Author's Note: Thank you again for all my LOVELY reviewers! I could gush praises about you all day, but I don't really think you would appreciate that much. I'll try to read all your stories and review them, but I'm really busy so I'll try my best! Beverly, Vulcan Princess, calm yourself. You will see in time. I also thank Kay and CodeLyoko for taking time and inputting their opinion! Also to mornstar and your barrage of questions...you will also see...and thank you for the cookie. I'm looking forward to my roses! And this chapter is dedicated to Turok 2 who poses as a character! (Thank you, thank you, thank you for putting me in your story!) Everyone who reads this should go check out his story "True Love". It's very well written. Now onto my chapter...
"So you are the spies that I was said to be expecting," said a formidable officer in a crisp olive general uniform.
"Uh...yep, that's us!" Sam said cheerfully. All four of us smiled sweetly. The officer that commanded the military base looked unconvinced.
He scratched his chin. "I was looking for someone more...um...how should I say it...experienced."
We stopped smiling and replaced our happy faces with frowns. "Hey!" Clover said indignantly, all composure lost. "We, I'll have you know, are the best spies in the business. We are as experienced as they come, except for maybe that one," she added in an undertone and pointed at me. I growled low and clenched my fists.
"That's not true. I do remember kicking your butt in training." I smiled wide as I heard Clover growl this time.
Sam gave us a slicing glance then turned to face the commander, smiling. "I assure you sir that we are very equipped and ready for this mission. Count on us and we won't let you down." Behind her, Alex saluted crisply as if proving Sam's words true.
The general raised an eyebrow. "All right. I'll trust you. I suppose you..."
"Uh...dad?"
All four of us turned to the doorway of the base. Outside, framed by the island's edge the base was situated on and the water, was a boy looking about my age looking a bit nervous. He had dark blond hair that reached his shoulder and he brushed a strand back impatiently. His skin was slightly tan and his eyes brown eyes that hinted green gazed around the room awkwardly.
"Yes son?" the commander asked, standing up.
"Um...remember the party at our house?" he said, tapping a foot on the ground with sharp clicks. It was then that I noticed that he was wearing a tuxedo suit. He looked very uncomfortable. I understood, as I don't think I would have been all smiles in that suit either. "It's starting in five minutes. You should get over there."
"Yes right, thank you Graham. I'll be with you in a second. Oh and spies, meet my son, Graham." Graham blushed and looked as if he could have done without the introduction.
"How's it going?" Sam asked politely.
"Nice to meet you!" Alex said sweetly.
"Have a nice day," I added after a second's thought, since Sam and Alex had both took the normal reactions. Graham gave me an odd glance.
"Hey," Clover said flirtatiously. All three of us glared at her and I elbowed her in the arm. "Ouch!" she said resentfully, rubbing where I had poked her. "I mean, what's up?" this time she said it in a considerably duller voice.
"Nice to meet you too," he said, smiling nervously. "Now dad, we need to go."
"Right. Be right there. My guards will show you the way to the room. I wish you luck and contact me immediately if something happens." All four of us nodded as one and saluted as he walked by and out of the base.
"Right this way," said one of the guards, stepping forward and gesturing. We followed, our heels clicking on the metal floor.
"I noticed that his son's cute," Clover squealed.
I gave her a glare. "And I noticed that he's way too young for you."
"There's no problem with that," she said huffily.
"There is a problem when you happen to be on a mission at the moment!" Sam said furiously.
"Well, it sure looks like a fun party he's going too," Alex commented flatly, stating that she meant exactly the opposite of what she said.
"I'll have to agree with you on that one," I said, winking at her. Alex laughed.
Then we reached the sliding doors that led into the room in which the chip was contained.
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"Perfect, we are stuck here in this gloomy, not to mention dark room at some military base in the middle of nowhere because we are guarding some chip? Please!" Clover said annoyingly from behind the metal podium that had the chip suspended above it in the air in a beam of blue light. Other than that, there was no other lighting in the room and everything else in my vision was shrouded in darkness, creating quite an eerie effect. "Could my day get any better?" Clover concluded her opinion in sarcasm.
