Not that they got much work done.
Ray and Schwoz were recovering from their laughter right when a call came in. Charlotte answered it (it was only audio, so no camera worries this time) as they walked up, and a frantic female sounding voice started speaking very quickly in what sounded like Spanish. There was a pause.
Ray frowned. "I can't understand what she's saying."
"I got this." Henry took a step closer to the monitors. "¿Línea de emergencia de Captain Man y Kid Danger, que es su emergencia?"
Henry and the caller spoke a little bit. He ended the call with "Nosotros estamos en nuestro camino" and turned to his friends.
"We're needed at a house a few miles from here, let's go."
"Right."
Ray and Henry popped a gumball. Nodding to each other, they both blew a bubble and transformed. Once they were in uniform, the two superheroes sped off, leaving Charlotte and Schwoz to help from the Man Cave.
"Okay, it's the next house on your right. No, your right!"
Charlotte was giving directions to Captain Man and Kid Danger, Schwoz having pinpointed their location and the address of the house. "Yeah, that one."
As they pulled up in the Man Van, the woman who called came running and starting talking in Spanish.
Kid Danger spoke with her, and, looking annoyed, motioned Captain Man follow her inside.
"What is it?" Captain Man asked as they went inside.
"She said that a man broke in and is demanding all the food they have, and, from her description, he sounds exactly like-"
"I WANT CHIPS!"
The pair of superheroes looked at each other and groaned. "Jeff."
The woman showed them to the basement, where Jeff was arguing with another pair of adults. "I SAID, GIMME CHIPS!"
"We don't have any chips!" One of the men exclaimed in Spanish.
Kid Danger quietly assured the woman that there wasn't much to worry about before he and Captain Man walked down the steps.
"Hey, Jeff!" Captain Man didn't sound tough so much as annoyed. "What are you doing?"
Jeff, looking angry, said, "I'm hungry and these people are refusing to feed me!"
"We don't even know who you are!" The second man exclaimed, once again, in Spanish.
"Stop talking in gibberish and feed me!" Jeff took a threatening step towards the men, but Captain Man grabbed him by the ear and dragged him out of the house.
Stupid Jeff.
Kid Danger called the cops so they could haul Jeff away and reassured the people that Jeff would be taken care of before leaving the house. He went on ahead and mentioned that he was just a petty criminal and was generally nothing to worry about. The police showed up a couple minutes later, along with a news van. Kid Danger groaned. He wasn't a huge fan of being on the news, partly because he was always paranoid someone might recognize him.
Captain Man, having spotted the cop cars and news van as well, asked Kid Danger to watch Jeff while he spoke with the crew. Kid Danger was positive he would start flirting with the lady- it wasn't Evelyn Hall this time- but instead he gave them a brief report and that they were in a rush to get somewhere. Kid Danger nudged Jeff towards his boss, who handed him over to the cops.
On the way back to the Man Cave, Kid Danger asked Captain Man why he didn't want to be on TV, and his response was, "Didn't feel like it." Kid Danger had a feeling that Captain Man was lying, but didn't saying anything.
He also texted Charlotte and Jasper to let them know what happened. He could practically hear them laughing.
"Shoot, I missed it!" Piper turned off the TV and opened her computer.
One of the Man Fans texted her that Captain Man and Kid Danger were doing something, but she missed the news report and was just going to have to look it up.
Apparently, Jeff, the World's Worst Villain as he had been dubbed by the cops, had broken into a house and demanded food from a couple who had company over. There wasn't much else, besides the fact that Captain Man told the fuzz that "This was the easiest mission since… forever." before handing Jeff over to them.
Piper made a note in her binder (which reminded her not to forget it at the next Man Fans Meeting) and closed it.
Then she opened it again. Am I crazy? Most people would say yes (but they'd be too scared to say it to her face), but Piper was having doubts about her whole plan right then.
Piper sighed and looked over st the clock. There were still a few hours before she could expect Henry to come home. Even so, he liked to stay with his friends as late as he could.
Piper sighed again. This, she thought, is going to be a long few hours.
Dr. Minyak and Nurse Cohort tiptoed around the stone walls, whispering to each other.
"Are you sure this is going to work?" Nurse Cohort seemed greatly concerned about the situation, and not because they had just stepped in a mud puddle that may have had a few ants in it.
"Of course," whispered Dr. Minyak.
The two of them were disguised as janitors. They were both wearing grey jumpsuits and boots. Nurse Cohort has also parted her hair so some of her face was covered. They were attempting to break into Henry's school.
Before you panic, they didn't know he was Kid Danger, or anything like that. They just wanted to steal some microscopes and other supplies from the science classrooms; they were on a tight budget, so they weren't going to just buy new supplies.
It made sense to them.
"Are you sure there's no one here?" Nurse Cohort hesitated before handing a brick-cutting laser to Minyak. The laser was designed to flip open like a giant pocket knife; it had the same structure, pointy end and all.
"Of course." He took said laser and started drawing a circle in the wall. "Who in their right mind would be at a school on a Saturday?"
A few classrooms down, almost a dozen students were serving Saturday school. Mitch Bilsky was among them, drawing some really questionable pictures in the desk. On his right, a dead ringer for Clove from The Hunger Games (minus the knives) was watching, occasionally making comments about his artistic ability.
"Whatever, Dya" was his standard response.
There were several other students doing their own thing; Andy, a tall kid who was held back a year was Snapchatting; Cameron, who was whining loudly about being at school on a Saturday; and Alisha, who was painting her nails, to name a few.
Ms. Shapen has been left in charge of watching the eleven students, but her need for coffee felt more important. She was in the teacher's lounge, making some when Mitch heard a small noise.
He looked up from his drawings and turned to Dya. "Did you hear something?"
Dya shrugged, twirling her long hair around her finger. "I didn't hear anything." Mitch shrugged and was returning to his drawing when there was another sound.
But this one was much clearer and made every head in the room swerve.
"Okay, that one I heard." Dya briefly stopped twisting her hair and stared at the wall with the rest of the class.
There was a bit of chatter among the group. A few minutes later (at this point in time, Ms. Shapen had fallen asleep in the teacher's lounge without hearing anything- she's a really deep sleeper), Mitch poked his head out, followed by Andy, who felt the need to capture everything on Snapchat.
More students, including Dya, crowded around the door. After a moment of silence, they could hear voices… and it sounded like one- a male- was saying "This way." And then there were footsteps… which got closer… and they could see two shadows, one of which was holding a laser that strongly resemble something no kid wants to see in school.
The footsteps got closer. In a panic, all the students practically flew back into the classroom and locked the door.
After a few swear words were uttered, Dya pulled out her phone. "I'm calling Captain Man and Kid Danger."
So this was me being really nervous because I was pretty sure I was gonna have a hard time with my Spanish class this year (although right now I think I'll be fine).
Ciao, and Happy Reading!