Chapter 2
Meanwhile back at the ranch, duh, I mean back at the Agency...
Alocin sighed and looked at the clock. She could almost swear that the hands were moving backwards, and she was making no impression on Agent Brown's giant pile of paperwork.
"I mean why the hell does he generate so much anyway? It must be all the death certificates and insurance pay-outs for the buildings and cars he keeps blowing up."
She sighed once more and reached for a digestive biscuit, but her tin was empty. "That's it. I've had enough. Ohhhh Boris! Boris! Dinner!"
She required a bottle of ketchup and squirted it liberally all over the pile of paperwork. Boris scampered up and was soon chewing away at the ketchupy papers.
"Ahh good boy, Boris. Right now I can go have some fun! Require, location of the other crazy Agents. Ice rink? Cool!" She shifted away, leaving Boris to finish his meal.
At the rinkAngel was rather shocked, then 'Alocin' latched onto her arm, and she had to grab hold of T'Lorie to prevent herself from falling over. Unfortunately this resulted in all three of them falling over. Again.
"I am so glad we don't feel the cold." T'Lorie grumbled as she got up again. "Or we would all die from hypothermia"
"Well for once its not my fault." Angel retorted as she pushed herself up off the ice.
"Alocin here decided to be the smart one and grab hold of me." She almost ended up on the ice again as Alocin used her to lever herself up.
"What was so important anyway Alo?"
"Er... I wanted to know who that guy Star is talking to is"
"Where? What the... hey T'Lorie! Neo's here!" Angel exclaimed before turning to 'Alocin'.
"Have you lost your mind? All that paperwork must have gone to your head, not to recognise our number-one rebel target! Especially after all that stuff with El Starino last week..."
"Um.. oh yeah... I ... er.. I recognise him now... er... maybe um... Brown drugged me or something..."
"Yeah, wouldn't put it past him." Angel said, nodding wisely. "Might have even found your own drug cupboard. Ask Boris when we get back."
"Come-on people!" T'Lorie said as she skated over "Lets go see if we can scare the crap out of Neo! Shouldn't be to hard after last week."
T'Lorie and Angel skated off towards Star, slowly getting better at staying on their feet. 'Alocin' just stood there for a sec, thanking her lucky stars that she had gotten out of that one. Maybe she would have to have a look at Agent Alocin's file and find out some useful information.
Gemini watched the others skate towards this Neo, she'd heard about him and there was no chance in hell that she was going to face him down. Agents may do it daily but then again they had more lives a cat.
Also if she was going to blend in she was going to need more background info, she was making far too many mistakes, she only needed a few minutes to get the information from a friend, thinking up an acceptable excuse she called out:
"Oi guys I really need to get a drink, maybe you could handle Neo on your own?"
"Yeah, whateva." Angel called back, far to interested in the prospect of scaring the bejeebers out of Neo to care what Alocin was doing.
They had just reached him and Star, and he was looking suitably scared when there was a thump somewhere behind then, and Angel turned around to find Alocin sprawled on the ice at her feet.
Alo grinned at her. "I SO can not skate, you managed to figure it out yet?"
Angel was very very confused "What! But your the only one of us who can skate remember? You seemed to be doing fine while me and T'Lorie were falling over every five seconds. And didn't you just go to get a drink?"
"Er... no" Agent Alocin said a little nervously "I just finished Brown's paperwork." She started snickering, wondering if Boris had finished yet
"But... you... she.. us... You have been here for ages! We were skating and you told us that Brown had a glitch or something. Well not in so many words but..."
"We it wasn't me! I was stuck in my bloody office with Brown breathing down my neck and no tea and a very VERY short supply of digestives and it's a wonder I didn't set Boris and Jasmine onto Brown!"
"Ok ok, calm down. I'm sure there is a reasonable explanation to all this." T'Lorie said calmly.
"Can't see what that would be." Star muttered under her breath
"Do you have an evil twin?" T'Lorie continued, ignoring Star and taking out a notebook. She reminded the others of a psychiatrist.
