Yeti Mountain.
Chapter 2.
Disclaimer- I do not own the Totally Spies or Martin Mystery characters, nor do I own the episode Totally Mystery Much, I do however own Ruby.
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Chateau Saint Shee-Shee- 11:15 am.
"Well, ok but, what about the skiers that've disappeared from the resort? That's a paranormal mystery for sure!" Martin argued as he, Ruby and the three W.O.O.H.P. spies continued to follow the snowmobile trail.
Sam glanced back at Martin in surprise, "People have disappeared?!"
"Yep, so far people have been mysteriously vanishing from Chateau Saint Shee-Shee, they're usually reported missing after an attack on the resort." Ruby explained. The trail had cleared up a bit and the trail was easier to navigate, so she had fallen back in between Martin and Clover.
"Martin and Ruby might be one to something! In Resurgens of the Underground Creature, the beasts resurfaced only to taken people underground with them!" Alex exclaimed.
Martin scoffed, "This is NOTHING like R of the U C, that game is so old! It's an electronic fossil. This is totally, Arctic Primates! Hybrids rule the tundra and feed off the humans, hottest game out there, and we all know that life imitates art."
Sam rolled her eye, "I believe it's the other way around, art imitates life."
"So Diana." Martin sighed to Ruby, who nodded in agreement, panting happily when Martin patted her on the head. The group fell into a short silence that was broken by Alex, who moved to take Clover's place next to Ruby and Martin.
"I've been wondering, you guys say you deal with the paranormal right?" Alex asked.
Ruby smirked, "Yep, ghosts, mummies, zombies, curses, monsters, you name it we've dealt with it! You'd be surprised just how many of your nightmares are real."
Alex gasped, "Really? Freaky, but, isn't it a little hard taking down monster baddies with only two of you?"
"Oh, there's more than two of us, we're just the only ones who were available for this mission." Martin explained.
"Yeah, we also have Diana, Java the caveman, and my sis Sapphire!" Ruby added, she was about to elaborate further when they reached the end of the trail, the tracks lead right to a well used road.
"So much for following the tracks, now what?" Alex asked.
Clover started to push Sam and Alex away from Martin and Ruby, "Well so long! Nice knowing you, good luck on your mission!" Martin and Ruby glanced at each other, then with a nod of understanding Martin opened a portal.
The two jumped through and appeared in front of the spies, "Hey, what do you say we work together on this?" Martin proposed.
"We could help each other out a lot, and a couple more people never hurts when dealing with the paranormal." Ruby pushed in a sing-song voice.
"Great idea!" Alex agreed, but was immediately met with glares and growls from both Sam and Clover.
Alex gave Sam a pleading look and she caved, pulling out her xpowder, "Only if Jerry approves."
A holographic image of Jerry's face appeared in the xpowder, "Girls, how's the investigation going?" Ruby perked her eyes at the new voice and began to sneak towards the spies.
"Good, we found some clue-" Sam began, but was cut off by Clover.
"Oh cut to the chase! Jer, what do you know about the Center, Martin Mystery and Ruby Catulinus? We ran into them and they want to team up!" Clover informed the older man.
Jerry looked surprised, "The Center! Martin Mystery?! Ruby Catulinus? Oh my! Oh my!" The girls gasped, expecting the worst, "Their boss M.O.M. and I go waaay back!"
Alex raised an eyebrow in confusion, "Your mom is their boss?"
"Mystery Organization Manager, M-O-M." Martin corrected.
"Teaming up is a fabulous idea girls, Martin's credentials are on par with yours." Jerry agreed happily.
Clover groaned, "Ouch, that one hurt." Martin smirked and straightened up, enjoying the sudden ego boost, but frowned when he noticed Ruby. At this point Ruby had squeezed her head into the smi-huddle the spies were in, her eyes focused on Sam's xpowder. She lifted her head so that her nose was almost touching the gadget and sniffed, and when she registered that it wasn't edible, huffed and sat back down.
