ALEX, ADVENTURER AT AGE 8.
Hi. Do you know me? You might not. You'll find out who I am a little later. The setting takes place at the dinner table with my mom and dad and sister. She is 15 or something. I never really knew. You can't tell by her behavior. She acts like a 17 year old...I believe, and she's always talking on the phone. When my parents sat down, I knew something was up. And as they began to eat, I got a clue of something else. They are going to ground me for some reason, except I can't think of it now. Or that's what I was thinking there. "Son," began dad. "We are going on a trip in another country...And I'm sorry for blurting it out at you, but we can only bring passengers 13 or up! I know it's a dumb rule. But you are only 7, 8 tomorrow!...Your mom and I have made up our minds. We are sending you to your cousin Megan's house for one whole week until we come back, okay? You can celebrate your birthday party when we get back." dad's a fast talker and I couldn't say anything back at him. He was a vacuum and sucked out my words from my mouth. So I sat with my mouth drooped open at them. Megan is older than me and she's weird. She doesn't like me I think. She's 12. Once, I went into her room, and I took this neat squishy globe that was full of sparkles and goop, and I accidentally popped it by mistake! She blew up when she found out...And that is probably why she doesn't like me. She yelled, "Do you know how much that costs? $4.00! Wow, huh! YOU BROKE IT!" Now I was going to visit her at the age of 12.
11:00 in the morning the next day, I stepped up onto Megan's house, biting my lower lip. It's a sign of nervous. The door opened and there stood a girl only a few inches taller than me. "Hi Alex! Come in!" she said nicely, helping me through the door. "Are you nice, or are you like, mean?" I asked her. Then she started laughing historically. "Megan, why are you laughing?" I asked. She kept laughing. "Of course I'm nice!" she laughed. Then she put her hand on me and pushed me into the other room. She bit her lower lip. "Alex, I am going to be having an old friend over. Her name is Rudy and she's a friend from kindergarten, but you can play with my little brother Aaron. He's six, okay, just try to be on your best behavior when Rudy comes," She said, then she walked away and yelled, "Aaron! Someone here wants to play with you!" I heard fast clanking on the stairs and I saw a boy slide into this room. "Where is he?" he scribbled around the room and squashed into a desk with a lot of clothes on it...But now they were on Aaron's head. "Aaron?" I asked. Aaron looked at me through a sleeve of a shirt. "Aaron are you okay?" I asked for the last time. I went to him and took the shirt off his head. "Hello Aaron! Hi! Do you want to play? Do you want to? Do you?" I was bouncing off the walls. He made the "Tsk Tsk Tsk," sound. "What a talker." He rolled his eyes and flew out of the clothes at me. "Do you want to play, shoot the Alex?" he grinded his teeth together. And his eyes blew up big. "NO! I AM NOT INTERESTED IN THAT GAME," I told him, but that's when he took out a rubber- band gun from his pocket!
MEGAN
Megan sat on her bed waiting for Rudy to come. As soon as she heard a knock on the door, she scurried to the door and opened it. Actually, it was Aaron. "Hay, Megan!" He yelled. "Look what I caught!" He pulled me in, in a bag like a net. "I caught a Alex!" Aaron lighted up like a light bulb he was so happy. "AARON! GET ME OUT OF HERE! I'LL SUFFACATE IN HERE!" I screamed. So Megan picked up Aaron by his shirt and dumped me out on the floor. I wobbled and jiggled and squirmed all around the floor until Megan came over and told me to please stop. Later, Megan sat me on the couch next to Aaron. She started walking back and fourth and back mumbling to herself. Then she said, "Okay Aaron, Alex, I want you on your best behavior okay?" Aaron sat up straight and scratched his head. I sat up and fell on the floor. "Now that is a sign of miss-behavior," Megan spat at me. Ms. Behavior is a lady that is really bad and scary and mean to kids who are bad. "Just be quiet and don't bother Rudy!" She pulled me up. "Why did you call her RUDY?" I asked. She froze and her eyes grew big and stayed open really wide. "That is her name, Alex" she whispered, sarcastically. "Oooh!" I yelled really loud, making Aaron laugh. "You are not to mess up this night, because she hasn't seen me in years," She said in a mad tone. Aaron ran away into the other room and I heard a thump. Megan turned around and sucked on her bottom lip. "Aaron ran into the laundry again," She said with a sigh. We all rushed into the door. Aaron sat up. "Aaron, get out of there. "Megan said loud. Later, Megan had me and Aaron sitting in the kitchen inside of a cabinet. She told us to zip the lips and so Aaron tried to rip open my mouth when I shut it. Megan ran into the other room and stayed quiet for 4 hours at least. A knock was at the door so the door opened and a voice said, "Hey, Megan! How's it going?" Then Megan said, "Great." Then the voice said, "Where's your brother?" Megan said sarcastically, "Gone! Oh no! Where is he Rudy?" she stepped over to the cabinet me and Aaron were in. Aaron giggled and I gasped and shut his mouth with my hand. "What's that laughing in the cabinet and why are you covering it?" Rudy asked. Megan opened the cabinet door and pulled Aaron out by his feet and she started shaking. "D-didn't I tell you? W-we are having turkey for dinner tonight!" she said, and held Aaron up. He pretended to be dead. "Now," Megan said. "We are going to cook the chicken!" She put Aaron into the stove and shut the door. "Uh, Megan, that was Aaron you put in there," Rudy said, confused and quiet. "Uh, funny you'd say that. I- I thought it was kind of big for a chicken," Megan said. "Uh, Rudy, why don't you go and uh, wait for the food!" Rudy walked into the other room. "Okay Aaron." Megan opened up the stove and put in a nice chicken from the refrigerator. She also told me and Aaron to go quietly into the other room and sit down. Rudy was in there. "Hi Rudy," I said. I sat down. "Hi." She said. Aaron sat down too. Later, Megan said, "Uh, Rudy, I think we should write for a while." Megan reached into a drawer and pulled out an old diary. "Oh! Rudy! My Kindergarten journal!" she smiled. So did Rudy. "Let's here it," Said Rudy.
The old writing bored me so much that I ran into the kitchen where Aaron had been hidden. "Look what I found!" Aaron, the small 6 year old boy said. "What is it," I said, with a questionable tone. "I don't know, but I found it in the backyard yesterday," he said. He held up a golden stone looking object. It caught my attention really much. I told him to put it down, and then I ran into the living room to tell Megan about the golden thing. "Come see what your little brother found!" I yelled at her. "What is..." Megan was interrupted by the sound that was, CRASH! "Aaron!" she screeched really loudly, making my ears burn. She ran into the kitchen faster than a car, and screamed again. I ran in there and my eyes opened wide... BECAUSE...Aaron was gone!
SPY KIDS
"W- Why are we going out at a quarter to 8:00" I asked with a grin.
Megan looked back at me and shook her head in confusion.
"Alex, we are going to find Aaron. I was supposed to be baby-sitting him tonight." Baby sitting is when you sit on a baby, except we don't have a baby...Aaron's like a baby! Then I saw something I love......... A letter was on the door!
Megan read, "If you ever want to see your precious little friend, come to the old warehouse tonight or else." And now Megan stared for a long time. "Um...Rudy! Get some money from my bank. Alex, stay here until I say go," Megan said really fastly. I nodded. "Uh, do you know how to drive?" I asked. Megan stared at me. "No!" she yelled, "I'm twelve." Rudy slid into the room with a jar of money. "Great!" Megan whispered. "Now come out with me." She ran outside really fast. I looked at Rudy. She looked at me, then the door. "Let's go!" she said in a loud voice. We ran outside and saw Megan at the end of the road. She called for us to cross the street towards her. There was some traffic but apparently we didn't care. Rudy went first. When the cars were gone she flew to the other side. I forgot to look when I crossed, so I ended up right between death and life. This was it, I closed my two eyes real tight. I was stuck in the middle of the road. I heard car horns, but I kept my hands covered tight around my eyes. Then I started hearing screeches and yelling and smashing. I heard Megan yell, "ALEX!" and when I opened my eyes, I was in the middle of a large car crash with fire, and cars flipped over on their backs. All of them were a wreck, and in a big circle. Then it happened, Megan yelled, "Watch out!" and I turned around but a big piece of the cars flew at my head and hit, then I was flung out onto a crashed car. What happened next, I don't know. I was asleep. But I wasn't tired. The last word I heard was Megan yelling, "ALEX!" I opened my eyes. I saw black sky. Then Megan and Rudy came up . "Are you okay?" they asked. I opened my eyes wide and sat up. I rubbed my head and looked around. The cars were more smashed and pieces of tires and stuff were all over the place. And the fire was huge! Like it exploded or something. I walked away from the crash and pretended that I didn't do it. Megan looked at me and shook her head. Rudy looked at my forehead. I had a bump on it. I kind of smiled in a sad way. "Find a taxi," Megan said. We caught a taxi and hopped in. Oh, and we paid him. "Alex, it's the time, we're going to have to be Spy Kids today," Megan said, then she smiled in an odd way.
