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VILE Headquarters
"I'm sorry I couldn't get the egg we wanted before I got arrested by
those Acme detectives..." Hope rambled on.
Carmen was starting to get irritated by Hope's apologies from their
botched heist three weeks ago. She had spent the past two weeks thinking how
to break out Hope and she gets rambling apologies from a fledging VILE agent?
"Carmen, I didn't mean to! I mean, I knew the two of us weren't
expecting Acme agents to show up, but I couldn't help--" Hope was interrupted
when Carmen looked at her with a cold eye.
"Hope, calm down. You're just a beginner. There are always beginnings
which we mess up, and then we get better at what we do. I'm not going to fire
you unless you're deliberately trying my patience. Now, I'll see what we can
do to improve your skills," Carmen said. "Now, I need some business to attend
to."
Turning to the computer, Carmen saw the latest headlines scrolling
across the screen. "Bank robbery somewhere in the US, murderer sentenced to
death..." Carmen read. "Jail Break from Pelican Bay?"
"Huh?" Hope came over and looked at the computer screen. "Who's this
Lee Jordan person?"
"Old associate of mine's. He's up to no good again. Rather long story
I rather not tell," Carmen said.
**********
Colorado State Penitiery
Ivy and Armando C-5ed out to hear sirens of a jailbreak.
"Ivy! Armando!" Billy Running Bird came over with a jeep. "Kassandra
and Lee broke Cruiser right before you guys got out of the C-5!"
"What are we waiting for then?" Ivy and Armando got into the jeep and
Billy gunned down the accelorator.
Armando took out a pair of binoculars and spotted a trio of one blond
guy, and two brunettes in a speeding Ferarri. "They're heading out to the
freeway!" he shouted.
Kassandra looked behind her. "Uncle Lee, how fast are we going?" she
asked.
"60. Why?" Lee asked.
"Acme's after us now." She got out a pair of binoculars. "Oh crap...
Uncle Lee, try for the nearest exit clocked at 90 miles an hour. They're
gaining on us!"
"Okay, but don't blame me if we wind up hitting the guardrail!"
"Billy, isn't there a way to go any faster?" Ivy shouted over the
wind.
"We're already at 90 miles per hour! And it looks like the three are
headed for the exit!" Billy shouted back.
Just then a car suddenly cut in front of them. "Heads up!" someone
yelled out.
"Tell me this isn't going to be good..." Armando muttered under his
breath as Billy swerved to avoid the car. After a near hit on the guardrail,
the three detectives took a glance at the exit. Kassandra, Lee, and Cruiser
were already out of range.
"Great. There's only one thing left to do," Ivy said, shaking her
head.
"What's that?" Billy asked.
"How are we going to explain this to the Chief?"
**********
Detroit, Michigan
Richard's phone started ringing. "Hello?" he mumbled sleepily.
"Rick? It's Natalie," the voice on the line answered.
"Natalie, it's too early! Why are you calling me at this time?"
"Rick, put the phone down, you're disturbing me," Christine murmured.
"Lee broke out of jail. Kassandra helped him," Natalie said.
That got Richard's attention. "Lee broke out of jail?" he asked.
"He did, little bro."
"You haven't told Vivien, haven't you?" Richard asked.
"Not yet. Don't tell the kids Lee broke out of jail." Natalie hung up.
Christine sat up in their bed. "Who was it, Rick?"
"My sister Natalie from Chicago. My brother Lee is out of prison." He
looked at Christine. "She told me not to tell Lynda and Andy about it."
**********
New York, New York
Vivien's phone rang. "I'll get it!" three voices rang out.
"I've got it!" the youngest girl shouted. "Hello?"
"Faustina?" Natalie asked.
"Hi Aunt Natty!" Faustina shrieked happily.
"Faustina, can you get your mom on the phone?" Natalie asked.
"Okay." By then Vivien had come over and took the phone from Faustina.
