(Okay, here's chapter 4! The plot's picking up now. Also, thanks for reviewing, Sokai! I really appreciate it!)
Chapter 4: Turning The Tables
(Written by S.P.D. Gold Ranger)
As the Spies approached the nearest video camera, Nick took out the "glowing" CD and put it into his CD player. He waved to the camera to get Jenkins' attention. "Okay, let's do this!" Nick whispered to his comrades. After a few minutes of the usual hypnotizing styles (they had to look convincing, and boy, did they put on a show!) everyone walked towards Jenkins' HQ.
In said lair, Jenkins cackled evilly at the spies' little display. "Good. We have some more people for the legion," he said.
Just then, the door opened to reveal the 5 "hypnotized" spies.
"Master, we are ready to serve you," Alex said in her best hypnotic impression. She'd finally had a chance to practice it.
"Good, good," Jenkins said.
Nick looked around, but Haruka seemed to have slipped away.
"Just tell us what your plan is," Clover said.
"My plan? I have been building a giant satellite dish that can beam Ricky's hypnotic tunes anywhere in the world. This way, I can regain my lost followers and finally take over the world like I originally planned!" Jenkins explained to the spies.
"That is a good plan," Mathew said, "but only one thing is wrong with it."
"Yes?" Jenkins asked intently. Suddenly, the evil musician felt a hair dryer press into his back. He turned his head to see Haruka grinning while holding the Wind Tunnel 9000 to his back.
Nick spoke up. "That would be us."
"What? I thought you were hypnotized! What's going on here?" Jenkins exclaimed.
"Um, duh? We faked it," Alex said, shifting into fighting stance. "Are you really that stupid?"
"You little..." Jenkins seethed, clenching his fists.
"Now give me back my girlfriend!" Mathew exclaimed.
"I don't think so. Sam, come with me!" Jenkins asked Sam, who came over quickly. They both bolted for the door, but Haruka blocked their way quick as a flash.
"Ah, ah, ah! You're not going anywhere," she said. She then noticed a neon-ish glow coming from Phil's pocket.
"Kellysi-chan! The disc is in his pocket!" Haruka shouted to Nick, using the affectionate name she'd given him on a mission to Japan. Nick nodded and did a spectacular somersault by Jenkins, nabbing the hypno-disc on the way. As he rolled back to his feet, one agile flick of his wrist sent the disc flying into the wall, shattering on impact.
The exact instant the disc had shattered, Sam snapped out of her trance, shaking her head. "Ugh... wha...where am I?" she wearily asked. Mathew ran up and hugged her as Haruka began trading blow after blow with Jenkins.
"Mathew, is everything okay?" she asked.
"I'm just glad you're all right," he said.
"How'd you break me out of my trance?" Sam asked.
"Nick and Haruka figured that if we could destroy the CD that hypnotized you, you'd snap out if it. It seems like it worked," Mat explained.
Haruka launched a spinning kick towards Jenkins, who easily dodged it. What she did surprised Jenkins: Haruka began running around him in a circle, and Jenkins eventually became dizzy. Haruka then ran to the wall and jumped off of it, and began tiwrling arouund gracefully. Before Jenkins could react, Haruka came out of her twirl with a spectacular foot to Jenkins' face that sent the mad musician sprawling to the floor.
"Come on, girls and boys! We've got to find a way to destroy that satellite before Jenkins can activate it!" Nick exclaimed. With that said, all 6 spies went rushing out the open door.
Jenkins slowly got up, rubbing the spot where Haruka's foot had smacked into him. He snickered and pulled a floppy disc from his pocket.
"You spies really don't know when you're beaten, do you?" he said to himself. "This battle has only just begun, spies."
(Written by Mat49324)
(From Mathew's P.O.V.)
Phil started to put the CD in a small stereo and started to attach some surround sound speakers to it to hypnotize us.
"Careful, guys," I said.
"He's trying to hypnotize the 6 of us," Haruka said.
"What do we do, guys?" I asked.
"Haruka, Clover, you and I take out the speakers. Nick, Alex, Mathew, go after Phil Jenkins," Sam ordered.
"Gotcha, Sammy," I said to her.
"Okay, guys, you heard my girl! Now let's move out!" I said to Nick and Alex.
We took to what we had to do. Sam, Clover, and Haruka began to destroy the surround speakers with pure karate kicks, but they didn't seem to stop blaring the music.
"What kind of speakers are these?" Clover asked.
"Did I forget to mention that they are unbreakable. Now surrender and fall under my trance," Jenkins said to the girls.
"Not if I can help it," Haruka said.
She kicked the base of the surround sound speakers to face Jenkins and the waves of the music started to hammer its way into his ears. He tried to turn them back, but he was too late. Sam and Clover had also did the same thing Haruka did. All of the bases of the surround sound speakers were faced directly at Jenkins. His plan had been foiled once again.
"Yeah!" Sam said.
"Go gals! That's us!" Clover cheered.
"Give me some skin, girls," Haruka said, as both girls slapped each other's hands.
When the whole battle was over, I ran back to Sam and began to embrace her. I started to close my eyes and kiss Sam's lips. She started to return the favor.
"You two happy again?" Haruka asked after she went over to us.
"Never been closer together, Haruka," I said to her. My arm was still wrapped around Sam's shoulder and underneath her pure red/orange hair.
"Thanks."
"Haruka, Nick, I think you two deserve a sort of thanks for saving my butt," Sam said to the two close friends.
"Oh, what's that?" Nick asked.
"How's about the two of you over at our villa for a sleep-over as a thanks for saving my life?" Sam offered.
Clover and Alex nodded their heads up and down.
"Yeah for sure," Clover said.