THE START OF A NEW LIFE.
"Well, Megan got the idea, I didn't. I was the one who got my brain knocked out by a dumb car piece. She's the one who is quick, smart and apparently good at tricks. Actually, today, I turn 8. Wonderful. The day I have to save a boys life. And no one will sing the happy birthday song. And also, we're sleeping under a tree," I told Rudy, who was still awake. Megan was sleeping on the ground and mumbling in her sleep. "Well, I still think you're older even though no one sang the song." Rudy was real nice. "Your right!" I said. "I feel smarter. Do I seem smarter?" "Yes. It's scary how much you've gotten smarter. It's like your nine," Rudy said. "Watch this!" I ran over and knelt down next to Megan. Then, I opened her eyes and her mouth. "ALEX! MOM WILL KILL YOU, TWIRP!" She yelled in her sleep. Then she was silent. "Hay Megan," I said. "Go get the butter." She sat up and walked into the street. We both, Rudy and I, looked out into the distance. A car was coming. I looked back at Megan. "Uh oh!" I said. "Uh, Megan, bring me the butter!" right when the car was about to hit her, she ran back towards us, wide awake. She screamed. "Megan, it's my birthday," I said. "Well, do you want a cake or something?" she asked. "Oh yeah!" I shouted real loud so the world could hear. "Shut up!" Megan said. "Let's go and get some food over there." She pointed to a little restaurant. "Sure," I said. We entered the...BAR. Everyone looked at us. Then they got up and crowded around us. One said, "Get out. This is my bar. OUT NOW!" "It's my birthday, you know," I mumbled. The big man grabbed me by my shirt and pulled me into the air. "I DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR LITTLE BIRTHDAY PARTY," He growled. "Well I do!" I said. He held up to the wall. "Your going to rip my shirt you know," I told him. "Shut up!" he yelled as he threw me across the room. As I was about to hit a wall, I grabbed on to a pipe on the ceiling at hung there. "Wow!" I said quietly. "Um, I don't like people hurting my cousin, DUDE," Megan said. "I don't like you guys very much okay?" growled the big man. He tossed Megan up at the ceiling. She flipped backwards then before hitting the ground, grabbed onto the same pipe as me. The guys in the bar took out sharp objects. Me and Megan studied them closely. "Megan," I whispered. "What do we do?" "Okay. First, they come at us with sharp objects, we kick them in the face, they swing the objects at our feet, and we back-flip onto the top of the pipe landing on our feet. Then we walk across the pipe until we get to the edge of the ceiling, and jump down onto the floor..." I interrupted Megan and whined, "I can't flip and balance and land, Megan!" "You can do it if you give it a shot. So Let's go!" First, Megan flung herself on top of the pipe. She was now over me and walking across the pipe. I tried to lift my feet onto the pipe but I couldn't reach. So, Since Megan forgot to kick the men in the face, I did her a favor. I kicked the dumb guys in the face, and took one of their weapons. "Megan! I got a saw!" Megan was against the edge of the ceiling now. "Wait Alex, that isn't a saw! It's a SPY GADGET!" Megan yelled. I started to slip a little. "Megan! I'm slipping!" I yelled. "Toss me up the gadget!" Megan yelled. "Quick!." I tossed her the gadget and held onto the pipe tighter. "Make it a rope gun!" I yelled. "I'll try!" Megan shouted. She pushed a button. The whole bar floor opened up and under it was a black hole. "Woah!" I shouted real surprised. "Wrong button!" Megan said, she pushed another button. The walls opened up. Behind the walls was some kind of aircraft, some very styling spy gear, and some vehicle. "Okay. Megan, what should we do now?" I asked. "Alex, this is the start of a whole new Life," Megan smiled. She then jumped off and landed next to the black hole. "You too Alex!" Megan looked up at me. I started to slip. Then I fell. When I was close enough. I tried to flip. I landed on my back, then got up. "Ouch!" I yelled. Well, apparently Megan was already getting dressed up. Some machine was quickly putting on some spy outfit. "Megan!" I called out. She was almost ready with her outfit when she turned around. "Alex, get on your outfit and come on." I turned around Then, I was getting machine-dressed in a new outfit. I pushed the button, "Cool." And I got a fan on my face. "OKAY!" I yelled. "THAT'S ENOUGH!" I walked towards Megan. She gave me a weapon and some strange gear. "Wait! I know what we do!" I said. "I read it in a book once. We can become Spy's!" "ALEX!" Megan mumbled. "That was the general idea!"
A LITTLE TRIP
Once we found Rudy, We dressed her up in the outfit and guided her into this aircraft. Once we were in, I asked, "How do we start this thing?" suddenly, all the lights in the ship went on and a computerized voice said, "TO START, PULL BACK THE LEVER TO THE MIDDLE AND PRESS START." "That's easy," Megan said. She pulled the lever the ship jerked a little, she pressed START and off went the ship. Megan obviously didn't know how to steer the ship because it was a little jerky. "Megan, this is a great birthday present," I said. Then I fell asleep leaving all the work to my cousin and Rudy. I just slept there most of the time until, I felt jerking and crashing. I felt bumping and woke up again. "We're going to die!" yelled Megan. "Panic." Rudy screamed. I saw the rocks flying past us. I couldn't believe it we were actual spies. We were actually under water! In a sub! "Megan, are we..." I began. "Yes. We're losing power. WE'RE GOING DOWN!" Megan held on tight. Through the jerking, I felt something wet. "Uh, are we close to the warehouse yet?" I yelled. "No. Not even close," real sad. Suddenly, I felt really wet. "I'm wet,". "You peed in this ship?" Megan asked. "NO!" I screamed. "I mean, I'm leaking over here." I called. "Stop peeing! There's a toilet back here you know." Rudy said. I turned around towards Rudy. "No. We are drowning." "Open the doors!" Megan cried. "Good idea." I opened the door and swam out into the sea. Followed by Megan. But not Rudy! Out of breath, I swam into the ship again and searched for Rudy. She wasn't there! I swam up to the surface and took a deep breath. Megan and Rudy were behind me up at the surface. I turned around. "Wait, Megan. Quiet. Listen." I heard beeping. "It's gonna' blow!" we tried to swim away, but it was too late. It exploded, blowing us into the air with a huge wave. "Put on your jet packs, we're going up!" Megan shouted. "Okay!" I yelled. I put on my jet pack. It was hard to start up. It was as hard as controlling that ship. But, we got up and in a row and flew over the explosion. "Close one. I hope I don't have to do that again,". "Sorry, Alex, but we do have to!" Megan closed her eyes as she yelled that. "Okay!" I said, acting as her slave. We swerved around a giant rock, but my jet pack got caught on a sharpish point. I was flung to the rock and was stuck there.