"Hello? Sorry about Faustina," Vivien said.
"No, sa'right, little sis. I've god bad news Benson, Beatrice, and
Faustina probably won't like."
"What happened?"
"Lee broke out of jail. Kassandra's with him. I've already told
Richard and Christine about Lee's jailbreak."
"Shoot...Listen, I gotta go make dinner because Wilson's coming over.
Good luck with Kassandra." Vivien hung up.
**********
Acme Dectective Agency
"What happened?" Zack asked.
"They got away," Armando answered, depressed.
"This Kassandra girl is good," Billy said. "How else would she be
able to break Lee and Cruiser out of jail?"
"You have a point there, Billy," Ivy said. "She wasn't like this when
we were kids. Competitive, yes, downright mean, no."
"Anything the three left behind, sis?" Zack asked.
"No. What about the Chief?"
"I'm doing fine. I saw what happened to the three of you in Colorado.
You were good even though the three got away," the Chief said.
"But Chief, it's not the same..." Ivy said, drifting off. Covering
her face with her hands, Ivy ran outside.
"What happened to her?" Tatiana asked.
"I dunno. I'll go check." Zack left the room.
"Ivy?" Zack asked. Turning a corner, he heard someone quietly weeping
in an alley.
"Sis?" he asked cautiously.
"Zack? Is that you? If it is, go back to Acme. I can take care of
myself." Ivy's voice answered.
"Ivy, what's wrong?" Zack approached to Ivy carefully. "Did we insult
you?"
"No, it's not that. It's about Kassandra."
"Ivy, what Kassandra did today or to Lee has nothing--"
"It's not that, little bro. If I had let her win that karate
championship years ago, this wouldn't have happened." Ivy sighed. "It's my
fault. I caused all this trouble. I should go back and tell the Chief I'm
leaving Acme."
Zack took Ivy's hand. "Its not your fault, sis. You were basically
better than Kassandra. But if you leave Acme, who'll help put Lee behind
bars? Who'll help me get out of trouble with Lee or Kassandra or Cruiser or
maybe even Carmen's goons? Where would all the competition between you and
Carmen go?"
Ivy paused. Two passerbys walked past the siblings, singing, "If I go
crazy then will you still call me Superman, if I'm alive and well will you be
there holding my hand, I'll keep you by my side..."
"That song describes the current situation," Zack commented.
"You called me strong, you called me weak, but still your secrets I
will keep..." the second passerby said.
"You took for granted all the times I never let you down, you
stumbled in and bumped your head, if not for me..." Zack sang along.
"Then you'd be dead," Ivy continued. "You're right, little bro. Let's
go back."
**********
VILE Headquarters
August 15, 2000
Nighttime
A figure stepped into Sara Bellum's lab. 'Just the way the Professor
likes,' the figure thought to herself. The first thing she did was to spray
paint the ceiling.
Going to the rat cages she found some of them active, some sleeping.
'Lab animals shouldn't be caged up. It's so inhumane.' She nearly laughed at
the thought. 'Come on, Kassandra, what are you thinking?! That's so ironic!'
Opening cage by cage, she released the rats. "You were born free, and
you'll stay free," she cooed, as the rats scrambled out of the cages.
Going back to the entrance, she made sure it had looked as though no
one had gone in. 'Plan A done, start Plan B.'
Next day
Carmen looked over blueprints of a new VILE hideout. "Hm..." she put
her pencil down.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" a
scream pierced through the headquarters and cracked windows. Carmen was
startled by it and immediately headed to the direction where the scream had
come from.
"Sara Bellum? What happened?" Carmen was surprised to find Sara
standing in a pile of debris, science equipment, books, and rats running amok.
"Sssommeonnee brroke into my lab lasst night and releezed all my rats
out!" A rat caught Sara Bellum's eye. "Gotcha!"
Carmen shook her head. Then she looked on the ceiling. Written on it
was "KM and LJ were here."