"They totally deserve it," Alex added.
"Would you like to have a sleep-over with the 4 of us, Nick and Haruka?" Sam asked them.
"We would be honored to spend the night with the 4 of you," Nick said.
(Written by S.P.D. Gold Ranger)
6:29 PM -- Beverly Hills Villa
Everyone was setting up for the sleepover; Sam and Alex looking for some good movies, Clover and Haruka getting the popcorn, and Nick and Mathew setting up Nick's Sega Dreamcast. The two boys had been yearning for a round of Sonic Adventure 2.
"Hey, Nick? Have you ever figured out how to get past that one part in Crazy Gadget with those weird blocks?" Mathew asked Nick.
"Oh, those? You have to find the right switches and time your jumps. Also, on the first purple block, don't use the switch that takes you to the green block. That will definitely screw you up," he explained.
(Author's Note: In SA2, that part in Crazy Gadget was insanely tough. Thank god I got through it.)
"Hey, Alex? When did we get 50 First Dates?" Sam asked after thumbing out said movie.
"I bought that with my allowance a few weeks ago. That movie is hilarious!" Alex giggled.
After picking out a few more movies, Sam and Alex walked out to the living room.
In the kitchen, Clover and Haruka were putting the finishing touches on the popcorn. Clover could see Haruka mixing the butter and salt in a separate bowl. When she noticed Clover, she said, "I figured if you mix both ingredients together before putting them on the popcorn, it tastes a lot better," she explained to the blonde.
Once everything had been set up, all 6 spies ran into the living room.
"Okay, guys and gals, what's first?" Nick asked.
1:27 AM, Beverly Hills Villa
After a night of partying, movies, and games (Nick was pretty impressed that Clover beat him in a 2-player Time Attack), everyone had tuckered out and fallen asleep. Except for 2...
Inside Nick's room, he and Haruka were watching the stars from their open window.
"Man, that was fun, huh?" Nick asked his friend.
"Yeah. It just makes you wonder..." Haruka said, gazing out the window.
"Man, I miss mom and dad..." she said, reflecting back to her early years, when their parents had sent them away from them to be safe.
"They let us go so we'd be protected. Those weird government freaks were after them," Nick replied, putting a hand on Haruka's shoulder.
"Yeah... I just hope they're all right," she said. "I just don't know why the government was after them."
"They've got their reasons, I'm sure," Nick said, wrapping his arm around the brown-haired girl.
"One can only remember so much..." Haruka said, closing her eyes and laying down.
"We'll see your parents again. I know we will," Nick said, laying down beside Haruka, his arm still around her. As the two fell asleep, Haruka began having a strange dream.
Mysterious street, suburbian Tokyo -- dream sequence
A little 10-year-old girl could be seen running with two older people away from a grouping of government agents.
"Mommy! Daddy! Why are those bad men surrouunding the house?" little Haruka asked her parents.
"They know, dear! They've found out our secret!" Mr. Rose exclaimed, trying his best to get away from the house.
"Why do we have to leave the house?" Haruka asked her mom.
"Those government people will do anything to find what we hid. They'll destroy the house if they have to!" Mrs. Rose exclaimed.
"Halt! Stay right where you are!" an agent said, surrouunding the Rose family.
"Haruka! Run! You can still make it!" Mrs. Rose began coaxing her daughter to run.
"Will I see you again, Mommy?" Haruka shouted to her mom as she ran.
"I promise, dear! Just get away from here!" Mrs. Rose shouted.
The last thing Haruka heard was a few gunshots...
4:21 AM -- Beverly Hills Villa
Haruka snapped out of bed, drenched in sweat. She began registering what she had just dreamed about. The setting seemed quite familiar, and she could have sworn she'd seen her parents in it. She sighed and slowly got out of bed, straightening the comforters out so as not to disturb Nick. She walked downstairs to get some water.
Back upstairs, Nick slowly opened his eyes to notice that Haruka had left.
After rummaging through the fridge for a bottle of water, Haruka sat down on the couch and opened the bottle. "Haruka Rose, what has been going on?" she asked herself.
"Couldn't sleep, huh?" Nick asked rather sleepily after having come downstairs. He was leaning on the banister that separated the kitchen from the living room.
"Not really," she said, taking a sip of her water. Nick sat down by Haruka and put his arm around her. "Anything you wanna talk about?" Nick asked her.
"I...I just had a strange dream," she said simply.
"What about?"
"I...I think I may know what happened to my mom and dad," she said.
She put her own arm around Nick as she began to explain her dream.
"Well, I could see myself from 3 years ago running away from our house with my mom and dad. Those government agents I told you about had swarmed the house. When the younger me asked my dad what was going on, all he said was 'They've found our secret!' Mom had said that the agents would even destroy the house to find that secret."
Nick was now listening intently, almost fully awake.
"Suddenly, a couple agents surrounded us. Mom kept on telling me to run, and as I did, I heard some gunshots, and that's the last thing I remember..." she said, tears shining in her sapphire eyes. Nick put his other arm around Haruka and pulled her close to him.
"You really miss your parents, don't you?" Nick asked her.
"More than you know," Haruka said, resting her head on Nick's shoulder and falling asleep. Nick patted her on the head before he fell asleep as well.
Clover had come downstairs for a glass of water when she saw Nick and Haruka, arms wrapped around each other, asleep.
"Awww... That's sweet," she said before reaching into the fridge.
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( Next Time )
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When Jerry calls the spies to attention, their mission? To protect a married couple from government agents who may want something evil to do with them. For some reason, the couple looks strangely familiar to our girl Haruka...
Over and out!
Ja ne,
S.P.D. Gold Ranger