"Megan!" I yelled. She was past me. She heard me, because she turned around towards the rock and headed for me. Rudy continued to fly away. I don't know where she went. My jet pack was off. Megan stood on the rock and took off her jet pack. But it was still on. I hung there, wiggling around since I can't balance. Megan took out the gadget and pushed a button. I flew up in the air, and Megan controlled me. "Megan, I can't take this." She turned the gadget off, and I... "I'm falling!" I yelled. Megan looked up at me. Before I hit the water, Megan swooped under me and caught me right on time. "Happy Birthday!" she yelled. "Yah! And thank you for breaking my eardrums." I grouched. "Rudy left, you know." "She's just trying to show off. She thinks she'll get Aaron before we do." Said Megan, holding me up in the air. "You can put me down now!" I yelled. So she did. I fell about ten feet down and then my jet-pack responded. "Were cooking now!" I yelled, flying up in the air. Megan's watch made a noise. "Yes," she answered. I zoomed up beside her. "Megan, Alex, we have some bad news. Aaron has been taken to a secret hide away some where by the beach. The name, it's a code. We can't tell you because you'll have to find that out." Said the watch. "Okay." Said Megan, grabbing for the device. "We are here, Alex." "Right." I nodded. "We need to go here." Megan pointed at the device. "That's miles away, though,". "Uhuh." Megan nodded. "Gotcha'" I said. When I turned my head, I headed straight through the glass of a building, flipped around and hit the ground. "Ouch!" I yelled. I got off the glass and looked around where I was. Megan was gone, and I was in some one's fancy bedroom. I searched around the tables. My hand hit a button and the mirror on the wall flipped over, under it was a fold up screen, which un-folded. "Hello, Alexander Corell. We have been planning our cloning attack. Little Aaron here is screaming for help and, we just need you to take samples of his brain for the cloning. And then, he dies and we rule the earth, cloning all children and using them as slaves. What do you think?" a man on the screen asked. I fell onto the bed and started thinking. I heard someone walking into the room, so I jumped into the closet. A man and a women walked in. I gasped. They were my parents! I fell backwards, still keeping my eyes on my parents. "So, Jamie, what's the plan?" asked my dad. "Well, I would like to take a sample of little Aaron's brain. Then, we clone him, I thought we could do the same to every kid and use them as slaves. And Alexander Corell is the man with the machines. You know, he makes useful machines for us. As if you didn't remember, Joseph." Said the man on the screen. I got a clue. My parents told me to go to Megan's house as a set up. It was a way for them to turn to their evil selves, and steel Aaron. They stole Aaron as a test for the new cloning machine, then they could clone every kid and use them as slaves to rule the earth. But why Aaron? Out of all those other kids, you ask. Because, my parents wanted us to come over there and try to save Aaron, but they'd be trapping us too. I had half of the plan. I listened. "Sally, if your son comes, we get him tied up." Said the man on the screen. "Okay, Rudy." Said my dad. "Rudy!" I whispered. I took out my watch and called Megan. "Alex!" Megan screamed. "I'm stuck in a major wind storm!" "Megan!" I whispered. "I'm in the hide out." "IN the hide out?" Megan asked. "Yes. I found something really bad out. They are going to clone Aaron, and then clone every child in the world. It's Rudy behind this all." I explained. "really?" Megan asked. "Yes. My mom and dad want Aaron. They are evil. Come over here,". Then I turned off the watch. I got out of the closet and headed out the door. I walked through the lobby, filled with other grown- ups. I looked for my parents. But something caught my eye. Me. I was at the other side of the lobby talking to some people. I looked at him. It was a clone. I was cloned and I didn't know it. I headed for the other me. "Hay Alex," to me. I pretended not to here. I passed him, into a hall way. He followed. I was scared, and very slow. So I took off my jet pack and continued to walk. Then I ran, once I noticed that he was speeding up. I yelled, "Suction cups!" And I jumped onto the ceiling. I ran across the ceiling. I let go of my hands so I hung by my feet. I grabbed onto the clone of me and held on tight. Then, I came to a door and ran into that room. It had a ceiling fan twice the size of Megan. I swung my clone up into the fan. He grabbed onto a passing blade, and swung around really fast. I followed him with my eyes. Then, I grabbed onto his feet and was flung around in circles. "Hey, Alex!" I said. "Where is this Alexander Corell?" He didn't talk. "Come on! What is he doing?" I asked. I climbed up onto a blade next to him. "Where is he?" I yelled. I grabbed his hand and pulled it off the blade. "Tell me or I'll pull the other hand off." I warned. "Where is Alexander Corell?" I yelled. My clone shouted, "He's on the island. Far from here. The secret hide out." I let go of the fan and flew out of the room. "Excuse me, I'm flying here!" I screamed. I was headed for a big window, and I passed some mysterious man with long hair and a beard. I quickly covered my head with my hands and broke through the glass as fast as a bullet. I stopped flying, since the glass was slowing me down. I started to fall. "Megan!" I yelled. I landed hard in the sand on my hands and knees. The glass fell on my head. Then, I looked high up. I saw my clone jumping down at me. I ran through the sand and hid behind a giant rock. The clone was far away. I took a peek over the edge of the rock and saw a dark thing running towards me. "He's here," to myself. "Megan. Pick up. It's me, Alex." I whispered into the watch. "Alex?" asked a voice. "This is Megan. What's up? It's pitch black outside and you know it's not good to split up." "Okay. Megan, I have a clone. I don't know how I got it. Where are you now?" I said. "I'm in the building." Megan whispered. "Where?" I asked. "I don't know, but I'm passing a huge fan on the ceiling,". I got very excited. "Okay, you're near me," "There's a crashed window, I'm headed towards it, Alex." Megan replied. "Great, now head out the window, you'll see me behind the...." Before I finished, the clone grabbed my shirt and held me in the air. "Wee! I'm flying!" I yelled. My clone threw me away out into the distance. I was headed back towards the crashed window, but then Megan came out of the crashed window, and we collided. "We're falling, Megan!" I yelled. "You'll survive Megan, We both will!" "Are you sure?" asked Megan. "Yes." I yelled. But, before we could say anything else, we hit the hard part of the sand and didn't move anymore. I started going blinder and blinder until, I couldn't do anything
THE SURVIVORS I opened an eye. Then, the other. I was in some room filled with science. A lab! I sat up. I looked all around, but no one was there. Except, something was covered up with blankets next to me. I pulled down the blankets. I couldn't believe what I saw. My heart went faster. My body felt cold. I wanted to scream, but then, I couldn't. It was Megan. She looked dead. She was pail and wasn't moving a tiny bit. In pain, I got off of the, "bed thing" and walked around. Then, I flew up in the air and hit the wall shivering. I saw, both Megan and me, cloned. We were standing behind glass or something. It was weird. It was me, but still. I looked around for anyone who might know anything about this. Then, I remembered Megan! I ran back to the "bed thing" and ended up shaking her around. "WAKE UP STUPID!" I yelled real loud. I pushed her. "Wake up!" I screamed. I was so scared. I looked up and noticed that there was a door behind the "bed thing". I Looked down at Megan again. "Wake up!" I said. I pushed her again. She fell onto the floor. "Why don't you feel this?" I asked her. I rolled her over and she just sat there. Her eyes were open. Then I noticed something. A line on her neck. I touched it and something amazing happened. The ears popped out, and the for-head opened up and the eyes rolled inside out. The jaw lowered down and the teeth light up. The neck stretched out, the nose went inside the body. And the face came off. "Wow! My cousin's a robot...Now I like her better!" I said. "Hello, Alexander Corlell." Said a voice from Megan's opened head. "What?" I was freaked out now. "You are the survivor." Said the voice. "What? What about Megan?" I asked. "Her too." Said the voice. "Then who did I just destroy?" I asked the voice. "her medical dummy. To test medicine on and such." Said the voice. "Oops!" I said. "Who are you?" I asked. "I'm a fully holographic women." Said the voice. "The name's 200-43A RRTY2." "What does that stand for?" I asked. "Nothing. It's just something a crazy inventor made up." Said the women. "You can call me GIRL." Said the girl. "Carry me around and I can help you get to Alexander Corell's hide out." "Cool!" I said. I took a controller out of the dummy Megan's face and put it in my back-pack. I was headed out the hall, when I saw these footprints. They were huge. Like the size of a bear. I followed them out the door and through the sand. My head looked up to find something I'll never want to see again. A giant creature staring in my eyes. "Uh, Hi!" I said nervously. The creature roared loudly into the air and started taking some big steps towards me. I couldn't see it's face because it was too dark. I stumbled back and landed on the ground looking up. I only saw black, it was dark outside. In fear of the darkness, I sat up, but was quickly swooped up in the giant hands! "LET ME GO STUPID BIG GUY!" I yelled. Next thing I know, I'm tied up to the wall of a cave next to Megan. She was very grumpy. I looked at her, and then at the giant creature. It was on the other side of the cave lighting a fire with a tree. "Hay, Megan." I whispered. My whisper echoed off the cave walls. "What Alex." Megan yelled. The echo was loud this time and the creature turned around at us. "Oops!" Megan said. The creature looked back at his fire. I wiggled around on the wall to try and get out. I slipped down out of the ropes and fell all the way down. It was a really long fall. I looked up at Megan and she was falling out of the ropes. When she caught up to me, I asked her what the giant is. "A Siberian Mountain Cyclops. He lives in the mountains,". "What time is it?" I asked. "11:45, why?" Megan said, slowly. "Time to jet pack," turning on my backpack. I blasted up in the air and I flew over to the Mountain Cyclops. He looked over at me and swatted at me. He caught my jet pack and ripped it off. I went flying down to the ground. I grabbed onto his table and ran across it. He took out bug poison and started squirting at me. I Jumped out of the way. The Cyclops had no ideas. I hid behind bread and waited. He walked over and picked up the bread with me