Things Couldn't get any worse: From Aron and Amanda
Part 5: From Aron
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Agent R walked down the hall thinking about everything that had been
happening. Things were not good at all. He paused and thought about
what Jay had said. R figured he might as well keep his mouth shut. He
didn't want to make Gee's task any easier. R continued walking and
sighed. He missed his partner already. His memory flashed back to the
day he first laid eyes on her. Agent X was in the process of making
things hard and then he caught something out of the corner of his
eye. The human who made him happiest. Del.
Quickly, the vision of Gee flooded his thoughts, and every move the
human made infuriated him more. The way Gee spoke, the way he acted,
moved, and the way he acted like he had won the human over--- all
made R angry. R didn't notice anything lurking in headquarters.
Alpha… as usual, had no trouble getting into HQ. He was always one
step ahead of the MIB and no matter what security measures were
taken, he could always get inside the building system with great
ease. It seemed folly for the MIB to even try any more. They simply
weren't able to comprehend how genius he was. Alpha loved telling
himself these things. He knew they were true, and when things came so
easy--- why wouldn't it be true? Alpha used the latest technology he
had picked up. He was invisible. Well… invisible was almost putting
it right. He was reflective. Invisibility couldn't be achieved for
what Alpha had in mind, but so far, this was good enough. A long as
he didn't come into contact in the direct path of a focused source of
light, he was undetectable by eye. Sensors could pick him up all they
wanted… but there would be no conformation in time. Alpha knew
exactly what he wanted. He had been watching headquarters for some
time now. Not too long ago, they had hired some new--- employees.
Agents, an alien agent… and a harebrained scientist who did a job of
causing trouble better than helping. He was crazy to some… but Alpha
knew better. He knew that this crazy doctor had created some
particularly interesting inventions. He was almost genius in some
senses. Dr. Zan'dozz Zeeltor. Alpha grinned to himself as he recalled
some of the inventions he wouldn't have minded having. Alpha was
making his way down to the lab to pick up some things. He hoped he
could find the one invention that would bring unspeakable power.
---Agent Gee stood there holding a stack of files. He kept an eye out
for that meddling agent R. He knew it peeved the agent whenever he
was seen with Delia. He loved getting a rise out of some people.
Agent R looked to be particularly easy to anger so Gee told himself
he'd have to take his time with that one. Gee yawned. Life as the
most perfect guy wasn't too hard. Whenever he could have fun with it--
- he seized the opportunity.
Gee looked up as R entered the area. Immediately, R's eyes narrowed
on the human. Gee shifted the papers under one arm and put an arm
around Delia who was looking through a folder.
"Good day…. Agent R." said Gee.
"Can it." said R. Delia turned sharply.
"R! Show some manners!" she said. R bit his lip. He had upset
his precious human. If Jay would have been there, he would have made
the sound of a dive-bomb and crash. It was a stupid move so early on.
"Yes, R… you must have better people skills." Said Gee. R
growled under his breath. That was something that would have been
said to Agent X… NOT to R.---
---Alpha carefully pawed through the lab. He didn't find what he
wanted. He looked through boxes, on shelves, in storage areas, and it
struck him to check the paperwork. He dug around until he came to the
cabinet of recent experimental technology. It was worth a try. Sure
enough, Alpha hit the proverbial jackpot. He found the rough
schematics of the technology in question. He quickly put the papers
down on the table and ran a hand scanner over them. Perfect.
"Now… where oh where can these little microchips be?" he
questioned himself. He looked through a paper that was stuck to the
back of one of the others. He grumbled as soon as he realized that
the technology was already in use. It had already been placed. Things
were going to be hard. He looked over the paperwork of who now
possessed the technology. He was about to move the papers back when
he heard something.
Whistling. Cheerful whistling. Quickly, Alpha dropped the papers to
the table and quietly shifted to the back wall of the lab. He watched
as Dr. Zeeltor walked in with a scanner and some files. He placed his
scanner down and put the files away. He picked up a petri dish from a
shelf and happily talked to it. Alpha wanted to laugh but refrained
from letting himself be seen… or heard.
"So how's my sweetie pie Lucy?" asked Zeeltor of the petri
dish. Something in the dish roared. It didn't sound happy. Zeeltor
stopped walking when he got the reply from his beloved pet.
"What's that? Something here?" he questioned as he looked
around. "I don't see anything…" said Zeeltor again. Alpha cursed
under his breath. That stupid petri dish could sense him? It was
always something. Alpha slowly made his way to the open door. The
petri dish roared louder now. Zeeltor looked around. He still saw and
heard nothing.
"There there, Lucy. There's nothing to worry about." Said
Zeeltor. While Zeeltor reassured Lucy, Alpha made his exit.
