A Redhead's Lunch

Author's note: Now that I'm done with "Trouble on Toy Island", I can focus on other stories, like this one. Heh.

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Chapter 2: Let me get this straight
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12:28 PM - A HOUSE IN THE SUBURBS
"Let me get this straight, Emily," Alex asked a woman. "Your husband drank some milk, and fell asleep immediately?"
"That's right," Emily explained. "I don't understand it; milk doesn't usually make him drowsy. Feel free to look around."

As we searched the room, Sam found a carton of milk in the fridge. "Emily, is this the milk he drank before nodding off?"
"Yes. Why?"
"Where did you get it?"
"I got it from the Super Smith's Supermarket."
We knew where to go next.

SUPER SMITH'S SUPERMARKET
I took a carton of milk from the dairy shelf and looked it over. "This is just like the carton from Emily's house," I mentioned. "Let's see if there's anything we can find out about it."

Clover took the carton and took it to the information desk. "Excuse me, can you tell me-"
The man behind the desk interrupted Clover. "If you're planning on buying that milk, woman, I'd suggest otherwise. All our customers are complaining about that brand of milk."
"What?"
"Trust me on this one. Don't buy Emma's Farm-Fresh Morning Milk."

We huddled around Clover. Sam took another look at the carton. "Hey, it says here that Emma's Farm-Fresh Morning Milk is made in a factory in Idaho. Here's the address. Let's investigate."

01:10 PM - IDAHO - EMMA'S MILK AND COFFEE
We hid behind a warehouse building and surveyed the area. One window of the factory was open, but it was on the third floor.
"There's no way to climb up there," Alex decided as she looked at the window. "Looks like the use of one of our gadgets is in order."
Sam nodded. "Say, what gadgets did Jerry give us? For some reason, I can't remember."
"Yeah, neither do I."
Clover and I couldn't remember either, so we checked our gadget packs. We didn't have them.

We all gasped, and realized the same thing at the same time: "JERRY FORGOT TO GIVE US OUR GADGETS!"

I opened my DS and dialed Jerry's number. Since he was on break, I got his answering machine. "Hello, you've reached Jerry. I can't answer right now, so please leave a message. Thank you."
"Hey, Jerry," I said, "it's me, Leo. The girls and I wanted to say hi, and I'd like to remind you that YOU NEVER GAVE US OUR GADGETS, YOU DUMMY, YOU! HOW ARE WE SUPPOSED TO GET THIS MISSION COMPLETED WITHOUT THEM?"

"Leo," Clover said to me as I closed my DS, "wasn't that a little harsh>"
"He forgot to give us our gadgets," I reminded Clover. "Would you have done anything different?"

Sam glanced at us. "Well, without our gadgets, we're going to have a hard time getting up there. If only we had a springboard, or something …"
Or something? My face brightened in an instant. "Sam, do you still have your lunch box with you?"
"Yeah," Sam responded, showing it to us. "But what's that have to do with-"

Sam's sentence remained unfinished as I snatched Sam's lunch box and opened it. I fumbled around until I found the gelatin that her mother had made her.
I winked at Sam as I placed the big wiggly dessert on the ground in front of the window. I then took a running start and jumped onto it. BE-YOING! I was bounced clear up to the window. The girls followed suit.
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You can already see that Sam's lunch is coming in handy, eh? Well, stay tuned!