His family was at the airport in no time. He was surprised that Jerry didn't send robots to see him off and send his siblings on a mission. He looked around the airport. He saw numerous WHOOP spies. He kept a calm and dull witted face. If he screwed up here, it would raise too many questions. He walked to the security point. The machine was WHOOP based. Tony knew that it wouldn't be able to scan the gadgets on him. They were able to scramble the code on the machine, saying he was all clear.
He put his wallet in the bin and walked right through. He then picked up his wallet and put it back in his pocket. He looked back at his family. His parents were teary eyed and smiling. Lee said something about bringing back souvenirs. Megan was on her phone and Marc just stood there. He had a similar expression to what he had when Tony talked to him earlier.
Tony just nodded and walked to the air terminal. He noticed that Jerry was there. WHOOP's Jerry. Tony blinked. He then looked away. He felt rage swell in his chest. It was all his fault he was who he was now. A loner. If only Jerry could see beyond the black. He would see a spy. And that's all.
He got onto the plane. He noticed how many open seats there were. Tony sat at a window seat. He had his iPod ready for take off. Right before the plane doors closed a man came running in.
"Made it!" he said with his arms in the air. He was a fairly tall. He had a small ponytail that contained his reddish brown hair. He also had a small beard on his chin. He was wearing a black long coat over a red shirt and black pants. He had a huge smile on his face. Then he looked at the attendant.
"Can I sit anywhere?" he asked. The flight attendant nodded. He looked around. He and Tony made eye contact for one second. Then he jumped into the seat next to Tony.
"Hello!" he said enthusiastically.
"Um hi," said Tony looking at the guy. He had a strange aura to him. Happy and upbeat nature too. He pulled out a small bag of chips.
"Want one?" he asked. Tony looked at the bag. Popchips. They were popped. Like popcorn.
"No thanks," he said. But his stomach had disagreed. It growled loudly.
"A ha! You and your stomach have different opinions," he said pulling a bag out for Tony, "I'm Phil. And you are?"
"Tony."
"No way. I'm supposed to meet a Tony at the airport we're heading to."
Tony looked at this guy to see if he was serious. He couldn't tell. On one hand, he was a jokester; on the other Tony didn't know what this guy was like. He was still smiling.
Phil kept talking to Tony the entire time they were on the plane. Tony wasn't able to listen to his music like he wanted. But it was nice to hear a person's voice actually talking to him.
When they landed, Phil ran off the plane. Tony walked off. He was the last to leave the plane. He saw people standing with signs for people. He saw Phil among them. He was holding a ridiculously large sign. It was bright and colorful. Tony looked around for a minute but couldn't find his name.
He stood next to Phil so no one would try and attack him. He heard Phil take in a lot of air.
"TONY CLARK! WHERE ARE YOU!" he blared. Tony jumped back and looked at his sign. The sign said 'HOW WELCOMES TONY CLARK!'
"Wow," said Tony.
"No, it's HOW."
"No. Wow that poster's big. I'm Tony Clark."
Phil looked at Tony. He put his hands on Tony's shoulders. He then let loose a ton of tears.
"I'm such and idiot," he said. He then walked Tony over to a car. Tony looked up at him and saw there was no sign of tears. This guy was insane.
They got into a bright blue prius. It was a pretty and sparkly one at that. Tony felt strange as he got in it.
"So what do you think?" he asked Tony as they drove. Tony noticed they were in a mountainous area. For the first time he wondered where in the world they were.
"The view is nice, and your car is, um, cool."
"Pft. More like it's pretty. SPARKLY!" he said in a jokingly gay man's voice. Tony couldn't hide his amusement. Phil looked back at Tony. He gasped.
"You can smile!"
Tony laughed. This guy made him feel comfortable. He was a bit weird. But so was his time in WHOOP.
"So Mr. Ex spy of WHOOP, do you want to spy once again?"
Tony looked up at him. He knew?
"I'm no spy," he said.
"I know. Jerry's an ass. So is grandma."
"Grandma?"
"Long story. But do you want to be a spy again? Without WHOOP?"
Tony thought for a minute. He craved his spy days back.
"That depends. What do these spies do?"
"Well you'd be joining HOW."
"But I'm already in the school."
"No. Helping Our World. The school is a cover. Many of our students are spies. Some aren't but a fair amount are."
Tony looked at him. He knew he was smart enough to get out before anything bad could happen.
"I'm in."
"Fantastic!" he said pressing a button. They then fell. They were in an underground garage. Phil got out of the car.
"You've got to get out Tony my man. Your teammates await."
"Teammates?"
"Well yeah," he smiled, "I'm not going to send someone as cute as you to fight evil alone!"
Tony felt uncomfortable.
"Many criminals are girls. We don't need you having problems!"
Tony relaxed.
"So who runs this place?"
Phil smiled and put on one of those costume suits that are Velcro in the back. He then put on a cap that made him look like Jerry.
"Who do you think?" he said devilishly.
"YOU!"
"Yep!" he said removing the cap. He pressed a button on a P.A. system, "Could Alan and Orji please report to the principal's office. Thank you."
"What was that?"
"I'm your princi-pal too you know."
Tony took in that information. His knew boss was his school principal. He was a spy. Again. All in less than ten minutes. Two boys ran into the room. Tony recognized them immediately.
"Alpha and Omega!" he yelled.
"Yo boss," Alpha said to Phil.
"You have those two working for you?"
"Well yeah. They are fine now that they have had that rouge program removed from them," he smiled.
"R… rouge program?"
"Yeah. They were made from technology but they are still organic. I had to work hard to fix them. They helped me create HOW."
Tony looked at them. They seemed fairly calm.
"Okay you two, be nice to your new partner!" he smiled evilly.
Dun dun duh! What will happen next? Review please.
BTW
Alan is Alpha
Orji is Omega