Zeeltor moved across the lab and placed the dish down on one table so
he could clean up a pile of things on another. As he straightened
things out, he noticed a file was out of the cabinet of
experiments. "What do we have here?" asked Zeeltor of himself as he
looked at it. "The Supersensory Amplification Microtechnology?" he
said. "What are YOU doing out of your file!" he said cheerfully as if
it was nothing but mislaid paperwork. He gathered the files up and
put them together. On the top was the paperwork of the subject of the
experiment. A picture was paper clipped to the separated file. The
photo was of Agent R's partner: Agent Delia.----
---Agent R was careful now, and he managed to deal out sly hit
remarks as well--- if not better than Gee. He was playing the game
well.
"Well… I know I can take comfort in one thing…" began Agent
R.
"And what would that be?" Gee asked.
"You're nothing more than a lowly rookie. A newbie. A
Greenhorn." He said. He knew his words hit their target. Gee and R
were standing back from Delia, who was looking through an expansive
file unit on the wall. Gee narrowed his eyes but then knew how to
exact revenge.
"She's mine… and you know it." said Gee proudly.
"Oh she and Elle may gawk over you… but it's nothing more
than a façade. You, a human, would know that humans usually grow
tired of looking at the same, old thing after a while. It's only a
matter of time." Said R. Gee pulled a pen from his pocket. He
carefully tossed it into the air. It landed beside Del.
"Oh, Del… I dropped my pen… could you get it for me?" asked
Gee innocently. Without a second thought, Del knelt to pick it up.
Her hair hung in her face and R's memory pulled him back to the first
time he got close to the human. She was looking over something on a
table. Her hair caught the light and R's heart melted just a little
faster. She stood up and time slowed as she flipped her hair out of
her face and carried the pen back to Gee, who happily took it from
her.
"Here you go, Gee." She said. Her heart fluttered. She and Elle had
been gawking at him all through coffee break. He took her hand in
both of his as she handed him the pen.
"Thanks." He said. She smiled and slowly turned to go back to work.
Gee turned to R and a grin crept across Gee's face to see R's blood
boil. Gee figured the timing was perfect. Time to be just a little
more clever. He pulled a manila envelope from the paperwork he
had. "Oh, Del… I found something for you." He said. She came over and
took the envelope with a puzzled look on her face. She opened it and
inside was a comic book in a plastic thincase. She pulled it out of
the envelope and her face lit up.
"Oh, Gee! It's a copy of `The creature that came from the East
River'! And it's SIGNED too!" she chirped. She wrapped both arms
around Gee. R was able to see past his partner's golden hair to the
pleased look Gee had on his face. ---
---Alpha watched the scene unfold. He decided to wait until his
target was alone.---
---Agent R stormed into the lab. Jay was there messing around with
some things, like he shouldn't have been. Zeeltor examined some
stolen technology Kay and Jay had recovered earlier.
"I can't STAND it!" yelled R. Jay sighed. He figured things were not
going well at all for the agent.
"Do I want to know what happened?" asked Jay. Zeeltor looked up from
his studies.
"He's trapping me in conversation so I look bad to Delia. He's
ruining everything! Him and that stupid woman that's following me!"
he continued. "Gee knows exactly what to do to get to get to me! He
made her pick up his pen, and I know he was looking at her!!" R
began. Jay laughed. "THEN he took her hand, and after that--- he gave
her a comic book. HOW DID HE KNOW ABOUT THE COMIC BOOKS!?" yelled R
in angered puzzlement.
"I didn't tell him." Said Jay. "Did you let it slip out?"
"No.. I've kept my mouth shut about ANYTHING she likes." He said. He
sat down and rested his head on his hand. He gestured wildly with out
the other. He was frustrated with the whole thing. Jay laughed.
"Man, you have it hard, R. I don't know what to say. Gee is playing
hardball and throwing some bad pitches."
"Tell me, Jay… do all humans get like this? Is it common for there to
be such competition over a female? Are all humans so RUTHLESS?" he
asked in search for a reason to why Gee was acting this badly.
"Well, R… I guess in some cases, things get like this. Some women are
like--- wow, and guys will do almost anything to get them… but in
your case, I think Gee likes to make you mad."
"He's doing a darn good job!" yelled R. "All he has to do is put an
arm around her and I want to take an icer and freeze him! He does
everything perfectly and he manages to trip me up while he's doing
it! HE'S TOO PERFECT!!" he continued. Zeeltor looked up again.
"I'd take it you're speaking of the new agent---Gee." Said Zeeltor.
"Yeah--- can you tell me anything, Zeeltor?" asked R.
"Well… all I can say is he is perfect." Said Zeeltor. "He got top
scores on the usual tests as well as the weapons tests the MIB gives
to potential agents and as a human, he's a rarity." Said Zeeltor. He
looked at Jay. "You, on the other hand… "
"Don't you even start with me." said Jay.
