Gerti Saves The Day: Chapter Two
Juni gasped as they entered the room that Donnagon had led them into. The room was filled with various wires and tubes that all seemed to lead to one area that was covered with a sheet.
"That, Juni, is what I want to show you." Donnagon said, gesturing to the sheet-covered area. Carmen raised an eyebrow while Anna just stood there patiently.
"You wanted to show us a sheet? We could see that any day." Carmen said with disbelief.
"No, it's not just a sheet, Carmen. It's a project we have been working on and it's complete. Your father was part of the team too." Donnagon said with a chuckle. He pulled the sheet off to reveal what looked like a regular human female with vibrant red hair and green eyes. Carmen's eyebrows disappeared into her hairline as she looked at the "human".
"What is it, Mr. Giggles?" Anna asked from next to Juni.
"It is an A.I. or artificial intelligence that looks like a regular human female. We code-named her "Amy" and I think she will be the best spy on the force. We programmed her to listen to any agent of the O.S.S. But . . . " Donnagon paused, looking at Carmen and Juni. "If Amy falls into the wrong hands, she could wipe out the human race from the face of the earth. She's that dangerous. So we are going to be keeping a good eye on her."
"Why are you showing us this, Donnagon?" Carmen asked.
"Because you two are the top agents in the agency and on your next assignment, Amy will join you." Donnagon replied. Carmen and Juni exchanged looks of disbelief.
"Now, I'm sorry that Gary and Gerti got your assignment and I suggest you two go home until another assignment comes up." Donnagon smiled and led them out, along with Anna.
Back at the Cortez house, Carmen and Juni were eating dinner, along with their parents.
"Hey Dad, do you remember Anna Allen?" Carmen asked, buttering a piece of bread.
"Uh huh." Gregorio replied, looking at his plate.
"What's wrong?" Carmen raised an eyebrow,
"Nothing. Let's not talk about her over dinner." Gregorio snapped, getting up and taking his plate to the sink. Ingrid sighed as Carmen gave her a questioning look,
"He's just exhausted from work . . . " Ingrid said, getting up too. "So am I . . . I think I'll go to bed . . . Don't stay up too late." She left the room too, yawning as she went. Carmen shook her head. She knew that her dad was touchy about some of their previous missions, especially ones that involved dangerous people. She got up and washed her plate, along with Juni's and went off to bed, Juni following not much later.
Carmen and Juni were sleeping soundly when suddenly the phone was ringing off the hook. Carmen grumbled and turned over. She distinctly heard her mom talking on the phone and could also hear the caller.
"Donnagon, it's six in the morning. I can't rouse them." Ingrid said impatiently, glancing over her shoulder toward Carmen and Juni's room.
"I'm sorry Ingrid. I need Carmen and Juni to get over here now. Please rouse them." Donnagon said.
"Fine." Ingrid hung up and went into the kids' room.
"Carmen. Juni. Donnagon needs you at HQ right away." Ingrid said in the doorway. Juni grumbled and reluctantly got up, throwing a pillow at Carmen. Carmen got up too.
"What does he need . . . ?" Carmen asked sleepily.
"I don't know. Hurry up." Ingrid left the room, leaving Juni and Carmen to get dressed.
Five minutes later, Carmen and Juni were at the HQ, wide awake and ready. They went straight to Donnagon's office and waited for him to arrive. Donnagon then burst in, with Francesca at his heels.
"Hello, Donnagon. Hello, Cesca." Juni said, somewhat cheerfully. Francesca gave Juni a small smile but looked worried as much as Donnagon.
"Kids, someone has stolen Amy. She's gone." Donnagon said sadly. Carmen and Juni gasped.
"No . . . nobody could have taken her. Where she was stored was locked right?" Juni asked. Francesca nodded.
"It was locked but somebody managed to pick their way in here." Francesca replied. Suddenly Gary and Gerti rushed in, accidentally slamming the door.
"Mom, Dad, what's going on?" Gary asked in a rush, trying to catch his breath.
