'Ello again, lightheart77 here, saying here's chapter 6. I hope I didn't leave you all in suspense from the last chapter. With that snip-it and all, I just wanted to get you all thinking about what may happen next and get you wondering about Chase. Believe me, you'll find out more about him soon enough.
Thanks to all who reviewed last chapter. I hope it wasn't so long between that chapter and the next one. I tried my best trying to update, but with school back in full swing, (sigh) it's killing me.
And I have good news: I just saved a bunch of- oh sorry, wrong thing. I just got an account on fictionpress. I have the same penname there so check it out and give my story a read. I'm writing about vampires (evil laughs and a bolt of lightning) sorry, couldn't resist.
But enough about that stuff, read on and review, good people. Read and review.
Chapter 6: The Beginning
Alexa sat on her bed staring at the clock, dressed and ready in her black thieving outfit that was of her own design. It was near 11:30 at night, and she shook with anticipation. Everything had gone well that day. Pen was happy enough to give the old gadgets to the three, thinking nothing of what they might do exactly with them. And Murray was so happy to discuss the van with Ken. Alexa figured that it was because Ken was one of the first people he could talk to about it and all of its extra features. So they had the ride, and the gadgets. But Alexa stared at her lit up computer screen, trying to figure what she was going to leave to explain her absence.
Her ears were perked up listening to her parents sleep down the hall and listening for Ken to drive by with the van. He kept going on about how he was going to give it a new paint job before they had to leave for India. Alexa sighed, went to the keyboard and began to type. As she did tears came to her eyes. She was really leaving her parents and her family… all behind.
But I have to, she thought as she saved the document to her computer and left it up for her parents to read. I have to protect them. They're one of the most important things I have and I can't lose them. Her ears picked up the rumble from the van outside. She wiped the tears from her eyes and grabbed her bag.
She opened her window and looked back her note on her computer, Please forgive me. I can't stay. And with that last thought she jumped out to the tree and crawled down.
She ran over to the van and saw that it was painted black, with the old flames painted over with a new coat of bright red and orange. And then the Cooper logo had a new coat of a dark blue that blended in so well with the black and then the white showed so strong.
Jamie opened the van doors and looked down at her friend and saw her fur stained with tears. Her expression saddened and asked her friend, "Are you sure you want to do this? We can easily call this off right now."
Alexa laughed quietly, "What, you two chickening out on me?"
"Alexa, you don't need to pretend. You're going to miss your parents and home as much as we're going to miss ours. You really can turn back now if you feel like it. Ken and I may be mad at you for depriving us of sleep, but we'll support you…"
Alexa gave her friend a warm smile and hopped in the van. "And miss this adventure of a lifetime with my two best amigos in the whole world? No way. I'm fine, really. I just feel a little bad about leaving only a note for my parents. I wish I could just explain it to them in person."
"I left my parents a message on the phone. Latest they'll get it is when they come home from work tomorrow. And Ken left a handwritten note on the fridge," Jamie added.
Alexa looked over to Ken with an eyebrow up and asked, "On the fridge, really?"
Ken shrugged at the wheel, "It was the best place I could think of."
Alexa closed the door and collapsed on the one of the seats that was up against the wall. "Let's go. We have a plane to catch." Ken nodded giving a warm smile then driving off into the night.
It took a couple hours and some cunning but they were finally able to get Ken and Jamie on the plane as Mr. and Mrs. Lee, while Alexa hid in the van in the cargo hold using the invisibility technique. They landed in Calcutta, India hours later and finally reached the old safe house.
Alexa opened the door, breathed in the air and coughed hard right after, "Arg... It's definitely been years since anyone's been here. This place is a dust mine and the air is so stale."
"Not the best place for an asthmatic, don't you think?" Jamie asked with some sarcasm.
"Good thing we're not asthmatic," Ken chuckled, dragging in some of the supplies.
"Okay, so let's get started. We get tonight and tomorrow to get this job underway," Alexa said before coughing hard again. "First order of business is to get the windows down."
"I'll get that," Ken replied putting the supplies up against the wall and walked over to the first window.
"And I guess I'll get the food started," Jamie added.
"And while you two are doing that, I'm going out," said Alexa, putting her small bag on her side.
"So, what do you plan on getting while you're out?" asked Jamie, looking through the supplies that they had for the food.