hanging on it. He slammed the bread down onto the table and began to slice pieces off the bread. I kept crawling away when the knife chopped at me. Finally, I popped out and said, "You got me! I'm dying! AAA!" and fell down. He bent down to see if I were dead. I woke up, reached over, and pushed salt in his face. He screamed and put his hands over his eyes. He also fell flat on the floor. He fell real bouncy and I flew out of the table. I fell and fell and fell and hit the ground. I felt really dizzy after that except I don't know why. "No problem,". I stood up. "Megan. Pick up!" I whispered into my watch. "Oh, hi Alex. Did you forget about me! I'm still falling down a pit. You could be a nice little cousin if you followed me, maybe save me?" "Sure Megan I killed the Mountain Cyclops!" I whispered. "Great." Said Megan, then the watch was broke. "All righty then. I guess I could use some bouncy shoes. Springs came out of my shoes. "UH OH!" I shot into the air and started twirling and flipping! And plus I couldn't stop. "Watch! I need your help. Give me some thing to stop!" The watch shot out arrows with strings tied to the end. I suddenly stopped and hung in the air by my arm. "Sweet!" I yelled. My voice echoed off the walls. A large rumbling came and the ceiling cracked up into bits. I Looked under me. Sixty foot drop. Well, "Falling down thing." I shouted but that wasn't a real thing. "AAA" I wiggled around until I was falling out of the string. But, my jet pack was caught on the string. I tried to grab it, but I fell away. I went into the pit where Megan was. "Okay, close one." I whispered. I looked down. Under me was spike city. Firing blades of fear I had to pass. I quick put both of my hands on two rocks and also my feet. I was 10 feet from being dead. I chose life, and grabbed onto a rock from the wall I was standing on. It fell out and light poured into the pit. I tore out another. More and more until I opened a whole new passage. It was life, or not. I felt a gun pointed againced my head as I walked in. "Well, Alex. I've been waiting for you to show up." "Little Aaron was crying for you, and I thought you'd like to see him!" I looked up to see who was talking. It was the man I saw on the screen. "Who are you?" I yelled at him, and I pushed the gun away from my head. "I am Alexander Corell. I believe we've got your family here,". He pushed a button and the ceiling opened up. I looked up. I saw my mom, dad, sister, and Aaron. "You're missing one." Alexander Corell looked at me. "What do you mean? I have your family." "No. You're missing me, and Megan,". Alexander looked up. "Oh. Hahahahaha! I have tons of Megans and tons of you. I looked behind me!" There was a crowd of clones of me and Megan. They looked ready to fight. "Megan!" I yelled. Megan fell into the room. "Right behind you Alex!" she yelled. I turned around. "Oh,". I charged at one of the clones of me and it put his hand out and grabbed my shirt. "Megan!" I yelled. He picked me up and started spinning me around above his head. "AAAAAA!" I screamed. Megan looked over at me. She was fighting a clone of herself. My zipper of my backpack unzipped and all of my gear flew out until I was left a stupid empty back-pack. Then, the robot threw me across the dark room. I was speeding past everything in the room and I finally hit a chair and a desk with a computer on top. I landed on the key board of the computer and an alarm went off. I went crashing to the ground. "OOOW!" I screamed. The chair tipped over on to me. Then, printer paper fell on top of that.
MAYBE A NEW MISSION
The alarm was loud and high. I heard Megan scream and then I felt the floor shake and I heard things being smashed. I was all covered up, and I couldn't see in there! Then I was pulled out of the pile of stuff and helped up onto my two feet. "Come on, Alex the alarm is actually meaning something bad is about to happen. I suggest that we scram,". "But, the birdies stole my papers, mommy," in a shaky voice, then I fell onto the ground. Then, I guess Megan dragged me across the floor, passed the broken robots of me, and dropped me out into the pit. When I woke up, I was hanging upside-down over a fire. I opened my eyes. I couldn't see at first, But I knew that my head was burning and my stomach was in my head. "I want breakfast, Mommy," quietly. "Alex, it's 12:36," strictly. When my eyes adjusted, I yelled, "MEGAN! YOU'RE ON THE CEILING!" I screeched, and I swear that my eyes grew bigger than my opened mouth. "No, Alex, you're on the ceiling," like it was no big deal. "And why is this?" I asked, trying to get right side up. "Because, you're being saved,". "WHA?" I asked. "No, it's where,". "My head's on fire." I explained. "Get down." Megan yelled. I tried to swing down away from the fire. I made it, but I knocked over a few tables. I looked up at where I was hanging. A huge sign said, "LIFE SAVERS." I read it out loud. "Yah, but look closely,". I tried to climb up closer to see the sign. "No, Dufus. Put these on." Megan tossed me a normal pair of sunglasses. "Trust me, Alex." Megan looked up at me. I shrugged my shoulders. When I put the eye piece over my eye, it magnified the sign. "LIFE SAVERS, 998759432." I read. "That's a code. It's another Spy Kid's number." Megan told me. "We have been given a letter, and invitation to a meeting with the other Spy Kids." "Cool! Megan, my hair is black! And I can style it." I messed up my hair. "Alex, take the Spy outfit off, it's supposed to be a nice party. I took my Spy outfit off, and I was automatically dressed in a zigzag covered button up shirt with jeans that were covered in pockets. "Ooh! I'm different." I screamed. "So am I." Megan stood next to me in the mirror. She was wearing a fancy red dress.
We were sitting next to some girls. Once and a while I'd stare at them. They were messing with their hair. The one sitting next to me had blond hair and was older than me, but younger than Megan. She was pretty thin, and she kept talking about her missions. "Dinner is served." Said the waiter, bringing in a tray with food on it. I looked down at my food. Every one else besides the blond hared girl next to me looked at their food. She just started eating and all the others, pushed their food into the middle of the table. When I looked at the girl, she was green, and everyone stared at her. She screamed, with a mouth full of food and her head BLEW up! "AAAH!" I screamed. The only thing left of her was a skeleton and a dress laying on top of blood. Every one got out of their seats and looked at the dead body. "Meredith!" yelled the two other girls. I found this strange, also because my face was covered with blood, but it didn't taste like blood. "Hot Sauce!" I yelled. I examined the skeleton. I ripped off a bone and chewed it. "Sugar,". "It's a trick." I stood up. "Who did this?" I yelled. Megan was sitting at one end of the table. She was lifeless and she was staring. I walked over to her. I noticed her plate. The food had bites off it! I looked up at Megan. I was so scared. "No! You can't. Your okay right?" I said in a shaky voice. "Please say something! MEGAN! You can't do this!" I started backwards. As much as I didn't want it to happen, Megan blew up! I screamed. "MEGAN!" Blood shot at me. I noticed that she was made of sugar and hot sauce too. I tapped my head with my finger. "A trap!" I yelled. I felt a light bulb light up in my head. "They have been captured!" I smiled, and remembered my braces I had gotten. I felt my teeth warm up and out shot a laser, firing all the guests in the head. They all blew up, and soon the room was covered in fake blood. "They are all gone!" I smiled again, trying to not let my stupid braces to shoot out lasers again. "It's my job! To save the world!" I said. Then I looked in the mirror. I had black hair that was beyond messy, but it was cool! I didn't even put on my outfit, I thought I looked cooler in regular clothes. "Now, I have lost my jet-pack, so what do I use?" I said, trying to wipe the hot sauce off my clothes. Then I saw it, right in the parking lot, and its name was, a thing to ride in! I ran into the thing and put the key in. I turned it, and it started up. "How do I drive this?" I yelled. "I guess I pull this lever back!" I yelled. The thing shifted and backed up, bumping into the building. "Now forward!" I pushed the lever forward, and the thing sped forward. I was pressed against the seat because of the speed. I couldn't see anything out the window. Then, I felt a hard, painful crash and I heard explosions of lightning. I flew out of the thing and started grabbing for life. I WAS FALLING DOWN A CLIFF! "It IS The End!" I yelled. I kept falling and thought I might want to start a journal called, "Alex's book of world records of falling from high places." Uhuh! Good idea. I'll kill myself if I land, I kept thinking. But I didn't die. I used my watch. "Megan!" I screamed. The watch shot out sparks, and then the screen popped out revealing an image of Megan. While the car was tearing apart on the rocks below me, "Alex, are you falling?" Megan asked, and the watched sparked. "No. I'm having a tea party with Dr. Happy....Of coarse I'm falling!" I yelled. "Well, as you can see, I know where Aaron is..." Megan said, holding her watch in front of Aaron's face. "Hi, Alex," in a sad voice. "Where are you?" I asked, trying to see how long a drop I was about to land. "I am somewhere," but I sighed. "Great," sarcastically. Then, the sparks shot out and effected my braces. I felt and electric shock in my mouth and my teeth light up with red. I started flipping and twirling from the pain. Then, landed on a small ledge. I slid to the edge and fell, grabbing onto the edge of the small ledge. I looked down at the ground, it was about 124 feet. Nope! Not dropping from here! I tapped on my watch. "Megan!" I yelled. "Oh well." I moaned. "Death it is." I closed my eyes and let go of the ledge. I felt air gushing at me, then a sharp pain in my back. I screamed, and my eyes remained open wide. I had landed. But it didn't look like I had fallen 124 feet. "Alex!" I heard a voice say. It sounded like a girl. The odd thing was, when I saw who it was, it was a boy. And the boy's name was Steven. "Steven, what are you doing here?" I asked, in pain. Steven is a very thin boy with black hair and tan skin. "Alex, I work at the SPY KID'S ACADEMY,". I got up onto my feet. "Nice hair." "Oh yeah,". "I put hair dye in," Steven stood there. I whispered, "I think it's permanent." I stood back and turned around. I was standing on another ledge of course, and then so was Steven. "Steve, how'd you get down here?" I asked. "That's the thing, dude." Steven started up. I had never heard him say DUDE like that. "I didn't come down like you did." He looked up, with a questioned face on. "I climbed up!" "HOW?" The word HOW shot out of my mouth, yet so did my braces. They laser shot at something and knocked it over. Then I looked back at Steven. I know what we have to do.
