Alex has just finished her final ride on the 'Stratosphere'.
"I wonder how much longer I have to ride, before I break the consecutive ride record?" Alex says to the ride operator.
"Well, You'll need to plan on four more days like this one!" the operator replies.
"HOW MANY?!?!"
"Four more days! When the coaster first opened, a local guy rode this coaster for five consecutive days to set the record."
"But when I checked on the Internet, the website I checked said it was only one and one quarter days!"
"That website must be out of date! That was the record before this guy broke it."
"Well if that's the case, I'm just going to enjoy the rest of the park this weekend with my friends! Our group is only here through Sunday!"
With that, a disappointed Alex heads toward the Beachcomber.
"Great!" she thinks, "I wasted a whole day trying to break a record I can't break! I could have spent it with Sam and Clover!"
Alex decides to forgo supper and go straight to bed. Tomorrow she will join her friends at the park.
As Alex approaches the gals' hotel room, she stops dead in her tracks! She can smell the faint aroma of sleeping gas. Quickly she pulls out her compowder and calls Sam and Clover.
Strange, she thinks. She can't even hear the compowders' rings on the other side of the door. Something is not right here!
Alex decides to check on the inside of the hotel room from the porch roof. Good thing the gals' room is on the second floor! She walks out onto the porch, shimmies up a post to the roof, and puts in her x-ray contact lenses. She is startled to see what is going on in the room!
Clover and Sam are bound and gagged to two chairs, back-to-back. Clover is staring at a rather large arrow, loaded into an equally large bow! The arrow is aimed right at the girls' midsections! As Alex scans the room, she sees an old enemy, Edison! She quickly turns on her sound enhancing hair barrette.
"Finally! I'll get even with you for sending me to prison, and destroying my plan to become rich by controlling the earth's rotation and selling sunlight!
"Do you see this candle? I have set it under the bowstring. It will take about two minutes for it to burn through! Then you two will be spy kabobs! And when your other friend enters the room and sees you two as kabobs, she'll be so shocked that I will be easily able to overcome her and eliminate her as well!
"You can't rely on those blasted gadgets of yours, either! I have your backpacks right here by me, plus I searched you while you were knocked out and took your lipsticks and lockpicks! You'll not escape!
"To make sure you don't, I'll stay here and watch the fun!" With that Edison lights the candle.
Alex knows she has to work fast! Luckily she is wearing her jet-drill-suction go-go boots! She chooses a window behind Edison so he can't see her, attaches her suction boot to it, and employs her laser to cut a large hole! She then puts her boot back on and switches to jet power, as she flies through the hole in the window.
Alex slams into the unsuspecting Edison, and he lands right on the large bow, triggering the arrow! Fortunately, by Edison hitting the bow, he throws off the aim, and the arrow misses Clover and Sam by three inches!
Alex rushes over to her two friends, ungags them and employs her laser lipstick to cut them free.
"Alex! Thank goodness!" cries a relieved Clover as she hugs Alex gratefully.
"Thanks, Alex! You're a lifesaver!" cries Sam as she also hugs Alex.
But then Clover notices something amiss.
"Where's Edison?" an alarmed Clover asks.
Edison had recovered from his landing on the bow. He quickly and quietly exited through the hole in the window and descended to the first floor to make his escape. The three gals run to the window, but Edison is nowhere to be found.
Clover is angry. She whips out her compowder to call Jerry.
"Jerry!"
"Yes, Clover. How is the amusement park?"
"It would be great, if you had told us Edison escaped from prison!" she demanded angrily.
"WHAT?" responded Jerry. "Let me check that! Well, ......he didn't escape..."
"WRONG ANSWER!! He tried three times to eliminate Sam and I! It was only thanks to a WOOHP umbrella, a clump of trees, and an alert Alex that we are still here!" Clover angrily replied.
"What I meant to say is, he didn't escape! He was released from prison on Tuesday. He had completed serving his time! They only provide information on recent released prisoners once a week, on Monday! Seeing he was released Tuesday, I would not have been informed of it until next Monday!"
In a much more soothing voice, Clover apologizes. "I'm sorry I jumped on you Jerry!"
"That's understandable, Clover. Especially if he's tried to eliminate you three times already!" says Jerry in an understanding tone of voice.
Sam asks, "But I thought he was put away for 10-20 years! He hasn't served anywhere close to that!"
"That's true Sam. Because Edison was held in a state prison which was overcrowded, he was allowed to reduce his time by 'good behavior'. That's why he was freed. They looked on him as a model prisoner."
"We're going to need gadgets to catch him, Jerry, and prevent him from getting us!" says Alex.
"I understand, Alex. What would you like?"
"We have our laser lipsticks and compowders. We could use two more sets of m-ray x-ray combo contacts (Alex has hers). Heat sensitive analyzer sunglasses would help too. We could also use our drill-jet-suction go-go boots," say Sam.
"Fine, ladies! I'll send them by ICBM WOOHP missile! You should receive them in about three minutes!"
"Thanks, Jerry! We'll stay in touch!" Sam signs off.
And as advertised, a WOOHP missile is quickly overhead and releases three backpacks by parachute. The backpacks land with pinpoint accuracy right outside the gals' hotel window, the one with the hole Alex lasered.
"Now THAT'S what I call service!" says Alex.
"Ok, gals! Edison has to be around here somewhere! Let's check out this hotel with our contacts! Alex, you take the south facing rooms. Clover, you take those facing east. I'll take those facing west, and whoever finishes first can start on those facing north!" says Sam.
"Ok, Sammy!" says Alex.
"Let's do it!" says Clover.
The girls spend the next hour scanning all the rooms in the hotel for Edison, but he isn't there.
"Now what, Sammy?" asks Alex.
"We'd better check all the attractions in the amusement park and the water park, to make sure he hasn't tampered with them!"
"Right!" says Clover, as the gals spend the next three hours checking both parks. But everything is fine and Edison again can't be found.
It is 2 AM when the gals return to their room in the hotel. They quickly remove the arrow and bow, and by turning down the intensity of their laser lipsticks, they are able to repair the window too.
"Do you think Edison is gone for good?" asks a very tired Clover.
"I don't know!" says a tired Sam.
"One thing for sure! He isn't at this hotel, or in either the amusement or the water parks!" says Alex after a yawn.
"What's our next step?" asks Clover.
"I think we should sleep on it! We can develop a plan in the morning!" suggests Sam.
"Good idea, Sammy," says Alex, as the three gals quickly go to sleep.