VILE Headquarters
"I'm sorry I couldn't get the egg we wanted before I got arrested by
those Acme detectives..." Hope rambled on.
Carmen was starting to get irritated by Hope's apologies from their
botched heist three weeks ago. She had spent the past two weeks thinking how
to break out Hope and she gets rambling apologies from a fledging VILE agent?
"Carmen, I didn't mean to! I mean, I knew the two of us weren't
expecting Acme agents to show up, but I couldn't help--" Hope was interrupted
when Carmen looked at her with a cold eye.
"Hope, calm down. You're just a beginner. There are always beginnings
which we mess up, and then we get better at what we do. I'm not going to fire
you unless you're deliberately trying my patience. Now, I'll see what we can
do to improve your skills," Carmen said. "Now, I need some business to attend
to."
Turning to the computer, Carmen saw the latest headlines scrolling
across the screen. "Bank robbery somewhere in the US, murderer sentenced to
death..." Carmen read. "Jail Break from Pelican Bay?"
"Huh?" Hope came over and looked at the computer screen. "Who's this
Lee Jordan person?"
"Old associate of mine's. He's up to no good again. Rather long story
I rather not tell," Carmen said.
**********
Colorado State Penitiery
Ivy and Armando C-5ed out to hear sirens of a jailbreak.
"Ivy! Armando!" Billy Running Bird came over with a jeep. "Kassandra
and Lee broke Cruiser right before you guys got out of the C-5!"
"What are we waiting for then?" Ivy and Armando got into the jeep and
Billy gunned down the accelorator.
Armando took out a pair of binoculars and spotted a trio of one blond
guy, and two brunettes in a speeding Ferarri. "They're heading out to the
freeway!" he shouted.
Kassandra looked behind her. "Uncle Lee, how fast are we going?" she
asked.
"60. Why?" Lee asked.
"Acme's after us now." She got out a pair of binoculars. "Oh crap...
Uncle Lee, try for the nearest exit clocked at 90 miles an hour. They're
gaining on us!"
"Okay, but don't blame me if we wind up hitting the guardrail!"
"Billy, isn't there a way to go any faster?" Ivy shouted over the
wind.
"We're already at 90 miles per hour! And it looks like the three are
headed for the exit!" Billy shouted back.
Just then a car suddenly cut in front of them. "Heads up!" someone
yelled out.
"Tell me this isn't going to be good..." Armando muttered under his
breath as Billy swerved to avoid the car. After a near hit on the guardrail,
the three detectives took a glance at the exit. Kassandra, Lee, and Cruiser
were already out of range.
"Great. There's only one thing left to do," Ivy said, shaking her
head.
"What's that?" Billy asked.
"How are we going to explain this to the Chief?"
**********
Detroit, Michigan
Richard's phone started ringing. "Hello?" he mumbled sleepily.
"Rick? It's Natalie," the voice on the line answered.
"Natalie, it's too early! Why are you calling me at this time?"
"Rick, put the phone down, you're disturbing me," Christine murmured.
"Lee broke out of jail. Kassandra helped him," Natalie said.
That got Richard's attention. "Lee broke out of jail?" he asked.
"He did, little bro."
"You haven't told Vivien, haven't you?" Richard asked.
"Not yet. Don't tell the kids Lee broke out of jail." Natalie hung up.
Christine sat up in their bed. "Who was it, Rick?"
"My sister Natalie from Chicago. My brother Lee is out of prison." He
looked at Christine. "She told me not to tell Lynda and Andy about it."
**********
New York, New York
Vivien's phone rang. "I'll get it!" three voices rang out.
"I've got it!" the youngest girl shouted. "Hello?"
"Faustina?" Natalie asked.
"Hi Aunt Natty!" Faustina shrieked happily.
"Faustina, can you get your mom on the phone?" Natalie asked.
"Okay." By then Vivien had come over and took the phone from Faustina.
