Chapter 5: Detective Work.
While D Tent was walking out of the store called "Picture Place", Magnet was teasing Zigzag.
"Man, Zig Zag. Those were some nice baby pictures. I still can't believe that your mom took a picture of your birthmark on your right butt cheek."
"Okay, okay. Enough about Zig Zag," said X-Ray said laughing. "Let's take this picture to Twitch's house. He can identify it for us."
They went by Twitch's house and his dad said he was in his room. They all went into his room and he said,
"Hi guys. What do you want?"
He started twitching.
"Where's the car?" he asked.
"Right here," said X-Ray handing the picture to Twitch. "What kind of van is it."
Twitch was twitching while looking at the picture. Squid was looking around his room and asked,
"Um, Twitch. If you love cars so much, why don't you have any posters or models of them."
"Because the last time I had those things in here, my parents had to tie me down to the floor… It's a black Ford. The kind usually used for carrying equipment."
"Thanks. We'll see you later."
They all left the house and Twitch stopped his twitching.
Meanwhile, back at the jail, every once in a while the guys would let Stanley and Hector walk out into the recess area of the prison. One of them would walk around the corner and come out with a basketball.
"Keep yourselves busy," he would say. Stanley and Hector didn't play most of the time. They just sat there talking. They both felt the same thing. That this was Camp Green Lake all over again.
Everyone was at X-Ray's house.
"Okay. There are ten car shops around here. We'll call them all and ask if they have a black ford van," said Magnet picking up the phone.
By the sixth call, they found what they were looking for.
"Thanks," said Magnet hanging up the phone.
"That was them."
Armpit highlighted the phone number and company name in the phone book, he then said,
"It's Big Sal's Auto Repair Shop. That's a weird name."
"Not for you!" said Zigzag.
Everyone rolled over laughing. They eventually calmed down and X-Ray thought of something.
"That could be the wrong car though. There are more than one black Fords around here. Call the rest of the shops. See if they have one."
Magnet called the shops and sure enough, one of them had a black Ford van. X-Ray then gave out his next command.
"Me and Squid will go to Big Sal's shop, you guys to the Good and Great Gas and Auto Repairing shop. We'll hit them both tomorrow. Right now."
He reached into his drawer and pulled out walkie-talkies.
"One of us will contact you if we see the suspect with the car."
The next day, everyone was waiting for either suspects to show up.
"See anything yet?" asked Armpit into the walkie-talkie.
"Look!" yelled out Magnet pointing towards someone getting the keys for the Ford.
"Isn't that Mr. Robins from school."
"Let's get him!" said Zigzag getting up.
They all ran up to the teacher and confronted him.
"Thought you could just steal our friends, huh?" said Armpit.
"What are you talking about Theodore?" the teacher said looking confused.
"Don't play dumb. We're on to you," said Magnet.
"Where are they?" commanded Zigzag.
"Who?"
Before anyone could answer, a voice came in through the walkie-talkie.
"Guys. We found him. We're following him now! Meet us in the park!"
The three boys from D-Tent looked up at the disgusted teacher.
"Heh, heh," started Magnet. "Gotta go!"
The three boys took off running for the park.