"Remember the A.I. I showed you two?" Donnagon asked. They nodded. "Well . . . it's gone." Gerti gasped. They all knew it could wipe out the human race from the face of the earth if it fell into the wrong hands.
"What are we going to do?" Gary asked, glancing at Carmen. Donnagon shrugged. Gerti suddenly stood up from where she had sat down a minute ago.
"I know who stole it, Dad." Gerti said.
"Who would possibly steal it?" Donnagon asked, an eyebrow raised.
"Anna. You left her alone for a while and I bet she stole the control to Amy." Gerti said, her arms crossed. Carmen nodded.
"Good thinking . . . "Donnagon looked at Francesca. "I don't think there is anything we can do now." Francesca shook her head.
"We can send the kids on the mission to get Amy back before it's too late. We should wait till later though." Donnagon nodded and started pacing around the room.
"We should go home and tell Mom and Dad what happened, Juni." Carmen said. Juni nodded and together they left the room only to run right into Gregorio and Ingrid.
"We know what happened." Ingrid said before Carmen could say anything. She hurried into Donnagon's office with Gregorio on her heels.
"Gary, Gerti. Come with us." Juni said, gesturing toward the doors. Gary and Gerti followed.
Later, back in Juni and Carmen's tree house, Gary, Gerti, Carmen and Juni all sat on the floor, talking about the A.I. and Anna. Carmen wasn't saying anything as the rest talked about it. Instead, she was pacing around them.
"You guys!" Carmen suddenly said, startling everyone. "I have an idea on who could help us . . . "
"Who could possibly help us, Carmen?" Gerti asked from where she sat against a chair.
"I don't know if you would know him but Juni and I certainly do." Carmen looked at Juni. He immediately understood.
"Floop and Minion..."Juni and Carmen said together.
"Who?" Gary asked but Carmen motioned to him to be quiet as she dialed Floop's number. Floop's face suddenly popped up on the screen in front of the four of them. He appeared to be doing his children's show, Floop's Fooglies.
"Hello?" Floop said. "Mmhmm. One sec please." He put Juni on hold.
"CUT!" Floop yelled, bringing his recording to a halt. He put the phone back up to his ear.
"Who is this again?"
"Juni."
"Ah! Juni Cortez...What a surprise." Floop grinned from ear to ear. "Let me guess. You want to speak to Minion?" Floop asked, making his way down the hallway at his castle.
"Actually, we want to talk to you both. Is there some possible way to put you both on?" Juni asked.
"Ah, yes. Let me get Minion and we will be talking all together in no time. One sec." Floop went into Minion's room and ushered him out and into another room where there was a huge screen. Floop pressed a couple buttons and Carmen and Juni showed up on the screen, along with two other kids Floop did not know.
"We're back, Juni." Floop said, settling himself on a chair in front of the screen, gesturing to Minion to do the same. "By the way, who are those kids?" Floop gestured to Gary and Gerti.
"Oh. They are Donnagon Giggles' kids, Gary and Gerti." Juni replied.
"Floop, Minion. Do either of you know who Gabriel Allen is?" Carmen asked suddenly. She was impatient and did not have time for dawdling.
"Ah yes we do, Carmen." Minion replied. "He worked with us for a bit when you guys were young. It was when we had captured Ingrid and Gregorio, your parents." Minion looked at Floop.
"Yep. He was a bit headstrong. But then Allison Fielding changed him when they met. He became so in love with her..." Floop trailed off.
"Wasn't Allison his wife?" Juni asked, remembering a woman who had worked so hard to get rid of the Spy Kid's part of the OSS.
"Yes. I'm afraid that Allison Allen no longer exists, thanks to your parents and you." Floop replied. Minion nodded his many heads in agreement.
"Do you know where he lives?" Gerti pipped up.
"We do not know where he lives with his children." Minion replied with a sigh. "We have been trying so hard to find out where he lives but he's a tricky man."
"Oh...Carmen, Juni. What if Anna Allen took Amy to her father? Didn't you once say that Gabriel Allen tried to take over the world once? He may do it again and will succeed if he has Amy now!" Gerti said, wide eyed.