"Ok then anyway, Jer, while I have you what about that saliva sample?" Sam questioned, taking her eyes off the pouting werewolf and returning her focus to the xpowder.
Jerry sighed, "Well that's a tricky one Sam, I haven't got anything conclusive yet." With that the transmission ended and Jerry's hologram disappeared.
Martin took this time to step in, "Say no more, Slime Scan to the rescue!"
"U-watch activated, Slime Scan selected." The robotic female voice drawled out as Martin activated it, grabbing his Slime Scan once it had appeared from the watch.
"We'll just duel swap our info and … I knew it!" Martin exclaimed when he received the information from Sam's xpowder on his Slime Scan, "It's yeti saliva!"
Sam stuttered in surprise, "How can that be? Th … there's no such thing!"
Martin shook his head, "Anymore, but they used to exist and in fact there was a very recent discovery."
"That's right!" Alex gasped, "A scientist recently found a specimen in the Antarctic!"
"Then I guess we owe this scientist a little visit." Clover stated.
Antarctic Lab- 10:40 pm.
The group approached the laboratory security fence once the W.O.O.H.P. plane had landed, they would have landed inside the security fence but by the looks of things no one had been there for a while, and the landing pad was covered in snow.
"We'll use my I-cutter to get in." Martin stated, reaching to activate his U-watch but was pushed out of the way by Clover.
"Thanks, but we have our own gadgets." She huffed.
Martin smirked, "Ours are better."
Sam scoffed, "Um, it's not the gadget, it's the gadgeteer." Alex giggled quietly with her friend, "Watch and learn!" Clover bent down and began to cut at the fence with her laser watch, with Sam and Alex standing by her side. Martin and Ruby exchanged a glance before Martin activated his U-watch and grabbed the I-cutter. With only a few swings of his arm Martin cut a large hole into the fence stepping through when it had fallen to the ground.
"Gadgeteer that!" Ruby taunted the surprised spies, trotting behind Martin.
"Jerry is SO getting us an I-cutter when we get back!" Sam whispered to Alex.
Ruby turned and began to walk backwards, "I heard that!" Sam and Clover growled in annoyance as they followed the two Center agents into the building, after Martin had used his I-cutter to cut a large hole into a one of the lab walls, while Alex seemed to find amusement in the paranormal investigator and werewolf's actions. Martin approached a large glass case in the middle of the room, inside a human shaped figure could be made out, but no details were clear due to the frost that had formed on the glass.
With a swipe of his hand Martin cleared away the frost near the figures face, exclaiming triumphantly when the figure turned out to be a yeti, "Ha!"
"Alright, it's real, but it's not exactly running around the mountain reeking havoc. It's frozen in ice!" Sam relented.
"I'm afraid she's got you on that one Boss." Ruby agreed with a sigh.
"Girls, look at this!" Clover exclaimed, she had approached the container that held the yeti and found a hole that had been drilled through it. Sam, Alex and even Ruby crowded around her to investigate.
Martin crossed his arms and huffed indignantly, "Yeah hi, not a girl! Martin Mystery, the guy that's been helping you all day!"
Ruby lifted her head, "Hm, I don't smell any traces of chemicals that could possibly be put into this creature, so why is there a hole-? What the?" She paused in her question when the sound of plastic rolling on concrete reached her ears. The group looked down to find a pile of vaccination tubes spread across the floor, just under the hole.
"I think someone is extracting DNA from this creature!" Sam hummed thoughtfully.
"But why?" Alex demanded.
Martin cried out as something caught the corner of his eye, "My guess is that's why!" Suddenly a snowmobile came flying through the hole that the group had made in the wall, on it appeared to be a non-frozen yeti. The creature sped towards them, nearly running Alex and Ruby over as it snatched Clover.
The red spy shouted in frustration, "Oh perfect! Adored by yet another geek!" At once both Martin and Alex jumped into action.
"I got him Clover!" Alex assured, pointing her net eyeliner at the snowmobile, and she would have too, if Martin hadn't tried to be the hero.