"What else? Info," she stated as if it were obvious. She gathered her items of interest into her side bag before she left: her binucome, lock-pick kit, and then the Thievius Raccoonus. "After you two are done cooking, try and get some communications up. I'll bug the office and do some recon."
"Okay. Just be sure to be careful, alright?" Jamie asked.
"I always try," she noted leaving the safe house.
Ken came back after finally getting all of the windows down and looked around. "Where did Alexa go?"
"Recon," she replied getting the last of the ingredients for what she had plan, "Would mind helping me out with the food?"
Ken gave a fond smile and said, "Of course, Chief Jamie."
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Alexa looked down from the wall that still surrounded the palace from when her father had been here. "Just as the plans said," she whispered to herself. She got out her "Jamie improved" black binoc-u-com and stared at the palace were the big party would be held and smiled at how few guards were surrounding the palace. "Just because they're thieves, they think they won't get stolen from." She lowered her binucome, smiling, "Then they won't see the New Cooper Gang coming."
She put up the device and ran along a rope that strung from lantern to lantern and thought to herself as she looked down on all of the unsuspecting guards, I wonder how mom and dad are taking this... depending on how well, and the if and when I come back, I'll most likely be grounded for life.
Carmelita and Sly were beginning to worry about their daughter, who was still not home and had not her usual sticky note on the door to explain her absence. Carmelita was the worse out of the two though; knowing quite well that although her little girl was strong, there were still guys out there trying to get her.
Sly began to call the other parents to see if she was there while Carm checked her child's room. She opened the door to see that the room actually looked clean. "That's odd. It usually takes money for her to clean her room like this," she mumbled to herself as she walked into the dwelling. She then noticed the computer on.
She moved the curser and saw that there was a word document pulled up. Her eyes skimmed the page and she gasped. "Sly! Sly, get up here, now!" she called.
Sly ran up looking a little pale from thinking the worst. He then noticed tears in her eyes and looked to the document on the computer. "Carm, is that a…"
She nodded. "She's run away from home." Her expression then changed to anger, "But what is this about you giving her that damned book of yours," she demanded.
Sly looked to his wife with surprise and replied, "What are you talking about?"
"It's in her letter. She said you gave it to her because you felt that she was ready. And now, there's someone chasing after her for it and trying to…" she couldn't bare finish her sentence as she began to sob.
Sly took her into his arms and tried to soothe her, "Everything will be okay. We'll find her before that happens. We have the means to do it and we have plenty of man power." He looked over her hair and read the letter himself. With every line he read, the more he wished he hadn't have given her that book.
Dear Mom and Dad,
By the time you read this letter, I'll be gone. Please know that I'm leaving because I wanted to protect you. There is someone after the Thievius Raccoonus and my life. Yes mother, I have the Thievius Raccoonus. Dad gave it to me the other day, thinking it was about time I got it. Sorry dad.
I don't know how long I'll be gone, but hopefully not that long. And if you get a call, Jamie and Ken are with me. We decided to start a new Cooper Gang to drive away that person from you guys and the others. Please understand that this is the best way to protect you. I won't lose you. I love all of you. I hope that I can come back some day to you guys and live a normal life again, but I don't know if that's possible anymore.
Don't worry about me either. And please tell their parents that it's my fault they came with me.
I know we'll see each other soon, let's just hope it's in good conditions,
With love and I'm sorry,
Alexa
Sly stared at his daughter's note and couldn't believe that this happened all because she gained his family book. He couldn't help feel responsible. "Don't worry, Carm. I'm gonna gather all of my resources and we'll find her and Ken and Jamie before anything bad happens to them. I promise."
"I hope so…" Carmelita sobbed again into her husband's chest. "I really hope so."
Yes, it is sad to see the parent's cry, isn't it? Don't' worry though. Things are gonna get real exciting for them. But next chapter is where we're going back to the gang and of course, Chase is coming back into the picture for those of you who like him. Oh what a scene that will be. The next chapter is where that snip-it comes in too. That's gonna be so much fun to write and even better to hear what you think about it. And sorry about the chapter being short and some of it repeating, i just needed to get this down before the next chapter. so tell me if it needs more or just what it needs.
Now I want all of you who read this to review like mad. I know that this was a short chapter but barley any of you are reviewing and I want reviews. I know you're out there. Don't reduce me to begging. A review isn't that hard to do.
Well, enough of my rampage. Till the next chapter good people, later.
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