STEVEN AND ALEX'S MISSIONS.
"Okay, Alex, give me your gadget." Steven forced it out of my back-pack which is now not a jet-pack anymore. That really sucks okay? Steven laughed, and he took out a cannon. "You're not going to hurt it, are you?" I asked him. "No," Steven said, then he bit his lip. "Yes. But it won't kill it." He groaned. He stuffed the gadget into the cannon and lit the match. "Back off!" Steven yelled. We hid behind a rock pillar supporting the balcony of the cliff. "Here it goes." I yelled. The cannon shot mr. Gadget into the air and in blew up, into a billion gajillion pieces. It was a horrible sight. I once and a while had to cover my eyes. I wanted Steven to know where the castle on the island was. But the fact was that I didn't know myself where it was either. I just got up and thought about the world.
I was so small and it was so big. Wow. I just couldn't leave here now, I had to save the world from cloning and destruction! I remembered Meredith. I thought she was a loser until she blew up. Then that changed everything, and that made me think of Megan. I couldn't just let her die! I had to get her and Aaron back to their house before 7:00 in the morning, and now, it was 12:43. I checked my watch over and over again until we were headed up the mountain. See, I couldn't see a darn thing even if I tried, but that was different due to Steven, because he had a night vision scanner. I so wanted one of those. I just stared at a black nothing, what I thought was the sky. Once and a while a rock would fall under me, and I never fell for anyone, I just kept climbing, though it was hard. I couldn't help but wanting to land on the ground, and I wished we were only 2 feet away, we would have been able to jump off and go find a secret path. I felt my hand land on a cool surface, enough room that it could possibly be the top. I hesitated, then with great triumph, clenched a wedged rock that was big enough for my weight, and squirmed myself up onto the top. Once I turned around to face my friend, I grabbed his arm and pulled him up. We both just sat there for a while staring at each other, I guess we were just surprised that we had made it up to the top in 2 hours. Steven stared at what we were now leaning on and he bit his lower lip. "We're here," gasping for breath. I didn't quite see what he meant by HERE.
Megan sat in a wet and soggy room of an old warehouse with Aaron, Meredith, Rudy, and three other girls all tied up. The water was heated and turning into mist that soaked out the kid's breath and rang the only air into water. Soon, Megan spit out water instead of air and the room started filling with warm water soaking up their socks. This was not a very good thing.
I stared up at "HERE" and almost fell off the cliff losing my only balance. I looked at Steven. "Is this it?" I asked. "What's it?" Steven asked. "The top of the cliff," with relief and triumph. We stood up and grasped the last rock. I felt a shaky feeling under my hand, and the rock broke out of the wall guiding me down off the edge of the cliff! Steven reached his hand down and I grabbed it. I was saved!
The water was rising up to Megan's neck. All of the girls, and poor Aaron, had to sit up straight. At the moment, the water reached Megan's mouth, it was over Aaron's face. Megan screamed and looked at Aaron, and he was under the water and struggling to get out of the ropes. Just then, Megan heard a noise of splashing water as if someone were walking into that room. When she turned, a face was looking at her from 15 feet away. "Hello," and he had a strong English accent. "AAAAH!" Megan tried screaming but she was silent. Her face was pasted towards Aaron now. Megan reached down and broke the rope off Aaron. He fell deep under the water and swam to the top. The man dived under water and grabbed Aaron. The screams and cries faded, and Megan was left with the other girls. "Help!" She yelled at the top of her lungs.
At the top of the fairly large cliff, I took a deep breath. The echoes of a scream stuck in my head. "What was that?" I asked. "I didn't hear anything." Steven said. "Use the Tracker." He suggested. "Okay." And with hope, I pushed the button. "It's coming from 234 miles away," looking into the heroic sky. "We made it, baby!" I said. "Alex, let's look for some sign of the building," peering out into the air. "There!" I pointed at a sign that said, "Some sign of the building." "Wow,". "That is weird. But, we are getting closer! Yet another sign read, "But, you are getting closer." I sighed. "Hmm, maybe we could follow these signs to get to the Water Factory,". We stepped up on to the pointed top of the cliff to look over, and found out that we were in huge luck. Under us, was a roof top of some Mexican food bar. "Steven, let's jump!" I yelled, and my voice echoed off all of the mountains and rumbled the earth. "Are you crazy? That roof is only cheap wood and cheap shingles." Steven whispered, making him a good example for my voice. "Well then let's die," sarcastically. "No, let's just walk onto the roof." Steven whispered so quiet, it was almost nothing. Just then, I puled him down and jumped onto the roof. Steven crashed down on the cheap shingles. "See? No falling!" I said, and started going bouncing. I jumped and with that, the roof cracked open and we broke through the ceiling. "Hey lookee here, man!" Some Spanish man said. I layed on the floor twisted and covered in dust and shingles, and so was Steven, but he standed the pain. "We got ourselves some Mexican dancers!" The same Spanish man brightened like a light bulb and grabbed our arms. "You guys ready?" He said, towing us into a dark room with cloth all over the place, and I felt sea sick. "Now just like we did in the rehersal. By the way, did you lose weight?" He rushed around with us. Then, left us alone. "WOW. We try to save some people and we get caught in a Mexican dance party." I groaned. "Yah. I think they are EVIL!" Steven said EVIL in a creepy voice. "Yah, but we don't know how to!" I said. "Yah. I don't know either," and stared around the room. The door barged open that moment. "You are on!" The man yelled. Steven looked in the sky like it was the last time he'd see a black ceiling. "Bye, bye. Here it goes!" He shrugged his shoulders and we headed into the front of the place where the stars glowed in our eyes. "HAHAHAHA! What nut house are you running?" One of the men at the table shouted. "None!" Yelled the man who guided us onto the platform. We stood there not sure what to do, staring at the dirty people sitting all around the muddy room. "Please give a round of applause for our sacrifices!" The man yelled into the microphone that leads to the speaker behind us. "Sacrifice? Wow, no way!" Steven yelled shaking his head. "Now run," changing the tone as each word comes, in a lower tone, a much scarier tone. I felt a chill run down my back. "Steven, we're dead." I muttered in a quiet tone, keeping sure that the man doesn't see me. Steven nodded and that meant yes, but we'll make it. Gun ends were pointed directly in my face, and at the same time, we both stood on one of the tables and tried to duck. "Say bye!" Said the evil man. "Bye!" Steven laughed, then he noticed that a joke is not good now. A loud noise blared in my ears, a quiet bursting noise, and the gun was shot, loading me with fright. This gun was a person in the back row, so as long as we were to disappear, we would die any quick moment until, a crash noise was heard, and someone yelled, "Duck!" and that was the reflex, and I fell to the table top. The bullet passed the table and hit the glass window behind us. The glass flew all over, but we were ducked for cover. The mysterious person swung down on a rope through the hole we had earlier made and, I sat up, shocked to see.....My sister! "Get in that barrel, don't watch this happen!" We rushed into a barrel nearby and only heard the rough sound of fists hitting skin. "Ouch!" I thought. I popped my head out of the barrel. "That's dad!" I yelled, and yes it was. It was my dad fighting my sister! "It's..." My sister groaned, punching someone's stomach. "...Not him!" She finished, knocking the man over. "Run!" She added. We tumbled out of the barrels and stumbled out of the door and started to flee from the building, so far, so far. The building was a blur, a memory, the fear was an erupting volcano and was rumbling of fire and lava, and any minute would erupt, any minute. I pulled my feet farther in front of me, and then we stopped. A sudden stop, for some unknown reason. Then I realized that we had just heard the sound of a bolt of lightning exploding on the ground, a loud, explosion. The building had been bombed, and whoever did it, must have killed my sister too! Someone was following us, and they were going to find our trackers! "Steven, get out the binoculars and look back at the building,". He did. "I see danger, danger, great danger," quickly taking off the binoculars and putting them away. "Okay, we're stuck here in a desert in Mexico," trying to sound like it was a normal, everyday, good thing to happen. "Use a new thing of yours. You are the spy, dude. Use the manual," shrugged his shoulders, and turned around to view the never ending border, if there was one. I pulled the manual, which was dusty and ripped, from my pocket and started to find letters. My red hair, still flaky with black dye, shimmered in the moonlight. "Okay, the thing on the shoes, there's a switch on the bottom of our shoes. Uh...Switch it," extremely