them!" At hearing my words, Sam and Alex looked at the papers in my hand, then at weapons in theirs, before all of us looked at each other in shock and uncertainness. "Let's show this to Jerry." Sam then said and put the weapons back in the wardrobe while I took the papers.
We were inside the room where WOOHP made their weapons. And right now, Jerry was looking at the papers we had shown him. "The Spider Claw…" He read. Well, the name of the weapon suited it! "The Immobilizer…"
"And she's already built the most of these!" Sam pointed out. "Bizarre." The man said simply while still looking at the papers. "Exactly!" Alex agreed. "And brilliant!" Jerry suddenly said. Wait, WHAT?! "Brilliant?!" I asked in disbelief, even though I knew I wouldn't get an answer either way.
I didn't understand what was so brilliant about Clover's weird behavior… "Jerry, she needs help!" Sam exclaimed. "And she'll get it! I'm putting the entire WOOHP weapons' unit on these designs right away!" The man answered.
"When we meant she needed help, we meant medical help…" I commented with a frown, but again, my comment was met with silence. Sam looked at me and then at the man again. "But Jerry, can't you tell something is different about her?!" She asked in disbelief. "Absolutely, she's finally become the fine, take-action spy that WOOHP can be proud of!"
I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The man had the habit of watching us even when we weren't on missions, right? Or, habit of watching the girls at least… But anyway, he should know the girls so well by now to notice when something is wrong with them! And the only thing he had to say was how she changed for the better?! I couldn't help feeling a bit disappointed…
"What?!" Sam and Alex chorused at those words. "You two should take note," "You three." Sam corrected with a frown. "She's the ultimate WOOHP spy of the 21st century!" The man continued as if he hasn't heard her words at all.
That was when a sudden gust of wind appeared, making Sam, Alex and me cover our eyes. Finally, a flying object landed in front of us. And... Clover came out of it! She was walking down while holding a rope with a few tied up villains!
"These boys belong in lock-up!" Clover walked to us and gave me the rope which I took, not knowing what else to do. "Just thought I'd run up a few bad guys on my test run!" She then walked to Jerry. "We're running low on villains Jer, it's almost time for a nap!" She stretched out with a yawn. "Next time, I assure you we'll have villains to spare. "But in the meantime, I'm very proud to present you with WOOHP's the Hundredth Villain Caught Award!" He offered her the award.
Clover didn't exactly look impressed with it. "Thanks, but we're wasting time here, I'm up for another solo mission right now!" She smirked. She had that look on her face only when she was hell-bent on getting a cute boy… And she said, solo?!
"Solo, as in, without us?" Sam asked in disbelief. "Now? Well I'm sorry Clover, but you've nabbed virtually every bad guy we're currently tracking!" Clover took the paper from Jerry to look at it. "Every one?! I'm starting to think my talents are being wasted at the second-rate agency!" She commented, making me gape.
But then, someone took the rope out of my hands… "Hey!" I exclaimed with a frown and turned around to see all of the villains running away! Alex, Sam and I started running after them when suddenly, all of them were electrified! We covered our eyes and a few moments after, all of them were on the floor.
"Have mercy!" One of villains pleaded while looking at me. "The Electro Magnetron, I designed it on my lunch break!" I turned around to see Clover throwing the weapon to Jerry who was looking at it in awe. "Marvelous, just marvelous!"
Clover walked to us and put a hand on Sam's shoulder. "Failure is not an option!" And with those words, she activated her Jetpack and flew out of the organization. "Let's go home." Sam said simply. But I looked back to see Jerry still looking at Clover's weapon.
"You girls go; I'll be with you in a minute." I told them and they nodded with Alex giving me thumbs up and an encouraging smile. I smiled back just before they ran out.
I turned around and took a deep breath. I then started walking towards the man while feeling a bit frightened. But, I wasn't going to let it show. I wanted some answers, and I wanted them now.
"I was wondering," I started, making the man turn around, but avoid making eye contact. "If you could tell me why you've been giving me silent treatment." I finished firmly and straightened up completely. "I honestly have no idea what you're talking about." He said coldly while looking at Clover's papers on the table.
Those words made my blood boil. No idea what I was talking about?! Saying that was always the easiest… "Interesting." I said sarcastically while playing with my bracelet. "Then why are you pretending that you don't know a thing about it?" I asked a bit icily. "Because, I don't. Now, in case you haven't noticed, I'm busy." The man said coldly while still looking at Clover's drawings.
"Busy looking at Clover's drawings? What is the next excuse?" I asked with a raised eyebrow. "I understand now." Jerry said simply, again, looking at the drawings. "What?" I asked carefully. "You're simply jealous of Clover, and you're using this as an excuse in order not to make it so obvious!"
EXCUSE ME?! How dare he accuse me of being jealous?! "Bullshit." I said icily while clenching my fists. "I beg your pardon?" The man demanded, again not taking his eyes off the drawings. "You heard it loud and clear. Me being jealous of Clover is bullshit." I retorted while trying to stay calm, but shaking with anger.
"But why, when it's so painfully obvious?" Jerry finally looked away from the drawings and made a brief eye contact. "Listen," I started while trying to control my anger. "There are reasons why I'm jealous of all three of them, but I'm not jealous of Clover because of this! If anything, both she and you are acting weird. But you know what? You not seeing the former and refusing to admit the latter is not my problem!"
"You're wrong." The man said coldly, and I was glaring at him by now. "You're right. I thought you would also notice Clover acting weird, but…" I was cut off. "Just go away Lilette, and leave me be." He said icily. "Gladly." I said just as icily and ran out of the room.
"Wait, you're serious when you say he accused you of being jealous of Clover?!" Sam couldn't believe it later that day when we were at their house. "I'm fucking serious." I repeated angrily for the hundredth time today. "I think he's using it as an excuse not to talk about the silent treatment." Alex mused and Sam nodded in agreement. "That's exactly what he's doing. And it's really stupid…" She trailed off.
She then looked at me. "Are you really, really sure you haven't done anything?" She asked. I nodded in annoyance. "How many times do I have to say that again?!" I demanded. "Sorry, I'm just thinking." Sam explained.
"Overwork?" Alex suggested. Both Sam and I frowned. "We've been using the excuse of Jerry being overworked way too many times…" Sam pointed out. "I know," Alex agreed. "I just thought saying it again would show us just that. But anyway, it's not our fault Jer is a workaholic!" She then argued. "You're right about that one." Sam agreed.
Suddenly, she looked at me again. And, her eyes widened and her jaw dropped to the floor. She was gaping at me for at least a minute with a gasp, and Alex and I were worried by now. "Sammy, are you okay?" Alex asked her.
Sam finally picked her jaw from the floor. "I'm fine, it's just that…" She started. "Lily has just reminded me of the situation with Clover… Yeah, that's it!" She smiled sheepishly. "When she put a hand on my shoulder, she left something green on the jacket. It'd be best if we analyzed it at the organization tonight." "Alright then." Alex and I simply nodded.
Well, that's part 1. Until next time!