Agent U's Partner: Chapter 3
One Wild Ride
Down in the garage Agent Elle and her partner, Agent X were about to take off on a new assignment in their SUV when they heard arguing coming from behind some parked LTDs.
"…and I told you that we're NOT going anywhere in that pathetic excuse for a vehicle!" a woman's voice shouted. Elle knew that voice and cringed when she thought of how angry Agent W must be with her, Zed had neglected to mention that the field agent in need of a partner was none other than the infuriating Agent U!
"LTDs are what ALL official MIB agents drive!" Agent U's voice rang out.
"Oh come down off your high horse U!" Agent W yelled, "As much as you'd like to think so, you are NOT Zed's right hand man! Although you certainly do enough boot licking to be his doormat!"
Agent X and Elle walked around the vehicles and saw U and W in a heated argument. "Please tell me that THEY'RE not the ones that we're supposed to go on assignment with!" X groaned in a low tone to Elle.
Elle sighed, "That's them Cowboy, Agent W's the new field agent…and Agent U's new partner!"
"I almost feel sorry for that poor human! Not that I'm going soft or anything, it's just that being partners with U can send a person off to the MIB Mental Ward in a heartbeat!"
Agent U and Agent W ignored them as they continued to fight, "What is with your obsession with breaking every rule and regulation in this manual?!"
"What's with your obsession to live by them ALL?!" W retorted.
"Well excuse me for wanting to be a good agent!"
"Well excuse me for wanting you to DROP DEAD!"
U seemed hurt by this last comment so W paused to apologize; seeing a break in the argument X marched over and cut in between them, "Now if you two don't mind, we've got a renegade alien to catch!"
Agent U and W looked at each other for a moment before U walked over to one of the SUVs and got in, "Fine…but I'M driving." he said as he closed his door with a smile.
Agent W smiled back as she got in the passenger's side and fastened her seatbelt.
Elle and X sighed and returned to their SUV. Two minutes later both vehicles had left the garage and were heading for an apartment duplex downtown.
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"So," W inquired, "what's this assignment all about?"
"A lady in apt.42A made a distress call at approximately 2:53PM this afternoon claiming that an alien moth had flown in her living room window and attacked her dog." U informed her.
"Nice details," W snickered, "You really are wound too tight aren't you?"
"Who told you that?"
"Some of the other agents gossip about stuff around me while they're waiting for a message or filling out paperwork," W explained.
"Do they ALL talk that way about me?" U asked, trying to pretend that he didn't care.
Agent W just shrugged.
U tried to focus on the task at hand but he had to know, "So what do you say?"
"About what?"
"About what the other agents say about me?"
W thought for a minute, he had made a nice gesture before, allowing her to have an SUV instead of an LTD as a vehicle, she didn't want to be rude to him now. "I usually don't say anything…but for the record, I don't think that that clown Agent Jay has much room to talk. He gets less respect than you do and he's lacking WAY more in the brain department!"
U laughed in spite of himself. Then he paused, Agent W had actually given him a compliment--sort of--wow, a female agent had given HIM a compliment! U blushed at the thought.
W looked at her partner quizzically, what was up with him all of a sudden? She had to admit, he DID look kind of cute…when he wasn't obsessing over his rulebook and stuff.
In the other SUV Agent X was, as usual, driving like a maniac and scaring the crap out of Agent Elle!
"X! Would you SLOW DOWN ALREADY?!" she screamed. Honestly, what was with him?
"You want that thing to get away?!" he yelled back as he hit yet ANOTHER curb!
"Do you want to be brought back to Headquarters in a body bag?!" she shrieked.
"Is that a threat 'little ears'?"
"If the needle on that speedometer doesn't drop BELOW 150mph IT'LL BE A PROMISE!!"
"HUMANS!" X muttered as he let off the accelerator.
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The agents arrived at the apartment duplex and hustled up the flight of stairs. The elevators were out of order, figures. Once they reached the door to apartment 42A, X kicked open the door and instantly the agents heard the eccentric cries of the woman coming from the bathroom.
Agent U walked over and tugged at the door, "It's locked, Ma'am?"
"There he goes with THAT word again!" W mumbled.