"Don't worry Clover, I'll save you!" The paranormal investigator shouted smugly, jumping in front of the yellow spy just as she deployed her net. The snowmobile zoomed by the two unaffected.
Sam jumped onto the yeti's back, trying to get a firm grip on him, "Not so fast!" But her efforts proved useless when the yeti headbutted her, knocking her off and losing his goggles in the process.
Ruby growled, shifting into her werewolf form and chasing after the snowmobile, "No way are you gonna get away that easy!" She followed the creature and screaming spy out of the building.
"Clover!" Alex shouted before tripping, watching helplessly as the three figures disappeared into the snow.
Sam roared angrily, "Get back here!"
"RUBY!" Martin called desperately, helping Alex up. Suddenly something in the snow caught Sam's eye.
"Glacier goggles? Why would a yeti want such a thing?" She demanded.
Alex shrugged, "Guess you're never too hairy to accessorize."
Sam sighed before turning to her two remaining companions, "We should head back to W.O.O.H.P."
"We should go to the Center!" Martin argued.
"Go ahead! We don't need you to rescue Clover!" Sam growled.
Martin's face became thoughtful, "Hm, rescue Clover? On second thought, I've always wanted to see what W.O.O.H.P. was like, and I'm sure their tracking systems are good enough to pinpoint were Ruby is."
Sam scoffed, flipping open her xpowder, "Whatever. Jerry, are you there?"
"Sam? Calling back so soon? How are things progressing?" The elderly W.O.O.H.P. director questioned as his holographic image appeared.
"Not good Jer, someone's been stealing yeti DNA, and whoever they are just kidnapped Clover!" Alex explained.
Jerry gasped, "Oh my! That is bad, what do you need me to do?"
Sam held up the goggles, "We need you to W.O.O.H.P. us, we need to find out who owns these goggles."
"But before you do Jerry I need you to do something for me too." Martin interrupted, "I need you to see if you can locate the tracking device in Ruby's U-watch, she chased after clover and the yeti, maybe she can lead us to him."
"We don't have time to chase after her, she knew what she was getting into. Next time try keeping her on a leash or something if you don't want her getting lost." Sam huffed in annoyance.
Martin tensed, stiffly turning to glare at the green clad spy, "Ok that tears it! Now you listen here Miss Priss! Ruby isn't just some dog who knows fancy tricks, she's my partner, my friend! And right now she's out there trying to save your friend, a spy who she only just met this morning! She didn't have to help her or any of you, but she did, you know why? Because that's the kind of person she is! So don't go acting like she's replaceable, because that werewolf has more humanity than any person I've ever met!" Martin was left out of breath after his little rant, his face red with anger. Sam stood frozen, eyes wide with a range of emotions, surprise, confusion, guilt and understanding, just to name a few.
Alex walked to stand beside Martin, placing a hand on his shoulder and speaking in a soothing voice, "Don't worry Martin, we'll get Clover and Ruby back no matter what, I promise." The yellow spy turned to Jerry, who had a mixed look of seriousness and pity, "Do you think you can find her Jer?"
"I can sure try Alex, what's the signal number Martin?" Jerry asked.
Martin took a deep breath, "Alpha,2,6,9,Beta,Omega,4,3,2,2,Alpha."
"Got it, give me a second." Jerry entered the code into the W.O.O.H.P. database. There was a moment of silence before he released a deep sigh, "I'm sorry Martin, but it appears the signal was lost shortly after she left the building."
"It's not your fault Jerry, thanks for trying anyway." Martin shook his head.
Jerry nodded, "Right then, I'll have you three W.O.O.H. immediately." With that, Jerry's holographic image disappeared and Sam put away her xpowder.
Martin raised an eyebrow, "W.O.O.H. ? What does that mean?" Before either Alex or Sam could answer, one of the nearby barrels began to shake.
Ta-da! And we have chapter two! To be honest I have no idea how many chapters this thing is going to be, I'm just gonna roll with it. Thought I'd give Martin a brief moment of seriousness here, he really does care for his teammates despite his childish attitude. Anyway, you guys know what to do, read and review please.