stuttery, trying to read the black on black letters in the pitch black night sky. Nervous, I switched the switch on my shoes, and a a blade shot out of each outer side of my shoe, and the blade folded out into a skateboard shape, and two rockets popped out from the bottom of the board. The rockets shot out a magnetic force, messed with gravity, and I lifted a few inches off the ground. I looked over at Steven, and he lifted up into the air, same length as I. I folded the manual and put it in my pocket. Just a few 3 seconds later, I shot forward past the area. Steven came up next to me. The Hoverboards carried us faster than we could ever run. The flaky black dye in my hair flew out, and I leaned backwards. The board tipped upside down, and kept riding forwards, but my head hung 2 inches from the ground. I screamed, and brushed the desert ground with my hands. "Help! I'm upside down!" I yelled. Just then, I unhooked my feet from the top of the Hoverboard and held onto the bottom of the Hoverboard. The board kept a shield over me, as I hung right side up, holding the bottom as it lifted higher into the air. Steven was still right beside me. I slipped from my board, but then quick-jumped at a leap frog speed back onto the back edge. I hooked my body onto the board like a sloth, but opposite, with by back up against the bottom of the Hoverboard, my face, looking straight down. With one hand, I removed my backpack, and reached it up to the top of the Hoverboard, and I used on arm, slid it through a strap the hung over the top to the bottom, like a seat belt. I was strapped up against the board. Now, I slipped my other arm into the right strap and let go of the edge. "Steven! I am tied to the bottom by my backpack!" I screamed, over excited. Then, I jerked my feet at one angle and turned the board right side up. I could breathe, and see the stars again, until...CRASH! Then, I literally see stars. Steven and me are flying through darkness. Were we flying? I hesitated to open my eyes. When I did, I saw a blurry view of a dim light below me. Then I noticed that the light, so dim before, shine in my eyes. A loud humming noise spread through my ears. Wind kicked in on my face. I closed my eyes again, and we had landed, from whatever we had just gone through! But boy, was the room strange. We were hung from the ceiling on a platform which under it was a huge tubish tank of...Oh nice...Lava. "Steven, La...L...Lava is under us..s...s." I shivered, trying to make out words. It was 46 degrees below zero and I was wearing a striped button up short sleeve and no hat. I shivered like a cartoon character would and that's when I noticed that there was no way off this small round platform, and that there was no roof top, and that the sky was red, and that it was 2:30 in the morning...On a school night...And Megan was gone...And that my parents weren't going to be home until a few days...And that I am just eight on this night, and that I had had a concussion. And then a woke up.
THE NEW GIRL 7:00 in the morning, I got up from the desert ground, and I stared at the hot sun. It was blazing hot. My bare feet burned on the desert floor and Steven was licking the ground. I tilted my head at one angle to see why he'd be doing that dumb thing. "Occonor! Does that taste good?" I yelled, heat bursting down my back. I cast a huge shadow over him, for a tiny kid like I. "Nah!" He said, spitting the sand out all over the place. At school, I could only think of one thing. Failure. I thought that the whole "SAVE THE WORLD ON MY BIRTHDAY" was going to happen like THAT! Instead, I am just an ordinary 8 year old-second grader...With no party. Boohoo me. I could hear Megan right now, "ALEX, ALEX! YOU TWIRPY NERD HEADED FOREST FIRE..." "I AM NOT FOREST FIRE!" I yelled at my thoughts, noticing that I was standing in my seat screaming, and kids were staring at me. "....SAYS SMOKEY TO THE CHILDREN AS THEY LAUGH AT HIS RED HAT! ONLY YOU CAN PREVENT FOREST FIRES!" I added quickly making it into one complete sentence, but nervously laughing. "IT'S A PLAY I'M IN, ABOUT SMOKEY THE BEAR." I slowly added on to the sentence. I guess that Megan is just fine now. Megan, and all of the other girls drowned under the water that night, and Aaron had been tied to the ceiling, and the water was just 3 inches away from his face. Looking down straight into the water, Aaron noticed that his sister was dead.
I awoke to the loud sound of, WE HAVE A NEW STUDENT! It was a daymare! I was going ballistic, when IT stepped into the class. "This is Hillary, our new student, and would you please introduce yourself!" Said the teacher, half to us, half to the new girl. "I am Hillary. I am normal, and I have nothing to say." She seemed really different. Her hair was long, twisted, and curled, and she wore dark, baggy clothes. Her face was covered in glitter, and her skin was a light tone. She looked old for her age, but her body was small. She sat at the back of the class, and that's when I saw on her shirt, a sign that said, "I'm With Stupid." I stared. "What a idiot,". Let's just say some one heard that. I had just blurted out a bad comment to some one who was right in front of me. "Um, shut up nerd." Hillary said really madly. I don't think really madly is even a word...Oh well. I stood on my chair, "Sit down Alex!" The teacher barged into the space between my desk and Jon's. "I am." I yelled.
The office is not a lovely place. In there, there is a chair. Thrilling. I had to sit there for a long time. Almost the whole day. The lady who sat at the desk was so smiley. For an eight year old like I was, now considering that I am a well grown 10 year old, that was freaky. "Hi lady," in a cheesy voice. I shuttered. "Hi, Alex,". She knows my name! I wanted to leave, but then realized that there was no point in leaving when your teacher is mad at you. I kept thinking of that punk girl Hillary and I shook my head in disgust. I sat in the office for a long time. By the time my class was in gym, the lady said, "You can go now." So I happily left the boring office and when I was walking down the hall, I saw something that scared me. The janitor. He was never there at the school before...I saw why. He was a terrible man. He was a man who had tracked me down on his computer system. He was...Alexander Corell. The reason that Aaron's gone, and the reason that the robot clones of us are about to attack. And then I stopped to think about this whole experience, and why is he going through all this trouble to get us and Aaron?
The golden stone. A jolt of excitement ran down my back and I began to feel dizzy. They want the golden stone...But why?
I decided to leave the school and run away. Run somewhere at least. And I ran so long, passing people and wind blowing through my hair at extreme speed, knocking a branch into my face, but I kept on running. I mostly thought about Hillary and how she was so punky and weird. I for some reason back then hated her, but now a days, she's okay...Sort of attractive....... But anyway, I kept running. And running. But finally slowed down. Then walked the rest until I found a sign that read, "Dead End." "I have to take chances. I'm an eight year old boy. That's what little boys do. They take chances. They save the world!" I stated proudly, looking promisingly up into the morning sky filled with creamy clouds of white. Standing on the tip of a small yet steep hill, I began to search my pockets for any gear I still had from the night before. I only found a card that said, "Alex, don't be mean to your cousins. Be a nice friend to Aaron and Megan and remember not to ask for things!!! We love you!!! -mom and dad" and I dropped to the ground and cried. This was not the way I had planned it and I knew that my mom and dad worked for Alexander Corell and were behind the cloning and had taken DNA from me and Megan because they knew about the cloning process. And because Megan is trapped, she will die and so will everyone else and it's all because of my braces and ALEXANDER CORELL! Oh and also, what about me and Steven? We survive to tell the tale of misery? No way. I will not let this happen to me and Steven to get punished. I didn't want to have to save the guys. I wasn't even sure where they were without my gear. I was perplexed at the fact that I was like a secret agent the night before but now I'm just a... I stopped crying when I felt a piercing pain in my side. I reached into my lower pocket and retrieved a pair of those spy glasses and my trusty watch that I thought got lost! I put on the glasses and watch and Then took them off at the sighting of the distance of the drop. It was perfect! All I had to do was slowly walk down, and I'd be living in a movie! And as I took the first step, I began to feel the secret agent feeling. Like I was one of them. Part of them. More spiritual stuff. All ridiculous thoughts popped up like, "Marry Hillary!" and at that, I slipped and fell down the hill, hurting my back, but gaining confidence. I was "cool" because I was falling. But it hurt a lot. When my head hit the ground gently I knew that it was the bottom of the hill. I quickly thrust myself onto my feet and began to run with my gear. I tapped my watch to see if it worked again, and sparks shot out of it and attached to my braces making me jump. A foggy picture came up on the screen that showed a man pulling a lever. I got scared to see Megan sitting in one of the chairs hoisted up to the ceiling in the flooded warehouse. I wanted so badly to locate them.