"Clover, please, we're supposed to be on watch here. How can we hear anything over your whining?" I said gently. Clover had made it a point to sit farthest from me, on the opposite side of the podium. I didn't hurry to protest. Alex slumped against the podium on my left and Sam to my right.
"I'm not whining!" she insisted loudly, loud enough so that Sam, Alex, and I all winced. "It's not my fault I had three mochas before I got here to keep me awake. Caffeine isn't good for me."
"Or for anyone," Sam hissed. "But, if you don't mind Clover, can we talk about nutritional facts later?"
Clover fell silent. I sighed in relief. "Finally," I breathed out silently and stared straight ahead. I had been sitting here for over four hours and was about to burst. Everyone's tempers were running high and I was sure that all of our rumps were sore by now. I sighed again and my mind drifted off. I wonder what Ulrich is doing right now. Is he having fun? I shook my head at the thought. No, more importantly, does he miss me? I clenched my fists in anger at being pulled away for a stupid mission such as this. What a great first mission this was. If some criminal is going to attack, please make it snappy and soon, I thought, shifting my legs slightly while holding on to my pack that was propped up beside me.
Suddenly, a shadow swooped down in front of me, just outside where the light from the beam reached. I heard the faint sounds of feet hitting the ground. I straightened up, fully awake and alert. Be careful what you wish for, I thought nervously. I reached over to shake Alex's shoulder. She turned to look at me quizzically just as I heard Clover yawn noisily. The figure in front of me took that moment to attack.
"AH!" I yelled as the figure lunged forward. I could tell it was a male but I couldn't identify anything else because he was almost covered in black. But my sharp reflexes saved him from snatching the chip. As soon as he reached out with one hand for the chip, I leaned back on the floor and stuck out my arms and legs. My blue high-heeled feet caught him right in the gut, making him gasp to try and breath and I threw him back with my hands. He flew backwards and hit the wall a second later with a grunt and a thump.
"Clover, watch out!" I heard at about the same time the guy I threw back hit the wall. Sam yelled it as she came in and tackled another guy from the side. Clover screamed in alarm but then scrambled up in a clacking of boots along with Alex.
"Quick, we have to keep them off the chip!" Alex shouted, as if we didn't already know that. I reached down and slipped on my blue pack for safekeeping. Then Alex, Sam, Clover, and I all backed up until we were plastered onto the podium, creating a human wall around the floating chip. The two criminals could be seen now, although they were still only outlines. They circled around and attacked from either side, this time rushing Sam and Alex.
Suddenly there came a piercing ring in my pocket. I recognized the tone as my compowder. "Uh, sorry to rush you Jer, but it kind of is the wrong time to call," I said, eyeing the attackers nervously and then glancing down at Jerry's face on the compowder screen.
"Agreed. The general of the base you are in is having a party at his house celebrating the breakthrough of the artificial intelligence chip. Unfortunately, the party has been crashed rather violently. I need at least two of you spies to look into this right away. I've pinpointed their house on the computer and am sending the coordinates to your compowder as we speak. Hurry, Yumi." Jerry's face switched off without another word. I slipped the compowder hurriedly back into my pocket and turned to tell Sam.
"Heard the whole thing," she said through gritted teeth as she wrestled one of the attackers. "Take Clover and go!"
I nodded and ran around to the side and grabbed Clover's hand. "What the...?" she started but I put a finger to my lips, indicating I would explain later. Quickly we ran out of the room and past the guards, who yelled at us to come back. We sprinted down the halls and reached the door out. We ran outside and had already clicked on our jet pack backpacks before the outside guards could do anything.
We flew over the water at a quick pace. I explained everything to Clover in the process. "How coincidental that the attack on the chip came at the exact same time as the attack on the home of the general of the same base," Clover mused.
That thought perked my brain. "Of course! It must be coincidental! The people that are trying to steal the chip and the people that broke into the general's house must be working together. They planned this!" The ring tone in my pocket came again.
I opened up my compowder but this time I saw a map instead of Jerry's face. There was a white dot on it that kept flashing. "That's where the house is," I said, pointing to the map. "Let's go pay them a visit."
