Agent Di in "Attack of the Saucers from Glorp!" Part 3
Agent Chaseryle entered the terminal and glanced cautiously around at the vast building that was known throughout the universe as the secret organization of those mysterious men in black, the MIB.
"Humph," he shrugged, "I expected more."
"Like maybe a banner saying welcome JeeDangian know it all?"
Chaseryle jumped at the sound of the familiar voice, "Agent--?"
"It's X now," the taller JeeDangian in the black suit replied, he was standing next to a blonde human with pursed lips and crossed arms.
"And this pain in the ears is my partner, Agent Elle." he tossed a clawed finger in her direction.
"Nice to meet you." she almost snapped, glaring angrily at X.
"Just pray you get a better partner than I did," he whispered to Chaseryle.
"Uh-huh," Elle scoffed, "I heard that Cowboy, now if you'll point your little friend in the direction of Zed's office maybe we can go out on patrol and get some REAL work done!"
X sighed and lead Chaseryle to Zed's office, he stopped at the door, "This is the place, it was nice seeing you again."
"Same here," Chaseryle returned the compliment and then entered the office.
"Do you think he'll make it here?" Elle asked in an unconcerned tone to X.
"I didn't know him long," X replied as if he didn't care whether she was listening or not, "He was a rookie when I left, but he had a lot of spunk."
"As long as he's nothing like you." Elle muttered.
"I heard that!" X snapped and followed the snickering agent down to the garage.
*****
"So, Agent Chaseryle," Zed said without glancing up from the personnel file he was reading, "welcome to the team."
"It's good to be here Sir," Chaseryle replied.
"I trust you had a pleasant commute?"
"Yes Sir," 'What was with all this small talk, why didn't this guy just get down to business?'
"Relax Agent," Zed chuckled eyeing the impatient peacekeeper as he fidgeted around in his seat.
"Just anxious to get out in the field Sir," Chaseryle replied hastily.
"Well," Zed sighed, an idea forming in the back of his mind, "I'd like to send you out there Agent but right now there aren't that many agents in need of a partner, and it's against policy for me to send you out on a case alone."
"Isn't there anyone you can partner me with Sir?" Chaseryle begged, "Anyone will be fine, I belong out there!" he gestured grandly towards Zed's window where the exit doors were that lead to the alien populated city, "Where all the action is!"
"Well Agent," Zed thoughtfully stroked his chin, "there is one new agent that comes to mind, she's a saucy little red head that I put to work just this morning."
"Fine!" Chaseryle exclaimed, "she sounds fine, now can I please get out in the field?"
"Patience Agent, are you sure you can handle her?" Zed smiled, "Maybe I ought to stick you down with some of the paper pushers for a week or so first?"
"A WEEK!" Chaseryle yelped, "No Sir, please! Just partner me with this agent, I know we can work together! I can't be stuck behind some desk or file cabinet, I have to be out there fighting crime and solving cases! It's what I was born to do!"
"Agent," Zed began with an ear to ear smile, "that's exactly what I wanted to hear!"
*****
Zed led Agent Chaseryle down the hallway and stopped in front of the office where Agents Di, A, and Delia were 'hard at work'. He reached out for the doorknob and then turned to Chaseryle. "Why don't you do the honors?"
"Uh, okay." he hesitantly reached out and pushed open the door, he literally had to push because there were several stacks of papers piled up against the door.
"Whooooaaaa!!!!!" a female's voice cried as she crashed down into another pile of crinkled papers.
"AGENT DEILA!" Zed snapped as Chaseryle's jaw hung open. "What in the name of Neptune's moons it going on here?!"
Delia dug her way up out of the mess, "Uh, heehee, we need a bigger trashcan?"
"Agent A? Agent Di?" Zed shouted, looking around the cluttered room, fuming at the mess, and seeing no other agents.
"Over here Sir!" the muffled voice of Agent A called.
Zed slapped his forehead, this was just great, he'd have to rent a bulldozer just to clean up this mess!
