Plain and simple, don't plagiarize or sue me, unless you'd like Butch here to punch out all your teeth (Butch "Grrr…"). Some characters are mine, others are Delia's or Chanda's, the rest (and originals) belong to MIB The Animated Series.

Written in the Stars: A Destined Romance

Chapter 24: A Revealing Dream

Down by the resort area was a large parking lot in front of a huge mall. The MIB vehicles were parked here. It was a stake out. The agents were waiting for Ziphron to make his move, once they discovered which resort he was using as a hideout, they could bust him and save Elle. They all just prayed that they wouldn't be too late!

X was getting impatient, he had been sitting in that sweltering black SUV for over TWO HOURS, suffering in the heat…and his human suit wasn't helping. He leaned forward onto the steering wheel. Chassidy sat beside him, staring out the window at the largest of the resorts, she had a gut feeling that Elle was somewhere in that building.

She looked over at her brother and sighed, he was starting to nod off. They had to be careful and hide at the other end of the parking lot, otherwise the other agents would see them. She and X would be in BIG trouble for disobeying a direct order from Zed!

X yawned a little, the heat was beginning to get the better of him. He could feel himself drifting off. His eyes closed, for what he intended to only be a minute, but he dozed off.

"What?! What do you mean we're being assigned to help some new MIB agent? I thought those guys never needed help? They're supposed to be the most elite creatures on their planet!" a slightly younger X exclaimed to his partner…Ziphron.

"I know," Ziphron grumbled, "but this one needs all the help she can get."

"Wait a minute…" X blurted out, "you mean we've just been assigned to charter around some girl agent all day?!"

"Yep," Ziphron sighed, "until this case is done, the chief says that we've got to deal with this incident, and if we don't, he'll reopen the investigation about a certain motor vehicle accident…"

"That wasn't my fault!" X cried defensively, "Those city workers shouldn't have left their supplies lying out in the middle of the street! Especially when I'm in the middle of a car chase!"

"Those were 'road closed' signs, X." Ziphron muttered.

X was about to object again when the agent they were waiting for stepped off the transport. X's mouth hung open as he stared at the raven haired beauty, he had no idea that human females could be so…attractive!

She spotted them and came over, it was like she was gliding on air. X gulped and hoped that his face wasn't giving away his surprised emotions, her gray eyes were so captivating, he could stand there and gaze into them all day.

She smiled up at him, oh how he adored that smile! "Ah, you two gentlemen must be the peacekeepers that the MIB have assigned me to work with. I'm Agent F, so pleased to meet both of you."

X looked at her hand for a moment and then recalled something about handshakes being a form of greetings on Earth. He shyly shook her hand, her lovely pale skin was so soft and warm.

They discussed the case that they would all be working on, X was too absorbed in Agent F's beauty to notice that she and Ziphron seemed to be strangely familiar with each other.

"He seems to have quite an infatuation with you, my dear." Ziphron chuckled as X walked away to get a vehicle.

"Perfect," Agent F smirked, "that will fit right into our plans…"

"How so?"

"I'll string that dipstick along just long enough for us to finish this little scheme, then we can leave the love struck moron to take the fall!" F laughed.

"I love it when you talk like that," Ziphron smiled, "Now that we've got someone to take the wrap for us, nothing will stand in our way! The JeeDangian government will soon crumble and we'll be wealthy beyond our wildest dreams."

Time lapsed in X's dream, it become less of a memory and more of a nightmare as he recalled the horrible day when he found out the truth about the two people who he should've been able to trust the most!

"Ziphron!" X stormed into their office as Ziphron looked up from the pile of paperwork on his desk.

"Yes?"

Where to begin? X was so furious and hurt by what he had just found out from a Quantillian gang member, and the lie detector test that he was hooked to at the time made it impossible for what he confessed to be a lie. "Why?" he blurted out.

"Why what?" Ziphron asked irritated.

"Why did you lie to me? How could you? I'm your partner! And even worse…you knew that F was in on it too, the whole time!" X exclaimed.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Ziphron said calmly.

X was furious! "The whole conspiracy!" he screamed, "You and F were the ringleaders! You were selling out the entire JeeDangian government, what were you thinking?!"

"He wasn't thinking, Agent X…" a familiar voice came, "he was following MY orders."

X spun around and saw Agent F standing in front of the now closed door. "What?"

"He works for me." she replied simply, "And now you're going to take the fall for us both."

"But you told me five minutes ago that you had nothing to do with this! You said that Ziphron tricked you!" X couldn't believe what he had gotten himself into.

"All lies," she said indifferently, "I had to say SOMETHING to get you alone."

"What?"

"I knew you would want to confront your partner first, before saying anything to your superiors, just like you did with me." F smiled.

"And what a fine stooge you've been throughout this whole thing X," Ziphron sneered, "If only you had kept your long pointy nose out of our business long enough for us to finish our little scheme!"

"You'll pay for that of course," F added, "but first you'll take the wrap."

X was horrified, how could he have been so stupid as to have let these two crooks trick him?! "I'm not taking the wrap for anybody!"

"That's what you think," F grinned as Ziphron snuck up behind X and conked his partner over the head with a crowbar that he had hidden under his desk for this 'special occasion'.

"What now?" Ziphron asked standing over the unconscious X.

"Now we turn him over to your superiors," F replied as Ziphron hoisted X up onto his shoulders, "they'll buy our word over his and the most you'll get is a stain on your record. He'll take the fall and most likely lose his job, then we can off the meddler!"

And that was just how it had went down too. X had been fired and sent to the MIB on Earth. Ziphron had been reprimanded slightly and F had vanished. X swore that he'd never trust another human. He hated all humans now! But then, Elle had come along. X couldn't bring himself to hate her, and despite all his efforts, he had fallen in love with her. But it wasn't the sort of thing that he had thought he had with F, no, this was real love!

X grunted and snapped awake, Chassidy turned to her brother with a confused expression, "What?"

"Elle," X whispered, "I've got to get her back!" he opened the door and got out, "She's in that large resort! I've got to go rescue her!"

Chassidy shrugged and followed her brother.

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