Part 3
On their way to the airport in Stan's SUV, they saw a boy about twelve go up to George's house.
"What is that kid doing at the killer's house?" Roger wanted to know.
"Maybe it's George's son." Klaus suggested. "This is so wundarbar! We can get more information! Let's go talk to him." So Roger and Klaus got out of the car, locked it and went to the boy.
"Are you George's son?" Roger asked. The boy looked at him.
"Yes." He nodded. "I'm Henry Henston. I'm just getting my little sister's plush rabbit that she left here. It's her 'good luck charm.' She can't go anywhere without it."
"I see." There was silence as Roger stared at the boy.
"Can I get it?" The boy asked, breaking the silence. "You're sort of creeping me out."
"Oh sure!"
"Thanks!" The boy dashed off. Klaus nudged Roger.
"Ask him questions!"
"About what?"
"About what? What do you mean about what? About his dad!"
"Oh!" Roger then called to the kid. "Hey kid!" Henry stopped and looked at him, waiting for what he was going to say. "What do you think of your dad murdering your mom?" Klaus did a fin to the face in embarrassment.
"I don't like talking about it." Henry answered. "Now if you please, I got to get my sister her bunny before we go back to the foster home." He turned back and continued for the house.
"It's like you forgot how to be a detective!" Klaus said. "Here, let me ask the questions!" With that, Klaus hopped out of Roger's pocket and landed on the grass. He took out his pencil and notebook. Roger looked at him oddly. Klaus noticed this.
"What? A good detective always takes notes." Roger shook his head. Klaus looked at Henry.
"Hey Henry!" He called. Henry stopped and tried to find where the new voice was coming from. "Sorry about my associate."
"Who's talking?"
"It's me the fish." Henry looked at Klaus in shock. He was about to say something when Klaus continued. "I know you are shocked at why a fish is talking, but we don't have time to clarify. We got to see if we can track down your father and put him behind bars for the crime that he committed. Now we know he's going to Japan, but can you describe him?"
"He's tall." Henry answered. Klaus recorded the information in his notebook. "He has a bushy black mustache and slick black hair."
"Anything else?"
"No, I think that's it."
"Danke. You can go now." Henry nodded and rushed off. Klaus closed his notebook and pencil, put them in his pocket and hopped back into Roger's pocket.
"Okay, let's go Roger." They went into the SUV. Roger buckled in. "The plane leaves at gate A at a quarter to noon at Washington Dullies International." Roger looked at Klaus. "Well don't just sit there, mach schnell, moch schnell! We don't have all day."
"I am not your cab driver." Roger just said.
"Just go!" They headed towards the airport.
They were on the plane to Tokyo, Japan. Roger was looking in the video section of the plane's official magazine.
"Ooh!" Roger said when he found a choice. "The three Rush Hour movies are on here!" Roger touched the buttons on his in-flight TV. When he was satisfied, he leaned back and put his earplugs in.
"Hey!" Klaus snapped. Roger took off his earplugs and looked at Klaus. "Where are my earplugs? Maybe I want to watch with you; have you thought of that? Of course you haven't. I saw that National Treasure 2 is on here; we can watch that next! It will take us 13 hours and 39 minutes to get to Tokyo! We have plenty of time!"
"Sorry Klaus, I only paid for my set. Besides, you don't have ears. How can you listen?"
"You don't have ears either!"
"I have my ways."
"Then can you put subtitles on?"
"No. Look, I already pressed play and I'm not going back!"
"You can pause it and put them on when the movie starts."
"And waste a good six bucks? No, thank you!" Klaus sighed in defeat.
"Did you bring Steve's IPod? Maybe I can play Angry Birds instead."
"I was playing it all night and it ran out of batteries when I was on level 37. I tried plugging it in to recharge, but I don't know where Steve keeps his IPod Charger. And stupid Stan and Francine, they didn't tell me his number. So, I left it at home."
"Then did you bring the PS3, the DS or the Game Boy Advance?"
"Nope!"
"What? Then what the heck can I do?" Roger shrugged.
"Don't know, don't care. Now shut up, the movie's starting." Klaus sighed again. Then he heard a voice behind his and Roger's seat.
"Yep! Don't worry boss, I did exactly what you told me. I planted the bomb in the bathroom." Klaus' eyes widened. Bomb? He went out of Roger's pocket and went between the seats to listen.
"The bomb's designed to blow in seven minutes." The man continued. He was tall, had a bushy black mustache and had yellow hair. Roger and Klaus had seen him before when they were taking their seats. Roger noted that his mustache didn't match his hair color and that it was strange. Klaus had agreed. "Right boss! I'm getting off!" The man then put away his cell phone and left his seat.
Oh mien gosh! Klaus thought to himself. He's going to blow up the entire plane. I must warn Roger! He went down on Roger's coat again.
"Roger!" He said, tugging on his sleeve. "Roger! Roger!" He shook him. "Roger!" He got on his shoulders and slapped him with his fins. "Roger!" The alien took out his earplugs and looked at him.
"What do you want Klaus? Can't you see I'm watching TV?"
"Roger, in less then seven minutes, the plane is going to blow up."
"What?" Roger asked with interest. "Really?"
"With us in it and a bunch of other innocent people."
"Oh. Wait, how do you know this?"
"I overheard a man talk to his boss on his cell. He said he planted a bomb in one of the bathrooms and now this whole plane is going to explode."