"What's this about you shooting a `little Tiffany'?" asked Zeeltor.
"It was cardboard." Said Jay. "And it was the best target at the
time!" said Jay. R sighed.
"Perfect. That's impossible." Said R. "He's perfect and he's going to
get my Del?" asked R of himself.
"Speaking of Agent Delia… I found some paperwork lying around
earlier. It pertained to her. Lucy was really upset too. I couldn't
figure out why." He said. He pulled the file out and handed it to
Jay.
"Hey that's the paperwork for the microteco—microtecno--- the little
microchips you tested on her." He said. He laughed. "Boy am I GLAD it
wasn't me for a change."
"The Microtechnology would have been a positive thing for you, Agent
Jay. It was far from the `Swiss Army Man' incident." Zeeltor added.
Jay grumbled.
"Hmm?" said R.
"These are the papers for the supersensory amplification
microtechnological chips I designed and created. Your partner has
them, R." said Zeeltor. "Hmm… I wonder why these files were out. It's
like someone wanted to look for…"
"DEL!" yelled R. "Lucy was upset, was she not?" asked R. Zeeltor
nodded.
"It was like something was in here but I didn't find or see
anything." Said Zeeltor.
"Oh no--- " began R. He got up to find his partner. "She's in
trouble." He said as he ran out the door. Jay looked at Zeeltor and
got up to follow.---
--- Gee and Delia were walking to Zed's office. Something followed
them. That something was Alpha.
They entered Zed's office with some paperwork. The worms carefully
shuffled out after having been reprimanded for stealing office
supplies, leaving the office door open. Perfect.
"Here's the files you wanted sir." Said Gee. "In alphabetical
order, reverse alphabetical, and pig-latin." He added. Zed was
impressed.
"You know, you're doing a really good job. I hope to make you
a permanent agent soon." Said Zed.
"Oh, I know who I want to be my partner…" began Gee. As he
opened his mouth to speak again, Agent R burst in.
"Delia!" he yelled. Zed looked up.
"Agent R… don't you have some files to take care of?" he
asked.
"Zed--- there's…" began R. Before he could explain the threat
he discovered, something picked up a chair in the room. Zed saw the
chair leave the floor. It then flew straight at him. Zed ducked and
the chair went through the plate glass wall behind him. He turned to
see the glass wall had been destroyed. Agent Jay rushed in but an
unseen force picked him up and tossed him aside. The agents looked
but saw nothing. It then picked up agent Delia and headed out the
door.
"Hold on Del!" yelled R. As he reached for his weapon,
something struck him and sent him flying out the door. R's partner
was hauled out of the room.
"Okay--- SOMEONE DO SOMETHING!" she yelled. Gee ran out the
door and looked. There was nothing THERE but, something was doing
things. Gee was looking when he saw something flash. There was a
reflection of light. Perfect.
Gee too his sidearm and took aim at where he had seen the flicker of
light. He fired.
The form made itself known. The energy hit it's target and they heard
a yell. Now they saw something. The reflectivity device Alpha was
wearing had been hit and it flickered on and off. R, still dazed from
hitting the hallway wall looked up.
"Alpha!" he yelled. The device he had used for reflectivity
finally broke and they could see the monster they were after.
Fatail looked up from the computer she sat at when she heard
yelling.
"I'd better make this a little faster…" she said to herself,
hoping they'd all be distracted enough to not bother her.
Alpha turned to face them. He moved close to Agent R, who had called
out his name. R reached for his sidearm and took aim. Alpha held his
partner up in front of him.
"Care to try that now, agent?" asked Alpha.
"R! SHOOT!" yelled Del. R refrained from firing.
"I thought not." Said Alpha as he turned to leave. As he
turned around, he was face to face with Gee, who was holding one of
Zeeltor's weaponry inventions. The Resizafier. Before Alpha could
make another move, Gee fired and Alpha was no longer the giant
monster he had been. He now was tiny.
Gee closed the containment jar and held Alpha up.
"Yeah, Zed… I don't think we'll have anything to worry about
from him anymore." Said Gee as he handed the jar to Zed. Zed couldn't
have been any happier.
Gee helped Del up and she wrapped his arms around him.
"MY HERO!" she said. R, standing not to far away, could NOT
believe what was going on. Jay walked over with a sore arm. R was
babbling.
"How could that--- what just---- how could he have--- WHERE
did he get that?!" asked R. Jay shrugged.
"Zeeltor's right. He is a good agent." Said Jay. As Jay
finished, Fatail came around a corner and began her act.
"Oh baby, are you okay sweetie?" said Fatail. "I hope you
aren't hurt!" she continued. R grumbled.
"THAT'S IT!" yelled R. "Can things get any worse than this?!"