"Public Relations Bureau Division 6!" Elle called out over the woman's panicked cries.
"It-it's in t-the living room," she finally managed to say.
"Let's check it out!" X said as he and Elle rounded the corner while U and W tried to coax the woman out of her bathroom.
"I don't see it anywhere…"X said in an annoyed tone.
"I DO!" Elle shouted as she pointed to the ceiling fan.
The giant moth alien screeched fiercely at the two agents as they drew their icers.
"Elle LOOKOUT!" X screamed as he shoved his partner to the floor. The moth swept down from it's hanging position on the ceiling fan and narrowly missed snatching Elle up in its claws!
The creature continued to fly into the next room looking for a hostage…or maybe just lunch! "U! W! GET DOWN!" Elle and X both called from the floor.
"Huh?!" W said as she glanced over her shoulder. A HUGE MOTH!!! She tried to turn and run but it was too late…the moth grabbed her and burst through the window.
"Agent W!" U called as he rushed out onto the ledge, drawing his icer as he stepped over the broken glass.
"U! HELP!!!" she called out frantically as the creature lifted her up higher into the air. She REALLY hoped that those icers had a LONG range!
X and Elle rushed out onto the ledge as well, X slipped on the edge of the ledge and he yelled as he started to lose his balance! He stared down at the street and found that he wasn't falling, he turned and saw that Elle had caught him by the collar.
"Thanks," he muttered as she helped him regain his balance.
"Don't mention it," she replied quickly, she REALLY hoped that he wouldn't make a big deal out of this.
X looked down at her silently for a moment until Agent U shouted, "AGENTS!!! AGENT W'S LIFE IS AT STAKE HERE!!!"
"Hold on U," X scoffed, MAN! that human really knew how to ruin a moment!"….we'll save your girlfriend!"
GIRLFRIEND?! Agent U huffed and turned back towards the moth and W, she wasn't his girlfriend! Not really….If he could just get a clean shot at that moth without sending Agent W plunging a thousand feet to her death, she would ride his case forever about that!
Suddenly he saw a beam from one of the icers shoot towards the moth, it was a direct hit! Agent W screamed as she was released from the creature's frozen grasp and began to fall.
"UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
U turned around and saw Elle glaring at X, "What?! I saw a shot, so I took it!"
"Agent X!!! I'll see to it that you're stuck with filing duty for the REST OF YOUR LIFE FOR THIS!!!" U screamed as he stormed over to him, forgetting that he was on a narrow ledge.
"U?!" Agent W's voice suddenly called.
U rushed over to the other side of the ledge and called back, "Agent W?!"
He looked down and saw that she was clinging to the hanging ladder of a fire escape. "Get me down from here!!!" she demanded as he crossed over to the fire escape and bent over the side to pull her up.
"You're okay!!" he exclaimed, clearly relieved, as he hugged her.
She froze for a moment before returning his embrace. Elle and X smiled down at them as she looked up. W blushed then laughed, "Can't say the same for the moth though!"
Agent U loosened his arms from around her as he spun around and saw X. "YOU!!!" he shouted at the top of his lungs, "YOU COULD HAVE KILLED HER!!!"
U made a move to strangle X, who merely crossed his arms and refused to budge, but Agent W grabbed U's shoulder and held him back, WOW!, she thought, He's A LOT stronger than I thought he'd be!
Elle stepped between the two male agents and held up her communicator, Zed's face appeared on the screen, "Elle, X, U, W? Have you handled the situation with the giant moth yet?!"
"Uh-yes Sir," U stammered.
"Oh boy," W moaned, "he's gone back into boy scout mode again!"
U shot her a look, and she was surprised to see that he was smiling! "We've got the situation under control Sir," he stated.
"Good, now get back to Headquarters ASAP!! I've got a NEW assignment for you four that I KNOW you're just gonna LOVE!"
Elle closed her communicator as the clean up crew arrived. The woman in the bathroom was getting her memory erased by two of the other agents that had just arrived when Elle, X, U, and W stepped out and began to descend the stairs.
"Wonder what he meant by THAT?!" X said to no one in particular as they all exited the apartment duplex.
Agent U shot X a menacing glance, he had a feeling that he knew EXACTLY what Zed meant!
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