"Holy moly, are you sure?" Klaus nodded. "Wait, this isn't one of your tricks, is it? If I get up from this chair and leave, you aren't going to sit in my spot and take my in-flight TV, are you?" Klaus shook his head.
"No, I'm deadly serious."
"I don't believe you." He put his earplugs back in and paid attention to the TV.
"Come on; you got to believe me!" And with that, he quickly unbuckled his seatbelt and dragged him away.
"Wait, the Chinese girl is about to get kidnapped!"
"Sorry Roger, but we got to go now! You can get this on Netflix!" As he dragged Roger away he shouted at the top of his lungs. "LADIES UND GENTLEMEN, A BOMB IS GOING TO EXPLODE IN LESS THEN SEVEN MINUTES; I REPEAT A BOMB IS GOING TO EXPLODE IN LESS THEN SEVEN MINUTES; THIS IS NOT A DRILL!"
"Mom?" A little kid spoke to his mom, tugging on her sleeves as she read a magazine. "A talking fish said that there's a bomb in here that's going go off."
"Really Ben?" The mother asked, not believing him and not taking her eyes off of the page that she was reading. "A talking fish? That's a new one!" She flipped to the next page. Klaus and Roger saw that the man went to a door in front of the plane. A stewardess went beside him as he opened the door.
"Excuse me sir," The stewardess told hm. "This door is for emergencies only. I'm afraid if you don't have to go to the bathroom, you'll have to sit down."
"Can it, lady!" The man said as he knocked her unconscious to the floor. The man looked at the world below and jumped. Roger and Klaus went over to where the man was. The man's parachute opened up.
"WHERE'S A PARACHUTE?" Roger yelled over the roar of the engine.
"I DON'T KNOW! WE DON'T HAVE TIME THOUGH; JUST JUMP!"
"WHAT; ARE YOU CRAZY? WE JUST CAN'T JUMP OUT; WE'RE LIKE A MILLION FEET ABOVE GROU…."
"GO!" And with that, Klaus pushed Roger out. He too jumped.
They were falling. The man opened his parachute. Roger screamed. He tried to flap like a bird.
"WE'RE FALLING!"
"Ja, but falling in style!"
"This is no time for overused jokes Klaus! We're going to fall into the ocean!"
"That doesn't concern me; I'm a fish which makes me an expert swimmer!"
"This is payback for the TV, isn't it?"
"In a way…yes."
"I knew it! I knew this was all a plot in your twisted, evil mind to let you watch TV!"
"This wasn't a plot! If it was, why am I falling with you?"
"Good point, but I still blame you!"
SPLASH! They splashed into the ocean. Roger bubbled up to the surface. There was a mass of nearby land nearby. He looked for Klaus.
"Klaus?" He asked. "Klaus? Klaus? Where are you? Are you dead?" Klaus then bubbled up to the surface. He had his cup in his fin.
"In your dreams!" He said. "I just went to get my cup."
"Whatever." The two looked at the plane flying above. "See? The plane didn't explo…"
BOOM! The plane exploded seconds later in a fiery blast in the sky. Debris fell in everywhere. Klaus looked at Roger.
"You were saying?"
"NOOOOO! My in-flight TV!"
"And now, a moment of silence for all the losses." Roger pointed to yellow wig floating on the water.
"What's that?" He wanted to know. They swam to it and Klaus picked it up just as it was about to sink.
"It's a wig." The fish answered. "That man is hiding his identity." Klaus looked and the man was swimming away. The fish started swimming after him.
"What are you doing?" Roger called after him. "We're looking for George Henston." Klaus turned to look at him.
"Remember what Henry said? He said that his dad has black hair. The man swimming away has black hair, a black mustache and is tall. Come on; I think that might be George."
"I thought it was weird that that guy had yellow hair and a black mustache."
"Ja, ja, now come on! He's getting away!" He began swimming after him. Roger swam after him.
"Why are you following me?" George shouted.
"Sir!" Roger began. "We know you did it; you murdered your wife! Now, we're bringing you to jail…when we catch up to you!"
"What makes you so sure that I'm George Henston? I'm not! I'm Randy Moss, see?" George held up his passport. In the corner, a photographed of him in the yellow wig. Beside the picture was the name: Randy Moss.
"Well, I'm convinced." Klaus eyed him.
"Well, I'm not!" He held up the wig. "I believe this wig is yours." The man looked at the wig and shook his head.
"I never saw that thing in my life." The man said.
"Are you sure?"
"Klaus," Roger told his friend. "Let's not bother the man any longer. If he says he's not George Henston, then he's not George Henston." George put his passport in his pocket.
"Your partner is right, fish." George said. Roger smiled.
"Thank you!" The man began to swim away.
"Hope you find the real George Henston and bring him to justice!" Roger waved goodbye.
"Don't worry, we will!"
"You dummkoph!" Klaus shouted angrily at Roger. "I should let you drown right now!"
"Um, I can swim." Roger pointed out. "So, you can't let me drown. I didn't remember asking a fish to be a part of my detective agency. In fact, I'm the boss, so you're fired!"
"Fine! I don't want to be a part of this stupid agency anywhere. Besides, you can't fire me; I quit!" He began to swim away after George.
"Fine; I don't need you either!" With that, the two swam to the big landmass, climbed out, Klaus got back into his cup, and they both went after George.