JOHN H. GIERRA
I spotted out five signals of civilization. A fence, a hat, a car, a bench, and a trash can. That was all I found, not including that my friends Steven and Julie found me running out of the school and had chased me down the hill when I fell. They came running down in their baggy jeans while I wore my long jeans from that hideaway. I always wore the weather. If it was hot, I wore shorts. But my shorts were always below my knees and very long. I used to trip on them.
Julie, the tomboy that she was, was wearing a black shirt and very long brown pants. She also, which freaked me out, dyed her hair black. "Hey guys!" I said, surprised. "Uh, yah, man. We followed you," getting the result of being hit in the face by Steven. "What she means is, she loves you, man." Steven laughed, with a result of being pushed onto his stomach by Julie. "I do not!" She yelled. I just looked at them innocently. "You guys, I need help," breaking up the fight.
It was later that I realized that we needed a convincing story to tell our teachers. "How bout we say that we all died?" I suggested. "If we were dead, how would we be able to tell them?" Steven said. "Point proven,". I looked around, changing the subject by saying, "Oh look, a sign!" loudly. Everyone looked and saw the sign. It was wedged beneath 2 large rocks and hardly visible. I saw it. It read, "John H. Gierra." I walked over to it and there it was, an entrance. A secret entrance. A hidden entrance. I ran into the area and turned to signal to Julie and Steven. They were gone. I was about to worry when the ground opened up and I fell into a deep dark room. I hit my back on a table and cracked it in half. Then, I looked for a light switch and found something cold. I shot back, terrified. The goop from the object slimed all over my hand. I felt something mushy, and I wiped my hand on the wall. Next to my hand, I found a light switch and flipped it on. A light shined into my eyes, and I peered at what had got all over my hands. It was a dead bleeding body! I screamed and turned around to see Julie and Steven. I sighed when I realized who they were. "Oh it's just you guys,". "I'm warning you, Alex. Do not go into that room. It's full of evil. Curses of wicked demons. Spirits." Steven gulped. Julie was standing next to him, hugging him, shaking with fear. "I saw a monster in there," in a cold voice. I stopped and backed up against the wall in fear. They both went against the wall next to me. "We're almost in 3rd grade and we're gonna' die." Steven gasped. "Last night was my birthday, and I'm gonna' die too,".
"I just have to admit something. Alex..." I waited to hear. "I was the one who stole your project for the book report,". "That was you?" I asked. "Yes" she said. I sighed. I decided to take a look into the "haunted" room and see. I found a light switch and flipped it on. The light really helped. It was so bright that it could beat the sun if they had a contest! I looked around and saw nothing. "Guys, this isn't haunted,". Then I yelled, "John Gierra, you here?" "Yes." I heard a startling voice say. It was coming from the back room! An old man popped his head out from the doorway and almost made me jump! "Gave you kids a startle, Ay?" the old man said. I said, "Where are we, anyway?" and he said, "Under the ground and into my secret hidout." I looked around. "Not much of a hideout." "Yah. I wouldn't think so," I said. "Got some friends with ya'?" he asked, looking over Steven and Julie. "Yah. I do." I paused. "What brought us here?" "Well," he began, "I think it's the right time to have someone test my inventions." He was completely off subject. I was anxious to try them out, though. But, I couldn't. The man lead us back into a hidden wall and down into a dungeon full of cobwebs. The stairs were all wet and curved. John was holding a lantern in front of him. "This is where I keep my things." He mumbled to us. The staircase got darker. The room was cold and misty and we had trouble breathing as it got humid. It got darker. And spookier. And we finally reached the bottom of the winding staircase. Not that it was a room, but indeed a dungeon, one of those in which Dracula might live in. It was huge and looked like a basement of a castle. Walls made of stone, lanterns on the walls. Fire in the lanterns. I couldn't even SEE the ceiling...The floors were creepy and had stains of something on them...Blood? John guided us down the hallway, which looked about the same as that room, but shorter and skinnier. It also got increasingly humid each step we took. I grabbed onto Julie's shoulder and she hit me in the stomach. The air was moist and hot, and John looked nervous. "It's not supposed to be this hot," he gulped, "so someone must have turned on the heat!" We all heard a terrifying laugh from the other room and footsteps. Someone had broken into John Gierra's hideaway and turned on the heat! Someone evil. But he was gone now, and despite the fear we felt, we continued walking. "There's a way out of here if we continue to walk." John said, gasping for air. I took off my backpack and dragged it with me. It was getting hotter and we were dehydrating. There was no light in that place! It got spookier and I felt cobwebs hit my face. I was about to scream, but instead I sighed and wiped it out of my face. We kept walking and losing air. It was cramped in there and I could not believe that John actually lived down here. Suddenly, I saw light! "And here we are!" John said. We stepped onto a dirt road. The sky was grey and I was sad to know that it was almost over for my cousins...And my birthday. Then I noticed that we were suddenly above ground and on a mountain. What the heck? "It's a setup!" I yelled. "John Gierra is a setup!" "No he isn't,".
Just then, John Gierra said, "I can't take it anymore!" and ran off the cliff. His body looked as if it were being stretched. I watched in fright as he fell even farther! His arms spread out and he started to scream. I yelled, "Julie, take your ribbon out of your hair, quick!" and she handed it to me. Then I said, "Steven, hold onto my legs and jump!" "No!" he yelled. But, I ran and jumped off after John Gierra. Steven got pulled down too. Then Julie. We all started falling, but I grabbed onto a rock sticking out and saved us. I held on tight. The two friends of mine started to turn angry. "Let go, I'm going to let go." Julie yelled. "I am!" "No!" I yelled. "Don't! Stay!" "I'm letting go." Julie yelled again. "No." Steven yelled at her. "I will!" "Don't!" But she let go. In a sad and traumatizing fall, our dear friend fell. And John Gierra, he landed in the ocean, and we saw that he was okay. But Steven and I were still hanging off that cliff, staring at Julie, dead and sprawled out on a rock. Immediately, Steven started crying. "I didn't want her to die. You should have let me die." He cried. I didn't say anything, afraid that if I made the slightest move, I'd fall also. I had no clue of what to do. I was hungry and I was tired. And that's when I noticed Julie. She was dead, right? I didn't know yet, but I somehow hoisted myself and Steven onto the top again and found a pathway down to the area in which Julie fell in. I walked over to Julie and stared at her. "I thought of something, Steven,". "Doesn't she have parents?" "No. Just a dad,". "Well, what's her last name?" I asked. "Corler...No...Carl...no...Corell?" He stuttered. "A murderer's daughter. Well...Our bad guy's daughter is dead." I moaned. I shook my head. "Now he'll kill me. Julie Corell...UH!" I shrieked. "I liked her. I really did." Steven moaned. "Me too." I whispered. I walked up to her and spread a mini cross from my pocket across her chest. "She'll always be with us." I whispered. "So, what do you want to do now?" Steven yelled. "Leave the area. We don't want anyone to find us,". I looked at Steven and covered his mouth. "And try to keep it not loud." I whispered. We crouched down on our hands and knees and crawled over to a boulder. "We're hidden," to himself. Like he didn't know I was there! Anyway, I reached into my backpack-it had been smudged with mud-and pulled out my watch. It sparked out a green light and made the sound of an old radio between stations. I whacked at the screen and a dim picture was shown. "What?" Megan said on the other end. The picture faded out, so we could only here sound. "Alex? You there?" I heard her say. "It's working!" Steven screamed in my ear. "Yes. I know, Steven." I moaned. I changed tones to talk to Meg. "Yes I am." I told her. I tapped the screen and a picture showed up again. I heard Meg scream in happiness. Someone in the background asked Megan, "What's up?" and Megan said, "Alex's on again." And more screaming stuff, this time with more people including Aaron. "Guess what?" Megan said. "Alexander Corell let us free to the dining table for our 'last' meal...Or so he thinks..." Megan told us. "He drained out that water that was rising, and now he's gone to set something up.. I donno'...Some torture thing."
I shook my head.
"What a pervert,". The sound went muffled as she began to talk about something else. I couldn't understand. Then, as the sound came back on again, she said, "...John Gierra. He did it to us."
"He did what?" I asked. "He was the one who made it seem like we blew up...At the meeting! 'member that? The catsup? The robot carcasses?" "I know,".
"Well," she began, "Heard of him?" "Yes. I see him now." And I froze. Looking at me was the fat, bearded, tan John Gierra, with his eyes at mine. "Bye Meg." I whined, staring at the man approaching us. I shoved the watched into my backpack and stood up. "Hey kiddies...F'get me?" He mumbled. Smiling, he pulled out a gun and shot at the air. "Forty more of those..." he laughed.