"I ASK THE QUESTIONS AROUND HERE!" Angel yelled, causing everyone to jump and Neo to let out a small meep "Now Alocin," she said, a little more calmly "do you have an evil twin?"
T'Lorie glared at her
"Er... well I don't think so."
"Ok then, who is this?" She pointed at the rather scared Neo
"Neo of course, though why he is here I have no idea."
"Well that settles it. This is the real Alocin and the other one was an impostor." Angel concluded. "To think we didn't notice when she didn't even recognise Neo!"
"Yes, you lot go find Alocin's evil impostor, I'll take care of this pesky rebel here..." Star blurted, staring at the scared Neo and trying not to smile.
The three other agents gave her a 'you wish' look. And grabbed her by either arm.
Star sighed. "Alas my dear Neo, it appears that I am destined to be eternally doomed in love..." She yelled as she got dragged away.
Neo, extremely pleased with his luck at not getting shot at by the nutty girls, gave a little wave and flew off. (And possibly blew Star a kiss...who knows...)
"Come-on Star," Angel said, getting a little frustrated "We have to go find Alocin's evil twin, or whatever it is. You can fawn over Neo later."
Star gave an unhappy sigh
Gemini was sitting oblivious to this all over at the bar, she'd gotten Alocin's file off a friend and was idly flipping through it. It was fairly useless information but had an interesting list of disasters and accidents she had caused in it.
Star slid unhappily over the ice. Well she may as well see if she could help find Alo's evil...thing...
"Where would be the first place you went if you looked exactly like Alocin, but weren't actually Alocin, and instead was her evil identical impostor of some variety?" She questioned.
"I have no idea." Alocin said
"But if I was Alocin, which I am, I would probably be hungry and want to go to the bar over there..." She hinted pointing to Mr Mc Chillies Extra Cold Hot Food
"Off we go then!"
"Well she did say she was going to get a drink." T'Lorie reasoned.
"Oh do you always have to reason everything?" Angel sighed "You're worse then a bloody Vulcan."
Angel actually knew what a Vulcan was because T'Lorie had found some Star Trek fan fiction and had then made her watch the whole series.
The all went into the snack bar type thing and began fighting over what to order for lunch, completely forgetting about the task at hand.
'Alocin' was sitting at the bar when Angel, Star, T'Lorie and ...ALOCIN! sat down beside her… Her heart doing 200 beats a minute; she tried to quietly slip away.
The real actual Alocin shook her head sadly.
"Well whoever you are you are not doing very well at impersonating me. You might look and sound just like me but I mean come on - you didn't order the choc-chip digestive sundae! That is a glaringly obvious error and, hey! Is that my file? I want to see what it says about me..."
Star looked worried. "If it's anything vaguely like my file, you probably won't want to Alo..."
Alocin leafed through the file. It had some basic biographical details and then went into a quite extensive list of "incidents" that she had been tied to.
"Hey I never shot Agent Smith with a laser gun! I shot Agent Brown with a laser gun, yes, but it was Star who shot Agent Smith. And what is this about holding Agent Jones' laptop hostage? I never did that! I think that was T'L... But the whole El Starino chaos is in here... They even listed all the times I drugged Star! Wow I did that a lot didn't I?"
"Yes" Star said rather darkly.
The other 'Alocin' had started edging towards the door again, but was stopped by Angel.
"Hey impostor / evil twin / clone / whatever Alocin. Who are you really? And what evil did you hope to achieve through impersonating Alocin?"
Gemini sighed, well she was pretty much caught but remained in Alocin's form simply because she had no natural form... sides it might prove useful later.
"What I had hoped to achieve?" She replied mocking Angel
"Vague amusement." Gemini rolled here eyes.
"You have no idea how boring it can get sometimes, being an Exile."
Gemini tried to push past Angel but was caught by her and thrown against the wall with a lil' more force than needed. Gemini winced rolling her shoulders and rubbing her bruised arm where Angel had grabbed her... They were still Agents despite how strange they acted and were far stronger than her.