"I'm coming," Delia called and slid on one of the many pieces of paperwork on the no longer visible floor. "AAAAHHH!!!" CRASH!
Chaseryle and Zed cringed and closed an eye as the shambled agent collided with a wall.
"I'm okay," she muttered before falling backwards.
"These are the best of the best of the best?" Chaseryle asked, baffled as Agent Delia staggered to her feet and grabbed both of Agent A's hands, tugging hard to pull her free of her paper prison.
"Sad isn't it?" Zed muttered with a frown. "I'm afraid to ask, where's Agent Di?"
"I'm…uh…over here Sir." A quaking voice called as Agent Di emerged from a mound of wadded up paperwork and carefully picked her way over to where the two men (well, man and alien male) were standing. She stepped on the same piece of stray paperwork as Agent Delia had, (what are the odds?), and slid into Chaseryle.
He caught her and knelt down staring in disbelief at the red headed human in his arms. "Uh," Agent Di laughed, "nice catch."
"Agent Chaseryle," Zed smiled in spite of his pounding headache, "Meet Agent Di, Agent Di, meet Agent Chaseryle, now Agent Chase, your new partner."
"Whee!" Delia exclaimed happily after pulling out Agent A, "You're a field agent now!"
"Uh…okay," Di stammered. "Could you turn me loose now?" she asked Chaseryle…ur…Agent Chase.
"Oh, uh." Chase stuttered, blushing and helped the red head to her feet, "Sorry."
"No biggie," Agent Di laughed, "So when do you get fitted for your human suit?"
"Do I really look that bad?" Chase laughed.
"Hmm…" Di mused and looked him up and down, circling him and seemingly scrutinizing over his every detail as Agents Delia and A laughed and Zed sighed and left the room.
"Well," she paused and laughed, "I'm not really a very good judge of…uh-"
"JeeDangians," A almost spat.
"Yeah, JeeDarnians, but you look okay to me." she smiled and slapped him on the back, "But hey Wrangler, it's the rules!"
"Wrangler?" Delia snickered, "It's almost like Elle calling X, Cowboy!"
"Pet names, YUCK!" A gagged.
"Oh like you and Y don't kid around the same way?" Delia teased.
"You know sometimes I could just punch you!" A snapped, "And R certainly seems to hold your favor!"
"HEY!" Delia shouted, "Don't even go there!"
"Uh…" Di laughed, "Maybe we'd better get outta here before things get ugly?" she pulled Chase's arm and yanked him out the door.
"Man, the tension in there's so thick you could cut it with a Spetalian Wicksift blade!" Chase muttered tugging at the collar of his silverish flight suit.
"If you two are quite finished with all the puns and jokes," Zed interrupted from the next doorway down, "then maybe we can get down to business?"
"Yes Sir," Agent Di exclaimed and snapped into an attention stance, saluting.
Chase shook his head and stared down at the comical little human, she was definitely going to be a handful. But those beautiful sparkling dark blue eyes were so entrancing that he knew it was all going to be worth it.
"Your first assignment will be to check up on an odd disturbance report from a water treatment plant just outside the city." Zed informed them.
"What's so odd about it?" Di asked.
"The workers say that they've got some strange creature crawling around in the pipes, the company hired an exterminator to come over there and get the thing out and…"
"And?" Chase prompted him.
"…and he never came out of the pipe."
"Whoa." Di muttered, "and you want us to go crawling around through there with that thing?"
"In a word," Zed replied, "yes."
Agent Di gulped and Chase beamed with pleasure, "Finally! A case with some action!"
"Oh great," Di mumbled, "certain doom here we come!"
Some crashing in the office caught Zed's attention and he rushed over to the door, "I'm going to have to break this up, you two get down to that treatment plant, pronto!"
"Yes Sir!" Chase and Di chorused and ran off towards the garage.
Zed groaned as he opened the door and a paper airplane soared over his head. "Agents!"
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