"What happened to you?" I said, pointing to his head, which was bleeding. "What?" he said.
"He's gone mad!" I yelled, grabbing Steven's hand and running. Gierra started firing wildly as we escaped. He then fell to the ground dead. He had shot himself in the head.
IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES, I'VE GOT WHAT IT TAKES.
I remember my hair, the black styling jell had already worn out and I was forest fire again. I was still wearing my zigzag blue shirt and my jeans, which I now noticed were very long and overlapping my shoes. I weighed 69 pounds, and was 4 foot, 45 in. I had, and still have, light skin and freckles. I have blue eyes. And I have nothing wrong with me. I'm just an average kid. Steven has tan skin, no freckles, green eyes, black hair, he weighs 67 pounds and is 4 foot, 44 in. He was 7 ½ and I was 8 years old. Julie was 8 and she only weighed 63 pounds. Now that she died, there's no skinny one anymore. But anyway, I turned 8 the night before this one. The bump on my head made me think different. I feel older. Plus...It was night once again, and I still hadn't found Megan yet. I was worried. I was in California, near where I live, and where Steven lived.
"Let's go to my house." And when I said MY house, I meant MY house. Not Megan's. We entered my house and I sat in my living room chair. "Now life will be normal. Just wait for...Megan!" I remembered Megan! She was being taken somewhere with those other people! Those...Those...Spies? No. It was a lie. We are not spies. It's a fake. We are not spies! We're kids in danger! And we can't stand up to mom and dad! "My mom and dad our behind this all,". "They are evil. Like Julie's dad." "No," Steven yelled in horror, "No!" I looked at him and shook my head yes. It was true. Unless THEY were the ones who wanted...Oh no. Wait...Wait...Oh my god...The crystal! They took Aaron for the crystal he had! But why take him too? Well, I had no idea. I went into a flashback to find out. WAY back.
August 17, 2000- I was almost eight. It was 2 weeks before my birthday. I was sitting in my house and reading a book about Indiana Jones. It was full of pictures from the movie, and I saw this Sculpture thing that they called "The Idle" and my dad appeared in back of me. He said that there was an article in a newspaper about a person in our town that died. He said that when they checked the house, they found old articles from an 1800's newspaper that told about an ancient stone that was said to be very powerful and was the key to a secret world. He told me it was said to have been buried somewhere in THIS neighborhood and is valuable...Up to the price of 177,009,999, dollars or something. He said that if we found it, we could become very wealthy and...Laughing, he said that "we could open that secret door to the other world" Then he patted me on the back and walked into the kitchen. I then had put the book down, and walked over to the window. 'God' I thought, 'Help us.'
"Steven...My dad took them for hostage so HE could get the credit for the stone and they couldn't stop him...Or call for help!" I yelled in shock. I turned white and fainted.
Even when I was passed out, I was even more nervous. My parents took hairs from my head to clone me and had succeeded, even though I couldn't beleive it in a million years. My dad told me that cloning was impossible, although they cloned a sheep once. The fact that I had a clone was just amazing. But I din't seem to care. Nothing was really amazing to me at the moment. It was all just rediculous. I'm a kid, I should have been playing games with friends or going to school. Or...Not speeding things up! I am sorry that the long adventure we had had that night seemed so badly written...Sped up. One minute, I'm battling clones... And flying? And flipping? And falling? And not to mention crashing through glass? The reason that it all sounds ridiculous is that it's hard to explain it all in bigger and better sentances. Even if nothing ever tied up in a conlusion, it's life. Sometimes things don't happen like they should. And in any other book, when everything makes sense and everything ties up into one conclusion, this story lacs it. This is because this was my adventure. And I failed it. Forget anything I told you about being a spy. Take away the chapter about the flying and the falling. I sorta' over did that one. It was just to make things more fun. And that monster that pinned me and Megan to the wall...That sibirian mountain cyclops...FAKE! Otherwise, it's all true. The pinned to the wall theory was actually just some crazy guy who dragged us down under this hollow rock hut. Steven was just a friend who happened to be near the mountain wear I fell from. Stupid really...What a coincidence! Frankly, I took this out of my diary that I wrote when I was 8. That's why the grammar was stupid at the beginning. I am now 10 and I'm writing on my computer in a cold January. The sun is shining, but it's cold outside. 0 degrees. My mom is yelling at me to go out for lunch with my family.
I'm back! It was cool! We went to this cool resturant that was decorated really weirdly. But something happened that was unbelievable...Here it goes!
January 12 2003: At the table at which we were seated at, was placed a lamp. I couldn't see my sister at the other side of the table because the lamp shade was so big. In fact, I couldn't see anyone or anything on my sister's side of the table. I moved the lamp shade away and the whole lamp fell off the table and crashed on the floor. All of the lights in the resturant went off and everyone screamed. I didn't...Okay...Maybe just a little. Okay, I jumped too. A man who worked there came up to us and he wiped the glass off the floor. He shouted in pain a few times because the glass had cut him, but soon he walked off carrying the lamp. Of course, I didn't see that happen. The lights came back on, and I could see my sister again. The light was gone for good. We ordered food and ate and then we just sat there doing nothing at all but talk. Oh...And I scratched my ear. Still, all we did was talk. Mom, a 35 year old mom, talked about her day at work...She's a doctor. My dad didn't tell us anything about his day at work...He's a worker at a small resturant. He mostly only told us about the newspaper. My sister, a fifteen year old singer whose name is Mel talked about her music auditions. I talked about how if you stick a penny in your nose it hurts. Yes, that's a little bit of me for ya'. Simple. Not stupid, just very odd. My imaginary twin brother talked about the same thing. His name is Alek. I made him up when I was six. He haunts my thoughts. Always there!
I seemed to wake up that moment. And it seemed that then, I was all clear in the head again. It was not my job to rescue prisoners. I myself was a prisinor of lost hope. I couldn't find the courage to go back to the beach...Why was I even there in the first place? Steven and I just stayed at my house trying to forget it all. My parents will be back soon...That is if they're still nice. Between you and me, I had no idea what to tell them to have them help me. It would be especially hard if they really did turn out to be mean. I mean, bad. They wouldn't kill their own son...Would they? I became worried. What if my parents killed me?
I could call the cops. It's their job to help with murders. Not mine. I was stupid to dress like a secret agent and do spywork. I sucked at it! I couldn't save myself if my life depended on it! And soon my cousin will die. Her and the other spies in training. Why the heck to they have kids as spies? It's stupid! Why did I use a jetpack? I was so stupid that night. It couldn't have happened. Here's the rest of it...I know nothing about spies. AT ALL.
I took off my shoes and Steven and I just layed back and worried about this adventure. Megan was 1000000 miles away from here now. In an old jail ( She had been removen from the warehouse the night that it started and sent into a prison) somewhere in somewhere. I laughed at myself. I was a thin little wimp. I needed food badly. Not to mention that Megan's mom is probably going crazy trying to find her. I pictured her calling the cops. I pictured my mom and dad coming into the house all worried. I pictured it all to be normal again. The way it was supposed to be. Normal life. Normal ways. Not this. I was supposed to have a gaurdian to watch me, but I didn't. Steven needed his parents. They were probably also going ballisctic. I turned around and faced Steven. "You need to go home,".
"Yah." he moaned, stretching.
"Or better yet, we need to go back to school and tell the teachers why we won't come in the morning,".
"It's 9:04...9:05 now!" Steven said, staring at his watch.
"We can see if maybe one of the teachers is still there."
"Alex, that's a crazy idea. No teachers will be at the school." Steven yelled.
"You're right. Well, we have to think of something. We have to get you home."
"Bye.'' Steven said, walking away and out the door. I laid back in the chair and tried to erase the pain I had gone through. I felt the scars from our trip, and I noticed that I was not too healthy. My face had a few cuts on the side, and my head was throbbing with pain. I would fall asleep now.
In the morning, I woke up to another day. Still, I thought of all the things I had to fix. I had to save my cousins and mom and dad. They had been cloned and that's why I thought they were evil. No. They were with Megan. In an old prison somewhere across the United States. Mom and dad weren't coming home. I had to go to Megan's house and tell her mom. And so I got up and stumbled to the door, turning the knob, opening to a beautiful day of blue sky and green grass. I stopped and breathed in the air.
Knock. Knock. Knock. I waited. I heard footsteps. I gained my courage to brake the news, but I couldn't stand to see the look on her face. Couldn't stand to see her cry. I had to tell though, and that is what I did. The door opened. "Alex?" Meg's mom said, yawning and squinting at me through the sun rays in confusion. "I came to give you some bad news...But I don't know how to say it," and a tear formed in my eye. "Megan and Aaron are gone."
END OF PART ONE