Alocin was still engrossed in her file. Suddenly she squeaked in panic.
"How the hell do they know that? No one should know..." She removed that page and stuffed it in her pocket. The others were all looking at her curiously so she decided to quickly change the subject.
"Um... so impostor Alocin person. You are presumably an Exile? If so then we are really supposed to terminate you or take you back to the Agency for questioning."
Gemini smirked. "Was that the incident with the..." She didn't get any further as the real Alocin clamped her hand over her mouth.
"Hehehe just ignore her guys." The real Alocin said, and then to the impostor Alocin hissed "Don't bring that up or else..."
'Alocin' gulped and nodded.
The real Alocin paused for a minute. "Where was I?... ah yes, you're presumably an Exile?" She said removing her hand from the impostor Gemini's mouth
"Yeah." Gem nodded, pretty much defeated.
"Hey you're the Exile from before!" Yelled Angel, putting two and two together, wow you're a shape-shifter!.
Gemini grinned wryly. "Yeah, that was me."
Star cut in, fingering her Desert Eagle. "So which is it to be? You going to come to the Agency for questioning or are we going to have to terminate you?"
"Er does it have to be either?" Gemini asked. "I mean come on guys... it was just a little harmless fun..."
"Aww come-on Star," Angel wined
"Do we really have to turn her in? You know what Brown does to exiles." she shuddered.
"But we have to!" T'Lorie put in "We are Agents, its our job."
"No it's not! 1. Taking care of exiles is Brown's job, and I don't see him anywhere near here. B. She didn't actually do anything to harm us or anything, personally I think Alocin could get us into more trouble in five minutes then the exile could in 2 weeks. And 4. It could be fun to see what we can get out of her..."
During Angel's rant Gemini was slowly backing towards the door, hoping that the Agents would be too busy fighting over her life to notice. No such luck.
"Hey, just because I don't want to turn you over to Brown or kill you, doesn't mean your going to just walk on out of this." Angel told Gemini, grabbing hold of her arm again to stop her.
Alocin was going to protest about the whole getting everyone in trouble thing, but since it was the truth there wasn't much she could actually say in her defence.
"Well I think that we shouldn't just hand Jeff here, for lack of a better name I am going to call my little exile-clone-y pall; Jeff, over to Agent Brown. He wasn't in the bestest of moods earlier and once he finds out what I did with the rest of his paperwork it's not going to improve. However we should do some tests on Jeff's seemingly shape shifter-ish powers, then we will have a report to file on all this that for once has some useful information in it."
"That sounds like a great idea!" T'Lorie smiled enthusiastically
Alocin required some high-tech Exile scanning equipment and was just searching for an electrical socket to plug it all into when she noticed the odd stares they were being given by the rest of the people in the cafe.
Obviously five people in suits, two of them looking like identical twins and now a lot of expensive and scary looking electrical equipment was not the usual thing to find in an ice rink cafe.
"Erm... maybe we should do this back at the Agency though."
"The Agency?... Erm guys maybe this has escaped you but I'm an Exile and the last place I want to be is the Agency where all the agents and recruits are!" The impostor 'Alocin' pointed out fairly vocally.
"Don't you have somewhere more neutral?" She asked in desperation, the last thing she wanted to do was walk into the lions den so to speak.
"Hmm.. I still think we should take you to the Agency" Star said narrowing her eyes at the Exile.
"Pllleeeeaase!" Jeff/Gemini pleaded.
"Oh okay…" Star sighed, a sucker for the puppy-dog eyes look
"Then I suggest we take you to...Mindys!"
"What or who the hell is Mindys?" Angel asked
"I'll show you when we get there..." Star stated mysteriously
"Uh... Mindys!" Gemini asked.
"Do you want to go back to the Agency?" Star snapped
"Nope Mindy's it is then..." The Exile replied, sighing, and followed the agents out.