Oh no! You're right Gerti! We gotta go do something!" Juni said, rushing out of the tree house with Gerti at his heels. Carmen looked at Floop and Minion.
"Sorry...got to go." Carmen shut off the phone and ran out after the others, with Gary not far behind. Carmen finally got to where Gerti and Juni were.
"What in the world are you two thinking? You guys could get killed!" Carmen gasped, clutching a stitch in her side.
"We need to get Amy out of where she is!" Gerti retorted, looking around them. Suddenly Gerti and Juni were grabbed by someone who was pretty strong. Gerti yelled for her brother and Gary went to go forward but Carmen stopped him.
"Look who's got them." Carmen whispered, pointing to the captor of Gerti and Juni. Gary gasped. It was Amy. Suddenly his dad's words floated back to him in his brain.
"...if Amy were to ever fall into the wrong hands, Earth would be doomed. She could wipe the human race from the face of the earth.." Gary shuddered.
"Well...I'm not just going to let that A.I. take my little sister!" Gary rushed forward but was thrown back at Carmen's feet when he got close. There was a small sinister laugh that did not seem to come from any of the kids and it scared Gary. Gary got up right as Anna slid out from behind Amy on the right while a young boy who was exactly the same height slid out from the left. The boy looked the same as Anna, just with short spiked jet black hair. Gary was guessing this was Anna's twin. He realized that the boy was the one who laughed.
"Well, well, well. If it ain't the Cortezes." Anna said with a chuckle when Juni tried to get out of Amy's grasp.
"And it looks like the Giggles are here too." The boy added with an evil smirk in Carmen and Gary's direction. Gary narrowed his eyes. He was angry.
"Tell me, Carmen. How's your father these days? Is he dead yet?" The boy asked with an look of fake concern.
"No. He's quiet healthy thank you, Erik Allen." Carmen retorted. She remembered Anna's twin brother, Erik. She knew that both Anna and Erik had minds of a genius and that Erik was good at technology, just like Gerti.
"Aww...how sweet. You remembered my name." Erik sneered. Anna gave him an exasperated look.
"We haven't got all day to dawdle and taunt, Erik." Anna said sharply.
"Right. Let's go then." Erik left with Anna and Amy, who had Gerti and Juni tied tightly and out of reach. Erik tossed an envelope behind him before he disappeared into the darkness with Amy and Anna. Carmen rushed forward and picked it up. Gary came up beside her as she opened it and began to read.
"Dear Carmen Cortez, Gary Giggles, and the rest of the Cortez and Giggles families, if you are reading this.
Don't worry about Gerti and Juni. They will be safe with us. Oh, thanks for Amy. She's a great friend to my sister, my father, and myself. In just a few days, everything and everyone will be under our control because of Amy. I gave her to our father, who absolutely adores her.
But be warned: you cannot come to rescue Gerti and Juni, for Amy knows when someone is within 500 feet of where we are. She will crush you if you try. Oh and my father, Gabriel, says this is revenge for killing his wife, my mother, and getting us taken away, You will die for that.
Gary, don't worry about your little sister. I'm bound to have fun torturing her. Carmen, same goes to you about Juni. Anna will absolutely love to torture him!
Well..that's all I have to say to you filthy people.
'Au revoir!
Erik Allen"
Carmen shook her head as she finished reading this. She looked at Gary, who sighed.
"We'll have to go take this to Dad and the rest of them." Gary said after a couple minutes of silence. Carmen nodded silently. Gary kissed her lightly and they walked to the HQ, arm in arm, pondering the fate of their siblings.
There's Chapter Two. Quite adventurous...Don't worry, Chapter Three is on its way! What will happen next? I leave you to speculate as I write the third chapter. What will Erik and Anna do to Gerti and Juni? Will Gary and Carmen be able to save Gerti and Juni? Will more of Erik and Anna's past be revealed? We won't know...until Chapter Three of Gerti Saves The Day
Disclaimer: All Spy Kids characters are not mine. The Allen Family (Anna, Erik, Allison, Gabriel) are my original characters and are not to be used in other stories unless they are written by me.
Enjoy! Chapter three will be up ASAP!