"Hello? Sorry about Faustina," Vivien said.
"No, sa'right, little sis. I've god bad news Benson, Beatrice, and
Faustina probably won't like."
"What happened?"
"Lee broke out of jail. Kassandra's with him. I've already told
Richard and Christine about Lee's jailbreak."
"Shoot...Listen, I gotta go make dinner because Wilson's coming over.
Good luck with Kassandra." Vivien hung up.
**********
Acme Dectective Agency
"What happened?" Zack asked.
"They got away," Armando answered, depressed.
"This Kassandra girl is good," Billy said. "How else would she be
able to break Lee and Cruiser out of jail?"
"You have a point there, Billy," Ivy said. "She wasn't like this when
we were kids. Competitive, yes, downright mean, no."
"Anything the three left behind, sis?" Zack asked.
"No. What about the Chief?"
"I'm doing fine. I saw what happened to the three of you in Colorado.
You were good even though the three got away," the Chief said.
"But Chief, it's not the same..." Ivy said, drifting off. Covering
her face with her hands, Ivy ran outside.
"What happened to her?" Tatiana asked.
"I dunno. I'll go check." Zack left the room.
"Ivy?" Zack asked. Turning a corner, he heard someone quietly weeping
in an alley.
"Sis?" he asked cautiously.
"Zack? Is that you? If it is, go back to Acme. I can take care of
myself." Ivy's voice answered.
"Ivy, what's wrong?" Zack approached to Ivy carefully. "Did we insult
you?"
"No, it's not that. It's about Kassandra."
"Ivy, what Kassandra did today or to Lee has nothing--"
"It's not that, little bro. If I had let her win that karate
championship years ago, this wouldn't have happened." Ivy sighed. "It's my
fault. I caused all this trouble. I should go back and tell the Chief I'm
leaving Acme."
Zack took Ivy's hand. "Its not your fault, sis. You were basically
better than Kassandra. But if you leave Acme, who'll help put Lee behind
bars? Who'll help me get out of trouble with Lee or Kassandra or Cruiser or
maybe even Carmen's goons? Where would all the competition between you and
Carmen go?"
Ivy paused. Two passerbys walked past the siblings, singing, "If I go
crazy then will you still call me Superman, if I'm alive and well will you be
there holding my hand, I'll keep you by my side..."
"That song describes the current situation," Zack commented.
"You called me strong, you called me weak, but still your secrets I
will keep..." the second passerby said.
"You took for granted all the times I never let you down, you
stumbled in and bumped your head, if not for me..." Zack sang along.
"Then you'd be dead," Ivy continued. "You're right, little bro. Let's
go back."
**********
VILE Headquarters
August 15, 2000
Nighttime
A figure stepped into Sara Bellum's lab. 'Just the way the Professor
likes,' the figure thought to herself. The first thing she did was to spray
paint the ceiling.
Going to the rat cages she found some of them active, some sleeping.
'Lab animals shouldn't be caged up. It's so inhumane.' She nearly laughed at
the thought. 'Come on, Kassandra, what are you thinking?! That's so ironic!'
Opening cage by cage, she released the rats. "You were born free, and
you'll stay free," she cooed, as the rats scrambled out of the cages.
Going back to the entrance, she made sure it had looked as though no
one had gone in. 'Plan A done, start Plan B.'
Next day
Carmen looked over blueprints of a new VILE hideout. "Hm..." she put
her pencil down.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!" a
scream pierced through the headquarters and cracked windows. Carmen was
startled by it and immediately headed to the direction where the scream had
come from.
"Sara Bellum? What happened?" Carmen was surprised to find Sara
standing in a pile of debris, science equipment, books, and rats running amok.
"Sssommeonnee brroke into my lab lasst night and releezed all my rats
out!" A rat caught Sara Bellum's eye. "Gotcha!"
Carmen shook her head. Then she looked on the ceiling. Written on it
was "KM and LJ were here."